Some of them having been recalled from Italy or Spain were said to have been delivered from the Infernal Regions. […]  3. — We learn from history that Pyrenus drove from his kingdom all learned and wise men, and shut up public schools. […] It was Phocas, who first leaped from the rock. […] At different times he is said, in sport, and in spite of their utmost vigilance, to have purloined from Apollo his bow and quiver, from Neptune his trident, from Venus her girdle, from Mars his sword, from Jupiter his sceptre, and from Vulcan his tools. […] His employment was to prevent the living from entering, and the dead from escaping, hell.