The clouds echo the blast of heaven’s trumpets; on this side Heaven, on that Earth, sounds the attack. Once more Nature is thrown into confusion and fears for her lord. The puissant company of the giants confounds all differences between things; islands abandon the deep; mountains lie hidden in the sea. Many a river is left dry or has altered its ancient course. One giant brandishes Thessalian Oeta in his mighty hand, another gathers all his strength and hurls Pangaeus at the foe, Athos with his snows arms another; this one roots up Ossa, that tears out Rhodope and Hebrus’ source, dividing the * * * * * Page 286 et socias truncavit aquas summaque levatus 70 rupe Giganteos umeros inrorat Enipeus: subsedit patulis Tellus sine culmine campis in natos divisa suos. Horrendus ubique it fragor et pugnae spatium discriminat aër. primus terrificum Mavors non segnis in agmen 75 Odrysios impellit equos, quibus ille Gelonos sive Getas turbare solet: splendentior igni aureus ardescit clipeus, galeamque nitentes adrexere iubae. tum concitus ense Pelorum transigit adverso, femorum qua fine volutus 80 duplex semifero conectitur ilibus anguis, atque uno ternas animas interficit ictu. tum super insultans avidus languentia curru membra terit multumque rotae sparsere cruorem. Occurrit pro fratre Mimas Lemnumque calentem 85 cum lare Vulcani spumantibus eruit undis et prope torsisset, si non Mavortia cuspis ante revelato cerebrum fudisset ab ore. ille, viro toto moriens, serpentibus imis vivit adhuc stridore ferox et parte rebelli 90 victorem post fata petit. Tritonia virgo prosilit ostendens rutila cum Gorgone pectus; adspectu contenta suo non utitur hasta (nam satis est vidisse semel) primumque furentem longius in faciem saxi Pallanta reformat. 95 ille procul subitis fixus sine vulnere nodis ut se letifero sensit durescere visu (et steterat iam paene lapis) “quo vertimur?” inquit, * * * * * Page 287 waters that before were one; Enipeus, gathered up with its beetling crags, scatters its waters over yon giant’s shoulders: robbed of her mountains Earth sank into level plains, parted among her own sons.