APPENDIX. 307 



Freret, in his ingenious refledlions upon the fable of 

 Bellerophon. The Pegafus, or winged horfe, of this hero, 

 being, according to this author, a Slip, in which h.e 

 failed upon his expeditions, which was given to him by 

 Neptune. This god is faid Hkewife, in the Greek, mytho- 

 logy, to have called forth an horfe from the bofom of 

 the earth, in the well-known difpute he is reported to 

 have had vn'xth Minerva ; that is to fay, he recommended 

 Navigation to the Athenians, as Minerva, by producing 

 an Olive-tree, intimated to them the benefits of Jgricul- 

 ture. Hence Erichthonius gained his name, bccaufe he 

 brought the corn 'in Ships, defigned for the relief of the 

 Athenians, aiHidled with a famine. Hence the fable of 

 the Trojan Horfe, which was a Ship filled with foldiers. 

 Hence Plautus fays, 



Nempe Equo Ugneo per vias ccerukas 

 Fe5li efiis 



You are carried over the fl^y-coloured Roads (waves) 

 upon a woodeji horfe. 



Page 45". " The Theflalian horfes," &c.j King Alfred, 

 in his tranflation of Orofms, fays, that Philip of Mace- 

 don's view in undertaking to conquer the TheiTalians,. 

 fb as to make them at leaft his allies, was becaufe they 

 excelled all other nations in fighting on horfeback. 

 This is cited from Alfred's verfion, not only becaufe it 

 is Royal authority,, but becaufe it is more flrongly ex- 



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