commonly used by men in haste, or at a triumph, the other is
proper to people in consternation or disorder of mind.

Theseus, after the funeral of his father, paid his vows to Apollo
the seventh day of Pyanepsion; for on that day the youth that
returned with him safe from Crete made their entry into the city.
They say, also, that the custom of boiling pulse at this feast is
derived from hence; because the young men that escaped put all
that was left of their provision together, and, boiling it in one
common pot, feasted themselves with it, and ate it all up
together. Hence, also, they carry in procession an olive branch
bound about with wool (such as they then made use of in their
supplications), which they call Eiresione, crowned with all sorts
of fruits, to signify that scarcity and barrenness was ceased,
singing in their procession this song:

Eiresione brings figs, and Eiresione brings loaves;
Bring us honey in pints, and oil to rub on our bodies,
And a strong flagon of wine, for all to go mellow to bed on.

The ship wherein Theseus and the youth of Athens returned had
thirty oars, and was preserved by the Athenians down even to the
time of Demetrius Phalereus, for they took away the old planks as
they decayed, putting in new and stronger timber in their place,
insomuch that this ship became a standing example among the
philosophers, for the logical question as to things that grow; one
side holding that the ship remained the same, and the other
contending that it was not the same.

Now, after the death of his father Aegeus, forming in his mind a