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... Hercules ' . The beauty of his wife in exaggerated terms . Under first of the Heraclidae was Agron who reigned the influence of a most fatal delusion , he took also at Sardis he was the son of Ninus , the an opportunity of thus ...
... Hercules ' . The beauty of his wife in exaggerated terms . Under first of the Heraclidae was Agron who reigned the influence of a most fatal delusion , he took also at Sardis he was the son of Ninus , the an opportunity of thus ...
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... conquest of the Erymanthian boar was one of the fated labours of Hercules ; and the story of the Caledonian boar is one of the most beautiful in Ovid.-T. Amphiaraus , Trophonius , and the Milesian Branchidæ . The 12 HERODOTUS .
... conquest of the Erymanthian boar was one of the fated labours of Hercules ; and the story of the Caledonian boar is one of the most beautiful in Ovid.-T. Amphiaraus , Trophonius , and the Milesian Branchidæ . The 12 HERODOTUS .
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... Hercules ; on the reverse , a head with a long beard , and a singular ornament . - Larcher . 10 Larger dimensions than at present . ] - Upon this subject of the degeneracy of the human race , whoever wishes to see what the greatest ...
... Hercules ; on the reverse , a head with a long beard , and a singular ornament . - Larcher . 10 Larger dimensions than at present . ] - Upon this subject of the degeneracy of the human race , whoever wishes to see what the greatest ...
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... Hercules learned the art of the bow from the Scythian Teutarus . Theocritus himself says , that Hercules learned this art from Eury . tus , one of the Argonauts . The Athenians had Scythians amongst their troops , as had probably the ...
... Hercules learned the art of the bow from the Scythian Teutarus . Theocritus himself says , that Hercules learned this art from Eury . tus , one of the Argonauts . The Athenians had Scythians amongst their troops , as had probably the ...
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... Hercules , by checking the inundations of this river by mounds , was said to have broken off one of his horns ; whence the cornucopia . - T . The sea and the continent may be considered as two great empires , whose places are fixed ...
... Hercules , by checking the inundations of this river by mounds , was said to have broken off one of his horns ; whence the cornucopia . - T . The sea and the continent may be considered as two great empires , whose places are fixed ...
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