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86 dren of Night may be found in the Iliad, as well as in the Æneid.

Another wonder of the prison-house, in Hesiod's account of it, is Cerberus:—

In close proximity to this monster was the fabled Styx, in some respects the most awful personage in the 'Theogony.' The legend about her is somewhat obscure, but it is curious as being connected with that of Iris, the rainbow, whose function of carrying up water when any god has been guilty of falsehood seems a vague embodiment of the covenant sealed by the "bow set in the cloud:"—