Note 68 — BOOK XI. (continued 2)

This refers to a line of the Myrmidons of Æschylus, quoted by Aristophanes—

τάδ οὐχ ὑπ̓ ἄλλων ἀλλὰ τοῖς αὑτῶν πτεροῖς ἁλισκόμεσθα,

and (perhaps) imitated by Waller—

"That eagle's fate and mine are one, Who on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high."