Note 070
Beneventum was built by Diomede, the nephew of
Meleager (Cluver. tom. ii. p. 1195, 1196.) The Calydonian
hunt is a picture of savage life, (Ovid, Metamorph. l.
viii.) Thirty or forty heroes were leagued against a hog:
the brutes (not the hog) quarrelled with lady for the head.]
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 41