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Title: From the Greek
Author: Fitzgerald, Thomas
Date(s): 173- or 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 5
Contents: Satire of a doctor, Callignotus, who advises his dying patient to include
him in his will in gratitude for his diagnosis; paraphrasing an epigram by
Agathias Scholasticus, XI.382 in the Greek or Pauline Anthology.
Title: The Greeks prepare to goe away
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 76
Contents: On the seizure of the Trojan women by the Greeks as they depart, the women's laments, and Hecuba's transformation into a dog; from Ovid's Metamorphoses, XIII
Title: An Ode upon Christ's crucifixion. From the Greek.
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem on the triumph and suffering of Christ's crucifixion,
apparently translated from Greek
Title: The mouse and the oyster or [title in Greek], a tragi-comic poem
Author: Bowden, Samuel
Date(s): 1736 ?
Manuscript: Lt 96
Contents: Mock-heroic tale of a mouse, long used to stealing food from a kitchen, eventually caught and killed by an oyster shell closing on him. Longer than the published version.
Title: From the Greek of Mealeager, A Father's epitaph on his Daughter.
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: Mr. R--ll (verso of preceding leaf); [Greek]
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 119
Contents: An epitaph by a Father for his daughter, proclaiming his grief and asking the earth to keep her safe. Translated from Meleager.
Title: The golden verses of Pythagoras translated from the Greek [Latin epigraph]
Author: Fitzgerald, Thomas
Attribution: T.F. [Greek]
Date(s): 1733 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 5
Contents: Translation of the moralising verses on the conduct of life (life guided by
reason) known as the Golden Verses of Pythagoras
Title: A puppet show. Translated from the Latin of Mr Addison. [Greek epigraph]
Author: Fitzgerald, Thomas
Attribution: T.F. [Latin]
Date(s): 1733 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 5
Contents: Description of a puppet show, mimicking life-size theatre, translated from
Addison's poem "Machinae gesticulantes", 1698
Title: Ode to the Honourable William Pitt [followed by Greek epigraph from Pindar]
Author: Mason, William
Attribution: William Mason, M.A.
Date(s): 1782 (at end)
Manuscript: Lt 99
Contents: Ode entreating William Pitt the Younger to heed the example of his father, and in his governance of Britain to be 'the people's friend'. With annotations in the lower margins. At end: 'Aston, May 11th, 1782' and 'Vid. Pag. 260' (another poem by
William Ma
Title: Christ's passion. Taken out of a Greek ode written by Mr
Masters of New College in Oxford
Author: Cowley, Abraham
Attribution: Cowley; [Greek]
Date(s): 1658 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 67
Contents: Religious poem on the passion and crucifixion of Christ, urging mankind to weep with sorrow. A version of an ode in Greek by Thomas Masters.
Title: On Dr Clifton's motto, Nihil repugnante natura [also given in Greek; Clifton
is corrected from Clifford]
Author: Tayleure, William ? [see Venn]
Attribution: My Tay'lleure
Date(s): 1729 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 20
Contents: Satirical song or ballad on the self-importance of Dr Francis Clifton as
shown by his public use of a Greek motto, casting doubt on his qualifications
and skill as a physician
Title: Epitaph on Zeno
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: On the manner of death of the Greek philosopher Zeno
Title: [unknown]
Author: Barnes, Joshua
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 97
Contents: On the appearance of Bacchus to the pirates; preceded by Greek and Latin versions