mantle of the finest purple. "A golden bow," says he, "hung upon
his shoulder; his garment was buckled with a golden clasp, and his
head covered with a helmet of the same shining metal." The Amazon
immediately singled out this well-dressed warrior, being seized with
a woman's longing for the pretty trappings that he was adorned with:


- Totumque incauta per agmen,
Faemineo praedae et spoliorum ardebat amore.
AEn., xi. 781.

- So greedy was she bent
On golden spoils, and on her prey intent.

DRYDEN.


This heedless pursuit after these glittering trifles, the poet, by a
nice concealed moral, represents to have been the destruction of his
female hero.



THE ITALIAN OPERA.



- Equitis quoque jam migravit ab aure voluptas
Omnis ad incertos oculos, et gaudia vana.
HOR., Ep. ii. 1, 187.