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‘<< On Choroebus, whom Callimachus, 
‘mentions in the Firft Book of his 
Aitia.— 
‘« J am amonument ereéted in com- 
mon by the Megarians and defcend- 
ants ef Inachus, in memory of the 
death of Pfamathe. I reprefent the 
form of the monfter enclofed within 
this tomb, whom Choroebus flew; 
and he, with the facred tripod, lies 
buried at my feet. Such was the 
cominand of Apollo, to place a ftanding 
memorial in honour af his bride.’’ 
None of the fragments of the Aitia of 
Callimachus, whence this is taken, throw 
any light on the fubjeét of this inferip- 
tion: by comparing, however, Paufanias, 
hi. ch. 433 Conon narr. XIX, and Statius 
Theb.i, 570, & feq. the following ftory 
may be collected : 
Apollo, after his fuccefsful engagement 
with the ferpent Python, went to_re- 
freth himfclf at the houfe of Crotopus, 
king of Arges, where he fellin love with 
Pfamathé, the king’s daughter, and ‘ha 
by her a fon, called Linus, who was en- 
trufted tothe care of the chief fhepherd 
of Crotopus: being ome day 1mprudently 
left alone, the infant was torn to pieces 
by fome dogs: the mother’s grief, on 
he2rine this accident, could not be re- 
firained ; and the king learning, with 
indignation, that his daughter had yielded 
her honour to the god, put her to death. 
Upon this, Apollo, enraged, fent to Ar- 
gos the moniter Poené, with a woman's 
face, but wreathed about with ferpents, 
who fnatched the children from the 
breafts of their mothers, and devoured 
them. An Argive, the intrepid Choroe- 
bus, flew the peft; burt, by this a 
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increafing the wrath of Apollo, he fer- 
rendered himfelf at Deiphi, to mae 
atonement for the death of Poene, and 
was ordered, by the prieftefs, to take up 
one of the facred tripods, and continue 
his journey till it fell our of his hands, 
on whatever fpot that happened, he was 
to build a teinple to Apollo, and fix his 
own future’ refidence. While he was 
croffing Mount Gerania he dropt the 
tripoi, and there, in obedience to the 
oracle, built a temple, and founded the 
town of Tripos, or Tripodifcium. The 
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Argives alfo inftituted an annual feftiyal, 
to appeafe the manes of Pfamathe and 
Linus: they moreover named one of 
their menths Arzeza, becaufe Linus was 
concealed by the keeper of the royal 
Sorep, and during the feftival of Arneia, 
‘all the dogs were feverely feourged, in 
vengeance for the forrowful end of the 
fon of Apollo. 
In the time of Paufanias, the tomb of 
Choroebus was ftill to be feen, on the 
{pot where the Megarians held their 
market (which, according to Strabo, oc- 
cupied the fite of the ancient Tripodif- 
cium) an infcription was engraven upon 
it, recounting the adventures of Chor- 
roebus and Pfamathe, and two figures ; 
reprefenting Choroebus killing the mon- 
fter, were placed on the tomb. It is the 
opinion of Paufanias, that thefe ftatues 
were the oldeft in all Greece. He alfo 
mentions, that the hiftory of Choroebus 
and Pfamathe had been celebrated by 
the poets of Megara and Argos, as com-~ 
mon to the traditions of both nations. 
This epigram is perhaps the original 
one, which Paufanias has omitted to re« 
cord; and if not, was probably intended 
by its author as a fubfutute for that in- 
{cribed on the tomb. It is fuppofed to 
be addrefied to the paffiengers, by the fta- 
tue-of the monfter. 

Lo the Editor of the Montbly Magazine. 
SIR, | 
ie is matter af no fmall aftonifhment, 
*to find, that amoneft all the Cd/ervers 
of the prefent time, no one has noticed 
the prevailing, and, I am forry to add, 
increafing pra€tice, of applying convex 
lenfes to the lamps by which the ftreets 
of the metropolis were illuminated, A 
circumftance injurious to the individual, . 
and ineficacious with refpeét to the 
end required. The fmalleft reflection 
on the fubjeét, to the philofophic. mind, 
will difcover the fallacioufnefs of the ap- 
plication. ae 
The effeét of a convex Jens, or, as it 
1s fometimes called, lump, is well known, 
that it colleéts the light, which falls on 
its furface, and after tranfmifhion, direéts 
it forwards, in a particular direction, in 
a cdndenied ftate, and thus projecting it 
‘to aconfiderable diftance. But this_is 
not what, in this cafe, is required ; it 
being, as far as can be obtained, rather 
a regular, fteady, and general light, that 
the paflenger may go fecurely amidft the 
numerous obftructions that unavoidably 
oceur in the ftreets of London ; inftead 
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