“But for the fire to thee I’ll give a plague, From Jupiter’s address (referring to Pandora) to Prometheus, after stealing fire from heaven. The passage in Hesiod runs thus:— “You rejoice at stealing fire and outwitting my mind: But I will give you, and to future men, a great plague. And for the fire will give to them a bane in which All will delight their heart, embracing their own bane.”