[7] "Manes Dousici," IV "Ad solem" and V "Ad sidera," _Poemata_, Leyden, 1613, p. 166. Nicole reads _tandem_ for _rursus_ in the last line of the second poem. Douza is the younger Janus Douza (1571-1596). Nicole's criticism of these poems is just but superficial. The difficulty with such poems lies in the method, which consists in the establishment by amplification of one pole, followed by the briefest statement of the contrary pole. But the latter is of personal concern and is the essential subject of the poem. Thus the subject is deliberately avoided for the greater part of the poem, and hence there is in the amplification no principle of order to control the detail and its accumulation. This accounts for the features Nicole censures; however, he himself makes a similar point below in condemning negative descriptions. [8] I have been unable to find this among Grotius' poems. [9] Joannes Vulteius (c.1510-1542), "De ignobili Aruerno in sepulchro nobili posito," _Hendecasyllaborum libri iv_, Paris, 1538, Ni., p. 97. [10] "Ad Rudolphum Imp. florum picturae dedicatio," _Poemata_, Leyden, 1637, p. 326. [11] Epig. 1.50, "De Jucundo architecto," _Poemata_, Pavia, 1719, p. 189. [12] I have been unable to identify this epigram. [13] A translation of _Anth. Pal._ 11.104 and printed as Ausonius in the Renaissance, but probably by Girogio Merula (c.1424-1494): see James Hutton, _The Greek Anthology In Italy to the year 1800_, "Cornell Studies in English," XXIII (1935), pp. 23-4, 102-5, and Ausonius, _Opuscula_, ed. Rudolphus Peiper, Leipzig, 1886, p. 428. The younger Scaliger strongly condemns this epigram on the same grounds: Joseph Scaliger, _Ausoniarum lectionum libri ii_, 2.20, Heidelberg, 1688, p. 204. [14] 3.66 [15] Epig. libri tres, ad D. Mariam Neville, 2.211. _Epigrammata_, Amsterdam, 1647, p. 47. Translated by Thomas Harvey, _John Owen's Latin Epigrams_, London, 1677, p. 36: "Sith th' Harps discording Strings concording be, / Is't not a shame for men to disagree?" and by Thomas Pecke, _Parnassi puerperium_, London, 1659: "Can there be many strings; and yet no Jars? / And are not men asham'd of dismal wars?" [16] Nicole's text follows what are now regarded as inferior mss: see Germanious Caesar, _Aratea_, ed. Alfred Breysig, 2nd. ed., Leipzig, 1899, p. 58. The poem corresponds to _Anth. Pal._ 7.542. Nicole's comment recalls Dr. Johnson on Gray's cat. [17] The dedicatory poem, addressed to Louis XIII, to Caspar Barlaeus' _Poematum editio nova_, Leyden, 1631, sig.*8. [18] 22.10 [19] Epig. 1.25, _Opera Omnia_, 2 v., Leyden, 1725, II, 365. Nicole's text presents several variants and cuts the next to the last couplet, which I translate: "Already at the tomb, He beats the gates / Of Dis, and Libertina waits his torches." [20] Epig. 3.5, _op. cit._, p. 233. [21] Catullus 36 and Martial 1.109. 10-11 [22] _Pis._ 13 [23] _Aen._ 1.630