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If you take Sophocles, Catullus, Lucretius, the better parts of Cicero, and / so on, you may, just with two or three exceptions arising out of the / different idioms as to cases, translate page after page into good mother / English, word by word, without altering the order; but you cannot do so / with Virgil or Tibullus: if you attempt it, you will make nonsense.
There is a remarkable power of the picturesque in the fragments we have of / Ennius, Actius, and other very old Roman writers. This vivid manner was / lost in the Augustan age.