® 
1805.} 
Requefting your indulgence for this 
additional intrufion upon a queftion in 
which fo few of your readers can feel any 
interelt, I remain, &c. 
jataRure. 
Hackney, Feb. 16, 1805, 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
HE pathetic tale intitled the Winter 
Piece is well known. I have fent it 
you tranflated into Latin, in hexameter 
verfe, and will thank you to infert it in 
your valuable Magazine. 
W. Hz R. 
Birmingham, Feb. 10,1805. — , 
CANTILENA HYEMALIS. 
Vefper erat-campis, et nix hyemofa ruebat, 
Stridebat Aquilo, per loca mzfta fitu ; 
Hec incerta viz peregrabat fola puella, 
Infantemque premens, cepit acerba quzris 
Heu pater ille ferus, natz qui tecta negavit, 
Et fera que vidit talia, mater erat, 
Et fera vis venti eft, quz fic mea pectora tun- 
dit, 
At mihi qui nummos pretulit, ille magis. 
Parvule mi taceasy gremio renovefque calo- 
rem, 
Ah! nefcit génitor, nos mala quanta pre- 
munt, 
Sinoftros fciret, durus licet, ille dolores, 
Vix hyemem miferos ledere vellet acrem. 
Blandule vz friges, gratus calor offa relinquit, 
Sufcitet ex oculis fervida gutta meis ; 
Fervida gutta fluit, fed congelat aura fluen- 
tem, 
Ak nunc infelix, orbaque mater ego. 
Jam nive congefta mifero prolabitur exfpes, 
Infandumque gemit, quod dolor intus agit ; 
Tum lateri natum apponens, atque ofcula 
figens, : 
Suicipit et fleétit, morte gravata, caput. 
—— 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
EING a conftant perufer of the 
Monthly Magazine, I obferve, in 
the laft nunber, a correfpondent wifhes ta 
be informed at what period Jeeches were 
firt made ufe of. Themifon, a phyfician 
of Laodicea, who flourifhed a littie before 
Celfus, in the beginning of the firft cen- 
tury, was the firlt who took notice of 
leeches. How nearly eighteen centuries 
fhould have elapfed fince the diicovery of 
thefe truly vufeful animals, and, <“ till 
Jately; been almoft unnoticed, is aftonifh- 
ing ;’* but, happily for mankind, their 
- beneficial effe&s, and utility on the human 
fyftem, are new more generally known, 
Leeches.— Italian Tranflation recommended. 
209 
The curious may confult Gefner, Schro. 
der, and Stahl, on leeches. 
W.. H.R, 
| Birmingham, Feb. 10, 1805. 
rR OS 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
HAVE juft read, with much pteafure, 
in the Oracle, the following para- 
graph ;:— ‘* Mifs Holcroft, we under- 
ftand, has recently employed her pen in 
the tranflation of Count Alfieri’s famous 
Italian tragedy of Filippo.”” From fome 
little effufions of Mifs Holcrofts Mufe 
which I have feen, I will venture to au- 
gur, that Alfiert will receive juftice at her 
hands, After fhe fhall have difpatched 
Filippo, I hope fhe will be induced to un- 
dertake a verfion of Don Garzia, which, 
from the account of it given in Hilt. Mem. 
on Italian Tragedy, mut be a drama of 
ftrong interefi, But perhaps there are no 
Italian tragedies better delerving the no- 
tice of Milfs Holcroft than thofe of the 
Abbate Monti. Of thefe tragedies an 
edition, I believe, with Peztimenti, was 
lately publifhed at Rome. But on this, 
as well as any other fubjeét relating to the 
Italian drama, I prefume the authcr of 
the. work mentioned above, would, if 
confulted, gladly afford Mifs Holcrofe 
every information in his power. 
Betore I take leave of the Italian Mufe, 
I fhall beg leave to exprefs an hope that 
,ome perfon qualified for the undertaking 
will ere long render the beauties of the 
Arcadia of Sannazare acceffible to the 
mere Englifhreader. ‘This famous pafto- 
ral, which gave birth to the Arcadia of 
Sir P. Sidney, and the Arcadian Academy 
of Rome, has many intrinfic charms te 
recommend it to the notice of the public. 
The account of the {ubterraneous journey, 
towards the end, is highly intereting.— 
Should not fome future editor of Pope’s 
Paftorals confider whether or not the Swan 
of Twickenham had any obligations te 
the Neapolitan bard ? While he was edit- 
ing the Latin poetry of Sannazaro, he 
probably formed an acquaintance with all 
his other works. But fo many years 
have elapfed fince I read the Arcadia, 
that my furmife may be totally un- 
founded. 
* While I fauntered this morning on 
the banks of the Dee, with Cowper’s 
Taik in my hand, it occurredto me, that 
the ttory of Mifagathus, which is related 
in the sth book, is probably founded in 
fa&t. The tale certainly begins more in 
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