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“At that tasted fruit, The sun, as from Thyestian banquet, turned His course intended; else-how had the world Inhabited, though sinless, more than now, Avoided pinching cold and scorching heat?”

From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Hitchcock, Edward

The body of the nation firmly believed the current rumours which charged its votaries with horrible midnight assemblies, rendered infamous by Thyestian banquets and the atrocities of nameless superstitions.

From Seekers after God by Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William)