8 Then we made a longer journey, turning to the left, and at a crossbow-shot 84 we found the next, far more fierce and larger. Who had been the master to bind him I cannot tell; but he had shackled 87 behind, and the other in front, his right arm by a chain which held him girt from the neck downward, so that upon his uncovered part 90 it was wound as far as the fifth coil. “This proud one wished to make trial of his power against the supreme Jove,” 93 said my Leader, “wherefore he has such requital. Ephialtes is his name, and he made his great endeavors when the giants caused fear to the Gods: 96 the arms which he plied he moves nevermore.” And I to him: “If it may be, I would that of the measureless Briareus 99 my eyes might have experience.” Whereon he answered: “Thou shalt see Antaeus hard by here, who speaks, and is unfettered, 102 who will set us at the bottom of all sin. He whom thou wishest to see is much farther on, and is bound and fashioned like this one, 105 save that he seems more ferocious in his look.” Never was earthquake so mighty that it shook a tower as violently 108 as Ephialtes was quick to shake himself.
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