Perry, Walter Copland: Greek and Roman sculpture: a popular introduction to the history of Greek and Roman sculpture (London, 1882)

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And now in Sipylus, amid the rocks

And lonely mountains, where the goddess nymphs

That love to dance by Achelous'1 stream,

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Broods over wrongs inflicted by the Gods.2

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On the grey Sipylian summit to her dreary death did pine :
How the rocky growth around her straining, ivylike, arose ;
How she wastes with dews perennial and with everlasting snows;
Ceaseless from her streaming eyelids fall the tears upon her breast,—
Likest her, the powers of Heaven lull me to a forceful rest.

(H. A. P.)

This primaeval work bears a strong resemblance to some of the
seated statues cut out of the rocks which border the Nile.'1

1 Some conjecture a river of this name in 3 Antigone, v. 791 (ed. Bocckh).

Lydia ; Heyne thinks it is the mythical term * See Prof. Sayce's ' Notes from Journeys

for any river. in the Troadand Lydia,' in vol. i. of Journal

• Lord Derby's translation, xxiv. v. 717. of Hellenic Studies.