Pliny observes, that the hind with
young is by instinct directed to a certain herb called Seselis,
which facilitates the birth. Thunder also (which looks like the more
immediate hand of Providence) has the same effect. Ps. xxix. In so
early an age to observe these things, may style our author a
naturalist.
37 Pursuing their prey by night is true of most wild beasts,
particularly the lion. Ps. cvi. 20. The Arabians have one among
their five hundred names for the lion, which signifies "the hunter
by moonshine."
38 Cephissi glaciale caput, quo suetus anhelam
Ferre sitim Python, amnemque avertere ponto.
Stat. Theb. vii. 349.
Qui spiris tegeret montes, hauriret hiatu
Flumina, &c. Claud. Pref. in Ruf.
Let not then this hyperbole seem too much for an eastern poet,
though some commentators of name strain hard in this place for a new
construction, through fear of it.
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