Men called him Mulciber; and how he fell
From heaven they fabled, thrown by angry Jove
Sheer o'er the chrystal battlements: from morn
To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,
A summer's day; and with the setting sun,
Dropped from the zenith like a falling star,
On Lemnos, the Ægean isle."
Milton.
He was educated by the nymphs of the sea, and trained in his
youth in the art of working metals, and was able to cultivate those mechanical abilities which he is represented to possess.