son,_ Hercules, born to Jove by Alcmena, the wife of Amphitryon. 151 --_Ćgiale_ daughter of Adrastus. The Cyclic poets (See Anthon's Lempriere, _s. v._) assert Venus incited her to infidelity, in revenge for the wound she had received from her husband. 152 --_Pherae,_ a town of Pelasgiotis, in Thessaly. 153 --_Tlepolemus,_ son of Hercules and Astyochia. Having left his native country, Argos, in consequence of the accidental murder of Liscymnius, he was commanded by an oracle to retire to Rhodes. Here he was chosen king, and accompanied the Trojan expedition. After his death, certain games were instituted at Rhodes in his honour, the victors being rewarded with crowns of poplar. 154 These heroes' names have since passed into a kind of proverb, designating the _oi polloi_ or mob. 155 --_Spontaneous open._ "Veil'd with his gorgeous wings, upspringing light Flew through the midst of heaven; th' angelic quires, On each hand parting, to his speed gave way Through all th' empyreal road; till at the gate Of heaven arrived, the gate self-open'd wide, On golden hinges turning." --"Paradise Lost," v. 250. 156 "Till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, with rosy hand Unbarr'd the gates of light." --"Paradise Lost," vi, 2. 157 --_Far as a shepherd._ "With what majesty and pomp does Homer exalt his deities! He here measures the leap of the horses by the extent of the world. And who is there, that, considering the exceeding greatness of the space would not with reason cry out that 'If the steeds of the deity were to take a second leap, the world would want room for it'?"--Longinus, Section 8. 158 "No trumpets, or any other instruments of sound, are used in the Homeric action itself; but the trumpet