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bius, 2d v. p. 36. No doubt, next to religion, of which too it should form part, there is no engine of state more efficacious, and so it was esteemed by the ancients; but with us it is now little more than an innocent and frivolous amusement. I do not wish that our youth should become proficients, and the nation a nation of fiddlers. Palæstritas esse nolumus, peritos tamen palæstræ esse volumus, non άraλaíoтpous. Quintil. Inst. 1. 9. Would it tend to the depression, or to the elevation of our sentiments, if we were taught at school to chant hymns, recounting the signal favors of Providence conferred on our island, and to repeat songs, celebrating our exploits by land and sea, and breathing a love of liberty, and of our country? Has not the heroic age been always one of poetry and music?

But I am exceeding now again the bounds prescribed by my subject, which is to open a more simple and ready way to the understanding of Greek metres, and not to insist upon the utility of music farther than it is auxiliary to this purpose.

I am aware, that I have many deep-rooted prejudices to combat, and that few will like to confess, that the labor and studies of their youth have been in a measure thrown away.

Quæ pueri didicere, senes perdenda fateri.

Still I have no hopes, that metrical science will ever be established on rational principles, until she be restored again to the lost society of music.

M. K.

Msti in Coll. SS. Trin. Cant. Collatio.

DE SENECTUTE.

Extracted from Mr. Barker's edition of the DE SENECTUTE and DE AMICITIA of CICERO, just published for the Use of Schools.

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C. 22. Corpore evasisset: corpore evasit

me colitote me colite, inquit,

verentes: veteres

regunt: regum

C. 23. ullo labore et contentione: ullo aut labore aut contentione Quod quidem ni ita: Quo quidem ita

maxime ad inmortalitatem gloriæ: maxime immortalem gloria patres vestros: patres nostros aveo: habeo

conscripsi: scripsi

tanquam Peliam recoxerit. Quod: tanquam retorserit pilam, Et ex hac ætate: ex hac vitæ ætate non lubet: non libet

et ii docti: et indocti ex domo: e domo

habitandi locum dedit: habitandi dedit

mihi ipsi cernebat: mihi ipse cernebat

esse credam : esse credebam lubenter libenter defatigationem: deficationem

In nonnullis precedentibus locis error quidam inest; lectiones verò quæ in MSto occurrunt notandæ videbantur, quo tyrones verborum inter se mutationes facilius notent.

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