ABSTRACT
For febres perhaps fentinas as Bergk ; but cf. Hor., Od. i, 3, 29.
Servius : Prometheus after fashioning man is said to have climbed up to Heaven by Minerva's aid, and applying a torch to the sun's disk to have stolen fire, which he made known to men. The gods, being angry in consequence, sent two evils upon the earth, fevers and diseases, as Sappho and Hesiod relate.
