Chapter LII: Book XI: v. 505

Would either not accept
Life offered, or soon beg to lay it down.

GR. EPIG.

Τοινδε δυοιν ἑνος ἁιρεσις, η το γενεσθαι
Μηδεποτ’ η το θανειν αυτικα τικτομενον.

V. 657.

Others from the wall defend
With dart and javelin, stones.

VIRG. ÆN. X. 130.

Hi jaculis, illi certant defendere saxis.

We could subjoin many other instances, but these may suffice to prove, that he who marked them was not confined to a very circumscribed path of reading. There are, however, some imitations by Pope, which appear worth preserving.