Master of Richmond School, Yorkshire, incloses to me the fellowing extract of one addressed to him by his learned pupil James Bailey, of Trinity College, Cambridge, Author of the Latin Prize Essay on the Origin, &c. of Hieroglyphics', which by an unusual (if not unprecedented) compliment was printed at the expense of the University. "In Beck's Euripides, among the fragments of the Telephus On the Grecian army being roughly handled by Telephus, Agamemnon tired of the expedition might reproach Menelaus as the cause of all the mischief; telling him that, instead of pursuing a wild game in the neighbourhood of Troy, he had best confine himself to his birthright Sparta, while he (Agamemnon) swayed the sceptre of Mycenæ, as belonging to himself.' 'Another fragment of the Telephus, preserved by the Scholiast on the Nubes, may have belonged to the same set of anapasts, being apparently written in the same strain, and put in the mouth of the same speaker : 1. όποι χρήζεις" εκ απολυμαι And this, adds Mr. T., derives great probability from a similar squabble between the brother kings, which the Iphigenia in Aulide presents to us. Euripides, indeed, seems to have been very much actuated by political jealousy in every thing which he says about Sparta: and the compliment paid to Argos, in the Phænissa, ni fallor, may be traced to a similar feeling. Those, who know how to appreciate the erudition and the acuteness of Mr. Tate, will thank me for the above Note upon Note. F. W. A Memoir of the Life of Dr. Zouch, (Including extracts from his ADVERSARIA, and a Letter addressed to the Editor by Dr. E. D. Clarke on the An Assize Sermon Preached at Durham, 1806, An Inquiry into the Prophetic Character of the Romans (1792) 171 (Including an unfinished Memoir of Wickliffe.) II. Luctus et Gratulationes, 1760—1763 ................................. III. The Crucifixion, a Seatonian Prize-Poem, (1765) 357 ....... 374 A MEMOIR OF The Life OF THE REV. THOMAS ZÖUCH, D. D. F. L. S. RECTOR OF SCRAYINGHAM, AND PREBENDARY OF DURHAM. BY THE REV. FRANCIS WRANGHAM, M. A. F. R. S. Ως γαρ οφθαλμῳ χροα προσφορος, ἧς το ανθηρον άμα και τερπνον αναζωπυρεί και τρέφει την οψιν, έτω την διάνοιαν επαγειν δει θεαμασιν ά τῳ χαριεντι προς το οικείον αυτην αγαθον εκκαλει ταυτα δεσιν εν τοις απ' αρετης εργοις, ε και ζηλον τινα και προθυμίαν αγωγον εις μίμησιν εμποιεί τοις ίςορησασιν. (Plutarch. Vit. Periclis.) Et ille quidem plenus annis abiit, plenus honoribus, illis etiam quos recusavit. Nobis tamen quærendus et desiderandus est, ut exemplar ævi prioris. (Plin. Ep. II. 1.) Non mi parendo di dover senza nota d'una quasi impietà, poter lasciare in oscuro la fama d'uno Compatriote mio, per la sua virtù degnissimo di vivere nella perpetua luce et ricordanza de gli uomini. (Spino Vita e Fatti di Bart. Coglione, p. 65.) VOL. I. b |