She feels absolutely no pain, but "the horror drives her mad to bring the whole house down" as the snake envelops her.Īnd finally, there's Megaera, who heads to earth and, seeing her target, transforms into a tiny bird that sings a song that seizes the soul of anyone who hears it, filling them with the kind of dread that can ruin even the bravest.
She's called the "mother of sorrows," loathed by her sisters, and when she's summoned, she descends on the home of King Latinus, plucks a snake from her hair, and drives it into the chest of the queen. She sits at the gate of Tartarus, perched on the top of a tower overlooking hell's River of Fire, and "crouching with bloody shroud girt up, never sleeping, keeps her watch at the entrance night and day."
He describes them in "The Aeneid" (translation by Robert Fagles, via Allen Fisher), starting with Tisiphone.
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