Note 275 — THE SHIELD OF HERCULES.
George Chapman translation
As falls a thunder-blasted oak.] Iliad xiv.:
As when Jove’s arm omnipotent an oak Prostrates uprooted on the plain: a fume Rises sulphureous from the riven trunk; So fell the might of Hector, to the earth Smitten at once. Down dropp’d his idle spear, And with his helmet and his shield, himself Also: loud thunder’d all his gorgeous arms. Cowper.