Her youngest born: the dreadful snake, that couch’d
In the dark earth’s abyss, his wide domain,
Holds o’er the golden apples wakeful guard.
[182]Tethys to Ocean brought the rivers forth,
In whirlpool waters roll’d: Eridanus
Deep-eddied, and Alpheus, and the Nile:
Fair-flowing Ister, Strymon, and Meander,
Phasis and Rhesus: Achelous bright
With silver-circled tides: Heptaporus,
And Nessus: Haliacmon and Rhodíus: