The Lambertville press. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1858-1???, 1861-05-29

ICd ny OOlutuuuS, IL Hdo UOOu PoPui"A
" believed that Seneca and Plato had
plainly predicted that event, so impor-
tant to the interests of humanity. In
Bacon's Essay's* there is one entitled
OF Prophecies" which refers, among
other examples, to portions of the
writings Of Seneca and Plato, which,
in his time, (and, we may add, since
were considered as especially bearing
upon this instance. Seneca's lines
are as follows:
Venient annis
Ssecula seris, quibus oceanus
Vincula rerum axit, et.ingens
Pateat Tellus, Tiphysque novos
Detegat orbes nee sit ferris
Ultima Thule.
The literal translation is: After
the lapse Of years. ages will come in
which Ocean shall relax his chains
around the world, and vast CONT
nent shall appear, and Tiphys shall
explore new regions, and Thule shall
be no longer the utmost verge o. the
earth" AS Ultima Thule is under
stood to have been the Farce Islands,
in the Roman estimation, the above
indicates that the new continent was
to appear in the West.
Before Seneca's lines were written,
Plato had narrated the Egyptian le-
gend that, engulphed in the Ocean,
but sometimes still visible, was the
Island of Atalantis = supposed to
mean the Western World.
Bacon, although he says that all
kinds of predictions should be discred
tied, enumerates great many which
actually were fnlfilled-as if with the
credulity of his age, he believed them
|, but, as grave philosopher, was bound
to deny them.
4 learned friend, whose signature is
V. W. X. Y. T., and who need not
here be named, has sent us remark
able prophecy, said to have been
written centuries ago, which seems
curiously and emphatically to refer to
the present condition of affairs in this
country. He prefaces the original
and translation, with this intro due
ton:
The following Monkish- Latin YER
ses, (of which / have attempted a
translation, with what success Others
Judge, are, indeed, to say the least
of them, wonderful as describing so ac-
curately and infinitely some of the
events transporting in our own day and
country. The structure Of the orig
inal Latin is such q need not tell you,
as was frequently praciiced in the
middle ages, more particularly. and in
the religious houses of Continental
Europe, and many parts of Great
Britain and Irel md. Indeed, such
Leonine or Monkish- Latin verses were
much in fashion from a very early
period of the Christian era until the
revival of classical literature. To
what particular age or country the
Leoninas now under consideration be-
long, it would be difficult to conjec-
ture. They woull seem, however, to
lie assignable to a period somewhat
prior to that when the Latin language
lost much of its idiomatic beauty and
conciseness of expression The els
ion of the vowels (the terminating
vowel of one word before the succeed
wing beginning OWL in another word,
is cl,sely observed in the present
verses.
In the sixth line, the word "ejus" is
to be pronounced as though the D were
absent and somewhat like the English
noun "use !" the m Of '1ocum,0 in the
same line, is, of course, elided in read
ing, as it is, most generally, /" ante
vocalem.'
As the verses have never hitherto
been published, (existing, as they do.
only in manuscript | know of no
better medium for bringing them into
the light Of day than the columns OF
The Press. They may, perhaps,
thereby obtain as wide a dissemina-
ton among the other journals of the
country as their literary merits and
prophetic accuracy entitle them to.
The Latin verses, rough enough to
be old, are as follows:
Antequam Tres Decemque Conjuncti
Triplicata STINT parte perfuncti,
Aquila, belli fulgure strata,
Decidet coelo dedecorata.
Quum Sexaginta fnitus crit
Unusque locum ejus occupaverit,
Stimuli fratees, fratribus succensi,
Multum tribuent mutu@ offene@.
sed 81 alba alba, ct nigra manent,
Conjnncti, iterum, faustique clarent,
Quando inter stelas Crux apparebit,
Nullus iras inter eos videbit.
Our friends translation, accurate as
well as flowing, we now subjoin :
s5 TRANSLATION.
Before *Thirteen United 1
Shall be thrice what thew are,