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When the next morning came Zeus called the gods to an assembly on the / topmost ridge of Olympus, and spake to them, saying: --
"Hearken, gods and goddesses! Let none of you presume to go against / my word. Whosoever of you shall aid either Greek or Trojan, him will / I smite with the thunder, or else will cast him far down to the / darkness of Tartarus, whose gates are iron and whose threshold / bronze, and he shall know that I am chief among gods. And if ye will / make trial of my strength, let down a chain of gold from heaven to / earth, and take hold thereof, all ye gods and goddesses. Yet shall / ye not drag down Zeus, no, though ye strive with all your might. But / if I should draw with all my strength, I could lift you up, and earth / and sea with you, and bind the chain about a horn of Olympus, and / leave you hanging there. So much am I stronger than all besides."