se Saturn, instead of
observing an oath he had sworn, to destroy his male children, permitted
his son Jupiter, by a stratagem of Rhea, to be educated. Jupiter, for
this purpose, raised a gallant army of Cretans, and engaged the
Cecr{)o}pes as auxiliaries in this expedition; but these, after taking
his money, having refused their services, he changed into apes. The
valor of Jupiter so animated the Cretans, that by their aid he overcame
the Titans, released his parents, and, the better to secure the reign of
his father, made all the gods swear fealty to him upon an altar, which
has since gained a place among the stars.

This exploit of Jupiter, however, created jealousy in Saturn, who,
having learnt from an oracle, that he should be dethroned by one of his
sons, secretly meditated the destruction of Jupiter as the most
formidable of them. The design of Saturn being discovered by one of his
council, Jupiter became the aggressor, deposed his father, threw him
into Tartarus, ascended the throne, and was acknowledged as supreme by
the rest of the gods.

The reign of Jupiter being less favorable to his subjects than that of
Saturn, gave occasion to the name of the silver age, by which is meant
an age inferior in happiness to that which preceded, though superior to
those which followed.

The distinguishing character of his person is majesty, and every thing
about him carries dignity and authority with it; his look is meant to
strike sometimes with terror, and sometimes with gratitude, but always
with respect. The Capitoline Jupiter, or the Jupiter Optimus Maximus,
(him now spoken of,) was the great guardian of the Romans, and was
represented, in his chief temple, on the Capitoline hill, as sitting on
a curule chair, with the lightning in his right hand, and a sceptre in
his left.

The poets describe him as standing amidst his rapid horses, or his
horses that make the thunder; for as the ancients had a strange idea of
the brazen vault of heaven, they seem to have attributed the noise in a
thunder storm to the rattling of Jupiter's chariot and horses on that
great arch of brass all over their heads, as they supposed that he
himself flung the flames out of his hand, which dart at the same time
out of the clouds, beneath this arch.

APOLLO was son of Jupiter and Latona, and brother of Diana, and of all
the divinities in the pagan world, the chief cherisher and protecter of
the polite arts, and the most conspicuous character i