“… for the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.”
Charles Darwin (1809–1882) British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"
Source: The Origin of Species
“Locking spear by spear, shield against shield at the base, so buckler
leaned on buckler, helmet on helmet, man against man.”
XIII, 130–131 (tr. R. Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
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“Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, but left the shield.”
Philip Freneau (1752–1832) American poet, nationalist, polemicist, sea captain and newspaper editor
To the Memory of the Americans who fell at Eutaw. Compare: "When Prussia hurried to the field, And snatched the spear, but left the shield", Sir Walter Scott, Marmion, Introduction to canto iii.
“When Prussia hurried to the field,
And snatch'd the spear, but left the shield.”
Canto III, introduction.
Marmion (1808)
“No war, or battle's sound
Was heard the world around.
The idle spear and shield were high up hung.”
John Milton On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
Hymn, stanza 4, line 53
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1629)
Al-Tabari (839–923) influential Persian scholar, historian and exegete of the Qur'an
Source: Al-Tabari, Vol. 8, p. 138
Aeschylus (-525–-456 BC) ancient Athenian playwright
Source: Seven Against Thebes (467 BC), lines 397–399 (tr. E. D. A. Morshead)
“She gave way under the sudden weight, the sea rushed in, and the Io sank beneath the wave. Shields and helmets float on the water, images of tutelary gods and javelins with useless points.”
Subito cum pondere victus,
insiliente mari, summergitur alveus undis.
scuta virum cristaeque et inerti spicula ferro
tutelaeque deum fluitant.
Book XIV, lines 540–543
Punica
James Macpherson (1736–1796) Scottish writer, poet, translator, and politician
Book I
The Poems of Ossian, Fingal, an ancient Epic Poem
Helena Roerich (1879–1955) Russian philosopher
299
Leaves of Morya’s Garden: Book One (The Call) (1924)
Anacreon (-570–-485 BC) Greek lyric poet, notable for his drinking songs and hymns
Odes, XXIV.
Variant: The bull by nature hath his horns, The horse his hoofs, to daunt their foes; The light-foot hare the hunter scorns; The lion's teeth his strength disclose.The fish, by swimming, 'scapes the weel; The bird, by flight, the fowler's net; With wisdom man is arm'd as steel; Poor women none of these can get. What have they then?—fair Beauty's grace, A two-edged sword, a trusty shield; No force resists a lovely face, Both fire and sword to Beauty yield.