HOW THESEUS LIFTED THE STONE 165 II.

HOW THESEUS SLEW THE DEVOURERS OF MEN 172 III.

HOW THESEUS SLEW THE MINOTAUR 206 IV.

HOW THESEUS FELL BY HIS PRIDE 214 * * * * * [I owe an apology to the few scholars who may happen to read this hasty _jeu d'esprit_, for the inconsistent method in which I have spelt Greek names.

The rule which I have tried to follow has been this: when the word has been hopelessly Latinised, as 'Phoebus' has been, I have left it as it usually stands; but in other cases I have tried to keep the plain Greek spelling, except when it would have seemed pedantic, or when, as in the word 'Tiphus,' I should have given an altogether wrong notion of the sound of the word.