 | Lord William Pitt Lennox - 1877 - 360 pages
...called on to introduce a word beginning with X, when he proceeded to repeat from " ^schylus "— " Deep were the groans of Xerxes, when he saw This havoc...Commanding the wide sea, o'er-look'd the hosts. "With ruthful cries he rent his royal robes. And through his troops embattled on the nhore, Gave signal of... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1885 - 284 pages
...or the Canaries. 39[" Eubcea looks on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea," &c. — MS.] 4o. " Deep were the groans of Xerxes, when he saw This havoc...for his seat, a lofty mound Commanding the wide sea, o'erlooked the hosts. With rueful cries he rent his royal robes, And through his troops embattled on... | |
 | Aeschylus - 1886 - 310 pages
...Greeks Rush to th' attack at once, and furious spread The carnage, till each mangled Persian fell. Deep were the groans of Xerxes, when he saw This havoc...for his seat, a lofty mound Commanding the wide sea, o'erlooked his hosts. With rueful cries he rent his royal robes, And through his troops embattled on... | |
 | 1893 - 780 pages
...Greeks Rush to th' attack at once, and furious spread The carnage, till each mangled Persian fell. Deep were the groans of Xerxes, when he saw This havoc...for his seat, a lofty mound Commanding the wide sea, o'erlooked his hosts. With rueful cries he rent his royal robes, And through his troops embattled on... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford - 1895 - 476 pages
...Greeks Rush'd to the attack at once, and furious spread The carnage, till each mangled Persian fell. Deep were the groans of Xerxes when he saw This havoc...for his seat, a lofty mound Commanding the wide sea, o'erlooked his hosts. With rueful cries he rent his royal robes, And through his troops embattled on... | |
 | Waitman Barbe - 1909 - 252 pages
...overthrown. Byron doubtless got a suggestion for this stanza from linw from JEsehylus, the Greek poet: Deep were the groans of Xerxes, when he saw This havoc...for his seat, a lofty mound Commanding the wide sea, o'erlooked the host*. With rueful cries he rent his royal robes, And through his troops embattled on... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1920 - 668 pages
...the battle of Salamis may have been suggested to Byron by these lines from the Greek poet Aeschylus: "Deep were the groans of Xerxes, when he saw This...for his seat, a lofty mound Commanding the wide sea, o'erlooked the hosts." 7. What "arts of war" do the names Marathon, Salamis, Thermopylae suggest? 8.... | |
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Deep were the groans of Xerxes when he saw This havoc; for his seat, a lofty mound Commanding the wide sea, o'erlook'd his hosts. With rueful cries he rent his royal robes, And through his troops embattled on the shore Gave signal of retreat; then started... 
