Confixum ferrea texit
Telorum seges, & jaculis increvit acutis.
The Stratagem of the Trojans boring Holes in their Ships, and sinking them, lest the Latins should Burn them, under that Fable of their being transform'd into Sea-Nymphs: And therefore the Ancients had no such Reason to condemn that Fable as groundless and absurd. Cocles swimming the River Tyber, after the Bridge was broken down behind him, is exactly painted in the Four last Verses of the Ninth Book, under the Character of Turnus. Marius hiding himself in the Morass of Minturnæ, under the Person of Sinon:
Limosoque lacu per Noctem obscurus in ulvâ
Delitui ———
Those Verses in the Second Book concerning Priam;
Jacet ingens littore truncus, &c.
seem originally made upon Pompey the Great. He seems to touch the Imperious,
