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2,46 o E.
And by so tempting an Occasion press’d’
The beauteous Maid, whom he beheld’
possess’d :
Conceiving as she ssept, her fruitful
Womb
Swell’d with the Founder of Immortal
Rome.
I cannot quit this Head without taking
notice of a Line in Seneca the Tragedian.
--Primus emergit folo
Dextra ferocem cornibus premens taurum
Zctus-Sen. OEdip. Aft. 5.
—First Zetus rises through the Ground,
Bending the Bull’s tough Neck with Pain,
That tosses back his Horns in vain.
I cannot doubt but the Poet had here in
view the Posture of Zetus in the famous
Groups of Figures, which representsthe
Two Brothers binding Dirce to the Horns
of a mad Bull.
I could not forbear taking particular
notice of the several Mull cal Instruments,
that are to be seen in the Hands of the
.Apollo's^ Muses, Fauns, Satyrs, Baccha-
nals and Shepherds, which might cer-
tainly give a great Light to the Dispute
for Preference between the Ancient and
Modem
And by so tempting an Occasion press’d’
The beauteous Maid, whom he beheld’
possess’d :
Conceiving as she ssept, her fruitful
Womb
Swell’d with the Founder of Immortal
Rome.
I cannot quit this Head without taking
notice of a Line in Seneca the Tragedian.
--Primus emergit folo
Dextra ferocem cornibus premens taurum
Zctus-Sen. OEdip. Aft. 5.
—First Zetus rises through the Ground,
Bending the Bull’s tough Neck with Pain,
That tosses back his Horns in vain.
I cannot doubt but the Poet had here in
view the Posture of Zetus in the famous
Groups of Figures, which representsthe
Two Brothers binding Dirce to the Horns
of a mad Bull.
I could not forbear taking particular
notice of the several Mull cal Instruments,
that are to be seen in the Hands of the
.Apollo's^ Muses, Fauns, Satyrs, Baccha-
nals and Shepherds, which might cer-
tainly give a great Light to the Dispute
for Preference between the Ancient and
Modem