Ovid, Tristia, iv.

Arden published, at the same time, in this city, a translation of Ovid's Tristia, in heroic verse, in which the complaints of the effeminate Roman poet were rendered with great fidelity to the original, and sometimes not without beauty.

To this school belongs Ovid, born 43 B.C., died 18 A.D., whose "Tristia," a doleful description of the evils of exile, were much admired by the Romans.

His "Tristia" were more highly praised than his "Amores" or his "Metamorphoses," a fact which shows that contemporaries are not always the best judges of real merit.

But you will not find Ariadne in that text, which contains only the Tristia.

[3410] "Tu tamen interea effugito quae tristia mentem Solicitant, procul esse jube curasque metumque Pallentum, ultrices iras, sint omnia laeta.

10.) calleth it an infinite treasure to such as are endowed with it: Dulcisonum reficit tristia corda melos, Eobanus Hessus.

maesti degunt, dum tandem mortem quam timent, suspendio aut submersione, aut aliqua alia vi, ut multa tristia exempla vidimus.

Ita est profecto, et quisquis haec videre abnuis, huic seculi parum aptus es, aut potius nostrorum omnium conditionem ignoras, quibus reciproco quodam nexu laeta tristibus, tristia laetis invicem succedunt.

Annuncientur valde tristia, ut major tristitia possit minorem obfuscare.

In the long melancholy wail of Ovid's "Tristia;" in the bitter and heart-rending complaints of Cicero's "Epistles," we may see something of that intense absorption in the life of Rome which to most of her eminent citizens made a permanent separation from the city and its interests a thought almost as terrible as death itself.

Ovid, Tristia, IV, 10, vv. 7 and 8.]

Tristia maestum Vullum verba decent, iratum plena minarum.

" Lucan, too, has hit it hard: "Et laetae juranter aves, bubone sinistro:" and the Englishman who continued the Pharsalia, says "Tristia mille locis Stylus dedit omina bubo.

Grillparzer was at this time depressed enough on his own account, as his poems Tristia ex Ponto bear witness.

But he put away his desires for the unattainable, and with the publication of Tristia ex Ponto in 1835, took, as it were, formal leave of the past and its sorrow.