The Remains of Hesiod the Ascræan, Including the Shield of Hercules

book i. c. 34. GILLIES.

[260] _The battle of the Lapithæ._] This forms the subject of the _alto-relievo_ on the entablature of the Parthenon, or the temple of Minerva: ascribed to Phidias. See the “Memorandum” on the Elgin marbles.

[261] _Some from their city._] Homer, Il. book xvii. Shield of Achilles:

The other city by two glittering hosts Invested stood: and a dispute...