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Title: [unknown]
Author: Barnes, Joshua
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 97
Contents: Comparing an ungrateful person to a hogshead with a hole in it; translated from preceding Greek lines by Lucian and given also in a Latin version
Title: [unknown]
Author: Barnes, Joshua
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 97
Contents: Describing the beauty of Pandora; translated from Hesiod
Title: [unknown]
Author: Barnes, Joshua
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 97
Contents: On the drunken dancing of Hogshead, supposedly Bacchus's principal commander in India; translated from preceding lines from Nonnus, "Dionysiae"
Title: [unknown]
Author: Barnes, Joshua
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 97
Contents: Description of wine in the cellar of Ulysses (Odysseus); translating preceding Greek lines from Homer, "Odyssey"
Title: [unknown]
Author: Barnes, Joshua
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 97
Contents: Wishing that the inventor of the leather drinking bottle might dwell in heaven. Described as "that old catch".
Title: [unknown]
Author: Barnes, Joshua
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 97
Contents: On the ingenuity with which satyrs will always find something from which to drink; translating preceding Latin lines from Nemesianus, "Eclogues"
Title: [unknown]
Author: Barnes, Joshua
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 97
Contents: Noting the occasional use of shoes and chamberpots as drinking vessels; translating preceding Latin lines attributed to John Lucemburgh
Title: [unknown]
Author: Barnes, Joshua
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 97
Contents: Song celebrating a lady's slipper as a drinking vessel and envying its closeness to her feet. Described as "this extempore hymn".
Title: [unknown]
Author: Barnes, Joshua
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 97
Contents: Description of Nestor's drinking bowl, translated from Homer's "Iliad"
Title: [unknown]
Author: Barnes, Joshua
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 97
Contents: Explaining the significance of the weight and design of Nestor's drinking bowl; translating preceding Latin lines by Andrew Alciat, which explain the description given in Homer
Title: [unknown]
Author: Barnes, Joshua
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 97
Contents: On the design of two drinking bowls presented by Theagenes to Piso, each of which contains the constellations of a hemisphere; translated from Antipater Sidonius
Title: [unknown]
Author: Barnes, Joshua
Date(s): 1708
Manuscript: Lt 97
Contents: On Anacreon's design for a drinking bowl, depicting vines, youths and Bacchus rather than the stars; translated from Anacreon