One of the best of these literary curiosities is a small pamphlet (to be had of Mr. J. Vincent, Oxford,) entitled—
“Uniomachia; a Greek-Latin Macaronic Poem,” by Thomas Jackson, M.A. This was originally published in 1833, with a translation into English verse (after the manner of the late ingenious Mr. Alexander Pope), styled “The Battle at the Union.”
Another humorous pamphlet also published by Vincent, Viae per Angliam Ferro Stratae, and written by Mr. Fanshawe of Baliol College in 1841, was a comical skit on the early railways, in Latin hexameters.
Many Macaronic poems have appeared in Punch from time to time, to the great delight and amusement of classical scholars. The following, published in March, 1852, is a fine example of this class of learned frivolity:—
The Death of the Sea-Serpent,
By Publius Jonathan Virgilius Jefferson Smith.
Arma virumque cano, qui first, in the Monongahela,
Tarnally squampush’d the Sarpent, mittens horrentia tela.
Musa, look smart with your Banjo! I guess, to relate or invent, I
Shall need all the aid you can give; so, Nunc aspirate canenti.