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rable or religious was any longer to be feen, undçr. 



AuguJ}us, 



There is herç, likewife, another moral contraft, 

 which produces a more powerful efFeâ: than all the 

 phyfical contrails, and which admirably paints the 

 fimplicity, and the uncorrupted integrity of the 

 King of Arcadia, It is when that Prince juftifies 

 himfelf, without being called upon to do fo, from 

 the fufpicion of having caufçd the dçath of his 

 gueft Argus, and appeals, as a witnefs of his inno« 

 cence, to the wood which he had confecrated to 

 him. This Argus, or this Argian, had infmuatecj 

 himfelf into his houfe, with an intention to mur? 

 d^r him : but, having been detected, was con^ 

 demned to die. Evander had a tomb reared to his 

 memory, and here folemnly protefts, that he had 

 not violated, in his cafe, the facred rights of hof- 

 pitality. The piety of this good King, and the 

 proteftation which he makes of his innocence, re- 

 fpefting a ftranger, who was deeply criminal 

 againft himfelf, and juftly condemned by the laws, 

 forms a wonderfully fine contraft to the illegal 

 profcriptions of gucfts, of parents, of friends, of 

 patrons, of which Rome had been the theatre 

 for an age before, and which had excited in no 

 one citizen either fcruple or remorfe. The quar- 

 ter of Argiletum ejftended, in Rome, along the 

 banks of the Tiber. The town Japiculum had 



been 



