NOTES. i2i 



paflage. However this be, Hercules killed fo many lions, 

 befides that which conflicted the firft of his twelve labours, 

 that either he, or at leaft fome one of his numerous namefakes, 

 may well be fuppofed to have killed one in Spain. Geryon is 

 defcribed by all the poets as a man with three heads, and 

 therefore could not well have been called a Lion by Frefnoy 

 neither does the plural Ora mean any more than the Jaws of a 

 fingle beafl. So Lucan, lib. iv. ver. 739. 



Quippe ubi non Sonipes motus clangore tubarum 



Saxa quatit pulfu, rigidos vexantia fraenos 



ORA terens M. 



NOTE LIX. VERSE 785. 

 But mark the Proteus Policy of Sfate* 



If this tranflation Should live as many years as the original 

 has done already, which, by its being printed with that ori- 

 ginal, and illuftrated by fuch a Commentator, is a thing not 

 impoffible, it may not be amifs, in order to prevent an hal- 

 lucination of fome future critic, fimilar to that of the French 

 Editor mentioned in the laft note, to conclude with a memo- 

 randum that the tranflation was finifhed, and thefe occafional 

 verfes added, in the year 1781 ; leaving, however, the poli- 

 tical fentiments, which they exprefs, to be approved or con- 

 demned by him, as the annals of the time (written at a period 

 diflant enough for hiftory to become impartial) may determine 

 his judgment. M. 



END OF THE NOTES. 



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