Note 146 — BOOK V.
Alexander Pope translation · Edition 2
The race of those. “A pair of coursers, born of heav’nly breed, Who from their nostrils breathed ethereal fire; Whom Circe stole from her celestial sire, By substituting mares produced on earth, Whose wombs conceived a more than mortal birth. Dryden’s Virgil, vii. 386, sqq.