ellauri141.html on line 569: The ‘editor’ of the Latin text was the clever versifier A. D. Godley of Oxford. (267) He contributed graceful acknowledgements (268) and a hilarious preface about the (fictitious) manuscripts, which parodies the standard praefatio of an Oxford Classical Text (brown-covered in those days like the spoof). (269) There is a learned apparatus criticus about disputed or variant ms. readings. He did the Latin poems, together with his Oxford colleagues and friends John Powell (270) and Ronald Knox (271) and the Etonian and former Cambridge undergraduate A. B. Ramsay. (272) There is an appendix of alternative Latin versions which the translators obviously could not bear to waste. Kipling contributed a schoolboyish prose version of ‘The Pro-consuls’: ‘the sixth ode, as it seems, rendered into English prose by a scholiast of uncertain period’, which starts:
ellauri158.html on line 220: P. 1. prop. 16. Ex necessitate divinae naturae infinita infinitis modis (hoc est, omnia, quae sub intellectum infinitum cadere possunt) sequi debent. [in: P. 1. prop. 17., prop. 17. schol., prop. 25. schol., prop. 26., prop. 29., prop. 33., prop. 34., prop. 36., app., P. 2. praef., prop. 3., prop. 3. schol., prop. 44. coroll. 2., prop. 45. schol., P. 4. praef., prop. 4., P. 5. prop. 22.]
ellauri158.html on line 317: P. 1. app. De praeiudiciis quibusdam. [in: P. 2. prop. 16. coroll. 2., prop. 48. schol., P. 4. praef., prop. 37. schol. 2.]
ellauri158.html on line 329: P. 2. praef.
ellauri158.html on line 350: P. 2. defin. 6. Per realitatem et perfectionem idem intelligo. [in: P. 4. praef., P. 5. prop. 35., prop. 40.]
ellauri158.html on line 758: P. 3. praef. [in: P. 4. prop. 57. schol.]
ellauri158.html on line 984: P. 4. praef. [in: P. 4. defin. 2., prop. 39., prop. 59., prop. 65., etiam in: TIE §. 12.]
ellauri158.html on line 1147: P. 5. praef.
ellauri333.html on line 98: Seleucus multa in Oriente post divisionem inter socios regni Macedonici bella gessit. Principio Babyloniam cepit; inde auctis ex victoria viribus Bactrianos expugnavit. Transitum deinde in Indiam fecit, quae post mortem Alexandra, veluti a cervicibus iugo servitutis excusso, praefectos eius occiderat. Auctor libertatis Sandrocottus fuerat, sed titulum libertatis post victoriam in servitutem verterat ; siquidem occupato regno populum, quem ab externa dominatione vindicaverat, ipse servitio premebat. Fuit de humili quidem genere natus, sed ad regni potestatem maiestate numinis inpulsus. Quippe cum procacitate sua Nandrum regem offendisset, interfici a rege iussus salutem pedum celeritate quaesierat Ex qua fatigatione cum somno captus iaceret, leo ingentis formae ad dormientem accessit sudoremque profluentem lingua ei detersit expergefactumque blande reliquit. Hoc prodigio primum ad spem regni inpulsus contractis latronibus Indos ad novitatem regni sollicitavit. Molienti deinde bellum adversus praefectos Alexandri elephantus ferus infinitae magnitudinis ultra se obtulit et veluti domita mansuetudine eum tergo excepit duxque belli et proeliator insignis fuit. Sic adquisito regno Sandrocottus ea tempestate, qua Seleucus futurae magnitudinis fundamenta iaciebat, Indiam possidebat, cum quo facta pactione Seleucus conpositisque in Oriente rebus in bellum Antigoni descendit.
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