Part No. 9 - Latin epigram: 'Epigramma Latinum numismate donatum'

1 sheet, printed, with extensive MS annotations.

MS notes around printed text, perhaps in the hand of Richard Shilleto. At top: 'I was told by a sometime pupil now Fellow of his college that he hoped the age of Cartmell might show itself equal to the age of Pericles. This provoked the following' - two lines of Greek verse, presented as a fragment of Eupolis, with an English translation.

The 'age of Cartmell' probably refers to James Cartwell's first spell as Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University in 1849, as the printed Latin epigram concerns an occasion on which the Vice-Chancellor mistakenly attempted to assign Phaedrus's Fables, a Latin work, to 'S' as a Greek text for him to teach. First lines: 'Si literarum vult quis esse Graecarum / Professor, adsit...'. An English verse translation follows: 'Each, who would teach the tongue of Greece, is / To give to me a triple Thesis...'

• Ancient Greek
• English
• Latin

Tipped into R.1.75.