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Folly
Alternative name · Reported
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In Agamemnon’s recollected story, Jove flings Folly down from Heaven, establishing her prior presence there.
“On this Jove was stung to the very quick, and in his rage he caught Folly by the hair, and swore a great oath that never should she again invade starry heaven and Olympus, for she was the bane of all. Then he whirled her round with a twist of his hand, and flung her down from heaven”
Phoenix personifies Sin as fierce, fleet, baneful, and able to outrun Prayers.
“footsteps of sin, who, being fierce and fleet of foot, leaves them far behind him, and ever baneful to mankind outstrips them”
Agamemnon describes Folly as Jove’s eldest daughter who walks delicately above the earth, hovers over human heads, blinds them to destruction, and makes them stumble or become ensnared.
“Folly, eldest of Jove’s daughters, shuts men’s eyes to their destruction. She walks delicately, not on the solid earth, but hovers over the heads of men to make them stumble or to ensnare them”
Agamemnon’s story says Folly fooled even Jove, who is said to be greatest among gods and men.
“she fooled Jove himself, who they say is greatest whether of gods or men; for Juno, woman though she was, beguiled him”
Jove seizes Folly by the hair, calls her the bane of all, bans her from heaven, whirls her around, and hurls her among mortal men.
“he caught Folly by the hair, and swore a great oath that never should she again invade starry heaven and Olympus, for she was the bane of all. Then he whirled her round with a twist of his hand, and flung her down from heaven so that she fell on to the fields of mortal men”
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“sin, who, being fierce and fleet of foot, leaves them far behind him”
“Folly, eldest of Jove’s daughters, shuts men’s eyes to their destruction”