Mercury was his secretary of state and ambassador; Neptune, or Æolus, the admiral of his fleets; Vulcan, his high master of artillery; Mars, the general of his troops; Comus, his hotel master. […] The gods, moved with his complaints, granted him his request. […] All his subjects being swept away by a pestilence, he begged of his father that he would re-people his kingdom. […] Typhon had Pelorus for his right hand, Pachynus for his left, and Lilybæus for his legs. […] Merope was his wife.