bespoke > said
2 "That giantess Argante is behight,
Argante > "Shining", "Glistening" (i.e. with lust); "Swift-footed" (argos, shining, glistening, is also applied in classical Greek to the legs of running dogs, as rapid motion is said to cause a flickering light. Argante is described as "fast flying" at 307.37:3, and has a "sun-broad shield" (307.40:4). Alter- natively, the name might be derived from that of Arges, one of the Titans) behight > named (catachr.)
3 A daughter of the Titans which did make
Titans > (A slip for the Giants, who piled Mount Ossa on Mount Pelion in order to scale Mount Olympus and dethrone Jupiter (Met. 1.151 ff.))
4 War against heaven, and heaped hills on high, 5 To scale the skies, and put Jove from his right: 6 Her sire Typhoeus was, who, mad through mirth,
sire > father
7 And drunk with blood of men slain by his might, 8 Through incest, her of his own mother, Earth,
of > by Earth > (Typhoeus was the youngest son of Ge (Earth) and Tartarus, who was in turn the son of Ge and Aether (Sky))
9 Whilom begot, being but half twin of that birth.