The Overthrow of the Telchines

The Telchines, the wizards who poisoned the seed
Of the land where they dwelled, and from whom did proceed
The grim working which fashioned the sickle which smote
The progenitor Heaven in times most remote,
These by dint of their malice the gods did reduce
To destruction; for first they were flooded by Zeus.
But the wrath of the thundering God not alone
Did abuse them – Poseidon saw them overthrown;
With the trident they fashioned, he levered the isle,
So that all their corruption could no more defile
The whole land where they dwelled; and then under the waves
The whole host were received into watery graves.