3. That the context of the passage in which it occurs is as follows:--

"-- Quo tendis inertem

Rex periture, fugam? Nescis, heu perdite, nescis

Quem fugias: hostes incurris dum fugis hostem.

Incidis in Scyllam, cupiens vitare Charybdim."

where the poet apostrophises Darius, who, while {86} flying from

Alexander, fell into the lands of Bessus. (See _Selections from Gent.

Mag_. vol. ii. p. 199. London, 1814.)