perhaps, more numerous than those of all our other senses put together.
"This theory is the foundation of all contrivances which have been, or, perhaps, can be, employed to help recollection. It is the groundwork of the famous artificial memory of Simonides, a lyric poet, of the island of Ceos, one of the Cyclades, who flourished in the sixty-first olympiad, about five hundred and thirty-five years before the birth of Christ, and [who] is celebrated by Cicero and Quinctilian. Both these authors relate the following mythological incident, on the occasion which suggested the invention. Simonides was employed by Scopas, a rich Thessalian, to compose a panegyric on him for a certain sum of money; was invited to a festival given by Scopas to his friends, in order to rehearse it, but was sordidly refused more than half the stipulated compensation,—because puzzled, perhaps, with the sterility of the principal subject, he had introduced a long episode, amounting to half the poem, in praise of Castor and Pollux. Simonides soon found an avenger of the insult. He was immediately summoned from the company by two young men on horseback, supposed to be Castor and Pollux in disguise, who appeared to protect their favourite poet; and who, as soon as they had saved Simonides, made the roof fall on Scopas and his
