quam magnus Orion, cum pedes incedit medii per maxima Nerei stagna viam scindens, umero supereminet undas, aut summis referens annosam montibus ornum ingrediturque solo et caput inter nubila condit, talis se vastis infert Mezentius armis.
Great as Orion, when cleaving a path he stalks on foot through the vast pools of mid-ocean, towers with his shoulder above the waves, or, carrying off an aged ash from mountain heights, walks the ground with head hidden in the clouds: like him Mezentius strode in his giant armour.