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11 Hesiod thinks that with the lapse of certain periods of years the end comes even to the demigods; for, speaking in the person of the Naiad, he indirectly suggests the length of time with these words:Hesiod, Frag. 183 (ed. Rzach); Cf. the Latin version of Ausonius, p. 93, ed. Peiper (1886). See also Moralia, 989 a; Martial, x. 67; Achilles Tatius, iv. 4. 3. Nine generations long is the life of the crow and his cawing, Nine generations of vigorous men. Cf. Aristophanes, Birds, 609. Lives of four crows together Equal the life of a stag, and three stags the old age of a raven; Nine of the lives of the raven the life of the Phoenix doth equal; Ten of the Phoenix we Nymphs, fair daughters of Zeus of the aegis. Those that do not interpret generation well make an immense total of this time; but it really means a year, so that the sum of the life of these divinities is nine thousand, seven hundred and twenty years, less than most mathematicians think, and more than PindarPindar, Frag. 165 (ed. Christ); quoted also in Moralia, 757 f. has stated when he says that the Nymphs live Allotted a term as long as the years of a tree, and for this reason he calls them Hamadryads.