Note 265 — THE SHIELD OF HERCULES.
George Chapman translation
Others as husbandmen appear’d.] Homer Il. xviii. Shield of Achilles:
He also graved on it a fallow field Rich, spacious, and well-till’d. Plowers not few There driving to and fro their sturdy teams Labour’d the ground. There too he form’d the likeness of a field Crowded with corn: in which the reapers toil’d Each with a sharp-tooth’d sickle in his hand. Along the furrow here the harvest fell In frequent handfuls: there they bound the sheaves. Cowper.