The terror in which the Lion is held by the meaner members of his own family is well shown by the following passage from Homer. Menelaus and Ajax hear Ulysses calling for help:—
“—— at the voice arrived, they found
Ulysses, Jove-beloved, compass’d about
By Trojans, as the Lynxes in the hills,
Athirst for blood, compass an antler’d Stag
Pierced by an archer; while the blood is warm
And his limbs pliable, from him he ’scapes;
But when the feather’d barb hath quell’d his force,
In some dark hollow of the mountain’s side,
The hungry troop devour him; chance, the while,