Note 151 — VI. HERE FOLLOWETH CONCERNING INDIA TERTIA.[150]
Reading edition
So far we have the old Herodotean myth (Her., iii. 116), which Milton has rendered into stately verse—
“As when a gryphon in the wilderness With winged course, o’er hill or moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloined The guarded gold”⸺
But the scene has been transferred from the north of Europe to Æthiopia. The rest of the fable I cannot trace.