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ed, as follows, of the place which he had rightly marked out 

 as the fite of ancient Troy, " Hector could not poffibly have 

 " been purfued round about New Ilium, but he might very 

 " well have been fo round ancient Troy," — ii h vrxKatu. 'i-jf^ei 

 iri^i^ofMiv. (Strabo, p. 895. A.). In Quintus of Smyrna, 

 who, as well as I)£metrius, refided juft upon th« weftern 

 coaft of Afia, we find a fimilar deficiency in point of local 

 knowledge. No wonder, then, that even he makes Hector 

 be dragged around the walls, a^jpl jtoApj-k. (I. 1 1 1. XIV. 132.) 



Virgil's imitation of this incident, in the combat between 

 ^NEAS and Turn us before Laurentum, (quoted and referred 

 to in the Effay), can prove nothing more than that Virgil ei- 

 ther adopted in his narrative a different plan from Homer, or 

 endeavoured to give fomewhat more probabiUty to his flory ; 

 juft as in another paffage we find him fubftituting, for the tri- 

 ple chace of the combatants, the more probable incident of 

 dragging the dead body of Hector round the city ; 



Ter circum Iliacos raptaverat Hectora muros. 



He obferved, in this, the fame rule by which he conduced him- 

 felf on other occafions, not always to be anxious to tread in the 

 very fteps of Homer, but, where a different delineation fhould of- 

 fer more poetical beauties, to carry his imitation at large through 

 the whole circle of poets, epic or dramatic. In this particular, of 

 the dragging of Hector's body, he followed fome other poet, 

 probably Euripides. (See Excurf. XVIII. ad ^En. I.). 



If it is to be maintained, that the paffage in Hom£r, refpedl- 

 ing this purfuit of the combatants, cannot mean that it was ac- 

 tually round about the city, and that fuch a purfuit could not 

 poffibly have taken place, the main proof mufl be drawn from 

 the topographical fituation of the country. Ancient Troy was 

 accefTible only on the fide next the fea. On the quarter of the 



/ 2 Acropolis, 



