[Footnote C: Compare Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' I. 84: Os homini sublime dedit, coelumque videre Jussit et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus.

4. Non est formosa mulier cujus crus laudatur et brachium, sed illa cujus simul universa facies admirationem singulis partibus dedit; "she is no fair woman, whose arm, thigh, &c. are commended, except the face and all the other parts be correspondent."

The famous scholar, Daniel Heinsius, within a century after its publication, believed that a copy which he purchased, at a cost of a hundred ducats, was the only one remaining in the world, and he inscribed the following lines upon one of its blank pages: "Roma meos fratres igni dedit.

Mandrorum nomen ijs dedit

Ipsa Trojanos nepotes in Latinos transtulit, Ipsa Laurentem puellam conjugem nato dedit; Moxque Marti de sacello dat pudicam virginem; 70 Romuleas ipsa fecit cum Sabinis nuptias, Unde Ramnes et Quirites proque prole posterum

For the first person may just as well be put in the nominative absolute, by exclamation, as any other; as, "Behold I and the children whom God hath given me!"Heb., "Ecce ego et pueri quos mihi dedit Deus!"Beza.

But Virgil is more specific "Ipsa dies alios alio dedit ordine Luna Felices operum; quintam fuge....

Ingenium sibi quod vanas desumpsit Athenas et septem studiis annos dedit, insenuitque.