INDEX.

INDEX

TO VOL. I.

A.

ACERRA, an emblem in the hand of Piety, 371.

Achæmenides, left in the island of the Cyclops, 47.

Achaia, medal of, 424, 426.

Achelous, the horn of, 290.

Acætes, story of, 160. Note respecting, 187.

Actæon, transformed into a stag, 147. Hunted to death by his own
dogs, 149.

Addison, character of his poetry, 3, note. His translations from
Ovid highly finished and laboured, 113, note.
Wrote his essay on

the Georgics in his one-and-twentieth year, 188, note. Disinge-
nuity in his verses to the Princess of Wales, with the tragedy of
Cato, accounted for, 299, note. His reputation owing chiefly to
his prose-writings, 339, note.

Adrian, compliment to, in a medal respecting time, 377. Medals
struck on his progress through the empire, 422. Achaia and Sicily
represented kneeling before him, 426, 427.

Eneid, comparison of its beauties with those of the Georgics, 197.
Eneid III. translation of a story in it, 46.

Esculapius, his birth 130.

Etna, its eruptions described, 46.

Africa, medallic representation of, 415.

Emblems of its fertility,

417. Its noxious animals described by the poets, 418. Personified

by Claudian, ib.

Aglauros, story of 136. Transformed into a statue, 139.

Albula, river, described, 37.

Alexandrines, not admissible in pentameter verse, 4, note.

Amalthæa, the horn of, 391.

Amaze for amazement, 277, note.

Amazon, an, said to have founded Smyrna, 430.

Amomum, a production of Arabia, 433.

Anne, Queen, glory of her reign in Marlborough's victories, 53, 65.

Annus magnus, or Platonical year, 377.

Antioch, described on a medal and by the poets, 431.

Antiquarianism ridiculed, 346.

Antonine, the Emperor, presented with a crown of gold by the Par-
thians, 431.

Arabia, represented on a medal, and described by the poets, 432.
Architecture, the history of, to be collected from old coins, 350. Va-
rious branches of knowledge it comprehends, 354.

VOL. I.

2 H

Astyanax compared to the morning-star, 397.
Augsburgh, the French driven from, 62.

Augustus, grandeur of his actions celebrated by Virgil, 192. His
reverse a thunderbolt, 388. Explanation of a medal stamped to
his memory, 411, 414.

Aurelius, Marcus, emblems on two coins of, 407. A reverse of, almost
inexplicable, 411.

Ausonius, his allusion to the Phoenix, 374. His description of the
Sphinx, 411. His account of the Nemæan games, 426.

Austria, gratitude of, to Marlborough, 63.

Atlas, mount, a judicious allusion to, 255.

B.

Bacchus, his birth, 150. Transforms a ship's crew into dolphins,

163.

Barometri Descriptio, Poema, 315.

Battle of the pygmies and the cranes, a Latin poem, 317.
Battus, transformed into a touchstone, 134.

Bavarians, yield to the Duke of Marlborough, 57

Bees, Virgil's direction concerning the management of, 16. Differ-
ence of aspect in their kings, 18. Herbs and plants in which they
delight, 19. Their nature and habits, 20. Slavish attachment to
their prince, 22. Symptoms of disease described, 23. Mode of
breeding them from the putrid carcase of a bull, 25. In the fourth
Georgic a favourite subject with Virgil, 196.

Berkley's bombardment of the coast of France, 13.

Beroe, comparison of Ovid's, with that in the fifth Æneid, 188.
Bipennis, or securis, a weapon of the Amazons, 431.
Blenheim, battle of, described, 60, &c.

Blow, of flowers, remarks on the expression, 19, note.
Boeotia, why so called, 142.

Boileau, his imitation of the delicacy of Horace, 369.

Boyne, an obscure river in Ireland, how rendered famous, 37,
Brass, ancient, distinguished from modern by the taste, 438.

Breeches, a modern pair of, likely hereafter to occasion a schism in
the learned world, 347.

Britain, the Isle of, sacred to liberty, 43. The guardian of the
continent, 54. How represented on medals, 424. Described by
the ancient poets, 425.

British Enchanters, epilogue to, 108.

Bull, an emblem of agriculture, 416.

Bulla, a part of the dress of the Romans, 346.

Burnett, D. Tho. sacræ theoriæ telluris autorem, Poema, ad, 333.

C.

Cadmus, founds Boeotia, 142. Slays a dragon, 144. Sows a field
with its teeth, which grow into armed men, 146.

Caduceus, on old coins, an emblem of peace, 391.

Calabria, celebrated for honey, 422.

Calisto, story of, 125. Turned into a bear by Juno, is placed among
the constellations by Jupiter, 129.

Camel, mention of the, by Persius, 433.

Campaign, The, a poem to the Duke of Marlborough, 53. The exe-
cution better than the plan, ib. note.

Cap worn by the eastern nations, 405.

Caraccio, said to have assisted Aretine by designs from the Spintriæ
of Tiberius, 344.

Catullus, his allusion to the goddess Fidelity, 364.

Cato, tragedy of, 199. Opening too solemn, 215, note. Love-scenes
in, beautiful but rather misplaced, 230, note. Beautiful and ap-
propriate simile of a stream, 234. Use made of the Philippics of
Cicero, 236, note. Inaccuracy of a speech respecting terms, 243.
note. Definition of honour, 252. Fine allusion to mount Atlas, 255.
Touch of nature in the soliloquy of Syphax, 256. Scene of the
mutiny, 269. Death of Sempronius, 274. Cato's magnanimity on
the death of his son, 282. His soliloquy, 287. His death, 294. A
sentiment in his last speech not in character, and why introduced,
ib. note.
Verses with that play presented to the Princess of Wales,

299.

Cave of Polyphemus described, 48.

Cecilia's (St.) Day, a song for, 26.

Cephisus, the father of Narcissus by Liriope the Nereid, 153.
Ceres, the presiding goddess of Sicily, 427.

Charles V. a medal on his resigning the crown of Spain, 446.

Chastity, a goddess of the Romans, described on a medal, 368 to

371.

Chaucer, characterized, 29.

Chiron, the centaur, takes charge of the infant Esculapius, 133.
Chlamys, a vestment of the Romans, 346.

Christ, the cross of, on a medal of Constantine, 401. Mottoes of
Gustavus Adolphus relating to, 445, 448.
Chronogrammatists, German, ridiculed, 448.

Chronology, use of medals in, 349.

Church, danger of it, represented on a pope's coin, 451.

Cicero's Philippics, of service to the author in two scenes of Cato, 236,

note.

Claudian, the poet, his character, 173. His epigrammatic minuteness
in description, 181. His account of the phoenix, 372. His personi-
fication of Victory, 381. His illustration of the wand of Liberty, 382.
Peculiarity in this author's writings, 382. His character of Trajan,
402. His metaphorical compliment to Theodosius, 410. Repre-
sents Spain crowned with olive, 421. Personification of Rome,
424.

Claudius, a reverse of, expressing good-will, 392. Dress of, on a
medal, 393.

Clitumnus, river, described, 35, 37.

Clymene, mother of Phaëton, mourns over his tomb, 123.

Coin, old, licked by an antiquary to find out its age, 437.

Coins, ancient and modern, the different workmanship in each, 452.
Colonies of the Romans, ceremony on settling, 402.

Commentators, bad, on Ovid's Metamorphoses, 173.
Commodus, how distinguished on medals, 350.