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instance of generosity, erected in the forum a chariot drawn by four horses, running side by side. In the car was a statue, representing Apollonius, with his right hand rubbing the corn from the ear. His left foot trampled upon it; and on the pediment they placed the following inscription, "Apollonius, prince of Tyre, by a gift to the city of Tharsus, preserved its inhabitants from a cruel death[1]." A few days afterwards, by the advice of Stranguilio and his wife Dionysias[2], the prince determined to sail for Pentapolis[3], a city of the Tyrrheni, where he might
- ↑
"And to remember what he does,
"Gild his statue glorious."—Shakspeare.
Gower says,
"It was of latten over-gilt."—Conf. Aman.
- ↑ Dionyza in Shakspeare.
- ↑ Pentapolis was properly a country of Africa, and so called from its five cities Berenice, Arsinoe, Ptolemaïs, Gyrene, and Apollonia; it was also a country of Palestine. But I suppose a city of Tuscany is meant here, which was called by the name of Pentapolis. Mr. Stevens, however, says, that it is an imaginary city, and its name probably borrowed from some romance. "That the reader may know through how many regions the scene of this drama is dispersed, it is necessary to observe that Antioch was the metropolis of Syria; Tyre, a
