Scull, Sarah Amelia · Philadelphia : Porter & Coates · leaf 197
in answer to his prayers. TANTALUS. 195 » On the island of ^gina was once a magnificent tem-ple to Zeus which was said to have been built by ^Eacus,who was considered as the tutelary deity of ^gina, andafter his death became one of the three judges of Hades. (The statuary from the pediment of the… … Sisyphus, Ixion, and Tantalus. but they always receding, he was always tormented bythirst; delicious fruits continually tempted him to putforth his hand to take them, but they just as continuallyeluded his grasp ; always near and above him was a hugerock that seemed just ready to fall upon him. The…
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