Ille et nefasto te posuit die, &c. Lib. ii. 13.
{ Hôra se keinos thêken apophradi Ho prôtos hostis cheiri te bômaki Ethrepse, dendron, tês te kômês Aition, essomenôn t' elenchos. Keinos tokêos thrypse kai auchena, Keinos ge, phaiên, haimati xeiniô Mychôtaton koitôna rhaine Nyktios, amphaphaase keinos Ta dêta Kolchôn pharmaka, kai kakou Pan chrêma, dôsas moi epichôrion Se stygnon ernos, despotou se Empeson es kephalên aeikôs. Pasês men hôrês pan epikindynon Tis oide pheugein? deidie Bosphoron Libys ho plôtên, oud' anaikêr Tên kryphiên heterôthen oknei. Parthôn machêmon Rhômaïkos phygên, Kai toxa; Parthos Rhômaïkên bian, Kai desma; laous alla moiras Balle, balei t' adokêtos hormê. Schedon schedon pôs Persephonês idon Aulên melainên, kai krisin Aiakou, Kalên t' apostasin makairôn Aioliais kinyrên te chordais Sapphô patridos memphomenên korais, Êchounta kai se pleion epichrysô, Alkaie, plêktrô sklêra nêos, Sklêra phygês, polemou te sklêra Euphêmeousai d' amphoterôn skiai Klyousi thambei, tas de machas pleon, Anastatous te men tyrannous Ômias ekpien ôsi laos. Ti thaum'? ekeinais thêr hote trikranos Akên aoidais, ouata kabbale, Erinnyôn th' hêdypathousi Bostryches, hêsychiôn echidnôn. Kai dê Promêtheus, kai Pelopos patêr Heudousin êchei tô lathikêdeï; Agein leontas Ôriôn de Ou phileei, phoberas te lynkas.}
In our Preface to the present Volume we give the title-pages of the original publications wherein appeared the Royal and Academical Poems of this section; in the translation of which I owe again thanks to the friends of the former divisions, as their initials show; and another, Professor Sole, of St. Mary's College, Oscott, Birmingham, to whom I am indebted for that bearing his initials. One to the 'Princess,' celebrated before, is here printed as well as translated for the first time, as noted in the place. It was deemed preferable to include it with the others rather than among those hitherto unprinted. For brief notices of the various Royal and Academical celebrities of these poems, see Memorial-Introduction and related English poems in Vol. I. and notes in their places in the present Volume.
Once more I note here the chief errors of Turnbull's text: 'Ad Carolum,' &c. l. 11, 'perrerati' for 'pererrati;' l. 26, 'discere' for 'dicere:' in 'In Serenissimæ Reginæ' &c. the heading is 'Senerissimæ;' l. 14, 'tuos' for 'tuus;' l. 41, 'Namque' for 'Nam quæ;' l. 43, 'Junus' for 'Janus:' in 'Principi recens' &c. l. 4, 'eum' for 'cum;' l. 10, 'lato' for 'late;' l. 22, 'imperiosus' for 'imperiosior;' l. 26, 'quoque' for 'quoquo;' l. 30, 'melle' for 'molle:' in 'Ad Reginam,' l. 35, 'aure' for 'auree:' in 'Votiva Domus' &c. l. 20, 'teneræ' for 'tremulae;' l. 25, 'jam' for 'bene;' l. 26, 'mulcent' for 'mulceat;' l. 29, 'minium' for 'nimium;' l. 40, 'ora' for 'ara;' l. 45, 'volvit' for 'volvat;' l. 50, 'motus ad oras' for 'nidus ad aras:' in 'Ejusdem caeterorum' &c. l. 5, 'natalis' for 'natales;' l. 15, 'qua' for 'quo;' l. 31, 'longe' for 'longo:' in 'Venerabili viro magistro Tournay' &c. l. 8, 'vixerit' for 'vexerit;' l. 21, 'tuos est' for 'tuas eat;' ll. 24, 27, and 28, 'est' for 'eat:' in 'Or. viro praeceptori' &c. l. 6, 'metuendas' for 'metuendus;' l. 20, 'est' for 'eat.' G.