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from Arcadia, his native Country. He points out 

 to him an extenfive wood, of which Romidus, in 

 after times, availed himfelf as an afylum ; and, at 

 the bottom of a rock, the grotto of Pan-Lupercal, 

 fo called, he tells him, in imitation of that of the 

 Arcadians of Mount Lyceum. 



Nee non et facri monflrat nemus Argileti : 

 Teftaturque locum, et lethum docet hofpitis Argi. 

 Hinc ad Tarpeiam fedem et Capitolia ducit, 

 Aurea nunc, olim fylveftribus horrida dumis. 

 Jam turn religio pavidos terrebat agreftes 

 Pira loci, jam turn fylvam faxumque tremebant. 

 Hoc nemus, hunc, inquit, fiondofo vertice collem, 

 (Quis Deus incertum eft) habitat Deus, Arcades ipfum 

 Credunt fe vidifle Jovem ; cum faspe nigrantem 

 jEgrda concuteret dextra, nipbofque ciei'et. 



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* Here, Pan^ beneath the rocks thy temple flood ; 

 There, the renown'd afyhim, in the wood. 

 Now points the monarch, where, by vengeful fteel 

 His murder'd gueft, poor haplefs Jrgus fell ! 

 Next, to the capitol their courfe they hold. 

 Then roof d with reeds, but blazing now with gold. 

 Ev'n then her awful fanftity appear'd ; 

 The fwains the local majefty rever'd. 

 All pale with facred horror, they furvey'd 

 The folemn mountain and the reverend fhade. 

 Some God, the monarch faid, fome latent God 

 Dwells in that gloom, and haunts the frowning wood. 

 Oft our Arcadians deem, their wondering eyes 

 Have feen great Jav^^ dread fovereign of the Ikies; 



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