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though the laft is a more common expref- 
fion. But this Jeads me to, fuppofe, that, . 
in moft other inftances of the imagined 4 hy- 
pallage, taken from good authors,: the cale 
miay be explained in a fimilar manner, 
without having. recourfe to a licentious 
abule of words dignified by the title of a 
figure. Thus, in an  inftance ufually 
quoted from Ovid’s Metamorph. : 
In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas 
Corpora, 
it feems juft as allowable for the poet to 
fay **forms changed into new bodies,’ 
as ** bodies changed into new Cnet 
fince the words forms and bodies are conti- 
nually put foreach other in poetical lan- 
guages 
See further, An. Ill. 1. 356and 362. 
o:-+-s. crebris legimus freta concita terris, 
HI. 127. 
Nothing, I think, but the ufual prete- _ 
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rence critics give to the leaft obvious. 
reading, could have induced them to pre- 
fer concita (though fupported by mof of 
the MSS.) to confita, which laft is fo 
happily expreffive of the numerous little “ 
iflands, Sporades, fowz, or planted, as it 
ine on the face of that fea. 
eeeeess. Perego has lacrimas, dextram que 
Cuam te 
{Quando aliud mihi jam miferze nihil ipfa 
religqui, . TVs) Sr4e 
Aliud nihil, ** nothing elfe (fays se ey 
that you can further expeét from me. 
Rather—* nothing elie that I can call 
my own.” 
er eeeees per inceptoshymenzos. Ib. 316. 
This, according to the critic, means no 
more than ** our late nuptials.”” I fhould 
rather conceive it referred to the incom- 
plete ftate of the connexion, no proper 
marriage having been folemnized. 
Teftor utrumque caput. TY. 357. 
If caput can be properly faid of a God, 
JT fhould certainly refer this adju:ation to 
Jupiter and Mercury (mentioned in the 
preceding line), rather than, with the 
critics, to Eneas and Dido, or Eneas and 
Afcanius. The ule of teffor is in favour 
of this interpretation: thus, in Sinon’s 
fpeech, II. 134: 
Vos zterni ignes, é& non violabile veftrum 
Teftor numen, ait. 
Mens immota manet , lacrime volvuntur 
inanes, . IV. 449- 
I conceive the tears to be Eneas’s, not 
Monrary Mac. No. 128, 
s 
a? 
1 pofteros. 
Oiproatins on the Notes to Heyne’s Virgil, 353 
Dido’s or Anna’ss This makes a hetter 
‘oppofition tothe mens immota ; and has a 
corre/pondence with the falling leaves of 
the tree in the fimile that precedes. 
Hine mihi Matlyl gentis monitrata facerdos | 
Hefperidum templi cultos. IV. 433, 
As the country of the Maffyle is very 
remote from the fuppofed wardens of the 
He e{perides, Virgil may be thought to have 
fallen here intoa geographical error, But — 
Heyne rather imagines that the epithet 
Maffyle has no peculiar fienification in 
this place, but is ony given yaceording to 
Virgil’s frequent practice of ufinga partie 
cularinfead ofa general name, and theres. 
fore means no more than African. 
this poetical licence is furely a very abfurd 
and pernicious one, fince it muft greatly 
injure the truth of the defcription, and con. 
found the ideas of the reader. The pur- 
pole is evidently to difplay learning and 
avoid common terms ; but when this is 
done by employing words either without 
meaning at all, or with meanings contrary 
: the obvious and proper ones, much too 
high a price feems to be paid for {uch an 
effect. 
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. meritumque malis advertite numen. 
EVE,Orr. 
Malis, I think, means not ** the wick. 
ed Trojans,” as Heyne fuppofes, but 
“© my misfortunes.’ Thisfeems better to 
agree with the verb advertite, “ attend 
to,”” and likewife to: the ufe of the plural 
number. In the immediately following 
lines the {peaks of Eneas as the /ingle ob- 
ject of her relentment. 
.sseeee. ftirpem et genvs omne Farce 
Exercete odiis. IV. 622-6 
Surely this is more than merely an un- 
common way of faying exercete odia in 
The verb exerceo is here ‘ufed 
for the action of one perfon uponanother, 
as harafs, or work, in its vulgar applica- 
tion.  Purfue or harafs with your ha- 
tred all the futvre progeny.” Thus Virgil 
has exercet tellurem, and famine exercita 
Cur) i. : 
si nipue'e vie s's 6 OS Iprena tard, \' ot Vin OSG: 
1 do not fee what'this can mean but 
<‘ imprinting a kifs on the bed ;° 
own this.is net an aétion fuitable to the 
words that follow, Moriemur inulte, &e. 
Teh 
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