Chap. IV.
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Greeks, shall return to Olympus sorely maimed, and in a disgraceful plight: or else I will seize him, and hurl him down to gloomy Tartarus, where there is a deep dungeon under the earth, with gates of iron, and a pavement of brass, as far below hell, as the earth is below the heavens. Then he will know how much stronger I am than all the other gods. But come now, and make trial, that ye may all be convinced. Suspend a golden chain from heaven, and hang all by one end of it, with your whole weight, gods and goddesses together: you will never pull down from the heaven to the earth, Jupiter, the supreme counsellor, though you should strain with your utmost force. But when I chuse to pull, I will raise you all, with the earthand
