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THE TEMPLE OF FAME.

Bold Scipio, faviour of the Roman hate ;

Great in his triumphs, in retirement great; 164And wife Aurelius, in whofe well-taught mindWith bonndlefs pow’r unbounded virtue join’d,Hi s own ftrift judge, and patron of mankind.

Much-fufF’ring heroes next their honours claim,Thofe of lets noify, and lefs guilty fame,

Fair Virtue’s filcnt train: fupreme of thefc 170Here ever fliines the godlike Socrates :

He whom ungrateful Athens could expel,

At all times juft, but when he fign’d the Shell:Here his abode the martyr’d Phocion claims,

NOTES.

Ver. 162. Timoleon , glorious] Mr. Harte told m« our author bailOnce intended to write au epic poem on the ftory of Timoleon ; andit is remarkable that Dr. Akenfide had the fame dclign ; he hints atit him fell in the Uft ftaoza of the thirteenth ode, b. i. on lytic poetry,44 But when from envy and from death to claim,

A hero bleeding for bis native land;

When to throw incenfe on thcveftal flameOf liberty my genius gives corfcmand *,

Nor Theban voice, nor Lefbian lyre,

From thee, O mufe! do I require;

While my prefaging mind,

Confcious of powers (he nsver knew,

AftonHh'd grafps at things beyond her view;

Nor by another's late fubmits-to be confin’d.”

He told me himfclf that the Uft liue alluded, to the Leonidas ofGlover.

Ver. 172. He whom ungrateful Athens ^ etc.] Ariftides, who forhis great integrity was diftiuguifhed by the appellation of the JuJl .When bis countrymen would have baoiftied him by the Ofliaeifm,where it was the cuftotn for eveTy man to fign the name of the perfonhe voted to exile in an Oyftcr-ftiell ; a pcafant, who could not write,came to Ariftides to do it for bim, who readily figned his own Datnc. P.

Vcs.. 174* Martyr'd Phocion ] Who, when he was about to driukthe hemlock, charged bis fon to forgive his enemies, and not torevenge his death on thofe Athenians who bad decreed it.