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xii ,—"always to perform this morning service immediately before sunrise, in order that he might be beforehand in obtaining the favor of the gods," if he be not familiar with the Homeric conception of Zeus going to rest at night and awaking to rise at early dawn from the side of the " white-armed Hêrê." The occasion will, indeed, often occur for remarking how these legends illustrate and vivify the political phenomena of the succeeding times, and I have only now to urge the necessity of considering them as the beginning of a series,—not as an entire work.