Dione, great among the goddesses, Rejoined: “Submit, my daughter, and endure, Though inly grieved; for many of us who dwell Upon the Olympian mount have suffered much From mortals, and have brought great miseries Upon each other. First, it was the fate Of Mars to suffer, when Aloëus’ sons, Otus and mighty Ephialtes, made Their fetters fast upon his limbs. He lay Chained thirteen months within a brazen cell; And haply there the god, whose thirst of blood Is never cloyed, had perished, but for aid Which Eriboea gave, the beautiful, His step-mother. She made his miseries known To Mercury, who set him free by stealth, Withered and weak with long imprisonment. And Juno suffered when Amphitryon’s son, The valiant, dared to plant in her right breast A three-pronged arrow, and she writhed with pain. And Pluto suffered, when the hero-son Of aegis-bearing Jove, with a swift shaft, Smote him beside the portals of the dead, And left him filled with pain. He took his way To high Olympus and the home of Jove,