こう彼は言った。恵みを与える神々はその言葉を聞いて喝采し、その気概は前にもまして戦を求めた。そしてその日、男神も女神もことごとく、憎むべき戦いを起こした——ティタンの神々と、クロノスから生まれた者たちすべてと、ゼウスが地の下のエレボスから光のもとへ連れ上げた、あの畏ろしく力に満ちた者たちとが。三人いずれも肩からは百の腕が伸び、たくましい四肢の上の肩には五十の頭が生えていた。この者たちが、強い手に巨大な岩を持ってティタンたちに立ち向かった。他方ティタンたちも意気込んで陣を固め、両軍は同時にその手の業と力とを示した。果てしない海が周囲に恐ろしく鳴りわたり、大地が轟音をあげて砕けた。広い天が揺らいで呻き、高いオリュンポスは不死なる神々の突撃のもとに根もとから震え、烈しい震動はおぼろなタルタロスにまで届いた——恐るべき突進の足音と、重く硬い飛び道具の轟きとともに。こうして彼らは互いに苛烈な飛び道具を放ち、両軍の叫び声は星ちりばめた天にまで達した。そして大いなる鬨の声とともに、彼らはぶつかり合った。
英文
So he said: and the gods, givers of good things, applauded when they heard his word, and their spirit longed for war even more than before, and they all, both male and female, stirred up hated battle that day, the Titan gods, and all that were born of Cronos together with those dread, mighty ones of overwhelming strength whom Zeus brought up to the light from Erebus beneath the earth. An hundred arms sprang from the shoulders of all alike, and each had fifty heads growing upon his shoulders upon stout limbs. These, then, stood against the Titans in grim strife, holding huge rocks in their strong hands. And on the other part the Titans eagerly strengthened their ranks, and both sides at one time showed the work of their hands and their might. The boundless sea rang terribly around, and the earth crashed loudly: wide Heaven was shaken and groaned, and high Olympus reeled from its foundation under the charge of the undying gods, and a heavy quaking reached dim Tartarus and the deep sound of their feet in the fearful onset and of their hard missiles. So, then, they launched their grievous shafts upon one another, and the cry of both armies as they shouted reached to starry heaven; and they met together with a great battle-cry.