So, in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, ESCHYLUS-Fragment. 123. PLUMPTRE's trans. The idea of the eagle struck by a feather from her own wing is proverbial. See note by PORSON, 139, to EURIPIDES' Medea. DIONYSIUS OF HALICARNASSUS, REISKE'S ed. 970. EUSTATHIUS ad Iliad. P. 632. 489. SCHOLIAST-On Lucian. Vol. I. P. 794. ROGER L'ESTRANGE, Fables of Esop. 48. Eagle and the Arrow. (See also BYRON, MOORE, WALLER, also PHILLIPS under RELIGION) 20 So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which, on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high. EDMUND WALLER-To a Lady Singing a Song Hallelujah! Hallelujah! of his Composing. Ep. XIV. (See also ÆSCHYLUS) On the third morning He arose, Bright with victory o'er his foes. 9 When the Sultan Shah-Zaman Even before he gets so far As the place where the clustered palm-trees are, Sweetened with syrup, tinctured with spice, And wines that are known to Eastern princes. |