arm bullock's blood, from the
effects of which he died; and, according to Plutarch, he did so to
deliver himself from the frightful dreams with which he was
tormented.

Tmolus, the king of Lydia, according to Clitophon, was the son of
Mars and the Nymph Theogene, or, according to Eustathius, of Sipylus
and Eptonia. Having violated Arriphe, a Nymph of Diana, he was, as a
punishment, tossed by a bull, and falling on some sharp pointed
stakes, he lost his life, and was buried on the mountain that
afterwards bore his name.

FABLE IV. [XI.194-220]

Apollo and Neptune build the walls of Troy for king Laomedon, who
refuses to give the Gods the reward which he has promised: on which
Neptune punishes his perjury by an inundation of his country.
Laomedon is then obliged to expose his daughter to a sea monster,
in order to appease the God. Hercules delivers her; and Laomedon
defrauds him likewise of the horses which he has promised him.
In revenge, Hercules plunders the city of Troy, and carries off
Hesione, whom he gives in marriage to his companion Telamon.

The son of Latona, having {thus} revenged himself, departs from Tmolus,
and, borne through the liquid air, rests on the plains of Laomedon, on
this side of the narrow sea of Helle, the daughter of Nephele. On the
right hand of Sigaeum and on the left of the lofty Rhoetaeum,[14] there is
an ancient altar dedicated to the Panomphaean[15] Thunderer. Thence, he
sees Laomedon {now} first building the walls of rising Troy, and that
this great undertaking is growing up with difficult labour, and requires
no small resources. And {then}, with the trident-bearing father of the
raging deep, he assumes a mortal form, and for the Phrygian king they
build the walls,[16] a sum of gold being agreed on for the defences.

The work is {now} finished; the king refuses the reward, and, as a
completion of his perfidy, adds perjury to his false words. "Thou shalt
not escape unpunished," says the king of the sea; and he drives all his
waters towards the shores of covetous Troy. He turns the land, too, into
the form of the sea, and carries off the wealth of the husbandmen, and
overwhelms the fields with waves. Nor is this punishment sufficient: the
daughter of the king, is also demanded for a sea monster. Chained to the
rugged rocks, Alcides delivers her, and demands the promised reward, the
horses agreed upon; and the recompense of so great a service being