On this account it is, that they who represent this exploit of his, describe it as done by a stone of a very extraordinary bulk, Ovid. Met. III. v. 59.
————dextrâque molarem
Sustulit, et magnum magno conamine misit.
Illius impulsu cùm turribus ardua celsis
Mœnia mota forent; serpens sine vulnere mansit.
The bulk of the serpent is equally extravagant,
——immensos sinuatur in arcus.
——tantoque est corpore, quanto
Si totum species, geminos qui separat arctos.
Ipse modò immensum spiris facientibus orbem