Where does the quotation "The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold" come from.?

Question

Where does the quotation "The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold" come from.?

Answer 1

It's the first line of Byron's  "The Destruction of Sennacherib."  Click on this link to see the entire poem:

   http://www.kalliope.org/digt.pl?longdid=...

See also

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Destruc...

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