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304 Oc. Surely not, for me too the fortunes of thy brother

Atlas grieve, who towards the evening-places

Stands, the pillar of heaven and earth

Upon his shoulders bearing, a load not easy to be borne.

And the earth-born inhabitant of the Cilician

Caves seeing, I pitied, the savage monster

With a hundred heads, by force o'ercome,

Typhon impetuous, who stood 'gainst all the gods,

With frightful jaws hissing out slaughter;

And from his eyes flashed a Gorgonian light,

Utterly to destroy by force the sovereignty of Zeus;

But there came to him Zeus' sleepless bolt,

Descending thunder, breathing flame,

Which struck him out from lofty

Boastings. For, struck to his very heart,

His strength was scorched and thundered out.

And now a useless and extended carcass

Lies he near a narrow passage of the sea,

Pressed down under the roots of Ætna.

And on the topmost summit seated, Hephaistus

Hammers the ignited mass, whence will burst out at length

Rivers of fire, devouring with wild jaws

Fair-fruited Sicily's smooth fields;

Such rage will Typhon make boil over