Se GO Ey Se Oe RS Se 
2a 
a Mie Be NE NB eS cad kaa, 
ae 
\ 
846 
Geo. H. 435 + Umbrarior umbram. 
Not fupported “a the Medicean. 
 JEn. i. 636. Dii for Dei. HEYNE and 
WakeFIELD prefer this reading. Ihave 
nothing to add or alter in the objections 
which I have made to this. 
BBS) 
I would add—A&n. ii. 731. HEYNE 
adopts from MarKLanpb, in St. Silv. 
V. i. 152, the reading of aicem for 
wviam; though rejected by BuRMaANN. 
‘This is contrary to HeyNe’s general plan 
of making, as he announces in his pretace, 
the edition of Burmann his ftandard for 
the text. Wakefield has not adopted it. 
I have ftated fome objeétions to it already. 
Refpe& is due affuredly to the learning 
and judgment of Mar kland; but, as he fay S 
on another occafion, more refpett 4 is due in 
matters of critici a to common  fenfe, than 
to even the greateft authority, if they can- 
not be eee Now common fenfe 
fuggefis that a reading. which may be 
yight, and“ has the fupport of the MSS. 
confentinely, i is not to be altered on con- 
jecture, without neceffity, or exceedingly 
fiigh probability at the leaft ; and that if 
a} Toe it fhould be im favour of a reading 
not liable to any juft and reafonable ex- 
ception. 
The objeGtions to the eftablithed read- 
ing are, that A®neas had not pafled 
through the whole way. But he does not 
fay he had: he only fay s that he feemed to 
havedone fo. And it is very natural a 
man who has fo wearly and unexpe ciedly 
pafled fafe through a progrels o of extreme 
peril, fhould /eem to himfelf as if he kad 
pailed the whole of it. The other objec- 
tion is, that it is tautologous to mention 
twice the way to the gates of the cit-. 
Butithere feems no une S It is men- 
tioned not merely as a way; but a wa 
through myriads of ene He matters of 
the city, paffed by night by an illuftrious 
ugitive unarmed, and with the pious bur- 
then of his- father and his poulencld gods. 
A way thus pafled, wiam fic evafiffe, i ine 
cludes in it the idea of Eyal vices ; 
and it feems more poetically and w ith 
more path os and nature to exprefs it. 
The obdjections te vidm are not Mark- 
land’s, who merely after 


aec tela, nec ullas 
Vitaarfje vices Danaun 
€¢"ex quo loco reftituendus 
mark forte with italic. 

orte. 2lter.?”? ——J 
Bat befide its. feeming unne eceflary and 
lefs poetical than the ae reading, 
frem which no MS of authority (nor per- 
haps any MS.) appears to diflent; the 
dr. Lofft on Didot’s Virgil—Property of Oil. [ December, 
change is oe Be initfelf. Vices in 
the plural is frequent: but of vicem in 
‘the fingular, in the fenfe required, I know 
not if there be one example. 
It is not adopted by HeEYNE, Geo. i. 
418, nor by Dipor; though propofed 
there with much greater elegance and 
probability by MaRKLAND, and not in 
the fngular. I continue therefore to 
think that viamought by ‘no means to 
have been difplaced, ‘and elpecially not for 
VICES» 
I would add, that if ab/czdens be read, 
-it feems, as MARKLAND-: has obferved*, 
to be from ab and cedo. And this makes 
the preterit abfcidit long. Virgil has 
once ufed abfcidit as a praterit: Se he 
has ufed it eae as from Jeindo. ZB . Nie 
418, © 
J remain, sir, Yew s fincerely, | 
C. LoFFrrs 
Trofton, near Bury, ‘Suf fralk, 
“10th Odfober, 1799. 
—EE 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. - 
SIR 
HE virtue and ufs of oil have been 
copiouily ftated and treated of in 
your ufeful Magazine ; and the efficacy, 
as well as its power of calming a ftorm at 
fea, as alfo its being an antidate again{t 
certain poifons, ee properly adminifer- 
ed, have long been underitood. 
But’ I find oil ee effes. other powers, 
which I do not recollect having any where 
read of, viza a drop.of oil, from the end cf 
a feather laid on a bug when running in 
its fullett {peed, will ftop it inftantly with 
death! This is alfo the cafe with a fiy, a 
wafp, an earwig, &c. it will alfo have 
the ame operation on that harmleds infeét 
ess but not fo infiantaneoufly, nor - 
will it yield till the oil pervades and ftops 
every pore, through which it is faid in- 
feéts breathe, aenea it will be obferved to 
be diftorted, and agonized in.the moft cons, 
vulfive manner: 
Sa of your ingenious. correfpondents 
will, perhaps, from this hint, be led te 
enlarge further on this fubjedt, 
S 

Zo the Editor of the Mcnibly Magar 
SIR; . 
le a former number of your publica+ 
tion, you were pleafed to imfert fome - 
etymological remarks of mine, fuggefing 
that: the great - body of topographical 
names in Europe, inexplicable i in the mo- 
dern languages oe the countries where ~~ 
they are a were to be illuitrated by 
* St. Silvie, 2s. 
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