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He had been riddled more than any net;
And had he died, as tidings still poured in,
Then he, a second Geryon[[334]] with three lives,
Had boasted of a threefold coverlet
Of earth above, (I will not say below him,)[[335]]
Dying one death for each of those his forms;
And so, because of all these ill reports,
Full many a noose around my neck have others
Loosed by main force, when I had hung myself.