FRAGMENT. 2^3 



bient air in the échos of the Woods and of the 

 mountains : 



Confonat omne nemus ftrepitu, coUefque refGltant. 



Virgil always exprefies natural confonances. 

 They redouble the effeâ: of his pidlures, and in- 

 fufe into them the fublime fentiment of infinity, 

 Confonances are in poetry, what reflexes are m 

 painting. 



This hymn will fland a comparifon with the 

 finefl odes of Horace. Though compofed in re- 

 gular Alexandrine verfes, it has all the elegant 

 turn, and the movements, of a lyric compofition, 

 efpecially in it's tranfitions. 



Evander afterwards relates, to Eneas, the hiflory 

 of the antiquities of the Country, beginning with 

 Saturn, who, dethroned by Jupiter, retired thither, 

 and there eftabh(hed the Golden Age. He in- 

 forms his guefts that the Tiber, anciently called 

 Albula, had acquired it's prefent name from 

 the Giant Tibris, who made a conqueft of the 

 fhores of that river. He fliews him the altar 

 and the gate, fince called Carmentalis by the 

 Romans, in honour of the nymph Carmenta, his 

 mother, by whofe advice he had come to form a 

 fettlement in that place, after having been baniflied 



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