Note 114 — TO TITUS VALGIUS.[113] BOOK THE SECOND, ODE THE NINTH.
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l. 4. Vex’d Caspian—The Caspian is a stormy and harbourless sea—Yet the poet observes that not even the Caspian is always tempestuous—insinuating, that inevitable as his grief must be for such a loss, it yet ought not to be incessant.