****ert Venus incited her to infidelity, in revenge for the wound she had received from her husband. 152 --_Pherae,_ a town of Pelasgiotis, in Thessaly. 153 --_Tlepolemus,_ son of Hercules and Astyochia. Having left his native country, Argos, in consequence of the accidental murder of Liscymnius, he was commanded by an oracle to retire to Rhodes. Here he was chosen king, and accompanied the Trojan expedition. After his death, certain games were ins****uted at Rhodes in his honour, the victors being rewarded with crowns of poplar. 154 These heroes' names have since p****ed into a kind of proverb, designating the _oi polloi_ or mob. 155 --_Spontaneous open._ "Veil'd with his gorgeous wings, upspringing light Flew through the midst of heaven; th' angelic quires, On each hand parting, to his speed gave way Through all th' empyreal road; till at the gate Of heaven arrived, the gate self-open'd wi