Note 163 — XXVII.
Reading edition
"Pronaque cum spectent animalia cætera terram; Os homini sublime dedit: coelumque tueri Jussit, et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus." OVID, Met. i. 84.
"Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother tend, Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies." DRYDEN.