Note 300 — BOOK IV.
William Julius Mickle translation
Their swords seem dipp'd in fire.—This is as literal as the idiom of the two languages would allow. Dryden has a thought like that of this couplet, but which is not in his original:—
"Their bucklers clash; thick blows descend from high, And flakes of fire from their hard helmets fly." Dryd. Virg. Æn. xii.