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...excellently expresssed in his Elegy these sacrificial offerings to the great froiii the poetic tribe: " To heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the muse's flame." WAKEFIELD. [4] " To drink the air," like the aaiuriu atherioi of Virgil, is merely a poetical phrase...