Nor was his ear less pealed
With noises loud and ruinous ...
than if this frame
Of heaven were falling, and these elements
In mutiny had from their axle torn
The steadfast earth.
[211] The war-unsated Gyges.] Hesiod has confounded the history by supposing the Giants and Titans to have been different persons. He accordingly makes them oppose each other: and even Cottus, Briareus, and Gyges, whom all other writers mention as Titans, are by him introduced in opposition, and described as of another family. His description is however much to the purpose, and the first contest and dispersion are plainly alluded to. Bryant.
[212] The Titan host o’er-shadowing.] Milton, Par. Lost, b. vi.:
Themselves invaded next and on their heads
Main promontories flung, which in the air