SIR,
IV.
T
HE fourth thing to be consider'd is, Virgil's mixing the Singular and Plural Numbers. This has a wonderful Effect, and is very diligently attended to by Virgil; but I believe never once thought of by Ovid, or any other Roman Writer in the Days of Augustus.
"Quid faciat lætas Segetes, quo sidere terram
Vertere, Mæcenas, ulmisque adjungere vites,
Conveniat: quæ cura boum, qui cultus habendo
Sit pecori, apibus quanta experientia parcis.
Here you have segetes and terram, and then vites, and after that pecori and apibus.
Again,