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Question 90. What is the reason that, when there is
a sacrifice to Hercules, they mention no other God and no
dog appears within the enclosure, as Varro saith?
Solution. Is the reason of their naming no other God,
because they are of opinion that Hercules was but a half
God? And, as some say, Evander built an altar to him and
brought him a sacrifice, whilst he was yet here among men.
And of all creatures he had most enmity to a dog, for this
creature always held him hard to it, as (lid Cerberus; and
that which most of all prejudiced him was that, when
Oeonus, the son of Licymnius, was slain for a dog's sake
by the Hippocoontidae, he was necessitated to take up the
cudgels, and lost many of his friends and his brother
Iphicles.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 2.
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