Hence Perseus to his native city hies, Victorious, and rewarded with his prize: Conquest, o’er Praetus the usurper, won, He reinstates his grandsire in the throne. Praetus his brother dispossess’d by might, His realm enjoy’d, and still detain’d his right: But Perseus pull’d the haughty tyrant down, And to the rightful king restored the throne; Weak was the usurper, as his cause was wrong: Where Gorgon’s head appears, what arms are strong? When Perseus to his host the monster held, They soon were statues, and their king expell’d.