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Note (n)-page 108.

And brought Deucalion's watery times again

Deucalion was a son of Prometheus. According to mythologu, In his reign the whole earth was overwhelmed in a deluge, Deucalion and his wife saved themselves in a ship, that rested on mount Parnassus when the flood subsided. They were directed by an oracle to repair the loss of mankind, by throwing behind them the bones of their grandmother. These were the stones of the earth. They obeyed; and the stones which Dencahon threw became men, and those which his wife threw became So says ancient story.

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Lycurgus then, whe bowed beneath the force.

Lycurgus was the great Spartan lawgiver. He reformed the government and the people, abolished luxury, and substituted iron for mon y. After he had succeeded in reforming the Spartans, he retired from the cuntry, binding them by an oath, that neither they nor their posterity would alter, violate or abolish the iaws he had established, before his return. Soon after, he pat himself to death, and commanded that his ashes should be thrown into the sea, lest they should be carried back to Sparta, and thus afford the citizens an excuse for abandoning their oath, and violating the laws.

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As at Thermopyla he glorious fell.

The strait of Thermopyla is a narrow pass in the mountains in Greece. The word signifies the gate of warm springs. The place is celebrated for the desperate resistance which Leonidas and his three hundred Spartans made against the Persian army. Every man was slain except one. The Greeks erected a monument on the spot to commemorate their valor, on which was the following inscription :-" Stranger, tell the Lacedæmonians that we lie here in obedience to their laws." These laws allowed no Spartan warrior to retreat-he must conquer or die.

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And Cincinnatus, awful from the plough.

Cincinnatus has always be n admired as a noble example of disinterested patriotism. When he was elected consul, the mes. sengers who brought the intelligence, found him at the plough. He accepted the office reluctantly; saying, "Then my fields will not be sown this year." The second year he refused the office, and returned to his farm He was afterwards chosen dictator by the Romans for six months to terminate a war with the Volscians. In his he was successful and, after holding the office sixteen days, he resigned it, and returned again to his plough.

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