Of horses of the gods:
Far as a shepherd from some spot on high
O'er the wide main extends his boundless eye,
Through such a space of air, with thund'ring sound,
At one long leap th' immortal coursers bound.
(Iliad v.)
Longinus quotes also from the
Iliad
xix., the combat of the Gods, the description of Neptune,
Iliad
xi., and the Prayer of Ajax,
Iliad
xvii.