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proprietary fhepherd, or the drefler of a vineyard 

 which he could call his own, but only to that of a 

 limple keeper of cattle : cnjîos gregis ; or of one 

 of ihofe hireling labourers, whom they accidentally 

 picked up, as they went on their way, to affift in 

 treading out the ripened clufters : Mature viniior 

 uva. 



Firgil abounds in fuch delicate (hades of fenti- 

 ment, which totally difappear in tranllations, and 

 elpecially in mine. 



Although the Arcadians pafled a confiderable 

 part of their life in finging, and in making love, 

 Firgil does not reprefent them as an effeminate 

 race of men. On the contrary, he affigns to them 

 fimple manners, and a particular charader of force, 

 of piety, and virtue, which is confirmed by all the 

 Hiftorians who have made mention of them. He 

 introduces them as aâ:ing a very diftinguiQied 

 and important part, in the origin of the Roman 

 empire J for when ^/i^-^j failed up the Tiber, in 

 the view of forming alliances with the Nations 

 who inhabited the fhores of that river, he found, 

 at the place of his difembarkation, a fmall city, 

 called Pallanteum, after the name oï Pallas, fon to 

 Evander, King of the Arcadians, who had built it. 

 This city was afterwards enclofed within the pre- 

 cind of the city of Rome, to which it ferved as 



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