The classical beauty of these lines induced me, in the year 1828, to have them ingraved in golden letters upon black marble, and placed upon one of our bath-houses (the Mühlbrunn). In order to illustrate that simple and honourable monument, erected at public expenses, I published the Life of the poet, a commentary and numerous translations of the Ode, under the title: Ode latine sur Carlsbad, composée, vers la fin du quinzième siècle, par le baron Bohuslas Hassenstein (³) de Lobkowitz, avec une polyglotte, une natice biographique sur ce poète, des observations sur l’Ode, et sur l’antiquité de ces thermes. Prague, 1829.
Those versions increasing annually, their collection has acquired some philological worth, and interested the innumerable scholars of all nations, who render Carlsbad a living polyglot. For the present work I shall only select an english version, written last year by a Noble Peer, whose poetical talent was animated by his high opinion of the salutary effects of our springs; a gaelic one, particularly admired by several good judges of Ossian’s tongue, and a turkish one, composed by a student (since 1835 doctor) of medecine, son of a citizen of Carlsbad, a real αντοδιδαχτος, whose two versions (I publish only one here) have deserved the full approbation and admiration of the first orientalist of the Austrian dominions (⁴).
