hinc spolia ostentabat ovans captivaque victor armenta ad fontes medio fervore vocabat, cum tumidas fauces accensis sole venenis calcatus rupit letali vulnere serpens Inachiumque virum terris prostravit Hiberis.
Zacynthus displayed in triumph the prize taken from Geryon, and was calling the cattle to the water in the heat of noon, when a serpent that he trod on discharged from its swollen throat poison envenomed by the sun. The wound was fatal, and the Greek hero lay dead on Spanish soil.
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