Their new-created, nimble tongues,735

And voices strange, they first employ

In hostile clamor; and the fields,

The plains, their kindred soil, they fill.

This monster brood, consorting well

With that dire seed from which they sprung,

Their life within a day's brief span740

Enjoyed; for after Phoebus rose

They had their birth, but ere he set

They perished. At the dreadful sight