ἐμὲ δ’ ἐπὶ ταχυτά- των πόρευσον ἁρμάτων ἐς Ἆλιν, κράτει δὲ πέλασον. Pind. _Olymp._ i. “Carry me on swiftest chariots to Elis, and bear me to Victory!” “Olympian dust Alpheus’ margin strewing.” μηκέθ’ ἁλίου σκόπει ἄλλο θαλπνότερον ἐν ἁμέρᾳ φαεινὸν ἄστρον μήδ’ Ὀλυμπίας ἀγῶνα φέρτερον αὐδάσομεν: Pind. _Olymp._ i. “Deem no shining star greater than the Sun, nor contest more excellent than the Olympian games.” “Of statues for the Altis sculptors hewing.” Διὸς ἄλκιμος υἱὸς, σταθμᾶτο ζάθεον ἄλσος πατρὶ μεγίστω· περὶ δὲ πάξας, Ἄλτιν μὲν ὅγ’ ἐν καθαρῷ διέκρινε. Pind. _Olymp._ x. “The stalwart son of Jove measured out a grove divine to the mightiest Father, and hedged it round, and the Altis he set apart in that sacred place.” Pindar thus attributes the foundation of the Olympic games to Hercules, who was more popular than Jupiter himself amongst his Heraclidan audience; and a few lines before he alludes to his conquest of Elis, on whose plain these games were subsequently celebrated, “μυχοῖς ἅμμενον Ἄλιδος;” Hercules having led thither an army from Tiryns, the first walled city upon record. The sacred grove to which Pindar above refers contained the temple of Olympian Jove, and the statues erected to the conquerors in the games. The τρισολυμπιονῖκαι, or those who had been thrice victorious, had their εἰκόνες in marble thus set, and copied exactly from their members, which were thus in some degree deified. (Plin. lib. 34, cap. 3.) And Aristotle, in his _Ethics_, lib. 7, c. 6, says that the Olympian conquerors were called “ἀνθρώπους” κατ’ ἐξοχὴν, as if they alone were worthy of the name! X. “And sulphurous fires the bastioned bulwarks tear Like rags asunder!” --Καὶ στεφάνωμα πύργων Πευκάενθ’ Ἥφαιστον ἑλεῖν. Τοῖος ἀμφὶ νῶτ’ ἐτάθη Πάταγος Ἄρεος. Soph. _Antig._ 122. “And pitchy Vulcan seized our loftiest towers; dire was the din of Mars that rose from behind.” “And rush the stormers in with lustiest British cheers.” “In the Peninsula, the sudden deafening shout, rolling over a field of battle, more full and terrible than that of any other nation, and followed by the strong unwavering charge, often startled and appalled a French column, before whose fierce and vehement assault any other troops would have given way.”--Napier, _Hist. War in the Penins._ book xxiv. c. 6. XIV. “Oh, Rank and Dignity! I saw two flies.”