基本信息
tune, who still persecuted him without ceasing and would not let him get home.
now neptune had gone off to the ethiopians, who are at the world's end, and lie in two halves, the one looking west and the other east. he had gone there to accept a hecatomb of sheep and oxen, and was enjoying himself at his festival; but the other gods met in the house of olympian jove, and the sire of gods and men spoke first. at that moment he was thinking of aegisthus, who had been killed by agamemnon's son orestes; so he said to the other gods:
"see now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly. look at aegisthus; he must needs make love to agamemnon's wife unrighteously and then kill agamemnon, though he knew it would be the death of him; for i sent mercury to warn him not to do either of these things, inasmuch as orestes would be sure to take his revenge when he grew up and wanted to return home. mercury told him this in all good will but he would not listen, and now he has paid for everything in full."
