Lis  anceps,  multosque  diu  protracta  per  annos,
Judice  nee  facili  dissoluenda  fuit ;

Cui  tribuenda  modo  sceleratae  premia  palmse  ?
Quern  merito  tantus  nobilitaret  honos  ?

Multa  sibi  Roma)  soavi  ascivere  tjranni,
Multa  sibi  primus,  posteriorque  Nero  ;

Qni  retulit  prajdam  nostra  de  litore  Conchas  ;


LATIX   POEMS.  129

Quern  dedit  ex  pura  Flavia  stirpe  domus  :
Multa  sibi  Phalaris  petiit,  Trinacria  pestis;

Diraque  causa  tui,  magna  Diana,  rogi:        10
Quaaque  referre  mora  est,  portenta  replentia
famro

Invitaa  annales,  crimine  nota  suo.
At    demum    innumeris    belli    Anglia    clara
triumphis

Militis  ostentat  parta  tropasa  manu  ;
Nee  satis  est,  gemina  palma  insignita  nitere

Artibus  et  bellis,  orbis  et  esse  decus ;
Accedat  nactse  sceleris  nisi  gloria  famaa,

Et  laudis  numeros  impleat  ilia  SUBS  ;
Ex  natis  surgit  mens  aspernata  priores,

Et  tentare  novas  ingeniosa  vias,  20

Quaa  csecis  novit  Martem  sepelire  latebris,

Tectosque  a  visu  Solis  habere  dolos  ;
Scilicet,  ut  fallat,  non  ire  in  viscera  terrae,

Non  dubitat  simili  clade  vel  ipse  mori.
Jamque  incepit  opus;  careat  successibus,  opto;

Et  vetet  inceptum  Sors,  precor,  istud  opus  ;
Nee  frustra  ;  effulget  subito  lux  aurea  caeli,

(Aspice)  rimanti  dum  domus  atra  patet ;
Beclusamque  vides  fraudem,  letique  labores,

Antraque  miraris  sulphure  foeta  suo  ;  3°

Quod  si  venturi  haac  armamentaria  fati

Panderat  baud  sacri  gratia  dia  poli ;
Jure  scelus  se  jactaret,  procerumque  ruina

Tantum  una  gentem  perdomuisse  manu.
Gray.
130  LATIN    POEMS.
IV.
This  and  the  next  three  were  first  printed  by  Mr.
Tovey  from  the  Mitford  MSS.  The  following  has  no
designation,  but  seems,  from  the  place  in  which  it  is
found,  to  be  Gray's.  Compare  the  English  Poem  of
West  on  p.  109  of  Gray  and  his  Friends.  The  Latin,
which  may  be  West's,  is  obviously  in  the  rough.
