"[Latin verses at Eton]"

• Archive Work ID: poems.lt18
• Uniform Title: "[Latin verses at Eton]" [e-text]
• First Line: Pendet Homo incertus gemini ad confinia mundi
• Language: Latin
• First Published: 1882 and 1884
• References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 117-121 (with English prose translation); Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 290-293 (with English prose translation)
• Summary: Composed as a school exercise at Eton between February 1733 and September 1734. First published, in part and untitled, in Gosse, Gray (1882), 6-7, published in full in Gosse (ed.), Works (1884), vol. i, 163 as "Play Exercise at Eton".

1 Manuscript:

• • Archive MS ID: mss.0093 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: [untitled]
  • Date: [between February 1733 and September 1734]
  • Physical Description: 2 pages; autograph fair copy
  • Language: Latin
  • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 50-51, 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 one
  • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 78, 86; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 21; Martin, Chronologie (1931), 136
  • Contents: Autograph fair copy, here untitled but under the heading "Carmina", annotated by Gray "Play-Exercise at Eton" and listed in the index at the end as "Knowledge of Himself, Latin Verses at Eton", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 50-51.
  • Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.