FRAGMENT. 263 



That good Prince might, perhaps, be cenfured 

 for indifference about his only fon, in removing 

 him from his perfoa, and expofmg him to the 

 dangers of war : but he adls thus for a reafon dia- 

 metrically oppofite ; his objeâ: is to form the 

 young man to virtue, by making him ferve his 

 firft campaigns under a hero fuch as Eneas, 



* Hunc tibi praeterea, fpes et folatia noftri 

 PalJanta adjungatn. Sub te tolerare magiftro 

 Militiam, et grave Martis opus, tua cernere fada 

 Afluefcat ; primis et te mu-etur ab annis. 



jEneid. B. viii. L. 514 — 517. 



** I will likewlfe fend my fon P alias \i\m(ç\.î with 

 '* thee ; Pallas, my hope and my dehght. Let him 

 ** accuftom himfelf to endure the painful toils of 

 *' war under fuch a mafter, form his mind to glory 

 *' by the fight of thy gallant deeds, and learn to 

 ** admire thee from his earlieft years." 



The important part aded by this young Prince 

 may be feen in the fequel of the Eneid. Firgil has 

 cxtradted many exquifite beauties out of it : fuch are, 



* And let my Pallas by thy fide engage, 

 Pallas^ the joy of my declining age. 

 Beneath fo great a mailer's forming care, 

 Let the dear youth learn every work of war j 

 In every field thy matchlefs toils admire, 



h^à emulate thy deeds, and catch the glorious fire, 



Pitt, 



among 



