Eclogue XXIV. — Single Lines on each of the Toils of Hercules

The first toil endured was that of the Cleonaean lion. The next with sword and brand crushed the Lyrnaean hydra. The third exploit presently destroyed the boar of Erymanthus. Fourthly he carried off the golden antlers of the fleet-footed stag. In his fifth adventure he shot down the Stymphalian birds. Sixthly he despoiled the Thracian Amazon of her belt. His seventh labour was spent upon the stables of Augeas. The bull driven out of Crete is counted his eighth glory. The team of Diomedes brought his ninth victory. Spain gives him his tenth palm for slaying Geryones. The plucked apples of the Hesperides made his eleventh triumph. Cerberus is the final goal of his last labour.