Minor Latin poets; with introductions and English translations

INTRODUCTIONthe subject has decidedly antiquarian interest,and it is only fair to remember that great scholarsof the past, including Julius Caesar, Scaliger andNicolaus Heinsius, awarded high praise to Grattius'elegance.His well-turned hexameters show that he was anapt student of \ irgil ; and his alliteration may indicateadmiration for still older poets of Rome. Thereis also an independent turn in him which shows itselfin his employment of words in unusual senses, e.g.nodus, 32, of a mesh ; vellera, 77, of feathers ; verutus,110, of a weapon's teeth; caesaries, 273, of a dog'shau' ;populari, 376, of spoiling ; dulcedo, 408, of scratching.There are several a-n-a^ dp-qixira in his poemplagium, 24 ; cannabius, 47 ( ? cannahinus, ^^ollmer) ;praedexter, 68 ; apprensat, 239 ;perpensare, 299delecta from delicio, 303 (if that be the reading andnot dilecta or even de lade) ; nardifer, 314 ; offectus,406 ; termiteus, 447.EDITIONSG. Logus (de Logau) : Editio princeps (with Ovid'sHalieutica, Nemesianus and Calpurnius). Venice,1534.J. Ulitius (van Miet) : In Venatio Novantiqua.Leyden, 1645, 1655.Thos. Johnson : Gratii Falisci Cynegeticon (cum poematioNemesiani). London, 1699.R. Bruce and S. Havercamp : In Poetae latini reivenaiicae scriptores et bncolici a?itiqui (cum notisBarthii, Ulitii, Johnsonii). [Elaborate commentaryat end.] Leyden, 1728.P. Burman : In Poetae latini minores I. Leyden, 1731.146