And by my counsels Tartarus' black-pitted

Depths conceals the ancient Kronos,

With his allies. In such things by me

The tyrant of the gods having been helped,

With base rewards like these repays me;

For there is somehow in kingship

This disease, not to trust its friends.

What then you ask, for what cause

He afflicts me, this will I now explain.

As soon as on his father's throne