Ammiral

(15) Paradise Lost, 1.237-238 ("such resting found the sole / Of unblest feet," echoing Noah's unlanding dove or columba [Vulg.] in Genesis 8.8-9); 1.293-294 ("the toast / Of some great ammiral"); 9.1115-16 ("Such of late / Columbus found th' American so girt": on the ashamed protoplast's indigene-like near-nakedness).

the broad circumference / Hung on his shoulders like the Moon," and a spear, "to equal which the tallest Pine / Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the Mast / Of some great Ammiral, were but a wand" (1.284-87, 292-94).

On a more complex transumptive level, Satan's spear in Paradise Lost, "to equal which the tallest Pine / Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the Mast / Of some great Ammiral, were but a wand" (1.292-94), echoes the club of Homer's Polyphemous (as rendered by Chapman), "being an Olive tree .