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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 the _Treble_ and more frequent initial _Alliteratio_, this is an
Instance:

"_Et sola in siccâ secum spatiatur arena._

The _Mix'd Alliteratio_, and the _Assultus_ are to be found in these
two Lines:

"Illas _ducit_ amor trans Gargara, transque sonantem
Ascanium: superant _montes_, & flumina tranant.

In these two Lines the Vowel _a_ is repeated fourteen times, and what
an Effect this has upon the Ear, the Reader cannot but perceive.


2. Of the _Allusio Verborum_, the following are Examples:

"_Nec nocturna quidem carpentes pensa puellæ._

Again,

"_Hoc metuens; molemque & montes insuper altos._

Again,

"_Stat sonipes, ac frena ferox spumantia mandit._

Again,

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