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Begin, Sicilian ghuse, begin yout mournful 
strain : 
Ye nightingales that perch among the sprays, 
Tune to melodious clegy your lays; 
And bid the stream of Arethuse deplore 
Bion’s sad fate ; Bion is no more. 
Nor verse, nor music, could his life prolong ; 
He died, and With him diéd the Doric song. 
Bion and Mo%chu3, ; 
Ursini, subjoined to Carmina 9 
illust. Faminar.—Antw. 1568. 
} 8vo. 
——-—— Hen. Stephani, (with Theotritus, ) 
12mo0. 1579. 
Plantini, (with Callimachus, )12m6. 
1584. 
Moschus, Bion, and Theocritus, 
————+—==Gr, and Lat. 4to. Brug. Hand. 
apud Goltz. 1565. 
Bion and Moschus, 
: —Ab Heskin, 8vo, Oxon, 1748, a 
beautiful edit. 
——-———A. Schwebelio, 8vo. Venet. 1746. 
A. and C. Walckenaer, 8vo. Lug. 
Bat. 1779. 
o————A. Wakefield, 12mo. Lond. 1795. 
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For the Monthiu Magazine. 
wdn account of the UKRAINE; extracted 
in part from MALTE-BRUN’s date Pic- 
ture of POLAND. 
(Continued from p. 341, No. 198.) 
N ascending towards the south, ‘at 
the foot of the Karpathian motii- 
tains we find Red Russia, which now 
forms the greatest part of eastern Gallit- 
Zia. The Poles simply called it Russia, 
and ‘gave the inhabitants the name of 
Russinia, or Rusniaques, in opposition to 
Roszienie; or Moscowall, who are the 
inhabitants of the Russian empire. 
However, according to the vulgar opi- 
hion, the name of Russia was extended 
even to those provinces; by colonies who 
came from Kiow previous to the ninth 
century. The sons of the great prince 
isaslaw formed several principalities, 
amongst others those of Halicz, and of 
Wlodimir, from the end of that century: 
in 1084, Ladislas, king of Hungary, 
made himself master of a great part of 
Red Russia. Casimir, duke of Poland, 
drove duke Wlodimir from Halicz in 
1182, and gave the duchy first to Miczi- 
slaw, and afterwards in 1185 to Roma- 
nus, duke of Wlodimir. The duke of 
Halicz took refuge with Bela III. king 
of Hungary, who kept him confined in 
prison, and at the entreaties of the inha- 
Roasts of the principality of Halicz, who 
Were averse to the usurper Romanus; 
Sent his second son Andrew with an 
army to take possession for him. In the 
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Account fthe Ukraines 
444 
mean time, the duke Wlodomir, having 
found means to escape in 1187, expelled 
prince Andrew, and regained possession 
of his states through the aid of Casimir, 
duke of Poland. The Hungarian prince 
Kolomau, was crowned king of Halicz 
in 1218. A prince Daniel raised the 
independence and the glory of the 
Russian name; but he was conquereti by 
the Hungarians under king Bela LV, 
The monarchs of Hungary, according to 
the capitulations, could only give to the 
country princes of Russian extraction $ 
but under Bela IV. anil Stephen V: it 
belonged to Hungary, in the same 
manner as Dalmatiaand Croatia. _ From 
sevéral authorities it is proved, that 
Halicz and Wlodomir belonged td the 
Hungarian kings Ladislas IV. and Louig _ 
the Fat: this latter in 1852 ceded Red 
tussia to Casimir, king of Poland; on 
condition, that if Casimir should happen 
to have heirs male, he should pay to 
Hungary a sum of 100,000 florins; and; 
on the contrary, Hungary, at his death, 
should have nothing to pay for Red Rus- 
sia, but that Poland should belonz to 
Louis the Fat, This latter incident took 
place in 1370 ; and in 1382, Louis having 
died without other issue than two daugh- 
ters, ‘Maria, the eldest, was crowned 
queen of. tlungary, and Hedwiga; the 
youngest, queen of Poland. The first 
married Sivismond; the second, at the 
instigation of her husband Jagellon, 
divided Red Russia and Podolia from 
Hungary, beth which, till 1772, remained 
to Poland; so that the kings of Hungary 
should only bedr the arms-and titles of 
Gallicia and Lodomiria: at last the 
eiibress queen, Maria Theresa, repur= 
chased the right over the two countries: 
She took possession in 1772, but in place 
of uniting them afresh to Huigary, 
according to the fequisition of the states 
of the ‘kingdom; the policy of the 
Austrian government induced her to form 
them into a separate kingdom. , | 
The frontiers of Gallicia and Lodc- 
mifia were extended as far as possible; 
and besides ihe two palatinates of Red 
Russia and Belzk, Austria took all the 
districts of, Little Poland between the 
Vistula and the Sani, as well a3 soma 
parcels of Wolhynia and Podolia, - 
The provinces thus dismembered, 
received .the title o: the kingdom of 
Gallicia and Lodomiria! There is no 
distinction of the countriés, which should _ 
be comprised under either of those 
names: the whole of these new posses- 
sions were Orgaitised end considered as 
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