With joy and wonder fill the hero's thought. } Unknown the names, he yet admires the grace, And bears aloft the fame and fortune of his race. NOTES ON ÆNEÏS, BOOK VIII. Note I. _So, when the sun by day, or moon by night, Strike on the polished brass their trembling light._--P. 2. This similitude is literally taken from Apollonius Rhodius; and it is hard to say whether the original or the translation excels. But, in the shield which he describes afterwards in this Æneïd, he as much transcends his master Homer, as the arms of Glaucus were richer than those of Diomedes--Χρυσεα χαλχειων. Note II. _Æneas takes the mother and her brood, And all on Juno's altar are bestowed._--P. 4. The translation is infinitely short of Virgil, whose words are these: ----_Tibi_ enim, _tibi maxima Juno, Mactat, sacra ferens, et cum grege sistit ad aram_-- for I could not turn the word _enim_ into English with any grace, though it was of such necessity in the Roman rites, that a sacrifice could not be performed without it. It is of the same nature, (if I may presume to name that sacred mystery,) in our words of consecration at the altar. Æ N E Ï S, BOOK IX. ARGUMENT. _Turnus takes advantage of Æneas's absence, fires some of his ships, (which are transformed into sea-nymphs,) and assaults his camp. The Trojans, reduced to the last extremities, send Nisus and Euryalus to recal Æneas; which furnishes the poet with that admirable episode of their friendship, generosity, and the conclusion of their adventures._