“And Simoïs, in whose bed lay many shields
And helms and bodies of slain demigods.”
—Homer, Iliad.
[4:23.] Stars. Hyperbole; cf.—
“The chidden billow seems to pelt the clouds;
The wind-shaked surge, with high and monstrous mane,
Seems to cast water on the burning Bear
And quench the guards of the ever-fixed pole.”
—Shakespeare, Othello.
[4:26.] Crest.