O! decus, o! sacrâ fœmina digna domo!
Ovid. Fast. vi. 810.
“Though History rend each page, this, this shall be enrolled!”
See Wordsworth’s “Convention of Cintra.”
XXIX. “See the furious charge
Of France’s chivalry, like Aias’ car,
Mow thousands down.”
Αἴας δὲ Τρώεσσιν ἐπάλμενος εἷλε Δόρυκλον κ. τ. λ.
Ὣς ἔφεπε κλονέων πεδίον τότε φαίδιμος Αἴας
Δαΐζων ἵππους τε καὶ ἀνέρας.
Hom. Il. xi. 489.
XXXVI. “Upon thy beauteous banks, Mondego, where,” &c.