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Letters Concerning Poetical Translations - And Virgil's and Milton's Arts of Verse, &c. by William Benson
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of by _Ovid_, or any other _Roman_ Writer in the Days of _Augustus_.

"_Quid faciat lætas_ Segetes, _quo sidere_ terram
_Vertere, Mæcenas, ulmisque adjungere_ vites,
_Conveniat: quæ cura boum, qui cultus habendo
Sit_ pecori, apibus _quanta experientia parcis_.

Here you have _segetes_ and _terram_, and then _vites_, and after that
_pecori_ and _apibus_.

Again,

"--_Camposque, & flumina late
Curva tenent: ut molle_ siler, _lentæque_ genistæ,
Populus, & _glauca canentia fronde_ Salicta.
_Pars autem posito surgunt de semine: ut altæ_
Castaneæ; _nemorumq; Jovi quæ maxima frondet_
Esculus, _atque habitæ Graiis oracula_ quercus.

Here are _Siler_ and _Genistæ_, _Populus_ and _Salicta_, _Castaneæ_
and _Esculus_, and _Quercus_.

Again,

"Arma Virumque _cano, Trojæ qui primus ab oris_
Italiam, _fato profugus_, Lavinaque _venit_
Litora. _Multum ille &_ terris _jactatus &_ alto,
_Vi_ Superum _sævæ memorem_ Junonis _ob iram.
Multa quoq; & bello passus, dum conderet_ urbem,
_Inferretque_ Deos _Latio_: genus _unde Latinum
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