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Pindar speaks of it in Ode VIII. of his Pythicks. I fee,
fays he\dtlcmoeon the sir ft before Thebes shaking the dra-
gon , wbofe colours variegate the brightness of his shield.
The Divinity, who ofsers him the helmet, may be
Iris the melsenger of Juno , indicated by the Caduceus.
As Alcmseon meditated an astion, the end of which was
to punish the perfidy of his mother towards her husband,
it was natural that it should be executed under the au-
spices of Juno the avenger of conjugal transgressions.
Such an a6tion, in which the first Goddess took so great
an interest, could not fail of immediate success, unless she
had judged otherwise.
The case was such as to render it necessary that the
punishment should be delayed, as Alcmseon was immediately
after the Matricide to be delivered up to te fury of the
Eumenides, which would have ruind the proje6t of the
Epigones : it was therefore absolutely neceisary that Juno
should send Iris to persuade him to grant their request.
The armour of Alcmseon explains what Homer {Book
i6,andverfe 134) meant by the Epithet of Starred, and
which he gives to the Cuirass of Achilles, and also throws
great light upon the form of the. Cuirass of Agamemnon
ipoken of in Book 11, ver/e 24 and 25.
Plate 5. ) Phaenix persuading young Achilles not to go
to the Trojan War, was thought to have been the sd>
jest of this plate-, but the following story seems to be more
applicable to it.
Pelias King of Cholchos consulting the Oracle upon
what was likely to happen to him during his reign, was
answer d, that He must be on his guard againss: a man
who should have only one of his feet shod. Sometime aster
making a (acrifice to Neptune , he invited many persbns
of distin6tion , among which was Jason , who having re-
ceived
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Pindar speaks of it in Ode VIII. of his Pythicks. I fee,
fays he\dtlcmoeon the sir ft before Thebes shaking the dra-
gon , wbofe colours variegate the brightness of his shield.
The Divinity, who ofsers him the helmet, may be
Iris the melsenger of Juno , indicated by the Caduceus.
As Alcmseon meditated an astion, the end of which was
to punish the perfidy of his mother towards her husband,
it was natural that it should be executed under the au-
spices of Juno the avenger of conjugal transgressions.
Such an a6tion, in which the first Goddess took so great
an interest, could not fail of immediate success, unless she
had judged otherwise.
The case was such as to render it necessary that the
punishment should be delayed, as Alcmseon was immediately
after the Matricide to be delivered up to te fury of the
Eumenides, which would have ruind the proje6t of the
Epigones : it was therefore absolutely neceisary that Juno
should send Iris to persuade him to grant their request.
The armour of Alcmseon explains what Homer {Book
i6,andverfe 134) meant by the Epithet of Starred, and
which he gives to the Cuirass of Achilles, and also throws
great light upon the form of the. Cuirass of Agamemnon
ipoken of in Book 11, ver/e 24 and 25.
Plate 5. ) Phaenix persuading young Achilles not to go
to the Trojan War, was thought to have been the sd>
jest of this plate-, but the following story seems to be more
applicable to it.
Pelias King of Cholchos consulting the Oracle upon
what was likely to happen to him during his reign, was
answer d, that He must be on his guard againss: a man
who should have only one of his feet shod. Sometime aster
making a (acrifice to Neptune , he invited many persbns
of distin6tion , among which was Jason , who having re-
ceived