None dared espouse her cause save Cronus, the crafty. […] But a more famous son of the same Titan, Prometheus, who had espoused the cause of Jove, acquired dignity hereafter to be set forth. […] In that conflict, Prometheus, gifted with prophetic wisdom, had adopted the cause of the Olympian deities. […] He seems to have been, when he chose, the cause of “inextinguishable laughter” to the gods, but he was by no means a fool. […] Jupiter lent a favoring ear, and pleaded the cause of the lovers with Venus.