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tions apparently indifferent : I mean the confidence 

 Tepofed by Evandcr in his fon. Though this 

 young Prince was, as yet, but in the bloflbm of 

 life, his father admits him to a conference of the 

 higheft irnportancç, as his companion : Comes that. 

 He had given the name of Pallanteum, in honour 

 of his fon, to the city which he himfelf had found- 

 ed. Finally, of the four hundred cavaliers whom 

 he promifes to the Trojan Prince, to be under the 

 command of Pallas, two hundred he himfelf is to 

 feled out of the Arcadian youth, and the other 

 two hundred are to be furnilhed by his fon, in his 

 own name. 



* Arcadas huic équités bis centum, robora pubis 

 Lefta, dabo ; totidemque fuo tibi nomine Pallas. 



/Eneid. B. viii. L. 518— 519. 



Inftances of paternal confidence are rare among 

 Sovereigns, who frequently confider their fuccef- 

 fors as their enemies. Thefe traits ftrongly depid 

 the candor, and the fimplicity of manners, of the 

 King of Arcadia. 



* Beneath his flandard rang'd, a chofen force 

 1 fend, two hundred brave Arcadian horfe; 

 And, to fupport the gathering war, my fon 

 Shajl lead an equal fquadron of his own, 



That 



