Brewer's: Jove

(Jupiter.) The Titans made war against Jove, and tried to dethrone him.

Not stronger were of old the giant crew, Who sought to pull high Jove from regal state.

Thomson: Castle of Indolence, cauto 1.

Milton, in Paradise Lost, makes Jove one of the fallen angels (i. 512).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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