Bryant, Lorinda Munson, 1855- · London, New York, John Lane company · leaf 46
Glycon, ofAthens, of the school of Polycletus, about the be-ginning of the Christian era. The statue is nodoubt a copy of an older type, where strength andbodily proportions were the main points of per-fection. The ancient hero is resting on his club afterperforming the eleventh labour of obtaining… … ■.y :^^^**^* iw^ ■ ■liv;. ■;:■ ;-■ kJ^^ isS So NAPLES live. One never tires of hearing about the twelvelabours:— The Nemean lion first he killed, then Lernes hydra slew;The Arcadian stag and monster boar before Eirrystheus drew;Cleansed Augeas stalls, and made the birds from lake Stymphalis…
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