You shall sit upon my throne, and bright gems shall encircle your forehead. […] Philomela was accustomed to put a mark upon her work, by which it might be known. […] The Bacchantes set up their accustomed shouting, and beat violently upon them. […] It is a sort of wicked prayer, a wish that God would bring evil upon some hated person; and a blessing is a prayer that God would bestow some good upon the person prayed for. […] The vessel, perhaps, was dashed upon some fatal rock.”