Particularly of the LE TTER 1 1 T M A, 153 



" the fountain, melodioufly utters its whifpering drains with 

 " inexpreflible fweetnefs : thou too played exquifitely on the 

 « pipe : " 



"A ttot) ratg Kuycutri (A&Xitrdtrctr a^v Js «a< rv 

 2vgi<rdes* ■ 



With refpecl to the whifpering or gentle ruftling produced by the 

 pines, the Greek Scholiaft remarks, " That the pines whifper 

 " when they are gently fanned, the breeze being broken by 

 " the clofenefs of the leaves *." He has likewife obferved, 

 That the word ^i^v^iff^a, is contrived on purpofe, from the 

 peculiarity of its found, to imitate the found which it ex« 

 prefles f. M I may add, that the Doric words peXtcrhreu and 

 <rvg((rfcg> inftead of ^sx/^sra* and a-v^^eig, by bringing triyfjba, be- 

 fore fox™, confiderably augment, in this inftance, the fweet- 

 nefs of the found. 



* t&V£iQsffi eti iriTVf, ot«» pmrtun, t»j evtnrfrrraiv tyixXvv r^^ofuvnt Trig ;rve?$.. 



T ClvofAetTrtTroifiTat Si it Ya\i$ ir*^» tah ri viyp $tlTirx t tcura p.iftnrtv riif $*$$. 

 Homer, abounds in inftances of 'Qytpwoirolui, as is well known. 



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