“Sky was the first who ruled over the whole world. And having wedded Earth, he begat first the Hundred-handed, as they are named: Briareus, Gyes, Cottus, who were unsurpassed in size and might, each of them having a hundred hands and fifty heads.? After these, Earth bore him the Cyclopes, that the Sky-god and the Earth-goddess are the parents of the principal spirits who dispense life and death, weal and woe, among mankind.”

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