The Nevada Democrat., 1861-05-28
T,emarrab,e oI0-Vvorld Prophecy.

A@DAAN~~~ N~~~@T@~
Ever since the discovery of America by
Columbus. IL has been popularity believed
that Seneca and Plato had plainly predict
cd that event. so important TO the interests
of humanity. In Bacon's Essays there is
one entitled "Of Prophecies" which refers.
among other examples, to portions of the
writings of Seneca and Plato, which, in bis
time. land. we may add, since,) were con-
sidered as especially bearing upon this in-
stance. Seneca's lines are as follows:
Venient annis
Sncula seris, quibus Oceanus
Vincula rerum laxit, ct :ngens
Pateat Telus, 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 continent shall appear.
and Tiphys shall explore new regions, and
Thule shall be no longer the utmost verge
OF 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 legend that, en-.
gulphed in the Ocean, but sometimes still
visible, was the Island of Atlantis-sup-
posed TO mean the Western World.
Bacon. although he says that all kinds OF
predictions should be disredited. enume-
rates great many which actually we're
fuIAlled-ss If, with the credulily Of bis age,
be believed them, but as a grave philOso-
pher. was bound to deny them.
A learned friend, whose signature is V.
W.X.Y. H., and who need not here be nam
ed, has sent as a remarkable prophesy, said
to have been written centuries ago, which
seems curiously aud emphatically TO refer
20 the present condition Of affairs in this
country. lie prefaces the original and
translation. with this introduction
The following Monkish-Latin verses, (of
which have attempted translation, with
what success others shall iudge) are, indeed, to
say the least of them, wonderful as describing
so accurately and minutely some OF the events
transpiring in our own day and country. The
structure Of the original Latin is such q need
not tell you) as was frequently practced in the
middle ages, more particularly, and in the re-
lgious houses Of Continental Europe, and
many parts of Great Britain and Ireland. In
deed, such Leonine or Monkish-Latin verses
were much in fashion from a very early period
of the Christian era until the revival Of classi-
cal literature. To what particular age or coun-
try the Leonines now under consideration be-
long, it would be difficult to conjecture. They
would seem, however to be assignable to a pc
riod somewhat prior to that when the Latin
language lost much OF its idiomatic beauty and
concseness Of expression. The clision of the
vowels (the terminating vowel of one word be-
fore the succeeding beginning vowel in another
word) is closely observed in the present verses.
In the sixth line, the word "ejus" is to be
pronounced as though thej were absent, and
somewhat like the English noun "use:" the ~
of"Ioeuna," in the same line, is, of course,
elided in reading, as it is, most generally "ante
vocalem."
As the verses have never hitherto been pub
Hshed, (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 dissemination among the other journals
Of the country as their literary merits and pro-
phetic accuracy entitle them to.
The Latin verses, rough enough to be
old are as follows:
Antequam Tres Decemque Conjuncti
Triplicata stint parte perfuncti,
Aquila, beli fulgure strata,
Decdet celo dedecorata.
Quum Sexaginta fintus crit
Unusque locum eius occupaverit,
Smu fratres, fratribus succensi,
Multum tribuent mutu@ oifensp.
Sed 81 alba alba, ct nigra nigra manent,
Coniuncti, iterum, faustique clarent.
Quando inter stellas Crux apparebt,
Nullus iras inter eos videbit.
Our friends translation, accurate as we'll
as flowing, we now subjoin:
TRANSLATION.
Before &Thirteen United
Shall be thrice what they are,
The Eagle shall be blighted
By the lightnings of war.
When +Sixty is ended
And One takes its place,
Then, brothers, offended,
Shall deal mutual disgrace.
If twhte remain white,
And black be still black,
Once more they'll unite,
And bring happiness back.
But whenever the SCross
Stands aloft 'mong the stars,
They shall gain by their loss,
And thus end all their wars.
He has appended few Notes. which may
fitly close his very curious communication
sThis undoubtedly refers to the. thirteen
oriuinai United States Of America.