27 JANUARY 1894, Page 32

A TRANSLATED EPIGRAM.

[" The Percy Turnbull Memorial Lectureship of Poetry was. established in the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, in 1889; by Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull, in memory of their son,. Percy Graeme Turnbull."—Preface to Professor Jebb's Growth. and Influence of Classical Greek Poetry. (Macmillan.)]

To this volume, which contains the Percy Turnbull Lectures for 1892, Professor Jebb has prefixed the following epigram IN MEMORIAM.

PERCY GRAEME TURNBULL.

NATUS EST MALI DIE VICESIMO OCTAVO A.D. MDCOOLICXVIII.- °BHT FEBRUABII DUODECIMO A.D. MDCCCLXXXVII.

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TRANSLATION.

Thou fadedst, as a rose before it flowers, Ere thy ninth spring; but when the spring-tide flowers.- Year after year return, for thy sweet sake Thy parents to the Muse this offering make.

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