High o'er their heads a mould'ring rock is placed
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he revolting nature of the food itself is the reason assigned byStatius why Phlegyas forebore to partake of it, and preferred to endurethe pangs of hunger.] [Footnote 130: After Apollo, in the later mythology, had been identifiedwith the sun, all the names personifying the sun, of which Titan wasone, became applicable to Apollo.] [Footnote 131: Diodorus maintained that the Osiris of the Egyptians wastheir god of the sun, and Statius has adopted this erroneous view.According to the statement of Herodotus, Osiris answered to the GrecianBacchus, and there is little doubt that the old historian was right.] [Footnote 132: Mithras was the Persian god of the sun. He was worshippedin caves, or, as Po
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