“As a dragon in a hollow fiercely waiteth for a man,
Eating venomed herbs, and darkly nursing anger in his breast,
Glaring with fierce looks of terror, as he winds him in his den.”
Iliad.
“They who are called by the Greeks Syrians, are called Assyrians by the Barbarians.”—Herodot. VII. 63.
The bridge of boats built by Xerxes. The original ἀμφίζευκτον αλιον πρῶνα ἀμφοτέρας κοινὸν ἄιας seems intelligible no other way. So Blom., Pal., and Buck., and Linw.—Compare [Note 34] to the Eumenides.