But venom’d was the bread, and mix’d the bowl, With drugs of force to darken all the soul. […] Pleas’d with the false review secure he lies, And leaden slumbers press his drooping eyes, Shouting we seize the God; our force to evade, His various arts he summons to his aid. […] He was also named Alcides, from his extraordinary force and valour. […] As Jupiter Ammon denoted the vital force that moves and enlivens animal bodies; so, by Sem, or Hercules, the Egyptians expressed that power which arranges and distributes the parts of inanimate nature, which actuates and directs the movements of those great masses which raise the idea of prodigious strength, by their motion. […] The reformed religion of Persia continued in force till that country was subdued by the Mussulmans, who by violence, established Islamism, or Mahommedanism, which is the prevalent system, at present; though numbers still preserve their ancient faith.