I have had to face such 'puzzling questions, though not beyond all conjecture', as Sir Thomas Browne instances in his Hydriotaphia: 'what song the Sirens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among the women.'
I found practical and unevasive answers to these and many other questions of the same sort, such as:
Who cleft the Devil's foot?
When did the Fifty Danaids come with their sieves to Britain?
What secret was woven into the Gordian knot?
Why did JHV-H create trees and grass before he created the Sun, Moon and stars?
Where shall Wisdom be found?
- Robert Graves, "The White Goddess"
