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his writing in a greater hurry than usual; as did
also his taking sometimes one person, or thing,
for another. Thus Tellus, in the transsation,
is mentioned instead of Vestan. •—Ate instead of
Tisiphonc0.’—Scorpius instead of Piscisp.
V. But
Dryd. 308.) Compare also his transsation with the original in
Geo. ii. v. 8. Dryd. v. 12. TEn. ix, v. 716. Dryd. 972.
ZEn. xii. v> 886, Dryd. 1283,
n Geo. i. v. 499. Dryd.>670. Vesta in the hid mytho-
logy was taken sometimes for Tellus j but she is here repre-
sented as the goddess to whom the perpetual fire was kept up,
and in whose temple was deposited the palladium, or pledge,
os the Roman, empire over the world. In this passage there
is another mistake of persons, and a very gross one. Virgil,
by the dii patrii, here means the great triad of deities firfl:
received all over the eaft; and afterwards successively in Greece
and Italy. These the antient writers (from Herodotus down
to Macrobius) usually call by the title of Steoj 'srar^ot,
or dii patrii. Very various are the opinions who these three
gods were that were so revered in the east, especially in Samo-
thrace: but among the Romans the three deities received as the
three supreme were evidently Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva 5
and theresore Virgil adds the word indigetej, to fix it to the
Ssci or the three supreme gods received as such in
his own country. Indigetes here is much the same as ncssri
in Juvenal, (sat. iii, 145.) where he is speaking of these deities.
They are therefore no less personages than Jupiter, Juno, and
Minerva, whom Dryden represents Virgil as calling,
< Home-born deities, of mortal birth.’
0 ^£n, x. v. 761. Dryd. 1080.
P Geo. iv. v. 235. Dryd. 340. Thus, from the same
hurry and impetuosity, he speaks of Nereids instead of Naiads,
s/En. i, v. 172. Dryd, v. 236.) and water-nymphs instead of
nymphs of the air (/En. i. v. 77. Dryd. v. m.) Heturns the
mountain Niphates into a river-god (Geo. iii. v. 30. Dryd.
v. 47.) This, it seems, was objected to Dryden as a fault in
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