He was accounted the son of Venus and Bacchus; and his image, a most hideous mis-shapen figure, was set up to frighten away birds and thieves. […] Echo pined away with grief, but peing immortal, preserved her voice, repeating every sound which reached her. […] He killed or drove away the Stymphalides, birds which fed upon human flesh. […] The Sun of Righteousness, the glorious luminary of the moral world arose, and the dark shades of intellectual night swiftly fled away. […] In vain would men, in vain would Gods essay, To hew the beams of adamant away.

Ulysses and Diomedes [Diome′des] crept into the city through the common sewers, and brought away the image. […] He took some of the reeds away for a remembrance. […] He killed, or drove away from Lake Stymphalus [Stympha′lus], certain voracious birds which fed on human flesh. […] As soon as Loki heard this, he went away rejoicing. […] Three such winters will pass away without being tempered by a single summer.