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"Alma Venus, coeli subter labentia signa Quae mare navigerum, quae terras frugiferenteis Concelebras . . . . . . . Quae quondam rerum naturam sola gubernas, Nec sine te quidquam dias in luminis oras Exoritur, neque fit laetum neque amabile quidquam; Te sociam studeo!"

The attention given to the acoustic arrangements of the Greeks may be inferred from Vitruv. v. 5, 8. H. N. xxxv. 4, 23; Val. Among the few minor poems preserved from this epoch there occurs the following epigram on this illustrious actor: -Constiteram, exorientem Auroram forte salutans, Cum subito a laeva Roscius exoritur.

It is on the actor Roscius, who, when a boy, was renowned for his beauty, and is favourably compared with the rising orb of day: "Constiteram exorientem Auroram forte salutans, Cum subito e laeva Roscius exoritur. Pace mihi liceat, caelestes, dicere vestra: Mortalis visust pulcrior esse deo." This piece, as may be supposed, has met with imitators both in French and Italian literature.

Pliny, Naturalis Historic xviii. 269 sq.: "Exoritur dein post triduum fere ubique confessum inter omnes sidus ingens quod canis ortum vocamus, sole partem primam leonis ingresso. Hoc fit post solstitium XXIII. die. Sentiunt id maria et terrae, multae vero et ferae, ut suis locis diximus. Neque est minor ei veneratio quam descriptis in deos stellis accendique solem et magnam aestus obtinet causam."

Qui gentes omnes, mariaque et terras movet, Eius sum civis civitate caelitum; Ita sum ut videtis, splendens stella candida, Signum quod semper tempore exoritur suo Hic atque in caelo; nomen Arcturo est mihi. Noctu sum in caelo clarus atque inter deos; Inter mortales ambulo interdius.

In the line before the last we should probably read -multarum leges divumque hominumque. Os olig' alethe, polla de pseuon legei Tuchon, otan de me, tuche oioichetai This is turned by the Latin translator into the following diatribe against the casters of horoscopes: -Astrologorum signa in caelo quaesit, observat, Iovis Cum capra aut nepa aut exoritur lumen aliquod beluae.

The attention given to the acoustic arrangements of the Greeks may be inferred from Vitruv. v. 5, 8. H. N. xxxv. 4, 23; Val. Among the few minor poems preserved from this epoch there occurs the following epigram on this illustrious actor: -Constiteram, exorientem Auroram forte salutans, Cum subito a laeva Roscius exoritur.