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;