[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.