His arts of various wisdom: vain to ’scape
Necessity, or loose the mighty chain.
When Heaven their sire ’gainst Cottus, Briareus,
And Gyges, felt his moody anger chafe
Within him, sore amazed with that their strength
Immeasurable, their aspect fierce, and bulk
Gigantic, with a chain of iron force
He bound them down; and fix’d their dwelling-place
Beneath the spacious ground: beneath the ground
They dwelt in pain and durance: in th’ abyss