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After his death his companions were driven out of Thapsus, and founded a place called the Hyblaean Megara; Hyblon, a Sicel king, having given up the place and inviting them thither. Here they lived two hundred and forty-five years; after which they were expelled from the city and the country by the Syracusan tyrant Gelo.
That some cynic had lately bitten him by the brain and possibly a cynic himself in a nearly rabid stage of anthropophobia we might conclude as reasonably from consideration of the whole as from examination of the parts more especially and virulently affected: yet how much is here also of hyper-Platonic subtlety and sublimity, of golden and Hyblaean eloquence above the reach and beyond the snap of any cynic's tooth!
Calm as thy sacred streams thy years shall flow; Groves which thy youth has known thine age shall know; Here, as of old, Hyblaean bees shall twine Their mazy murmur into dreams of thine, Still from the hedge's willow-bloom shall come Through summer silences a slumberous hum, Still from the crag shall lingering winds prolong The half-heard cadence of the woodman's song, While evermore the doves, thy love and care, Fill the tall elms with sighing in the air.
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