The golden vase in purple palls they roll'd,
Of softeft texture, and inwrought with gold.
Laft o'er the urn the facred earth they spread,
And rais'd the tomb, memorial of the dead.
(Strong guards and spies, 'till all the rites were done,
Watch'd from the rifing to the setting fun)
All Troy then moves to Priam's court again,
A folemn, filent, melancholy train:
Affembled there, from pious toil they reft,
And fadly shared the last fepulchral feast.
Such honours Ilion to her hero paid,
And peaceful flept the mighty Hector's fhade.

It may perhaps be acceptable to the common reader to be informed what happened to Troy and the chief actors in this divine poem, after the conclufion of it.

TROY was taken foon after the death of Hector, by the ftratagem of the wooden horfe, the particulars of which are defcribed by VIRGIL in the fecond book of the ÆNEIS.

ACHILLES fell before Troy, by the hand of Paris, by the fhot of an arrow in his heel, as Hector had prophefied at his death. Book xxii, p. 112.

The unfortunate PRIAM was killed by Pyrrhus the fon of Achilles.

AJAX, after the death of Achilles, had a conteft with Ulyffes for the armor of Vulcan, but being defeated, he flew himself through indignation.

HELEN, aftet the death of Paris married Deïphobus, his brother, and, at the taking of Troy, betrayed him, in order to reconcile herself to Menelaus, who received her into favor.

AGAMEMNON at his return was barbaroufly murdered by Egyfthus at the inftigation of Clytemneftra, who, during his abfence, had dishonoured his bed with Ægifthus.

DIOMED, after the fall of Troy was expelled his own country, and scarce escaped with life from his adulterous wife Egiale; but at last was received by Daunus in Apulia, and shared his kingdom: it was uncertain how he died.

NESTOR lived, in peace with his children, in Pylos his native country.

ULYSSES alfo after innumerable troubles by fea and land, at last returned in fafety to Ithaca, which is the subject of HOMER'S ODYSSEY.

I

INDE X.

CHILLES inquires into the cause of the peftilence.

Aquarrels with Agamemnon

delivers up Brifeis

bis replies to Thetis

ib.

224

appears at the bead of the intrenchments; is nobly

defcribed

bis grief

bis furprife at the sudden appearance of Priam in his

tent &c.

Egis defcribed

Æneas

Jeeks Idomeneus

Aftyanax

bis future lot, upon the death of his father, moft pa-

thetically defcribed

Axylus, bis amiable character

BATTLE, fublime defcription of the first

at the fhips

Brifeis, taken from Achilles

reftored; her grief for Patroclus

15

182

12

148

6 74,77

X 2

240
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