Note 67 — Chapter XIV
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The occasional blemishes, however, of a good writer, are a fair subject of castigation; and a travesty or burlesque parody of them will please, from the justness of the satire: As the following ludicrous version of a passage in the 5th Æneid, which is among the few examples of false taste in the chastest of the Latin Poets:
——Oculos telumque tetendit.
——He cock’d his eye and gun.