stat mediis elatus aquis recipitque ruentem Alcides saxoque prior surgentia colla obruit; hinc validos nodosi roboris ictus congeminat; fluctus defertur belua in imos iam totis resoluta vadis;
High in the midst of the waters stands Hercules, awaiting its onset, and swifter than the neck can rise he strikes it down with a rock; then redoubles the shattering blows of his knotted club, until the beast sinks beneath the waves, its coils slackening along all the shallows;
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