BOOK I

a the heavenly ; and he laid his celestial weapons the cliff was blackened ; hidden sparks from a g fire-barbed arrow heated the watersprings ; torrents boiling with foam and steam down the Myghis hands, and stole of Cronides in a cubbythe harvest of his clamberair. And that battalion ynosuris beside the ankleof Olympos ; one the Parrhasian Bear's as she rested on heaven's axis, and dragged her the heavenly lash in the morning; he carried off the Dawn, and held in the Bull, so that timeless, half-complete, horsewoman Season rested her team. kinds of animals: hence oupdedes. He had two hundred and passed from north to south; he left one pole the Charioteer, and the of hailstorming eo pag! er two Fishes out of the sky cast them into the sea; he buffeted the Ram, that star of Olympos, who balances with equal pin day and darkness over the fiery orb of his spring-time neighbour. With feet Typhoeus mounted close to the clouds : ng abroad the nen nee momen, be chadowed tho height tangled army of snakes. One of them ran up right through the rim of the polar circuit and skipt upon the backbone of the heavenly Serpent, hissing his re. eee venting 8 as close as the bond aslant under her bands. Another, a t, entwined about the forked horns s horned head of shape like his own, and over the Bull's brow, tormenting with jaws the Hyades opposite ranged like a crescent girdled the Ox er. Another made a bold leap, when he saw another Snake in Olympos, and jum around the Ophiuchos’s arm that held the viper ; then his neck and coiling his crawling belly, he a second chaplet about Ariadne’s crown.

cai Nori pete be Nero an fixie ae manyarmed turned to both ends, of arms the girdle of Zephyros esperos and the crest of Atlas. gulf he seized Poseidon's the depths of the sea to Jand; he out a stallion by his brinea nag to the vault of heaven, shooting his their whinnied under the yoke. Many a time with a threat hand, bellow as he shot him against Moon like another stayed her course, then rushed hissing goddess, eneiing with the bridle her d ol opp on while he poured out the of a en viper. Titan Mene would not yield to the attack. the Giant's heads, like-horned to many asecar on the shining orb of her at chasm yphaon’s throat.

he eh dep ape the starry battalions, and lines of heavenly Constellations in a disciplined came shining to the fray. A varied host Kwpuxiov 5¢ xdpnva AaBaw ne as n, bubbled up in his eeetiiie ann tot oct © kot beck, onc out the steam a oa Typhaon's beasts shot the dappled coiling missile, while tempests roared round his flames—the viper-arrows flew pia eer teen see Then the Archer let fly a bold comrade of fish-like Aigoceros “; visible the cirele of the Wain, brandished the ere ns baehboer the Swen, the starry Lyre of Zeus. be shifted to the rocks, leaving the tion Orion was a Bocotian (hence loosely Tanagraian) fiery trail of the heavenly spine; the Oxherd, Geakow dearer, or “Eyyévacw, Latinized as Engonasin.

Sef Conyeian and annie the flood of the river that joined Tarsos and Cydnos together hurled a volley of cliffs upon the against his mid-thigh crashing and booming ; his serpents afloat sounded In charge with hissings from t poison led the There rod t yphon in the fishhe of the weedy his belly in the air and crushed in clouds : age the terrible roar from the mane-bristling lions of his 's head, the sea-lion lurked in the ooany was no room in the deep for all its pl of leviathans, since the Earthborn monster covered a whole sea, larger than the land, with flanks wo sea could cover. The seals bleated, the dolphins hid in the deep water; the manyfooted master of craft, weaving his trailing web of crisscross knots, stuck fast on his familiar rock, making his limbs look like a pattern on the stone. All the) world was a-tremble: the love-maddened murry herself,’ drawn by her passion for the serpent’s bed, shivered under the god-desecrating breath of these seafaring serpents. The waters piled up and touched Olympos with pitous seas; as the streams found the sea neighbour, and washed himself.

Papeeerees Srough the city of Tareos. gnoneté® laboured with this hand or that to lift the ith passion, ‘east mad with jealousy she called out plowman may catch Zeus and put him to some earthshaking plowtree. I wish one would catch him and ul ! Then I could shout to my lord Learn to bear two goads ; No gh and the ust be verily Lord of Pastures, my fine Archer, and shepherd your parent, or cattledriver Selene may put Cronides under the yoke, she may score Zeus’s back with her merciless lash when she is off to herdeman E.ndymion’s bed ina hurry! Zeus that to court her, when she was a heifer with horns on her forehead! she might have bred you a little once to your son Phoibos, as for the ra “ But what can I do? If only Argos were still alive, shining all over with sleepless the latter st with eyes, eyes, that he s drover, and drag Zeus pasture, and prod his flanks with your will make you saviour of is no adrift. If all things come from you, z to my hand. All-vanquisher, strike one with t did not defeat; and may he have E madness from the mind-bewitching tune of Cadmos, words Zeus pawed away in the gree stihe & pummel, Rell from which the Tauros harmonious reeds, as he reclined under a neighbouring tree in the woodland ; wearing the country ee , he sent the del tune 's cars, puffing his checks to blow w the soft Sells” tia left in : aay Ge flaming weapons of Zeus with Mother Earth to keep them, py eget the notes to seck the neighbouring tune ae Mace There he was near the bushes, who was sore afraid in a cleft of the rock. But the monster os with head high in air saw him trying to himself, and beckoned with voiceless signs, nor then face to face with the shepherd, he held out one Asses and the The pasaling word the tune of my pipes, when tune with my ADDITIONAL NOTE TO BOOK I math Hil is eo a aS a ere g lion-heads ; his snaky throats