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