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Who breathing Wrath and righteous Vengeance sought
T'extirpate quite the Frogs perfidious Line.
585 On whom the Gods their various Gifts bestow'd;
Warlike as Mars,[1] who shakes the guarded Wall,
As Neptune's wide his Chest and Shoulders broad,
As Jove majestick, as Alcides tall.
By Troops the warrior Frogs he slew with Ease,
590 Limnius,[2] Hydrocharis, Peleus, Craugasides.[3]
T'extirpate quite the Frogs perfidious Line.
585 On whom the Gods their various Gifts bestow'd;
Warlike as Mars,[1] who shakes the guarded Wall,
As Neptune's wide his Chest and Shoulders broad,
As Jove majestick, as Alcides tall.
By Troops the warrior Frogs he slew with Ease,
590 Limnius,[2] Hydrocharis, Peleus, Craugasides.[3]
LX.
Whilst dealing Death thus Meridarpax fares,
A secret Path his chosen Squadrons take,
And seize the num'rous Passes unawares,
Betwixt the croaking Host and neighbour Lake.
Whilst dealing Death thus Meridarpax fares,
A secret Path his chosen Squadrons take,
And seize the num'rous Passes unawares,
Betwixt the croaking Host and neighbour Lake.
- ↑ v. 586. Warlike as Mars.] When Plutarch blam'd the comparing one Man to several Deities, that Censure was not pass'd upon Homer as a Poet, but by Plutarch as a Priest: And no modern fine Gentleman can think the worse of any thing for its being disapproved by a Priest in his Sacerdotal Capacity.
- ↑ v. 590. Limnius.] A Name of the same Import with Limnisius, call'd from rhe Lake.
- ↑ Ibid. Craugasides.] From Croaking.
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