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42 but he cannot refrain from expressing his sympathy for Prometheus. "Against my will," he says,

Strength despises this pitifulness, and suggests that Vulcan ought to hate one who had injured him so especially; and when the fire-god pleads the force of kindred and friendship, hints that no course is so painful as to encounter the wrath of Zeus. Vulcan bitterly regrets that his possession of the art of working in metals should have brought on him, instead of any other, so distasteful a task. This leads to a remark