Wounded with all his strength, and thrusting rived

The shield’s large disk, and cleft it with his lance,

And in the middle-way threw him to earth

Prostrate. But Fear and Consternation swift

Urged nigh his well-wheel’d chariot: from the face

Of broad-track’d earth they raised him on the car

Variously framed: thence lash’d with scourge the steeds,

And bounding up the vast Olympus flew.

But now Alcmena’s son and his compeer,

The glorious Ioläus, having stripp’d