TO THE

ART OF SINKING IN POETRY.

II.

Chap. I.INTRODUCTION Page 127.

That the bathos, or profund, is

the natural taste of man, and in parti-

cular of the prefent age

131

III. The neceffity of the bathos, phyfically

confidered

133

136

IV. That there is an art of the bathos or
profund

V. Of the true genius for the profund,

and by what it is conftituted

138

VI. Of the feveral kinds of genius in the

profund, and the marks and characters

of each

VII. Of the profund, when it confifts in

the thought

VIII. Of the profund, confifting in the cir-

cumftances; and of amplification and

periphrafe in general

146

150

154.

IX. Of imitation, and the manner of imi-

159

tating

X. Of tropes and figures: and first

of the variegating, confounding, and re-

verfing figures

Page 164

Chap. XI. The figures continued of the

magnifying and diminishing figures 172

XII. Of expreffion, and the feveral forts

of style of the prefent age

182

XIII. A project for the advancement of

193

198

the bathos

XIV. How to make dedications, panegyrics,

or fatyrs, and of the colours of honoura-

ble and difbonourable

XV. A receipt to make an epic poem 202

XVI. A project for the advancement of

the ftage

207

Virgilius

SEU

MARTINI SCRIBLERI,

Summi Critici,

Caftigationum in Æneidem SPECIMEN.

ENEIDEM totam, amice lector, innumerabilibus pœne mendis fcaturientem, ad priftinum fenfum revocabimus. In fingulis fere verfibus fpuriæ occurrunt lectiones, in omnibus quos unquam vidi codicibus, aut vulgatis aut ineditis, ad opprobrium ufque criticorum, in hunc diem exiftentes. Interea adverte oculos, & his paucis fruere. At fi fint in hifce caftigationibus de quibus non fatis liquet, fyllabarum quantitates, προλεγόμενα noftra libro ipfi præfgenda, ut confulas, moneo.

quæ,

I. SPECIMEN

I. SPECIMEN LIBRI PRIMI, VER. I.

A1

RMA virumque cano, trojæ qui
primus ab oris

Italiam, fato profugus, Lavinaque venit
Litora. Multum ille & terris jactatus &
alto,
Vi fuperûm-

Arma virumque cano, Troje qui primus ab aris

Italiam, flatu profugus, latinaque venit Littora. Multum ille & terris vexatus, & alto,

Vi fuperum

Ab aris, nempe Hercai Jovis, vide lib. ii. ver. 512, 550.-flatu ventorum Eoli, ut fequitur-latina certe littora cum Eneas aderat, lavina non nifi poftea ab ipfo nominata, lib. xii. ver. 193.-jacta

tus terris non convenit.

II. VER. 52.

Et quisquis numen Junonis adoret ? Et quifquis nomen Junonis adoret? Longe melius, quam ut antea, numen. & proculdubio fic Virgilius.

III. VER. 86.

Venti, velut agmine facto,

Qua data porta ruunt

Venti, velut aggere fracto,

Qua data porta ruunt—
Sic corrige, meo periculo.

IV. VER. 117.

Fidumque vehebat Orontem.
Fortemque vehebat Orontem :
Non fidum, quia Epitheton Achata
notiffimum Oronti nunquam datur.

V. VER. 119.

Excutitur, pronufque magifter
Volvitur in caput-

Excutitur: pronufque magis tèr
Volvitur in caput-

Aft

Aio Virgilium aliter non fcripfiffe, quod plane confirmatur ex fequentibus illum ter fluctus ibidem torquet

VI. VER. 122.

Apparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto
Arma virúm

Armi bominum: ridicule antea arma virúm, quæ, ex ferro conflata, quo-modo

poffunt natare?

VII.