Bridging the Continental divide: neo-Latin and its cultural role in Jacobean Scotland, as seen in the Delitiae Poetarum Scotorum (1637)

Maitland's final eleven poems in the DPS are a series of two-line epigrams that either make a play on Greek and Roman literary terms (such as this one on 'the long-eared owl', or the final poem in the collection (d2_MaiT_040) on the nature of the epigram), or make a pun, whose meaning is often now too obscure to recover, relating to a well-known figure in antiquity (such as Homer in d2_MaiT_031 or Vergil in d2_MaiT_034). The Demophilus mentioned here is perhaps the son of Ephorus (c.400-330BC), who edited his father's universal history, the first text of its kind. However, the attribution is far from certain. Metre: elegiac couplets.