licatcly  hints  at  his  changingr  political  sides,  nominatives  preceding,  and  to  gorem  the

tnii  in  consequence  tJicreof  leaving  Mantua,  pronoun  te,

tjid  going  to  Rome.  42.  Prcuentes  :  propitious  or  favorable.—

From  the  circumstance  of  Augustus  de-  ^libi :  in  any  other  place— iiny  irhere  else.
priving  the  Mantuans  of  their  lands,   we  — Cognotcere :  to  experience,  or  find.
may  infer  that  they  were  generally  in  favor        43.  HU,  Uere^  at  Rome.— Jutyin^m  :  Oc»

f^f  the  Republic  and  Virgil  might  have  been  tavius,  who    was    then   about  twenty-two

of  that  party,  till  all  hope  of  liberty  was  years  of  age ;  afterward  by  a  decree  of  tho

iosL,  and    prudence   dictated    a  change  of  senate   called  JJugustuM, — Cui  nostra:  for

poliiicfi.    Galatea  reliquii^  is  for  reliqui  Ga-  whom  our  altars  smoke, in  honor  of,  &e.
laifiim^  by  Euphemismus.      After  he   had         46.  Puen.    Swains.   The  word /mer  pro-

1'  tl  Galatea,  and  tralisfcrred  his  affections  perly  signifies  a  boy,  in  opposition  to  a  girl- -•

to  Amaryllis,  bo  obtained  liberty  and  pro-  aUo  a  male  slave  or  waiter.
Krty :  that  is,  after  he  had  changed  politi-         49.  Obducai  omnia  pascua^  &c.      Rueus

ctl  Bides.  understands  tHis  not  of  Virgirs  own  lands,

3:{.  Pecult,  By  apocope  for  Peculii.  This  but  of   the   lands  of   his  neighbors.     Dr.
»or(J  properly  denotes  the  property  of  a  Trappvery  justly  rejects  this  interpretation.
slave — that  which  his  master  suffers  him  to  The  poet  is  felicitating  himself  on  his  goo

possess,  and  call  his  own.     In  this  sense,  it  fortune  under  the  character  of  an  old  man.
