Note 398 — RAPE OF THE LOCK.
Reading edition
Virgil, Æneid, xi. 798.—Pope.
Dryden's Translation:
Apollo heard, and granting half his pray'r, Shuffled in winds the rest, and tossed in empty air.
So Dryden's version of Ceyx & Alcyone, Ovid. Met. x.:
This last petition heard of all her pray'r The rest dispersed by winds were lost in air.—Wakefield.