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dcr the effeâ: of this more dignified, and more af- 

 feding, (he apphes to herfelf the need of it, and 

 reverberates from her own heart, on the Trojan 

 Prince, only the fame degree of fympathy which 

 (he demands for herfelf. Thefe are her words : 



Me quoque per multos fimilis fortuna labores 

 Jaftatam, hâc demum voluit confiflere terra. 

 Non ignara mali, miieris fuccurere difco *. 



JEkeid. B. i. L. 632 — 634. 



** A fortune fimilar to thine, after having pur- 

 *' fued me too, through diftrefles innumerable, per- 

 " mitted me, at length, to form a fettlement on 

 " thefe (hores. Nurtured myfelf in the fchool of 

 *' adverfity, I am inftruded to fuccour the mi- 

 " ferable." 



rir^^il uniformly prefers natural to political rea- 

 fons, and the intereft of Mankind to national in- 

 terefts. Hence it comes to pafs that his Poem, 

 though compofed to difFufe the particular glory of 

 the Roman People, interefts the men of all ages, 

 and of all Nations. 



* My wanderings and my fate refembling yours. 



At length I fettled on thefe Lybian fhores ; 



And, touch'd with miferies myfelf have known, 



I view, with pity, woes fo like my own. 



Pitt. 



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