Came rushing: eagerly they stretch’d their arms
To seize him: from the pallid adamant,
Audibly as they rush’d, the clattering shield
Clank’d with a sharp shrill sound. Two grisly snakes
Hung from their girdles, and with forking tongues
Lick’d their inflected jaws; and violent gnash’d
Their fangs fell glaring: from around their heads
Those Gorgons grim a flickering horror cast
Through the wide air. Above them warrior men
Waged battle, grasping weapons in their hands.