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The "Characters" of Jean de La Bruyère

Note 671 — XII. OF OPINIONS.

Henri Van Laun translation

According to the mythology, Lycaon, king of Arcadia, murdered his guests and served them up at his table, in order to test the divine knowledge of Jupiter, who changed him into a wolf. Ægistheus was the son of Thyestes, and the murderer of Agamemnon.

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