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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 14852235, member: 128351&quot;]This reminds me the powerful verses of Sophocles in <i>Trachiniae</i>, lines 518-522. The Choir is telling the fight between Herakles and Acheloos :</p><p><br /></p><p>τότ᾽ ἦν χερός, ἦν δὲ τόξων πάταγος,</p><p>ταυρείων τ᾽ ἀνάμιγδα κεράτων:</p><p>ἦν δ᾽ ἀμφίπλεκτοι κλίμακες,</p><p>ἦν δὲ μετώπων ὀλόεντα</p><p>πλήγματα, καὶ στόνος ἀμφοῖν.</p><p><br /></p><p>There was clatter of fists and clang of bow and crash of a bull&#039;s horns mixed together; then there were close-locked grapplings and deadly blows from foreheads and loud deep cries from both. (transl. Jebb, 1892).</p><p><br /></p><p>I had to study it when I was a student, I remember the sound of these verses when pronounced loud in Greek, I could hear the very noise of the fight. Great poetry.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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