——Cui talia fanti
Ante fores, subitò non vultus, non color unus,
Non comptæ mansere comæ: sed pectus anhelum,
Et rabie fera corda tument; majorque videri,
Nec mortale sonans: afflata est numine quando
Jam propiore dei.
Virg. Æn. l. vi. v. 46-51.—Trans.
——Palmaque nobilis
Terrarum dominos evehit ad deos.
Od. i. l. i.
Sive quos Elea domum reducit
Palma cœlestes
Od. ii. l. i.—Trans.
——Tunc ritè citatos
Explorant, acuuntque gradus, variasque per artes
Instimulant docto languentia membra tumultu.
Poplite nunc flexo sidunt, nunc lubrica forti
Pectora collidunt plausu; nunc ignea tollunt
Crura, brevemque fugam nec opino fine reponunt.
Stat. Theb. l. vi v. 587, &c.
They try, they rouse their speed, with various arts;
Their languid limbs they prompt to act their parts.
Now with bent hams, amidst the practis'd crowd,
They sit; now strain their lungs, and shout aloud
Now a short flight with fiery steps they trace,
And with a sudden stop abridge the mimic race.
—Trans.