Trojan
Fleet into Water-Nymphs which is the most violent Machine in the whole
Æneid
, and has given offence to several Criticks, may be accounted for the same way.
Virgil
himself, before he begins that Relation, premises, that what he was going to tell appeared incredible, but that it was justified by Tradition. What further confirms me that this Change of the Fleet was a celebrated Circumstance in the History of
Æneas
, is, that
Ovid
has given place to the same Metamorphosis in his Account of the heathen Mythology.