Note 59 — Chapter III · THE NAVAL ATTACKS

“Nor was his name unheard or unadored In ancient Greece; and in Ausonian land Men call’d him Mulciber; and how he fell From heaven they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o’er the crystal battlements: from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer’s day; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star, On Lemnos, the Ægean isle.” Paradise Lost, Book I.