[28] "Like to a young man when his beard has just begun to grow, whose bloom is then most lovely."

[29] Hector's only son, like unto a fair star.

[30] "For, dying, thou didst not reach to me thy hand from the bed, nor say to me words of wisdom, the which I might have aye remembered night and day with tears."

[31] Ἡρωϊκός, 680.

[32] Life of Apollonius, 150.

[33] Ibid. 153, 154.

[34] Εἰκόνες, 820. (By Kayser, Zurich, 2d ed.)

[35] Ἡρωϊκός, 736, 733, 722. For the curious detail about Hector's ears compare Theocr. 22, 45, where athletes are described τεθλαγμένοι οὔατα πυγμαῖς. Statues of Hercules show this.


CHAPTER V.
HESIOD.