The Pendulum Clock

THE ECLOGUE OF DAPHNIS

So great was the love of Jupiter, and the gratitude for the milk he received. Referring to the infant Hercules nursing from Juno.
Yet he sang that this snowy, flowing brightness did not simply spread,
But was divided into two paths, manifest to the eyes of beholders,
A white pathway leading straight to the halls of the Thunderer; The Thunderer is a common epithet for Jupiter/Zeus.
Instead, he sang of the triple-night and of Alcides Alcides is another name for Hercules, referring to his lineage from Alcaeus.
Brought forth into the world; he who could not have been held
As an immortal god, had not the Father Jupiter moved the tiny lips
Of his slumbering son to the breasts of his wife Juno:
She, as soon as she awoke, was terrified, and springing up
Snatched her damp breasts away from the tender mouth,
Indignant. Then, as the falling liquid rushed through the vaults,
Turning back upon itself, it stained the floor and the
Planking of heaven with white spots:
From this arose the forked orbit, now swan-like in color,
Drawn through equal parts with a central divide,
As if it were soldering the blue axis of heaven with silver:
That axis which, when it wearied the neck of Atlas,
Rested as a weight not heavy upon the shoulders of Hercules;
And which now, after so many hardships and the subduing of the spirits of the dead,
He himself adorns as a great part of his own triumphs;
Opposite the Snake that guarded the rich garden of the Hesperides,
He rises up, leaning on his foot; and behind him, he cares nothing
For the open mouth and terrible gape of the Lion;
Nor for the Crab that dared to aid the Lernean Hydra;
Monsters that bear witness to a stepmother’s perpetual wrath Juno, the stepmother of Hercules, sent these monsters to destroy him.
And the hatred of unjust Juno, which raged in vain.
From here he recounts another stepmother Ino proceeding by fraud;
And of Helle, too fearful of the sea she had to cross:
How she was received into your bridal chambers, Neptune:
And by his song he leads the ram of Phryxus, and the Argo
Teeming with heroes, to the waves of Phasis and into the heavens.
Nor is he silent on the rewards for the carrier of Europa; or of you,
Myrtilus, the driver of the perjured Pelops’ chariot.
You had previously marked the Myrtoan sea with your falling
Death; now the horns of the Bull lift you on high.
Not far from these he notes the Hyades burning: but adds that what
The Greeks call Hyades, the Latins called the Little Pigs original: "Suculas". A Roman folk-etymology connecting the star cluster to the word for pigs, 'suis'.,
And that they changed the two Bears into the seven Threshing-Oxen original: "Trionibus". The 'Septentriones' or seven oxen of the North.;
With the Herdsman original: "Bubulco", referring to the constellation Boötes. following his wagons as a sluggish Bear-Watcher;
Since in the ancient custom they used to call an ox a 'trio'.