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this but awaking from a trance or re- 
Verie ? 
Pinnis atque aggere cingit. WI!. 359. 
I do not fee why pizza and agger fhould 
be fuppoled to be put for murus and val- 
lum. Czfar ufes both words in the fame 
conjunétion defcribing a fortified camp.— 
They are, a rampart of earth,. with pali- 
fades. 
-..-fceptrumque facerque tiaras. WII. 247. 
Why fhould it be fuppofed that the 
word tiaras is put improprie for a pileus 
or mitra, when the epithet facer, and the 
f{ceptre in conjunction, feem plainly to de- 
note it to bea regal diadem ? 
Stabant ‘ter centum nitidi; &c. VII. 275. 
Heyne acknowledges, that three hun- 
dred fine horfes in the ftables of Latinus 
is more than the ftate and condition of a 
petty monarch would allow ; but he fays, 
that, in this and many other fimilar in- 
fiances, we are to make a general al. 
lowance for the poet’s purpofe of amplifi- 
cation, in order to elevate and dignify his 
fubject. This is certainly right as a 
matter of faét; but if he means thereby 
that fuch a poetical licence is allowable, 
and no jaft objc& of critical cenfure, he 
furely goes too far, and facrifices good 
fenfe and tafte to authority. Congruity 
is the very fir principle of juftnefs in 
works of invention, and it muft ever be a 
‘ fault to break in upon the nature and re- 
ality of a fcene by a mixture of inconfiftent 
er improbable circumftances. No allow- 
ance of the critic, proceeding from partial 
reverence to a great writer, can alter the 
true nature of things. 
mle win, = hobs celi convexa per auras. VII. 543. 
It cannot, I think, be at a!l doubted, 
that convexa relatesto Alecto, and is put 
for convea or evea, 
---. colles clamore relingui. VIII. 216. 
Heyne, after Burman, fuppofes the 
meaning of this to be, that “ the hills 
were left behind, or furpaffed, by the 
found ;*’ i.e, that the found went be- 
yond them to Cacus’s cave. But this 
interpretation feems to me {o harfh, that I 
prefer the fimple one, that ‘* the oxen lef 
_ the hills lowing 5°" though Heyne calls this 
tenuis oralio. 
Et matutini volucrum fub culmine canfus. 
Vill. 456. 
Tam furprized that Heyne fhould make 
2 difficulty in fuppofing that Evander 
could be waked by the fongs of birds ; or 
fay that the (wallow bad not keen ufed by 
ets for this purpofé, when Anacreon 
as an Ode exprefsly on the fubjed, 
Obfervations on the Notes to Heyne’s Virgil. 
563 
Caftrorum et campi medio, IX. 230. 
Heyne fuppofes the word campiz to ba 
oly explicative of caffrorum—the carmp 
in the plain; but furely it will make bet- 
ter fenfe to fuppofe medio to relate to tava 
places between which thé warriors in 
council ftood. And this may, I think, 
be eafily made out by taking caffra te 
mean the texts, and campus the field or 
fpace by which they.were fuirounded.—« 
Tt will then be, very aptly for the occa~ 
fion, ** mid way between the tents and the 
plain,’* but, at the fame time, within the 
rampart, which mutt be fuppofed to leave 
a vacant fpace before the tents. 
ws ce wee Multi fervare recurius 
Languentis pelagi, et brevibus fe credere 
faltu. XX. 238. 
Heyne, feeing that this could not 
mean ‘ waiting for the falling of the 
tide,” labours at an improbable explana- 
tion, overlooking what is certainly and 
obvioufly the fenfe, ¢* watching the reflux 
of a wave, they leaped upon the ftrand.”” 
x. 373. 
I cannot agree with Heytie in thinking 
that ‘ Trojam’ here means the Trojaz 
camp, and not ancient Troy ; for it would 
be a grofs impropriety to make Pallas, 
addreffing his own people, sive fo fami- 
liarly a name to this temporary fettlement 
of the ftrangers, which they themfelves 
had not ferioufly adopted. Befides, it 
would be inconfifiént with what immedi. 
ately precedes ; for how could he fay, 
“<< desft jam terra fuga’ if they had: the 
alternative of taking refuge in the camp 
of their allies? I acknowledge it makes 
no very good fenfe to fuppofe him to mear 
the real Troy, now ruined, and to which. 
the Arcadians could have no attachment 3 - 
but we mutt take up with the leaf impro= 
priety of the two. Perhaps Virgil forgoe 
that they were Arcadians and not Tro» 
jans to whom the fpeech is addreffed, 
Et mentem patria ftrinxit pietatis imago. 
XA, 224. 
‘Heyne fuppofes this to mean, that Eneas 
was touched at the recollection of his own 
fon Afcanins. But furely it is more ob. 
vious, and tully as proper, to fay, that he 
was touched with the image of that piety 
towards his father which had been the oc- 
cafion of Laufus’s death: conformably 
ta which he before addrefles him. in the 
fight with ‘* fallit te incautum pictas tua.” 
And who was more likely than Eneas to 
be affected with the difplay of fuch a virs 
tue? J take fur -granted, that. patria 
pictas may in poetical language hignify 
pily 
Pelagus Trojamne petemus ? 
