Note 228 — THE THEOGONY.
George Chapman translation
Beneath his everlasting feet The great Olympus trembled.]
Mr. Todd, in his notes on Milton, quotes the passage describing the rushing of the Messiah’s chariot, as superior in grandeur to this of Hesiod:
Under his burning wheels The steadfast empyreum shook throughout, All but the throne itself of God.
The majesty of Milton’s exception certainly exceeds Hesiod in loftiness of thought: but the mere rising of Jupiter causing the mountain to rock beneath his eternal feet, is more sublime than the shaking of the firmament from the rolling of wheels.