To meet the hunter, and her heart no fear
Nor terror knows, though barking loud she hear,
For though with weapon’s thrust or javelin’s throw
He wound her first, yet e’en about the spear
Writhing, her valour doth she not forego,
Till for offence she close, or in the shock lie low.[[163]]
[162]. Tozer, Researches in the Highlands of Turkey, vol. ii. p. 64.
[163]. Iliad, xxi. 573-78.
Thoroughly Oriental, too, is the vision conjured up in the Third Iliad of Paris challenging
To mortal combat all the chiefs of Greece,[[164]]