Note 165 — BOOK VI.
Alexander Pope translation · Edition 2
“The ruthless steel, impatient of delay, Forbade the sire to linger out the day. It struck the bending father to the earth, And cropt the wailing infant at the birth. Can innocents the rage of parties know, And they who ne’er offended find a foe?” Rowe’s Lucan, bk. ii.