Note 144 — BOOK V.
Alexander Pope translation · Edition 2
“Or deluges, descending on the plains, Sweep o’er the yellow year, destroy the pains Of lab’ring oxen, and the peasant’s gains; Uproot the forest oaks, and bear away Flocks, folds, and trees, an undistinguish’d prey.” Dryden’s Virgil ii. 408.