And Pope had the imitation in his eye, not the original.—Bowles.
[18] So Virgil says of Sirius, or the dog-star, Geor. ii. 353:
hiulca siti findit Canis æstifer arva.
"Gassendi has well remarked," says Arnauld in his Logic, "that nothing could be less probable than the notion that the dog-star is the cause of the extraordinary heat which prevails in what are called the dog days, because as Sirius is on the other side of the equator, the effects of the star should be greatest at the places where it is most perpendicular, whereas the dog days here are the winter season there. Whence the inhabitants of those countries have much more reason to believe that the dog-star brings cold than we have to believe that it causes heat."
[19] The Shepherd's Calendar of Spenser:
Such rage as winter's reigneth in my heart.
[20] Virg. Ecl. x. 9, out of Theocritus:
Quæ nemora, aut qui vos saltus habuere, puellæ
Naïades, indigno cum Gallus amore periret?
Nam neque Parnassi vobis juga, nam neque Pindi,
Ulla moram fecere, neque Aoniæ Aganippe.—Pope.
Ogilby's translation:
Say, Naïades, where were you, in what grove,
Or lawn, when Gallus fell by ill-matched love.—Wakefield.