463, that "The gods formed a sort of political community of their own which had its hierarchy, its distribution of ranks and duties, its contentions for power and occasional revolutions, its public meetings in the agora of Olympus, and its multitudinous banquets or festivals." 76 Plato, Rep.iii.p.437, was so scandalized at this deception of Jupiter's, and at his other attacks on the character of the gods, that he would fain sentence him to an honourable banishment.

(See Minucius Felix, Section 22.) Coleridge, Introd.p.154, well observes, that the supreme father of gods and men had a full right to employ a lying spirit to work out his ultimate will.

Compare "Paradise Lost," v.

646: "And roseate dews disposed All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest." 77 -- _Dream_ ought to be spelt with a capital letter, being, I think, evidently personified as the god of dreams.

See Anthon and others.
"When, by Minerva sent, a _fraudful_ Dream Rush'd from the skies, the bane of her and Troy." Dyce's "Select Translations from Quintus Calaber," p.10.
78 "Sleep'st thou, companion dear, what sleep can close Thy eye-lids ?" -- "Paradise Lost," v.