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Virgil was so sensible of this charming Expression, that he has used it in the three following Passages, and I believe in one or two others in the very first Æneid.
"—Tibi Divum paler atque hominum rex
Et mulcere dedit fluctus & tollere vento.—
"—Tu das epulis accumbere Divûm.—
"O regina, novam cui condere Jupiter urbem
Justitiaque dedit gentes frænare superbas:—
Salvini in his Italian Translation in 1723, dedicated to his late Majesty, is attentive to all the Beauties of the Passage in Homer last mentioned.
"—A voi gl' Iddii,