Whom thou hast, therefore, station’d next thy throne.
Strength and Force are introduced by Æschylus as characters, in the first scene of his “Prometheus Chained.”
[189] Asteria, blest in fame.] According to Callimachus Asteria was metamorphosed into the Isle of Delos: a term which alludes to its appearing after having been submerged in the sea: δηλος, visible. Asteria is from αστηρ a star.
Asteria was thy name
Of old: since like a star from heaven on high
Thou didst leap down precipitate within
A fathomless abyss of waters, flying
From nuptial violence of Jove.
Hymn to Delos.