‘OS 
ervccecccececs Exiultantiague haurit 
Corda pavor pulfans. - lf. ros, 
I wonder-that Heyne, who is not fond 
ef giving too clofe and precife a meaning 
to his author, fhould here fuppofe him to 
be fo anatomically corre& as to allude to 
a real emptying of the breaf? by impeded 
circulation of the blood. It is rather a 
high poetical expreffion, reprefenting the 
bounding heart as fwallowed up, devoured 
by its tumultueds emotions. 
Et campum horrentem fra€tis invertere glebis. 
IIf. 168. 
By campum kLorrentem Heyne under- 
fiands “* a field overgrown with weeds 
and thiffles ;” I fhould rather fuppofe it 
a flubbie-field, briftly, as an Englith poet 
would fay ; unlefs it is orrentem fraétis 
glebis, rough with broken clods, by the 
eommon figure which defcribes a thing 
doing as dane, 
Bum faciles animi juvenum, dum mobilis 
ztas. Ill. 165. 
& Mobilis etas:* in qua corpus mobile, 
fays Heyne ; but I believe it rather refers 
to mind than body, and is only a varia- 
tion of the idea in the former part of the 
line. 
osew salen nets pds Helee be ap Ge CE UHEEE | 
Dura jacet pernox inftrato faxa cubili. 
IIL 229. 
I feel marrepi ls te admit Heyne’s cx- 
planation of injirate by xox ffrato; and 
rather fuppofe Virgil to have meant what 
an Englith poet would do, by, he makes 
bis bed on the hard rock. 
(To be continued.) 
et See 
Zo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
N fo large and popu'ous a city as 
Rome, it is likely there were more 
perfons than one of the fame name ; there- 
tore we may conciude that there was an- 
other Epaphroditus befides him mentioned 
by A. Gellius, Suidas, and Suetonius in 
in his Life of Nero. 
The Epaphroditus mentioned hy Se 
Paul cannot, I prefume, be the fame who 
was captain of Nero’s guards, or his fe- 
cretary, becaufe in either fituation he 
could not be long abfeat from his employ- 
ment. 
Epaphroditus, the friend of Paul, had 
made a journey from Philippi:oRome before 
Paul wrote his Epifile to the Philippians, as 
appears from the Epiltie, ch. 2, 25 and 
foilowing: verfes, where Epaphrodi: us 1s 
mentioned by Paul.as his brother-compa~ 
nion ia wie ny ichlow-foldier, and their 
On Epaphroditus.— Inquiry. 
-has this expreffion : 
[March 1, 
mefferger ; and as a good Chriftian, not 
regarding his life, to fupply their lack of 
fervice towards him, in miniftering to his 
wants. 
In the 18:h verfe of the iaft chapter, he 
‘« having received of 
Epaphroditus the things which were fent 
from you.”’ - So that it appears Epaphro- 
ditus was Paul’s friend and companion in 
Rome, had laboured in the miniliry, and 
fupplied him with what he wanted to make 
him comfortable in his fituation ; after 
which he went to Philippi, and returned 
with a donation from the church in that 
City ; which account militates againf& the 
idea of his being the fame perion who 
held a high office in Rome, which would 
oblige him to be near the perfon of the 
Emperor. 
We may naturally conjecture, that had 
the captain of Nero’s guards, -or his Se- 
cretary, been a Chriftian, and a compa- 
nion in labour with Paul, it muft. have 
‘been fo notorious, that he would have 
been noticed by thofe who were about 
Nero, and information given, which muft, 
at leaft, have caufed his difmiffion from 
office, if not his ruin; inftead of which, 
he continued with Nero as long as he 
lived, and when the Emperor was driven 
from his government, he was with him, 
and aflifted in putting a period to his ex- 
iftence ; which would have been perfeétiy 
ineonfiftent with his prof:flion and prac- 
tice as a Chriftian. 
We cannot fuppofe fo public a profef- 
for of Chriftianity as Epaphroditus, the 
fellow-labourer of Paul, could have 
efcaped the perfecutions which Nero railed 
in Rome, had he been there, which we 
muit fuppofe was the cafe with refpe& to 
the Epaphroditus mentioned by the 
writers referred to by Indagator. 
R. N. 
3S ‘ 
_ To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
Y oe will, if you pleafe, allow me the 
advantage of your Magazine, for the 
purpofe of requefting that the author ofa 
Plan of a Philological and Synonymical 
Di&tionary of the Englifh Language, 
1797, would be obliging enough to com- 
municate to your highly ufeful Publica- 
tion, for the gratification of more than a 
few of its readers, fome information 
concerning the ftate of maturity to which 
his propofed work has attained, and the 
period to which its appearance fhall be 
affignable. Lam, Sir, &c. Be 
Weftminfter, Feb. 6, 1805. 
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