This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ... EXERCISE XXXII. Dear is my little native vale, The ringdove builds and murmurs there; Close to my cot she tells her tale To every passing villager. The squirrel leaps from tree to tree, And shells his nuts at liberty. Through orange groves and myrtle bowers, That breathe a gale of fragrance round, I charm the fairy-footed hours With the loved lute's romantic sound; Or crowns of living laurel weave For those that run the race at eve. Eogers. Retranslation. Dear to me (are) the bounds of my native-place, the little valley; Here the dove makes her nest, here murmuring coos. Sitting near, hard by my dwelling, she repeats her complaint To the villagers, such as care to pass-by. The squirrel leaps unharmed from branch to branch, And cracks nuts, no one hindering him. Through a grove blushing with apples of Alcinous and with myrtle, Whence a sweet fragrance swells widely flowing, Tuning a Lesbian strain on the loved lute, I beguile the time (pi.) gliding with soft step, w Or else weave the prizes of the race at-evening (adj.), That garlands of-bay be not wanting to the locks of the young. Hints. 1. "Bounds," confinia. 2. "Murmuring coos," rauca . . . gem.it. 3. "Near," vicina. "Repeats," recinit. 4. "Such as care," si cui ... libet. Use the perf. inf. for " pass by." 5. "Squirrel," sciurus (the "bushy-tailed"). A short vowel must be allowed before this word, as it could not otherwise be brought into the verse. "Hindering," praepediente. 7. Notice this equivalent for "orange groves," and compare Virg. Oeorg. ii. 87, "Pomaque et Alcinoi silvae." Pliny has arbor Medica for the orange or citron tree. 8. "Swells," abundat. 9. "Lesbian," Lesboum. For "lute,"plectrum may be used, being literally the quill or instrument with which the strings were...