So Argos perished: fires, All fires that were his glancing sight put out; A single darkness filled his hundred eyes. With jeweller’s art the raging Juno—she Was Saturn’s daughter in her frenzy—set The monster’s eyes as stars in the tail feathers Of her pet bird, the peacock, then inflamed With further rages called the dread Erinyes, Instructed one of them to haunt poor Io, Until the creature, fear eating at its heart, Ran mad by day, by night, throughout the world. And not until she reached the blessed Nile Were trials exhausted, and the curse grown weak Permitted her to fall upon her knees,
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