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The information or fashion of an absolute man; and necessary (or fatal) passage through many afflictions (according with the most Sacred Letter) to his natural haven and country; is the whole argument and scope of this inimitable and miraculous poem. And therefore is the epithet … given him in the first verse: … signifying, Homo cujus ingenium velut per multas et varias vias vertitur in veram.–CHAPMAN.