facrifices to him, and inftituting games in his honour. The mention of thofe games naturally brings back the Poet to Diagoras; and gives him occafion, from the two victories obtained by Diagoras in those games, to enumerate all the prizes won by that famous conqueror in all the games of Greece: after which enumeration, he begs of Jupiter, in a folemn prayer, to grant Diagoras the love of his country, and the admiration of all the world, as a reward for the many virtues for which he and his family had always been diftinguished, and for which their country had fo often triumphed: and then, as if he had been a witnefs of the extravagant transports of the Rhodians (to which, not the festival only occafioned by the triumphal entry of their countryman, and the glory reflected upon them by his victories, but much more the flattering and extraordinary sulogiums bestowed upon the whole nation in this Ode, might have given birth), the Poet on a fudden changes his hand, and checks their pride by a moral reflection on the viciffitude of fortune, with which he exhorts them to moderation, and fo concludes. A HEROIC STANZAS, I. S when a father in the golden vase, The pride and glory of his wealthy ftores, Bent his lov'd daughter's nuptial torch to grace, The vineyard's purple dews profusely pours; II. Then II. Then to his lips the foaming chalice rears, The precious earnest of efteem fincere, He to his home the valued prefent bears, V. Thus on the valiant, on the fwift, and ftrong, And, pouring forth the Mufe-defcended song, Grateful to them refounds th' harmonick Óde, VII. The Mufe her piercing glances throws around, VIII. But VIII. But here each instrument of fong divine,, IX. Thee and thy country, native of the flood, X. To fing thy triumphs in th' Olympick fand, XI. Nor Damagetus will I pafs unfung, Thy fire, the friend of Juftice and of Truth; The chiefs who led to Rhodes the Argive youth. There near to Afia's wide-extended strand, XIII. To their defcendants will I tune my lyre, XIV. Tlepole XIV. Tlepolemus of great Alcides came, XV. But wrapt in error is the human mind, Know we what fortune yet remains behind? XVI. For lo the founder of the Rhodian ftate, XVII. With his rude mace, in fair Tiryntha's walls, Yet warm from her embrace, and bites the ground. XVIII. Paffion may oft the wifeft heart furprize: Confcious and trembling for the murderous deed, To Delphi's Oracle the hero flies, Solicitous to learn what Heaven decrced. Tlepolemus. XIX, Him XIX. Him bright-hair'd Phœbus, from his odorous fane, Bade fet his flying fails from Lerna's fhore, And, in the bolom of the Eastern Main, That fea-girt region haften to explore; XX. That blissful island, where a wonderous cloud The King of Heaven brought forth the Virgin Power. By Vulcan's art the father's teeming head Was open'd wide, and forth impetuous sprung, And fhouted fierce and loud, the Warrior Maid: Old Mother Earth and Heaven affrighted rung. XXII. Then Hyperion's fon, pure fount of day, Did to his children the strange tale reveal : He warn'd them ftrait the facrifice to flay, And worship the young Power with earliest zeal. So would they footh the mighty father's mind, XXIV. On ftaid precaution, vigilant and wife, XXV, The |