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Note 44.Page 223.

Aulus Gellius relates this story (Noct. Attic. Lib. XVI. cap. xix.), from Herodotus, in whom it is now extant. (Lib, viii.) This character of the dolphin has been often alluded to.


"Sweet sir, 'tis nothing;
Straight comes a dolphin, playing near your ship,
Having his crooked back up, and presents
A feather-bed to waft ye to the shore
As easily as if you slept i'th' court."

Ford. "The Lover's Melancholy." Act. I. Sc. 3.


Note 45.Page 224.

This curious anecdote is recorded of Pausanias, in the eighth book of Valerius Maximus, "De Cupiditate gloriæ." Cap. xiv. Exeter. 4.

"Nam dum Hermocles percontatus esset, quonam modo subito clarus posset evadere, atque is respondisset, si illustrem virum aliquem occidisset, futurum ut gloria ejus ad ipsum redundaret: continuò Philippum interemit. Et quidem quod petierat, assecutus est. Tarn enim se parricidio, quam Philippus virtute, notum posteris reddidit."