ibi arcano florentes igne zmaragdos cingit et infaustas percussum adamanta figuras  Gorgoneosque orbes Siculaque incude relictos fulminis extremi cineres viridumque draconum lucentes a fronte iubas; hic flebile germen Hesperidum et dirum Phrixei velleris aurum; tum varias pestes raptumque interplicat atro Tisiphones de crine ducem, et quae pessima ceston vis probat; haec circum spumis lunaribus unguit callidus atque hilari perfundit cuncta veneno.
Around it he sets a circle of emeralds flowering with hidden fire, adamant stamped with ill-omened shapes, Gorgon eyes, ashes of a thunderbolt end left on Sicilian anvil, crests shining from the heads of green serpents; here is tearful fruit of the Hesperides  and the dire gold of Phrixus fleece. Then he entwines various harms, a chieftain torn from Tisiphones black hair and the most noxious of the powers that attest the Girdle.  These he cunningly smears about with lunar spume  and over the whole spreads gay poison.
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