menial servants to Jupiter
Note by H. Craik to Chapter 3 of Battle of the Books

And 1. 14, called by mortal men accidents or events . Cf. Sir Kenelm Digby's Observations on Brown's Religio Medici.

'All outward circumstances, whose highest link, poets say prettily, is fastened to Jupiter's chair, and the lowest is rivetted to every individual on earth.'