Page:Virgil's Pastorals, Georgics and Aeneis - Dryden (1709) - volume 3.djvu/357

Rh he says at first terras turbine perflant: Then adds, Incubuere Mari: To raise a Tempest on the Sea was Usurpation on the Prerogative of Neptune; who had given him no leave, and therefore was inrag'd at his Attempt. I may also add, that they who are in Passion, as Neptune then was, are apt to assume to themselves, more than is properly their due.

Line 450.O Virgin&c.
 * If as you seem the Sister of the Day,
 * Or one at least of Chast Diana's Train.

Thus, in the Original.
 * O Quam te memorem Virgo
 * Aut Phœbi Soror, aut Nympharum Sanguinis Una.

This is a Family Complement, which Æneas here bestows on Venus. His Father Anchises had us'd the very same to that Goddess when he Courted her. This appears by that very Ancient Greek Poem, in which that Amour is so beautifully describ'd, and which is thought Homer's: Though it seems to be Written before his Age.

Line 980.Her Princely Guest was next her side.

This, I confess, is improperly Translated; and according to the Mo­dern Fashion of sitting at Table. But the Ancient custom of lying on Beds, had not been understood by the Unlearned Reader.

Æneid the Second.The Destruction of Veii is here shadow'd under that of Troy: Livy in his Description of it, seems to have emulated in his