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TRUE HISTORY.
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blessed, and that Rhadamanthus was governorSee The Tyrant, y. there, to whom we were brought and placed the fourth in order of them that were to be judged.
The first trialA controversy concerning Ajax, who, being overcome by the eloquence of Ulysses about Achilles' armour, fell mad and slew himself. was about Ajax, the son of Telamon, whether he were a meet man to be admitted into the society of the Heroes or not: the objections against him were his madness and the killing of himself: and after long pleading to and fro, Rhadamanthus gave this sentence, that for the present he should be put to Hippocrates, the physician of Cos, to be purged with helleborus, and upon the recovery of his wits to have admittance.
The second was a controversy of love, Theseus and Menelaus contending which had the better right to Helen; but Rhadamanthus gave