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PHOSEON Lib. IX.
Attonitusque malts, exful mentisque domus-
que,
Multibus Eumenidum, matrisque agitabitur
umbrisi 410
Donee eum conjux fat ale popofcerit aurum:
Cognaturnque latus Phegems hauferit enfis.
Turn demum magno petet hos Acheldia fupplex
Ab Jove Callirrho'e natis infantibus annos.
Juppiter his mot us, prwignae dona nurus*
que 415
Praecipiet, facietque <viros impubibus annis.
PHOSES, Book IX. 311
y} Of Home, and Senfe depriv'd, where-e'er he flies,
„ The Furies, and his Mother's Ghoft he fpies.
His Wife the fatal Bracelet ftiall implore,
And Phegeus (lain his Sword in Kindred Gore,
„ Callkhoe fhall then with fuppliant Pray r
„ Prevail on Jupiter's relenting Ear.
Jove mall with Youth her Infant Sons infpire,
}y And bid their Bofoms glow with manly Fire.
3}
EXPLICATION OF THE VII. VIII. IX. & X. FAB LE S.
THe Adventure of Dryope is one of thofe Fads
which has no Connection with the main Story,
fnd of which the knowledge is of very little Importance.
A he Name of Dryope comes, very probably, from
^§^5, which fignifies an Oak, a Tree that has a great
deal of refemblance to the Lotos ; and it was that
perhaps which gave rife to the Fable; or if we will
make it relate to Hiftory, it is probable that Dryope
was puniflied for attempting to profane a Tree con-
fecrated to the Gods; as Erifichthon wasj who, for
having cut down one that was under the Protection
of Diana, was attacked by fo infatiable an Appetite,
that all the Care his Daughter Metra could pofTibly
take to provide Food for him , could not prevent
his devouring his own Flefti at laft, for want of Meat
to appeafe his voracious Stomach. All that we know
or this Dryope is, that file was the Daughter of Eu-
rytus and Sifter of Iole, the Wife of Hercules; and
that ihe was married to Andramon. Ovid fays that
while Iole related this Adventure to Akmena, Iolaus,,
whom Hercules had by Hebe after his Apotheofis, be-
came young at the prayer of that Goddefs who ap-
peafed Juno.
Our Poet relates the furprifing Change in the
^hildren of Callirhoe , of which this is the Hiftory.
Amphiaraiis, forefeeing by the Principles of his Art,
as is related by Homer, Diodorus Siculus, Pliny and
otatius, that the War of Thebes ^his Country, would
prove fatal to him, returned from the Court of Adraftus
jVPg of -Argosy whofe Sifter he had married, to go
Jj*de himfelf in fome place where he might be fafe.
■Ihe Argives , to whom the Oracles had declared
t^at Thebes ftiould not be taken. unlefs they had Am-
phiaraiis in their Troops , fearched for him every
where* but all their Labour had been in vain if En-
Phyle his Wife , gained by a Necklace of great
Value which her Brother Adraftus gave her, had
not difcovered where, he was. Amphiaraiis , for-
ced from his Retreat, went with the Argives ; and
while he was obferving a Flight of Birds, to draw
an Augury from it, his Horles tumbled down a Pre-
cipice and he loft his Life(i}. Statius to defcribe this
Event in a Poetical manner fays (2), that the Earth
opened to fwallow up him and his Chariot. Amphia-
raiis had ingaged his Son Alcmazon, in Cafe that he
loft his Life in that War , to kill Eriphyle •, this
he executed as foon as he heard of the Death of his
Father. Alcmxon, being obliged to go to the Court of
Phegeus to be expiated from his Crime, and to deliver
himfelf at the fame time from the Furies who perfe-
cted him like another Oreftes, (that is to fay, to
calm , by the Ceremonies of Expiation , his Con-
science which reproached him with his Crime), that
Prince received him into his Friendlhip and gave him
his Daughter Alphefiboea in Marriage. Alcmoeon
made her a prefent of his Mother Eriphyle's Necklacej
but having afterwards repudiated her to marry Cal-
lirrhoe or Arftnoe the Daughter of Acheloiis , he
went to demand the Necklace from his Brothers in
Law , who aflaflinated him. Amphiterus and Acar-
nanus whom he had by Callirrhoe revenged the
Death of their Father When they were very young,
and that is the Reafon why our Poet fays that the
Goddefs Hebe had augmented the Number of their
Years, to put them fpeedily in a Condition to take
that Revenge. Thus, the Marvellous laid fide, JEibn
and Iolaus renewing their Youth, are two Perfons,
who, in their Old Age gave fome marks of Vigour:
Amphiterus and Acarnanus to whom Hebe added
Years, fhew us two young Princes who revenged
their Father's Death at a Time when they were only
looked upon as two Children.
(1) See Strabo Lib. IX. Panf. in Atthis,Plutarch, Apollod.&t.
0) Theb. Lib. IV.
Tom. II.
H
f a b.
Attonitusque malts, exful mentisque domus-
que,
Multibus Eumenidum, matrisque agitabitur
umbrisi 410
Donee eum conjux fat ale popofcerit aurum:
Cognaturnque latus Phegems hauferit enfis.
Turn demum magno petet hos Acheldia fupplex
Ab Jove Callirrho'e natis infantibus annos.
Juppiter his mot us, prwignae dona nurus*
que 415
Praecipiet, facietque <viros impubibus annis.
PHOSES, Book IX. 311
y} Of Home, and Senfe depriv'd, where-e'er he flies,
„ The Furies, and his Mother's Ghoft he fpies.
His Wife the fatal Bracelet ftiall implore,
And Phegeus (lain his Sword in Kindred Gore,
„ Callkhoe fhall then with fuppliant Pray r
„ Prevail on Jupiter's relenting Ear.
Jove mall with Youth her Infant Sons infpire,
}y And bid their Bofoms glow with manly Fire.
3}
EXPLICATION OF THE VII. VIII. IX. & X. FAB LE S.
THe Adventure of Dryope is one of thofe Fads
which has no Connection with the main Story,
fnd of which the knowledge is of very little Importance.
A he Name of Dryope comes, very probably, from
^§^5, which fignifies an Oak, a Tree that has a great
deal of refemblance to the Lotos ; and it was that
perhaps which gave rife to the Fable; or if we will
make it relate to Hiftory, it is probable that Dryope
was puniflied for attempting to profane a Tree con-
fecrated to the Gods; as Erifichthon wasj who, for
having cut down one that was under the Protection
of Diana, was attacked by fo infatiable an Appetite,
that all the Care his Daughter Metra could pofTibly
take to provide Food for him , could not prevent
his devouring his own Flefti at laft, for want of Meat
to appeafe his voracious Stomach. All that we know
or this Dryope is, that file was the Daughter of Eu-
rytus and Sifter of Iole, the Wife of Hercules; and
that ihe was married to Andramon. Ovid fays that
while Iole related this Adventure to Akmena, Iolaus,,
whom Hercules had by Hebe after his Apotheofis, be-
came young at the prayer of that Goddefs who ap-
peafed Juno.
Our Poet relates the furprifing Change in the
^hildren of Callirhoe , of which this is the Hiftory.
Amphiaraiis, forefeeing by the Principles of his Art,
as is related by Homer, Diodorus Siculus, Pliny and
otatius, that the War of Thebes ^his Country, would
prove fatal to him, returned from the Court of Adraftus
jVPg of -Argosy whofe Sifter he had married, to go
Jj*de himfelf in fome place where he might be fafe.
■Ihe Argives , to whom the Oracles had declared
t^at Thebes ftiould not be taken. unlefs they had Am-
phiaraiis in their Troops , fearched for him every
where* but all their Labour had been in vain if En-
Phyle his Wife , gained by a Necklace of great
Value which her Brother Adraftus gave her, had
not difcovered where, he was. Amphiaraiis , for-
ced from his Retreat, went with the Argives ; and
while he was obferving a Flight of Birds, to draw
an Augury from it, his Horles tumbled down a Pre-
cipice and he loft his Life(i}. Statius to defcribe this
Event in a Poetical manner fays (2), that the Earth
opened to fwallow up him and his Chariot. Amphia-
raiis had ingaged his Son Alcmazon, in Cafe that he
loft his Life in that War , to kill Eriphyle •, this
he executed as foon as he heard of the Death of his
Father. Alcmxon, being obliged to go to the Court of
Phegeus to be expiated from his Crime, and to deliver
himfelf at the fame time from the Furies who perfe-
cted him like another Oreftes, (that is to fay, to
calm , by the Ceremonies of Expiation , his Con-
science which reproached him with his Crime), that
Prince received him into his Friendlhip and gave him
his Daughter Alphefiboea in Marriage. Alcmoeon
made her a prefent of his Mother Eriphyle's Necklacej
but having afterwards repudiated her to marry Cal-
lirrhoe or Arftnoe the Daughter of Acheloiis , he
went to demand the Necklace from his Brothers in
Law , who aflaflinated him. Amphiterus and Acar-
nanus whom he had by Callirrhoe revenged the
Death of their Father When they were very young,
and that is the Reafon why our Poet fays that the
Goddefs Hebe had augmented the Number of their
Years, to put them fpeedily in a Condition to take
that Revenge. Thus, the Marvellous laid fide, JEibn
and Iolaus renewing their Youth, are two Perfons,
who, in their Old Age gave fome marks of Vigour:
Amphiterus and Acarnanus to whom Hebe added
Years, fhew us two young Princes who revenged
their Father's Death at a Time when they were only
looked upon as two Children.
(1) See Strabo Lib. IX. Panf. in Atthis,Plutarch, Apollod.&t.
0) Theb. Lib. IV.
Tom. II.
H
f a b.