ne who has been journeying through the dark [84] begins atlength to perceive the night breaking away in mist and shadow, so thatthe forms of things, yet uncertain and undefined, assume anexaggerated and gigantic outline, half lost amid the clouds,--so now,through the obscurity of fable, we descry the dim and mighty outlineof the HEROIC AGE. The careful and skeptical Thucydides has left us,in the c