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•' and conduded the mighty Eneas through the 

 *' narrow portal ; and placed him on a couch of 

 *' fohage, covered with the fkin of a Lybian 

 *' bear." 



It is here evident, how deeply Virgil is pene- 

 trated with the (implicity of Arcadian manners,» 

 and with what delight he fets Evander's cattle 

 a-lowing in the Forum Romanumy and makes them 

 pafture in the proud quarter of the city diftin- 

 guifhed by the name of Caritiie, thus called, be- 

 caufe Pompey had there built a palace, ornamented 

 with the prows of Ihips in bronze. This rural 

 contraft produces the moft agreeable effeâ:. The 

 author of the Eclogues recollefted, affuredly, in 

 this place, the (hepherd's pipe. Now, he is going 

 to lay down the trumpet, and to aflume the flute. 

 He proceeds to oppofe to his picflureof the dread- 

 ful conflid with Caais, to the hymn of Hercules, to 

 the religious traditions of the Roman monuments, 

 and to the auftere manners of Evander, the moft 

 voluptuous epifode of his whole Work. It is that 

 of Fenus, coming to folicit Fulcan to make a fuit of 

 armour for Eneas. 



* Nox riait, et fufcis tellurem ampleftitur alis ; 

 At Venus baud animo nequicquam exterrita mater. 



* Now awful Night her folemn darknefs brings, 

 And ilretches o'er the World her dulky wings j 



When 



