The Latian nymphs came round him, and amazed On the dead youth, transfixed with thunder, gazed;

The new-made trees in tears of amber run, Which, hardened into value by the sun, Distil for ever on the streams below: 60 The limpid streams their radiant treasure show, Mixed in the sand; whence the rich drops conveyed, Shine in the dress of the bright Latian maid.

In fact, Livy, who gives the more usual Roman version, says nothing of the Greeks, but joins Latinus and the Latian aborigines to Aeneas while he musters the Etruscans under the Rutulian, Turnus.

Where each old poetic mountain Inspiration breathed around; Every shade and hallow'd fountain Murmur'd deep a solemn sound, Till the sad Nine, in Greece's evil hour, Left their Parnassus for the Latian plains: Alike they scorn the pomp of tyrant Power And coward Vice, that revels in her chains.

Jove was alike to Latian and to Phrygian; And you well know, a play's of no religion.

Without the article, some names of rivers could not be understood; as, "No more the Varus and the Atax feel The lordly burden of the Latian keel.

BROWNE, Sir Thomas, Anglo-Latian diction, i. 221; 'Brownism,' ib., 308; Christian Morals, i. 308; death, on, iii. 153, n. 1; 'do the devils lie?' iii. 293; fortitude in dying, iv. 394, n. 3; Life by Johnson, i. 308, 328; oblivion, on, iv.

And then he gives the following prognostics, as unerring guides to the Latian farmer: "Ille ubi nascentem maculis variaverit ortum, Conditus in nubem, medioque refugerit orbe; Suspecti tibi sint imbres....