So these all wanted courage to oppose
The glorious Menelaus.
Cowper.
[277] Stoop’d from the chariot.] Iliad v.:
When with determin’d fury Mars
O’er yoke and bridle hurl’d his glittering spear:
Minerva caught: and turning it, it pass’d
The hero’s chariot-side, dismiss’d in vain.
Cowper.
[278] The huge mount and monumental stone.] By the words tomb and monument, ταφος and σημα, I understand a mount of earth and a pillar of stone on the top of it: although Homer Il. xxiv. v. 801, applies σημα to the mount: which he seems to describe as raised of stones: