“[p. 259] Theseus says that Hercules tore him from the rock and led him to the light of the Upper World?” He also says that Virgil erred in these lines: 1
He Argos and Mycenae shall uproot,“He has confounded,” says Hyginus, “different persons and times. For the wars with the Achaeans and with Pyrrus were not waged at the same time nor by the same men. For Pyrrus, whom he calls a descendant of Aeacus, having crossed over from Epirus into Italy, waged war with the Romans against Manius Curius, who was their leader in that war. 4 But the Argive, that is, the Achaean war, was carried on many years after under the lead of Lucius Mummius. 5 The middle verse, therefore, about Pyrrus,” says he, “may be omitted, since it was inserted inopportunely; and Virgil,” he said, “undoubtedly would have struck it out.”
City of Agamemnon, and the heir
Of Aeacus himself, from war-renowned
Achilles sprung, 2 his ancestors of Troy
Avenging and Minerva's spotless shrine. 3
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[17arg] Why and how the philosopher Democritus deprived himself of his eye-sight; and the very fine and elegant verses of Laberius on that subject.IT is written in the records of Grecian story that the philosopher Democritus, a man worthy of
