--"Paradise Lost," iv. 555. 130 --_Ćsepus' flood._ A river of Mysia, rising from Mount Cotyius, in the southern part of the chain of Ida. 131 --_Zelia,_ a town of Troas, at the foot of Ida. 132 --_Podaleirius_ and _Machaon_ are the leeches of the Grecian army, highly prized and consulted by all the wounded chiefs. Their medical renown was further prolonged in the subsequent poem of Arktinus, the Iliou Persis, wherein the one was represented as unrivalled in surgical operations, the other as sagacious in detecting and appreciating morbid symptoms. It was Podaleirius who first noticed the glaring eyes and disturbed deportment which preceded the suicide of Ajax. "Galen appears uncertain whether Asklepius (as well as Dionysus) was originally a god, or whether he was first a man and then became afterwards a god; but Apollodorus professed to fix the exact date of his apotheosis. Throughout all the hist