Stood Rhadamanthus, ’nother judge of fame;

Æacus, Acheron; and poor Protheus, who,

Vex’d with his form, into great Etna flew;

And by his side Prometheus, martyr’d god,

Who form’d and fired with life a moulded clod:

There, terrible in mien, stood Mulciber,[131]

He, on his breast, a group of medals bore—

Marks of distinction for those mighty things

Which he had wrought through ages past for kings;

Then his son Cacus, junior god of fire;