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SICILY AND MALTA. 31
did not fail to make their own use when
occasion osfered.—The most secret intrigues
were discovered; and every woman in
Agrigentum changed either her gallant or
her confessor. Yet still it was the same.—
At last, however, the cause was found
out; the chairs were removed, and other
precautions were taken, to prevent the dis-
covery of these sacred mysteries; and a
mutual amnesty passed amongsl all the
offended parties.
Agrigentum, like Syracuse, was long
subjeft to the yoke of tyrants. Fazzello
gives some account of their cruelty, but I
have no intention of repeating it: One
story, however pleased me ; it is a well
known one, but as it is (hort, you (hall
have it.
Perillo, a goldsmith, by wray of paying
court to Phalaris the tyrant, made him a
presentof a brazen bull, of admirable work-
manihip ;
did not fail to make their own use when
occasion osfered.—The most secret intrigues
were discovered; and every woman in
Agrigentum changed either her gallant or
her confessor. Yet still it was the same.—
At last, however, the cause was found
out; the chairs were removed, and other
precautions were taken, to prevent the dis-
covery of these sacred mysteries; and a
mutual amnesty passed amongsl all the
offended parties.
Agrigentum, like Syracuse, was long
subjeft to the yoke of tyrants. Fazzello
gives some account of their cruelty, but I
have no intention of repeating it: One
story, however pleased me ; it is a well
known one, but as it is (hort, you (hall
have it.
Perillo, a goldsmith, by wray of paying
court to Phalaris the tyrant, made him a
presentof a brazen bull, of admirable work-
manihip ;