[ [239] Eclog. X. 72.
[ [240] Eclog. X. 17.
[ [241] Eclog. II. 60.
[ [242] Mr. Fontenelle, and Mr. Pope, in their Discourses on Pastoral Poetry, are of Scaliger's Opinion. But I might observe, in Favour of Dr. Trapp's, that the most ancient Greek Poets, whose Names are preserv'd, are not supposed to have been Pastoral Writers. The Greeks seem to have been persuaded that their Hymns were the first Productions in Verse:
See Spanheim's Notes on Callim. p. 2, 3, &c.
[ [243] See Bull. Primitiv. & Apostol. Tradit. p. 20, 21.
[ [244] Eclog. IV. 34.
[ [245] ℣ 44.
[ [246] ℣ 35.
[ [247] Virg. Eclog. IV. 50.
[ [248] VII. 1.