. The works of Joseph Addison;. Sive opus est velis minimam bene currit ad auram,Sive opus est remo remige carpit iter. Ov. De Tris. lib. i. El. 10. The poop of it has the bead that Ovid and Virgil mention. Puppique recurvse. Ibid. lib. i. El. 3. Littora curvjEPrffitexunt puppes— Virg. You see the description of the pilot, and the place he sits on,in the following quotations. Ipse gubernator puppi Palinurus ab altfl. Virg. Mh. lib. v. Ipsius ante oculos ingens a vertice pontus In puppim ferit, excutitur, pronusque magister Volvitur m caput. Jc. Mti. lib. L Orontes bark, that bore the Lycian cr
. The works of Joseph Addison;. Sive opus est velis minimam bene currit ad auram,Sive opus est remo remige carpit iter. Ov. De Tris. lib. i. El. 10. The poop of it has the bead that Ovid and Virgil mention. Puppique recurvse. Ibid. lib. i. El. 3. Littora curvjEPrffitexunt puppes— Virg. You see the description of the pilot, and the place he sits on,in the following quotations. Ipse gubernator puppi Palinurus ab altfl. Virg. Mh. lib. v. Ipsius ante oculos ingens a vertice pontus In puppim ferit, excutitur, pronusque magister Volvitur m caput. Jc. Mti. lib. L Orontes bark, that bore the Lycian crew, (A horrid sight,) evn in the heros view, From stem to stern by waves was overborne ; The trembling pilot, from his rudeit torn, Was headlong hurled;— Mr. Drydbm. Scgnemque Menoeten,Oblitus decorisqne sui socifimque mare pracipitem puppi deturbat ab alt^:Ipse gubernaculo rector subit. Virg. Mv. lib. ?. Mindless of others lives, (so high was grownHis rising rage,) and careless of his own: SIKIKIE.^ II. Pi. DIALOGUES ON MEDALS. 295 The trembling dotard to the deck he drew, And hoisted up, and overboard he threw: This done, he seized the helm— Mr. Dryden. I have mentioned these two last passages of Virgil, becauseI think we cannot have so right an idea of the pilots misfor-tune in each of them, without observing the situation of hispost, as appears in ancient coins. The figure you see on theother end of the ship is a Triton, a man in his upper parts,and a fish below, with a trumpet in his mouth. V^irgil de-scribes him in the same manner on one of JEneass ships. Itwas probably a common figure on their ancient vessels, for womeet with it too in Silius Italicus. Hunc vehit immanis Triton, el c^erula conchi Exterrens freta : cui laterum tenus hispida iianti Frons hominem prajfert, in pristiin dcsinit alvus; Spumca semifero sub pectore murmurat unda. Vir. .^n. lib. x. The Triton bears him, he, whose trumpets soundOld oceans waves from shore to shore ha
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