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 Addison, character of his poetry, 3, note. His translations from the Georgics in his one-and-twentieth year, 188, note. Disinge- Adrian, compliment to, in a medal respecting time, 377. Medals Eneid, comparison of its beauties with those of the Georgics, 197. 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- Arabia, represented on a medal, and described by the poets, 432. VOL. I. 2 H Astyanax compared to the morning-star, 397. Augustus, grandeur of his actions celebrated by Virgil, 192. His Aurelius, Marcus, emblems on two coins of, 407. A reverse of, almost Ausonius, his allusion to the Phoenix, 374. His description of the 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. Bavarians, yield to the Duke of Marlborough, 57 Bees, Virgil's direction concerning the management of, 16. Differ- Berkley's bombardment of the coast of France, 13. Beroe, comparison of Ovid's, with that in the fifth Æneid, 188. Blow, of flowers, remarks on the expression, 19, note. Boileau, his imitation of the delicacy of Horace, 369. Boyne, an obscure river in Ireland, how rendered famous, 37, Breeches, a modern pair of, likely hereafter to occasion a schism in Britain, the Isle of, sacred to liberty, 43. The guardian of the 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 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 Camel, mention of the, by Persius, 433. Campaign, The, a poem to the Duke of Marlborough, 53. The exe- Cap worn by the eastern nations, 405. Caraccio, said to have assisted Aretine by designs from the Spintriæ Catullus, his allusion to the goddess Fidelity, 364. Cato, tragedy of, 199. Opening too solemn, 215, note. Love-scenes 299. Cave of Polyphemus described, 48. Cecilia's (St.) Day, a song for, 26. Cephisus, the father of Narcissus by Liriope the Nereid, 153. 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. Christ, the cross of, on a medal of Constantine, 401. Mottoes of 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 Claudius, a reverse of, expressing good-will, 392. Dress of, on a 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. Commentators, bad, on Ovid's Metamorphoses, 173. |