and brought up again his offspring, vanquished by
 the arts and might of his own son, and he vomited up first the stone which he had swallowed
 last. And Zeus set it fast in the wide-pathed earth at goodly
 Pytho under the glens of
 Parnassus , to be a sign
 thenceforth and a marvel to mortal men. Pausanias (x.24.6) saw near the tomb of
 Neoptolemus “a stone of no great size,” which the
 Delphians anointed every day with oil, and which he says was
 supposed to be the stone given to Cronos. And he set free
 from their deadly bonds the brothers of his father, sons of Heaven
 whom his father in his foolishness had bound. And they remembered to
 be grateful to him for his kindness, and gave him thunder and the
 glowing thunderbolt and
 lightning: for before that, huge Earth had hidden these. In them he
 trusts and rules over mortals and immortals.
 

 
 Now Iapetus took to wife the neat-ankled maid Clymene, daughter of
 Ocean, and went up with her into one bed. And she bore him a
 stout-hearted son, Atlas: also
 she bore very glorious Menoetius and clever Prometheus, full of
 various wiles, and scatter-brained Epimetheus who from the first was a
 mischief to men who eat bread; for it was he who first took of Zeus
 the woman, the maiden whom he had formed. But Menoetius was
 outrageous, and farseeing Zeus struck him with a lurid thunderbolt and sent him down to Erebus
 because of his mad presumption and exceeding pride. And Atlas through
 hard constraint upholds the wide heaven with unwearying head and arms,
 standing at the borders of the earth before the clear-voiced
 Hesperides;