“From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer’s day, and with the setting sun Drop’t from the zenith like a falling star On Lemnos, the Ægean isle.” Milton, _Paradise Lost_, I. His leg was broken, and he remained lame forever after. He was a blacksmith, and employed by the Cyclops to forge their thunderbolts. =Vulcan’s Badge=, the badge of cuckoldom. Vulcan was the husband of Venus, with whom Mars intrigued. We know Better than he have worn Vulcan’s badge. Shakespeare, _Titus Andronicus_, act ii. sc. 1 (1593). =Vulnerable Parts.= ACHILLES was vulnerable only in the heel. When his mother, Thetis, dipped him in the river Styx, she held him by the heel, and the water did not touch this part.--_A Post-Homeric Story._ AJAX, son of Telamon, could be wounded only behind the neck; some say only in one spot of the breast. As soon as he was born Alcīdês covered him with a lion’s skin, which rendered the whole body invulnerable, except in a part where the skin had been pierced by Herculês. ANTÆOS was wholly charmed against death so long as he touched the earth.--Lucan, _Pharsalia_, iv. FERRACUTE (3 _syl._) was only vulnerable in the navel.--Turpin, Chronicle of Charlemagne. He is called Ferrau, son of Landfūsa, by Ariosto, in his _Orlando Furioso_. MEGISSOGWON was only vulnerable at one tuft of hair on his head. A woodpecker revealed the secret to Hiawatha, who struck him there and killed him.--Longfellow, _Hiawatha_, ix. ORILLO was impervious to death unless one particular hair was cut off; wherefore Astolpho, when he encountered the robber, only sought to cut off this magic hair.--Ariosto, _Orlando Furioso_. ORLANDO was invulnerable except in the sole of his foot, and even there nothing could injure him except the prick of a pin.--ITALIAN CLASSIC FABLE. SIEGFRIED was invulnerable except in one spot between the shoulders, on which a leaf stuck when he dipped his body in the dragon’s blood.--_The Nibelungen Lied._ ⁂ The Promethĕan unguent rendered the body proof against fire and wounds of any sort. Medea gave Jason some of this unguent.--_Classic Story._ =Vulture= (_The Black_), emblem of the ancient Turk, as the crescent is of the modern Ottoman empire. And that black vulture, which with dreadful wing O’ershadows half the earth, whose dismal sight Frightened the Muses from their native spring, Already stoops, and flags with weary wing. Phineas Fletcher, _The Purple Island_, vii. (1633). =Vulture Hopkins.= John Hopkins was so called from his rapacious mode of acquiring money. He was the architect of his own fortune, and died worth £300,000 (in 1732). ⁂ Pope refers to John Hopkins in the lines: