s while he sat
meditating in his tent at night. "What art thou?" said Brutus, "and what
is thy business with me?" "I am thy evil genius," replied the spectre;
"thou wilt see me at Philippi." At Philippi the spectre rose up again
before him on the night preceding the battle in which he suffered a
total defeat. He destroyed himself in the night which followed.]

[Footnote 76: In the midst of the Temple, nearest the throne of Fame,
are placed the greatest names in learning of all antiquity. These are
described in such attitudes as express their different characters. The
columns on which they are raised are adorned with sculptures, taken from
the most striking subjects of their works, which sculpture bears a
resemblance, in its manner and character, to the manner and character of
their writings.--POPE.

This was a trite device, and is poorly applied in the present instance.
"The manner and character of the writings" of Homer, Virgil, Pindar,
Horace, Aristotle, and Cicero could hardly have been described in a
vaguer and more common-place way.]

[Footnote 77:

From the dees many a pillere,
Of metal that shone not full clere, &c.
Upon a pillere saw I stonde
That was of lede and iron fine,
Him of the sect Saturnine,
The Ebraike Josephus the old, &c.
Upon an iron piller strong,
That painted was all endelong,
With tigers' blood in every place,
The Tholosan that highte Stace,
That bare of Thebes up the fame, &c.--POPE.]

[Footnote 78:

Full wonder hye on a pillere
Of iron, he the great Omer,
And with him Dares and Titus, &c.--POPE.]

[Footnote 79: Pope has selected from Homer only three subjects as the
most interesting: Diomed wounding Venus, Hector slaying Patroclus, and
the same Hector dragged along at the wheels of Achilles' chariot. Are
these the most affecting and striking incidents of the Iliad? But it is
highly worth remarking, that this very incident of dragging the body of
Hector thrice round the walls of Troy, is absolutely not mentioned by
Homer. Heyne thinks that Virgil, for he first mentioned it, adopted the
circumstance from some Greek tragedy on the subject.--WARTON.]

[Footnote 80:

There saw I stand on a pillere
That was of tinned iron cleere,
The Latin poete Virgyle,
That hath bore up of a great while
The fame of pious AEneas.
And next him on a pillere was
Of copper, Venus' clerk Ovide,
That hath y-sowen w