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-would fall off", and &c. or Headlong -would fall, &c. But Mr. Calton
fcems to come nearer the poet's meaning. Whom or what would
they follow, fays he ? There wants an accufative cafe ;
and what
mull be underftood to complete the fenfe can never be accounted for
by an ellipfis, that any rules or ufe of language will juftify. He
therefore fufpedls by fome accident a whole line may have been loft;
and propofes one, which he fays may ferve at leaft for a commentary
to explain
the fenfe, if it cannot be allowed for an emendation.
Their fathers in their old iniquities
Headlong would follow, &c
Or is not the conftrulion thus, Headlong -would follow
as to their an-
cient patrimony, and to their Gods perhaps, &c. f Ne-wton.
BOOK IV.
/. 27. p. 62. Another plain, &c. ]
The learned reader need not be informed that the country here
meant is Italy, which indeed is long but not broad, and is wafhed by
the Mediterranean on the fouth, and fcreened by the Alps on the
north, and divided in the midft by the river Tiber. Ne-wton.
I. 66. p. 63. turms ofhorfe ]
Troops of horfe ; as Bp. Newton obferves, from the Latin, turma.
Virg. Mtt. v. 560.
equitum turm-s:,
/. 68. p. 63. on the Appian road,
Or on the Emilian, J
The Appian road from Rome led towards the fouth of Italy, and
the Emilian towards the north. The nations on the Appian road are
included in ver. 69 76, thofe on the Emilian in ver. 77 79.
Ne-wton.