Note 9 — Early Poems
Reading edition
For the myth here referred to see Ovid, Heroides, xvi., 179-80:— Ilion aspicies, firmataque turribus altis Moenia, Phoeboeae; structa canore lyrae. It was probably an application of the Theban legend of Amphion, and arose from the association of Apollo with Poseidon in founding Troy. A fabric huge Rose like an exhalation, (Milton’s Paradise Lost, i., 710-11.) Cf. Gareth and Lynette, 254-7.