Johnson renders the last line—
"Cinnameos cumulos, Nabathæi munera veris;"
and this is probably the sense in which the place has generally been understood. But let any one read the preceding quotations, and reflect on what a diligent student Pope was of the works of his predecessors, and perhaps he will think with me.
Thomas Keightley.
NOTES AND QUERIES ON BACON'S ESSAYS, NO. III.
(Vol. vii., pp. 6. 80.)
Essay IX. p. 21. (note a). "They used the word 'præfiscini.'" See e. g., Plaut. Asin., ii. 4. 84. (Weise):
"Præfiscini hoc nunc dixerim: nemo etiam me adcusavit
Merito meo."