Jupiter

It will be like the life of Jupiter, who, when the universe is dissolved and the gods are merged into one and Nature for a little while is at rest, reposes upon himself, given over to his own thoughts.

"Lead me, O Father and Lord of the lofty sky, wherever you have pleased;

And let us so address Jupiter, by whose helm this whole mass is steered, as our Cleanthes addresses him in most eloquent verses, which I am permitted to render into our own tongue after the example of Cicero, a most eloquent man.

Again, who are more incestuous than those whom Jupiter himself has taught?

Behold, in that most religious city of the pious sons of Aeneas there is a certain Jupiter whom at his games they wash with human blood.

Wherein does the funeral feast of Jupiter differ from the funeral banquet of the dead?

Having been acquitted, he brought to trial in return the five richest individuals of their party, charging them with cutting stakes in the ground sacred to Jupiter and to [the hero] Alcinous;

that they should bring back the seed of the demigod son of Jupiter from a foreign land to his own;

And so they said that in the course of time, when he had gone as an exile to Lycaeum, (in consequence of his former return from Attica, which was thought to have been effected by bribery,) and had then, through fear of the Lacedaemonians, half his house within the sanctuary of Jupiter, he induced them, in the nineteenth year of his exile, to restore him with the same dances and sacrifices as when …

The same man also says that Jupiter is the force of perpetual and eternal law, which is, as it were, the guide of life and the mistress of duties;

Following him, Diogenes of Babylon, in the book entitled On Minerva, by referring the birth of Jupiter and the origin of the virgin goddess to natural science, severs them from the fable.

for he reckons neither Jupiter, nor Juno, nor Vesta, nor anyone so named among the gods, but teaches that these names have been assigned, by a kind of symbolism, to lifeless and dumb things.

Strepsiades.

What Jupiter?

O King Jupiter, of what a terrible length the nights are!

For, eternity taken away, Jupiter is no whit happier than Epicurus;

And even when we call Jupiter Best and Greatest, and the same the Saviour, the Hospitable, the Stayer, we wish it to be understood that the safety of men is in his keeping.

And we have it that the same king first held the great games which are called the Roman games, and vowed, in the Sabine war, in the very battle, a temple to Jupiter Best and Greatest to be built on the Capitol;

and, enriched with the greatest spoil of gold and silver, he discharged his father's vow by the building of the Capitol, and led out colonies, and, after the manner of those from whom he was sprung, sent magnificent gifts, as it were libations of the spoils, to Apollo at Delphi.

For all who have the power of life and death over the people are tyrants, but they prefer to be called kings, by the name of Jupiter Best.

But the omnipotent Father in keen wrath

Then with the sudden smite of thunderbolt

Did hurl the mighty-minded hero off

it adores the standards, swears by the standards, prefers the standards to Jupiter himself.

the same poet shows Jupiter almost suffering the like from the commons of heaven, or wrings tears from him over Sarpedon, or brings him in luxuriating most foully with Juno, with the desire of his lust commended by the commemoration and enumeration of his mistresses.

For by a private title you commonly call Jupiter "the Best," and there is Virgil's "Jove the Just.

the Olympia to Jupiter, which at Rome are the Capitoline;

even if it draws one chariot, it is yet the wagon of Jupiter;

As for the chariots, they consecrated the six-horse to Jupiter, the four-horse to the Sun, the two-horse to the Moon.

‘Such are the minds of men as is the light with which the Father himself, Jupiter, has flooded the fruitful lands.

thereafter Jupiter and Juno, and the rest, whom we see used and called brothers among themselves and kindred;

He, indeed, was the great-grandson of Jupiter.

\"All these I saw set ablaze, Priam's life reft from him by force, Jove's altar fouled with blood.

10, after a vacancy of seventy-five years, renewed the priesthood of Jove (flaminium diale) he limited by statute the legal effect of confarreation in that particular instance, § 136;

Confarreation, another mode in which subjection to hand originates, is a sacrifice offered to Jupiter Farreus, in which they use a cake of spelt, whence the ceremony derives its name, and various other acts and things are done and made in the solemnization of this disposition with a traditional form of words, in the presence of ten witnesses:

JUPITER, who personates Amphitryon.

By the command of Jupiter I am come;

But he has so disguised himself, as though he were Amphitryon.

they will utter something you might think the mark of a great spirit, as did Gaius Caesar, who, angry at the heavens because a thunderstorm was drowning out the pantomimes—whom he imitated more zealously than he watched—and because his revelry was frightened by lightnings (very ill-aimed ones, at that), called Jupiter to battle, and that to the death, shouting out that Homeric line:

9 For, besides what Hecaton copies down, Chrysippus says that the three Graces are the daughters of Jupiter and Eurynome, younger in age than the Hours, but somewhat fairer of face, and for that reason given to Venus as her companions.

Thus I bear your wild fancies as Jupiter Best and Greatest bears the silly inventions of the poets, of whom one has put wings upon him, another horns, another has brought him in as an adulterer staying out all night, another as cruel toward the gods, another as unjust toward men, another as the ravisher of freeborn youths and of his own kin, another as a parricide and the usurper of another's king …

Hence too the frenzy of the poets, who nourish human errors with their tales, in which Jupiter, beguiled by the pleasure of an embrace, was thought to have doubled the night.

the conqueror of Hannibal, the conqueror of Antiochus, the ornament of his own consulship, the surety for his brother’s, who, but for his own delay, would be set beside Jupiter—him civil seditions will harass as the saviour of his country, and after he had as a young man scorned honours that made him the equal of the gods, in old age the ambition of stubborn exile will please him.

The very common superstition too of ordinary idolatry, when in its images it is ashamed of the names and fables of the dead of old, flees to an interpretation of natural things, and overshadows its disgrace with ingenuity, figuring Jupiter into a fiery substance and his Juno into an airy one — according to the sound of the Greek words — likewise Vesta into fire, and the Camenae into waters, and th …

And yet with that wisdom it is more easily believed that Jupiter was made a bull or a swan than that Christ was truly a man in Marcion's keeping.

The hands of Phidias work the Olympian Jupiter out of ivory, and it is adored;

"Then to you, Jupiter, we vow that there shall be an ox with horns decorated with gold.

Diodorus, that Jupiter, after the Titans were vanquished, was honoured with this gift by the rest.

This is the name of the crowns, distinguished with gems and golden oak-leaves from Jupiter, which they take to lead in the sacred cars, with palm-embroidered togas.

I know a certain man—whom may the Lord pardon—when it had been said to him in public, in a lawsuit, "May Jupiter be angry with you," who answered, "Nay, with you.