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This is another Virgilian licence, the ground ('solum') being put for the water under the ship.

Ganymede.

Not long before, Pitt has a line 'Around their brows a vivid wreath they wore.' So it appears in all the editions that I have consulted; but I can scarcely doubt that 'vivid' should be 'virid,' though the latter word is more after the manner of Spenser or Milton than of eighteenth century poetry.

I find too late that I have written 'ears' inadvertently for 'hands.'