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The second of these sentences recalls the story of the "Bull of Phalaris;" whilst another, not yet noticed, according to Elton's version, runs on this wise:—

More literally rendered, the sentence might read, "Of a man that regardeth his oath the seed is more blessed in the aftertime" and so rendered, it curiously recalls the answer of the oracle to Glaucus in Herodotus (vi. 86), where the Greek words are identical with Hesiod's, and either denote an acquaintance, in the Pythoness, with the 'Works and Days,' or a common source whence both she and Hesiod drew. We give Juvenal's account of the story of Glaucus, from Hodgson's version:—