FRAGMENT. 23I 



Nee te ullae faciès, non terruit ipfe Typhaeus 

 Arduus, arma tenens : non te rationis egentem 

 Lernasus turbâ capitum circumftetit anguis. 

 Salve, vera Jovis proies, decus addite Divis : 

 Et nos, et tua dexter adi pede facra fecundo. 

 Talia carminibus celebrant : fuper omnia Caci 

 Speluncam adjiciunt, fpirantemque ignibus ipfum. 

 Confonat omne nemus ftrepitu, coUefque refultant. 



jEneid. B. viii. L. 287 — 305. 



'' On this hand were arranged a choir of youth, 

 '^ on that, a venerable band of old men, to cele- 

 " brate the praifes, and the mighty atchievements 

 " of Hercules : How, with the preffure of his po- 

 *' tent fingers, he ftifled to death two fearful 

 *' fnakes, the firfl monfters armed againfl him by 

 " his cruel ftep-mother : how he humbled the ' 

 " two proud cities, Troy and ^chalia : how hç 



No fliapes of danger could thy foul affright, 

 Nor huge Typhaus^ towering to the fight, 

 Nor Lerna's fiend thy courage could confound, 

 With all her hundred heads, that hifs'd around. 

 Hail, mighty Chief, advanc'd to Heav'n's abodes ! 

 Hail, fon of Jo^ve ; a God among the Gods ! 

 Be prefent to the vows thy fuppliants pay. 

 And with a fmile thefe grateful rites furvey. 

 Thus they — but Cacus' cavern crowns the ftrain. 

 Where the grim monfter breath 'd his flames in vain. 

 To the glad fong, the vales, the woods rebound. 



The lofty hills reply, and echo to the found. 



Pitt. 



0^4 " triumphantly 



