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.
[87] "Showers" is an inappropriate word to denote the deluge of rain which flooded the earth, and "swept herds, and hinds, and houses to the main."
[88] The Inachus, and the Erasinus were rivers in the plain of Argos.
[89] The waters of the Lerna were infected by the venom from the serpent Hydra, which Hercules slew.
[90] The storm, by blowing down trees or branches, made an opening in the dense foliage through which the sun had never penetrated.
[91] In the first edition:
The prince with wonder did the waste behold,
While from torn rocks the massy fragments rolled.