sons, Atreus and Thyestes, their story; a parallel in Italy, 470, 471. 34. Theseus and his son Hippolytus; the latter is killed by his horses running away: a parallel in Italy, 471, 472. 35. A noble virgin to be sacrificed to obtain relief from pestilence: an instance in Lacedaemon, another in Falerii, 472, 473. 36. The story of Romulus and Remus suckled by a she-wolf: a parallel in Arcadia, 473. 37. Orestes slays his mother, in revenge of his father’s death: a similar story from Rome, 474. 38. Strangers murdered by Busiris in Egypt, and by Faunus in Italy, 474. 39. A brazen cow made for Phalaris of Agrigentum, a brazen horse for a tyrant of Egesta, 474, 475. 40. Evenus cannot keep his daughter a virgin: neither can Anius, king of the Tuscans, 475. OF THE NAMES OF RIVERS AND MOUNTAINS, AND OF SUCH THINGS AS ARE TO BE FOUND THEREIN. BY R. WHITE, M.A. 1. Hydaspes, a river in India, why it received the name, &c., 477, 478. 2. Ismenus, a river of Boeotia, Cadmus, mount Cithaeron, Tisiphone, &c., 478-480. 3. Hebrus, a river of Thrace; mount Pangaeus, 480, 481. 4. Ganges, the mountain Anatole, 481, 482. 5. Phasis, a river of Thrace; mount Caucasus, 482-484. 6. Arar, a river of Gaul; mount Lugdunum, 484, 485. 7. Pactolus, in Lydia; mount Tmolus, 485-487. 8. Lycormas, in Aetolia, 487. 9. Maeander, in Asia; mount Sipylus, 488, 489. 10. Marsyas, in Phrygia, 490. 11. Strymon, in Thrace; the mountains Rhodope and Haemus, 491, 492. 12. Sagaris, in Phrygia, 492. 18. Scamander, in Troas; mount Ida, 493. 14. Tanais, in Scythia; mount Brixaba, 494. 15. Thermodon, in Scythia, 495. 16. Nile, formerly Melas and Aegyptus, 495-497. 17. Eurotas, in Laconia; mount Taygetus, 497, 498. 18. Inachus, in Argolis; mount Mycenae, &c., 498-501. 19. Alpheus, in Arcadia; mount Cronium, 501, 502. 20. Euphrates, 502. 21. Caicus, in Mysia; mount Teuthras, 503, 504. 22. Achelous, in Aetolia; mount Calydon, 504, 505. 23. Araxes, in Armenia; mount Diorphus, 506, 507. 24. Tigris; mount Gauran, 507, 508. 25. Indus; mount Lilaeus, 508, 509. INDEX. 511 PLUTARCH’S MORALS. VOL. V. PLUTARCH’S MORALS. OF EATING OF FLESH. TRACT I. 1. You ask of me then for what reason it was that Pythagoras abstained from eating of flesh. I for my part do much admire in what humor, with what soul or reason, the first man with his mouth touched slaughter, and reached to his lips the flesh of a dead animal, and having set before people courses of ghastly corpses and ghosts, could give those parts the names of meat and victuals, that but a little before lowed, cried, moved, and saw; how his sight could endure the blood of slaughtered, flayed, and mangled bodies; how his smell could bear their scent; and how the very nastiness happened not to offend the taste, while it chewed the sores of others, and participated of the saps and juices of deadly wounds.