Suburban villas, highway-ſide retreats, / That dread th' encroachment of our growing ſtreets, / Tight boxes, neatly ſaſh'd, and in a blaze / With all a July ſun's collected rays, / Delight the citizen, who gaſping there, / Breathes clouds of duſt and calls it country air.

And the thunder, / Winged with red lightning and impetuous rage, / Perhaps hath spent his shafts.

Livy was a decadist.

It should be remarked that Aeolism in Homer is seen not so much in a general modification of the Ionic dialect, as in the occasional employment of the forms and flexions regarded as characteristic of the Aeolic.