“Say first, for Heav’n hides nothing from thy view,
Nor the deep tract of Hell——”
Footnote 120: (return) Cf. Æn. vi. 625 sqq.; Georg. ii. 42; Valer.
Flacc, vi. 36; Silius, iv. 527; Claudian, 6 Cons. Hon. 436. This
hyperbolical mode of excusing poetic powers is ridiculed by Persius,
Sat. vi. 1.