Præsentemque viris intentant omnia mortem.
Extemplò Æneas solvuntur frigore membra.
Ingemit, et duplices tendens ad sidera palmas,
Talia voce refert: O terque quaterque beati,

Queis ante ora patrum, Trojæ sub manibus altis,
Contigit oppetere !

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"Talia jactanti stridens Aquilone procella
Velum adversa ferit, fluctusque ad sidera tollit.
Franguntur remi: tum prora avertit, et undis
Dat latus insequitur cumulo præruptus aquæ mons.
Hi summo in fluctu pendent: his unda dehiscens
Terram inter fluctus aperit: furit æstus arenis,
Tres Notus abreptas in saxa latentia torquet :
Saxa, vocant Itali, mediis quæ in fluctibus aras,
Dorsum immane mari summo. Tres Eurus ab alto,

In brevia et syrtes urget, miserabile visu;
Illiditque vadis, atque aggere cingit arenæ.
Unam, quæ Lycios fidumque vehebat Orontem,
Ipsius ante oculos ingens à vertice pontus
In puppim ferit: excutitur, pronusque magister
Volvitur in caput: ast illam ter fluctus ibidem
Torquet agens circum, et rapidus vorat æquore vortex.
Apparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto :

Arma virûm, tabulæque, et Troïa gaza per undas.
Jam validam Ilionei navem, jam fortis Achatæ,
Et quà vectus Abas, et quà grandævus Alethes,
Vicit hyems laxis laterum compagibus omnes
Accipiunt inimicum imbrem, rimisque fatiscunt."
Eneid, Lib. I. line 82.

CANTO II.

NOTE 1, Sect. I. page 19.

"Onward the golden stream is gliding."

“The Tiber, stained to a deep yellow by the fertilizing soil which it has washed away from its banks, glitters like a belt of gold along the plain in the sunshine that irradiates with Italian clearness the sward, the scattered trees, and the shadowy hills."—Spalding's History of Italy and the Italian Islands, Vol. I. p. 204.

NOTE 2, Sect. I. p. 19.

"Amid the myrtle and the palm."

The palm is not a native of Italy, but as I find that it was there cultivated, and still continues to ornament many of the groves and gardens at Rome, I have taken the liberty to introduce it here.

"We cross," says Spalding, "the mouth of a canal which discharges into the sea the united waters of Virgil's rivers Ufins and Amasenus. Remains of its harbor may be traced; and considerable ruins, partly Pelasgic, partly Roman, and some belonging to the dark ages, surmount the noble rock which rises from the palm-trees of its hanging garden."

NOTE 3, Sect. I. p. 19.

"And ilices its margin hiding."

The majesty of the Laurentine Forest is still represented by noble groves of the pine and the dark-leaved ilex, particularly about

the mouth of the Tiber, skirting the sea like a line of gigantic columns, while the laurel, the myrtle, the arbutus, and wild olive form in many spots impervious thickets with ivy and heath.”—Spalding's History of Italy and the Italian Islands, Vol. I. p. 241.

NOTE 4, Sect. XVI. p. 35.

"Saraband."

A Spanish dance in use in Italy.

ZENEL.