r palace; and one time, as you shall hear, he came to earth and stole away the daughter of Ceres to live with him in his und

n the sky. She had tried to show her hatred toward Callisto by taking away her human form, but now Jupiter had made her and

g waters and gay young isles;     Ay, look, and he’ll smile thy gloom away . William C. Bryant . A Story of the Springt

s startled companions far behind. King Pluto knew that he must hasten away with his prize, lest Ceres should discover her lo

st leap into the sunshine. The bright sky calls me, and I must hasten away .” Then Ceres arose and went to Jupiter and said,

of it, on a mossy log, sat five or six big, speckled frogs, croaking away with all their might. Now poets, you must know, l

as the first time the poet had ever seen such creatures. So he turned away from them in disgust, and went home and wrote his

ery sad to go from the home where she had been so happy, she hastened away , for she feared that otherwise Juno might harm he

n only renewed their rude talk and threatened that, if she did not go away , they would do her some harm. Then Latona began t

not touch any food; so that she grew pale and thin and began to waste away to a shadow, as people say, until at last her bod

for marveling at the beauty of his own face. Slowly he began to pine away . The red left his cheeks and his body grew thinne

not Arachne herself, at least one of her race, spinning and spinning away at a web, as a punishment for that foolish girl’s

as a flash, he planted a golden arrow in Apollo’s heart. Then he flew away , satisfied. The golden arrow did its work only to

ers go! Away! as a hawk flies full at his prey So flieth the hunter —  away , away! Hark, hark! What sound on the wind is born

! Away! as a hawk flies full at his prey So flieth the hunter — away, away ! Hark, hark! What sound on the wind is borne? ’Ti

le baby boy, whom she called Perseus. The little boy’s father was far away , and Danaë had no one to take care of her and her

ing with the eye, strange things that were happening in countries far away . They were interested for a while; but at length,

, long time to reach the island where Medusa lived; for it was so far away that no one but the three sisters with their wond

upiter care for any one besides herself. So one day, when he had been away from home for many hours, she suddenly made up he

had to say yes, although it was much against his will. As Juno led Io away , she said to herself, “Now that I have you, I wil

ughter. He now thought it time to separate them, so he led his charge away to a distant pasture, and seated himself on the t

loved them! She would play with them, and tell them stories, and dry away their tears with her kisses, and she was with the

tears with her kisses, and she was with them whenever she could steal away from the many things that kept her busy. Thebes,

er children’s laughter or the touch of their little hands would drive away all care from her heart, and leave her as happy a

e greater than Latona. Turn from the altar, women of Thebes, and cast away your wreaths. Me, and me only, should you worship

there came a mighty hurricane sweeping across the plain, and it swept away the motionless figure in its course. It carried t

our play, And the questions that perplexed me     Have vanished quite away . Ye open the eastern windows,     That look towa

ay to the opposite shore. Before he reached it, he had planned to run away with Deïanira, and take her to his mountain cave,

is wife. So no sooner had his hoofs touched dry land than he galloped away , with the frightened girl clinging to his back, s

and Jupiter’s mighty arm, thrust down from the sky, snatched Hercules away from the creeping, leaping flames. The mortal par

the creeping, leaping flames. The mortal part of him had been burned away by the fire, and from that time, so the story goe

t the lives of the birds must be, Living in love in a leafy tree; And away through the air what joy to go, And to look on th

the breezy sea. Cresting the billows like silvery foam, Then wheeling away to its cliff-built home! What joy it must be to s

me black; and the fourteen unlucky ones who drew the black balls went away with King Minos, and were given to the Minotaur f

were on board, Theseus lifted the anchor, and, rejoicing, they sailed away from the place where they had expected to die. Th

ng a time, and she tried to make him give up the idea of going so far away . She warned him of the terrors of the sea, and th

his dear wife, and praying that no harm might befall her while he was away . For a time all went well; but on the fifth day,

re her sisters, and that when they left the sky she had to travel far away with them. However that was, there came a time wh

n fell, the fields became parched and dry, and all the crops withered away . There was not enough food for the people, and ev

prayer, to save the children; for, although Nephele seemed to be far away , she was really watching over her children in sor

back, and at last they alighted together in the land of Colchis, far away from the boy’s old home. Here Phryxus married the

om. Then the brother ruled as king, while the rightful king lived far away , poor and unknown. But in spite of his poverty an

for only he who performs aright the three tasks I have set can carry away the Golden Fleece.” And the tone in which the kin

ust a little discouraged when he heard what the tasks were. He walked away from the palace, down toward the shore where his

ling to leave her home and all the people who loved her, to go so far away with this stranger. Indeed, the girl herself hard

isherman’s surprise to see them all leap back into the water and swim away ! “Why, what wonderful grass that must be!” cried

ng creature, whom she saw that day for the first time; and she turned away from him, and left him sad and hopeless. For many

emptied the little flask, which he thought so precious, and then went away with a happy heart. Poor Glaucus! He little knew

my great heart; My heart, and the sea, and the heaven     Are melting away with love! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow . A Y

, his head drooping like a bruised flower, and like a flower he faded away . Apollo’s grief was sad to see. He could not beli

om the sky, the sculptor stood before his block of marble, and worked away happily. Gradually, a most beautiful figure began

he looked, the more restless he grew, and it was hard to tear himself away from the marble image. He named his statue Galate

ings. In a short time, the wig was on his majesty’s head, and he sent away the barber with the threat that he would kill him

t asleep, he took a spade, and walked to an open meadow which was far away from any dwelling place. In the center of it he d

rd named Acis; and so, when Polyphemus had finished his song, she ran away to join her lover by the banks of a stream that f

f the ocean over the shores. Flocks, herds, men, and houses are swept away , and temples, with their sacred enclosures, profa

r harmless lives and pious demeanor, ordered the north winds to drive away the clouds, and disclose the skies to earth, and

d loose behind her. The god grew impatient to find his wooings thrown away , and, sped by Cupid, gained upon her in the race.

te, they agreed, that next night, when all was still, they would slip away from watchful eyes, leave their dwellings and wal

him when she first looked forth, fell in love with him, and stole him away . But Cephalus was just married to a charming wife

alus’s wife. Love is credulous. Procris, at the sudden shock, fainted away . Presently recovering, she said, “It cannot be tr

to hide some of his doings that would not bear the light. She brushed away the cloud, and saw her husband on the banks of a

gether!” While he thus lamented, Argus, observing, came and drove her away , and took his seat on a high bank, from whence he

met her, told her just this, and added more of the same sort. She ran away , without stopping to hear his compliments, and he

alousy of Juno, and the goddess changed her into a bear. “I will take away ,” said she, “that beauty with which you have capt

ixing her, when Jupiter, beholding, arrested the crime, and snatching away both of them, placed them in the heavens as the G

e, as I permitted Io to do. Perhaps he means to marry her, and put me away ! But you, my foster-parents, if you feel for me,

by surprise. Surrounded as she was by her nymphs, she yet turned half away , and sought with a sudden impulse for her arrows.

his name he turned his head, and heard them regret that he should be away . He earnestly wished he was. He would have been w

t movement, which sweeps every thing else along, should hurry me also away . Suppose I should lend you the chariot, what woul

ew warm, and with warmth felt its rage revive. Boötes, they say, fled away , though encumbered with his plough, and all unuse

agus with golden sands, and Cayster where the swans resort. Nile fled away and hid his head in the desert, and there it stil

s, missing. The old man had been drinking, and in that state wandered away , and was found by some peasants, who carried him

am to its fountain-head, there plunge your head and body in, and wash away your fault and its punishment.” He did so, and sc

ountain god, was chosen umpire. The senior took his seat, and cleared away the trees from his ears to listen. At a given sig

a small piece, and put it in the pot to boil with the herbs, setting away the rest for another time. A beechen bowl was fil

saying, she wrapped a cloud about her, and mounting her chariot rode away . Ceres continued her search for her daughter, pas

nished, they one and all moved off to the water, plunged in, and swam away . He did not know what to make of this, whether so

vereigns of the sea, that all that was mortal in him should be washed away . A hundred rivers poured their waters over him. T

eart?” He was going on in this strain, but Scylla turned and hastened away . Glaucus was in despair, but it occurred to him t

were a part of herself, and tried to run from them, and to drive them away ; but as she ran she carried them with her, and wh

spot, but found her feet rooted to the ground. She tried to pull them away , but moved nothing but her upper limbs. The woodi

r boy Cupid, wounded her bosom with one of his arrows. She pushed him away , but the wound was deeper than she thought. Befor

n him this warning, she mounted her chariot drawn by swans, and drove away through the air. But Adonis was too noble to heed

aid the wind blows the blossoms open, and afterwards blows the petals away ; so it is called Anemone, or Wind Flower, from th

ned to feel easy in the absence of Halcyone? Would you rather have me away ?” She also endeavored to discourage him, by descr

up to the heavens, to scatter its foam among the clouds; then sinking away to the bottom assumes the color of the shoal — a

the sea shore sand grains. As soon as the goddess entered and brushed away the dreams that hovered around her, her brightnes

l the events of the wreck.” Having delivered her message, Iris hasted away , for she could not longer endure the stagnant air

g to step back, she found she could not move her feet; trying to turn away her face, she tried in vain; and by degrees all h

ve you forever. Love cannot dwell with suspicion.” So saying, he fled away , leaving poor Psyche prostrate on the ground, fil

saying, she threw her a piece of black bread for her supper and went away . Next morning Venus ordered Psyche to be called a

aid, “Drink this, Psyche, and be immortal; nor shall Cupid ever break away from the knot in which he is tied, but these nupt

[Cadmus.] Jupiter, under the disguise of a bull, had carried away Europa, the daughter of Agenor, king of Phœnicia.

l, slain with mutual wounds, except five survivors. One of these cast away his weapons and said, “Brothers, let us live in p

furrow. The wool fell from the bleating sheep, and their bodies pined away . The horse, once foremost in the race, contested

ill they died, without quenching thirst. Many had not strength to get away from the water, but died in the midst of the stre

, would die on the ground. They seemed to hate their friends, and got away from their homes, as if, not knowing the cause of

not ashamed of thy offspring, give me back my people, or take me also away !’ At these words a clap of thunder was heard. ‘I

he only stands in my way. O that it might please the gods to take him away ! But why ask the gods to do it? Another woman, lo

cliffs. Her form faded with grief, till at last all her flesh shrank away . Her bones were changed into rocks and there was

after a moment and renewed the fascination. He could not tear himself away ; he lost all thought of food or rest, while he ho

claimed, “Alas! alas!” she answered him with the same words. He pined away and died; and when his shade passed the Stygian r

r-nymph and in love with Apollo, who made her no return. So she pined away , sitting all day long upon the cold ground, with

Alas! how different was this Niobe from her who had so lately driven away the people from the sacred rites, and held her st

riendship so little, deign to accept a present;” and turning his face away , he held up the Gorgon’s head. Atlas, with all hi

th a loud voice he exclaimed, “If I have any friend here let him turn away his eyes!” and held aloft the Gorgon’s head. “See

s knees and stretching out his hands to Perseus, but turning his head away he begged for mercy. “Take all,” said he, “give m

life, and Œdipus, seized with madness, tore out his eyes and wandered away from Thebes, dreaded and abandoned by all except

nd a girl. After a time Athamas grew indifferent to his wife, put her away , and took another. Nephele suspected danger to he

laid on a bed of herbs, like one dead. Jason and all others were kept away from the place, that no profane eyes might look u

and when the cover was removed, a lamb jumped forth and ran frisking away into the meadow. The daughters of Pelias saw the

hesitated to strike, till Medea chid their irresolution. Then turning away their faces, and giving random blows, they smote

e had done so much, wishing to marry Creusa, princess of Corinth, put away Medea. She, enraged at his ingratitude, called on

evil is the conquest; but, brothers, ye have conquered.” And, turning away her face, she threw the fatal wood upon the burni

r not. “What god can tempt one so young and handsome to throw himself away ? I pity him, not for his beauty (yet he is beauti

length with the assistance of his faithful servant Iolaus, he burned away the heads of the Hydra, and buried the ninth or i

ustom to bring up only the female children; the boys were either sent away to the neighboring nations or put to death. Hercu

two-headed dog, but Hercules killed the giant and his dog and brought away the oxen in safety to Eurystheus. The most diffic

e could, find the apples and bring them to him. But how to send Atlas away from his post, or bear up the heavens while he wa

gave Dejanira to Nessus to be carried across. Nessus attempted to run away with her, but Hercules heard her cries and shot a

nched off the garment, but it stuck to his flesh, and with it he tore away whole pieces of his body. In this state he embark

ected her to send his son to him when he became strong enough to roll away the stone and take them from under it. When she t

himself above the waters, and frightened the horses so that they ran away and dashed the chariot to pieces. Hippolytus was

sometimes running to gather up the feathers which the wind had blown away , and then handling the wax and working it over wi

eturned whom he had despatched to seize Bacchus. They had been driven away by the Bacchanals, but had succeeded in taking on

t we depend on you for our safety;’ took any place as pilot, and bore away from Naxos. “Then the god, pretending that he had

exclaimed, “We have wasted time enough on this silly story. Take him away and have him executed without delay.” Acetes was

y. Take him away and have him executed without delay.” Acetes was led away by the attendants and shut up fast in prison; but

on. Let not abundance subdue her, nor the power of my gifts drive her away . Be not alarmed at the distance,” (for Famine dwe

ugh the air in a short time.” So she gave her the rein, and she drove away and soon reached Scythia. On arriving at Mount Ca

; so may your luck be good and not a fish nibble at your hook and get away .” She perceived that her prayer was answered and

sold, now into a horse, now a bird, now an ox, and now a stag, — got away from her purchasers and came home. By this base m

o Rhœcus when he was playing at draughts and he carelessly brushed it away . This so incensed the nymph that she deprived him

tutions of his rising nation. After the death of Numa the nymph pined away and was changed into a fountain. Byron, in Child

o match for him in the warrior’s art, I resorted to others and glided away in the form of a serpent. I curled my body in a c

lf a voluntary victim. The heroic youth, learning the response, threw away his life in the first encounter. The siege contin

sts, limping with her wounded foot. Orpheus was permitted to take her away with him on one condition, that he should not tur

ill following, cast a glance behind him, when instantly she was borne away . Stretching out their arms to embrace one another

ehold her? “Farewell,” she said, “a last farewell,” — and was hurried away , so fast that the sound hardly reached his ears.

questions in order to get released, for he cannot by all his arts get away if you hold fast the chains. I will carry you to

goddess made while playing, Minerva threw the instrument indignantly away , and it fell down to earth, and was found by Mars

vanished like a dream, how didst thou hate the cheerful light! I must away , but I will not fear. The gods look down upon us.

t favorite was Tithonus, son of Laomedon, king of Troy. She stole him away , and prevailed on Jupiter to grant him immortalit

tears stopped her utterance, which when the pitying maiden had wiped away with her delicate finger, and soothed the goddess

of blood prevailed no more, and ships that touched at his island went away in safety. He paced up and down the sea-shore, im

on the expedition, she endeavored to prevent his going. She sent him away to the court of King Lycomedes, and induced him t

she was about to be sacrificed the goddess relented and snatched her away , leaving a hind in her place, and Iphigenia, enve

ll they were high enough to command a view of Troy, and then withered away , while fresh branches sprang from the roots.   W

their number no one dares to die?’     In soul I swept the indignity away : Old frailties then recurred: but lofty thought I

wounded, and having told the cause of his coming would have hastened away , but Nestor detained him, to tell him the extent

and steeds to the rear of the battle. Achilles, when the mist cleared away , looked round in vain for his adversary, and ackn

The remaining Greeks then betook themselves to their ships and sailed away , as if for a final departure. The Trojans, seeing

seized and involved in the serpents’ coils. He struggles to tear them away , but they overpower all his efforts and strangle

e sister of Orestes, saved her brother’s life by sending him secretly away to his uncle Strophius, King of Phocis. In the pa

, the sister of Orestes, who, our readers will remember, was snatched away by Diana at the moment when she was about to be s

in that country. It was by main force that Ulysses dragged these men away , and he was even obliged to tie them under the be

ons, feasting on their flesh till no fragment was left. He then moved away the rock from the door, drove out his flocks, and

s joined himself as a fifth. The Cyclops came home at evening, rolled away the stone and drove in his flock as usual. After

.” So saying, they left him groaning. Next morning the Cyclops rolled away the stone to let his flock out to pasture, but pl

, darting forth her snaky heads, caught six of his men, and bore them away , shrieking, to her den. It was the saddest sight

nd landed with him the chest containing his presents, and then sailed away . Neptune was so displeased at the conduct of the

ash their garments.” Fate of the Suitors. Ulysses had now been away from Ithaca for twenty years, and when he awoke h

ay out of the burning city; but, in the confusion, his wife was swept away and lost. On arriving at the place of rendezvous,

considering the land accursed by the stain of such a crime, hastened away . They next landed on the island of Delos, which w

Harpies darted down from the air and carried it off. They were driven away from Phineus by the heroes of the Argonautic expe

pon them, seizing in their talons the meat from the dishes and flying away with it. Æneas and his companions drew their swor

ings to them in their future course, and having vented her wrath flew away . The Trojans made haste to leave the country, and

them with a severe reprimand. He then soothed the waves, and brushed away the clouds from before the face of the sun. Some

tion of his wanderings, a home, a kingdom, and a bride. Months rolled away in the enjoyment of pleasant intercourse, and it

im overboard and he fell; but keeping his hold upon the helm, it came away with him. Neptune was mindful of his promise and

hand and quit its parent trunk, but otherwise no force could rend it away . If torn away, another would succeed. 27 Æneas f

its parent trunk, but otherwise no force could rend it away. If torn away , another would succeed. 27 Æneas followed the di

ause of his misfortune. Palinurus replied that the rudder was carried away , and he, clinging to it, was swept away with it.

d that the rudder was carried away, and he, clinging to it, was swept away with it. He besought Æneas most urgently to exten

have lingered long with his Trojan friends, but the Sibyl hurried him away . They next came to a place where the road divided

tables loaded with dainties, while near by stood a Fury who snatched away the viands from their lips as fast as they prepar

it; for when he bowed his hoary head, eager to quaff, the water fled away , leaving the ground at his feet all dry. Tall tre

purity contracted by the spiritual part. This impurity must be purged away after death, which is done by ventilating the sou

ere to remain. But the rest, after the impurities of earth are purged away , are sent back to life endowed with new bodies, h

, having had the remembrance of their former lives effectually washed away by the waters of Lethe. Some, however, there stil

for sale. The king refused to purchase them, whereupon the woman went away and burned three of the books, and returning offe

sed himself, while the followers pressed round Mezentius and bore him away . Æneas held his sword suspended over Lausus and d

fate, suffered not her slaughter to be unavenged. Aruns, as he stole away , glad, but frightened, was struck by a secret arr

r the body, not the mind, has sway, And snatch the remnant of my life away , My better part above the stars shall soar, And m

uiring of one another who among them could have advised to give Freya away , or to plunge the heavens in darkness by permitti

or to plunge the heavens in darkness by permitting the giant to carry away the sun and the moon. They all agreed that no one

ranches fall on my head. How fares it with thee, Thor?” But Thor went away hastily, saying that he had just then awoke, and

art here.” Hereupon he threw his wallet over his shoulders and turned away from them into the forest, and Thor had no wish t

any other feat, though methinks thou art not likely to bear any prize away with thee hence.” “What new trial hast thou to pr

and feeble to crave an oath from.” As soon as Loki heard this he went away , and resuming his natural shape, cut off the mist

un the wind, was then led forth, on which Hermod mounted and galloped away on his mission. For the space of nine days and as

and catches the drops as they fall, in a cup; but when she carries it away to empty it, the venom falls upon Loki, which mak

estuous, and the sun impart no gladness. Three such winters will pass away without being tempered by a single summer. Three

ge 355. Uno avulso non deficit alter. —  Virgil. When one is torn away another succeeds. No. 16. Page 355. Tu ne

use the selection from “Pegasus in Pound.” The Gods. Far away across the sea from us lies the pleasant land of

frightened. She shrieked and called for her mother, but Ceres was far away , in Spain, caring for the crops of rye and barley

sun never shines in the underworld, and there are no stars there. Far away , across the plain, she could see great masses of

s them fetch the coal-black steeds —    “ Demeter’s daughter, wouldst away ?”    The gates of Hades set her free;    “She wil

us things. So when Jupiter had said these words, the lame god hobbled away to his workshop. Soon he came back with a rich an

ged sandals and his winged hat, took Pandora by the hand, and led her away . Next morning Epimetheus heard a knock at his doo

self, and a cloud of black and golden creatures came swarming out and away . In another moment Pandora had hold of the lid an

ch you fry the hearts of foolish mortals.” With these words he walked away , leaving Cupid almost in tears with rage. Next da

e, and the tree of all poets among men forever.” Then he turned sadly away , but for a long, long time afterward, the world w

ot lose her. Think, O Pluto, what pain you suffer while Proserpina is away from you each year — but my sorrow is greater, fo

nswered, “Men and gods alike call me Virtue.” Then the goddesses went away , and left him debating, in his great heart. He re

held him fast. Then he became a little bird, but before he could flit away , Hercules had his hand about him. Then he was a f

became a torrent of rushing water, but Hercules would not let it flow away . Then he changed to a snake, and Hercules almost

e sky again,” shouted the Titan. But the hero only laughed and walked away , for his work in the world was to perform the lab

No sooner had the god left than Admetus fell sick and began to waste away . Hope left him. Every hour and every minute he ex

every minute he expected to see dark Death coming again to carry him away . Alcestis stayed by his bedside and nursed him te

. From that moment Admetus grew stronger, but Alcestis began to waste away . Dreadful visions came to her. Now she would thin

reached the place where they had buried her, there was Death carrying away his victim in his arms. In a flash the mighty arm

Every moment the flight grew wilder. Once the chariot was carried far away among the stars, then the steeds rushed down with

s grew angry at the continued refusal of Danaë to marry him, and took away all the riches that she had. Finally he decided t

s they followed him close. Only on the third day did he begin to draw away from them, and in the evening they wavered and at

e evening they wavered and at last turned back. The race was won. Far away Perseus saw the hills of Africa. Panting and exha

nd,    That mid the light, a long dark band, Lies dim and shadowy far away ;    And still from morn till eve I’ve scanned Tha

Thus the joy of the marriage feast was changed to jealous strife. Far away on the slopes of Mount Ida, in the land of Troy,

e, since she was very beautiful and very skillful. He sent the priest away with angry words and threatened his life if he we

they stood near him, lest in his grief he should do himself harm. Far away , at the bottom of the ocean, Thetis, the goddess

Vulcan was pleased that he could do this thing for Thetis. He hobbled away willingly to his workshop, and all that night the

seen. It shone like the sun, and the friends of Achilles had to turn away their eyes from it. But the hero, when he saw it,

a moment, but the god Apollo, who loved Hector, came and snatched him away out of the front of battle, and Achilles looked f

ity by storming the walls, and the Trojans could not drive the Greeks away . The siege lasted ten years. Finally the beautifu

where the Palladium stood; they seized the sacred statue and bore it away , through the sleeping guards, out into the Grecia

o in their folds. After they had slain all three, the serpents glided away and disappeared in the temple of Minerva. At that

t of their course. For nine days the storm raged, and when it cleared away the fleet was far beyond where any ships had ever

r that he milked the ewes, and curdled some of the milk and stored it away , but he put aside the most of it in bowls for his

y the gods; remember that, and be patient.” Thus they spoke, and went away , but Polyphemus groped about the cave until he ca

groped about the cave until he came to the door-stone. This he lifted away . Then he sat down with his arms outstretched to c

but he did not think to feel beneath them. When all were out and well away from the cave, Ulysses and his men got down, hurr

during the whole storm covered with his mantle. The ships were swept away from the shore, out into the deep and back to the

ng more for them, and sternly ordered them to leave. Sadly they rowed away , and came to the land of the Læstrygonians, where

crews were destroyed. Ulysses and his crew alone escaped. They sailed away in haste, but at last came to a little island wit

led on the ground, and were changed to swine. Her servants drove them away , grunting and squealing, and shut them up in stie

r half in fear, Shrill music reach’d them on the middle sea. “Whither away , whither away, whither away? fly no more. Whither

, Shrill music reach’d them on the middle sea. “Whither away, whither away , whither away? fly no more. Whither away from the

reach’d them on the middle sea. “Whither away, whither away, whither away ? fly no more. Whither away from the high green fi

sea. “Whither away, whither away, whither away? fly no more. Whither away from the high green field, and the happy blossomi

t on as happy a shore All the world o’er, all the world o’er? Whither away ? listen and stay: mariner, mariner, fly no more.”

banquet hall. “Bring the aged man in,” said Telemachus. “No; send him away ,” said Antinoüs, the most insolent of the suitors

id receive of them, And taste, to him the gushing of the wave Far far away did seem to mourn and rave On alien shores; and i

py, left behind with the wooden horse when the army pretended to sail away , 205. Si΄rens. Nymphs who, with their songs, ent

gods, who shared their innocent pleasures with great delight. And far away , on the shore of this same marvellous river, acco

es of the Blest, Are peaceful and happy, by night and by day.     Far away in the glorious west. “They need not the moon in

his with grasp Eager he snatch’d, and in his ravening breast Convey’d away : unhappy! nor once thought That for the stone his

m, and in a few minutes disappeared from view, so rapidly did he swim away . To reassure the frightened girl, the bull now sp

washing her off her perilous seat, and allowed herself to be carried away . Jupiter finally deposited his fair burden upon t

ollo’s pet stag, grieved so sorely over this mischance, that he pined away and finally died. Apollo then changed his lifeles

d. No recollection of his pastoral duties could avail to tear Marsyas away from his new-found treasure; and so rapidly did h

ter saw Orpheus, he began to growl and bark savagely, to frighten him away ; but Orpheus merely paused, and began to play suc

at what he had done, Phaeton whipped up his steeds, and drove so far away , that all the vegetation which had survived the i

y upon the beautiful vision. That one glance, although it drove Diana away in great haste, kindled in his heart an inextingu

but when he saw the moon, which he fancied close beside him, sailing away across the deep blue sky, he felt sure the whole

fear shot through every vein, as, mindful of his new form, he bounded away through the forest. Alas! too late; for the pack

ed them into ridicule. But when he at last set them free, Mars darted away , vowing vengeance upon the negligent sentinel, wh

d not see,     Untouch’d, a victim of your beauty bright,     Sinking away to his young spirit’s night.’’ Keats. The poet

the trysting-place, and, as she slowly paced back and forth to while away the time of waiting, she wondered what had happen

, and licking his bloody jaws. With one terrified shriek the girl ran away , dropping her veil, which the lion caught in his

er companions, and there, brooding continually over her sorrow, pined away until there remained naught of her but her melodi

ymph eluded his touch; but the enamoured youth could not tear himself away from the spot haunted by this sweet image, whose

love and despair. Even the shades of night could not drive Narcissus away from his post, and, when the pale moonbeams illum

rrows, and, with a last sorrowful, reproachful glance at Psyche, flew away through the open window, exclaiming, — “‘Farewel

ight, after a few hours’ existence waxes sufficiently strong to drive away the clouds and conceal them, leaving no trace of

essly the god pointed to the heifer, and declared he had been whiling away the time by creating it; but the explanation fail

a handful of poppies, Mercury approached Argus, and offered to while away the time by telling him tales. As Mercury was the

s successfully accomplished: and while Mercury was driving the heifer away , Juno discovered his attempt, and promptly sent a

these manifestations proved unavailing to drive his would-be hearers away , the god answered every question circumstantially

vain would men, in vain would gods essay, To hew the beams of adamant away . Here rose an iron tow’r: before the gate, By nig

es replaced the missing shoulder with one of ivory or of gold. Driven away from his kingdom, which was seized by the King of

en fertile themes for poetry and art. On one occasion, having strayed away from his followers and lost his way, Bacchus laid

s name, had been forsaken there by her lover, Theseus, who had sailed away while she slept. As soon as she awoke, she called

her off to his chariot, in spite of prayers and struggles, and drove away as fast as his fleet steeds could carry him. He w

Arethusa had been enveloped by Diana’s protecting care was soon blown away by a mischievous breath from Zephyrus; and Alpheu

na, seeing her new plight, opened a crevice, through which she glided away from the bright sunlight she loved so well into t

nto the Alpheus River; and it was said the self-same flowers, carried away by his current, soon reappeared in the Sicilian f

erson hastened to her daughter’s new abode, and was about to lead her away in spite of Pluto, when a spirit, Ascalaphus, sud

visit her. After assuming the face and form of Ceyx, the Dream glided away through the gate of horn, hastened to Halcyone’s

iss. Chapter XVIII: Æolus The Home of Æolus Not very far away from the quiet realm of Somnus and Mors, but on t

ut all her fleetness could not save her: she was overtaken, and borne away to the inaccessible regions of snow and ice, wher

s and Calais, — who took part in the Argonautic expedition, and drove away the Harpies, — and of two daughters, Cleopatra an

worst; And in Trachinia shall the funeral pyre Purge his mortalities away with fire; And he shall mount amid the stars, and

rse, so that the waters passed directly through the stables, carrying away all impurities, and finally washing them perfectl

ho met their onslaught single-handed, defeated them, and finally bore away the prize he had risked so much to obtain. It was

e underwent in the vain hope of frightening his would-be interlocutor away . In answer to Hercules’ question, he finally very

ed it in one hand, and, holding it persistently behind his back, flew away in great haste, lest the two remaining Gorgons sh

ng back to its upright position, and hurled the unfortunate traveller away up into the air, to be dashed to pieces against t

of Boreas, who were also in the Argo, begged permission to drive them away . Jason could not refuse their request; and the tw

until, terrified by the din, the brazen-feathered birds flew rapidly away , uttering discordant cries of terror. Some time d

s tr.). The Death of Absyrtus But Medea had no wish to be torn away from Jason’s arms, and, instead of listening to h

e he sat under the shade of the Argo’s hulk, which was slowly rotting away . One day, while he was sitting there musing over

ightly on her hearth. When the last bit of the precious wood crumbled away into ashes, Meleager died. All Althæa’s affection

estruction upon the people of Corinth, whom he loved, he would wander away over the face of the earth, and never see city or

nd as he journeyed he did not cease to curse the fate which drove him away from home. After some time, he came to three cros

ured by the terrible Sphinx, which no one dared attack or could drive away . While listening to these tidings, Œdipus saw a h

ed to relinquish it, and, making use of his power, drove the claimant away . “Thou seest me banish’d from my native land, Un

nd still it crept upward, in spite of her frantic attempts to tear it away from her shapely limbs. In despair she raised her

y ran, And the broken lilies a dying lay, And the dragon-fly had fled away ,         Ere he brought it out of the river. Thi

dowed with extraordinary powers, bounded back into the waves and swam away . Greatly surprised at this occurrence, Glaucus be

stepfather, thinking the rejected suitors might attempt to steal her away from any husband she selected, proposed that all

ad not sojourned there many days, however, before the king was called away from home, and departed, confiding to his wife th

finally consented to elope with him, and allowed herself to be borne away in triumph to Troy. “Then from her husband’s str

il they were high enough to command a view of Troy, and then withered away , while fresh branches sprang from the roots.”   

at the same time he swore that, if Agamemnon really took his captive away , he would not strike another blow. Chryseis was i

eased. As for Agamemnon, he sent his slaves to Achilles’ tent to lead away Briseis; and the hero, true to his promise, laid

, Venus, seeing her favourite about to succumb, suddenly snatched him away from the battlefield, and bore him unseen to his

in, and the women, including his mother and beloved Andromache, borne away into bitter captivity.                          

mache and, with a farewell embrace, sprang into his chariot and drove away . “Sorrow not thus, beloved one, for me. No livin

he very footsteps of the Greek forces, who were driven, inch by inch, away from the walls, ever nearer the place where their

trious chiefs, Nor to the war, but suffered idleness To eat his heart away ; for well he loved Clamour and combat.” Homer (

rs Sarpedon, the son of Jupiter and Europa — whose remains were borne away from the battlefield by the twin divinities Sleep

ame a loud cry, then all was still; and when the dust-cloud had blown away , the Trojans from the ramparts, where they had wa

Mercury to lead Priam, unseen, into Achilles’ tent, to claim and bear away his son’s desecrated corpse. Thetis, seeking Achi

bounded joy of the long-besieged Trojans, the Greek fleet then sailed away , until the Island of Tenedos hid the ships from v

ed epic the Odyssey. During ten long years he roamed the seas, driven away from his native land by adverse winds, sailing ab

d receive of them, And taste, to him the gushing of the wave Far, far away did seem to mourn and rave On alien shores; and i

ck to their ships. There the magic effect of the lotus food soon wore away , and the men rowed steadily westward until they c

kness began to fall over the earth, Polyphemus again rolled the stone away to admit his flocks, keeping careful guard upon t

ars; but he could not depart, as he had no vessel or crew to bear him away . At last Minerva, who had always befriended him,

out mercy. The men were all slain, but the fairest women were dragged away to be sold as slaves in Greece; and among them Æn

to some safe place without the city, whence he could embark, and sail away to a more fortunate land; and her entreaties fina

e, and was regarded with unconcealed horror by the Trojans, who rowed away in haste. Soon after, Æneas moored his ships in t

formidable antagonist as Æneas, had determined to lure her favourite away from the field. To compass this, she assumed the

its moorings, and allowed it to drift down the stream, bearing Turnus away from the scene of battle. Aware now of the delusi

connection with an oyster shell. The primitive meaning of a myth died away with the original meaning of a word; and it is be

morn”), the child of Telephassa (“she who shines from afar”), carried away from her eastern birthplace by the sky (Jupiter),

ull udders drop down rain and fatness upon the land, which are stolen away either by the wind (Mercury), or the storm demon

over his children, the dawn and light (?), after they have been borne away by the all-conquering sun. Glauce (the broad dayl

his hero, although enticed by Anteia (the dawn), virtuously hastening away , then sent against his will to fight the Chimæra

ived from the same root as “Leto,” “Latmus,” and “Laius”), is carried away by Paris, whom some mythologists identify with th

(or “night demons”) instead of the sun. In this character he entices away the fickle twilight (Helen) during her husband’s

serpina), whose loss she grievously mourned; for she had been carried away by Pluto to the underworld, whence she could only

faded into winter, they said that the beautiful child had been stolen away from her mother by dark beings, who kept her impr

after a very few hours’ existence assumed gigantic proportions, stole away the cattle of the sun (the clouds), and, after fa

it is in his capacity of god of the wind that he is supposed to waft away the souls of the dead; for “the ancients held tha

ed by, 82; Psyche saved by, 100, 105; cloud enveloping Arethusa blown away by, 165; Flora, wife of, 268 Ze′tes. Son of Bore

of Boreas and Orithyia; took part in Argonautic expedition, and drove away Harpies, 186 Ze′thus. Twin brother of Amphion; s

words were forged, but void of care or crime, The soft creation slept away their time; The teeming earth, yet guiltless of t

year, and finds that every day Brings its grey hair, or bears a leaf away From the full glory with which life is crowned, E

sible of the deceit; and as he had always distrusted Jupiter, he sent away Pandora without suffering himself to be captivate

s thought he seized the beauteous prey, And bore her in his sooty car away . Far she behind her leaves her virgin train; To t

ht to offer them insult. They immediately spread their wings and flew away . The king wishing to fly after them, essayed the

trained by stags, and in her hand is a torch which serves to frighten away the wild beasts. The affection of this Goddess fo

she grieves the live-long day, Sickens in thought, and pines herself away . …………………………………………………… To her relief the blooming

ied holly By shepherds is forgotten, when in June, Tall chesnuts keep away the sun and moon,     I rushed into the folly! “

t ye could not see Untouched, a victim of your beauty bright, Sinking away to his young spirit’s night, Sinking bewildered m

last All death-shadows, and glooms that overcast Our spirits, fanned away by thy light pinions. O sweetest essence! sweetes

, by looking at herself in a fountain near Mount Ida, threw the flute away , and denounced a melancholy death to him who shou

to compass what his soul desired. The bashful goddess turned her eyes away , Nor durst such bold impurity survey.” This viol

ng the Trojan war, Ulysses and Diomedes were commissioned to steal it away . Description of Minerva in the Florence Gallery.

he offered an early proof of his dishonest propensities, by stealing away the oxen of Admetus which Apollo tended. “The ba

began playing on the lyre at noon, And the same evening did he steal away Apollo’s herds.” Shelley. He gave another proof

was brought into the world, the nurse, terrified at sight of him, ran away in horror, and his father wrapping him up in the

drops, th’ ethereal tide, As conscious of its own rich essence, ebbed away .” Moore. Her mother employed her to prepare her

e him a speckled snake lay Tight strangled, because it had hissed him away From the flower at his finger; he rose and drew n

delicious fruits which are the offspring of the summer season. “Come away ! the sunny hours Woo thee far to founts and bower

play, Flowers are shedding beauty’s glow —                      Come away ! Where the lily’s tender gleam Quivers on the gla

nder gleam Quivers on the glancing stream —                      Come away ! All the air is filled with sound, Soft, and sult

y stray; Faint winds whisper as they pass —                      Come away ; Where the bee’s deep music swells From the tremb

swells From the trembling fox-glove bells —                      Come away ! In the skies the sapphire blue Now hath won its

ts along — Where the boughs with dewy gloom                      Come away ! Darken each thick bed of bloom                  

  Come away! Darken each thick bed of bloom                      Come away ! In the deep heart of the rose Now the crimson lo

ds a ray,‌ Dreamy, starry, freely bright —                      Come away ! Where the fairy cup-moss lies, With the wild-woo

moss lies, With the wild-wood strawberries,                      Come away ! Now each tree by summer crowned, Sheds its own n

s play; Here the deer its couch hath made —                      Come away ! Where the smooth leaves of the lime Glisten in t

aves of the lime Glisten in the honey time,                      Come away — away!” Hemans. Autumn appears clad in a robe

the lime Glisten in the honey time,                      Come away —  away !” Hemans. Autumn appears clad in a robe red wit

ing sings with a warm odorous mouth. Where are the merry birds? Away, away On panting wings through the inclement skies,    

a dim picture of the drowned past In the hushed mind’s mysterious far away , Doubtful what ghostly thing will steal the last

Boreas, Auster, Eurus and Zephyrus. Boreas, God of the North, carried away Orithya, who refused to receive his addresses. By

s, or laughingly play With the spring clouds that fly from our kisses away , When we grapple and fight with the bellowing foa

and lonely day, Come back upon the dreaming ear, From grave lands far away , And gleams look forth of spirit eyes Like stars

world unseen by you     Unto life’s dim faded track. Her soul is far away ,     In her childhood’s land, perchance, Where he

he came slow and gradually; and with wings, to intimate that he flew away with greater velocity than he approached mankind.

patient for the wonders of the day, Aurora drives the loitering stars away . Now Mars’s mount the pressing people fill, The c

o hell by a cave on Mount Tænarus. He was permitted by Pluto to carry away his friends Theseus and Pirithous, who were conde

prayers, provided he made use of no arms, but only force to drag him away . Hercules, as some report, carried him back to he

assion, to desecrate the sacred temple by plundering it, and carrying away the holy tripod. Apollo opposed him, and a fierce

o the sacred edifice, the oracle declared that it could only be wiped away by the hero becoming a slave, and remaining in th

ttempted to offer violence to his beautiful burthen, and to carry her away in the very sight of her husband. The extraordina

on the rocks where fixed she lay; But now let Perseus bear his prize away . By service gained, by promised faith possessed;

ous, after this, had lost Hippodamia, he agreed with Theseus to carry away one of the daughters of the gods. They first atte

friend in his attempt to descend into the infernal regions and carry away Proserpine, but Cerberus was too watchful, and Pl

.     The. And dost thou think that thou canst thus deceive me? Away, away , no more pollute my court; Wert thou not called m

n with delicious fruit, which, when his hand would grasp it, is borne away by a sudden blast of wind. ‌ Pelops was restored

ouse, And so compliant, even to a child. Never was snatched your robe away from me, Though going to the council. The blind m

g. Come, I have better diadems than those Of Argos and Mycenai — come away , And I will weave them for you on the bank. You w

ing sad Charon for his slow advance. Iphigenia! Iphig. Why thus turn away ? Calling me with such fondness! I am here, Father

She rent her tresses venerably gray: And cast far off the regal veils away . With piercing shriek his bitter fate she moans,

shoulders, took the young Ascanius, his son, by the hand, and led him away from the tumult, giving him in charge to Creusa,

rge pieces of rock after their vessel, which was bearing them quickly away from the scene of their danger. Insérer image ano

when the sudden arrival of a lioness so frightened her, that she fled away , dropping her veil in her flight. This the liones

ew his sword and killed himself. When the fears of Thisbe were passed away , she returned to the mulberry tree, but found onl

atoms, as the tempest scatters abroad The sea-sand tow’rd the skies, away , away!’” Acis came forth from his retreat, and P

, as the tempest scatters abroad The sea-sand tow’rd the skies, away, away !’” Acis came forth from his retreat, and Polyphe

faithless Phaon:’ then the form Passed not, but seemed to melt in air away : This was the Lesbian Sappho.” Barry Cornwall.

           Did’st thou, as day by day,                 Rolled heavily away , And left thee anxious, nerveless and dejected,  

Cadmus was the son of Agenor, and brother of Europa, who was carried away by Jupiter in the likeness of a bull; this prince

anner the first King of Vermland was burned in honour of Odin, to put away a great dearth. The ancient history of the North

Egina’s affection, of Diana to deceive Calisto, of an eagle to carry away Ganymede, and also Asteria, of a bull to convey E

lis, because he was worshipped in Latium; Muscarius, because he drove away flies; Opitulator, because he was the helper; Sta

but their images carved on the prows of the ships in which they made away . A further account of them will be given under th

, the god of the river, in the shape of a man, addressed her. She ran away , but Diana, finding her overwhelmed with fear, ch

f Aries (a ram.) He represents that upon which Phryxus and Helle fled away to escape from the persecutions of their step-mot

He represents that animal whose form Jupiter assumed to carry Europa away . 3. May, sign of Gemini (the twins.) They represe

ne day; but he found himself unequal to the task: the horses, running away , and setting the heavens and the earth on fire, J

se in mirth; Exempt from every weak decay, That withers vulgar frames away ; With not a drop of blood to stain The current of

ia, and abandoned her for Leucothe. The despair of Clytia hurried her away , and she starved herself. When the poets saw that

ng of Phocis. Being insulted by that prince, they took wings and flew away . To pursue them, he rushed from the top of a towe

icipations of happiness, as time and experience imperceptibly fritter away into languid hopes and strengthening apprehension

ight grew dim, her soft cheeks turned pale, and her lovely form faded away . Her disappointed love she hid in the recesses of

who first leaped from the rock. Repeated experiments succeeded to do away this ridiculous usage. The nets were no longer ke

Obs. 2. — By the use of his trumpet Triton is said to have frightened away the giants in their wars with the gods. This fabl

says that they were the companions of Proserpine, when Pluto carried away the daughter of Proserpine. They requested the go

a rock. Charybdis is said to have been an avaricious woman, who stole away Hercules’ oxen, for which crime Jupiter struck he

to tear Ino to pieces with her son Melicerta. Both precipitately ran away , and fell into the sea, and became sea-deities. T

ods; but he shunned her. The grief of Echo was so great as to consume away her flesh, and dissolve her into stones. When Nar

me away her flesh, and dissolve her into stones. When Narcissus pined away with self-love, with the assistance of the gods,

us, king of Athens, was refused by that prince. He therefore blew her away , and carried her to Thrace; where he had by her t

ascinum, because his limbs were deformed; Avistupor, because he drove away mischievous birds; and by various other names. Th

. 3. — The figure of Priapus usually served as a bug-bear to frighten away thieves and birds. Hence, all the appearances he

bs. — Æneas introduced the household gods from Phrygia. Jacob carried away those of his father-in-law Laban. In scripture th

vain would men, in vain would gods essay, To hew the beams of adamant away . Here rose an iron tow’r: before the gate, By nig

serpine, gathering flowers with her beautiful companions, he took her away . Cyane, endeavouring to oppose it, was turned int

matha, of Nereus, by whom he had Phocus. All his subjects being swept away by a pestilence, he begged of his father that he

ife; but his failure to fulfil his promise, induced Deioneus to steal away some of his horses. Ixion dissembled his resentme

ce where Jupiter concealed his daughter Ægina after having stolen her away . Others affirm that he stole away a dog which Jup

ghter Ægina after having stolen her away. Others affirm that he stole away a dog which Jupiter had set to watch his temple a

s temple at Crete. Others state that he was so lascivious as to carry away Ganymede; and of hers, that, having been introduc

d at the table of the gods, he had revealed their secrets, and stolen away the ambrosia and nectar in order to have his frie

rs who visited them. Hercules killed the guards, and drove the flocks away . Obs. — This fable inclines us to the belief, th

d, she accused him falsely. Hippolytus, aware of his resentment, fled away in a chariot. But he met with some monstrous sea-

om friend Pirithous, son of Ixion, into the infernal regions, to take away Proserpine from her husband; for which rash act,

of Alcmena, had just brought forth a fine boy. Juno, surprised, went away , and at that very moment Hercules was born. The e

nt; but he drew her milk with such violence, that when she thrust him away , some of her milk being spilt upon the clouds, oc

s. Hercules brought it alive to Eurystheus. He was commanded to bring away the fire-breathing mares of Diomedes, king of Thr

afterwards exhibited them to Eurystheus. He was employed in bringing away the purple-coloured oxen of Geryon, king of Gades

being confined three days in his belly, he cut his way out, and came away safe, having lost only his hair. Being denied the

He likewise killed Pyrrhus, in Apollo’s temple, because he had taken away Hermione, daughter to Menelaus, who was first eng

he blood of Agamemnon’s daughter Iphigenia. Ulysses forthwith brought away Iphigenia from her mother, under pretext of givin

ole country. Tros had three children. The eldest, Ganymede, was taken away by Jupiter; the second, Assaracus, was father to

s. In ravaging the country around Troy, Hercules, after having stolen away Hesione, whom he had delivered from the monster t

edon, which had been preserved upon the gate Scæa in Troy. He carried away the Palladium of the city; slew Rhœsus, king of T

away the Palladium of the city; slew Rhœsus, king of Thrace, and took away his horses before they had drank of the river Xan

escriptive of the death of Osiris. In approaching Leo, the sun chases away the malignant vapours to preserve coolness and sa

, and the evil Genii were destroyed. The supreme god drove the waters away from the earth at one blast. The author of abunda

ned it are no longer to be seen. The Emperor Constantine III. carried away the plates of gilt bronze which covered the whole

his fiction. Two priestesses of Thebes, says this author, were stolen away by some Phœnician merchants; the one was conducte

hapter IX. Oracle of Jupiter Ammon. The second priestess, carried away by the Phœnicians, was taken to Libya. This stran

an by birth, smitten with the extreme beauty of the Pythia, stole her away . In order to prevent another such outrage, the pe

e:) he then passes his feet into the cave, and is immediately carried away with great force and swiftness. It was there that

already lived seven hundred years; after which, her body being wasted away by time, there was nothing remaining of her but h

form himself at will; that, by the force of his enchantments, he took away the strength of his enemies, gave back health aga

combatants, to strike those whom he designed to perish, and to carry away souls to the celestial abodes. Yet, according to

nly dwellings; lyna, the goddess of friendship and good faith, kisses away the tear from the eye of the unfortunate; Siona e

(Musspellheim;) and from this burning world, there incessantly slide away into the abyss, (which was in the north,) torrent

od of joy. Disapproving of his presumptuous conduct, the gods carried away his children, and took them up to the heavens. Th

in the air, torrents of venom. In this confusion the stars will flee away , the heaven will be split, and an army of evil ge

it decreased, because wars were multiplied, and the nobility, hurried away by its bloody carnage, no more pressed so many to

e faithfully returned to the world. 18. Let the disobedient be driven away ; let them recive no justice; let them be received

ymph, and in love with the Sun-god, who made her no return. She pined away , nine days she sat on the ground and tasted neith

a constant noise, which drowned the cries of the child and frightened away all intruders. Zeus and his brothers having gaine

last playfully seated herself on its back. The disguised god bounded away with his lovely burden, and swam across the sea w

ommemoration of the theft of the Tyrrhenians*, who attempted to carry away the statue of the goddess, but were detained in t

ony the shapeless elements. This beautiful conception gradually faded away , and he was replaced by the mischief-loving littl

s at his approach, and at length, as he draws nearer to her, vanishes away .” Cox . The renowned singer Orpheus* was t

vorite stags. His grief so preyed on his mind that he gradually pined away , and died of a broken heart. He was transformed b

as* was a satyr*, who, having found the flute which Athene had thrown away in disgust, discovered that, having touched the l

It was in his character of wind-god that Hermes was believed to bear away the souls of the dead. The ancients believed that

ay the souls of the dead. The ancients believed that the wind carried away the souls of the dead, and this superstition stil

s*; and, finding that he did not reciprocate her affection, she pined away until she became nothing but bones and voice — th

e water. The object of his desires being unattainable, he, too, pined away from grief; and the flower named for him has ever

ys grew again during the night. After thirteen generations had passed away , Heracles was permitted to kill the eagle and Pro

m of a white bull, carried Europa, daughter of Agenor*, king of Tyre, away to Crete. Grieved for the loss of his only daught

head with his sword. Placing the trophy in the magic wallet, he flew away , just as the two immortal sisters were awakened b

his friends of the dangerous power of the Gorgon’s head, they turned away their eyes; but on showing it to his adversaries,

ed the divine milk without her consent. When Hera awoke she flung him away from her, sprinkling upon the vault of the sky th

6. The Stymphalian* Birds. — The sixth task of Heracles was to chase away the immense birds of prey whose home was on the s

resumed his former position, Heracles gathered up the apples and went away . Eurystheus, having seen the apples, gave them ba

on the angry hero seized the tripod, and was in the act of bearing it away in order to erect an oracle of his own, when he w

ed himself above the waves and frightened the horses so that they ran away and dashed the chariot to pieces. When Phædra lea

fatal brand into the fire. As it burned, the vigor of Meleager wasted away , and when it was consumed he expired. Althea, ful

nd in the possession of Paris, who reluctantly allowed it to be taken away . Desirous of recovering his favorite, he went to

leges of a prince of Troy. Hesione, sister of Priam, had been carried away captive by Heracles, and given in marriage to Tel

himself of his absence, gained the affections of Helen, and bore her away to his native city. Helen was the daughter of Zeu

themselves. The rest of the Greeks set fire to their camp, and sailed away to Tenedos. The Destruction of Troy. When t

ook of it lost all thought of home. Odysseus was obliged to drag them away and fasten them to the benches of the ship. They

as their companions had been the night before. Polyphemus then moved away the rock from the entrance, drove out his flocks,

ully replacing the barrier after him. He came home at evening, rolled away the stone, and drove in his flocks as usual. Afte

st bear it.” So saying, they left him. Next morning Polyphemus rolled away the stone to let his flocks out to pasture, but s

ted absence, and that his aged father, Laertes*, was wearing his life away in anxious longings for his return. He also conve

had bestowed upon him. It was now twenty years that Odysseus had been away from Ithaca, and when he awoke he did not recogni

young prince of Troy, whom Priam had sent to be brought up in Thrace, away from the horrors of war. The king to whom he was

sures which had been sent with him. Æneas and his companions hastened away , and next landed on the island of Delos. Here Æne

” she said, “I have learned to succor the unfortunate.” Months rolled away in the enjoyment of pleasant intercourse, and it

in gayly-colored mummy-cloths, amid imposing ceremonies, it was laid away in its rock sepulchre. The most celebrated Egypti

o assure us that the imagination of the barbarian, who either carries away his wife by brute force, or buys her from her rel

thern India, “and that from their ancient home they must have carried away , if not the developed myth, yet the quickening ge

o, succumbing to a weakness common to his contemporaries, has gambled away his kingdom. The Great Feud of the Bhâratas is, i

his aid. Speedily the race of men, and their possessions, were swept away by the deluge. § 29. Deucalion and Pyrrha. — Parn

owers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away , a sordid boon! This sea that bares her bosom to

hat her husband had raised a cloud to hide some escapade. She brushed away the darkness, and saw him, on the banks of a glas

mourned over her. While he thus lamented, Argus, observing, drove her away , and took his seat on a bank, from whence he coul

her to Diana of the silver bow. Without stopping to hear him, she ran away . But on the bank of the river he overtook her. Sh

int of transfixing her, but Jupiter arrested the crime, and snatching away both of them, placed them in the heavens as the G

ed Io to do. Perhaps my husband means to take her to wife, and put me away ! But you, my foster-parents, if you feel for me,

iden. And she still caressed him, and gently with her hands she wiped away the deep foam from his lips, and kissed the bull.

if thou art indeed my father, give me back my people, or take me also away !’ At these words a clap of thunder was heard. ‘I

t over the yoke and horses’ reins with spear of bronze, eager to take away his life. But the bright-eyed goddess Minerva wit

e me, even me, with the might of a god. Howbeit my swift feet bare me away ; else had I long endured anguish there amid the g

g eyes. Him did Venus, daughter of Jupiter, take by the hand and lead away , groaning continually, for scarce gathered he his

inting: H. and P.] The Fortunes of Cadmus. — When Europa was carried away by Jupiter in the guise of a bull, her father Age

ew warm, and with warmth felt its rage revive. Bootes, they say, fled away , though encumbered with his plough, and unused to

gus, with golden sands, and Caÿster where the swans resort. Nile fled away and hid his head in the desert, and there it stil

ountain-god, was chosen umpire. The senior took his seat, and cleared away the trees from his ears to listen. At a given sig

r-nymph and in love with Apollo, who made her no return. So she pined away , sitting all day long upon the cold ground, with

by surprise. Surrounded as she was by her nymphs, she yet turned half away , and sought with a sudden impulse for her arrows.

his name, he turned his head, and heard them regret that he should be away . He earnestly wished he was. But Diana had no pit

casion, warned him, she mounted her chariot drawn by swans, and drove away through the air. But Adonis was too noble to heed

unded; and sorrow on Cypris he brings, as softly he breathes his life away . His dark blood drips down his skin of snow, bene

for sorrow. “Thou diest, oh, thrice-desired, and my desire hath flown away as a dream! Nay, widowed is Cytherea, and idle ar

leave thee forever. Love cannot dwell with suspicion.” And so he flew away . When Psyche had recovered some degree of composu

hat Leander stoop’d to have embrac’d her, But from his spreading arms away she cast her, And thus bespake him: ‘Gentle youth

ye could not see, Untouch’d, a victim of your beauty bright, Sinking away to his young spirit’s night, Sinking bewilder’d ’

o do; but, preventing the pilot from steering toward Naxos, they bore away for Egypt, where they might sell the lad into sla

littering destruction. The merciful deity heard, and sent him to wash away his fault and its punishment in the fountain head

saying, she wrapped a cloud about her, and mounting her chariot rode away . Ceres continued her search for her daughter, til

sts, limping with her wounded foot. Orpheus was permitted to take her away with him on condition that he should not turn rou

the dawn, fell in love with Cephalus, a young huntsman. She stole him away , lavished her love upon him, tried to content him

dgrains. Fig. 67. The God of Sleep. [Relief: Baumeister.] Brushing away the dreams that hovered around her, Iris lit up t

eat difficulty in shaking himself free from himself. Then Iris hasted away from the drowsiness creeping over her, and return

er latest, was Tithonus, son of Laomedon, king of Troy. She stole him away , and prevailed on Jupiter to grant him immortalit

at time forth she lived in caves and among mountain cliffs, and faded away till there was nothing left of her but her voice.

g he was no match for Hercules in the wrestler’s art, Acheloüs glided away in the form of a serpent. Hercules, remarking tha

rns, dragged his head to the ground, overthrew him, and rent one horn away . This trophy the Naiads consecrated, and filled w

At last, with the assistance of his faithful nephew Iolaüs, he burned away the heads of the Hydra, and buried the ninth, whi

voice from the water, and, hard by though he was, he seemed very far away . And as when a bearded lion, a ravening lion on t

tried to wrench off the garment, but it stuck to his flesh, and tore away whole pieces of his body. “Alcides, from Œchalia

Helle. After a time, growing indifferent to his wife, Athamas put her away , and took Ino, the daughter of Cadmus. The unfort

sitated to strike, but, Medea chiding their irresolution, they turned away their faces and, giving random blows, smote him w

its of her crime. Jason, for whom she had sacrificed so much, put her away , for he wished to marry Creüsa, princess of Corin

d cast the fresh crown from her hair, and now They had rent her spoil away , dishonoring her, Save that Meleager, as a tame l

her offspring. Finally the sister prevails over the mother: — turning away her face, she throws the fatal wood upon the burn

e fastened on with wax. Then poising themselves in the air, they flew away . Icarus had been warned not to approach too near

her to send the child to him if it should prove strong enough to roll away the stone and take what was under. The lad Theseu

eus. Dropped oblivion down, enshrouding vows he had cherished, Hiding away all trace of the solemn behest of his father. Fo

himself above the waters, and frightened the horses so that they ran away and dashed the chariot to pieces. Hippolytus was

lf a voluntary victim. The heroic youth, learning the response, threw away his life in the first encounter. The siege contin

ut, in the moment of sacrifice, Diana, relenting, snatched the maiden away and left a hind in her place. Iphigenia, envelope

d till they were high enough to command a view of Troy, then withered away , giving place to fresh branches that sprang from

t of their number no one dares to die?’ In soul I swept the indignity away : Old frailties then recurred: — but lofty thought

wounded, and having told the cause of his coming would have hastened away , but Nestor detained him, to tell him the extent

and steeds to the rear of the battle. Achilles, when the mist cleared away , looked round in vain for his adversary, and ackn

e rest of the Greeks then betook themselves to their ships and sailed away , as if for a final departure. The Trojans, seeing

ang on pang, and stifles gasp on gasp.364 He struggles to tear them away , but they overpower all his efforts, and strangle

no other than Iphigenia, the sister of Orestes, who had been snatched away by Diana, at the moment when she was about to be

in that country. It was by main force that Ulysses dragged these men away , and he was even obliged to tie them under the be

ons, feasting on their flesh till no fragment was left. He then moved away the rock from the door, drove out his flocks, and

s joined himself as a fifth. The Cyclops came home at evening, rolled away the stone and drove in his flock as usual. After

.” So saying, they left him groaning. Next morning the Cyclops rolled away the stone to let his flock out to pasture, but pl

r darting forth her snaky heads, caught six of his men, and bore them away shrieking to her den. Ulysses was unable to affor

nd landed with him the chest containing his presents, and then sailed away . Neptune was so displeased at the conduct of the

uth of the harbor. § 173. Fate of the Suitors. — Ulysses had now been away from Ithaca for twenty years, and when he awoke h

the burning city; but, in the confusion, his wife, Creiisa, was swept away and lost. Fig. 107. Veneas, Anchises, and Iulu

considering the land accursed by the stain of such a crime, hastened away . The Promised Empire. — They next landed on the

harpies darted down from the air and carried it off. They were driven away from Phineus by the heroes of the Argonautic expe

on them, seizing in their talons the meat from the dishes, and flying away with it. Æneas and his companions drew their swor

ngs to them in their future course, and having vented her wrath, flew away . Epirus. — The Trojans made haste to leave the c

them with a severe reprimand. He then soothed the waves, and brushed away the clouds from before the face of the sun. Some

tion of his wanderings, a home, a kingdom, and a bride. Months rolled away in the enjoyment of pleasant intercourse, and it

im overboard and he fell; but keeping his hold upon the helm, it came away with him. Neptune was mindful of his promise and

hand and quit its parent trunk, but otherwise no force could rend it away . If torn away another would succeed. Æneas follow

its parent trunk, but otherwise no force could rend it away. If torn away another would succeed. Æneas followed the directi

ause of his misfortune. Palinurus replied that the rudder was carried away , and he clinging to it was swept away with it. He

ied that the rudder was carried away, and he clinging to it was swept away with it. He besought Æneas most urgently to exten

have lingered long with his Trojan friends, but the Sibyl hurried him away . They next came to a place where the road divided

tables, loaded with dainties, while near by stood a Fury who snatched away the viands from their lips as fast as they prepar

it; for when he bowed his hoary head, eager to quaff, the water fled away , leaving the ground at his feet all dry. Tall tre

purity contracted by the spiritual part. This impurity must be purged away after death, which is done by ventilating the sou

ere to remain. But the rest, after the impurities of earth are purged away , are sent back to life endowed with new bodies, h

, having had the remembrance of their former lives effectually washed away by the waters of Lethe. Some souls, however, ther

sed himself, while the followers pressed round Mezentius and bore him away . Æneas held his sword suspended over Lausus and d

fate, suffered not her slaughter to be unavenged. Aruns, as he stole away , glad but frightened, was struck by a secret arro

or to plunge the heavens in darkness by permitting the giant to carry away the sun and the moon. They all agreed that no one

ranches fall on my head. How fares it with thee, Thor?” But Thor went away hastily, saying that he had just then awoke, and

t here.” Hereupon he threw his wallet over his shoulders, and turned away from them into the forest, and Thor had no wish t

y other feat? — though methinks thou art not likely to bear any prize away with thee hence.” “What new trial hast thou to

nd feeble to crave an oath from.” As soon as Loki heard this he went away , and resuming his natural shape, cut off the mist

to Odin himself. So speaking Odin mounted his horse Sleipnir and rode away to Lidskialf; and the gods in Valhalla returned t

Hang in the air, afield, and disappear, So Balder faded in the night away . And Nanna on her bed sank back; but then Frea, t

and catches the drops as they fall, in a cup; but when she carries it away to empty it, the venom falls upon Loki, which mak

n of ale. Then Sigmund sorrowed nigh to death over his son, and drove away that queen, and soon after she died. He then marr

lton (b. 1608) was carried by the stress of the civil war, 1641-1649, away from poetry, music, and the art which he had sedu

marry Acontius.” The maiden read aloud the words, and threw the apple away . But the vow was registered by Diana, who, in spi

. It seems that the flute, an invention of Minerva’s, had been thrown away by that goddess because Cupid laughed at the grim

nd toads. Dido, queen of Carthage (§ 174), whose lover, Æneas, sailed away from her. Interpretative. — Max Müller’s explana

ng of the sun as if hurrying after his bride, then the gradual fading away of the bright dawn at the touch of the fiery rays

for sale. The king refused to purchase them, whereupon the woman went away and burned three of the books, and returning offe

him, were strapped knees-upward to either end of a yoke, and so borne away by the hero. Their drollery, however, regained th

her a considerable time, he snatched up the bow and arrows, and flew away unseen.” But now he thought more of earth than of

. Zephyrus readily complied with Cupid’s request. He immediately flew away to the cave of Somnus, the god of sleep. Near the

olds of that slight mantle which sometimes wrapped his waist. He fled away from her inquiries, but she sought him, and urged

owers in the plain of Enna, and sat down to select some, and to throw away the rest Each cast her portion into the lap of Pr

g the hand of Cyane, who clung to her robe, as if she would force her away while the damsels, their companions, had ran away

she would force her away while the damsels, their companions, had ran away , and hidden themselves. “Stay, oh stay, Proserpin

and be my queen.” “Hear him not,” cried Cyane; “come with me; let us away . If you believe him, you will die. Think of your

e, afar, afar: Like the shooting of a star. See t their chariot fades away ; Farewell, lost Proserpina,” Were the last words

was so frightened and afflicted, when she saw her young friend forced away , that she ran to a neighbouring fountain, and dro

ea; and if we should leave him with his nurse, we should not be happy away from him. Will it not be better for me to go, and

ut the air abroad was chilly, and the fire half extinct. Baucis raked away the ashes, and spread opt the uncovered coals, wh

submissively, and taking a staff in one hand and Baucis by the other, away they went, as fast as they could travel, nor ever

“vocal shell,” it means this instrument. Afterward, the shell was cut away , and left only a frame to stretch the strings acr

er; and that neglect mortified the poor nymph so much, that she pined away , till nothing could be found of her but her voice

admired this gentleness, and Europa sprang upon his back, and he swam away with her from Asia to the continent opposite, whi

a stag. The unhappy Acteon now felt himself a mere brute, and he fled away from the offended goddess, weeping bitterly at th

will vex and mortify him, so that he shall be very miserable, and go away to some distant country. One day Polydectes invit

ows, he attacked the Python, but he did not kill him till he had shot away every one of his arrows, or darts. Apollo was aft

; but she felt an extreme dislike to him, and, turning from him, fled away as fast as she could. Apollo was beautiful and el

pt over her, but Argus saw this tender interview, and instantly drove away Io to a distant pasture. Jupiter, pitying Io, sen

ccosted the modest Syrinx, but she did not reply to him; she only ran away . Pan ran after her, and, when he overtook her, se

ether. They soon felt that a feeble hand held the reins, and bounded away from the limits of their accustomed path, sometim

nce of Niobe, that she prevailed upon the capricious Thebans to throw away their laurels, and abandon the altar of Latona. B

n Cervantes’ comic romance sings, To the wars my necessities take me away , But if I had money at home I would stay ; so I

ons are chiefly imaginary3. It is only gradually that the mist clears away , and real men and deeds similar to those of later

nce in the commencement of the Ilias. Allowing, he says, the carrying away captive of the daughter of Chryses and the pestil

on than other women72. Cadmos was cook to a king of Sidôn, and he ran away with Harmonia, a female flute-player73 The work

rned her into the frankincense plant, and the neglected Clytia pining away became a sunflower235. Here also we have one of t

(Bright ?), the son of Mantios, was for his exceeding beauty snatched away by her, ‘that he might be among the gods275.’ She

ured out a mane, and lofty Pelion filled With his shrill neighings as away he fled. This legend, it is said, first appeared

ripides’ drama of Alcestis, calls Death (Θάνατος), who comes to fetch away the heroine, Orcus, the Latin name of Pluto. In t

riage of Hera. The disappearance of the image looks like the carrying away of the betrothed maiden ; the willow bed, for suc

heir search after it, finding it on the sea-shore, thought it had run away of itself, and bound it to a willow to prevent it

e. The maiden Hera, it said, was reared in Eubœa ; but Zeus stole her away , and Cithærôn gave him a shady cavern to conceal

er, saying that Zeus was abiding there with Leto. The nurse then went away , and Hera in consequence of this associated Leto

him paid. He then yielded, and released his prisoners. Ares hastened away to his favourite region of Thrace : Aphrodite fle

ortune. The former, having by accident killed a favourite stag, pined away with grief, and was changed into the tree which b

found the pipe which Athena for fear of injuring her beauty had flung away , contended with Apollo before the Muses, and was

by others from an old verb ἀπέλλω, akin to the Latin pello, to drive away  ; by others again from ἀέλιος, the sun, with the

, and enticed by its beauty stripped herself and entered it, to drive away the heat and the fatigue. She heard a murmur in t

e stream, and terrified sprang to land. The river-god rose : she fled away naked as she was ; Alpheios pursued her. She sped

nded, turned her into a doe697. Another legend said that Zeus carried away the nymph Arge from Lyctos in Crete to a hill nam

idens, and a great crowd was standing around, Hermes had snatched her away , and carried her through the air over hills and d

and was ordered to expose her on a rock, whence she would be carried away by a monster, the terror of heaven, earth, and he

il fell from the lamp on the shoulder of the god : he awoke, and flew away . Psyche caught his leg as he rose, and was raised

that the goddesses had had reason for their mirth, she threw her pipe away  : Marsyas unfortunately found it, and learning to

s, the gods, pitying the fate of the hero, urged Hermeias to steal it away . On king Priamos’ setting forth to ransom the bod

pollo. He forthwith separated fifty cows from the herd and drove them away , contriving to make them go backwards ; and throw

drove them away, contriving to make them go backwards ; and throwing away his sandals, bound branches of myrtle and tamaris

ing Hecate met her, but she could not tell her who it was had carried away Persephone. Together they proceed to Helios ; the

at it was Aïdoneus, who by the permission of her sire had carried her away to be his queen ; and he exhorts the goddess to p

g of the seed and the appearance of the ear, during which the corn is away  ; and which space of time in some species of grai

lo-system, the two religions finally coalesced, the Dionysiac casting away some of its wildest and most extravagant practice

where1132 ; besides that indefinite one whence Persephone was carried away by Hades. It therefore is a matter of uncertainty

age whose image we behold expressed in the poems of Homer had passed away , a great change took place in civil affairs, but

so monstrous was his appearance, that the nurse on beholding him fled away in affright. Hermes immediately caught him up, wr

caught him up, wrapped him carefully in a hare-skin, and carried him away to Olympos : then taking his seat with Zeus and t

calls together his council, None of the streams, save Ocean, stayed away , Nor of the Nymphs, who dwell in beauteous groves

ear, she henceforth lurked in solitary caverns, and her love wore her away till nothing remained but her voice and bones. Th

is own figure in a clear spring, he became enamoured of it, and pined away till he was converted into the flower which bears

 ; at which when Dryope appeared one day, the Hamadryades carried her away and concealed her in the wood. In her stead they

no woman was permitted to be present ; because when Dryope was taken away , two maidens who were present informed the people

ould release him1249. He also foretold to Paris, when he was carrying away Helena, the evils he would bring on his country a

ina as of those of Circe and Calypso. The moment he conducts his hero away from Greece, he engages him in magic regions amid

in that country. It was by main force that Odysseus dragged these men away , and he was even obliged to tie them under the be

s, one of the Cyclades1434. The Phœnicians, be it observed, who stole away Eumæos, sailed with a favourable wind homewards d

umæos was daughter of Arybas a wealthy Sidonian, who had been carried away from her native country by Taphian pirates, and s

y died, Zeus removed them to the ends of the earth, where they dwell, away from man, in the Islands of the Blest, and live i

gion acknowledged no evil spirits, the poet found it necessary to cut away this last part of the original mythe. Völcker1446

mented with curiosity, man raised the lid, and all the blessings flew away to heaven, where they abide shunning the earth. H

a sign of bad weather if it came in again, of good weather if it flew away .” The sacrifice and the appearance of Hermes also

marry Glauce or Creusa, the daughter of Creôn king of that place, put away Medeia. The Colchian princess, enraged at the ing

ich had been made by Hephæstos, and hiding it under the cowdung, went away , leaving him there, in hopes that the Centaurs wo

erefore placed him unknown to Peleus each night in the fire, to purge away what he had inherited of mortal from his father ;

town, the slaughter of the men, the burning of the town, the dragging away into captivity of the women and children. Moved b

more into the flames. As it consumed, the vigour of Meleagros wasted away  ; and when it was reduced to ashes, his life term

d one daughter, Europa. Zeus becoming enamoured of Europa carried her away to Crete ; and Agenôr, grieving for the loss of h

earliest foreign settlement a place situated in a rich fertile valley away from the sea, and only adapted for agriculture, w

as reluctantly placed his son before the altar ; but Nephele snatched away both her son and her daughter, and gave them a go

Thus it is said that Ino was Athamas’ first wife, and that he put her away by the direction of Hera and married Nephele, who

arched an army against Sicyôn, took it, slew Epopeus, and led Antiope away captive. On the way to Thebes she brought forth t

hitryôn however, to prevent the recurrence of such an event, sent him away to where his herds were feeding, and there he gre

sks, saying that he had done it for hire. The sixth task was to drive away the Stymphalid birds. These were water-fowl, whic

ut the faithless Trojan refused to keep his word, and the hero sailed away , threatening to return and make war on Troy. His

ied by Hermes and Athena1765. The moment the shades saw him they fled away in terror, — all but Meleagros and Medusa the Gor

s and Melas the sons of Licymnios, he plundered the town and led Iola away captive. At the Eubœan promontory Cenæos he raise

off the tunic, but it adhered closely to his skin, and the flesh came away with it. In this wretched state he got on shipboa

the makes him kill his tutor Linos with a blow of the lyre. When sent away by Amphitryôn, he prepares himself, in the stilln

f Hades, and the whole of the Heraclean Necyia, and even the carrying away of the cattle of Geryoneus, whom with Hecatæus he

own son Itys, served his flesh up to his father. The two sisters fled away  ; and Tereus, discovering the truth, pursued them

his name appears to signify the twilight (diluculum), which is taken away by the Dawn1823. The name of Procris seems also t

e wind-god Boreas. Enamoured of her beauty, he seized and carried her away to Thrace, where she bore him the winged youths Z

one, and directed her to send his son to him when he was able to roll away the stone and take them from under it. Ægeus retu

th of Hippodameia, resolved to venture on the daring deed of carrying away from the palace of the monarch of the underworld

ster sent by Poseidôn from the deep terrified his horses ; they burst away in fury, heedless of their driver, dashed the cha

onfinement, he determined to fly from Crete ; but being unable to get away by sea, he resolved to attempt flight through the

kept guard over her. Zeus, pitying her, directed Hermes to steal her away . The god of ingenious devices made the attempt ;

ians fled in their vessels, leaving the cattle, which they had driven away , in the charge of Polyxenes king of the Eleians.

from him ; Pæôn retired in resentment to the banks of the Axios, far away in the north, and the country there derived from

n and Euryale (Wide-sea) ; then again, as the dawn, as it were, takes away the stars, Oriôn is carried off by Eôs ; and as t

he ambrosia bear To father Zeus, but always the smooth rock Takes one away , then to keep up the number The Father adds anoth

the act of sacrificing her, the goddess moved with pity snatched her away , leaving a hind in her place, and carried her to

6. Chryses came to the camp to ransom his daughter, but he was driven away with insult by Agamemnôn. At his prayer Apollo se

is sent back to her father, and the heralds of the king take Briseïs away from Achilleus. The injured prince complains to h

nceal themselves in it, and the rest set fire to their tents and sail away to Tenedos. The Trojans, thinking their toils and

to Agamemnôn ; and the others, with the exception of Menelaos, sailed away and reached their homes in safety2224. Cassandra

Nonnus, xxvii. 3. Propert. ii. 18. 7. 280. Hes. Th. 984. The taking away by the Dawn of Oriôn (the constellation), of Ceph

oats there, but not their own, with no one in them ; they get in, row away , and perceive that they are heavy as if laden wit

American Indians place the happy hunting-grounds of the departed far away beyond a stream in the West. The ideas of the Gre

t Demeter placed a stone atop of him in Erebos, which Heracles rolled away . Apollod. i. 5, 3 ; ii. 5, 12. 888. Od. xi. 217.

s were about to bury her at Thebes, Zeus directed Hermes to steal her away and convey her to the Isles of the Blest, where s

From τρύω, (Passow, s. v.), τιτράω, Latin tero, to penetrate or wear away . 2029. Apollod. i. 9. 11. Sch. Apoll. Rh. i. 11

rn names of Venus. Aste′ria [Asteria], daughter of Cæus, was carried away by Jupiter, who assumed the shape of an eagle. A

son Orestes, but he was delivered by his sister Electra, who sent him away to Strophius. He afterward returned and slew both

lla, of the Gorgons, of the Lernæan Hydra, of the vulture that gnawed away the liver of Prometheus, and also of the Nemean l

ell in love with Narcissus. But when he languished and died she pined away from grief and died also, preserving nothing but

gon. These guardians were destroyed by Hercules, and the cattle taken away . Gimlet, see Dædalus. Girdle, see Cestus (Venus

eating oxen of Geryon, the monster king of Gades. Eleventh, To bring away some of the golden apples from the garden of the

of Menelaus and Helen; she was betrothed to Orestes, but was carried away by Pyrrhus, the son of Achilles. He′ro [Hero]. A

beloved by Hercules. The nymphs were jealous of him, and spirited him away while he was drawing water for Hercules. See Wm. 

rcame all the difficulties which the king had put in his way. He took away the Golden Fleece and Medea also. The king sent h

ead of their children, whom she had the credit of constantly enticing away and destroying. Lamp, see Lares and Penates. La

nd, discovering the fact, he destroyed his own eyesight, and wandered away from Thebes, attended by his daughter Antigone. Œ

e once so frightened the Gauls when they invaded Greece that they ran away though no one pursued them; and the word panic is

Menelaus, king of Sparta; but during his absence Paris carried Helen away to Troy, and this gave rise to the celebrated war

son of Astræus and Aurora (Eos). See Favonius. “Wanton Zephyr, come away . ……………………………………… The sun, and Mira’s charming eye

om the contemplation of such a spectacle, the delicate mind must turn away with disgust; so that, without some modification,

ishing Titan. But, taking the government into his own hands, he drove away his father Saturn, who sought refuge in Italy, wi

a wheel, and here a silver spoke; Here, the bright beam and axle torn away , And scatter’d o’er the earth, the shining fragme

of the illustrious Grecian Heroes, contrived to convey the Palladium away by a bold stratagem, and Troy was taken. Eneas th

n clouds th’ eternal gates of day, Or the dark barrier roll with ease away . The sounding hinges ring: on either side The glo

thither were virtuous of vicious, and who fawned upon, or drove them away accordingly. The Romans in their most solemn trea

stoop’d to seize her prey, Stretch’d her dire jaws and swept six men away , Chiefs of renown: loud echoing shrieks arise, I

d his image, a most hideous mis-shapen figure, was set up to frighten away birds and thieves. The eastern nations worshiped

hat he remained gazing there, till he languished and died. Echo pined away with grief, but peing immortal, preserved her voi

stle on the sands; and some in play, And games heroic, pass the hours away . Those raise the song divine, and these advance,

feet were of brass, and whose horns were of gold. He killed or drove away the Stymphalides, birds which fed upon human fles

ied; while the perversely guilty were considered as cut off, and cast away for ever. From these ideas of various kinds of li

gleams of light, And pour upon the breeze Their thousand voices; far away , the roar, In modulations of delightful sound, Ha

es those dangerous tempests, and brings the northern winds that chase away the malignant vapours, and preserve to Egypt cool

lated. The poet Lucan has thus described a druidical grove: “Not far away , for ages past had stood An old unviolated sacred

l world arose, and the dark shades of intellectual night swiftly fled away . We behold one God, the Creator, the Preserver, t

ng savage, and devours the prize; Then, by the charm subdu’d, he sunk away ; And stretch’d o’er all the cave, the slumb’ring

vain would men, in vain would Gods essay, To hew the beams of adamant away . Here rose an iron tow’r: before the gate, By nig

rds were forged; but, void of care and crime, The soft creation slept away their time.” The Silver Age was far inferior to

nd perhaps the oracles, pretended that it was a god who had taken her away . As this report was flattering to his pride, he w

Diome′des] crept into the city through the common sewers, and brought away the image. Troy was soon afterwards taken and des

th Minerva’s house, because it was immovable and could not be carried away if it were placed among bad neighbors. He said th

w the transformation, and was much grieved. He took some of the reeds away for a remembrance. On applying them to his lips,

youth Narcissus, and seeing that he despised her affection, she pined away till nothing remained of her but her voice and bo

r honor. They offered milk, and cakes of millet, that she might drive away the wolves, and prevent diseases among the cattle

ch has been gathering around it for so many centuries, is now cleared away . The body is one hundred and twenty-five feet lon

ana. It had golden horns and brazen feet. Fifth. He killed, or drove away from Lake Stymphalus [Stympha′lus], certain vorac

at watched the golden apple in the garden of the Hesperides, and bore away the precious fruit. Twelfth. Hercules descended a

the same moment Meleager started with sudden pain, his strength ebbed away , and as the brand fell to ashes, the soul of the

always in that country. Ulysses was obliged to have these men dragged away by force, and even then, it was necessary to bind

ed near him a chest filled with costly gifts, after which they sailed away . Neptune was so much displeased with the Phæacian

nd feeble to crave an oath from.” As soon as Loki heard this, he went away rejoicing. Having cut down the mistletoe, he repa

and catches the drops as they fall, in a cup; but when she carries it away to empty it, the venom falls upon Loki, which mak

n will impart neither heat nor gladness. Three such winters will pass away without being tempered by a single summer. Three

he ordinary novitiate required. The bards of Gaul seem to have passed away with the religious system to which they belonged;

the Welsh tribes. In Ireland and Scotland, the bards gradually passed away with the decline of the feudal system, and the po

ok leave of his followers, promising that, when many years had rolled away , he would revisit their descendants. He then emba

g the ceremony they implored the Lord, that the holy drops might wash away the sin that was given to it before the foundatio

nd Moses, did not live at the same time, but several centuries passed away from the death of one till the lifetime of anothe

me there were virtuous or vicious, and who fawned upon, or drove them away accordingly. The Romans, in their most solemn tre

Ulysses, two of the Grecian heroes, contrived to convey the Palladium away , and Troy was taken. Eneas, the son of Venus, and

, (all the Greek cities of Asia,) this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying, that they be no gods which a

en diffused all over the world, while that of the heathens has passed away like a dream of the night. The second celebrated

d his image, a most hideous mis-shapen figure, was set up to frighten away birds and thieves. The eastern nations worshipped

hat he remained gazing there, till he languished and died. Echo pined away with grief for the loss of Narcissus, but being i

se in mirth; Exempt from every weak decay. That withers vulgar frames away ; With not a drop of blood to stain The current of

vain would men, in vain would gods essay. To hew the beams of adamant away .     Here rose an iron tower: before the gate, By

at the treatment she received from Narcissus, that she pined entirely away , nothing of her remaining but her voice. She stil

a winged ram, with a golden fleece, took them upon his back, and flew away to Colchis through the air. Helle on the way fell

r. No man wishes to cultivate his field if he expects another to take away his harvest; nor will he plough and sow the soil,

the princes of Greece, made a vow, if she should ever again be forced away , that they would unite to punish the person who s

ey say Diana had compassion upon the innocent virgin, and carried her away miraculously to her temple in Taurica, (the Crime

r of Helen, Queen of Sparta. These princes in their youth were driven away from Argos, by their uncle, Thyestes, who usurped

weet as honey from his lips distilled. Two generations now had passed away , Wise by his rules and happy by his sway; Two age

ctrines; but from that day, the old dark superstition vanished slowly away before the light of the new truth. About this tim

ue, but also states and empires, and even the earth itself shall pass away .” The temple of Diana, at Ephesus, was of immens