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piety to afather aswell as paternal picty. 
ae ae. multos alterna revifens 
Lufit & in folido rurfus Fortuna Jocavit. 
( EL. 426. 
_ Heyne takes /i/t here to mean, contra- 
ry to its ufual fignification, a favourable 
turn of fortune, and to have the fame 
fenfe withthe remainder of the Hine. But 
furely it makes better fenfe to underfiand 
them as oppofed—Fortune in her aliernate 
wifits bas frequently deluded (or made a 
mock of ) men, and again reftored them to-a 
profpercus condition— 
Fortuna favo leta negotio, &c. Hor. 
Ut tanta quidquam pro fpe tentare recufem. 
i ~ KT. -437. 
Tania fpes is interpreted by: Heyne the 
hope of faving bis countsy-by fingle fight ; 
but I rather think it means that of ob- 
taining Lavinia and the kingdom of .the 
Latins. 
a----+-« -0culos horrenda in virgine fixus. 
; XI. 507. 
How uncouth foever the epithet dorrenda 
applied to the fair Camilla may. appear to 
us, I do not think it is to be explained 
away by making it. {,nonimous. with ad- 
miranda. As it refers to her in her cha- 
ratter and garb of a. warrior, it may 
fairly be wnderftood to mean the fame as 
dread or terrific in Englifh. Queen Eli- 
beth, though piquing herfelf on her beau- 
ty, didnot diflike being called dread fo- 
vercign f 
Mi Spek MRE: fonuere unde. XI. 62. 
Heyne very firangely fuppofes this to 
mean, that the air abewe the water whif- 
éled as the javelin pafled. ~But it is'evi- 
dently an additional. circumfance brought 
with frue> poetical fpirit to increafe the 
intereft of the ftory. “* He threw the ja- 
velin with the infant faftened to it—the 
water roared—Camilla flew with the {pear 
over the rapid ftream.” 
Quales Threiciz cum flumina Thermodontis 
Pulfant, et pi&is bellantur Amazones armis. 
; XL, 659. 
. Some critics, in reference to the word 
pulfant, tappofe that fumina is put for 
the bank of the river ; but Heyne is con- 
vinced that Virgil intended to reprefent 
the river as froxez, and conf-quently that 
pulfant applies literally to it. E cannot, 
however, conceive, that fo friking a cir. 
cumfiance, and {ouncommon toa Koman, 
would be obicurely hinted. at,-without a 
fingle epithet 
meaning. 
Femi: eo predz < fpolioram ardebat amore. 
xi, 73 Ze 
to mark and ‘determine tlie. 
Objervations ot the’ Notes to Hayne’ Virgil, [tfuly 1, 
Female love, fays Heyne from Servius, 
is the fame with impatient lve; but I 
think (without inquiring into the fuit-_ 
ablenefs of fuch an epithet) it here relates 
to the objec? of the defire, viz. the alitter= 
ing !poils, and not to the mode or degree 
of it, which is fufficiently expreffed by, 
ardebati’ ; on, 
Ilium turbat amor, figitque in virgine vul- 
tus, 
Ardetiin'armna Magis, paucisque affatur Ama- 
5 tak ¢ ‘a Lb GALS. bree 
This beautiful feené, in which Turnus, 
after being’ pathetically “diffuaded ‘from 
fighting by the mother of Lavinia, whofe 
{peech is followed by the blufhes of La- 
vinia herfelf,, turning his eyes upon the 
daugbier, replies not to her, but. the ma 
ther, is apologized for by Heyne,. as {vit- 
able enough, to the Feroic times, though 
not to ours. But I hepe afl modern man- 
ners are not fo infected with frivolous gal- 
Jastry, as to give an impreffion of any 
thing ridiculous or improper in Turnus’s 
conduct, were the tranfaétion renewed. 
But perhaps the Profeflor fpeaks ironi- 
cally. i Be RT YF 
_ Puberibus caulem foliis, é&c.. MIs 413. 
That by puberibus is here meant downy y 
and not /prouting, exuberant, every one, I 
imagine, will be convinced on viewing’ 
the ditiany, which is particularly remark- 
able for its downy leaves, but not at-all 
for their plenty or luxuriance, Virgil’ 
may in general have ufed the word in the: 
other fenfe ; but as it is, without doubt, 
well capable of this fignification, who | 
can queltion, that, when exprefsly deferib=. 
ing an: object, he would employ a very. 
difcriminating rather than an unmeaning 
epithet ? } ay a 
ata 
~-~+.-dabit ille ruinas....ruet omnia, é&c.J_ 
t he aes XH. 453. 
T think~the poet certainly “intended 
thefe as exclamations of the hufbandmen, 
who, he tells us, prefage from. a. diftance. 
the effcéts of the ftorm. Heyne, however, 
fuppofes the fatures to be employed only 
to give more life and energy tothe narra-- 
tion ; but furely it would be tuo harfh a 
change of tenfe, were the poet only re= 
lating ! ™ Meee 
St ea infidiisquefuba@us. XII. 494. 
Heyne explains this by /ubadus ira 
prepter infidits’; but what good writer 
would venture upon fo violent an ellipfis ?* 
Nor -is it here; at all neceflary-; for Eneas > 
might very well be faid to be fubdued or 
overcome by thofe ftratagems which had- 
_ carricd bis foe out of his reach.) © = + 
J. Arkin. 
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