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32 A TOUR THROUGH
manship ; hollow within, and so contrived
that the voice of a person {hut up in it,
sounded exadlly like the bellowing of a
real bull. The artist pointed out to the
tyrant what an admirable effect this must
produce, were he only to shut up a few
criminals in it, and make a sire under
them.
Phalaris, struck with so horrid an idea,
and perhaps curious to tiy the experiment,
told the goldsmith that he himself was the
only person worthy of animating his bull :
that he must have studied the note that
made it roar to the greatest advantage, and
that it would be unjust to deprive him
of any part of the honour of his invention.
Upon which he ordered the goldsmith to be
shut up, and made a great fire around the
bull: which immediately began to roar, to the
admiration and delight of all Agrigentum.
Cicero says, this bull was carried to Car-
thage at the taking of Agrigentum; and
was
manship ; hollow within, and so contrived
that the voice of a person {hut up in it,
sounded exadlly like the bellowing of a
real bull. The artist pointed out to the
tyrant what an admirable effect this must
produce, were he only to shut up a few
criminals in it, and make a sire under
them.
Phalaris, struck with so horrid an idea,
and perhaps curious to tiy the experiment,
told the goldsmith that he himself was the
only person worthy of animating his bull :
that he must have studied the note that
made it roar to the greatest advantage, and
that it would be unjust to deprive him
of any part of the honour of his invention.
Upon which he ordered the goldsmith to be
shut up, and made a great fire around the
bull: which immediately began to roar, to the
admiration and delight of all Agrigentum.
Cicero says, this bull was carried to Car-
thage at the taking of Agrigentum; and
was