Beats down opposers; brief in speech was he,
But, crost in argument, his threat'ning eyes
Flash'd fire, whilst thunder vollied from his lips. —Cumberland.
Antiphanes. (Book vi. § 3, p. 355.)
I once believed the Gorgons fabulous:
But in the agora quickly changed my creed,
And turn'd almost to stone, the pests beholding
Standing behind the fish stalls. Forced I am
To look another way when I accost them,