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" So Plin. ix. 32 (we give Philemon Holland's engaging- 

 version) *' But after this service perfourmed, the Dolphins 

 retire not presently into the deepe again, from whence they 

 were called, but stay untill the morrow, as if they knew 

 verie well that they had so carried themselves as that they 

 deserved a better reward than one daies refection and 

 victuals : and therefore contented they are not and satisfied, 

 unlesse to their fish they have some sope and crummes of 

 bread given them soaked in wine, and that their bellies full." 



* Arion of Methymna in Lesbos lived at the court of 

 Periander tyrant of Corinth (625-585 B.C.). Having amassed 

 great wealth in Italy and Sicily he wished to return 

 to Corinth. At Tarentum he hired a boat from some 

 Corinthians. On the voyage the men, wishing to get his 

 money, conspired to throw him overboard. Arion oifered 

 them all his wealth if they wo"'d spare his life. They gave 



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