§148τρεῖς παῖδες μεγάλοι τε καὶ ὄβριμοι, οὐκ ὀνομαστοί, §149Κόττος τε Βριάρεώς τε Γύης θʼ, ὑπερήφανα τέκνα.
Three sons, great and mighty, who cannot be named, Cottus and Briareus and Gyes, overbearing children.
§150τῶν ἑκατὸν μὲν χεῖρες ἀπʼ ὤμων ἀίσσοντο, §151ἄπλαστοι, κεφαλαὶ δὲ ἑκάστῳ πεντήκοντα §152ἐξ ὤμων ἐπέφυκον ἐπὶ στιβαροῖσι μέλεσσιν· §153ἰσχὺς δʼ ἄπλητος κρατερὴ μεγάλῳ ἐπὶ εἴδει.
From their shoulders a hundred untouchable arms darted forth, and fifty heads for each grew from their shoulders upon their stout limbs; and mighty strength was theirs, untouchable, upon their great form.
For of all those who were born of Earth and Heaven, they were the most terrible of children, and they were hated by their father from the beginning.
§156ἐξ ἀρχῆς· καὶ τῶν μὲν ὅπως τις πρῶτα γένοιτο, §157πάντας ἀποκρύπτασκε, καὶ ἐς φάος οὐκ ἀνίεσκε, §158Γαίης ἐν κευθμῶνι, κακῷ δʼ ἐπετέρπετο ἔργῳ §159Οὐρανός.
And as soon as any of them was first born, he would hide them all away, and would not let them come up into the light, in the hollow of Earth; and Heaven rejoiced in his evil deed.
ἣ δʼ ἐντὸς στοναχίζετο Γαῖα πελώρη §160στεινομένη· δολίην δὲ κακήν τʼ ἐφράσσατο τέχνην.
But huge Earth groaned within, being straitened; and she devised a crafty and evil wile.
§161αἶψα δὲ ποιήσασα γένος πολιοῦ ἀδάμαντος §162τεῦξε μέγα δρέπανον καὶ ἐπέφραδε παισὶ φίλοισιν· §163εἶπε δὲ θαρσύνουσα, φίλον τετιημένη ἦτορ· §164παῖδες ἐμοὶ καὶ πατρὸς ἀτασθάλου, αἴ κʼ ἐθέλητε §165πείθεσθαι, πατρός κε κακὴν τισαίμεθα λώβην §166ὑμετέρου· πρότερος γὰρ ἀεικέα μήσατο ἔργα. §167ὣς φάτο· τοὺς δʼ ἄρα πάντας ἕλεν δέος, οὐδέ τις αὐτῶν §168φθέγξατο.
And quickly having made the race of grey adamant, she fashioned a great sickle and told her dear children; and she spoke, encouraging them, while she was grieved in her dear heart: "My children, born of a reckless father, if you would be persuaded, we would take vengeance on the evil outrage of your father; for he was the first to devise shameful deeds." So she spoke; and fear seized them all, nor did any of them speak.
θαρσήσας δὲ μέγας Κρόνος ἀγκυλομήτης §169ἂψ αὖτις μύθοισι προσηύδα μητέρα κεδνήν· §170μῆτερ, ἐγώ κεν τοῦτό γʼ ὑποσχόμενος τελέσαιμι §171ἔργον, ἐπεὶ πατρός γε δυσωνύμου οὐκ ἀλεγίζω §172ἡμετέρου· πρότερος γὰρ ἀεικέα μήσατο ἔργα. §173ὣς φάτο· γήθησεν δὲ μέγα φρεσὶ Γαῖα πελώρη·
But great Cronos of crooked counsel, taking courage, again addressed his dear mother with words: "Mother, I would undertake and perform this deed, since I do not care for our father of evil name; for he was the first to devise shameful deeds." So he spoke; and huge Earth rejoiced greatly in her heart.
And she hid him and set him in ambush; and in his hands she placed a sickle with jagged teeth; and she put all the guile into him.
§176ἦλθε δὲ νύκτʼ ἐπάγων μέγας Οὐρανός, ἀμφὶ δὲ Γαίῃ §177ἱμείρων φιλότητος ἐπέσχετο καί ῥʼ ἐτανύσθη §178πάντη· ὃ δʼ ἐκ λοχέοιο πάις ὠρέξατο χειρὶ §179σκαιῇ, δεξιτερῇ δὲ πελώριον ἔλλαβεν ἅρπην §180μακρὴν καρχαρόδοντα, φίλου δʼ ἀπὸ μήδεα πατρὸς §181ἐσσυμένως ἤμησε, πάλιν δʼ ἔρριψε φέρεσθαι §182ἐξοπίσω·
And great Heaven came, bringing on the night, and lay around Earth desiring her love, and stretched himself everywhere; and the son from his ambush reached out with his left hand, and with his right he took the huge sickle, long and with jagged teeth, and from his dear father he cut off the genitals swiftly, and threw them to be carried behind him.
τὰ μὲν οὔ τι ἐτώσια ἔκφυγε χειρός· §183ὅσσαι γὰρ ῥαθάμιγγες ἀπέσσυθεν αἱματόεσσαι, §184πάσας δέξατο Γαῖα· περιπλομένων δʼ ἐνιαυτῶν §185γείνατʼ Ἐρινῦς τε κρατερὰς μεγάλους τε Γίγαντας, §186τεύχεσι λαμπομένους, δολίχʼ ἔγχεα χερσὶν ἔχοντας, §187Νύμφας θʼ ἃς Μελίας καλέουσʼ ἐπʼ ἀπείρονα γαῖαν.
And they did not escape uselessly from his hand; for all the bloody drops that spurted forth, Earth received them all; and as the years rolled round she bore the powerful Erinyes and the great Giants, shining in their armor, holding long spears in their hands, and the Nymphs whom they call Meliae upon the boundless earth.
§188μήδεα δʼ ὡς τὸ πρῶτον ἀποτμήξας ἀδάμαντι §189κάββαλʼ ἀπʼ ἠπείροιο πολυκλύστῳ ἐνὶ πόντῳ, §190ὣς φέρετʼ ἂμ πέλαγος πουλὺν χρόνον, ἀμφὶ δὲ λευκὸς §191ἀφρὸς ἀπʼ ἀθανάτου χροὸς ὤρνυτο· τῷ δʼ ἔνι κούρη §192ἐθρέφθη·
And the genitals, as soon as he had cut them off with the adamant and cast them from the land into the surging sea, were carried thus along the deep for a long time, and a white foam arose from the immortal flesh; and in it a maiden was nurtured.
πρῶτον δὲ Κυθήροισιν ζαθέοισιν §193ἔπλητʼ, ἔνθεν ἔπειτα περίρρυτον ἵκετο Κύπρον.
And first she drew near to divine Cythera, and from there she came to sea-girt Cyprus.
And she stepped out, a revered and beautiful goddess, and grass grew up beneath her slender feet.
τὴν δʼ Ἀφροδίτην §197κικλῄσκουσι θεοί τε καὶ ἀνέρες, οὕνεκʼ ἐν ἀφρῷ §198θρέφθη· ἀτὰρ Κυθέρειαν, ὅτι προσέκυρσε Κυθήροις· §199Κυπρογενέα δʼ, ὅτι γέντο πολυκλύστῳ ἐνὶ Κύπρῳ· §200ἠδὲ φιλομμηδέα, ὅτι μηδέων ἐξεφαάνθη.
And her Aphrodite both gods and men call, because in the foam she was nurtured; and Cytherea, because she drew near to Cythera; and Cyprogenes, because she was born in sea-girt Cyprus; and Philommedes, because she appeared from the genitals.
And with her Eros accompanied, and beautiful Himeros followed, at her birth first and as she went into the race of the gods.
§203ταύτην δʼ ἐξ ἀρχῆς τιμὴν ἔχει ἠδὲ λέλογχε §204μοῖραν ἐν ἀνθρώποισι καὶ ἀθανάτοισι θεοῖσι, §205παρθενίους τʼ ὀάρους μειδήματά τʼ ἐξαπάτας τε §206τέρψιν τε γλυκερὴν φιλότητά τε μειλιχίην τε.
And this honor she has from the beginning and has received as her allotment among men and the immortal gods: maidenly whisperings and smiles and deceits, and sweet delight and gentle love.
§207τοὺς δὲ πατὴρ Τιτῆνας ἐπίκλησιν καλέεσκε §208παῖδας νεικείων μέγας Οὐρανός, οὓς τέκεν αὐτός· §209φάσκε δὲ τιταίνοντας ἀτασθαλίῃ μέγα ῥέξαι §210ἔργον, τοῖο δʼ ἔπειτα τίσιν μετόπισθεν ἔσεσθαι.
And those children their father, great Heaven, called by the name Titans, reproaching them, those whom he himself had begotten; and he said that they, stretching tight in their recklessness, had done a great deed, and that there would be vengeance for this afterward.
§211νὺξ δʼ ἔτεκεν στυγερόν τε Μόρον καὶ Κῆρα μέλαιναν §212καὶ Θάνατον, τέκε δʼ Ὕπνον, ἔτικτε δὲ φῦλον Ὀνείρων· §214δεύτερον αὖ Μῶμον καὶ Ὀιζὺν ἀλγινόεσσαν §213οὔ τινι κοιμηθεῖσα θεὰ τέκε Νὺξ ἐρεβεννή, §215Ἑσπερίδας θʼ, ᾗς μῆλα πέρην κλυτοῦ Ὠκεανοῖο §216χρύσεα καλὰ μέλουσι φέροντά τε δένδρεα καρπόν.
And Night bore hateful Moros and black Ker and Thanatos, and she bore Hypnos, and she bore the tribe of Dreams; next again Momus and painful Oizys, the dark goddess Night bore them, having lain with no one, and the Hesperides, who care for the beautiful golden apples beyond glorious Oceanus and the trees that bear fruit.
§217καὶ Μοίρας καὶ Κῆρας ἐγείνατο νηλεοποίνους, §218Κλωθώ τε Λάχεσίν τε καὶ Ἄτροπον, αἵτε βροτοῖσι §219γεινομένοισι διδοῦσιν ἔχειν ἀγαθόν τε κακόν τε,
And she bore the Moirai and the ruthlessly-punishing Keres, Clotho and Lachesis and Atropos, who to mortals at their birth give to have both good and evil,