. "Quomodo de Vergili arte poetica eum iudicare liceat, qui Ecologas cum Theocriti Idylliis comparat.". ur hoc, si hunc ad rnodum meliores fiant ut melius percipias quod velim, Shakespearium ,atque Tiltonium , Anglicos poetas nostros, te observa-re volo. Dicit Frieze, Verg. Aen. Praef. p. xvi. ,1887; TT Verg-il wes an He gloried in imita-tion. He borrowed without stint from Homer, from Ap-ollonius, from the Greek tragedies, and, in shott,he laid under contribution all the earlier poets bot 1o Greece and ?.ome. Nothing beautiful in them, nothingfitted to his purpose e
. "Quomodo de Vergili arte poetica eum iudicare liceat, qui Ecologas cum Theocriti Idylliis comparat.". ur hoc, si hunc ad rnodum meliores fiant ut melius percipias quod velim, Shakespearium ,atque Tiltonium , Anglicos poetas nostros, te observa-re volo. Dicit Frieze, Verg. Aen. Praef. p. xvi. ,1887; TT Verg-il wes an He gloried in imita-tion. He borrowed without stint from Homer, from Ap-ollonius, from the Greek tragedies, and, in shott,he laid under contribution all the earlier poets bot 1o Greece and ?.ome. Nothing beautiful in them, nothingfitted to his purpose escaped his search. Hut he soappropriated to himself, and assimilated to his ownmodes of thought their iders, iraages, and forms ofexpression, that they corne before us in the Aeneidin all the freshness and individuality of new creati|t>ns,The Aeneid stands ncariy in the same relation to prei-existing literature rs does the jteradise Theauthors of these two epics are the greatest of all rle-giarists; Irut the borrowed thought in both of thenassumes so much of their individuality that their. 122 plagiarisii becomes a beauty and a virtue. They areplagiarists of the older poets in the same sense thhtthe painter is a plagiarist of Hature. /tque raihi aeque aptura esse videtur ^ergili-ura non reprehendere, cum in Kclo^is appareant lociranlti atque honi qui etiam apud Theocritum sunt. Ilara-que potuisset nullus nisi poeta optimus adeo periteeis^floci^sViit^^^^paene novi et profecto saepe politiorefiant. Atque nt Tergili artis noeticae aliud indici-um habeas, te contemplari velim loci Latini parteraextremam^ namque ouamquam apud Theocritum is q±± loq-uitur postremo eis verbis quae comparantur, tameneandem notionem Vergilius versihus aliis tribus augejfc ,quara ob ren raaior fit significatio. v. 7 0 Cantabumt mihi Damoetas et Lyctius /egon. Hoc curc versu Theoc. Id. vii. 71 seq. te oom-jparare qiiaeso: Apud utrumque poetam cpntum fcucolicum videmus,quem apud ^heocritum Lycid
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