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Non minor hie Nilo, fi non per plana jacentis
/Egypt i Libycas Nilus flagnaret arenas.
Non minor hie Istro, nisi quod dumpermeat
orbem
IJier, casuros in qualibet cequora fantes
jlccipit, & Scythicas exit non fblus in un-
das. Id.
Nor would the Nile more watry Stores
contain,
But that he Magnates on the Libyan Plain :
Nor would the Z)i?«z/^run with greater
Force,
But that he gathers in his tedious Course
Ten Thousand Streams, and swelling as
he ssows,
In Scythian Seas the Glut of Rivers
throws.
That is, says Scaliger, the Eridanus
would be bigger than the Nile and Da-
nube, if the Nile and Danube were not
bigger than the Eridanus. What makes
the Poet’s Remark the more impropec,
the very Reason why the Danube is
greater than the Po, as he assigns it, is
that which really makes the Po as great
as it is; for before its Fall into the Gulf,
it receives into its Channel themost con-
liderable Rivers of Piemont, Milan, and
the rest of Lombardy.
From
Non minor hie Nilo, fi non per plana jacentis
/Egypt i Libycas Nilus flagnaret arenas.
Non minor hie Istro, nisi quod dumpermeat
orbem
IJier, casuros in qualibet cequora fantes
jlccipit, & Scythicas exit non fblus in un-
das. Id.
Nor would the Nile more watry Stores
contain,
But that he Magnates on the Libyan Plain :
Nor would the Z)i?«z/^run with greater
Force,
But that he gathers in his tedious Course
Ten Thousand Streams, and swelling as
he ssows,
In Scythian Seas the Glut of Rivers
throws.
That is, says Scaliger, the Eridanus
would be bigger than the Nile and Da-
nube, if the Nile and Danube were not
bigger than the Eridanus. What makes
the Poet’s Remark the more impropec,
the very Reason why the Danube is
greater than the Po, as he assigns it, is
that which really makes the Po as great
as it is; for before its Fall into the Gulf,
it receives into its Channel themost con-
liderable Rivers of Piemont, Milan, and
the rest of Lombardy.
From