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" QUINT. //?. Orat. Lib. Z. Cap. I. or SECT. V. Of refinement of tajle. 131 or a wild goat (/>). This fimilitude ftrongly and beautifully expreffes the courage and ala- crity, with which he met his rival. But this does not fatisfy fome of his fcholiafts. They will have Paris compared to a goat for his incontinence, and to a deer for his cowardice, and his love of mufic. In Jupiter's golden chain (y), fome have difcovered an emblem of the excellence of abfolute monarchy; and in Agamemnon** cutti...ng off the head and hands of Antimachuss fon (r), have imagined an allufion to the crime of the father, who had propofed to lay bands on the ambaffadors that demanded the return of Helen ^ and from whofe head the advice to detain her had pro- ceeded. Falfe refinement diflikes on grounds equally chimerical and inadequate as thofe which procure its approbation. The delicacy of Ariftarchus was fo much fhocked with Phcsnixs horrible intention of murdering his father in the extravagance of his rage, that he cancelled the lines in which it is, with great propriety, related, on purpofe to reprefent to Achilles the fatal mifchiefs that fpring from (p) i*ia*\ V* ver.
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