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most delightful Parts of the Nati-
on. It is indeed very disagreeable
to be carry'd in hast over this Pave-
ment.

Minus est gravis Appia tardis.
Hor.

Lucan has describ'd the very Road
from Anxur to Rome, that Horace took
from Rome to Anxur. It is not in-
deed the ordinary Way at present, nor
is it mark'd out by the same Places
in both Poets.

Jamque & praecipites Superaverat An-
xuris arces,
Et qua Pontinas via dividit uda palu-
des,
[A Canal, the Marks of it still seen.]
Qua Sublime nemus, Scythicae qua reg-
na Dianae;
Quaque iter est Latiis ad Summam fa-
scibus Albam.
Excelsa de rupe procul jam conspicit
urbem.
L.3.

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