Virgil has confirmed it by his frequent practice; and even Cicero in prose, wanting terms of philosophy in the Latin tongue, has taken them from Aristotle's Greek. Horace has given us a rule for coining words, _si Græco fonte cadant_; especially, when other words are joined with them, which explain the sense. I use the word _falsify_ in this place, to mean, that the shield of Turnus was not of proof against the spears and javelins of the Trojans, which had pierced it through and through (as we say) in many places. The words which accompany this new one, make my meaning plain, according to the precept which Horace gave. But I said I borrowed the word from the Italian. _Vide_ Ariosto, Cant. 26. _Ma sì l'usbergo d'ambi era perfetto, Che mai poter falsarlo in nessun canto._ _Falsar_ cannot otherwise be turned, than by _falsified_; for _his shield was falsed_, is not English. I might indeed have contented myself with saying, his shield was pierced, and bored, and stuck with javelins, _nec sufficit umbo ictibus_. They, who will not admit a new word, may take the old; the matter is not worth dispute. ÆNEÏS, BOOK X. ARGUMENT. _Jupiter, calling a council of the gods, forbids them to engage in either party. At Æneas's return there is a bloody battle: Turnus killing Pallas; Æneas, Lausus and Mezentius. Mezentius is described as an atheist; Lausus as a pious and virtuous youth. The different actions and death of these two are the subject of a noble episode._