"Thus (er he wiste) into a dale
He came."
Conf. Am. b. i. fol. 9. p. 2. col. l.
Q.
"Epitaphium Lucretiæ" (Vol. viii., p. 563.).—Allow me to send an answer to the Query of Balliolensis, and to state that in that rather scarce little book, Epigrammata et Poematia Vetera, he will find at page 68. that "Epitaphium Lucretiæ" is ascribed to Modestus, perhaps the same person who wrote a work de re militari. The version there given differs slightly from that of Balliolensis, and has two more lines; it is as follows:
"Cum foderet ferro castum Lucretia pectus,
Sanguinis et torrens egereretur, ait:
Procedant testes me non favisse tyranno,
Ante virum sanguis, spiritus ante deos.
Quam recte hi testes pro me post fata loquentur,