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to this new work, it is wholly out of love to Venus, 

 nor from any regard to the glory of Eneas, Obferve, 

 that the jealous God ftill avoids naming the fon of 

 Anchifes, though he feems here reduced to the necef- 

 fity of doing it. He fatisfies himfelf with faying 

 vaguely to the Cyclopes : Arma acri facienda viro. 

 The epithet, acer, is fufceptible of both a favour- 

 able and an unfavourable fenfe. It may import 

 keen, wickedly fevere, and can hardly, with pro- 

 priety, be applied to a perfon of fo much fenfibi- 

 lity as Eneas^ to whom Virgil fo frequently appro- 

 priates the charader of the Pious. 



Finally, Virgil, after the tumultuous pidure of 

 the Eolian forges, conveys us back, by a new con- 

 traft, to the peaceful habitation of good King 

 Evander, who is almoft as early a rifer as the good 

 houfewife, or as the God of fire, 



* H«c pater iEoliis properat dum Lemnius oris, 

 Evandrum ex humili tefto lux fufcitat alma 



* Et matutini volucrum fub culmine cantus. 



Confurgit fenior, lunicâque inducitur artus, 



Et Tyrrhena pedum circumdat vincula plantis ; 



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* Thefe cares employ the father of the fires j 

 Meantime Evander from his couch retires, 

 Call'd by the purple beams of morn away. 

 And tuneful birds, that hail'd the dawning day, 

 Firft the warm tunic round his limbs he threw ; 

 Next on his feet the Ihining fandals drew, 



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