“Surpassing all the rest were Porphyrion and Alcyoneus, who was even immor- tal so long as he fought in the land of his birth. He also drove away the cows of the Sun from Erythia. Now the gods had an oracle that none of the giants could perish at the hand of gods, but that with the help of a mortal they would be made an end of. Learning of this, Earth sought for a simple to prevent the giants from being destroyed even by sqq.).”

— The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK I, ch. VI · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan