While down from Ida's rent and rugged slopes175
The loosened bowlders rolled. And not alone
The earth did quake: behold, the swelling sea
Perceived its own Achilles drawing near,
And spread its waves abroad. Then did the ground
Asunder yawn, revealing mighty caves,
And gave a path from Erebus to earth.
And then the high-heaped sepulcher was rent,180
From which there sprang Achilles' mighty shade,
In guise as when, in practice for thy fates,