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1 The Cercopes, mischievous dwarfs, had been warned against a “μελάμπυγος” enemy. Heracles, to rid the country of them, carried off two on his back, hanging head downwards, in which position they had every opportunity of observing his title to the above epithet; until their jests on the subject moved him to release them.
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