ARCADIA. 



BOOK FIRST, 



THE GAULS. 



A LITTLE before the autumnal Equinox, 

 TirteuSj a (hepherd of Arcadia, was feeding 

 his flock on one of the heights of Mount Ly- 

 ceum, which projeds along the gulph of Mef- 

 fenia. He was feated under the (hade of fome 

 pine-trees, at the foot of a rock, from whence he 

 contemplated, at a diftance, the Sea agitated by 

 the winds of the South. It's olive-coloured waves 

 were whitened with foam, which fell back, in 

 girandoles, the whole length of the ftrand. The 

 fifhing boats, appearing and difappearing alter- 

 nately, between the fwelling furges, ventured, at 

 the riik of running a-ground on the beach, to 

 truft their fafety to their infignificance ; whereas 

 large veflels, in full fail, under the violent prefiure 

 of the winds, kept at a cautious diftance, in the 

 dread of being fliipvvrecked. At the bottom of 

 the gulph, crowds of women and children raifed 



their 



