"Arma Virumque cano, Trojæ qui primus ab oris
Italiam, fato profugus, Lavinaque venit
Litora. Multum ille & terris jactatus & alto,
Vi Superum sævæ memorem Junonis ob iram.
Multa quoq; & bello passus, dum conderet urbem,
Inferretque Deos Latio: genus unde Latinum
Albanique patres, atque altæ mœnia Romæ.
These two first Words of the Æneid are an Example of what I am taking notice of; and then we have in this Introduction Italiam and Litora Lavina, Terris and Alto, Superum and Junonis, Urbem and Deos, Genus and Patres.
But the most beautiful Passage of this Nature is in the Georgics. Here the thing to be done, and the Instrument with which it is to be done, are varied alternately.
"Quod nisi & assiduis terram insectabere rastris,