I will trouble you with an instance in which I fear this fault exists.

Virgil, describing Aeneas's voyage, third book, verse 551, says-- 'Hinc sinus Herculei, si vera est fama.

Tarenti Cernitur.' [83] _Memoirs_, ii.

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I render it thus: 'Hence we behold the bay that bears the name Of proud Tarentum, proud to share the fame Of Hercules, though by a dubious claim.' I was unable to get the meaning with tolerable harmony into fewer words, which are more than to a modern reader, perhaps, it is worth.
I feel much at a loss, without the assistance of the marks which I have requested, to take an exact measure of your Lordship's feelings with regard to the diction.

To save you the trouble of reference, I will transcribe two passages from Dryden; first, the celebrated appearance of Hector's ghost to Aeneas.