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Medulla Poetarum Romanorum

Or, the Most Beautiful and Instructive Passages of the Roman Poets. Being a Collection, (Disposed under proper Heads,) Of such Descriptions, Allusions, Comparisons, Characters, and Sentiments, as may best serve to shew the Religion, Learning, Politicks, Arts, Customs, Opinions, Manners, and Circumstances of the Antients. With Translations of the same in English Verse. By Mr. Henry Baker
Baker, Henry (1698-1774)

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VOL. I.
  
[dedication]
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MEDULLA POETARUM ROMANORUM.
  
Absence.
  
Advice.
  
Advice to a Prince.
  
ÆTNA.
  
Affection Filial.
  
Affection Conjugal.
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The Four Ages of the WORLD.
  
The Golden Age. First Age.
  
Silver Age.
  
Brazen Age.
  
Iron Age.
  
Golden Age Restor'd.
  
Ages of Man Characteriz'd.
  
Ages of several Creatures.
  
Agriculture.
  
Alarm.
  
Alps.
  
Amazement.
  
Amazon.
  
Ambassador.
  
Ambition.
  
Ambush.
  
Anger.
  
Antiquity.
  
Appeal to the Gods.
  
Apollo.
  
Archery.
  
Arms. Armour.
  
Army.
  
Arrow.
  
Cupid's Arrows.
  
Atlas.
  
Atheist.
  
Avarice.
  
Authors.
  
Autumn.
  
Bacchanals.
  
Bacchus.
  
Banquet.
  
Battle.
  
Beauty.
  
Beauty, it's Power.
  
Beautiful.
  
Bees.
  
Beggar.
  
Birth-Day.
  
Blushing.
  
Boasting.
  
Boy Handsome.
  
Boxing.
  
Bribery.
  
Bulls Fighting.
  
Captive.
  
Care.
  
Ceres.
  
Chance.
  
Change.
  
Chaos.
  
Charioteer.
  
Thrown from a Chariot.
  
Charm.
  
Chastity.
  
Circe.
  
Circle.
  
City Founded.
  
City Taken. See Siege.
  
Clemency.
  
Combat.
  
Comets.
  
Compassion.
  
Competency.
  
Complaisance.
  
Concord.
  
Conscience. (Evil.)
  
Conscience. (Good.)
  
Consolation.
  
Constancy.
  
Content.
  
Cottage.
  
Countenance.
  
Country Life.
  
Courtship.
  
Cow.
  
Creation.
  
Cruelty.
  
Cuckold.
  
Cyclops.
  
Daring.
  
Darkness.
  
Death.
  
Death be Mindful of.
  
Death (Against the Fear of it.)
  
Degeneracy.
  
Delay.
  
Deluge.
  
Desolation.
  
Despair.
  
Detraction.
  
Diana.
  
Difficulty.
  
Discontent.
  
Discord.
  
Dissimulation.
  
Dissolution of all Things.
  
Disswasion.
  
Dogs.
  
Doubt.
  
Dreams.
  
Dress, and Good Breeding.
  
Druids.
  
Dying.
  
Eagle.
  
Earth.
  
Education.
  
Education Rigid.
  
Effeminacy.
  
Elements.
  
Eloquence.
  
Elysian-Fields.
  
Embrace.
  
Embroidery.
  
Enchantress.
  
End. Purpose of Life.
  
Envy.
  
Equinoctial-Line.
  
Equinox.
  
Evening.
  
Example.
  
Exhortation.
  
Experience.
  
Extravagance.
  
Fame.
  
Famine.
  
Fantom.
  
Fate.
  
Faults.
  
Fear.
  
Fidelity.
  
Fidelity Conjugal.
  
Fire.
  
Firmness.
  
Flattery.
  
Flight.
  
Flight Secret.
  
Flood.
  
Fondness.
  
Fore-Knowledge.
  
Fortitude.
  
Fortune.
  
Fortune-Telling.
  
Fountain. Lake.
  
Fray.
  
Friendship.
  
Fright.
  
Frost.
  
Funerals.
  
Funerals of the Slain.
  
Furies.
  
Gain.
  
Galatea.
  
Gaming.
  
General.
  
Ghost.
  
Glory.
  
Gluttony.
  
Goats.
  
God.
  
Gods (Council of.)
  
Good and Evil Mix'd.
  
Greatness.
  
Grief.
  
Grotto.
  
Guilt.
  
Gyant. Cyclops.
  
Gyant's War.
  
Happiness.
  
Happiness.
  
Harmony.
  
Haven.
  
Heir.
  
Hell.
  
Hell.
  
Hero.
  
Homer.
  
Hope.
  
Horse.
  
Hospitality.
  
Hunger.
  
Hunting.
  
Hunting the Hare.
  
Huntress.
  
Hypocrisy.
  
Jealousy.
  
Imprecation.
  
Inclinations of Men Different.
  
Inconstancy.
  
Industry.
  
Infant.
  
Inhumanity.
  
Intreaty.
  
Invitation.
  
Joy Publick.
  
Iris.
  
Isis.
  
Italy.
  
Jupiter.
  
Jupiter Ammon.
  
Justice.
  
Justice (Divine.)
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VOL. II.
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[However great, whoe'er you are]
  
King.
  
Kisses.
  
Know Thyself.
  
Labour.
  
Lamentation.
  
Landing Oppos'd.
  
Laws.
  
Liberty.
  
Life.
  
Lion.
  
Looks.
  
Love.
  
Love (Falling in.)
  
Love Mutual.
  
Lover.
  
Lover Desperate.
  
Lover's Leap.
  
Lust.
  
Luxury.
  
Magic Power.
  
Maid Marriageable.
  
Majesty.
  
Man.
  
Man (Upright.)
  
Manes.
  
Manners.
  
Marriage.
  
Mediocrity.
  
Mercury.
  
Metals.
  
Midas.
  
Milky Way.
  
Minerva. Pallas.
  
Miser.
  
Money. Riches. Wealth.
  
Moon.
  
Morning.
  
Mountain.
  
Mourning for the Dead.
  
Mourning (Public.)
  
Munificence.
  
Nations Different.
  
Nature Content with Little.
  
Navigation.
  
Neptune.
  
Night.
  
Nobility.
  
Noon.
  
Oath.
  
Obedience.
  
Obstinacy.
  
Oeconomy.
  
Old-Age.
  
Omens.
  
Opportunity.
  
On the Statute of Opportunity and Repentance.
  
Oppression.
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Oracles.
  
Oracle of Faunus.
  
Delphic Oracle.
  
Orion.
  
Osiris.
  
Palace.
  
Panic Fear.
  
Parents.
  
Parting.
  
Passions.
  
Patience.
  
Patriot.
  
Peace.
  
Peasant. Farmer.
  
People First.
  
Perjury.
  
Philosophy.
  
Physician and Patient.
  
Piety.
  
Pigmalion and the Statue.
  
Pilot.
  
Place (Barren.)
  
Place (Pleasant.)
  
Plague. Murrain.
  
Planets (their Influence.)
  
Pleasure.
  
Plunder.
  
Poetaster.
  
Poetry.
  
Poets.
  
Policy of State.
  
Popularity.
  
Portents. Prodigies.
  
Portion.
  
Poverty.
  
Poyson.
  
Praise.
  
Prayers.
  
Presumption.
  
Pride.
  
Procession.
  
Prosperity.
  
Providence.
  
Purgation of Souls, and their return into Bodies.
  
Race.
  
Rage.
  
Rain.
  
Rapidity.
  
Reason.
  
Repentance.
  
Reproach.
  
Request Dying.
  
Retirement.
  
Retreat.
  
Revenge.
  
Revolution.
  
Rewards.
  
Rites (Religious.)
  
River (passing over.)
  
Rose.
  
Rout.
  
Sacrifice.
  
Sacrifice to the Infernal Powers.
  
Sailing.
  
Satyr.
  
Scylla and Charybdis.
  
Sea.
  
Sea-Fight.
  
Seasons.
  
Secrets.
  
Serpent. Snake.
  
Severity.
  
Shame.
  
Sheep.
  
Ship-Race.
  
Shout.
  
Sibyl.
  
Siege. Assault.
  
The Twelve Signs of the Zodiac.
  
Silence.
  
Slavery.
  
Slaughter.
  
Sleep.
  
Sling.
  
Sloth.
  
Smallness.
  
Society.
  
Solstice.
  
Soul.
  
Dying Reflections of the Emperor Adrian.
  
Speech.
  
Spring.
  
The Stage.
  
Stars.
  
Style.
  
Storm at Land.
  
Storm at Sea. Shipwreck.
  
Suicide.
  
Summer.
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Sun.
  
Palace of the Sun.
  
Phoebus, or the Sun.
  
Chariot of the Sun.
  
Superstition.
  
Swimming.
  
Swooning.
  
Temperance.
  
Tempest.
  
Thanks.
  
Thirst.
  
Thunder and Lightning.
  
Tides.
  
Time.
  
Time wears out all Things.
  
Time to be used.
  
Tisiphone.
  
Tomb.
  
Treachery.
  
Treason.
  
Trees.
  
Trophy.
  
Tyrant.
  
Void.
  
Variety.
  
Vengeance Divine.
  
Venus.
  
Vice.
  
Victory.
  
Virginity.
  
Virtue.
  
Vision.
  
Upbraiding.
  
Want.
  
War.
  
War Declar'd.
  
War (Civil.)
  
Warrior.
  
Weather. Prognostics.
  
Weaving.
  
Wedding.
  
Wedding (Unlucky.)
  
Wickedness.
  
Wife.
  
Will.
  
Wine.
  
Winds.
  
Winter.
  
Scythian Winter.
  
Wish.
  
Wit.
  
Woman.
  
World.
  
Worship:
  
Wounds.
  
Wretch.
  
Writing.
  
Year.
  
Zephyr.
  
Zones.

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I liv'd the darling Theme of ev'ry Tongue,
The golden Idol of th' adoring Throng:
Guarded with Friends, while Fortune's balmy Gales
Wanton'd auspicious in my swelling Sails.—

Addison. Ovid de Pont.


In one continued Stream no Fortune flows,
Bad chequers Good, and Joys are mixt with Woes:
Inconstancy in every Part appears,
Which Wisdom never trusts, and Folly Fears.
Thus Years from Years, and (as they roll the Round)
Thus Months from Months, and Days from Days are found
To differ: no returning Hours restore
That sort of Fortune which they brought before.—

Creech alter'd. Manil. Lib. III.


—Since Fortune all o'erpow'rs,
Her let Us follow, and where-e'er she calls,
Direct our Course.—

Trap. Æn. Lib. V.


This Goddess Fortune can baffle an hundred of your learned Men with all their Wisdom: and thus I prove it:— every body is suppos'd to excel, according as Fortune favours him; that's the Standard by which we calculate his Understanding. Now, if his Undertakings succeed well, we cry him up for a shrewd clever Fellow: but if they turn out unluckily, we say, the Man's a Fool.

Plaud. Pseud.

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