Those who beheld this statue are said to have been so struck with it as to have asked whether Jupiter had descended from heaven to show himself to Phidias, or whether Phidias had been carried thither to contemplate the god."-- "Elgin Marbles," vol.xii p.124.
71 "So was his will Pronounced among the gods, and by an oath, That shook heav'n's whole circumference, confirm'd." "Paradise Lost" ii.

351.
72 -- _A double bowl, i.e._ a vessel with a cup at both ends, something like the measures by which a halfpenny or pennyworth of nuts is sold.

See Buttmann, Lexic.p.93 sq.
73 "Paradise Lost," i.

44.
"Him th' Almighty power Hurl'd headlong flaming from th ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion" 74 The occasion on which Vulcan incurred Jove's displeasure was this--After Hercules, had taken and pillaged Troy, Juno raised a storm, which drove him to the island of Cos, having previously cast Jove into a sleep, to prevent him aiding his son.

Jove, in revenge, fastened iron anvils to her feet, and hung her from the sky, and Vulcan, attempting to relieve her, was kicked down from Olympus in the manner described.