"Tarda mole movent, habitu gallina modesto."
4. The mixing the singular and plural Numbers in the third Line is very judicious.
"Caudam Cristasque rubentes.
Ovid would have said,
"Caudam Cristamque————
Lastly, The full Rhyme in the fourth Line makes the whole Paragraph very harmonious. It is not improper to produce here the Conclusion of the Description of Æolus's Cave, which is one of the finest Passages in the Æneid.
"Sed pater omnipotens speluncis abdidit atris
Hoc metuens, molemque & montis insuper altos
Imposuit, regemque dedit, qui fœdere certo
Et premere, & laxas sciret dare jussus habenas.