His languid limbs upon a couch she laid. Mackenzie se roses cround. BASIA. BASIUM I CUM Venus Ascanium super alta Cythera tu lisset, Sopitum teneris imposuit violis; Albarum nimbos circumfuditque rosarum. [Cum Venus Ascanium, &c.] This is an imitation of the following lines from Virgil: At Venus Ascanio placidam per membra quietem Floribus et dulci aspirans com plectitur umbrâ. VIRG. ENEID. LIB. I. KISSES. KISS I. WHEN young Ascanius, by the Queen of Love, His languid limbs upon a couch she laid, Mean time the Goddess on Ascanius throws PITT. |