Have I destroyed, and spoils of war obtained

In victory o'er my Amazonian foe.

I saw the silent realms; nor all alone

Did I return, but shuddering day beheld

Dark Cerberus, and he beheld the sun.

No more Antaeus, Libya's monarch huge,

His strength renews; before his bloody shrines25

Busiris lies o'erthrown; by my sole hand

The threefold Geryon was o'ercome and slain,

And that dread terror of a hundred tribes,