Village books

I was all day long falling from morn to eve,
but at sunset I came to ground on the island of Lemnos, and there
was very little life left in me, till the Sintians came and tended
me.'
"On this Juno smiled, and with a laugh took the cup from her son's
hand. Then Vulcan went about among all other gods drawing nectar
for them from his goblet, and they laughed immoderately as they saw
him bustling about the heavenly mansion."
Then presently the gods go home to bed, each one in his own house
that Vulcan had cunningly built for him or her. Finally Jove
himself went to the bed which he generally occupied; and Jove his
wife went with him.
There is another quarrel between Jove and Juno at the beginning of
the fourth book.
The gods are sitting on the golden floor of Jove's palace and
drinking one another's health in the nectar with which Hebe from
time to time supplies them. Jove begins to tease Juno, and to
provoke her with some sarcastic remarks that are pointed at her
though not addressed to her directly.


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