Note {50} — INSTRUCTIONS FOR WRITING HISTORY.

Milo, the Crotonian wrestler, is reported to have been a man of most wonderful bodily strength, concerning which a number of lies are told, for which the reader, if he pleases, may consult his dictionary. He lost his life, we are informed, by trying to rend with his hands an old oak, which wedged him in, and pressed him to death; the poet says— “—he met his end, Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.”