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For JANUARY 1738.

ARTICLE I.

REMARKS upon the Two Battles of Philippi in the Georgicks, which feem to contradict Hiftory and Geography: With a Vindication of Virgil, from the Cenfures pass'd upon him in relation to that noted Paffage. By Charles Lamotte, D.D.

Ergo inter fefe paribus concurrere telis
Romanas acies iterum videre Philippi;

Nec fuit indignum fuperis bis fanguine noftro
Emathiam, & latos Hæmi pinguefcere campos.
Virg. Georg. 1. 1. ver. 489.

REVEREND SIR,

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HIS excellent Poem, which gave Occafion to fome Remarks I lately read to you, will, I hope, afford me another Opportunity of clearing the Author of a wrong Senfe, which, I think, has been put upon him by his Commentators, and vindicating him from a great Licence which he is faid to have taken in this Place. There is, I think, never a PasB

fage,