Gigantic: arms of hundred-handed gripe

Burst from their shoulders: fifty heads up-sprang,

Cresting their muscular limbs. They thus opposed

In dreadful conflict ’gainst the Titans stood,

In all their sinewy hands [206]wielding aloft

Precipitous rocks. On th’ other side, alert

The Titan phalanx closed: then hands of strength

Join’d prowess, and show’d forth the works of war.

Th’ immeasurable sea tremendous dash’d

With roaring; earth re-echoed; the broad heaven