Bears all across their gloomy depths.

Oh, that the laws of cruel Styx

Thou mightst annul, and the distaff break,

Relentless, of the fates. And lo,560

Thou canst avail, for he who rules

O'er many nations once with thee

His deadly hands in battle joined,

When thou didst wage 'gainst Nestor's land

A mighty war. A three-pronged spear

He bore; but soon, by but a wound