Κυκλωψ δε στεναχων τε και ωδινων οδυνησι,
Χερσι ψηλοφοων.——
Meantime the Cyclop raging with his wound,
Spreads his wide arms, and searches round and round.
Pope.
The critick then proceeds to shew, that the efforts of Achilles struggling in his armour against the current of a river, sometimes resisting and sometimes yielding, may be perceived in the elisions of the syllables, the slow succession of the feet, and the strength of the consonants.
Δεινον δ' αμφ' Ἁχιληα κυκωμενον ἱστατο κυμα
Ωθει δ' εν σακει πιπτων ῥοος· ουδε ποδεσσιν
Εσκε στηριξασθαι.——
So oft the surge, in wat'ry mountains spread,