of the necessity was the circumstance that the youths' mother was priestess of Juno at the time. Servius says a pestilence had destroyed the oxen, which contradicts Herodotus. Otherwise the tale is told with fewer variations than most ancient stories. The Argives had a sculptured representation of the event in their temple of Apollo Lycius to the time of Pausanias (Pausan. II. xx. § 2).
Note 2, page 9.
See Prescott's "Conquest of Peru;" "The Life of Pizarro," and "The Spanish Conquest in America," by Sir Arthur Helps; the "Commentarios Reales" of Garcilaso de la Vega, etc.
"Atàc!" the exclamation of the Inca according to Garcilaso, is rendered "Alas!" by Sir Arthur Helps; but Professor John Fiske says concerning it, "There is a good deal of latitude in the meaning of interjections;" and probably, here, it expressed indignation.
The borla was a crimson, tasseled fillet; emblem of sovereignty; the crown of the Incas.
Note 3, page 17.
Ancient and widespread tradition ascribes the ruined towers on the headlands of the Levant to St. Helena, and avers that they were built for the beacon-fires which flashed the news of the discovery of the Cross to her royal son, the Emperor Constantine, at Constantinople. Maundrell, the English traveler, who visited Palestine in 1697, associates them with Helena, but as constructions for the defense of the country against pirates. Many other authors and travelers have referred to them, and to the tradition; notably, in our own day, Dr. W. M. Thomson in "The Land and the Book" (pp. 58 and 145), and Mr. W. C. Prime in his glowing monograph, "Holy Cross."
