[22] "Si parva licet componere magnis."
[23] See No. 126, in the upper row to the right and left, p. 76.
[24] Pages 76, 123.
[25] Theseus, 13.
[26] All the objects figured in the Illustrations to this Chapter, from and after No. 239, belong to the Third Sepulchre.
[27] No. 453 only belongs to Sepulchre V.
[28] Only Nos. 539-541 are not from this Tomb.
[29] See Plan A. and Plate I. The etymology of the name Tiryns (probably a Pelasgic word) is difficult to explain. It is very probable that the city was originally called Licymnia, for Strabo (VIII. p. 373) says that a citadel with that name is twelve stadia from Nauplia, and this distance perfectly agrees with that of Tiryns from the latter city. He does not distinctly say that he alludes to Tiryns; but this is very probable, because Pindar says (Olymp. 7, v. 47):
καὶ γὰρ ᾽Αλκμήνας κασίγνητον νόθον σκάπτῳ θένων,
σκληρᾶς ἐλαίας ἔκταν᾽ ἐν Τί-