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 Perhaps the shoonless state of the sea-nymphs is to be attributed to an agitation arising from both causes: at least, it may be more poetical to think so.

. This proverb occurs also, and more exactly in the words of Scripture, in the Agamemnon, vs. 1614. . Also in Pindar, Pyth. ii. 173. and Euripides, Fragm. Peliad.

Before the time of Elmsley, this was the opening line to a speech of Oceanus. With admirable judgment, he removed the landmark; and restored one of the sublimest passages of poetry to lips most worthy to pronounce it,—to the lips of Prometheus.

In a fragment of Pindar, preserved by Strabo, Typhon is represented as having only fifty heads: but it seems to be thought corrupted. See Julian's fourth letter. He is called "hundred-headed" in the 1st and 8th Pythian.