This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 Excerpt: ... addressed. Like the brave cock's, tc. Heyne observes, that the figure of a cock was impressed upon the coins of Himera, a. circumstance which might have suggested this comparison to the poet: to which we may add that this bird was probably a favourite symbol also among the Cretans; for among the statues in the Altis, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 Excerpt: ... addressed. Like the brave cock's, tc. Heyne observes, that the figure of a cock was impressed upon the coins of Himera, a. circumstance which might have suggested this comparison to the poet: to which we may add that this bird was probably a favourite symbol also among the Cretans; for among the statues in the Altis, at Olympia, of the nine chiefs who (as Homer tells us) drew lots for the privilege of combating with Hector, that of Idomeneus, the king of Crete, bore a shield, with a cock emblazoned on it, being the emblem of the Sun, the father of Pasiphae. from whom that warrior was descended.--Pans. lib. v. c. 25. Cnossian fields. Cnossus was a city of Crete, celebrated for the Labyrinth, in which the Minotaur was confined. It was the birthplace of Ergoteles, from which he had been driven in consequence of his share 1 tlie sedition mentioned in the text, By Isthmians once, and twice in Pytho crown'd, A worthier hearth thy Fame has found By the warm waves of Himera, Whose Nymphs by thee ennobled hail thy stay. ODE XIII. TO XENOPHON THE CORINTHIAN, Victor in the Single Foot-Race and in tJie Pentathlon. STROPHE I. While to the House thrice in Olympia crown'd, The citizen's indulgent friend, The stranger's host, my praise I send; Thee, prosperous Corinth, + for thy race renown'd, Portal of Isthmian Neptune, J shall my strain Forget not. There the Golden Sisters reign Tlirice in Ohjmpia. Thessalus, the father of Xenophon, had also won the single foot-race at Olympia (as will appear in the second antiBtrophe), making with those of his son three Olympic victories in that family. + Prosperous Corinth. So Homer calls this city afyvtiov rt KoptvOov, the wealthy Corinth; although, as Pausanias observes, she seems not to have been a sovereign state at th...
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