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106 EASY LATIN STORIES. [PART I.

46. Alexander the Great, king of Macedonia (now part of Turkey), and conqueror of Asia, died B.C. 323.

tantum pecuniae.Lat. Prim. § 131.

47. Lydia.See 16, note. Summa vi'with all his might.'

48. docere.Lat. Prim. § 98.

minoris.Lat. Prim. § 128, a.

49. summam aquam.See 3, note.

50. domum.Lat. Prim. § 101.

51. Hercules(Herakles), one of the national heroes of Greece. Hydraa fabulous monster with many heads, slain by Hercules

Lemnosan island in the Aegean Sea.

The siege of Troy was undertaken by the Greeks to recover Helen, wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta, who had been carried off by Paris, son of Priam, king of Troy.

52. iure nigro'black broth,' a standing dish at a Spartan dinner.Lat. Prim. § 119.

53. Themistoclesa celebrated Athenian, to whose efforts the victory of Salamis (B.C. 480) over the Persians may be ascribed. Aristidesknown as 'the Just,' a distinguished Athenian.

in hunc modum' as follows.'

quum ... turn'both ... and.'

ne auditum quidem.See 33, note.

54. artificii huius modi' a trick of this kind. '

55. Hercules(Herakles), the son of Zeus and Alcmena, was ordered by Apollo to serve Eurystheus, king of Tiryns, for twelve years, as a penance for the murder of his children, whom he had shun in a fit of madness. At the bidding of Eurystheus he per- formed twelve wonderful deeds, and was then set free. After his death he was worshipped as a hero. He represents the struggle between good and evil, and the victory of civilisation over barbarism.

Nemeaa valley of Argolis in the Peloponnesus.

Tisynsa city of Argolis.

humeris.Lat. Prim. § 106, a.

57. Eiymantliusa mountain in Arcadia, in the PeloponnesusL

59. Elisa country in the west of the Peloponnesus.

Uno die.Lat. Prim. § 120.

60. ad'near.'

61. mirae magnitudinis.Lat. Prim. § 128.

Poseidonthe god of the sea; identified with the Neptunus of the Latins.

Creta(Candia) one of the largest islands in the Mediterranean.

eius vice'in its stead.'

62. Bistonesa people of Thrace, now part of Turkey.