[179]The fifty-headed Cerberus; and third
Upsprang the Hydra, pest of Lerna’s lake:
Whom Juno, white-arm’d goddess, fostering rear’d
With deep resentment fill’d, insatiable,
’Gainst Hercules: but he, the son of Jove,
Named of Amphytrion, in the dragon’s gore
Bathed his unpitying steel: by warlike aid
Of Iolaus, and the counsels high
Of Pallas the Despoiler. Last came forth
[180]Chimæra, breathing fire unquenchable: