Note 37 — LETTER XXXVII.
Reading edition
The French are not the only People who boast of the Grandeur and other Advantages of Lyons, as appears from this Epigram by Scaliger.
Flumineis Rhodanus qua se fugat incitus undis, Quaque pigro dubitat flumine mitis Arar, Lugdunum jacet, antiquo novus orbis in orbe, Lugdunumque vetus orbis in orbe novo. Quod nolis, alibi quaras; hic quare quod optas: Aut hic, aut nusquam, vincre vota potes. Lugduni quodcunque potest dare mundus habebis: Plura petas, hac urbs & tibi plura dabit.
i. e.
Where Rhone impetuous rolls, and where the slow And gentle Sâon with milder Streams does flow, There Lyons stands; where we united find, What scatter’d thro’ the World delights the Mind; And if you still seek more with greedy eye, Lyons can ev’n more Wonders still supply.