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Anne novum tardis ftdus te menfibns add as , 
Qua locus Erigonen inter , Chelafque fequentes 
T audit ur ? ipfe tibi jam Brachia contrahit ardens 
Scorpius, & Cceli juft a plus parte reliquit. 
Georg. Lib. I. 32. 
Where in the Void of Heav’n a Space is free. 
Betwixt the Scorpion , and the Maid , for thee : 
The Scorpion, ready to receive thy Laws, 
Yields half his Region, and contra&s his Claws. 
It’s true, this Poet knew Libra very well; bur, 
perhaps, it made no great Figure among the Afterifms 
then. 
Libra die fomnique pares ubi fecerit boras, 
Et medium Luci , atque Umbris jam dividet Orbem. 
208. 
But when Aftrcea's Balance, hung on high, 
Betwixt the Nights and Days divides the Sky. 
Dry den. 
How Taurus was painted at that Time, we learn 
from his Defcription. 
* Candidus auratis aperit cum Cornibus Annum 
Taurus, <& averfo cedens Can is occidit Aftro. 
217. 
* By reafon the Firft Month of the old Luni-folar Year (on ac- 
count of the intercalary Month) began fometimes a Fortnight after the 
vEquinox. This may, perhaps, account better for the Propriety of 
Virgil’s Expreflion Aperit Annum , than any of his Commentators 
have done. 
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