Pœnorum expectant.—
For the same Reason he introduces the most solemn and most important Speech in the Æneid, with three Monosyllables, which causes great Delay in the Speaker, and gives great Majesty to the Speech.
—O Qui Res Hominumq; Deumq;—
These three Syllables occasion three short Pauses. O—Qui—Res—How slow and how stately is this Passage!
But it happens that I can set the Beginning of the Æneid in a clear Light for my purpose, by two Translations of that Passage, both by the same Hand; one of which is exactly in the manner of Virgil, the other in the manner of Homer: The two Translations are made by the Reverend Mr. Pitt. He published the first among some Miscellany Poems several Years since, the latter in his four Books of the Æneid about two Years ago.
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"Arms and the Man I sing; the first who driv'n
From Trojan Shores, the Fugitive of Heav'n,