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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1, Poetry - Volume 1

Note 126 — STATIUS'S THEBAIS.

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The Phrygian was Marsyas, who contended on the flute against Apollo with his lyre. When the umpires decided in favour of the god, he flayed Marsyas for his presumption.

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