generally employed to celebrate the fervours of piety, the raptures of love, the enthusiasm of praise; and to animate warriors to glorious exertions of
Musa dedit fidibus Divos, puerosque Deorum,
Et pugilem victorem, et equum certamine primnm,
Et juvenum curas, et libera vina referre.—Hor. De Arte Poet.
> The Muse to nobler subjects tunes her lyre;
> Gods, and the sons of Gods, her song inspire;
> Wrestler and steed, who gained the Olympic prize,
> Love’s pleasing cares, and wine’s unbounded joys.—Francis.
Misenum Aeoliden, quo non praestantior alter
Aere ciere viros, Martemque accendere cnatu. 275
Virgil, Aeneid, vi.
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Sed tum forte cava dum personat aequora concha
Demens, et canto vocat in certamina Divos.—Ibid.
> Misenus, son of Oeolus, renowned
> The warrior trumpet in the field to sound;
> With breathing brass to kindle fierce alarms,
> And rouse to dare their fate in honourable arms.
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(175) Swollen with applause, and aiming still at more,
He now provokes the sea-gods from the shore.—DrydenThere arose in this department, among the Greeks, nine eminent