To this rich store of Greek learning Italy contributed her native legends. The adventures of Æneas in Italy—the prophecy, of which the fulfilment was discovered by Iulus—the pregnant white sow—the story of the Sibyl—the sylph-like Camilla—were native lays amalgamated with the Greek legend of Troy. Macrobius,[576] in three elaborate chapters, has shown that Virgil was deeply indebted to the old Latin poets. In the first he quotes more than seventy parallel turns of expression from Ennius, Pacuvius, Attius, Nævius, Lucilius, Lucretius, Catullus, and Varius, consisting of whole or half lines. In the second he enumerates twenty-six longer passages, which Virgil has imitated from the poems of Ennius, Attius, Lucretius, and Varius, amongst which are portions of “The Praises of Rural Life,” and of “The Pestilence.”[577] In the third he mentions a few (amongst them, for example, the well-known description of the horse[578]) which were taken by Virgil from the old Roman poets, having been first adopted by them from the Homeric poems. The following passages are a few of these examples of what would in modern times be considered plagiarisms, but which the ancients admitted without reluctance:— Qui cœlum versat stellis fulgentibus aptum. _Ennius._ Axem humero torquet stellis fulgentibus aptum. _V. Æn._ vi. 797. Est locus Hesperiam quam mortales perhibebant. Est locus Hesperiam Graii cognomine dicunt. _Æn._ i. 530. Unus homo nobis cunctando restituit rem. Unus qui nobis cunctando restituis rem. _Æn._ vi. 846. Quod per amœnam urbem leni fluit agmine flumen. —— arva Inter opima virum leni fluit agmine Tybris. _Æn._ ii. 781. Hei mihi qualis erat quantum mutatus ab illo. Hei mihi qualis erat quantum mutatus ab illo. _Æn._ ii. 274. —— discordia tetra Belli ferratos postes portasque refregit. Belli ferratos rupit Saturnia postes. _Æn._ vi. 622.