makes in the first
Iliad
, no more Charming than that of Venus in the first
Æneid
.
Dixit et avertens roseâ cervice refulsit:
Ambrosiæque comæ; divinum vertice odorem
Spiravere: Pedes vestis defluxit ad imos:
Et vera incessu patuit Dea—
Homer's
Persons are most of them God-like and Terrible;
Virgil
