“There with his hand he maketh sign and mighty speech he _wafts_”; “From the open gates another _sort_ is come”; “And her much _folk_ of Latin land were fain enow to wed”; “Hard strive the _folk_ in smiting sea, and oar-blades brush the main”; “The straits besprent with many a _folk_”; “To Helenus his _very_ thrall me very _thrall_ gave o’er”; “So with their weapons every show of _very_ fight they stir”; “But _learn_ me now who fain the sooth would wot”; “About me senseless, _throughly feared_ with marvels grim and great”; “And many a saying furthermore of God-loved seers of old _Fears_ her with dreadful memories”; “Nor was he _worser_ than himself in such a pinch bestead” —such lines in a translator to whom this dialect was still a living language would not seem unnatural. They would be simply the expression of the effect made by Virgil on the mind of that age, and so far, since every age has its own idiom, they would not necessarily be un-Virgilian at all. Even such extraordinary phrases as “An ash ... Round which, sore smitten by the steel, the _acre biders_ throng, And strive in speeding of the axe,” for “Ornum Cum ferro accisam crebrisque bipennibus instant Eruere agricolæ certatim”; or “When Jove, a-looking down From highest lift on sail-skimmed sea, and lands that round it lie, And shores and many folk about in topmost burg of sky, Stood still,” for “Cum Jupiter, æthere summo Despiciens mare velivolum terrasque jacentes Litoraque et latos populos, sic vertice cœli Constitit”; or “An ancient mighty rock, indeed, which lay upon the lea, Set for a landmark, _judge and end of acre-strife to be_,” for “Saxum antiquum, ingens, campo quod forte jacebat, Limes agro positus, litem ut discerneret arvis”; or, “No footstrife but the armed hand must doom betwixt us twain,” for “Non cursu, certandum sævis est comminus armis”