Note 276 — THE SHIELD OF HERCULES.
George Chapman translation
As a lion, who has fall’n Perchance on some stray beast.]
Iliad xvii.:
But as the lion on the mountains bred Glorious in strength, when he hath seiz’d the best And fairest of the herd, with savage fangs First breaks the neck, then laps the bloody paunch, Torn wide: meantime around him, but remote, Dogs stand, and huntsmen shouting, yet by fear Repress’d, annoy him not, nor dare approach; So these all wanted courage to oppose The glorious Menelaus. Cowper.