/$ As when the harmful king of beasts (sore threatened to be slain By all the country up in arms) at first makes coy disdain Prepare resistance, but at last when anyone hath led Bold charge upon him with his dart, he then turns yawning head, Fell anger lathers in his jaws, his great heart swells, his stern Lasheth his strength up, sides and thighs waddle with stripes to learn Their own power, his eyes glow, he roars, he leaps to kill, Secure of killing: so his power then rous'd up to his will Matchless Achilles, coming on to meet Anchises' son[106]. $/
Much in the same spirit he speaks of Pallas, when she averted the arrow which Pandaros had let fly against Menelaus ("Iliad," IV, vv. 130-131):
"She did not forget him, and warded off the arrow e'en as a mother flicks away some fly from her son, as he lies in sweet slumber."
And again further on when the arrow, notwithstanding, wounds Menelaus (vv. 141-146):
/$ Yet forth the blood flow'd, which did much his royal person grace, And show'd upon his ivory skin, as doth a purple dye Laid, by a dame of Caïra, or lovely Maeony, On ivory, wrought in ornaments to deck the cheeks of horse; Which in her marriage room must lie; whose beauties have such force, That they are wish'd of many knights, but are such precious things, That they are kept for horse that draw the chariots of kings; Which horse, so deck'd, the charioteer esteems a grace to him; Like these, in grace, the blood upon thy solid thighs did swim, O Menelaus, etc[107]. $/