forces or of the passions, but does not leave them gods.

Palaephatus uses four principal devices for explaining the wonders of myth, and a number of minor devices:

*The monster or animal was actually a man or thing bearing that name: Cadmus didn't fight a dragon, but a King of Thebes named Draco, who had some ivory tusks; his followers scattered abroad with the tusks, and raised armed men against Thebes (§4). Scylla was a pirate ship with an image (presumably of

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