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To return to King Evander : He was employed 

 in offering a facrifice to Hercules^ at the iiead of 

 his Arcadian Colony, at the time Eneas landed. 

 After having engaged the Trojan Chief, and his 

 attendants, to partake of the facred banquet, which 

 his arrival had interrupted, he inftrufts his gueft 

 in the origin of this facrifice, by relating to him 

 the hiilory of the robber Cacus, whom Hercules 

 put to death, in a cavern adjoining to the Aven- 

 tine Mount. He prefents him with a tremendous 

 pidure of the combat of the fon of Jupiter, with 

 that flame-vomiting monfter ; he then adds : 



* Ex illo celebratus honos, Isetique minores 

 Servavere diem : primufque Pctitius auétor, 

 Et domus Herculei cuftos Pinaria facri, 

 Hanc aram luco flatuit : quae maxima Temper 

 Dicetur nobis, et erit quae maxima Temper. 



Quare agite, O juvenes, tantarum in munere laudiim, 

 « Cingite fronde comas, e£ pocula porgite dextris ; 

 Communemque vocate deum, et data vina vokntes. 



Dixerat : 



* From that bleft hour th* Arcadian tribes befbow'd- 

 Thefe folemn honours on their guardian God. 

 Potititts firft, his gratitude to prove, 



Ador'd Alcides in the fhady grove ; 

 And with the old Pinarian facred line, 

 Thefe altars rais'd, and paid the rites divine, 

 Rites, which our fons for ever IhalJ maintain ; 

 And ever facred fhall the grove remain. 

 Come then, with us to great JÊcides pray. 

 And crt)wn your heads, and folemnize the day, 

 VOL. V, Q^ Invoke: 



