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happily accomplished, then the Dolphins draw near 

 and ask the guerdon of their friendship, even their 

 allotted portion of the spoil." . And the fishers deny 

 them not, but gladly give them a share of their 

 successful fishing ; for if a man sin against them in 

 his arrogance, no more are the Dolphins his helpers 

 in fishing. 



One has heard, moreover, of the feat famous of old 

 of the Lesbian minstrel,** how riding on the back of a 

 Dolphin he crossed the black waves while he sat 

 fearless of heart and singing, and so escaped death 

 from the pirates, and reached the land of Taenarus 

 on the shores of the Laconians. And one knows, 

 methinks, by hearsay the love of the Libyan boy " 

 whom as he herded his sheep a Dolphin loved with 

 a burning love and played with him beside the shores 

 and for delight in his shrill pipe "* was fain to live 

 among the very sheep and to forsake the sea and 



him the choice either to kill himself or to jump into the sea. 

 I le asked to be allowed to don his minstrel's dress and sing 

 to them. This granted, he stood on the deck and sang. 

 and then jumped into the sea, when a Dolphin took him on 

 its back and carried him ashore at Taenarus in Laconia. 

 Herod, i. -2i ; Pausan. iii. 35. 7 avadrina.Ta di &\\a ri e<rTLV iiri 

 Taivdp<fi Kai 'Apiwv 6 Ktdapqidbs x^-^^^^s eiri 5e\((>lvos ; Pint. Mor. 

 160 Eff.; Ael. ii. 6; vi. 15; xli. 45, where he quotes the 

 distich inscribed on the memorial at Taenarus and a hymn 

 purporting to have been written by Arion as a thank-offering 

 to Poseidon; Plin. ix. 28; Philostr. Imaff. i. 19; Aul. Cell, 

 xvi. 19; Propert. iii. 26.17; Ov. Fast. ii. 83 ff., etc.; 

 K. Klement, Arion, Wien, 1898. 



« This probably refers to the Dolphin of Hippo(n) Diar- 

 rytus, now Bizerta (38 m. X. of Tunis), the story of which 

 is told by Plinv ix. -26, and more ornately by the younger 

 Pliny, Ep. ix. 33. 



■* For the Dolphin's love of music : Ael. xi. 12; Hin. ix. 

 24, etc. 



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