Note 42 — STATIUS'S THEBAIS.
Reading edition
The felicities of this translation are at times perfectly astonishing, and it would be scarcely possible to express more nervously or amply the words,—
jurisque secundi Ambitus impatiens, et summo dulcius unum Stare loco,—
than by Pope's couplet, which most judiciously, by reversing the two clauses, gains the power of fusing them into connection.—De Quincey.