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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.
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Prosperity.
  
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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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Prosperity.

See Fortune.

Who thinks that Fortune cannot change her Mind,
Prepares a dreadful Jest for all Mankind!
And who stands safest, tell me? is it he
That spreads and swells with puff'd Prosperity,
Or, blest with little, who preventing Care,
In Peace provides fit Arms against a War?—

Pope. Hor. II. Sat. 2.


O Mortals! blind in Fate, who never know
To bear high Fortune, or endure the low.—

Dryden. Virg. Æn. X.


When Fortune smiles, hold not your Head too high:
Nor sink, desponding, in Adversity.—

Perian. per Aus.


—Ill Fortune still reveals
The Temper of the Mind, which good conceals.—

Hor. II. Sat. 8.


A Mind at Ease may easily be won,
As Corn delights in Fields blest by the Sun.
When Fortune's Favours make the Soul rejoice,
The Mind is open to Perswasion's Voice.—

Ovid. Art. Lib. I.


Tho' Fortune smiles, and swells thy Mind,
It gilds, but cannot change thy Kind.—

Creech. Hor Epod. IV.


No one's belov'd, but he whom Fortune favours.—

Ov. II. Pon. 3.


Whom Fortune's Favours over much delight,
Her Frowns will terrify with great Affright.—

Hor. Lib. I. Epist. 10.


When every Thing goes on prosperously, People should consider how to behave themselves in Cases of Adversity: such as Dangers, Losses, Banishment.—

Ter. Phor.

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