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The little Medeus has raised this tomb by the wayside to the memory of his Thracian nurse, and has added the inscription The woman will have this recompense for all her careful nurture of the boy, and why? because she was serviceable even to the end. XIX The statue of Archilochus.
The last named, because he had secured his appointment as a reward for accusing the conqueror, he placed in his triumphal procession and afterward killed. The kingdom of Lycomedes he gave to one Medeus, because the latter had previous to the naval engagement detached the Mysians in Asia from Antony and with them had waged war upon such as followed Antony's fortunes.
But we cannot quote here the fancies of pure imagination, and we will not speak of Medeus the magician, of the enchantress Armida, of the witches of the Brocken, of the hippogriff of Zephyrus with the rosy wings, or of the diabolical inventions of the middle ages, for many of which the stake was the only reward. Roger Bacon, in the thirteenth century, inaugurated a more scientific era.
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