Who, still unlaunched from Grecian docks,
Had never passed the Azure rocks;
But now I fear her trip will be a
Damn'd business for my Miss Medea, etc.
Had never passed the Azure rocks;
But now I fear her trip will be a
Damn'd business for my Miss Medea, etc.
Byron
(For Charles Skinner Matthews, see _Letters_, 1898, i.
150,
_note_ 3. )]
[13] [Compare--
"In short, the maxim for the amorous tribe is
Horatian, 'Medio tu tutissimus ibis. '"
_Don Juan_, Canto V. stanza xvii. lines 8, 9.
The "doctrine" is Horatian, but the words occur in Ovid, _Metam. _, lib.
ii. line 137. --_Poetical Works_, 1902, vi. 273, _note_ 2. ]
[14] [Hobhouse's _Journey through Albania and other Provinces of
Turkey_, 4^to^, was published by James Cawthorn, in 1813. ]
TRANSLATION OF THE NURSE'S DOLE IN
THE _MEDEA_ OF EURIPIDES.
OH how I wish that an embargo
Had kept in port the good ship Argo!
Who, still unlaunched from Grecian docks,
Had never passed the Azure rocks;
But now I fear her trip will be a
Damn'd business for my Miss Medea, etc. , etc. [15]
_June_, 1810.
[First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, i. 227. ]
FOOTNOTES:
[15] ["I am just come from an expedition through the Bosphorus to
the Black Sea and the Cyanean Symplegades, up which last I scrambled
with as great risk as ever the Argonauts escaped in their hoy. You
remember the beginning of the nurse's dole in the _Medea_ [lines 1-7],
of which I beg you to take the following translation, done on the
summit;--[A 'damned business'] it very nearly was to me; for, had not
this sublime passage been in my head, I should never have dreamed of
ascending the said rocks, and bruising my carcass in honour of the
ancients. "--Letter to Henry Drury, June 17, 1810, _Letters_, 1898, i.
276.
Euripides, _Medea_, lines 1-7--
? ? ? ' ? ? ? ?
_note_ 3. )]
[13] [Compare--
"In short, the maxim for the amorous tribe is
Horatian, 'Medio tu tutissimus ibis. '"
_Don Juan_, Canto V. stanza xvii. lines 8, 9.
The "doctrine" is Horatian, but the words occur in Ovid, _Metam. _, lib.
ii. line 137. --_Poetical Works_, 1902, vi. 273, _note_ 2. ]
[14] [Hobhouse's _Journey through Albania and other Provinces of
Turkey_, 4^to^, was published by James Cawthorn, in 1813. ]
TRANSLATION OF THE NURSE'S DOLE IN
THE _MEDEA_ OF EURIPIDES.
OH how I wish that an embargo
Had kept in port the good ship Argo!
Who, still unlaunched from Grecian docks,
Had never passed the Azure rocks;
But now I fear her trip will be a
Damn'd business for my Miss Medea, etc. , etc. [15]
_June_, 1810.
[First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, i. 227. ]
FOOTNOTES:
[15] ["I am just come from an expedition through the Bosphorus to
the Black Sea and the Cyanean Symplegades, up which last I scrambled
with as great risk as ever the Argonauts escaped in their hoy. You
remember the beginning of the nurse's dole in the _Medea_ [lines 1-7],
of which I beg you to take the following translation, done on the
summit;--[A 'damned business'] it very nearly was to me; for, had not
this sublime passage been in my head, I should never have dreamed of
ascending the said rocks, and bruising my carcass in honour of the
ancients. "--Letter to Henry Drury, June 17, 1810, _Letters_, 1898, i.
276.
Euripides, _Medea_, lines 1-7--
? ? ? ' ? ? ? ?
