“Unable to refuse, Zeus came to her bridal chamber in a chariot, with lightnings and thunder- ings, and launched a thunderbolt. But Semele expired of fright, and Zeus, snatching the sixth- month abortive child? from the fire, sewed it in his thigh. On the death of Semele the other daughters of Cadmus spread a report that Semele had bedded with a mortal man, and had falsely accused Zeus, and that therefore she had been blasted by thunder.”

— The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. IV · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan