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Pyraechmes, king of the Euboeans, was at war
with the Boeotians. Heracles, while still a youth,
vanquished him. He tied Pyraechmes to colts, tore
his body into two parts, and cast it forth unburied.
The place is called ‘Colts of Pyraechmes.’ It is
situated beside the river Heracleius, and it gives forth
a sound of neighing when horses drink of it. So in
the third book of Concerning Rivers.1
Tullus Hostilius, King of the Romans, waged war
with the Albans, whose kingwas Metius Fufetius. And
Tullus repeatedly postponed battle. But the Albans,
assuming his defeat, betook themselves to feasting
and drinking. When they were overcome by wine,
Tullus attacked them, and, tying their king to two
colts, tore him apart.2 So Alexarchus in the fourth
book of his Italian History.
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1936. 4.
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