Her´culês

shot Ne us for offering insult to his wife Dei´-j-a-nī-ra, and the dying centaur told Deijanira that if she dipped in his blood her husband’s shirt, she would secure his love forever. Herculês, being about to offer sacrifice, sent Lichas for the shirt; but no sooner was it warmed by the heat of his body than it caused such excruciating agony that the hero went mad, and seizing Lichas, he flung him into the sea. Herculés Mad is the subject of a Greek tragedy by Eurip´idês, and of a Latin one by Sen´eca. As when Alcīdês... felt the envenomed robe, and tore, Thro’ pain, up by the roots The alian pines, And Lichas from the top of Œta [ a mount ] threw Into the Euboic Sea [ The Archipelago ]. Milton, Paradise Lost , ii. 542, etc. [1665]. ⁂ Diodōrus says there were three Herculêses; Cicero recognizes six (three of which were Greeks, one Egyptian, one Cretan, and one Indian); Varro says there were forty-three. Herculés’s Choice . When Herculês was a young man, he was accosted by two women, Pleasure and Virtue, and asked to choose which he would follow. Pleasure promised him all carnal delights, but Virtue promised him immortality. Herculês gave his hand to the latter, and hence led a life of great toil, but was ultimately received amongst the immortals.—Xenophon. ⁂ Mrs. Barbauld has borrowed this allegory, but instead of Herculês has substituted Meli a, “a young girl,” who is accosted by Di ipation and Housewifery. While she is somewhat in doubt which to follow, Di ipation’s mask falls off, and immediately Meli a beholds such a “wan and ghastly countenance,” that she turns away in horror, and gives her hand to the more sober of the two ladies.— Evenings at Home , xix. (1795). Herculês’s Horse , Arion, given him by Adrastos. It had the gift of human speech, and its feet on the right side were those of a man. Herculês’s Pillars , Calpê and Ab´yla, one at Gibraltar and the other at Ceuta ( 3 syl. ). They were torn asunder by Alcīdês on his route to Gadês ( Cadiz ). Herculês’s Ports : (1) “Herculis Corsani Portus” (now called Porto-Ercolo , in Etruria); (2) “Herculis Liburni Portus” (now called Livorno , i.e. Leghorn); (3) “Herculis Monœci-Portus” (now called Monaco , near Nice). Herculês (The Attic) , These us ( 2 syl. ), who went about, like Herculês, destroying robbers, and performing most wonderful exploits. Herculês (The Cretan). All the three Idæan Dactyls were so called: viz., Kelmis (“the smelter”), Damnamĕneus (“the hammer”), and Acmon (“the anvil”). Herculês (The Egyptian) , Sesostris (fl. B.C. 1500). Another was Som or Chon, called by Pausanias, Macĕris, son of Amon. Herculês (The English) , Guy, earl of Warwick (890-958). Warwick... thou English Herculês. Drayton, Polyolbion , xiii. (1613). Herculês (The Farnesê) , a statue, the work of Glykon, copied from one by Lysip´pos, called Farnesê, because formerly in the Farnesê palace in Rome with the Farnesê Bull, the Flora, and the Gladiator. All but the Gladiator are now in the Naples Museum. The Gladiator is in the British Museum. The “Farnesê Herculês” represents the hero exhausted by toil, leaning on his club; and in his left hand, which rests on his back, he holds one of the apples of the Hesperĭdês. ⁂ A copy of this famous statue stands in the Tuileries gardens of Paris. An excellent description of the statue is given by Thomson, in his Liberty , iv. Herculês ( The Indian ), Dorsănês, who married Pandæa, and became the progenitor of the Indian kings. Belus is sometimes called “The Indian Herculês.” Herculês ( The Jewish ), Samson (died B.C. 113). Herculês ( The Ru ian ), Rustum. Herculês ( The Swedish ), Starch atĕrus (first Christian century).