As when the winds their airy quarrel try.
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e was indebted to a second couplet in the same translation, AEn. ii.565: Thus, when the rival winds their quarrel try,Contending for the kingdom of the sky.] [Footnote 87: "Showers" is an inappropriate word to denote the deluge ofrain which flooded the earth, and "swept herds, and hinds, and houses tothe main."] [Footnote 88: The Inachus, and the Erasinus were rivers in the plain ofArgos.] [Footnote 89: The waters of the Lerna were infected by the venom fromthe serpent Hydra, which Hercules slew.] [Footnote 90: The storm, by blowing down trees or branches, made anopening in the dense foliage through which the sun had neverpenetrated.] [Footnote 91: In the first edition: The prince with wonder did the waste behold,While from torn rocks the massy fragments rolled.] [Footnote 92: Dryden's Virg. AEn. ii. 413: The shepherd climbs the cliff, and sees from farThe wasteful ravage of the wat'ry war.] [Footnote 93: Dryden's Virg. Geor. i. 652: Bore houses, herds, and lab'ring hinds away.] [Footnote 94: Statius represents Polynices as terrified by the tempest.Pope appears to have thought that this was derogatory to the characterof the fugitive king, and he calls him, when gazing on the ravagescaused by the storm, "the intrepid Theban," which conveys the impressionthat he was undaunted by the spectacle. In the same spirit Pope at ver.527, has the line, "Thus still his _courage_ with his toils increased,"where the original says that the stimulus which urged him on was fear.But while Pope has obliterated the alarm which was generated by thetempest he has introduced in its place an alarm which had no existence.In the midst of the havoc worked by the elements the recollection of hisbrother "wings the feet" of the intrepid Theban "with fears," though heis beyond his brother's reach, and has no suspicion at present that hedesigns to break the compact to reign alternately. The influence whichthe remembrance of Eteocles exercised over the mind of the wanderer isexpressly distinguished by Statius from the fear, and means no more thanthat since Polynices was an exile from Thebes, he was compelled toproceed onwards till he could find an asylum in another state.] [Footnote 95: A mountain on which stood the citadel of Argos.] [Footnote 96: The temple at Prosymna was dedicated to Juno.] [Footnote 97: Pope took the expression from Dryden, Virg. AEn. vii. 79:
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