EASTERN HINDOOS TAN. 



derful how fucli multitudes could be colleded in fo fmall a 

 fpace. It has been an antient opinion, that, by a prophetic in- 

 ftindt, they have prefages of a battle, and will feek the fpot of 

 future flaughter three days before the event. Lucan alludes 

 to this wonderful account in his beautiful defcription of the 

 battle of Pbarfalia, part of which is fo defcriptive of the field of 

 Plajfey, that I muft prefent it to the reader. 



Non folum Heemonii funefta ad pabula belli 



Bijionii venere lupl. 



Obfcceni teifta domofque 

 Deferuere canes, et quicquid nare fagaci 

 Aera non fanum, motumque, cadavere fentit. 

 Jamque diu volucres civilia caftra fecutae 

 Conveniunt — nunquam fe tanto vulture coelum 

 Induit, aut plures prefTerunt aera penns. 

 Omne nemus mifit volucres, omnifque cruenta 

 Alite fanguineis flillavit roribus arbor. 

 Sspe fuper vultus vidloris et impia figna 

 Aut cruor, aut alto defluxit ab sthere tabes, 

 Membraque dejecit jam laffis unguibus ales. 



Lib. vii. 1. 825. 



1 HAVE been told, that whenfoever an animal falls down 

 dead, one or more vultures (unfeen before) inlhintly appear; fo 

 quick is their fcent of death ! In cafe of battles what fliall I 

 fay- 

 Do they fnuff the fmell 

 Of mortal change on earth ? 



Or 



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