Note 1484 — Chapter XV · THE NORMAN INVASION AND THE CAMPAIGN OF HASTINGS.[1055] (continued 3)
Reading edition
Wid. Amb. 582;
“Sed Dux iratus prorsùs utrumque negat;
Jurans quod potiùs præsentis littora portûs
Illi committet aggere sub lapidum.
Ergo velut fuerat testatus, rupis in alto
Præcepit claudi vertice corpus humi.”
Cf. Il. vii. 86;
σῆμά τέ οἱ χεύσωσιν ἐπὶ πλατεῖ Ἑλληςπόντῳ κ.τ.λ.