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See Keary's "Outlines of Primitive Belief," 1882, pp. 66-7. Metam., viii. 714: "Frondere Philemona Baucis, Baucida conspexit senior frondere Philemon. ... 'Valeque, O conjux! dixere simul, simul abdita texit Ora frutex." Thorpe's "Northern Mythology," i. 290, iii. 271. Grimm's "Teut. Mythology," ii. 827. Cox and Jones' "Popular Romances of the Middle Ages," 1880, p. 139

This drawing was presented by Fabio, the son of Antonio, to Messer Giovanni Gaddi, with this epigram: Pinxit Virgilius Neptunum, pinxit Homerus, Dum maris undisoni per vada flectit equos. Mente quidem vates illum conspexit uterque, Vincius ast oculis; jureque vincit eos.

A surprise of unexpected joy does likewise often produce the same effect: "Ut me conspexit venientem, et Troja circum Arma amens vidit, magnis exterrita monstris, Diriguit visu in medio, calor ossa reliquit, Labitur, et longo vix tandem tempore fatur."

We propose in this note merely to give some examples of his versification that the student may judge for himself, and compare them with those of Lucretius, Catullus, and Virgil. I. i. Hanc ubi praepetibus pennis lapsuque vo antem Conspexit Marius, divini miminis augur, Faustaque signa suae laudis reditusque notavit, Partibus intonuit caeli pater ipse sinistris.