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All Readers of the Classics, whither they who
only, like ourselves, glance over theili to catch
the gay plumage which floats upon their surface.
or they who (live into their depths for the trea-
sure which lies below, experience in their pastime
or their labour some occasional difficulties of a
nature not easily to be overcome. Before the
press supplied the ready means of multiplying
copies, verbal errors would inevitably grow under
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scurity into the text of the author. To rectify
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many learned men, since the revival of literature,
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stances, they have happily succeeded. They have,
however, frequently failed ; and in all the classics
are still to be. found some passages which have
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nately been amended or explained by a more re-
cent'commentator, we regard the circumstance,
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server, as a benefit to the cause of literature.—
With these remarks, we think it right to preface
a Note which it is now our purpose to extract
front the Work of Dr. SYMMONS before us ; il-
lustrative as it is of a passage hitherto unex-
plained by any of the numerous Commentators
who have attempted it. The note in question is
on that puzzling place in the Sixth Book, in which,
according to the received reading, VIRGIL makes
the pains of his purgatory extend to his Elysium,
and thus pollutes, with expiatory punishments,
those regions which he evidently intended to be
the mansions of perfect blessedness.
B. VI. 983.—" And few we are who gain these
blissful seats," &c.

Exiude per amplurn
Mittimur Elysium, et pauci Imta arva tenemus:
Donee Conga dies, perfecto teruporis
Concretani exemit labem, &c.

This pas4tige, which, as it is now pointed,
clearly implies either a continuation of the penal
purgation, or a renewal of it in Elysium (repre-
sented by VIRGIL' as the mansion of pure bliss),
has puzzled all the Commentators, without the
exception even of the sagacious IIEY-NE. Ei RV NR,
indeed, is for cuffing the Gordian knot, which he
cannot untie, and would reject these verses,with.
out the authority of a single MS., because he
cannot explain them in consistency with the
avowed design of -VIRGIL. "Ut nunc versus se
ordine excipiunt," says this able Commentator,
" aut nova in Elysio fit, aut inehoata ante anima-
rum purgatio in Elysio absolvitur, plod oinn ino
est et insotens : and then he proceedi to give his
reasons for their expunction. he explanation
of them by Itvmus, which depends upon an un-
authorised meaning, assigned by hin►, to donee,
cannot he admitted. TLAPP proposes a different
placing of the verses in question, and would read
the passage thus :---
Infect= eluitur scelns, ant exuritur igni ;
Donee longa dies, perfecto temporis ()the,
Concretam exemit labem, purumqne reliquit
fEtherium sensum atquc aurat sitnplicis igncm,
Quisque suos patimur Manes; exittde per amplum
Mittimur Elysium, et pauci keta area tenemus.

This disposition of the passage would give
good sense, though not, as 1 conceive, the pre-
cise sense intended by Vtaom ; but, unfortunately,
it is not supported by any MS. authority ; and,
without this, we have no right to alter for our
.own purposes, be these purposes ever so justi-
fiable. But to me there appears to be no dill-
culty in the passage, nor any occasion to change
it in any way. 1 would point it thus :
Quiseue suos patimur Manes: exinde per amplum
Mittimur Elysium; et pauci lieta arra teuemus
Donec longa dies, perfecto temporis urbe,
Concretaus czemit labem, tee.
and 1 would translate it according to its obvious
meaning, viz. The manes of us all undergo
expiatory infliction.' We are, then, sent into
spacious Elysium; and few of us attain to these
blissful fields till a long period, the circuit of
time being completed, has effaced the concreted.
stain. In other words, few are allowed to enjoy
Elysium, till they have undergone a long period
of purgation : but some, among whom (as it
would appear from the short interval between his
death and this interview with his son) was AN
CHISES himself, are admitted to the blessed state
after a *hurt term of purifying punishment. No
stop, or at' most a comma, must be interposed
after Lemurs, and the emphatic words of the
sentence are pauci surd longa. Some were de-
tained in this preparatory state for a longer and -
some for a shorter time : but the multitude con-

tinned in it for a long period. 'the hero's father
was in purgatory with the rest : hut he was soon
dismissed into Elysium. lf I have been tedious
in my explanation of this passage, I trust that,
in consequence of its importance, the Reader will
pardon me.