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 The names are manifold, the Named is one,—

Had in her prescience warn'd, no single time,

But often, how the future should be cast,

Saying that not by might, nor strength of arm

The victors should have prevalence, but by guile.

But they, when I expounded them the matter,

Did not so much as deign to look at me.

So in such pass no better way appear'd,—

What other offer'd?—than with her, my Mother,

To hold by Zeus in free confederacy.

If then the bottomless black of Tartaros

Entombs with all his warriors Kronos old,

My counsels wrought it. See what benefit

The usurper of Heaven's empire had of me!

With what bad recompense he pays the debt!

But so it is: this is the very plague

Of tyranny, to poison faith in friends.

But for your question, with what cause alleged

He so mishandles me, learn now the truths

So soon as ever he was sat where erst

His father, straight to all the powers of Heaven