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Belus or Serapis

Luxon, Thomas H., ed. The Milton Reading Room, http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton, October, 2014.

Belus is Latinized Bel, Mesopotamian god of the air, also know to the ancient Hebrews as Baal (Jeremiah 51:44). Sarapis is a Greco-Egyptian god of the sun.
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Related:  Warr'd on by Cranes,  Thir Glory witherd,  In shape and gesture proudly eminent,  Pioners,  Mulciber,  and what resounds,  Doric,  but half his foe,  Words interwove,  From wing to wing, and half enclose him round,  As when the Sun,  Space may produce new Worlds,  Brigad,  Armoric,  dim Eclips,  How such united force of Gods, how such,  amerc't,  puissant,  Hath scath'd the Forrest Oaks,  Ilium,  Sovran,  Tears such as Angels weep,  Theb's,  conclave,  Stood like a Towr,  Damasco, or Marocco, or Trebisond,,  All her Original brightness,  Deep scars of Thunder had,  veins of liquid fire,  about the Hive [ 770 ] In clusters,  New rub'd with Baum,  Of dauntless courage,  Peerage,  Phlegra,  Was not inglorious,  assayd,  wing'd with speed,  presaging,  Thir visages,  Mammon,  When Charlemain,  fretted Gold,  Ausonian,  Babilon,  Rifl'd the bowels of thir mother,  repulse,  Baptiz'd or Infidel,  griesly,  scurff,  for his fault,  Memphian,  Stands on the blasted Heath,  Then that small infantry warr'd on by Cranes,  his Regal State [ 640 ] Put forth at full,  Sat on his faded cheek,  Seraphic Lords and Cherubim,  but what power of mind,  Pandæmonium,  The fellows of his crime, the followers rather,  Perplexes Monarchs,  Self-rais'd, and repossess,  impious,  custome,  Sits Arbitress,  Cressets,  or Romance,  Shorn of his Beams,  who overcomes By force,  cruel his eye,  they relate,  Cherubim,  Hurling defiance,  That in his womb was hid metallic Ore,  downward bent,  bossy Sculptures,  ribs of Gold,  fame,  Brusht with the hiss of russling wings,  Could merit more,  Alcairo,  to have thir lot in pain,  Monuments of Fame,  Fontarabbia,  testifies,  Naphtha,  th' event,  Swarm'd and were straitn'd; till the Signal giv'n.,  Hateful to utter,  Pigmean Race,  Uthers,  Which tempted our attempt,  some belated Peasant,  considerate Pride Waiting revenge,  Monarch in Heav'n,  He spake,  upheld by old repute,  Biserta,  Browes,  Eternal Splendors flung [ 610 ] For his revolt,  Begirt,  in Bondage, nor th' Abyss Long under darkness cover,  Paynim,  Babel,  hardening in this strength glories,  remorse,  imbodied,  guile,  As when Heavens Fire,  shall fail to re-ascend,  attention held them mute,  Horizontal misty Air,  Heav'ns pavement, trod'n Gold,  awful,  auxiliar,  when Ægypt with Assyria strove,  beatific,  Bullion,  these beyond Compare of mortal prowess,  thir stately growth,  intrencht,  Thither,  Myriads,  Aspramont,  Distends with pride