“Whose hand was propped by a branchless trunk ofSo, too, what a giant must Demoleos4 have been,
pine.
”
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We are even given the means of realising the
extraordinary stature of the heroes of old by the
description of their weapons, such as the shield of
Ajax1 and the spear-shaft of Achilles2 hewn in the
forests of Pelion. Virgil3 also has made admirable
use of this device in his description of the Cyclops.
For what an image it gives us of the bulk of that
body
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