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among others, the affeding leave which his father 

 takes of him ; the regret exprefled by the good 

 old man, that age permitted him not to accompany 

 his fon to the field ; after that, the imprudent va- 

 lour of the young man, who, forgetting the leflbn 

 conveyed by the two bridles of Ancbifes, ventured 

 to attack the formidable Turms, and received from 

 his hand the mortal blow ; the high feats in arms 

 performed by Eneas, to avenge the death of the 

 fon of his h oft and ally ; his profound forrow at 

 fight of the youthful Pal/as, cut off in the flower of 

 his age, and the very firft day that he had engaged 

 in the fight ; finally, the honours conferred on the 

 lifelefs body, when he fent it to the afflided Father. 



Here it is we may remark one of thofe touching 

 comparifons (7), by which Firgil, in imitation of 

 Homer, diminifiies the horror of his battle-pieces, 

 and heightens their effed, by eftablilhing, in them, 

 confonances with beings of another order. It is in 

 reprefenting the beauty of the young Pallas, the 

 luftre of which death has not yet entirely effaced. 



* Qu^lem virgineo demenum pollice florem 

 Seu mollis violce, feu languentls hyacinthi ; 

 Cui neque fulgor adhuc, jiec dum fua forma recefïït : 

 Non jam mater alit tellus, virefque miniftrat. 



/Enkid. B. xi. L. 68 — 71. 



* There, like a flower he lay, with beauty crown'd, 

 Pluck'd by fome lovely virgin from the ground : 



The 



