LETTER VII.
SIR,
I
AM now to collect the Passages of the Æneid, mentioned in my former Letters, and bring them together with the rhym'd and blank Verse Translations.
The first Passage is this (not to take notice of the very first Lines, which Mr. Pit has translated in two different manners)
"Sic cunctus pelagi cecidit fragor, æquora postquam
Prospiciens genitor, cœloque invectus aperto
Flectit equos, curruque volans dat lora secundo.
Dr. Trapp,
"So all the hurry of the Ocean ceas'd,