Even as a consuming fire makes a boundless forest to blaze on the peaks of a mountain, and from afar is the glare thereof to be seen, even so from their innumerable bronze, as they marched forth, went the dazzling gleam up through the sky to the heavens.
ἠΰτε πῦρ ἀΐδηλον ἐπιφλέγει ἄσπετον ὕλην οὔρεος ἐν κορυφῇς , ἕκαθεν δέ τε φαίνεται αὐγή , ὣς τῶν ἐρχομένων ἀπὸ χαλκοῦ θεσπεσίοιο αἴγλη παμφανόωσα δι' αἰθέρος οὐρανὸν ἷκε .
ἠύτε πῦρ ἀίδηλος ἐπιφλέγω ἄσπετος ὕλη ὄρος ἐν κορυφή , ἕκαθεν δέ τε φαίνω αὐγή , ὡς ὁ ἔρχομαι ἀπό χαλκός θεσπέσιος αἴγλη παμφανόων διά αἰθήρ οὐρανός ἵκω .