Akenside, Hymn to the Naiads (1767).
Blow, gentle Africus,
Play on our poops, when Hyperion’s son
Shall couch in west.
Fuimus Troes.
Placat equo Persis radiis Hyperīone sinctum.
Ovid, Fasti, i, 385.
Shakespeare throws the accent on the antepenult: “Hype´rion to a satyr” (Hamlet, act i. sc. 2). In this he is followed by almost all English poets, but as shown above, Akenside returns to the classical accent.
⁂ Keats has left the fragment of a poem entitled Hyperion, of which Byron says: “It seems inspired by the Titans, and is as sublime as Æschylus.”
Hypnos, god of sleep, brother of Oneiros (dreams) and Thanătos (death).