As in the mountains, conscious of his force, The wild boar waits a coming multitude Of boisterous hunters to his lone retreat: Arching his bristly spine he stands: his eyes Beam fire: and whetting his bright tusks, he burns To drive not dogs alone, but men, to flight: So stood the royal Cretan. COWPER. [273] _As two grim lions._] Iliad xvi.: Then contest such Arose between them, as two lions wage Contending in the mountains for a deer New-slain: both hunger-pinched, and haughty both. COWPER. [274] _As vultures curved of beak._] Iliad xvi.: As two vultures fight Bow-beak’d, crook-talon’d, on some lofty rock Clanging their plumes, so they together rush With dreadful cries. COWPER. [275] _As falls a thunder-blasted oak._] Iliad xiv.: As when Jove’s arm omnipotent an oak Prostrates uprooted on the plain: a fume Rises sulphureous from the riven trunk; So fell the might of Hector, to the earth Smitten at once. Down dropp’d his idle spear, And with his helmet and his shield, himself Also: loud thunder’d all his gorgeous arms. COWPER. [276] _As a lion, who has fall’n_ _Perchance on some stray beast._] Iliad xvii.: But as the lion on the mountains bred Glorious in strength, when he hath seiz’d the best And fairest of the herd, with savage fangs First breaks the neck, then laps the bloody paunch, Torn wide: meantime around him, but remote, Dogs stand, and huntsmen shouting, yet by fear Repress’d, annoy him not, nor dare approach; So these all wanted courage to oppose The glorious Menelaus. COWPER. [277] _Stoop’d from the chariot._] Iliad v.: When with determin’d fury Mars O’er yoke and bridle hurl’d his glittering spear: Minerva caught: and turning it, it pass’d The hero’s chariot-side, dismiss’d in vain. COWPER. [278] _The huge mount and monumental stone._] By the words _tomb_ and _monument_, ταφος and σημα, I understand a mount of earth and a pillar of stone on the top of it: although Homer Il. xxiv. v. 801, applies σημα to the mount: which he seems to describe as raised of stones: Χευαντες δε το σημα, παλιν κιον. So casting up the tomb, they back return’d. Appendix. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE.