A Tyrian Colony, from Tyber far,
"Rich, rough, and brave, and exercis'd in war.
Mr. Pit's Æneid.
"—Facti de Nomine Byrsam,
Sed vos, qui tandem, quibus aut venistis ab oris,
Quove tenetis iter?—
"Hence Byrsa nam'd.—But now ye Strangers, say,
Who, whence you are, and whither lies your Way?
I have chosen here three Passages of three very different kinds, and in all of them the English appears to be much more concise than the Latin; neither is there any thing wanting in the Fulness of the Sense, or in Majesty, or in Harmony of Numbers, any more in the two last Passages than in the former. Another Instance of this kind might be produced out of Virgil's most perfect Work, the Georgick, although it wants the Advantage of being translated by such a Hand as Mr. Pit's.
"Si vero Viciamq; seres vitemq; Faselum,