ds either quite absolute, that is, with the
object understood, or the accusative belongs to a verb
immediately following."--Buttm. Lexil. pp. 505, sq.]

Thus she spake, and the large-eyed, venerable Juno smiled, and smiling,
then placed it in her bosom. But Venus, the daughter of Jove, departed
to the palace; and Juno, hastening, quitted the summit of Olympus, and,
having passed over Pieria and fertile Emathia, she hastened over the
snowy mountains of equestrian Thrace, most lofty summits, nor did she
touch the ground with her feet. From Athos she descended to the foaming
deep, and came to Lemnos, the city of divine Thoas, where she met Sleep,
the brother of Death; to whose hand she then clung, and spoke, and
addressed him:

"O Sleep,[470] king of all gods and all men,[471] if ever indeed thou
didst listen to my entreaty, now too be persuaded; and I will
acknowledge gratitude to thee all my days. Close immediately in sleep
for me the bright eyes of Jove under his eyelids, after I couch with him
in love; and I will give thee, as gifts, a handsome golden throne, for
ever incorruptible. And my limping son, Vulcan, adorning it, shall make
it, and below thy feet he shall place a footstool, upon which thou
mayest rest thy shining feet while feasting."

[Footnote 470: Cf. Hesiod, Theog. 214. The dying words of Gorgias
of Leontium are very elegant: [Greek: Ede me o ypnos archetai
parakatatithesthai to adelpho].--AElian, Var. Hist. ii. 35.]

[Footnote 471: So in the Orphic hymn: [Greek: Ypne anax panton
makaron thneton t' anthropon].]

But her sweet Sleep answering, addressed: "Juno, venerable goddess,
daughter of great Saturn, any other of the everlasting gods could I
easily lull to sleep, and even the flowing of rapid Ocean, who is the
parent of all; but I could not approach Saturnian Jove, nor lull him to
sleep, unless, at least, he himself command me. For once already, at
least, has he terrified me by his threats, on that day when the
magnanimous son of Jove (Hercules) sailed from Ilium, having sacked the
city of the Trojans. Then I lulled the mind of aegis-bearing Jove, being
poured gently around him, whilst thou wast planning evils in thy mind
[against the hero], rousing the blasts of bitter winds over the deep;
and thou didst afterwards carry him away apart from all his friends to
well-inhabited Cos. But he, when awakened, was enraged, hurling about
the gods through his mansion, and me chiefly of