Note 212 — BOOK III.
William Julius Mickle translation
It may, perhaps, be agreeable to the reader, to see the description of a bull-fight as given by Homer.
As when a lion, rushing from his den, Amidst the plain of some wide-water'd fen, (Where num'rous oxen, as at ease they feed, At large expatiate o'er the ranker mead;) Leaps on the herds before the herdsman's eyes: The trembling herdsman far to distance flies: Some lordly bull (the rest dispers'd and fled) He singles out, arrests, and lays him dead. Thus from the rage of Jove-like Hector flew All Greece in heaps; but one he seiz'd, and slew Mycenian Periphas.—— Pope, II. xv.