Dunkeld. Douglas shocks us by being closer to Virgil than we. 
Once a man’s eyes have been opened to this, he will find 
instances everywhere. Rosea cervice refulsit:  “her nek schane 
like unto the rois in May.” Do you prefer Dryden’s “She turned 
and made appear her neck refulgent”? But refulsit  cannot 
possibly have had for a Roman ear the “classical” quality which 
“refulgent” has for an English. It must have felt much more like 
“schane.”

     What we feel as “classical” in the Augustans and the 
eighteenth century, that is to say, has to do with the large 
stratum of Latin neologism which was imported into English by 
the translators of the first age of print. R. F. Jones in his The  
Triumph of the English Language  devotes much space to this 
basic matter of the vernacular and neologism. He also 
discusses at length two questions directly related to the