a,
Minorca, and Ivica, on which account he was fabled to be triple bodied
and headed.

The tenth labor of Hercules was his conquest of Hippolyte queen of the
Amazons. His eleventh labor consisted in dragging Cerebus from the
infernal regions into day. The twelfth and last was killing the serpent,
and gaining the golden fruit in the gardens of the Hesperides.

Hercules, after his conquests in Spain, having made himself famous in
the country of the Celtae or Gauls, is said to have there founded a large
and populous city, which he called Alesia. His favorite wife was
Dejanira, whose jealousy most fatally occasioned his death. Hercules
having subdued OEchalia and killed Eurytus the king, carried off the
fair I{)o}le, his daughter, with whom Dejanira suspecting him to be in
love, sent him the garment of Nessus, the Centaur, as a remedy to
recover his affections; this garment, however, having been pierced with
an arrow dipped in the blood of the Lernaean hydra, whilst worn by
Nessus, contracted a poison from his blood incurable by art. No sooner,
therefore, was it put on by Hercules than he was seized with a delirious
fever, attended with the most excruciating torments. Unable to support
his pains, he retired to mount OEta, where, raising a pile, and setting
it on fire, he threw himself upon it, and was consumed in the flames,
after having killed in his phrenzy Lycus his friend. His arrows he
bequeathed to Philoct{=e}tes, who interred his remains.

After his death he was deified by his father Jupiter. Di{=o}dorus
Siculus relates that he was no sooner ranked amongst the gods than Juno,
who had so violently persecuted him whilst on earth, adopted him for her
son, and loved him with the tenderness of a mother. Hercules was
afterwards married to Hebe, goddess of youth, his half sister, with all
the splendor of a celestial wedding; but he refused the honor which
Jupiter designed him, of being ranked with the twelve gods, alleging
there was no vacancy; and that it would be unreasonable to degrade any
other god for the purpose of admitting him.

Both the Greeks and Romans honored him as a god, and as such erected to
him temples. His victims were bulls and lambs, on account of his
preserving the flocks from wolves; that is, delivering men from tyrants
and robbers. He was worshipped by the ancient Latins under the name of
Dius, or Divus Fidius, that is, the guarantee or protector of faith
promised or sworn. They had a custom of ca