An elegy on the lamented death of the electrical eel, or gymnotus electricus : with the lapidary inscription, as placed on a superb erection, at the expence of the Countess of H---------, and Chevalier-Madame d'Eon de Beaumont / By Lucretia Lovejoy [pseud.], sister to Mr. Adam Strong, author of the Electrical eel.

Date:
1777
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Credit: An elegy on the lamented death of the electrical eel, or gymnotus electricus : with the lapidary inscription, as placed on a superb erection, at the expence of the Countess of H---------, and Chevalier-Madame d'Eon de Beaumont / By Lucretia Lovejoy [pseud.], sister to Mr. Adam Strong, author of the Electrical eel. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 29 ] HIC JACET GYMNOTUS ELECTRIGUS: A SPEM GREGIS, AH ! SILICE IN NUDA*—REL IQUIT. NON L^TA SPE CARNIS RESURRECTIONIS. * Mr. Dryden, in his tranflation of Virgih hath haftily, or injudiciouOyj,, rendered nuda filicey rocks. It is> literally, on the bare flint ftones. But every man, acquainted with the two languages, will allow the bare and na¬ ked ftones to more ftrongly imprefs the author’s meaning,, than any other words. V/erel to tranflate the Latin of this epitaph, I lliould endeavour to render it thus, as being nearefl: to the fenfe of the author, though I am confident, I cannot doit that juflice it merits : it being far beyond the flight of a feminine pen—it requires more mafculine touches. HERE LIES THE ELECTRICAL EEL; ALAS ! THE HOPE OF SHEPHERDESSES FLOCKS, LEFT AND NEGLECTED ON THE NAKED STONES, WITHOUT THE HOPE OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE FLESH. F I N I