Minor Latin poets; with introductions and English translations

HADRIANto his soul, \vhere ijenuint' feeling, echoed in tenderdiminutives, has bequeatlied an immortal challengeto translators in many languages." The lines purportingto have been inscribed on the grave of theEmperor's favourite hunting-steed Borysthenes havebeen suspected. That an inscription was written isclear from Dio Cassius.'' It is true that he does notsay whether it was in Latin or Greek ; but, on thewhole, it seems fair to accept the testimony ofPithoeus that he found the Latin lines in an ancientmanuscript.EDITIONSP. Burman. A?ithologia Veterum Lat. Epigram, etPoem. Vol. I. Lib. II, Nos. 96, 98; Vol. II.Lib. IV, No. 399. Amsterdam, 1759-73.L. Mueller. In a section De Poetis Saeculi UrbisConditae X which is appended to his edition ofNamatianus. Leipzig, 1870. [L. Mueller acceptsas genuine only " ego nolo Florus esse. . .," " animula vagula ..." and the verse" lascivus versu, mente pudicus eras," ten linesin all.]E. Baehrens. P.L.M. Vol. IV. pp. Ill sqq. Leipzig,1882. [Baehrens prints five poems ascribedto Hadrian, of which only that on Borystheneshas been included in the present edition.]F. Buecheler and A. Riese. Anthologia Latina, I. i.pp. 306-7, Leipzig, 1894. I. ii. p. 132, Leipzig,1906. [The " Hadrianic " poems in the aboveTranslations . . . ojDying Hadrian^s Address to his Soul,collected by D. Johnston, Bath, 1876." Ixix. 10.441