The virgin advances after being freed from her chains, she was the reward and the cause of the labor. He cleaned his bloody hands in the ocean, and lest he injure the snaky head on the beach, he softens the ground with leaves and spreads seaweed and then places Medusa's head. The fresh twigs still lively with moisture destroyed the force of the monster and hardened by the touch of this and he felt the new gained the rigidity in the branches and foliage. But the nymphs of the sea do the same thing with more seaweed and the seeds that they threw from the hardened seaweed renew under the sea: now also the same hardness remains in coral, so that they might grasp the hard stuff from the having been touched air and what twig that was in the sea, be made stone above the sea.
Perseus placed, three altars made of earth to three gods, the left to mercury, the right to you, virgin of war, the altar of Jove is in the middle; the cow of Minerva is being sacrificed, the calf to Mercury, the bull to you, highest of the gods. At once he snatched Andromeda and the gift of so great a deed which came without a dowry; Hymen and Amor held the torches in front; the fires were being satisfied by the lavish odor, and the married people hang from the roof and everywhere both lyres and flutes and the singer, proof of happiness, make noise; with the double doors having been opened, the whole golden palace is open, and the nobles go into the beautifully prepared dinner party of the king Cepheus.
After the people of noble birth complete the courses they get drunk, Lynceus makes small talk with the men; he asked at the same time, “now, o bravest man,” he said “tell, I beg, Perseus, by how much bravery and by what arts you obtained the head hairy with snakes!” Perseus tells that lying under icy Atlas there is a place safe with bulky defence; in the entrance of which have lived the twin sisters of Medusa having shared the use of one eye. He seized it stealthily by placing his hand under with skilled craft, while they were passing it, and through the brittle forest he touched the longly secret and straying bristling stone and the Gorgons’ homes and everywhere through the fields and through the roads he saw the image of men and animals in stone having been converted from themselves with Medusa having been seen. Nevertheless, he observed the form of horrible Medusa having been reflected by the bronze of the round shield, which the left hand was carrying, and while heavy sleep was holding both the serpents and herself, he snatched the head by the neck, and flying swiftly by wings the Pegasus and the brother having been born from the blood of the mother.
Perseus placed, three altars made of earth to three gods, the left to mercury, the right to you, virgin of war, the altar of Jove is in the middle; the cow of Minerva is being sacrificed, the calf to Mercury, the bull to you, highest of the gods. At once he snatched Andromeda and the gift of so great a deed which came without a dowry; Hymen and Amor held the torches in front; the fires were being satisfied by the lavish odor, and the married people hang from the roof and everywhere both lyres and flutes and the singer, proof of happiness, make noise; with the double doors having been opened, the whole golden palace is open, and the nobles go into the beautifully prepared dinner party of the king Cepheus.
After the people of noble birth complete the courses they get drunk, Lynceus makes small talk with the men; he asked at the same time, “now, o bravest man,” he said “tell, I beg, Perseus, by how much bravery and by what arts you obtained the head hairy with snakes!” Perseus tells that lying under icy Atlas there is a place safe with bulky defence; in the entrance of which have lived the twin sisters of Medusa having shared the use of one eye. He seized it stealthily by placing his hand under with skilled craft, while they were passing it, and through the brittle forest he touched the longly secret and straying bristling stone and the Gorgons’ homes and everywhere through the fields and through the roads he saw the image of men and animals in stone having been converted from themselves with Medusa having been seen. Nevertheless, he observed the form of horrible Medusa having been reflected by the bronze of the round shield, which the left hand was carrying, and while heavy sleep was holding both the serpents and herself, he snatched the head by the neck, and flying swiftly by wings the Pegasus and the brother having been born from the blood of the mother.