Seven Stars far varied in their course revolved upon the [wide] Olympian
plain; with them for ever will Eternity 1 <#fn_291> spin [fate] 2
<#fn_292>:—Mēnē that shines by night, [and] gloomy Kronos, [and] sweet
Hēlios, and Paphiē who’s carried in the shrine, 3 <#fn_293> courageous
Arēs, fair-wingèd Hermēs, and Zeus the primal source 4 <#fn_294> from
whom Nature doth come.

Now they themselves have had the race of

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men entrusted to their care; so that in us there is a Mēnē, Zeus, an
Arēs, Paphiē, a Kronos, Hēlios and Hermēs.

Wherefore we are divided up [so as] to draw from the ætherial spirit, 1
<#fn_295> tears, laughter, anger, birth, reason, sleep, desire.

Tears are Kronos, birth Zeus, reason [is] Hermēs, courage Mars, and Mēnē
sleep, in sooth, and Cytherēa desire, and Hēlios [is] laughter—for ’tis
because of him that justly every mortal thinking thing doth laugh and
the immortal world.

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