“So here the twins were laid low at Aeneas' hands,
down they crashed like lofty pine trees axed.”
V. 559–560 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
“The axe is laid to the root of the tree. … I will hew it down. And as I live, I will plague your Honor, Pomp, Greatness, Superfluity, and confound it into parity, equality, community.”
A Fiery Flying Roll (1650)
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