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this stately building are still standing on three sides; and it has the mountain on the east."

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Page 106. And fell, as Carthage fell before.”

Sannazarius, in his poem De partu Virginis, has a fine passage on the fallen state of Carthage, which Tasso has imitated in the Gerusalemme Liberata.

"Et qui vertentes immania saxa juvencos Flectit arans, qua devictæ Carthaginis arces Procubuêre, jacentque infausto in litore turres

Eversæ. Quantum illa metus, quantum illa laborum
Urbs dedit insultans Latio et Laurentibus arvis!

Nunc passim vix relliquias, vix nomina servans,
Obruitur propriis non agnoscenda ruinis.

Et querimur genus infelix humana labare

Membra ævo, cum regna palam moriantur, et urbes."

SANNAZ. DE PART. VIRG. II. 213.

"Giace l'alta Cartago: appena i segni Dell'alte sue ruine il lido serba.

Muojono le città; muojono i regni ;

Copre i fasti e le pompe arena ed erba :
E l'uom d'esser mortal par che si sdegni.
Oh nostra mente cupida e superba!"

TASSO, G. L. XV. 20.

Page 111. Along the silver-eddying Thames.

Ποταμος περ εύρροος, ΑΡΓΥΡΟΔΙΝΗΣ.

HOм. IL. P. 130.

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