"_Saxa per, & scopulos, & depressas convalles._

In short there is nothing in Nature that _Virgil's_ Verse does not
convey to the _Ear_, and the _Eye_; so that this Subject is
inexhaustible, and must be left to every one's particular Observation.

The learned _Morhophius_ has a Passage relating to this Matter which
comes in too properly here to be omitted.

"Solent Carminibus suæ esse a Numeris Veneres, & certa quædam
Artificia, quæ mirifice ornant versum, quales apud Virgilium, mirum
numeri Poetici Observatorem, frequenter occurrunt, e.g. cum versus
terminantur Monosyllabis, ut: _procumbit humi bos: nascetur
ridiculus mus_. Vel cum Spondæi multi adhibentur, ut; _media agmina
circumspexit: Illi inter sese magnâ vi brachia tollunt_. Aut cum
Dactyli & Spondæi ita miscentur, ut REI NATURAM EXPRIMANT, ut cum de
turri ruente ait:

"--_Convellimus altis
Sedibus; impulimusq;, ea lapsa repente_ ruinam
_Cum sonitu trahit_.--

"Talia infinita apud Virgilium habentur quæ homo in iis non
exercitatus contemnat, doctus vero & prudens admiretur.
_Polyhist._

There is also a Remark of the judicious _Columna_ on a celebrated Line
in _Virgil_, which is very much to the present Purpose.

_Unus Homo Nobis Cunctando Restituit Rem._]