The rival champions strive to lock and fell,

Gallia's devices, found to answer well

In wary onset and in finish slow,

Old Attic swiftness, seen in hold and throw.

Supplement or supplant. When AJAX stood

Before ULYSSES, neither seemed in mood

For long manoeuvring. To the clutch they came

With sinews of snap-steel and souls of flame.

"Close lock'd above, their heads and arm are mix'd;

Below their planted feet at distance fix'd: