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Rh From battle, but with double ardour flew To the destruction of the Frogs, whom Jove From the Olympian heights snow-crown'd again Viewing, compassionated their distress, And sent them aids. Sudden they came. Broad-back'd They were, and smooth like anvils, sickle-claw'd, Sideling in gait, their mouths with pincers arm'd, Shell-clad, crook-knee'd, protruding far before Long hands and horns, with eye-balls in the breast, Legs in quaternion ranged on either side, And Crabs their name. They, seizing by his leg, His arm, his tail a Mouse, cropp’d it, and snapp'd His polish’d spear. Appall’d at such a foe The miserable Mice stood not, but fled Heartless, discomfited.—And now, the sun Descending, closed this warfare of a day.