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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