1 88 Natural Hiftory of the Ancients. 



method of obferving Nature, and the difcovery of 

 a new fource of adornment for poetry, are at all 

 events features peculiar to him. Modern orni- 

 thologifts owe to him, as has been fhewn, not a 

 little ; and all lovers of the country love it the 

 better as they afTociate its birds of paftoral fcenes 

 with the mufical verfe and clear poetic infight of 

 the great Roman poet. 



