Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 116, January 17, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 116, January 17, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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See also Crantz's _History of the Brethren_, translated by Latrobe, 8vo.
London, 1780; _A True and Authentic Account of Andrew Frey_, translated
from the German, London, 1753, an extremely curious work; also _A Solemn
Call on Count Zinzendorf_, by Henry Rimius, London, 1754.
JARLTZBERG.
December 30th, 1851.
Replies to Minor Queries.
_Inveni portum_ (Vol. v., p. 10.).--This couplet, which occurs at the
close of the second volume of _Gil Blas_, is a version of the following
Greek epigram among those of uncertain authors in the _Anthologia_:
Εἰς τύχην
Ἐλπὶς καὶ σὺ Τύχη, μέγα χαίρετε· τὸν λιμέν' εὗρον.
Οὐδὲν ἐμοὶ χ' ὑμῖν· παίζετε τοὺς μετ' ἐμέ.
It is a slight alteration of the translation given by William Lilly, Sir
Thomas More's friend and schoolfellow, and occurs, with Sir Thomas
More's version, in the _Progymnasmata_ prefixed to the first edition of
More's _Epigrams_, a very elegant volume, printed under the care of
Beatus Rhinanus by Frobenius, at Basle, in 1520: small 4to. The
frontispiece is by Holbein:
"T. MORI DE CONTEMPTU FORTUNÆ.
"Jam portum inveni, Spes et Fortuna valete.
Nil mihi vobiscum est, ludite nunc alios."
"G. LILII.
"Inveni portum. Spes et Fortuna valete.
Nil mihi vobiscum, ludite nunc alios."
There is a longer epigram, also by an uncertain author, in the First
Book of the _Anthologia_, the first lines of which differ but slightly.
It runs thus:
Ἐλπὶς καὶ σὺ Τύχη, μέγα χαίρετε· τὴν ὁδὸν εὗρον·
Οὐκ ἔτι γὰρ σφετέροις ἐπιτέρπομαι· ἔῤῥετε ἄμφω,
Οὕνεκεν ἐν μερόπεσσι πολυπλανέες μάλα ἐστέ.
κ. τ. λ.
The epigram has been very frequently translated. We have Latin versions
by W. Morel, Grotius, and others; and several Italian and French
versions. Mr. Merivale has thus rendered it:
"Fortune and Hope farewell! I've found the port:
You've done with me: go now, with others sport!"
Thomas Moore has given us a spirited paraphrase of it.
S.W. SINGER.
Manor Place, South Lambeth.
_Quarter Waggoner_ (Vol. v., p. 11.).--As the editor, in the exercise of
his official functions, may class this scrap with the _Replies_, it
cannot be amiss to state that I offer its contents as mere conjectures.
In the _Sea grammar_ of captain John Smith, which was published in 1627,
we have a list of books adapted to the use of those who would _learn to
observe the altitude_, to _prick_ their _card_, or _say_ their
_compass_. It is as follows:
"Master _Wrights_ Errours of nauigation. Master _Tapps_ Sea-mans
kalender. The art of nauigation. The sea regiment. The sea-mans
secret. _Waggoner_. Master _Gunters_ workes. The sea-mans glasse
for the scale. The new attracter for variation. Master _Wright_
for vse of the globe. Master _Hewes_ for the same."
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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