FRAGMENT. 239 



tJt ventum ad fedes : Hsec, inquit, limina viclor 



Alcides fubiit : haec illum regia cepit. 



Aude, hofpes, contemnere opes, et te quoque dignum 



Finge Deo, rebufque veni non afper egenis. 



Dixit ; et angufti fubter faftigia teéli 



Ingentem >^neam duxit : ftratifque locavit, 



EfFultum foliis et pelle Libyftidis urfae. 



^NEiD. B. viii. L. 359 — 368. 



" While thus converfing, they drew nigh to the 

 '' lowly roof of the poor Evander : and favv the 

 " cattle ftroiling up and down, and heard their 

 " lowing, in what is now the Roman Forum, and 

 " the fplendid quarter of the Roftra. Being ar- 

 ** rived, This threfliold, fays he, received the vic- 

 '' torious Alcides ; this humble palace entertained 

 '^ a gueft fo illuftrious. Dare, like him, my be- 

 *' loved gueft, to look down on wealth, and thus 

 " approve thy celeftial origin, and kindly accept 

 5* the hofpitality of this poor manfion. He fpake. 



There oxen ftalk'd, where palaces are rais'd, 



And bellowing herds in the proud forum graz'd. 



Lo ! faid the good old King, this poor abode 



Receiv'd great Hercules, the viftor God ! 



Thou, too, as nobly, raife thy foul above 



All pomps, and emulate the feed of Jove. 



With that, the hero's hands the Monarch preft. 



And to the manfion led his godlike guefi. 



There on a bear's rough fpoils his limbs he laid, 



And fwelling foliage heap'd the homely bed. 



Pitt. 



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