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formed a sort of political community of their own which had its
hierarchy, its distribution of ranks and duties, its contentions for
power and occasional revolutions, its public meetings in the agora
of Olympus, and its multitudinous banquets or festivals."
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6 Plato, Rep. iii. p. 437, was so scandalized at this deception of
Jupiter's, and at his other attacks on the character of the gods,
that he would fain sentence him to an honourable banishment. (See
Minucius Felix, Section 22.) Coleridge, Introd. p. 154, well
observes, that the supreme father of gods and men had a full right
to employ a lying spirit to work out his ultimate will. Compare
"Paradise Lost," v. 646:
"And roseate dews disposed
All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest."
77 --Dream ought to be spelt with a capital letter, being, I think,
evidently personified as the god of dreams. See Anthon and others.
"When, by Minerva sent, a fraudful Dream
Rush'd from the skies, the bane of her and Troy."
Dyce's "Select Translations from Quintus Calaber," p.10.
78 "Sleep'st thou, companion dear, what sleep can close
Thy eye-lids?"
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