Of battle, and the shouting. For the din

Tumultuous of that sight-appalling strife

Rose without bound. Stern strength of hardy proof

Wreak’d there its deeds, till weary sank the fight.

But first, array’d in battle, front to front,

Full long they stood, and bore the brunt of war.

Amid the foremost, towering in the van,

[211]The war-unsated Gyges, Briareus,

And Cottus, bitterest conflict waged: for they

Successive thrice a hundred rocks in air