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695 Fixt in their Breasts their round black Eyeballs stood,
Their Chest with Rows of Bone were strongly barr'd;
Their Backs like malleable Anvils show'd,
Extended broad, smooth, solid, shining, hard;
Sure-proof, nor firmer Hardness could they take,
700 Tho' nine times dipp'd in Styx, inviolable Lake.
Their Chest with Rows of Bone were strongly barr'd;
Their Backs like malleable Anvils show'd,
Extended broad, smooth, solid, shining, hard;
Sure-proof, nor firmer Hardness could they take,
700 Tho' nine times dipp'd in Styx, inviolable Lake.
LXXI.
Fit Instruments of Jove's avenging Ire,
Allies[1] for Gods, tho' made of earthly Mould,
Not triple-form'd[2] Chimæra half so dire,
Whom brave Bellerophon subdu'd of old.
705 Oblique, untoward, aukward did they crawl
Insidious, whither tending, hard to say:
Num'rous their Legs and Thighs, distorted all
Fit Instruments of Jove's avenging Ire,
Allies[1] for Gods, tho' made of earthly Mould,
Not triple-form'd[2] Chimæra half so dire,
Whom brave Bellerophon subdu'd of old.
705 Oblique, untoward, aukward did they crawl
Insidious, whither tending, hard to say:
Num'rous their Legs and Thighs, distorted all
- ↑ v. 702. Allies.] At least as capable of assisting him against the Mice, as Briareas, to protect him against the Gods.
- ↑ v. 703. Not triple-form'd.] Chimæra was feign'd to have the Head of a Lion, the Body of a Goat, and the Tail of a Dragon, because a Mountain to call'd had Lions at the top, Goats in the middle, and Serpents at the bottom. Tho' some of the Antients thought it no Fiction.
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