Consequently, the quarrel was patched up: Mercury gave Apollo the new-made lyre; Apollo presented the prodigy with a glittering whiplash and installed him herdsman of his oxen. Nay even, when Mercury had sworn by sacred Styx no more to try his cunning in theft upon Apollo, that god in gratitude invested him with the magic wand of wealth, happiness, and dreams (the _caduceus_), it being understood, however, that Mercury should indicate the future only by signs, not by speech or song as did Apollo. It is said that the god of gain avenged himself for this enforced rectitude upon others: upon Venus, whose girdle he purloined; upon Neptune, whose trident he filched; upon Vulcan, whose tongs he borrowed; and upon Mars, whose sword he stole. [Illustration: HERMES OF PRAXITELES] [Illustration: FIG. 81. HERMES AND DOG] The most famous exploit of the Messenger, the slaughter of Argus, has already been narrated. FOOTNOTES: [66] Ovid, Metam. I, 700 _et seq._ [67] Ovid, Metam. 2, 410 _et seq._ [68] Translated by Andrew Lang: Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus, London, 1880. [69] § 70. [70] Ovid, Metam. 3, 260 _et seq._ [71] §§ 42, 110-113. [72] From E. R. Sill's Semele. [73] Commentary, §§ 118, 255. [74] Ovid, Metam. 7, 172 _et seq._ [75] Roscher, Ausf. Lex. Lfg. 3, 379 [Schirmer]. Originals in Pausanias, Apollodorus, and Hyginus. [76] From Tennyson's Amphion. See Horace, Ars Poet. 394. [77] Ovid, Metam. 8, 620-724. [78] From The Sons of Cydippe, by Edmund Gosse in his On Viol and Flute. [79] § 27, and Commentary. [80] From Ovid. [81] From Spenser's Muiopotmos. [82] Ovid, Metam. 6, 1-145. [83] § 200. [84] Iliad, 5, 850 _et seq._ (Lang, Leaf, and Myers' translation). In accordance with the system of nomenclature adopted in this work, Latin equivalents are given, wherever possible, for Greek names. [85] Iliad, 21, 390 (Lang, Leaf, and Myers' translation). [86] Ovid, Metam. 3, 1-137; 4, 563-614. [87] Iliad, 2, 1335. [88] Ovid, Metam. 6, 313-381. [89] § 30. [90] Roscher, Ausf. Lex. Lfg. 2, 254, Article _Aloadæ_ [Schultz]. [91] Ovid, Metam. 10, 162-219. [92] Ovid, Metam. 2, 1-400. [93] § 44. [94] _Medio tutissimus ibis._--OVID. [95] _Hic situs est Phaëthon, currus auriga paterni,_ _Quem si non tenuit, magnis tamen excidit ausis._--OVID. [96] Iliad, 1, 43-52 (Lang, Leaf, and Myers' translation). [97] Ovid, Metam. 6, 165-312. [98] From W. S. Landor's Niobe. [99] See Commentary, §§ 64, 80. [100] Iliad, 18, 564 (Lang, Leaf, and Myers' translation). [101] Cicero, Natura Deorum, 3, 22. [102] See Commentary. [103] From Browning's Balaustion's Adventure. The Greek form of the proper names has been retained. [104] Proserpine. [105] For the originals, see Iliad, 2, 715, and the Alcestis of Euripides. [106] Ovid, Metam. 11, 146-193. [107] § 118. [108] § 145. [109] Ovid, Metam. 1, 452-567. [110] From the Fable for Critics. [111] Iliad, 9, 561; Apollodorus, 1, 7, § 8. [112] Stephen Phillips, Marpessa.