Note 104 — XVI.
Ellen Frothingham translation
Iliad i. 234–239.
By this my sceptre, which can never bear
A leaf or twig, since first it left its stem
Among the mountains,—for the steel has pared
Its boughs and bark away,—to sprout no more,
And now the Achaian judges bear it,—they
Who guard the laws received from Jupiter.
Bryant.