Note 2 — BOOK VIII.
Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley Derby translation · Edition 3
See also Book xxii. l. 252. Milton, in the corresponding passage at the close of the 4th Book of ‘Paradise Lost,’ reverses the sign, and represents the scale of the vanquished as “flying up” and “kicking the beam.” “The Fiend look’d up, and knew His mounted scale aloft; nor more, but fled Murm’ring, and with him fled the shades of night.”