Eridanus; quo non alius Per Pinguia culta
In mare purpureum vīolentīor īnfluīt amnīs.
The former Line strikes the Ear with Mysus and Caïcus; here you have Auratus, Eridanus, and Alius. Then an Alliteration, Per Pinguia, and at[page 23] last the whole Passage rolls on in a Dactyl Line, and rushes into the Sea with an Assultus of the Vowel i, repeated five times in three Words.
"————Violentior influit amnis.
The following Line tours into the Skies with the highest Mountain in Italy.
"—————————————Gaudetque nivali
Vertice se attollens pater Appeninus, ad auras.———
This falls down as low as the deepest Valley.
"Saxa per, & scopulos, & depressas convalles.
In short there is nothing in Nature that Virgil's Verse does not convey to the Ear, and the Eye; so that this Subject is inexhaustible, and must be left to every one's particular Observation.