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Bishop Blomfield has enumerated thirteen:—Epaphus, Libya, Belus, Danaus, Hypermnestra, Abas, Prœtus, Acrisius, Danae, Perseus, Electryon, Alcmena, and Hercules the Deliverer. The predicted spouse, whose son was to be superior to his father, was Thetis. In submission to the prophecy, she married Peleus instead of Jupiter, and her Achilles fulfilled it.

See the opening of the tenth Olymp., and Sophocles's. Parallel thoughts respecting the tablet of Hamlet's memory will be written upon the reader's.

The Pythian priestess exclaims, in her powerful description of the Furies (vide Eumenid. vs. 48.) "." It may therefore be humbly conjectured that Gorgons had some kind of horrible family likeness to Furies;—an honor, to which the priestess will by no means admit Harpies.