A hundred arms that mock’d approach, and o’er

Their limbs hard-sinew’d fifty heads upsprang:

Mighty th’ immeasurable strength display’d

In each gigantic stature: and of all

The children born to earth and heaven these sons

Were dreadfullest: and they, e’en from the first,

Drew down their father’s hate: as each was born

He seized them all, and hid them in th’ abyss

Of Earth: nor e’er released them to the light.

Heaven in his evil deed rejoiced: vast Earth