“From Jove, so runs the tale, was Tantalus sprung,
From Tantalus Pelops, and of Pelops' seed
Sprang Atreus, who is sire of all our line.
”
[57]
It is also to be found in poets,
as in the passage in Homer1 describing the sceptre
which he traces from the hands of Jupiter down to
those of Agamemnon, and in the following from one
of our own tragedians:2
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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