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The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 14

Note 13 — GEORGICS. BOOK III.

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It has been objected to me, that I understood not this passage of Virgil, because I call Niphates a river, which is a mountain in Armenia. But the river arising from the same mountain is also called Niphates; and, having spoken of Nile before, I might reasonably think that Virgil rather meant to couple two rivers, than a river and a mountain. Dryden.

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