llo, or that this god enabled Paris to kill him,
by directing the arrow to his heel, the only part in which he was
vulnerable. Others again say, that Paris murdered him treacherously, in
the temple of Apollo, whilst treating about his marriage with
Polyx{)e}na, daughter to king Priam.

Though this tradition concerning his death be commonly received, yet
Homer plainly enough insinuates that Achilles died fighting for his
country, and represents the Greeks as maintaining a bloody battle about
his body, which lasted a whole day. Achilles having been lamented by
Thetis, the Nereids, and the Muses, was buried on the promontory of
Sigaeum; and after Troy was captured, the Greeks endeavored to appease
his manes by sacrificing Polyx{)e}na, on his tomb, as his ghost had
requested.

The oracle at Dod{=o}na decreed him divine honors, and ordered annual
victims to be offered at the place of his sepulture. In pursuance of
this, the Thessalians brought hither yearly two bulls, one black, the
other white, crowned with wreaths of flowers, and water from the river
Sperchius. It is said that Alexander, seeing his tomb, honored it by
placing a crown upon it, at the same time crying out "that Achilles was
happy in having, during his life, such a friend as Patr{=o}clus, and
after his death, a poet like Homer."

ATLAS was son of Jap{)e}tus and Clym{)e}ne, and brother of Prometheus,
according to most authors; or, as others relate, son of Jap{)e}tus by
Asia, daughter of Oce{)a}nus. He had many children. Of his sons, the
most famous were Hesp{)e}rus (whom some call his brother) and Hyas. By
his wife Pleione he had seven daughters, who went by the general names
of Atlant{)i}des, or Plei{)a}des; and by his wife AEthra he had also
seven other daughters, who bore the common appellation of the Hy{)a}des.

According to Hyg{=i}nus, Atlas having assisted the giants in their war
against Jupiter, was doomed by the victorious god, as a punishment, to
sustain the weight of the heavens. Ovid, however, represents him as a
powerful and wealthy monarch, proprietor of the gardens of the
Hesper{)i}des, which bore golden fruit; but that being warned by the
oracle of Themis that he should suffer some great injury from a son of
Jupiter, he strictly forbade all foreigners access to his presence.
Perseus, however, having the courage to appear before him, was ordered
to retire, with strong menaces in case of disobedience; but the hero
presenting his shield, with t