Dr. Wall on the Ufe of Symbols: 25 £ 
borrowed from the analogous fplendour and co¬ 
lour of gold ; and that of the latter, by thofe 
borrowed, from the purer white luftre of the moon. 
A few inftances, out of many, of their metaphori¬ 
cal mode of expreffion, are inferted in the margin*. 
The frequent ufe of thefe epithets might eafily 
lead an enthufiaftic mind to conceive, that a real 
analogy and correfpondence fubfilled, between 
thefe planets and the metals. This opinion to a 
ftrong and fertile imagination (improved too by 
the aftrological notions, which might at the fame 
time prevail, concerning the real or virtual emana¬ 
tions of the planets) might feem to receive con¬ 
firmation, from innumerable circumftances, and 
ultimately fuggeft the employment of the fame 
fymbolical characters for the metals, which had 
before been appropriated to the planets. Hence 
* Aurati Solis radii. Virg. jEn. XII. 164. 
Solis aurata corona. Statii Thab. III. 414. 
Sol auricomus. Val Flace IV. 95. 
Aureus axis erat, temo aureus, aurea fummae 
Curvatura rotae, fays Ovid in his defcription of the 
chariot of the fun. Metam. Lib. II. 107. 
Clara mi cante auro—of the palace of the fun. Id. line 2. 
Sol aureus. Virg. G. I. 232—G. IV. 50. 
Niveos Luna levarit equos. Ov. Fall. IV. 374. 
Nec Candida curfum Luna negat. Virg. JEn. VII. 8. 
Faveas; Dea Candida, dixi. 
Ovid Epill. Leander Heroni LXI # 
Fulges radiis argentea puris. Id. LXXI. 
gold 
