. Hermathenæ; or, Moral emblems, and ethnick tales, with explanatory notes . obtalnd the LrJJer ^fia ; which he loil again, togetherwith his Life, at the Battle of l^fus^ againlV Ptolomy^ ScleiicuSyand Lyjimjchus ; his Son Demetrius with great Difficulty obtainingthe Sjccenion, and that involvd with continual Wars: Who after-wards poflxf^d himfclf of great Par» of y/chjia, and all Mucedon jbut heiiJg drove out again by P\rrhus, King of Efire, he fled toSeleucui in Syria, and there died in a Kind of honourable Con-finement. He was called PoIiorcefcSy fays Plutarch, from the manyCities he took a

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. Hermathenæ; or, Moral emblems, and ethnick tales, with explanatory notes . obtalnd the LrJJer ^fia ; which he loil again, togetherwith his Life, at the Battle of l^fus^ againlV Ptolomy^ ScleiicuSyand Lyjimjchus ; his Son Demetrius with great Difficulty obtainingthe Sjccenion, and that involvd with continual Wars: Who after-wards poflxf^d himfclf of great Par» of y/chjia, and all Mucedon jbut heiiJg drove out again by P\rrhus, King of Efire, he fled toSeleucui in Syria, and there died in a Kind of honourable Con-finement. He was called PoIiorcefcSy fays Plutarch, from the manyCities he took and plunderd. (f) Alegara— The Capital of Megaris, a fmall Province of Greecf,bordering IFc/l upon yfttica, (of which, fays Stral*, it was once aPart) the Birth place of EucHde i taken firft by Ptolomy, and after-wards again by Demetrius, who fackt and burnt it in the Confufion ofthofe Times. Here it was that liyfui, the Father of Scylla, reignd,bctrayd by her to Minos, who repaid her Tfeafon with Drowning,fays ^foUodorus ; but Ovid feigtii her to be turiid into a Emblem ( 55 )

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