"Inseritur vero ex fœtu nucis arbutus horrida:
Water is not more liquid than this.
"Speluncisque lacus Clausos, lucosque sonantis.——
S. & L. liquescit Carmen instar aquarum, says Erythræus in his Note on this Line.
How gently flow the Streams in this Verse!
"Unde pater Tiberinus, & unde Aniena fluenta.—
What a roaring do the Hypanis and Caicus make in the next!
"Saxōsumque sōnans Hypanis, Mysusque Caïcus.
But now observe how he raises his Song to honour his Favourite Eridanus!
"Et gemina auratus taurino cornua vultu