The Remains of Hesiod the Ascræan, Including the Shield of Hercules / Translated into English rhyme and blank verse; with a dissertation on the life and æra, the poems and mythology of Hesiod, and copious notes.

by Hesiod

Cowper, book xviii. Shield of Achilles.

[259] Herds of boars.] That animal (the wild boar) was no less terrible on the opposite coast of Asia than in Greece: as we learn from Herodotus, book i. c. 34. Gillies.

[260] The battle of the Lapithæ.] This forms the subject of the alto-relievo on the entablature of the Parthenon, or the temple of Minerva: ascribed to Phidias. See the “Memorandum” on the Elgin marbles.

[261] Some from their city.] Homer, Il. book xvii. Shield of Achilles:

The other city by two glittering hosts

Invested stood: and a dispute arose

Between the hosts, whether to burn the town

And lay all waste, or to divide the spoil.

Meantime the citizens, still undismay’d,

Surrender’d not the town, but taking arms