. The works of Joseph Addison;. IberasHorrco ; nee Libyae senserunt damna rebellisJam transalpinae contenti messe Quirites. Claud, in Eutrop. lib. L The lion on the second medal marks her out for the —LeonuraArida nutrix.— Hor. The scorpion 2 on the third is another of her productions, as Lucan mentions it in particular, in the long catalogue of her venomous animals. —quis fata putaret Scorpion, aut vires matura mortis habere ? Ille minax nodis, et recto verbere saevus, Ieste tulit coelo victi decus Orionis. Luc. lib. ix. Who, that the scorpions insect form surveys, Would think that ready deat
. The works of Joseph Addison;. IberasHorrco ; nee Libyae senserunt damna rebellisJam transalpinae contenti messe Quirites. Claud, in Eutrop. lib. L The lion on the second medal marks her out for the —LeonuraArida nutrix.— Hor. The scorpion 2 on the third is another of her productions, as Lucan mentions it in particular, in the long catalogue of her venomous animals. —quis fata putaret Scorpion, aut vires matura mortis habere ? Ille minax nodis, et recto verbere saevus, Ieste tulit coelo victi decus Orionis. Luc. lib. ix. Who, that the scorpions insect form surveys, Would think that ready death his call obeys? Threatening he rears his knotty tail on high, The vast Orion thus he doomed to die. And fixed him, his proud trophy, in the sky. Mr. Rowe. Tlie three figures you have here shown \is, says Eugenius,give me an idea of a description or two in Claudian, that Imust confess I did not before know what to make of. Theyrepresent Africa in the shape of a woman, and certainly k^li. » Fig. 3 >v ]gs iiiii.,.
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