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PAstoral 1. Line 6. There first the Youth of Heavenly Birth I view'd.Virgil means Octavius Cæsar: Heir to Julius: who perhaps had not arriv'd to his Twentieth Year, when Virgil saw him first. Vide his Life. Of Heavenly Birth or Heavenly Blood; because the Julian Family was derived from Julus, Son to Æneas, and Grand-Son to Venus.
Pastoral 2d. Line 65.The Short Narcissus, That is, of short continuance.
Pastoral 3d. Line 95.For him, the God of Shepherds and their Sheep, Phœbus, not Pan, is here call'd the God of Shepherds: The Poet alludes to the same Story, which he touches in the beginning of the Second Georgic, where he calls Phœbus the Amphrysian Shepherd, because he fed
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