HERCULES

Qualemque vagæ post ¢rimina noctis Thestius obstupuit ofies socer.

| - Statius.in. Sylv. L at Ep. i. v. 42

The question is therefore guofes, and according to the three dif. ferent tales which prevailed: among the Greeks, the amorous prowess: of Hercules will excite the idea of a man, of a hero, or of a god.

I. When young Hercules was six feet high and only eighteen years: of age, he hunted the lion on Mount Citheron in Boeotia, and was. hospitably entertained by Thestius, prince of Thespiæ. Every night, . | by