“Did Thetis then, ambitious in her care, These arms thus labour’d for her son prepare, That Ajax after him the heavenly gift should wear? For that dull soul to stare, with stupid eyes, On the learn’d unintelligible prize! What are to him the sculptures of the shield, Heaven’s planets, earth, and ocean’s watery field? The Pleiads, Hyads; less and greater Bear, Undipp’d in seas; Orion’s angry star; Two differing cities, graved on either hand; Would he wear arms he cannot understand?