pleista pagidon schemata
idoi tis an pepegmen en thneton bio,
kai pleist ep autois deleath, on epithumia
oregomenos tis en kakois alisketai
ostis d apistei kai sophos phulattetai
kalos apolauei ton kalos peporismenon.
arpagma d ouch arpagm o larvax outosi,
all autos, oimai, mallon arpaxei tina.
tond andra kleptein tallotri--euphemei, talan
tauten ye me mainoito manian Daimones.
tode gar aei sophoisin eulabeteon,
me ti poth eauto tis adikema sunnoe
kerde d emoige panth osois euphrainomai,
kerdos d akerdes o toumon algunei kear.

GRIP:
kago men ede komikon akekoa
semnos legonton toiade, tous de theomenous
krotein, mataiois edomenous sophismasin
eith, os apelth ekastos oikad, oudeni
ouden paremeine ton kalos eiremenon.

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PARAPHRASE OF A PASSAGE IN THE CHRONICLE OF THE MONK OF ST GALL.

[In the summer of 1856, the author travelled with a friend through
Lombardy. As they were on the road between Novara and Milan, they were
conversing on the subject of the legends relating to that country. The
author remarked to his companion that Mr Panizzi, in the Essay on the
Romantic Narrative Poetry of the Italians, prefixed to his edition of
Bojardo, had pointed out an instance of the conversion of ballad poetry
into prose narrative which strongly confirmed the theory of Perizonius
and Niebuhr, upon which "The Lays of Ancient Rome" are founded; and,
after repeating an extract which Mr Panizzi has given from the chronicle
of "The Monk of St Gall," he proceeded to frame a metrical paraphrase.
The note in Mr Panizzi's work (volume i. page 123, note b) is here
copied verbatim.]

"The monk says that Oger was with Desiderius, King of Lombardy, watching
the advance of Charlemagne's army. The king often asked Oger where
was Charlemagne. Quando videris, inquit, segetem campis inhorrescere,
ferreum Padum et Ticinum marinis fluctibus ferro nigrantibus muros
civitatis inundantes, tunc est spes Caroli venientis. His nedum expletis
primum ad occasum Circino vel Borea coepit apparere, quasi nubes
tenebrosa, quae diem clarissimam horrentes convertit in umbras. Sed
propiante Imperatore, ex armorum splendore, dies omni nocte tenebrosior
oborta est inclusis. Tunc visus est ipse ferreus Carolus ferrea galea
cristatus, ferreis manicis armillatus, etc., etc. His igitur, quae ego
balbus et edentulus, non ut debui circuitu tardiore diutius ex