[87] It is a beautiful Biblical passage (date about 400 B.C.) which reads “The sun of righteousness shall arise with healing in his wings.” Malachi, iv, 2. [88] See Chaldean Magic, p. 180. François Lenormant. London, 1877. [89] Iliad, i. [90] Chryseïs. [91] Agamemnon. [92] _Op. cit._, i. [93] Iliad, xvi. [94] It was doubtless from the idea of deliverance from suffering that the term Pæon was applied to Thanatos, or Death, as was sometimes done. [95] Æsculapius. [96] Παιών or Παιήων, savior, healer, or physician. [97] Odyssey, iv. [98] Æneid, vii. [99] Metamorphosis, i. [100] Ἰητήρ ἀμύμων. [101] Smith’s Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. [102] The stadium equals 600 feet; 625 Roman or 606¾ English feet make a stadium. [103] Cicero informs us that there were three distinguished physicians of the name. “The first Æsculapius,” says he, “the god of Arcadia, who passes for the inventor of the probe and the manner of binding up wounds, is the son of Apollo. The second, who was slain by a thunderbolt and interred at Cynosura (in Arcadia), is a brother to the second Mercury. The third, who found out the use of purgatives and the art of drawing teeth, is the son of Arsippus and Arsinoë. His tomb may be seen in Arcadia and the grove that is consecrated to him, pretty near the river Lusius.” On the Nature of the Gods, iii. [104] The Mythology and Fables of the Ancients Explained from History, vol. iii, p. 160. London, 1740. Translated from the French. The account of Æsculapius given is one of the best I have met with. [105] Iliad, iv, lines 193-4. _Vide supra._ [106] Itinerary of Greece (translation), vol. ii, p. 212. [107] Smith’s Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. [108] Walden, p. 85. [109] The Greek for raven or crow is κορώνη. [110] Itinerary of Greece (translation), vol. ii, p. 211. [111] _Ibid._ [112] Itinerary of Greece (translation), vol. ii, p. 211. [113] Geography, xiv. [114] According to Homer, it was at Tricca and round about that his two sons bore sway. Iliad, ii. [115] Diana. [116] Pythian Ode, iii. [117] As Grimm remarks, children brought into the world, like Macduff, by abdominal section, usually become heroes. Teutonic Mythology (translation), p. 383. [118] Itinerary of Greece (translation), vol. ii, p. 210. [119] Because of this occurrence it is said that the name of the Mount was changed from Myrtium to Titthium, from Τιτθη, a nurse. [120] Heroes were often indebted to dogs for kind offices. The Hindu Saramâ is the bitch which aids such when lost in the forests, grottoes, or darkness. See De Gubernatis’ Zoological Mythology, p. 98. Grimm even says: “A widely-prevalent mark of the hero-race is their being suckled by beasts or fed by birds.” Teutonic Mythology, p. 390. [121] Itinerary of Greece (translation), vol. ii, p. 210. [122] _Ibid._ [123] Pythian Ode, iii.