Translation of "Cower" in French

He has a fearsome intellect before which even the most learned cower.

Il a un intellect redoutable, face auquel même le plus lettré se recroqueville.

Here, with her hundred daughters, pale with dread, / poor Hecuba and all her female train, / as doves, that from the low'ring storm have fled, / and cower for shelter from the pelting rain, / crouch round the silent gods, and cling to them in vain.

En ces lieux révérés, / Hécube et ses enfants ensemble retirés, / ainsi qu'aux sifflements des tempêtes rapides / s'attroupe un faible essaim de colombes timides, / se pressaient, embrassaient les images des dieux.