Particularly of the LETTER 2 I T M A. 153 



" the fountain, melodioufly utters its whifpering ftrains with 

 ** inexpreflible fweetnefs : thou too playeft exquiCtely on the 

 pipe :" 



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'A^y 7t 70 ^f/(^y^^<rjM.« ko.) a, ff/ru?, a.ivo'Ke, rfivet, 

 A ^ot) Tct7g •ra.yaiori j/,iXia'^iT»r aiv Ss x«l rv 



With refpedl to the whifpering or gentle ruftling produced by the 

 pines, the Greek SchoUaft remarks, " That the pines whifper 

 " when they are gently fanned, the breeze being broken by 

 " the clofenefs of the leaves *." He has likewife obferved, 

 " That the word -^iStC^tffi^a, is contrived on purpofe, from the 

 " peculiarity of its found, to imitate the found which it ex- 

 " prefles f ." I may add, that the Doric words {/,eXi<rhTiK,i and 

 irvgiffiet, inftead of y,iXi^sTeii and (rv^i^eig, by bringing trTy/jt^a, be- 

 fore ^'Xr«, confiderably augment, in this inftance, the fweet- 

 nefs of the found. 



Homer, abounds in inilances of 'Ottfunfroiicc, as is well known. 



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