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]''ic. L\'n. — Tmrke S'ii;ms ov Caprict 



to the d}'ing and a blessing to the dead. It is this 

 that Virgil refers to in the lines describing the death 

 of Dido on her funeral pyre: 



Tlicn JuiKi, pit\'inK her disastrous fate, 



Sends Iris dowii her pangs to mitigate. 



(Since if wc fall before the appointed da^■ 



Xature and death continue long their fra\'). 



Iris descends; "This fatal lock (savs she) 



To Pluto 1 bequesth, and set thee free"; 



Then clips her hair: cold numbness straight berea\'es 



Her corpse of sense, and the air her soul recei\-es. 



J'lrgil: ^Encid If (Deiiha iii's tr.). 



