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Pindar being seated in a Chariot, alludes to the Chariot-races he celebrated in the Grecian'' Games. The Swans are the Emblems of the Ode, as their soaring Posture intimates the Sublimity and Activity of his Genius. Neptune presided over the Isthmian, and Jupiter over the Olympian Games''.

This expresses the mixt Character of the Odes of Horace. The second of these Verses alludes to that Line of his:

As another which follows, to that,

The Action of the Doves hints at a Passage in the 4th Ode of his third Book.

Me fabulosæ Vulture in Appulo, Altricis extra limen Apuliæ, Ludo fatigatumque somno, Fronde nova puerum Palumbes Texêre; mirum quod foret omnibus— Ut tuto ab atris corpore viperis Dormirem & ursis: ut permerer sacra Lauro-