The peace thus made, the Thunderer next prepares

To force the watery goddess from the wars.

Deep in the dismal regions void of light,

Three daughters, at a birth, were born to Night:[14]

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{ These their brown mother, brooding on her care,

{ Endued with windy wings to flit in air,

{ With serpents girt alike, and crowned with hissing hair.

In heaven the Diræ called, and still at hand,

Before the throne of angry Jove they stand,