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Haec duo prasterea disjedis oppida mûris, 

 Relliquias veterumqne vides monumenta virorum. 

 Hanc Janus pater, hanc Saturnus condidit urbem : 

 Janiculum huic, illi fuerat Saturnia nomen. 



JEneiv. B. viii. L. 345—358. 



*' He next ftievvs him the facred grove of Argî- 

 " letum : makes a folemn appeal to that awful 

 *' fpot, and relates the flory of his murdered gueft 

 " Argus. Then he condufts him to the Tarpeian 

 *' rock ; and to the Capitol, now fliining with 

 " burnifhed gold, once clothed all over with wild 

 *' flirubbery. Even then the gloomy religious 

 *' horror of this fpot terrified the trembling ruf- 

 " tics; even then they ihuddered, as they ap- 

 *' proached the rocky precipice and the wood. 

 *' Some God, fays he, but which of the celeftial 

 *' Powers we know not, inhabits this grove, and 

 ** this fliaggy-topped eminence. Our Arcadians 

 ** imagine they have had aglimpfe oî Jupiter him- 

 *' felf, from time to time fhaking the heart-ap- 

 " palling JEgis with his formidable right-hand,. 



High o'er their heads, the God his aegis held. 

 And blackenM Heav'n with clouds, and fliook th' immor- 

 tal fliield ! 

 Tn ruins there two mighty towns, behold, 

 Rais'd by our fires ; huge monuments of old ! 

 Janus' and Saturn's name they proudly bore, 

 Their two great fotmders !...,but are now no more ! 



Pitt. 



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