he had drawn his clothes from
his shoulder towards his breast, he discovered the ivory on his left
shoulder. This shoulder, at the time of his birth, was of the same color
with the right one, and {was} formed of flesh. They say that the Gods
afterwards joined his limbs cut asunder by the hands of his father; and
the rest of them being found, that part which is midway between the
throat and the top of the arm, was wanting. Ivory was inserted there, in
the place of the part that did not appear; and so by that means Pelops
was made entire.

[Footnote 48: _The Satyr._--Ver. 382. Herodotus tells this story
of the Satyr Marsyas, under the name of Silenus. Fulgentius
informs us, that in paintings, Marsyas was represented with the
tail of a pig.]

[Footnote 49: _His skin was stript._--Ver. 387. Apollo fastened
him to a pine-tree, or, according to Pliny the Elder,
a plane-tree, which was to be seen even in his day. The skin was
afterwards suspended by Apollo in the city of Celenae. Hyginus
says, that Apollo hewed Marsyas to pieces. The description here of
the flaying is, perhaps, very natural; but it is all the more
disgusting for being so. A commentator justly says, that it might
suit a Roman, whose eyes were familiar with bloodshed, much better
than the taste of the reader of modern times.]

[Footnote 50: _Olympus._--Ver. 393. He was a Satyr, the brother
and pupil of Marsyas. Pausanias describes a picture, painted by
Polygnotus, in which Olympus was represented as sitting by
Marsyas, clad as a youth, and learning to play on the flute.
Euripides, in the Iphigenia in Aulis (l. 576) says that Olympus
discovered some new measures for the 'tibia,' or flute. From
Hyginus we learn, that Apollo delivered to him the body of Marsyas
for burial.]

EXPLANATION.

Marsyas was the son of Hyagnis, the inventor of a peculiar kind of
flute, and of the Phrygian measure. Livy and Quintus Curtius tell us,
that the story of Apollo and Marsyas is an allegory; and that the
river Marsyas gave rise to it. They say that the river, falling from a
precipice, in the neighborhood of the town of Celenae, in Phrygia, made
a very stunning and unpleasant noise; but that the smoothness of its
course afterwards gave occasion for the saying, that the vengeance of
Apollo had rendered it more tractable.

It is, however, not improbable that the story may ha