in sea-girt Erythea by his shambling oxen on that day
 when he drove the wide-browed oxen to holy Tiryns , and had crossed the ford
 of Ocean and killed Orthus and Eurytion the herdsman in the dim stead
 out beyond glorious Ocean. And
 in a hollow cave she bore another monster, irresistible, in no wise
 like either to mortal men or to the undying gods, even the goddess
 fierce Echidna who is half a nymph with glancing eyes and fair cheeks,
 and half again a huge snake, great and awful, with speckled skin,
 eating raw flesh beneath the secret parts of the holy earth. And there
 she has a cave deep down under a hollow rock far from the deathless
 gods and mortal men. There, then, did the gods appoint her a glorious
 house to dwell in: and she keeps guard in Arima beneath the earth,
 grim Echidna, a nymph who dies
 not nor grows old all her days.
 

 
 Men say that Typhaon the terrible, outrageous and lawless, was joined
 in love to her, the maid with glancing eyes. So she conceived and
 brought forth fierce offspring; first she bore Orthus the hound of
 Geryones, and then again
 she bore a second, a monster not to be overcome and that may not be
 described, Cerberus who eats raw flesh, the brazen-voiced hound of
 Hades, fifty-headed, relentless and strong. And again she bore a
 third, the evil-minded Hydra of Lerna, whom the goddess, white-armed
 Hera nourished, being angry
 beyond measure with the mighty Heracles. And her Heracles, the son of
 Zeus, of the house of Amphitryon, together with warlike Iolaus,
 destroyed with the unpitying sword through the plans of Athena the
 spoil driver. She was the mother of Chimaera who breathed raging
 fire,