The Art of Poetry An Epistle to the Pisos
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_Essay an Criticism. _ 95. --WHETHER THE SEA, &c. ] _Sive receptus, &c. _ This may be understood of any harbour; but it is generally interpretedto refer to the _Portus Julius_, a haven formed by letting in the seaupon the _Lucrine Lake_, and forming a junction between that and theLake _Avernus_; a work, commenced by Julius Caesar, and compleated byAugustus, or Agrippa under his auspices. _Regis opus!_ Both theselakes (says Martin) were in Campania: the former was destroyed by anearthquake; ...but the latter is the present _Lago d'Averno_. Strabo, theGeographer, who, as well as our Poet, was living at the time, ascribesthis work to Agrippa, and tells us that the Lucrine bay was separatedfrom the Tyrrhene sea by a mound, said to have been first made byHercules, and restored by Agrippa. Philargyrius says that a storm aroseat the time of the execution of this great work, to which Virgil seemsto refer in his mention of this Port, in the course of his Panegyrick onItaly in the second Georgick.
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_Essay an Criticism. _ 95. --WHETHER THE SEA, &c. ] _Sive receptus, &c. _ This may be understood of any harbour; but it is generally interpretedto refer to the _Portus Julius_, a haven formed by letting in the seaupon the _Lucrine Lake_, and forming a junction between that and theLake _Avernus_; a work, commenced by Julius Caesar, and compleated byAugustus, or Agrippa under his auspices. _Regis opus!_ Both theselakes (says Martin) were in Campania: the former was destroyed by anearthquake; ...but the latter is the present _Lago d'Averno_. Strabo, theGeographer, who, as well as our Poet, was living at the time, ascribesthis work to Agrippa, and tells us that the Lucrine bay was separatedfrom the Tyrrhene sea by a mound, said to have been first made byHercules, and restored by Agrippa. Philargyrius says that a storm aroseat the time of the execution of this great work, to which Virgil seemsto refer in his mention of this Port, in the course of his Panegyrick onItaly in the second Georgick.
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