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Theseus the seventh time.He alludes to the manner of the Roman magistrates, who when they exhibited plays unto the people, the names of the setters forth were registered and the time how often they had done it. To relate the whole circumstance would require a long discourse, but the principal points I will deliver. At wrestling Carus, one of the lineage of Hercules, had the best, and wan the garland from Ulysses. The fight with fists was equal between Arius the Ægyptian, who was buried at Corinth, and Epius, that combated for it. There was no prize appointed for the Pancratian fight:Fighting at all manner of weapons. neither do I remember who got the best in running: but for poetry, though Homer without question were too good for them all, yet the best was given to Hesiodus.Homer and Hesiod lived about the same time, and it hath been controverted by many which was the better poet. The prizes were all alike, garlands plotted of peacocks' feathers.

As soon as the games were ended, news came to us that the damned crew in the habitation of the wicked had broken their