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rape of Cephalus see Hes. "Theog." 986;
Eur. "Ion," 269; Paus. i. 3. 1; iii. 18. 7.
[8] Lat. Aesculapius. Father of Podaleirius and Machaon, "the noble
leech," "Il." ii. 731, iv. 194, 219, xi. 518; "Od." iv. 232.
[9] Cf. "Anab." I. ii. 8; Lincke, "z. Xen. Krit." p. 299.
[10] Melanion, s. Meilanion, Paus. iii. 12. 9; v. 17. 10; v. 19. 1.
[11] "Which were his rival suitors." As to Atalanta see Paus. viii. 45. 2;
iii. 24. 2; v. 19. 2; Grote, "H. G." i. 199 foll.
[12] Lit. "the virtue of Nestor has so far penetrated the ears of Hellas
that I should speak to those who know." See Hom. "Il." i. 247, and
passim.
Amphiaraus,[13] what time he served as a warrior against Thebes, won
for himself the highest praise; and from heaven obtained the honour of
a deathless life.[14]
[13] Amphiaraus. Pind. "Nem." ix. 13-27; "Olymp." vi. 11-16; Herod. i.
52; Paus. ix. 8. 2; 18. 2-4; ii. 23.2; i. 34; Liv. xlv. 27; Cic. "de Div." i.

40. See Aesch. "Sept. c. Th." 392; Eur. "Phoen." 1122 foll.; Apollod. iii.
6; Strab. ix. 399, 404.
[14] Lit. "to be honoured ever living."
Peleus kindled in the gods desire to give him Thetis, and to hymn their
nuptials at the board of Cheiron.[15]
[15] For the marriage of Peleus and Thetis see Hom. "Il." xxiv. 61; cf.
Pope's rendering:
To grace those nuptials from the bright abode Yourselves were present;
when this minstrel god (Well pleased to share the feast) amid the quire
Stood proud to hymn, and tune his youthful lyre ("Homer's Il." xxiv.)
Prof. Robinson Ellis ("Comment on Catull." lxiv.) cites numerous
passages: Eur. "I. in T." 701 foll., 1036 foll.; Pind. "Isthm." v. 24;
"Pyth." iii. 87-96; Isocr. "Evag." 192. 6; Apoll. Rh. iv. 791; "Il." xxiv.
61; Hes. "Theog." 1006, and "Epithal." (ap. Tsetz, "Prol. ad Lycophr.):
{tris makar Aiakide kai tetrakis olbie Peleu os toisd' en megarois ieron
lekhos eisanabaineis}.
The mighty Telamon[16] won from the greatest of all states and
wedded her whom he desired, Periboea the daughter of Alcathus;[17]
and when the first of Hellenes,[18] Heracles[19] the son of Zeus,
distributed rewards of valour after taking Troy, to Telamon he gave
Hesione.[20]
[16] See "Il." viii. 283l Paus. i. 42. 1-4.
[17] Or Alcathous, who rebuilt the walls of Megara by Apollo's aid. Ov.
"Met." viii. 15 foll.
[18] Reading {o protos}; or if with L. D. {tois protois}, "what time
Heracles was distributing to the heroes of Hellas (lit. the first of the
Hellenes) prizes of valour, to Telamon he gave."
[19] See Hom. "Il." v. 640; Strab. xiii. 595.
[20] See Diod. iv. 32; i. 42.
Of Meleager[21] be it said, whereas the honours which he won are
manifest, the misfortunes on which he fell, when his father[22] in old
age forgot the goddess, were not of his own causing.[23]
[21] For the legend of Meleager see "Il." ix. 524-599, dramatised by
both Sophocles and Euripides, and in our day by Swinburne, "Atalanta
in Calydon." Cf. Paus. iii. 8. 9; viii. 54. 4; Ov. "Met." viii. 300; Grote,
"H. G." i. 195.
[22] i.e. Oeneus. "Il." ix. 535.

[23] Or, "may not be laid to his charge."
Theseus[24] single-handed destroyed the enemies of collective Hellas;
and in that he greatly enlarged the boundaries of his fatherland, is still
to-day the wonder of mankind.[25]
[24] See "Mem." II. i. 14; III. v. 10; cf. Isocr. "Phil." 111; Plut. "Thes."
x. foll.; Diod. iv. 59; Ov. "Met." vii. 433.
[25] Or, "is held in admiration still to-day." See Thuc. ii. 15; Strab. ix.
397.
Hippolytus[26] was honoured by our lady Artemis and with her
conversed,[27] and in his latter end, by reason of his sobriety and
holiness, was reckoned among the blest.
[26] See the play of Euripides. Paus. i. 22; Diod. iv. 62.
[27] Al. "lived on the lips of men." But cf. Eur. "Hipp." 85, {soi kai
xeneimi kai logois s' ameibomai}. See Frazer, "Golden Bough," i. 6, for
the Hippolytus-Virbius myth.
Palamedes[28] all his days on earth far outshone those of his own times
in wisdom, and when slain unjustly, won from heaven a vengeance
such as no other mortal man may boast of.[29] Yet died he not at their
hands[30] whom some suppose; else how could the one of them have
been accounted all but best, and the other a compeer of the good? No,
not they, but base men wrought that deed.
[28] As to Palamedes, son of Nauplius, his genius and treacherous
death, see Grote, "H. G." i. 400; "Mem." IV. ii. 33; "Apol." 26; Plat.
"Apol." 41; "Rep." vii. 522; Eur. fr. "Palam."; Ov. "Met." xiii. 56; Paus.
x. 31. 1; ii. 20. 3.
[29] For the vengeance see Schol. ad