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xiv Inque puellari corpus candore ruborem Traxerat; haud aliter quam cum super atria velum Candida purpureum simulatas inficit umbras. Met. B. 10.

Philomela's Tongue seem'd to move after it was cut out by Tereus.

Utque salire solet mutilatæ cauda colubræ, Palpitat Met. B. 6.

Cadmus sows the Dragons Teeth, and the Sons of the Earth rise gradually.

Inde fide majus glebæ cepêre moveri; Primaque de sulcis acies apparuit hastæ; Tegmina mox capitum picto nutantia cono, Mox humeri, pectusque Sic ubi tolluntur festis aulæa theatris Surgere signa solent, primumque ostendere vultum, Cætera paulatim, placidoque educta tenore Tota patent, imoque pedes in margine ponunt. Met. B. 3.

The Objection to Ovid, that he never knows when to give over, is too manifest. Tho' he frequently expatiates on the same Thought, in different Words; yet in his Simile's, that Exuberance is avoided. There is in them all a Simplicity, and a Confinement to the present ject;