C could not guess at the event of it, is evident, I think from the words that follow; where he tells us when it comes to be a bad one : for when it grows cold, it is the forerunner of certain death; and confequently till that fatal turn, there might be fome hopes of a recovery. Ver. 553. Inque dies-This reprefentation, of the fury's growing larger every day, is one remarkable inftance, among many others, of the strength of Virgil's imagination: and is intended to point out to us the gradual increase of a peftilential infection till it arrives at the full height. There are two other inftances of growing figures in the Eneide, the one of Fame, lib. 4. ver. 175. and the other of Alecto, lib. 7. ver. 448. Ver, 558. Donec humoI cannot fuppofe that before this they did not know how to bury any offenfive carcafes: but I take the meaning of this paffage to be, that they attempted to make fome profit from them, after they were dead; till they learnt by experience there was nothing for them to do, but to bury them, For, as it follows afterwards, neither the hides, nor the wool, nor the flesh were found to be of any fervice: but on the contrary fome of them produced the most dreadful effects upon those that ventured to make. ufe of them. I cannot conclude this note without making a fhort remark of the great conformity between the directions of Virgil, and thofe of his Majefty's order in Council; and the reafons for them both. Here is advice to kill and bury, becaufe no remedy was found to have any good effect, and the infected fkins and carcafes proved of fuch fa-: tal confequences... For the immedi-. ate killing, fee ver. 468. for the burying, ver. 558. for the insufficiency of medicines, ver. 548. and for the hurtfulness of the infected fkins and carcafes, ver, 559 Georg. IV. ver. 153. Solae L wonder that the commonwealth of ants fhould efcape the obfervation, or the memory of this accurate writer: for many of these particulars are as juftly applicable to them, aș to the monarchy of bees. Ver. 179. Daedala-This word gives one a ftronger idea than to be barely rendered, artificial as it feems to refemble the works of thefe little animals to the famous labyrinth. built by Daedalus in Crete. Ver. 372. Eridanus-All tra vellers agree that the Po is not a rapid river; neither is it likely that it fhould be fo. For the force of a current is occafioned by it's fall from a chain of mountains, or running, down a steep defcent of countrybut the Po, very foon after it's fource, flows on through the vale of Piedmont; and afterwards traverfes all the rich vale of Lombardy. These are the pinguia culta which Virgil fpeaks of: and therefore very probably he means that no river, which runs through fo long a tract of fertile plains, is more violent than the Po. So that I think, if Dr Trapp instead of the, had faid, Thro' fuch fertile fields, v. 444. his tranflation would have come fomething nearer to the fpirit of the original.. THE IN DE A. BELE-Tree, fee Poplar. A Acanthus, III. 45. IV. 20. Acrofticks of the Sibyls, IV. 4. Acgle, VI. 21. Aequor confidered, IX. 57. Africans, why called Sitientes, I. 65. Age for bearing offices at Rome, IV. 8. Alcanna, the Cypros of Egypt, II. 18. thought to be Mopfus, V. 1. Eclogue fo called, when written, V. 86. Alfenus Varus, VI. 6. Alga, VII. 42. Aliungia, V. 17. Amaryllis thought to be put allegori- name for Rome, I. 31. faid to be a girl given to Vir. gil by Maecenas, II. 14. t her true name faid to be Le- ria, ibid. the laws of it, III. 63. Cornificius, II. 39. d Mark, his behaviour when Cae- imitated Bacchus, IV. Alpheus and Arethufa, X. 4. Altaria thought to be different from Alternate finging liked by the Mufes, III. 59. Arae thought to be different from al Arar a river of France, I. 63. Arbufta explained, I. 40. Arbute, or Strawberry tree, VII. 46. Arcadians, their character, VII. 4. X. Archimedes, II. 40. 1: Ardea afed actively, to exprefs an ex- Arethusa, X. 1, 4. BA B. ACCAR, Baccaris, or Baccharis Argo, the firft, long fhip with fails, built Bacchus, his festival, ibid. by the Greeks, IV. 34. Argonauts, ibid....... Argus the fon of Danaus, ibid. Arrius the Centurion affaulted Virgil, Aruin maximum, &c. the Colocafia, Afbes, how used in the ancient facri- 4lyria, the greateft extent of that Em- Atlas invented the fphere, III. 104. St Auguftine quotes the Sibylline Ora- Auguftus: Caefar called a god by Virgil, Barebind, II. 18. < Bears wild, V. 76. X. 56. Bows made of horn, X. 59. I. 43. Britain divided from the reft of the Brutus Demi-gods vifible only when they think Depulfus fignifies weaned, III. 82. the fame with Juno Lucina, the offerings made to her by Dico ufed for cano, III. 55. Saloninus, V. Dulichium, VI. 76. VI. 41. 9: of Morality, Demi-gods not accustomed to give an Euftathius quotes. Homer erroneously, Deliciae confidered, II. 2. fwers without force, VI, 19. IV. 36. |