What time those oxen ample-brow’d he drove

To sacred Tyrinth, the broad ocean frith

Once past: and Orthrus, the grim herd-dog, stretch’d

Lifeless; and in their murky den beyond

The billows of the long-resounding deep,

The keeper of those herds, Eurytion, slain.

Another monster Ceto bare anon

[177]In the deep-hollow’d cavern of a rock:

Stupendous nor in shape resembling aught

Of human or of heavenly; the divine