All this being at last discovered to Titan when he saw that his Brother's Sons would come between him and the Crown, he mustered his own Sonnes the Titans, defied his Brother Saturn, fought him, had the victory and pursuing his Brother and Sister, Saturn and Ops, took them both, and imprisoned them till such time as Jupiter, be∣ing grown a man, defeated the Titans, setting at liberty his Father and Mother. In her third Child-bed she had Twins a∣gain, Pluto and Glauca, and, as before, concealing the Boy, shewed only the Girle to Saturn. Then she brought forth Neptune and put him to Nurse: to her Husband shewing (wrapt up in swadling clouts) a stone, which he devoured.
Now Ops, being delivered of Jupiter and Juno at one birth, made the Midwife carry Juno to Saturn, but Jupiter she concealed, and had him privately nursed in the house, sending for the Corybantes to play to her upon their Cymbals, that the noise of their bells might drown theĬrying of the Childe. In pursuance of these Articles Saturn devoured his Sons.
His elder brother was Titan, that perceiving his Mother and Sisters stood affected to Saturn, resigned his birth-right, conditioned that Saturn's male-issue should be destroyed, that so the Crown might return to Titan's Children. He married his Sister Ops, and cut off his Father's generative parts, casting them into the Sea, where they begot Venus, therefore called Aphrodite.
0 kommentar(er)
