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76.<br />

casional revolutions, its public<br />

meetings in the agora <strong>of</strong> Olympus,<br />

and its multitudinous banquets<br />

or festivals."<br />

Plato, Rep. iii. p. 437, was so<br />

scandalized at this deception <strong>of</strong><br />

Jupiter's, and at his other attacks<br />

on the character <strong>of</strong> the<br />

gods, that he would fain sentence<br />

him to an honourable<br />

banishment. (See Minucius<br />

Felix, Section 22.) Coleridge,<br />

Introd. p. 154, well observes,<br />

that the supreme father <strong>of</strong> gods<br />

and men had a full right to employ<br />

a lying spirit to work out<br />

his ultimate will. Compare<br />

"Paradise Lost," v. 646:<br />

"And roseate dews<br />

disposed

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