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6. The sixth labour is clean smg of Augeas’s
stables. He is represented as retting after it, and
sitting on a basket, with a dung-fork in his hand.
This was too disgraceful to be taken notice of by
the poets.
7. The ievfinth is the Cretan bull. He is re-
presented as having flung the bull over his shoul-
ders, with as much ease as he did the boar. Ovid
makes him hold the bull by the horns, as he did
the ttag.
8. The eighth labour is his killing Diomedes
and his horses, whom he used to feed with the ssesh
of his subjeds. There are antiques, in which the
wretches are represented as ssung alive into the
manger k.
9. The ninth is his conquest of Geryon, who is
generally represented with three bodies l, Though
he was a giant, he looks in the relievo as a boy,
perhaps to make Hercules look the taller.
10. The tenth is the conquest of the Ama-
zon. He is generally, as here, represented tak-
ing off her zone, and is so described by the
poets m.
& Sil, iii. v. 196. 38“.
1 ZEn. viii. v. 203. vi. v. 289. Hor. ii. od. 14. v. 8. Met. is*
y. 185. Lucr. v. v. 28. ZEn. vi. v. 285.
» Met. ix. v. 185. Mart. ix. ep. IO2.

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