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The Giants
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Neve foret terris securior arduus aether,adfectasse ferunt regnum caeleste gigantasaltaque congestos struxisse ad sidera montis.tum pater omnipotens misso perfregit Olympumfulmine et excussit subiecto Pelion Ossae.obruta mole sua cum corpora dira iacerent,perfusam multo natorum sanguine Terramimmaduisse ferunt calidumque animasse cruoremet, ne nulla suae stirpis monimenta manerent,in faciem vertisse hominum; sed et illa propagocontemptrix superum saevaeque avidissima caediset violenta fuit: scires e sanguine natos.
Mouseia
Mouseia’s complete machine-assisted Musean translation, made directly from all 780 hexameter lines of Book I for fidelity, Ovidian wit, narrative speed, and cadence.
And that the heaven, high as it was, might be no safer than the earth, they say the giants aspired to the kingdom of the sky, and heaped new mountains to the very stars. Then the almighty father, hurling his bolt, broke Olympus open, and shook Pelion down from Ossa. When their dire bodies lay buried under their own heaps, they say the earth drank deep of her children's blood, and warmed it into life, and — so no trace of that stock's line should perish — turned its face to man: but that breed too scorned the gods, and lusted greedily for savage slaughter, and was violent: you would know they were born of blood.
Mouseia
Mouseia’s complete Plain English edition, made independently and directly from all 780 hexameter lines of Book I.
And so that the heavens might be no safer than the earth, they say the giants plotted to seize the kingdom of the sky, piling new mountains, range on range, up to the very stars. Then the almighty father hurled his thunderbolt and split Olympus open, and shook Pelion down from underneath Ossa. When the terrible bodies of the giants lay crushed beneath the mountains they had piled, they say the earth was soaked with their blood and warmed it into life, and — so that no trace of that race should be lost — gave it the face of man. But that new race too despised the gods, and thirsted cruelly for blood and violence. You could see they were born of blood.