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So, when some brawny Sacrificer knocks,
Before an Altar led, an offer'd Ox,
His Eye-balls rooted out, are thrown to Ground;$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$
His Nose, dismantled, in his Mouth is found;
His Jaws, Cheeks, Front, one undistinguish'd Wound.
This, Belates, th' Avenger, cou'd not brook;
But, by the Foot, a Maple board he took;
And hurl'd at Amycus; his Chin it bent
Against his Chest, and down the Centaur sent:
Whom sputtring bloody Teeth, the second Blow
Of his drawn Sword, dispatch'd to Shades below.
Grineus was near; and cast a furious Look
On the Side-Altar, cens'd with sacred Smoke,
And bright with flaming Fires; The Gods, he cry'd,
Have with their holy Trade our Hands supply'd:
Why use we not their Gifts? Then from the Floor
An Altar-Stone he heav'd, with all the Load it bore:
Altar, and Altar's Freight together flew,$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$
Where thickest throng'd the Lapythean Crew:
And, at once, Broteas and Oryus slew.
Oryus' Mother, Mycalè, was known
Down from her Sphere to draw the lab'ring Moon.
Exadias cry'd, Unpunish'd shall not go
This Fact, if Arms are found against the Foe.
He look'd about, where on a Pine were spread
The votive Horns of the Stag's branching Head:
At Grineus these he throws, so just they fly,
That the sharp Antlers stuck in either Eye:
Breathless, and Blind he fell; with Blood besmear'd;
His Eye-balls beaten out, hung dangling on his Beard.
Fierce Rhætus, from the Hearth a burning Brand
Selects, and whirling waves; till, from his Hand
The Fire took Flame; then dash'd it from the right,
On fair Charaxus' Temples, near the Sight:
The whistling Pest came on, and pierc'd the Bone,
And caught the yellow Hair, that shrivel'd while it shone.

Caught