Note 123:1 — BOOK III.—EPITOME.
Charles Duke Yonge translation
This is parodied from—
Καὶ Τίτυον εἶδον γαίης ἐρικυδέος υἷον Κειμένον ἐν δαπέδῳ ὁδ' ἔπ' ἐννεὰ κεῖτο πέλεθρα:
translated by Pope:
There Tityus large, and long in fetters bound, O'erspreads nine acres of infernal ground.