Neptune, that backs and shakes the earth, ’tis he
Whose breast with anger and revenge still swells
Against him, for his son’s calamity,
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The godlike Polypheme, Cyclops the great,
Whom on Thoosa, Phorcys’ daughter brave,
Neptune the king of waters did beget,
Embracing her within a hollow cave;
And him Ulysses has depriv’d of sight.

Nay, it is Poseidon, the earth-enfolder, who is ever
filled with stubborn wrath because of the Cyclops, whom Odysseus blinded of his eye —
[70] even the godlike Polyphemus, whose might is greatest
among all the Cyclopes; and the nymph Thoosa bore him,
daughter of Phorcys who rules over the unresting sea;
for in the hollow caves she lay with Poseidon.