"In 5^tam Novembris"

• Archive Work ID: poems.lt16
• Uniform Title: "In 5^tam Novembris" [e-text]
• First Line: Lis anceps, multosque diu protracta per annos,
• Language: Latin
• First Published: 1884
• References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 127-129 (with English prose translation); Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 297-299 (with English prose translation)
• Summary: Composed as an undergraduate exercise at Cambridge, possibly in 1735. First published in Gosse (ed.), Works (1884), vol. i, 167.

1 Manuscript:

• • Archive MS ID: mss.0086 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: "In 5^tam Novembris"
  • Date: [1735?]
  • Physical Description: 2 pages; autograph fair copy
  • Language: Latin
  • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/4/1, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
  • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel two
  • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 72, 86; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 32; Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 415
  • Contents: Autograph fair copy signed "Gray".