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CAISSA.
[1]OF armies on the chequer'd field array'd,
And guiltless war in pleasing form display'd;
When two bold kings contend with vain alarms,
In ivory this, and that in ebon arms;
Sing, sportive maids, that haunt the sacred hill
Of Pindus, and the fam'd Pierian rill.
[2]Thou, joy of all below, and all above,
Mild Venus, queen of laughter, queen of love;
IMITATIONS.
- ↑ Ludimus effigiem belli, simulataque veris
Prælia, buxo acies fictas, et ludicra regna:
Ut gemini inter se reges, albusque, nigerque,
Pro laude oppositi certent bicoloribus armis.
Dicite, Seriades Nymphæ, certamina tanta.Vida. - ↑ Æneadum genitrix, hominum divûmque voluptas,
Alma Venus! &c.Lucretius.
