Minor Latin poets; with introductions and English translations

NEMESIANUSfields. Let us go hunting: while the morning isyoung, while the soft meads retain the tracks imprintedby the wild beasts of the night.free from suspicion, any more than certain points inthe Latinity and prosody of the lines. Contemplaveritin 1. 3 may be an archaistic return to the active formof the verb as used in early Latin ; but the metricalquantity of notae which Longolius read in 1. 13 andof gulae in the last line of all is unclassical, and thefrequent elision of a long vowel (11. 5, 6, 14 and27) i*^ noticeable. Teuffel considers the lines a lateproduction, though they are usually printed alongwith the Cynegetica.E. Baehrens' text, P.LM. III. pp. 203-204.J. P. Postgate's text, C.P.L. II. p. 572.FRAGMENTS ON BIRD-CATCHINGI. . . andthe tetrax,^ which they have now begunto call tarax at Rome. It is far the silliest of birds ;for although it has perched and has watched thesnare laid for it, yet reckless of self it darts upon itsown hurt. You, however, on finding the circles ofthe noose drawn tight, must hasten up and carryoff your prey with its whirring wings. For it isquick to shake off the treacherous bonds of the neckwhen caught, deriding with hoarse cry the hunter's''* Suhsannarc, a late Latin verb, used by Tertullian, and inthe Vulgate.LL