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SICILY AND MALTA. 245
barians, they did not presume to touch this
sacred temple, although it contained more
riches than all the city besides.
There have been violent disputes amongst
the Sicilian authors, whether Proserpine was
carried off near the city os Enna, or that
of ./Etna, which flood at the foot of that
mountain, but it is os mighty little con-
sluence, and more respecl, I think, is to
be paid to the sentiments of Cicero, who
gives it in favour of Enna, than the whole
of them. Diodorus too is of the same
opinion, and his description of this place is
almost in the very words as that of Cicero.
They both paint it as a persect paradise;
abounding in beautiful groves, clear springs
and rivulets, and like iEtna, covered with a
variety of ssowers at all seasons of the year.
To these authorities, if you please you may
add that of Milton, who compares it to pa-
radise ltself.
Nor
barians, they did not presume to touch this
sacred temple, although it contained more
riches than all the city besides.
There have been violent disputes amongst
the Sicilian authors, whether Proserpine was
carried off near the city os Enna, or that
of ./Etna, which flood at the foot of that
mountain, but it is os mighty little con-
sluence, and more respecl, I think, is to
be paid to the sentiments of Cicero, who
gives it in favour of Enna, than the whole
of them. Diodorus too is of the same
opinion, and his description of this place is
almost in the very words as that of Cicero.
They both paint it as a persect paradise;
abounding in beautiful groves, clear springs
and rivulets, and like iEtna, covered with a
variety of ssowers at all seasons of the year.
To these authorities, if you please you may
add that of Milton, who compares it to pa-
radise ltself.
Nor