p.
763.

Statius Sylv.l.i.eleg.iii.

v.

42.) But Athenaeus allows seven nights, (Deipnosophist, l.xiii.p.

556,) and Apollodorus fifty, for this arduous achievement of Hercules, who was then no more than eighteen years of age, (Bibliot.l.ii.c.4, p.