Semele, the daughter of Cadmus, who besought her lover, Jupiter, to come to her, as he went to Juno, “in all the pomp of his divinity.” Ovid, Metamorphoses , III , Addison’s Tr. :⁠—

“The mortal dame, too feeble to engage

The lightning’s flashes and the thunder’s rage,

Consumed amidst the glories she desired,

And in the terrible embrace expired.”