“Bacchylides, the Scholiast on Pindar, and Hyginus call Sinis a son of Poseidon (Neptune). The ancients are not agreed as to the exact mode in which the ruffian Sinis despatched his victims. According to Diodorus, Pausanias, and the Scholiast on Pindar he bent two pine-trees to the ground, tied the extre- mities of his victim to both trees, and then let the trees go, which, springing up and separating, tore the wretch’s body in two.”

— The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. XVI · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan