No. 34 Beneath Him Lay the Sceptre Kings Had Borne, And the Tame Thunder From the Tempest Torn
Book V. Line 429.
Eripuit coelo fulmen, sceptrumque tyrannis
This epigraph, written by Turgot on the bust of Franklin, seems to have been imitated from a line in Manilius; where noticing the progress of science in ascribing things to their natural and proper causes instead of supernatural ones, he says,
Eriput Jovi fulmen, viresque tonandi, Et sonitum ventis concessit, nubibus ignem.