Note 126 — TO TELEPHUS.[125] BOOK THE THIRD, ODE THE NINETEENTH.
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l. 6 Poignant gust—The translator was doubtful about using that word, till she recollected it in the gravest of Pope’s Poems,
“Destroy all creatures for thy sport and gust; “Then cry, If man’s unhappy God’s unjust.” Essay on Man.