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fupplicates him to reft fatisfied with facrificcs fo 

 ample J but the Trojan hero, on the point of 

 granting him his life, perceiving the belt of Pallas, 

 which Turmts had afllimed, after having (lain that 

 young Prince, plunges his fword into his body^ 

 as he pronounces thefe words : 



Pallas te hoc vulnerc, Pallas 

 Immolât, et pœnam fcelerato ex fanguine fumit *. 



jEneid. B. xii. 948 — 94g, 



*' It is Pallas, Pallas, who, by this blow, exads 

 ** atonement, and takes vengeance on thy criminal 

 *' blood." 



Thus it is that the Arcadians have exercifed an 

 influence, in every poflible refpedt, over the hifto- 

 rical monuments, the religious traditions, the ear- 

 lieft wars, and the political origin of the Roman 

 Empire. 



It is evident, that the age in which I exhibit the 

 Arcadians, is by no means an age of fidtion. I 

 colleâ:ed, therefore, refpeding them, and their 

 country, the delicious images which the Poets 

 have tranfmitted to us of thefe, together with the 



* 'Tis Pallas, Pallas, gives the fatal hlow. 



Thus is bis ghoft aton'd, 



Pitt. 



moft 



