This page needs to be proofread.
64
NOTES.
Præcipitem excuteret; sparguntur in æthere toto
Fulminaque scopulique: flagrantia tela deorsum
Torquentur Jovis acta manu, dum vasta gigantum,
Corpora fusa jacent, semiustaque sulphure funiant.
Addison, IYTMAIO-TEPANOMAXIA, 132.
Fulminaque scopulique: flagrantia tela deorsum
Torquentur Jovis acta manu, dum vasta gigantum,
Corpora fusa jacent, semiustaque sulphure funiant.
Addison, IYTMAIO-TEPANOMAXIA, 132.
Such war's fierce front, when erst Briareus sought
To heave huge Pelion into heaven, and thought
To thrust the Thunderer from his throne on high;
Bolts and red rocks are vollied thro' the sky,
Lanch'd from Jove's hand the writhen fire-shafts fly :
While the vast giants, blasted by the stroke,
Bite the black dust, and sear'd with sulphur smoke.
To heave huge Pelion into heaven, and thought
To thrust the Thunderer from his throne on high;
Bolts and red rocks are vollied thro' the sky,
Lanch'd from Jove's hand the writhen fire-shafts fly :
While the vast giants, blasted by the stroke,
Bite the black dust, and sear'd with sulphur smoke.
ovờ úp' êrı Zavç loxer iòv µévoç. K. T. A.
Hesiod. Thcog. 687.
Hesiod. Thcog. 687.
Jove curb'd his might no longer, but at length
Dilate, did all his soul wax full of strength,
And his whole power brake out,-forth moved the god
From heaven's bright hill, and lightened as he trod
Unceasingly :-fast from his stout right hand
Flew the fork'd bolts, by eddying whirlwinds fann'd.
From the rich carth the roar of burning came,
And the deep forest crash'd beneath the flatne,
Yea, the whole earth boil'd up-the ocean's stream
And wide waste sea, while clouds of scorching steam
Wrapp'd round the carthy Titans,-thro' the sky
Carcer'd a shect of fire, and every cyc,
Albeit of forms that nought till now could scare,
Quail'd and grew dim before that blasting glare.
Combustion seized on chaos;-heard ye then
With mortal ear, or viewed with mortal ken,
It would have seemed as heaven and earth were dushi'd
In one, with din sa terrible they clash'd,-
1leaven downward plunged, and earth in air uprent:
Thus roar'd the shock of gods in fiery hosting blent.
Dilate, did all his soul wax full of strength,
And his whole power brake out,-forth moved the god
From heaven's bright hill, and lightened as he trod
Unceasingly :-fast from his stout right hand
Flew the fork'd bolts, by eddying whirlwinds fann'd.
From the rich carth the roar of burning came,
And the deep forest crash'd beneath the flatne,
Yea, the whole earth boil'd up-the ocean's stream
And wide waste sea, while clouds of scorching steam
Wrapp'd round the carthy Titans,-thro' the sky
Carcer'd a shect of fire, and every cyc,
Albeit of forms that nought till now could scare,
Quail'd and grew dim before that blasting glare.
Combustion seized on chaos;-heard ye then
With mortal ear, or viewed with mortal ken,
It would have seemed as heaven and earth were dushi'd
In one, with din sa terrible they clash'd,-
1leaven downward plunged, and earth in air uprent:
Thus roar'd the shock of gods in fiery hosting blent.
See too the sixth Book of Parad. Lost, and Dante's Inferno, c. 31.
