A monster grim and huge, and swift and strong:
Her’s were three heads: a glaring lion’s one:
One of a goat: a mighty snake’s the third:
In front the lion threatened, and behind
The serpent, and the goat was in the midst,
Exhaling fierce the strength of burning flame.
But the wing’d Pegasus his rider bore,
The brave Bellerophon, and laid her dead.
She, grasp’d by forced embrace of Orthrus, gave
[181]Depopulating Sphinx, the mortal plague