For the Outlines of History in Lardner's Cyclopædia I received only 130l. […] The principal of these writers were Pherecydes, Acusilaüs, and Hellanicus ; of their works also only fragments remain. […] There remain therefore only to be considered the beings which sprang from the blood of the mutilated Uranos. […] But the only tale of his amours related at any length by the poets is that of his intrigue with Aphrodite. […] The brutes were insensible : they not only mocked at her distress, but jumped into and muddied the water.