Antiope aboard his vessel, remained in those parts some time; and that he was attended in this expedition by three young men of Athens, who were brothers, Enneos, Thoas, and Solon.  The last of these, unknown to the rest, fell in love with Antiope, and communicated his passion to one of his companions, who applied to Antiope about the affair.  She firmly rejected his pretensions, but treated him with civility, and prudently concealed the matter from Theseus.  But Solon, in despair, having leaped into a river and drowned himself, Theseus, then sensible of the cause, and the young man’s passion, lamented his fate, and in his sorrow recollected an order of the priestess, which he had formerly received at Delphi; that when, in some foreign country, he should labour under the greatest affliction, he should build a city there, and leave some of his followers to govern it.  Hence, he called the city which he built Pythopolis, after the Pythian god, and the neighbouring river, in honour of the young man, Solon.  He left the two surviving brothers to govern it, and give it laws; and along with them Hermus, who was of one of the best families in Athens.  From him the inhabitants of Pythopolis call a certain place in their city Hermus’s House, and, by exchanging an accent, transfer the honour from the hero to the god (Mercury).  Hence the war with the Amazons took its rise:  and it appears to have been no slight or womanish enterprise, for they could not have encamped in the town, or joined battle on the ground about the Pnyx and the Museum, or fallen in so intrepid a manner upon the city of Athens, unless they had first reduced the country about it.  It is difficult, indeed, to believe (though the story is told by Hellanicus) that they crossed the Cimmerian Bosphorus upon the ice, but that they encamped almost in the heart of the city, is confirmed by the names of places, and by the tombs of those that perished there.”  The Amazons, according to fabulous history, were a warlike race of women, who reared only their female children, and lived as a nation apart from the male sex.  They are said to have founded many cities in Asia Minor, to have been expert horsewomen, and to have amputated their left breast the more easily to use their bows.  Greek sculptors delighted to avail themselves of this mythic war between men and women, in which the heroes do not appear to have used their weapons lightly, in consideration of the sex of their opponents.  The splendid group by Kiss, casts of which are now in many English homes, shows that the capacity to deal with the classic subject has not altogether faded from the world.  The Amazons themselves bid fair to accomplish a resurrection across the Atlantic.  Rumours reach us here in England of female societies associated to make war upon the tyranny of the opposite sex, and to adopt certain eccentricities of costume.  It is not improbable that these agitators will soon constitute themselves into a distinct nation, and defy the valour of the masculine Yankee.