Note 86 — STATIUS'S THEBAIS.
Reading edition
A very faulty expression; as also below, verse 501,—"rolls a deluge on."—Warton.
He copied Dryden's Virg. Æn. iv. 638:
As when the winds their airy quarrel try.
He was indebted to a second couplet in the same translation, Æn. ii. 565:
Thus, when the rival winds their quarrel try, Contending for the kingdom of the sky.