through the thunder and lightning,
 and through the fire from the monster, and the scorching winds and
 blazing thunderbolt. The whole earth seethed, and sky and sea: and the
 long waves raged along the beaches round and about at the rush of the
 deathless gods: and there arose an endless shaking. Hades trembled where he rules over
 the dead below, and the Titans under Tartarus who live with Cronos,
 because of the unending clamor and the fearful strife. 
 

 
 So when Zeus had raised up his might and seized his arms, thunder and
 lightning and lurid thunderbolt, he leaped from Olympus and
 struck him, and burned all the marvellous heads of the monster about
 him. But when Zeus had conquered him and lashed him with strokes,
 Typhoeus was hurled down, a maimed wreck, so that the huge earth
 groaned. And flame shot forth from the thunderstricken lord in the dim rugged glens of the
 mount, According to Homer
 Typhoeus was overwhelmed by Zeus amongst the Arimi in Cilicia . Pindar represents him
 as buried under Aetna ,
 and Tzetzes read Aetna 
 in this passage. when he was smitten. A great part of huge
 earth was scorched by the terrible vapor and melted as tin melts when
 heated by men's art in channelled The
 epithet (which means literally well-bored ) seems to refer to the spout of the
 crucible. crucibles; or as iron, which is hardest of all
 things, is shortened by glowing
 fire in mountain glens and melts in the divine earth through the
 strength of Hephaestus. The fire god.
 There is no reference to volcanic action: iron was smelted on
 Mount Ida ; cp. Epigrams of Homer, ix. 2-4. Even so,
 then, the earth melted in the glow of the blazing fire. And in the
 bitterness of his anger Zeus cast him into wide Tartarus. And from
 Typhoeus come boisterous winds which blow damply,