38. Tenth Labour: The Oxen of Geryon 38\. Décimo Trabalho: Os Bois de Geryon

Tum vero missus est Hercules ad insulam Erythiam, ut boves Geryonis arcesseret.

Res erat summae difficultatis, quod boves a quodam Eurytione et a cane bicipite custodiebantur. It was the greatest difficulty that some Eurytione them from the bicipite guarded by a dog.

Ipse autem Geryon speciem horribilem praebebat; tria enim corpora inter se coniuncta habebat.

Hercules tamen etsi intellegebat quantum periculum esset, negotium suscepit; ac postquam per multas terras iter fecit, ad eam partem Libyae pervenit quae Europae proxima est. Let me tell you, however, though he discerned from the imminent danger that it would be, the business has received; and after they had passed through many countries, and traveled to, arrived at, which at that side of Europe and Libya is very near.

Ibi in utroque litore freti quod Europam a Libya dividit columnas constituit, quae postea Herculis Columnae appellabantur. The shore of the strait that divides Europe from Libya in each of the pillars there, and made him, and afterwards these were called the pillars of Hercules.