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===== Aelian: Various History Book 2 ===== | ===== Aelian: Various History Book 2 ===== | ||
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**CHAP. IV.** | **CHAP. IV.** | ||
Of the Friendship betwixt Chariton and Melanippus, and the Tyrant' | Of the Friendship betwixt Chariton and Melanippus, and the Tyrant' | ||
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I will relate to you an action of Phalaris not agreeing with his disposition : for it expresseth a great humanity, and therefore seemeth not to sute with him. Chariton an Agrigentine loved Melanippus passionately, | I will relate to you an action of Phalaris not agreeing with his disposition : for it expresseth a great humanity, and therefore seemeth not to sute with him. Chariton an Agrigentine loved Melanippus passionately, | ||
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- | Chapter XXXV | + | **Chapter XXXV** |
"HAPPY the man who now to my sacred dwelling approacheth, | "HAPPY the man who now to my sacred dwelling approacheth, | ||
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**Chapter 34 - Ridicule of the Statues Erected by the Greeks** | **Chapter 34 - Ridicule of the Statues Erected by the Greeks** | ||
- | Worthy of very great honour, certainly, was the tyrant Phalaris, who devoured sucklings, and accordingly is exhibited by the workmanship of Polystratus the Ambraciot, even to this day, as a very wonderful man! The Agrigentines dreaded to look on that countenance of his, because of his cannibalism; | + | Worthy of very great honour, certainly, was the tyrant Phalaris, who devoured sucklings, and accordingly is exhibited by the workmanship of Polystratus the Ambraciot, even to this day, as a very wonderful man! The Agrigentines dreaded to look on that countenance of his, because of his cannibalism; |
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