[ [458] Ibid.
[ [459] The Reader will understand this Distinction much better by the Examples which the Author has mention'd in his Preface to the Æneis; and I shall, for that Reason, take the Liberty to transcribe some of them. "The Storm, in the first Book of Virgil, driving the Fleet on the Coast of Carthage, is an Incident, not an Episode, because the Hero himself, and the whole Body of his Forces, are concern'd in it; and so it is a direct, and not a collateral Part of the main Action. The Adventures of Nisus and Euryalus, in the 9th Book, are Episodes, not Incidents; i.e. not direct Parts of the main Action."
[ [460] Thus prov'd by Bossu: The Iliad begins with the Plague, which lasts ten Days. The Poet allows for the Recovery of the Grecians 10, Battles that follow 5, Funeral Rites of Patroclus 11, and of Hector 11; in all, 47.
[ [461] The Odyssey, according to the same Author, Book III. c. XII. takes up 58 Days. And the Æneis is reduc'd within half a Year, or a single Campaign, beginning where Dr. Trapp does. I know not how Bossu came to be so misrepresented.
[ [462] Art. Poet. ℣ 73.
[ [463] Book II. c. XIX.
[ [464] ℣ 103.
[ [465] De Art. Poet. ℣ 121.
[ [466] Ibid. ℣ 121.
[ [467] Περι Ποιητκηϛ, cap. XXIII.