Iberia Won; A poem descriptive of the Peninsular War / With impressions from recent visits to the battle-grounds, and copious historical and illustrative notes

by T. M. Hughes

Traditur: ille vehit per freta longa duos.

Dicitur infirmâ cornu tenuisse sinistrâ

Femina, cùm de se nomina fecit aquæ.

Pene simul periit, dum vult succurrere lapsæ

Frater.

Ovid, Fast. iii. 867.

See also Pindar’s Fourth Pythionic.

“Nor with more grief was Athamantis torn.”

Et frustrà pecudem quæres Athamantidos Helles.

Ovid. Fast. iv. 903.