Morifons Edition of Dryden's Virgil

WORK S

OF

VIRGIL:

TRANSLATED INTO

ENGLISH VERSE

BY MR DRYDEN.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

WITH ELEGANT COPPER-PLATES.

VOLUME HIL

PERT H:

PRINTED BY R. MORISON JUNIOR,

FOR R. MORISON AND SON, BOOKSELLERS, PERTH;
AND G. MUDIE, EDINBURGH.
M,DCC,XCI.

18.608....

Aneas proceeds in his relation; he gives an account of the fleet with which he failed, and the fuccefs of his first voyage to Thrace; from thence he directs his course to Delos, and asks the oracle what place the Gods had appointed for his habitation? By a mistake of the oracle's anfwer, he fettles in Crete; his houshold Gods give him the true fense of the oracle in a dream. He follows their advice, and makes the best of his way for Italy: he is cast on several fhores, and meets with very surprising adventures, till at length he lands in Sicily; where his father Anchifes dies. This is the place he was failing from, when the tempeft rofe and threw him upon the Carthaginian coast.

WHEN Heav'n had overturn'd the Trojan state,

WE

And Priam's throne, by too severe a fate :
When ruin'd Troy became the Grecians prey,
And Ilium's lofty tow'rs in ashes lay:
Warn'd by celestial omens, we retreat,
To feek in foreign isles a happier feat.
Near old Antandros, and at Ida's foot,
The timber of the facred groves we cut,
And built our fleet: uncertain yet to find
What place the gods for our repofe affign'd.
VOL. III.

A

5

ΙΘ

Friends