6-8.
261 "Swift from his throne the infernal monarch ran, All pale and trembling, lest the race of man, Slain by Jove's wrath, and led by Hermes' rod, Should fill (a countless throng!) his dark abode." Merrick's Tryphiodorus, vi.

769, sqq.
262 These words seem to imply the old belief, that the Fates might be delayed, but never wholly set aside.
263 It was anciently believed that it was dangerous, if not fatal, to behold a deity.

See Exod.xxxiii.

20; Judg.xiii.

22.
264 "Ere Ilium and the Trojan tow'rs arose, In humble vales they built their soft abodes." Dryden's Virgil, iii.