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CLASSICAL TOUR
Ch. XL
will recollect the various passages in which Virgil
alludes to this hill, a scene of so much splendor
in his days, but now nearly reduced to its original
simplicity and loneliness. Like /Eneas, he will
contemplate the interesting spot with delight, and
review like him, though with very different feel-
ing's, the vestiges of heroes of old, “ victim morm-
menta priorum.”
Cum muros arcemque procul, ac rara domorum
Tecta vident, qu?e nunc Romana potentia coelo
jEquavit; turn res inopes Evandrus habebat.
2En. viii. 98.
Miratur, faeilesque oculos fert omnia circum
.ZEneas, capiturque locis, et singula laetus
Esse lareni, nulloque magis se colic potestas
ZEstimat, &summi sentit fastigia juris.
Attollens apicem subjectis regia rostris,
Tot circum delubra videt, tantisque Deorum
Cingitur excubiis. Ju vat infra tecta Tonantis
Cernere Tarpcia pendentes rupe Gigantes,
Cielatasque fores, mediisque volantia signa
Nubibus, & densura stipantibus asthera templis,
TEraque vestitis numeros& puppe columnis
Consita, subnixasque jugis immanibus aedes,
Naturam curaulante manu ; spoliisque micantes
Innumeros arcus. Acies stupet igne metalli,
Et circiunfuso trepidans obtunditur auro.
De Cons. Honor, vi.
CLASSICAL TOUR
Ch. XL
will recollect the various passages in which Virgil
alludes to this hill, a scene of so much splendor
in his days, but now nearly reduced to its original
simplicity and loneliness. Like /Eneas, he will
contemplate the interesting spot with delight, and
review like him, though with very different feel-
ing's, the vestiges of heroes of old, “ victim morm-
menta priorum.”
Cum muros arcemque procul, ac rara domorum
Tecta vident, qu?e nunc Romana potentia coelo
jEquavit; turn res inopes Evandrus habebat.
2En. viii. 98.
Miratur, faeilesque oculos fert omnia circum
.ZEneas, capiturque locis, et singula laetus
Esse lareni, nulloque magis se colic potestas
ZEstimat, &summi sentit fastigia juris.
Attollens apicem subjectis regia rostris,
Tot circum delubra videt, tantisque Deorum
Cingitur excubiis. Ju vat infra tecta Tonantis
Cernere Tarpcia pendentes rupe Gigantes,
Cielatasque fores, mediisque volantia signa
Nubibus, & densura stipantibus asthera templis,
TEraque vestitis numeros& puppe columnis
Consita, subnixasque jugis immanibus aedes,
Naturam curaulante manu ; spoliisque micantes
Innumeros arcus. Acies stupet igne metalli,
Et circiunfuso trepidans obtunditur auro.
De Cons. Honor, vi.