ote my own interest, and render some service, however trifling, to my
country
, that it might be said of me, Haud inutiliter vix
e intellect, but which I sometimes fear is rather on the wane in this
country
. Its size and necessary price (the present contai
Egypt, and to believe that they had received their religion from that
country
; and it is but too well known how, in our own da
n of learning venture to maintain, that the first inhabitants of that
country
were under the direction of a sacerdotal caste, r
mmunicated by wandering minstrels and travellers from one part of the
country
to another. Phœnician mariners probably introduce
ost her senses through grief, and went roaming in madness through the
country
with dishevelled locks, beating drums and cymbals
n fell to Atlas, who named the people and the highest mountain of the
country
after himself. Like his father he was addicted to
s of time divided into Asia and Libya98. The former comprised all the
country
between the Phasis and the Nile, the latter all b
. In the Sea the Greeks appear to have known to the west of their own
country
southern Italy and Sicily, though their ideas res
nd101, which chilled the people of Hellas. According to Pindar102 the
country
of the Hyperboreans, from which the river Ister f
of dwarfs named, from their diminutive stature110, Pygmies, to whose
country
the cranes used to migrate every winter, and thei
le of any real people except those to the east and south of their own
country
, or near the coast of the Mediterranean. Their im
erman legend on that subject ; for the tradition of the people of the
country
was said to be234, that the amber was produced fr
vidently attempted to transfer the names of places in it to their own
country
, a practise of which as we proceed we shall meet
orshiped in Arcadia under the title of Hippios426. One legend of that
country
made him the sire of the steed Areiôn427; and ano
o this god. According to a Thessalian legend, he smote a rock in that
country
with his trident, and forth sprang the first hors
, beyond question the historian would have derived Poseidôn from that
country
. Again, what can be more absurd than to suppose t
461 thinks, began to prevail when the Greeks first visited Spain, the
country
most abundant in gold. The adventures of this god
of a very simple explanation. Marsyas was a river-god of Phrygia, the
country
in which the music of wind-instruments was employ
above, it was merely similarity of sound that caused the wolf, or the
country
Lycia, to be regarded as their origin. Thus the g
orders. She now proceeds to Arcadia, where Pan, the chief god of that
country
, supplies her with dogs of an excellent breed. Mo
days. It is uncertain when the Adoneia were first celebrated in that
country
; but we find Plato752 alluding to the Gardens of
represent the dangers to which nuptial fidelity was exposed in such a
country
as degenerate Greece, and at the same time to pre
uity, and even of cheating859. As herdsmen are the best guides in the
country
, it may be thence that Hermes was thought to prot
nd that corn was first known and agriculture first practised in their
country
. They fabled that the goddess gave to Triptolemos
in Crete, sacred to Eileithyia, who according to the tradition of the
country
was born there991. Eileithyia was worshiped at De
is worship from India, and makes him identical with the Seeva of that
country
. According to him, the Vishnoo-religion had, at a
wine was celebrated with great noise and tumult by the people of that
country
; and, supposing the passage in the sixth book of
avellers swallowed all the fictions of the cunning priesthood of that
country
, and with what barefaced assurance the latter pal
hood was, that all the religion of Greece had been imported into that
country
by colonies of Egyptians — a people, by the way,
as a native Indian, who, having taught the art of wine-making in that
country
, made a conquering expedition through the world,
ough Thrace he was so furiously assailed by Lycurgos, a prince of the
country
, that he was obliged to take refuge with Thetis i
ecame enamoured of her. He made her mistress of the adjacent fruitful
country
, which from its resembling a bull’s horn in form
wined with vine-leaves in their hands, they ran bellowing through the
country
Io Bacche ! Euoi ! Iacche ! etc., swinging their
after that event, caused portions of the Achæan race to abandon their
country
and seek new settlements. They seem to have turne
e had invented, over various regions of the earth, even as far as the
country
of the Hyperboreans, teaching mankind agriculture
tress of weather to Egypt, where they landed and began to plunder the
country
. As, after the Grecian fashion, they wore brass a
their national deities. These religious colonies extended far up the
country
, and we even find the Samians in one of the Oases
, to be instructed in the Greek language ; and, as everything in that
country
was regulated on the principle of castes, these a
e read, Love conquers all, omnia vincit amor.” In Arcadia, his native
country
, Pan appears never to have attained to such disti
rds, and they portrayed him as a young man hardened by the toils of a
country
life. Short horns sprout on his forehead, to char
” He also, it is said1208, gave the king a long account of an immense
country
which lay without the Ocean-stream, the people of
was in Lydia on his return from the conquest of the East, some of the
country
people met Silenos staggering about, and binding
a town of the same name, and ruled over the whole of that part of the
country
. He built a temple to Apollo ; at which when Dryo
is, when he was carrying away Helena, the evils he would bring on his
country
and family1250. Nereus was married to Doris, one
Hesperides was usually placed in his vicinity ; others set it in the
country
of the Hyperboreans1289. Their apples are suppose
of the fleet of Xerxes by a storm to the partiality of Boreas for the
country
of Oreithyia, and built a temple to him after tha
ης), which drove him for nine days along the sea, till he reached the
country
of the Lotus-eaters. Here, after watering, he sen
tasted of it lost all thoughts of home, and wished to remain in that
country
. It was by main force that Odysseus dragged these
and is much nearer to it than Egypt is to Crete, we must suppose the
country
of the Lotus-eaters to have been far more to the
at the present day. Κύκλωπϵς. Cyclopes. When Odysseus left the
country
of the Lotus-eaters, he sailed on further, i. e.
eaving the rest of his fleet at the island, went with one ship to the
country
of the Cyclopes. Here he entered the cave of the
name1338. Both ancients and moderns agree in regarding Sicily as the
country
of the Cyclopes1339 : we however cannot help thin
ants would seem to have dwelt westwards of the Cyclopes, the original
country
of the Phæacians lying between their respective t
t the time when Odysseus came to it, it must have been lying near the
country
of the Cyclopes ; but we are not told whether it
in the Liparæan islands1356. Λαιστρυγόνϵς. Læstrygonians. The
country
of the Læstrygonians lay very far to the west. Od
Odysseus, which had not entered, alone escaping. When describing the
country
of the Læstrygonians, the poet says1357, Lamos’
inuance1358. Notwithstanding the great distance which lay between the
country
of the Cyclopes and that of the Læstrygonians, mo
this he is usually understood to mean that Ææa, in opposition to the
country
beyond the Ocean, from which his hero had just re
direction, he came on the eighteenth day within sight of Scheria, the
country
of the Phæacians. Οἱ Φαίηκς ἐν Σχϵρίῃ. The Phæ
Arybas a wealthy Sidonian, who had been carried away from her native
country
by Taphian pirates, and sold to the father of Eum
tercourse prevailed with Egypt, and Grecian philosophers visited that
country
. As we do not esteem the notion of a community of
n fashion. Prometheus was, they say, a king of the Scythians, and his
country
was wasted by a river named Eagle (Aϵτòς), whose
yrrha the daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora, and he reigned over the
country
about Phthia. When Zeus designed to destroy the b
bserve, did not extend to the Peloponnese, and the traditions of that
country
spoke of different progenitors of the human race1
in those of the ante-historic and even ante-mythic inhabitants of the
country
, whom we denominate Pelasgians. We have already p
fled with her son. Medos conquered several barbarous tribes, and the
country
which he named after himself, and finally fell in
otia consists of two cycles, answering to the natural division of the
country
. The former belongs to the southern part, and chi
is wife quitted Thebes, now grown odious to them, and migrated to the
country
of the Enchelians ; who, being harassed by the in
d Hesiod call the people of Thebes Cadmeians or Cadmeionians, and the
country
the Cadmeian land1635 ; the citadel was at all ti
admos may be interpreted in a political sense, of the conquest of the
country
and the origin of the Theban patricians1639. It i
response of the oracle came to Athamas he sent for Phrixos out of the
country
, desiring him to come and to bring the finest she
d be offered as a sacrifice. Many of those in this situation fled the
country
, and such as returned and were caught in the Pryt
phi and consulted the oracle. The god directed him to shun his native
country
, or he should be the slayer of his father and the
of their fame seems to have come1703. Pausanias1704 relates, that the
country
about Orchomenos in Bœotia was first possessed by
yas1705. Phlegyas obtained the dominion after Eteocles, and named the
country
Phlegyantis. He also built a city called Phlegya,
rs of Greece. These separated themselves from the other people of the
country
, and took to robbing and plundering. They even ve
she used to come out on the land, and kill the cattle and ravage the
country
. This hydra had a huge body with nine heads, eigh
yrrhenia. At Rhegion one of his bulls broke away1756, ran through the
country
, swam over to Sicily, and came to the lands of Er
daughter Auge to Nauplios the son of Poseidôn, to sell her out of the
country
; and he disposed of her to Teuthras king of Teut
with which she incautiously complied. As they were going through the
country
of the Dryopians Heracles became extremely hungry
wn. Heracles slew Coronos, and put Ægimios in possession of the whole
country
that had been in dispute. He afterwards killed La
roic age, — the destruction of monsters, and bringing home to his own
country
the valuable productions of other regions1785. Th
Peloponnesian hero1790, who, in obedience to the great goddess of the
country
(the goddess of the earth), cleared it of the nox
in general Cecrops is held to have been the first who ruled over the
country
called Cecropia from him, and Attica from its pen
ogists to have been an autochthôn, i. e. one who came from no foreign
country
, but was born in, and as it were from, the land ;
Menytes ; and from his daughter Atthis, who died a maid, he named the
country
Atthis. Cranaos was expelled by Amphictyôn, also
he swallows did not build in Daulis1815, the reason is plain why that
country
was made the scene of the legend. Ἐρϵχθϵύς. E
ang, by destroying the evil-doers and the monsters that oppressed the
country
; and he determined on the more perilous and adve
ur,’ who, from the great mischief which he did to all the surrounding
country
, was called by no other name than that of Sinis18
ll which Heracles had brought from Crete was now at Marathôn, and the
country
was in terror of his ravages. Theseus, probably d
cylla is one of the many tales of maidens betraying their parents and
country
for love or lucre. We shall find it repeated in P
e sent Bellerophontes to Lycia, to his father-in-law the king of that
country
, giving him ‘deadly characters’ written in a seal
ve of Zeus. Her offspring by the god were Argos and Pelasgos, and the
country
was named from the former, the people from the la
r is the young land blooming with verdure1894, to whom the people and
country
or town are given for offspring. We conceive it h
strait, thence named the Bosporos, rambled on through Scythia and the
country
of the Kimmerians ; and, after wandering over var
A gad-fly then persecutes the cow, and she runs wild all through the
country
. Such was perhaps the original simple legend, and
e named Anchinoe two sons, Danaos and Ægyptos1912. Belos assigned the
country
of Libya to his son Danaos ; to Ægyptos he gave A
his son Danaos ; to Ægyptos he gave Arabia. The latter conquered the
country
of the Melampodes, and named it from himself. By
he proceeded to Argos, where Gelanôr, who at that time ruled over the
country
, cheerfully resigned the government to the strang
took the name of their new monarch, and were called Danaans1913. The
country
of Argos being at this time extremely deficient i
ess chase1938. Perseus pursued his aërial journey till he came to the
country
of the Æthiopians1939. Here he beheld Andromeda,
ns1939. Here he beheld Andromeda, the daughter of Cepheus king of the
country
, fastened to a rock, a prey for a huge sea-monste
dar, Athena conducted Perseus, when on his way to the Gorgons, to the
country
of the Hyperboreans, where he was hospitably ente
gnant by Apollo, but unknown to her father. Her labour came on in the
country
of Epidaurus, and she exposed the babe on Mount M
. The Messenians asserted that Asclepios first saw the light in their
country
. His mother was Arsinoe the daughter of Leucippos
Triptolemos, who taught him agriculture, which he introduced into his
country
, now called from himself Arcadia, and instructed
wards vanquished the sons of Hippocoön, and restored Tyndareos to his
country
; whither he led with him his Ætolian spouse, who
s, by whom he had two sons, Bias and Melampûs. This last lived in the
country
. Before his house stood an oak-tree, in a hole of
resentment to the banks of the Axios, far away in the north, and the
country
there derived from him its name, Pæonia2034. Endy
e was no such practice known in remote antiquity as that of calling a
country
or even a town after a person ; Pelops must be th
to the king of Sicyôn, and besought him to restore him to his native
country
. Meantime famine and plague had come to punish th
, held out hopes of its ceasing, when a stranger should arrive in the
country
bearing with him an unknown deity. On the divisio
alydôn flourished, a man named Coresos was priest of Dionysos in that
country
. A maiden named Callirrhoe became the object of h
rpedôn went to Lycia, where he aided Cilix against the people of that
country
, and obtained the sovereignty of a part of it. Ze
amed the Bears’ Hill, inhabited by giants with six arms. The adjacent
country
was possessed by the Dolionians, whose king was n
of Poseidôn and Bithynis reigned. Every stranger who arrived in this
country
was forced by Amycos to engage him at the cestus.
ough them uninjured. Having escaped the Symplegades, they came to the
country
of the Mariandynians, whose king Lycos received t
cian colonies on this coast enlarged the cycle with traditions of the
country
, or with fictions of the inhabitants of the colon
mbarked, and dragging their vessel along came on the sixth day to the
country
of the Long-lived (Macrobii), to whom the poet gi
eus, and Argeia to the Theban prince, engaging to restore each to his
country
. The expedition against Thebes was the first reso
t a town called Dardanos. On the death of Teucros, he named the whole
country
Dardania. He had two sons, Ilos and Erichthonios,
ather. Æsacos declared that the child would be the destruction of his
country
, and recommended to expose it. As soon as born, t
it for Troy they landed and ravaged it. Telephos2212 the king of the
country
came to oppose them ; he killed Thersandros the s
he town having failed, the Achæans turned to ravaging the surrounding
country
, and took several towns. Soon after Achilleus bei
he had two sons, Tisamenos and Penthilos, who were driven from their
country
by the Heracleids. Some say that Orestes killed a
, which speedily carried him homewards ; and he arrived in his native
country
on the very day that Orestes was giving the funer
to the king2235. On again setting out homewards2236 he landed in the
country
of the Ciconians in Thrace, where his men took an
Maleia, when a violent north-east wind arose, and carried them to the
country
of the Lotus-eaters. The wanderings of Odysseus u
posing that their gods or heroes had already visited or conquered the
country
which they themselves had acquired, and supposing
of oblivion. But in Italy the case was different : the people of this
country
seem not to have possessed the lively fancy and r
d the cities of Magna Græcia acknowledged her dominion, poets of this
country
sought the favour of the Mistress of Italy, by ce
her colonies, the Grecian mythology made most rapid progress in that
country
; and the deities and legends of Greece became so
cation ; all the royal and consular ornaments were borrowed from that
country
; and the science and the religious ceremonies of
were a mixed people, formed out of the aboriginal inhabitants of the
country
, and the Pelasgians, that extensive race which or
s from Etruria, this proves Minerva to have been introduced from that
country
. No derivation of her name can therefore be given
makes Δέλϕύѕ equivalent to Ͳήλϵϕοѕ. The habit of regarding their own
country
as the centre of the earth prevails at the presen
02. Id. l. c. This grove Müller (Dorians, i. 536.) thinks was in the
country
of the Hyperboreans. d Id. l. c. 203. Strabo,
Lyc. 956. Sil. Ital. xiv. 125. Plin. H. N. iii. 8. They fixed on the
country
about Leontini. Völcker prefers the north-west po
d advance to the Phicean Hill, whence she spread her ravages over the
country
. Œdipûs came from Corinth with a numerous army, a
43. Pindar (Ol. iii. 55.) makes the hind lead the hero a chase to the
country
of the Hyperboreans. 1744. Theocr. vii. 149. 17
lus, says it was on his return from Erytheia. 1756. Аποῤῥήγνυσι. The
country
, said Hellanicus (Dion. Hal. i. 35.), was hencefo
rth named Italia, Italos (Vitulus) being an ox in the language of the
country
. 1757. This is a mythic origin of the shallows i
their idea of the former inhospitable character of the people of that
country
. 1762. Pherecydes ap. Sch. Ap. Rh. iv. 1396. Hey
ace names the following twelve, which he calls Consentian gods of the
country
: Jovis and Tellus, Sol and Luna, Ceres and Liber
ion. The Greeks believed the earth to be flat and circular, their own
country
occupying the middle of it, the central point bei
f the north wind, which chilled the people of Hellas, (Greece.) Their
country
was inaccessible by land or sea. They lived exemp
le of any real people except those to the east and south of their own
country
, or near the coast of the Mediterranean. Their im
Now it happened some angry deity had sent a ravenous fox to annoy the
country
; and the hunters turned out in great strength to
e named the Bosphorus (cow-ford,) rambled on through Scythia, and the
country
of the Cimmerians, and arrived at last on the ban
r the Naiads, or some god of the neighboring mountain, and one of the
country
people replied, ‘No mountain or river god possess
spied on the bottom of the valley this pond of clear water, where the
country
people were at work gathering willows and osiers.
this day. Thenceforth Midas, hating wealth and splendor, dwelt in the
country
, and became a worshipper of Pan, the god of the f
and cormorants. Once on a time Jupiter, in, human shape, visited this
country
, and with him his son Mercury (he of the caduceus
flight of the top, when turning their eyes below, they beheld all the
country
sunk in a lake, only their own house left standin
can tell you of her fate, for I have seen her. This is not my native
country
; I came hither from Elis. I was a woodland nymph,
pursuer, had been changed into this form. This they learned from the
country
people when it was too late. Dryope, horror-struc
th her bow, seeks the palace of the King of Sleep. Near the Cimmerian
country
, a mountain cave is the abode of the dull god, So
fruit. She cared not for forests and rivers, but loved the cultivated
country
, and trees that bear delicious apples. Her right
free from that which Venus inspires. She was not without fear of the
country
people, and kept her orchard locked, and allowed
g to return unsuccessful, consulted the oracle of Apollo to know what
country
he should settle in. The oracle informed him that
rmonia quitted Thebes, now grown odious to them, and emigrated to the
country
of the Enchelians, who received them with honor a
lves. Their decay spread the infection. Next the disease attacked the
country
people, and then the dwellers in the city. At fir
owing him, one might. I will, I will surrender myself to him, with my
country
as a dowry, and so put an end to the war. But how
essed him: “I am Scylla, the daughter of Nisus. I surrender to you my
country
and my father’s house. I ask no reward but yourse
who have given you victory, — who have sacrificed for you parent and
country
! I am guilty, I confess, and deserve to die, but
is a courtly quean, Whom therefore I will shun; The cowslip is a
country
wench, The violet is a nun; — But I will woo
Niobe. The fate of Arachne was noised abroad through all the
country
, and served as a warning to all presumptuous mort
sherman who conveyed the mother and infant to Polydectes, king of the
country
, by whom they were treated with kindness. When Pe
mpt the conquest of Medusa, a terrible monster who had laid waste the
country
. She was once a beautiful maiden whose hair was h
The Sea-Monster. Perseus, continuing his flight, arrived at the
country
of the Æthiopians, of which Cepheus was king. Cas
ers together, tell me, I beseech you, your name, and the name of your
country
, and why you are thus bound.” At first she was si
ault which she dared not tell, she disclosed her name and that of her
country
, and her mother’s pride of beauty. Before she had
tells us that the cranes used to migrate every winter to the Pygmies’
country
, and their appearance was the signal of bloody wa
. It has long claws and talons of such a size that the people of that
country
make them into drinking-cups. India was assigned
ountry make them into drinking-cups. India was assigned as the native
country
of the Griffins. They found gold in the mountains
ed the boy Phryxus, who was hospitably received by Æetes, king of the
country
. Phryxus sacrificed the ram to Jupiter, and gave
s next labor was the slaughter of the Hydra. This monster ravaged the
country
of Argos, and dwelt in a swamp near the well of A
he well of Amymone. This well had been discovered by Amymone when the
country
was suffering from drought, and the story was tha
umber of volunteers, and after various adventures at last reached the
country
of the Amazons. Hippolyta, the queen, received hi
act with his mother Earth. He compelled all strangers who came to his
country
to wrestle with him, on condition that if conquer
who inhabited a cave on Mount Aventine, and plundered the surrounding
country
. When Hercules was driving home the oxen of Geryo
essed him earnestly to take the shorter and safer way to his father’s
country
— by sea; but the youth, feeling in himself the s
en rang, by destroying the evil-doers and monsters that oppressed the
country
, determined on the more perilous and adventurous
Several similar contests with the petty tyrants and marauders of the
country
followed, in all of which Theseus was victorious.
ed once more from deserved punishment, and arrived in Asia, where the
country
afterwards called Media received its name from he
arried off their queen Antiope. The Amazons in their turn invaded the
country
of Athens and penetrated into the city itself; an
ebrate.” The prisoner, unterrified, responded, “My name is Acetes; my
country
is Mæonia; my parents were poor people, who had n
h your land. I am no stranger from a foreign shore, but belong to the
country
, a part of your realm. Let it not stand in my way
escued by Dictys, a fisherman, and carried to Polydectes, king of the
country
, who received and protected them. The child, Pers
antiquity. He felt, from the first, a presentiment of the fall of his
country
, but still persevered in his heroic resistance, y
maidens. Recovering, she bewailed her fate, picturing to herself her
country
ruined, herself a captive, and her son dependent
more than all the rest the strength of my age, whom, fighting for his
country
, thou hast slain. I come to redeem his body, brin
rm which drove them for nine days along the sea till they reached the
country
of the Lotus-eaters. Here, after watering, Ulysse
partook of it lost all thoughts of home and wished to remain in that
country
. It was by main force that Ulysses dragged these
o tie them under the benches of his ship.20 They next arrived at the
country
of the Cyclopes. The Cyclopes were giants, who in
and dangerous, commanding fair winds to blow the barks towards their
country
. Nine days they sped before the wind, and all tha
him immortality. But he persisted in his resolution to return to his
country
and his wife and son. Calypso at last received th
over him, fell asleep. The land where he was thrown was Scheria, the
country
of the Phæacians. These people dwelt originally n
ce, where the goddess, having first given him some information of the
country
, king, and people he was about to meet, left him.
ar exceeded all other women in household arts as the mariners of that
country
did the rest of mankind in the management of ship
plored her favor and assistance to enable him to return to his native
country
. Then withdrawing, he seated himself in the manne
his gloomy aspect of affairs Æneas was warned in a dream to leave the
country
and seek a western land, called Hesperia, whence
aving vented her wrath flew away. The Trojans made haste to leave the
country
, and next found themselves coasting along the sho
es, who had been carried there as prisoners, had become rulers of the
country
. Andromache, the widow of Hector, became the wife
to whom she bore a son. Her husband dying, she was left regent of the
country
, as guardian of her son, and had married a fellow
ts. From hence Æneas coasted along the shore of Sicily and passed the
country
of the Cyclopes. Here they were hailed from the s
f the earth. It is the volcanic region near Vesuvius, where the whole
country
is cleft with chasms, from which sulphurous flame
failed in fidelity to their employers. Here was one who had sold his
country
for gold, another who perverted the laws, making
hat eventful moment. Latinus, third in descent from Saturn, ruled the
country
. He was now old and had no male descendant, but h
“All hail, promised land!” he exclaimed, “this is our home, this our
country
.” He then took measures to find out who were the
d the peasants all urged the old king to drive the strangers from the
country
. He resisted as long as he could, but, finding hi
retirement. Opening the Gates of Janus. It was the custom of the
country
, when war was to be undertaken, for the chief mag
s with irresistible force, and burst them open. Immediately the whole
country
was in a flame. The people rushed from every side
fate has brought you at the propitious moment. The Etruscans hold the
country
beyond the river. Mezentius was their king, a mon
rship the gods. After he had thus made the valley of the Nile a happy
country
, he assembled a host with which he went to bestow
on, and the spot to which pilgrimages were made from all parts of the
country
. A temple of surpassing magnificence was also ere
manner as the cattle had been, and the inhabitants of the surrounding
country
, unable to explain the circumstance, imputed the
stes being composed of a foreign race, who subdued the natives of the
country
and reduced them to an inferior caste. Others tra
in exclusive possession of all knowledge. Though the sovereign of the
country
was chosen from the Shatriya class, also called R
er, and were the royal counsellors, the judges and magistrates of the
country
; their persons and property were inviolable; and
He was the son of a king; and when in conformity to the usage of the
country
he was, a few days after his birth, presented bef
most of which have been richly endowed by the former monarchs of the
country
. For several centuries after the appearance of Bu
ion, which ultimately had the effect of entirely abolishing it in the
country
where it had originated, but to scatter it widely
Covilham, happening to hear that there was a Christian prince in the
country
of the Abessines, (Abyssinia,) not far from the R
Thialfi, and accompanied by Loki, set out on a journey to the giant’s
country
. Thialfi was of all men the swiftest of foot. He
to mankind, and generally appeared as fair and lovely children. Their
country
was called Alfheim, and was the domain of Freyr,
as written down. On the seaboard of this wild land is a rim of grassy
country
, where cattle can subsist, and men by means of th
30. There being no rain in Egypt, the grass is “unshowered,” and the
country
depend for its fertility upon the overflowings of
The Greek poets believed the earth to be flat and circular, their own
country
occupying the middle of it, the central point bei
of the north wind, which chilled the people of Hellas, Greece. Their
country
was inaccessible by land or sea. They lived exemp
little of any people except those to the east and south of their own
country
, or near the coast of the Mediterranean. Their im
roduced by its first colonists from Phrygia*, in Asia Minor, in which
country
she was worshiped under the name of Cybele. The p
The temple of Libyan* Jove was called, together with the surrounding
country
, Hammonia, and the temple was known to antiquity
the Sicilians naturally attributing the wonderful fertility of their
country
to the partiality of the goddess. The most celebr
he encountered great opposition from Pentheus*, who then governed the
country
. Agave*, the mother of the king, and her sisters,
to which none but the priests were permitted to enter. Temples in the
country
were usually surrounded by groves of trees. The s
misfortunes of his family, Cadmus abandoned Thebes and retired to the
country
of the Enchelians*, in Illyria. He and his wife w
ired to Delphi to consult the oracle, and was told to shun his native
country
, or he would slay his father and marry his mother
to kill the Chimæra, a monster which was at that time devastating the
country
. It had the head of a lion, the body of a goat, t
him. As a punishment, Amphitryon*, his step-father, sent him into the
country
where his flocks and herds were feeding, and ther
acles was to bring him the skin of the Nemean* lion which ravaged the
country
, and whose skin bade defiance to every weapon. He
ict of Erymanthus, in Arcadia, and was the scourge of the surrounding
country
. On his way thither, Heracles was entertained in
eedingly fierce and fed on human flesh. All strangers who entered the
country
were made prisoners by Diomedes and flung before
ly, Hermes led him into Lydia and sold him to Omphale*, queen of that
country
. It is said the queen clad her illustrious slave
t of Crommyon*, he destroyed a dangerous wild sow that laid waste the
country
. On the borders of Megara* dwelt another monster
idens to be devoured by the Minotaur. Theseus resolved to deliver his
country
from this shameful tribute. Accordingly, when the
thenæa in honor of Athene-Polias. Theseus accompanied Heracles to the
country
of the Amazons, and distinguished himself so much
cup with wine and offered a libation to mother-earth, the gods of the
country
, and the shades of those of the heroes that had d
Paris was born, it was predicted that he would prove the ruin of his
country
; and the soothsayer recommended that he should be
s. Having received intelligence of the impending invasion of their
country
, the Trojans sought the assistance of the neighbo
fined themselves to making plundering excursions into the surrounding
country
, in which Achilles was always the most prominent
ece. The tradition of the siege remained among the inhabitants of the
country
, though even in Roman times learned men had begun
ghter of Priam, on the grave of Achilles, prepared to return to their
country
. In consequence of the acts of desecration and cr
and fasten them to the benches of the ship. They next arrived at the
country
of the Cyclopes. The name means “round eye,” and
t at anchor, and with twelve chosen companions set out to explore the
country
, carrying with them a jar of wine. Near the shore
en it, he caused the gentle winds to blow the barks towards their own
country
. Nine days they sailed before the wind, all that
g-separated husband and wife. The next morning Odysseus went into the
country
to see his aged father Laertes. While he was abse
ad planted yielded no crops, Æneas was warned in a dream to leave the
country
and seek a western land called Hesperia, whence D
o learn that Helenus*, one of the sons of Priam, was reigning in that
country
. He had married Andromache*, widow of Hector. Hel
th of the Tiber. Latinus*, third in descent from Saturn, governed the
country
. He had a daughter named Lavinia, whose hand had
as sent an embassy to Latinus, requesting permission to settle in the
country
. The latter concluded that the Trojan prince was
Greek commerce, the Greeks were so impressed with the grandeur of the
country
and the elaborate mysticism of the priesthood, th
on, and the spot to which pilgrimages were made from all parts of the
country
. The soul of Osiris was supposed to exist in some
in plants and vegetables, were venerated in different sections of the
country
. Those sacred in one place were often, in others,
the supreme object of worship. He was the guardian deity of king and
country
. He was vaguely considered as the fount or origin
ier than 1500 b. c. By mixing with the dark races which inhabited the
country
, the fair-skinned invaders lost the Aryan progres
persecution in India had the effect of entirely abolishing it in the
country
in which it had originated, and of spreading it i
s. They loved the light and were kindly disposed towards mankind. The
country
of the Elves was called Alfheim*, and was the dom
as written down. On the seaboard of this wild land is a rim of grassy
country
where cattle can subsist, and men by means of the
and as he moulded it, it grew into an island, into a mountain, into a
country
, finally into this great earth that we dwell upon
partridge informed Ioskeha of this, and he set out for his brother’s
country
, for they had divided the earth between them. He
ook refuge in Italy. He was kindly received by Janus, the king of the
country
. Saturn, in gratitude for the hospitality of Janu
e Latin. Saturn was highly honoured in Latium, and became king of the
country
. The hill, afterwards called the Capitoline, was
words to those who consulted the oracle. There scarcely exists in any
country
a museum or gallery of the fine arts, which does
people, and served as lessons to others who might wish to serve their
country
. An olive wreath was bestowed, as a mark of the p
f Tempe in Thessaly, Mount Parnassus in Phocis, Pieria in Thrace, the
country
Aonia, and Mount Helicon in Bœotia. Their fountai
an, Silenus, and the Satyrs, and making a peaceable progress from one
country
to another, exhibits a benefactor and not a distu
n from his Penates, signified that he was expelled from his home, his
country
, and from all that he loved. Genii were invisibl
d, and fathers of mankind. Elysium was represented to be a beautiful
country
, in which perfect peace prevailed. The air was de
sleep. Ovid represents the cave or dwelling of Somnus, to be in the
country
of Cimmeria. Into this cave the sun never shone,
society, that is when men, in small numbers, inhabit large tracts of
country
; when their houses are only rude cabins, and wher
at last, by his fearlessness, ingenuity, and perseverance, clears the
country
of these ravagers, he becomes the greatest benefa
nd at the age of eighteen killed a furious lion, which devastated the
country
round Mount Cithron. He next killed Erginus, who
ell: to exchange the commodities of their own with those of a distant
country
. The voyage of Jason was from Aulis in Thessaly t
is kingdom was usurped by Pelias, and the young Jason driven from his
country
. Chiron, the preceptor of Achilles, likewise educ
mised, took Medea for his wife, and returned in triumph to his native
country
. The return of the Argonauts was celebrated with
us witnessed this melancholy scene. At once he determined to free his
country
from this odious tribute, and comforted the distr
he first Egyptian colony into Attica, was the first civilizer of that
country
. Cecrops divided Attica into twelve little republ
playing upon his lyre as he wandered about Mount Rhodope, in the rude
country
of Thrace. Orpheus never more liked the society o
ere slain; indeed, so great was the slaughter, that the rivers of the
country
are represented as filled with dead bodies, and s
ms she was appointed to offer were Greeks, she thought of her far off
country
, and longed to see the strangers, and to converse
and that one or other of them should be permitted to return to their
country
, if he would take letters from her to her friends
there, said he,9 a chief so greatly brave His life to hazard, and his
country
save? Lives there a man who singly dares to go. T
r, and his subjects had become regardless of all laws; so he left his
country
and settled himself in Magna Grecia, where he die
on, and the funeral honours were paid according to the customs of the
country
. When Troy was afterwards taken, the family of Pr
mbarked upon the Mediterranean, in hopes to establish himself in some
country
more favoured than Troy. In his voyage, Eneas sto
to the Tiber. Here he was kindly received by Latinus, the king of the
country
, who gave him his daughter Lavinia, though she ha
w about them, and sometimes travelled in search of knowledge from one
country
to another. In the age of Thales, the Greek citie
repaired to Egypt, and by conversation with the philosophers of that
country
, was initiated in their doctrines. On his return
iander died 588 B. C. Who were the seven wise men of Greece? To what
country
did the Greeks, six centuries before Christ, repa
lf-a-crown on each one of them, exacted by a Mohammedan prince of the
country
, was 750,000 l.; and 8000 lbs. weight of provisio
Avesta. This reformed religion of Persia continued in force till that
country
was subdued by the Mussulmans, who by violence es
e, Quet-zal-cot felt inclined to quit Mexico. He accordingly left the
country
, but never reached Tlapalla. He was stopped on hi
he name of God? Temples to the gods were erected in all the inhabited
country
of Mexico. The city of Mexico was commenced, by t
of human sacrifices, and the introduction of Christianity into their
country
, must be accounted a change for the better. How
? What surrounded the Mexican temples? Were there temples in the open
country
of Mexico? Were many persons employed in temple s
and some stood by a river’s or a fountain’s side. The temples in the
country
were usually surrounded by trees, or sacred grove
heir solemn services? Religion of the Romans. Etruria was the
country
of Italy, which was the earliest civilized. It is
d, they repeated the same act as a salutation to the guardians of the
country
. In a strange place, the Greeks worshipped the lo
d perfected by the Messiah; who only laid aside the ceremonies of his
country
, but has preserved through all time, the piety an
o rest. He was to build a city on that spot, and call the surrounding
country
Bœotia. Cadmus obeyed these instructions; while p
rried to Osiris, king of Egypt; she was afterwards worshipped in that
country
under the name of Isis. The statues of Mercury we
undertook an expedition against the Gorgons, and as he saw the whole
country
around covered with figures of men and animals ch
sants into frogs. Ans. Latona, while wandering with her babes in the
country
of Lycia, in Asia, arrived, exhausted by heat and
ng of Italy, made Saturn partner of his kingdom, and that part of the
country
was called Latium, from a Latin word which meant
e offered in sacrifice, was led around the fields, the husbandmen and
country
rustics following with shouts and songs. Virgil s
woman, the wings of a bird, and the paws of a lion. She infested the
country
about Thebes, so that the people, in their distre
ads, which lived in the marshes of Lerna, and ravaged the surrounding
country
. Hercules noticed that where he cut off one of th
after performing many other wonderful actions, was banished from his
country
, and died in obscurity. Chapter XXVIII. Ca
ecourse to the oracle of Jupiter Ammon, but the god declared that the
country
could not be freed from this calamity, unless And
revive the taste for rural pursuits, by his beautiful descriptions of
country
life. The Æneid, the last and greatest of his wor
m southward for nine days, and as many nights, until they reached the
country
of the Lotus-eaters. When the tempest abated, Uly
tment, so that they had no other desire than to remain always in that
country
. Ulysses was obliged to have these men dragged aw
native city, and that he could at best only postpone the ruin of his
country
for a little time. Not discouraged by this, he pe
o consult the oracle of Delphi. The god warned him to shun his native
country
, declaring that if he returned thither, he would
t prevent Æneas from exerting himself to the utmost in defence of his
country
. Excepting Hector only, there was no Trojan who s
at Helenus [Hel′enus], one of the sons of Priam, was reigning in that
country
. He had married Andromache, and the meeting of Æn
th the hero, and to offer his followers a permanent settlement in the
country
. This proposal seems not to have been displeasing
the Italian coast, anchoring at length in the mouth of the Tiber. The
country
around was governed by a prince named Latinus, th
as sent an embassy to Latinus, requesting permission to settle in the
country
, that prince believed that the Trojan chief was t
the spot, a temple which he dedicated to Jupiter. As the surrounding
country
was called Hammodes [Hammo′des] from Hammon or Am
whether it occurred in the course of nature or by violence, the whole
country
was plunged into mourning, which lasted until his
What is the cause of this phenomenon? Ans. Bakoo and the surrounding
country
abound in naphtha and petroleum. The sacred fire
y, than the Books of Moses. Ques. Had the Hindoos then conquered the
country
which now bears their name? Ans. No; they were o
ments. They loved the light, and were kindly disposed to mankind. The
country
of the Elves was called Alfheim, and was the doma
f their deities. When the Romans established their own worship in the
country
, they endeavored, according to their usual policy
inster destroyed this sanctuary and massacred its inmates. The entire
country
united to punish the perpetrators of this sacrile
nguished, and again lighted, after which all the fires throughout the
country
were rekindled from this sacred source. This rite
es lighted at the sacred flame were passed from hand to hand, and the
country
was soon illuminated by the Baal fires which blaz
are sometimes found; but circular earthworks are more common. In this
country
, as in Brittany, many popular superstitions still
the anger of one of the greater gods, and was obliged to abandon the
country
. He proceeded to the shores of the Mexican gulf,
h stood near the present site of Lima, having been erected before the
country
came under the sway of the Incas. It seems probab
s maintained that white and bearded men from the east had visited the
country
in ancient times, and instructed the natives in t
rator and statesman. He filled the highest offices in the gift of his
country
, and took so prominent a part in public affairs,
the plots of Catiline, and rendered many other signal services to his
country
, was basely murdered by the order of the second T
nes . A famous Athenian orator, who defended the liberties of his
country
against the aggressions of Philip of Macedon.
Pliny was appointed by Trajan governor of Bithynia. It was from this
country
that he wrote his celebrated letter in favor of t
nd personal renown, the evening was clouded by the misfortunes of his
country
, and domestic unhappiness. Sophocles served with
Cupid and Psyche In a certain
country
the name of which is forgotten, a very long time
be instructed how she ought to act. Therefore, she wandered into the
country
till she came to a rustic temple that stood on a
a rustic temple that stood on a hill. This temple overlooked all the
country
, and a beautiful country it was, covered with flo
od on a hill. This temple overlooked all the country, and a beautiful
country
it was, covered with flocks, and pastures, and fi
rpine. Ceres delighted in the island of Sicily. It is a beautiful
country
. Once the people of Sicily had nothing but chestn
Mother. No; that man could not have seen it. He lived in a very hot
country
, where it never freezes; and so he did not believ
was not governed by the kings of Athens; and the rude people of that
country
, seeing good houses, and flocks, and all the comf
uld kill those who tried to hinder them. The people, who lived in the
country
about Athens, were thus forced to remove to the t
t himself. He sent all the way to Thrace, to Tereus, the king of that
country
, and told him the distress of his people. Tereus
ly youth, who refused to enjoy the innocent pleasures which the young
country
girls offered him. Narcissus, weary with pursuing
him, so that he shall be very miserable, and go away to some distant
country
. One day Polydectes invited Perseus to a great ba
e Mediterranean, to the Atlantic coast of Africa. He soon reached the
country
of the Gorgons, and, with the assistance of some
f Mauritania, and descended in the palace court of Atlas, king of the
country
. Atlas was famous for his great wealth. To him be
dwelling, but for the wings which Mercury lent me. When I reached the
country
whither the god had directed me, I saw first some
contrary, if you are found to excel us, you may demand the delightful
country
of Emathia, as for as the snow-covered mountains
admirer. At this moment, Juno, looking down from high heaven, saw the
country
of Peloponnesus involved in midnight gloom, and s
ours, and taken from the original of Guido, are not very rare in this
country
. Guido’s painting is the splendid embellishment o
progeny of the royal house of Thebes; the pride and ornament of your
country
are fourteen — seven youthful heroes, and seven b
to by the credulous Thebans. An old husbandman, from the neighbouring
country
, who had come into the city to attend one of thes
with whom I was to transact this business, I engaged a native of the
country
to be my guide. “During our journey, we met with
afford abundant pasture to the herds of cattle that are bred in that
country
, I observed an antique altar in the middle of a s
r related to the worship of the gods that had been brought into their
country
by the colonies from Phœnicia and Egypt; so that
that Cybele was daughter to a king of Phrygia; and that she left that
country
for Latium, where she married Saturn. It was she
hand, and in the other, a dolphin. Sometimes she is represented as a
country
woman, mounted on an ox, holding a basket upon he
On Ceres let him call, and Ceres praise, With uncouth dances and with
country
lays.” “To Ceres bland, her annual rites be paid
ere in universal repute. His temples and statues were raised in every
country
. His most splendid temple was at Delphi. The oliv
by whom she had fourteen children. A cruel plague haying ravaged the
country
, they all died; and, as this plague was ascribed
d challenged them to sing; Citherides (Mount Cytheron;) Aonides, (the
country
Aonia;) Aganippides, (the fountain Aganippe;) Cas
d themselves in tiger-skins, with thyrsi, ran about the mountains and
country
, played on drums, pipes and flutes, and filled th
. Bacchus was educated in Arabia; Moses spent forty years in the same
country
. Bacchus, during a cruel persecution raised again
ales? What do you know of Anna Perenna? What goddess watched over the
country
? What goddess reigns over hills? What god preside
over the woody mountains. Pan, the god of hunters, of shepherds, and
country
folks, was the son of Mercury and Dryope; or, acc
overned cities only, they were called Dii Patrii, or the “gods of the
country
,” or “great gods;” and when they preside over par
s. In process of time, their power was extended to streets, ways, the
country
, and the sea. When they have the care of cities,
y are denominated Lares Urbani; when of houses, Familiares, or of the
country
, Rustici; of roads, Vales; of cross roads, Compit
dwelt near the gardens of the Hesperides, and made sad ravages in the
country
, attacking travellers; but they were overcome by
gons.” Hanno, general of the Carthaginese, penetrated even into their
country
, and found women whose running equaled in swiftne
ffering sacrifices to the gods; they next invoked the heroes of their
country
. It was generally believed that the latter concur
mbs in the form of altars. The monuments erected to the heroes of the
country
, resembled the temples of the gods; and to pay th
equal them in beauty. The nymphs extended their wrath over the whole
country
. The inhabitants had recourse to the oracle of Am
of Hercules, his relative. His father employed him in delivering his
country
from the shameful tribute imposed on it by Minos
id to have fallen from the moon into the forest of Nemæa, ravaged the
country
near Mycenæ. This place was called Cleone, and th
gave his name to the city of Troy, and the name of Troas to the whole
country
. Tros had three children. The eldest, Ganymede, w
en, the most renowned of which were Hector and Paris. In ravaging the
country
around Troy, Hercules, after having stolen away H
hat stratagem did the Greeks take Troy? What heroes returned to their
country
? Chapter VIII. Æneas. Æneas was the son of
ther Hyas. Hesperus was brother to Atlas. He settled in Italy, which
country
was called Hesperia from him. He was accustomed t
ple the name of Oromasdes; and to the bad, the name of Ahriman. Their
country
was conquered by Musselmen, who, by violent means
of Pisa. This temple had for its architect, Libon, originally of the
country
. It was of Doric order, with the exterior surroun
were employed stones of singularly fine quality and beauty; which the
country
it self furnished. The height of the temple from
itants, that the great Jupiter wished to establish an oracle in their
country
. This prodigy at first astonished the people; but
facts cannot be contested; but the origin of this wonderful man, the
country
which gave him birth, the time in which he flouri
ubjection. Odin ruled, it is said, the Ases, a Scythian people, whose
country
was situated between the Black and the Caspian se
eme god. After having forced many nations to adopt the worship of his
country
, Odin took the route to Scandinavia, by Chersones
is son Sciold to be acknowledged king, a title which no ruler of that
country
had yet borne, (according to the annals of Icelan
with absolute dominion. He made new laws introduced the usages of his
country
, established at Sigutna (a city situated in the s
family, whose different branches afterwards reigned long in the same
country
. After these glorious expeditions, Odin retired i
his actions. Driven by those enemies of all liberty, from his native
country
, his resentment was truly Scythian, as every Scyt
ed duty to avenge injuries, and especially those of his relatives and
country
. The grand object of Odin, therefore, in travelli
masterly address, and rare talents, could easily pass for a god in a
country
where nobody equalled him, and in which the peopl
south of the island. In each of these temples, says an author of that
country
, was a particular chapel, or sacred woody place.
ity. Julius Cesar and Tacitus relate that Great Britain was the first
country
which the Celtic Gauls peopled. The relative situ
glowing imagination; and he burns with the idea of immortalizing his
country
. Vulgar language appears to him to fall below the
ing long been the first instructers and the early historians of their
country
, the bards descended from those high offices to t
elebrated in the history of the ancient Gauls than the forests of the
country
of Chartres. The forests of Marseilles and Toulou
ferent colleges in Gaul; the most celebrated of which was that of the
country
of Chartres, whose chief was the sovereign pontif
hief was the sovereign pontiff of Gaul. It was in the forests of that
country
that the greatest sacrifices were offered up, and
est sacrifices were offered up, and the great men and generals of the
country
assembled. Both young and old among the Druids, c
magistrates and even kings, when they did not observe the laws of the
country
. Their rank was superior to that of nobles. All b
relatives and friends, and those who lost their life in serving their
country
. The former were interred without ceremony, witho
e use of which that emperor interdicted. The Druids were found in the
country
of Chartrain until the middle of the fifth centur
image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img013 In the mythology of every
country
, this Deity is found, though under various names.
his arrows, Python, a monstrous serpent which desolated the beautiful
country
around Parnassus, his victory was celebrated in a
yme_heathen-mythology_1842_img046 He had temples and statues in every
country
, particularly in Egypt, Greece, and Italy; the mo
t by sending into his kingdom a monstrous wild boar; and to rid their
country
of its ravages, he caused the Greek princes to as
immense treasures through his profession. On his return to his native
country
with his riches, the sailors of the vessel in whi
Pan. Pan was the god of shepherds, and of all inhabitants of the
country
; he was the son of Mercury by Driope, and is usua
n like thee replying.” Hemans. This god, so adored and loved in the
country
, had the power of spreading terror and confusion
auns and Satyrs are often called Sileni. The Satyrs, also gods of the
Country
, were considered as mischievous, and inspired by
e that he never moved, wherever he might be placed. The people of the
country
assembled once a year with their families, and cr
by the most rapid success in every branch of science, Jason left the
country
, and by the advice of his preceptor, went to cons
t to consult the oracle. He was ordered to go to Iolchos, his native
country
, covered with the spoils of a leopard, and dresse
d by Jason’s infidelity with Glaucus, the daughter of the King of the
Country
, for whom Medea was divorced, that he might follo
ce of heaven, and to free themselves from a plague which devoured the
country
after so frightful a massacre, they engaged the p
nd preyed on the flocks of Amphitryon, laying waste also the adjacent
country
. From this monster Hercules relieved them, and wh
Erginus coming to avenge their death, he slew him, and delivered his
country
from the inglorious tribute. These heroic deeds s
as mine, Allow no converse. Should I go to Argos? How, since I fly my
country
, should I seek Refuge in other states, malignant
cules by Eurystheus, was to kill the lion of Nemæa, which ravaged the
country
near Mycenæ. The hero, unable to destroy him with
sixth, he was ordered to kill the carnivorous birds which ravaged the
country
near the lake Stymphalis, in Arcadia. In his seve
sed to the fury of a sea-monster, which for some time had ravaged the
country
, and to appease which, the oracle of Jupiter Ammo
to Phineus, her uncle, when Neptune sent a sea-monster to ravage the
country
, because Cassiope, her mother, had boasted hersel
exploits were finished, Perseus felt a desire to return to his native
country
, and arrived with his mother and Andromeda on the
al spirits, who have distinguished themselves in the service of their
country
. Homer represents a hero as a prince of the anci
by young Theseus. The bull of Marathon which ravaged the neighbouring
country
, next engaged his attention, and taking the anima
ascension to his father’s throne was received with much pleasure, the
country
was governed with mildness, new reputation acquir
as the originator of many changes in the religious ceremonials of his
country
, and was received as the minister and interpreter
vented about of the Sphynx, a frightful monster then laying waste the
country
around Thebes, and devouring all who could not ex
ould only cease when the murderer of King Laius was banished from the
country
. The slayer of this king had never been discovere
ehold the light, and banished himself from Thebes for the good of his
country
; or as many assert, he was banished from thence b
acle, and that he was to become the great source of prosperity to the
country
in which his bones should be laid. He sent theref
ed by Love, forgot over the cradle of his offspring, the glory of his
country
, and the precepts of his tutor, Chiron, the centa
Anchises, took part in all the battles which preceded the fall of his
country
, and relates the stratagem by which the Greeks ga
he horse into the city; they then celebrated the deliverance of their
country
with feasts and festivals. Aided by the darkness
wenty vessels, in which they set sail, endeavouring to find out a new
country
. The conquerors razed Troy to the ground, and div
he Trojan princes who were left behind, were obliged to remain in the
country
. Several of them, famed for beauty, inspired thei
d, he related his wonderful adventures. He told of his arrival in the
country
of the Lotophagi, people who lived on lotos, and
ing with weeping eyes, while they deplore Their neighbours’ fate, and
country
now no more, Their little shed, scarce large enou
er he had the misfortune to lose; owing to which, he retired into the
country
that he might devote his time more uninterruptedl
ptian and Phœnician deities, to the inhabitants of Greece, into which
country
, he is believed to have come about one thousand f
as, however, been suggested, that the dragon’s fable, arose from some
country
which Cadmus conquered; that the armed men who ar
, a crop very likely to arise from the attempted subjection of a free
country
. We have now related the most celebrated fables i
g over their fate, not indeed for their sake, but for the sake of the
country
they would have adorned and the land for which th
hing signified, the crown for the king, the flag for the honor of the
country
; and the crown and the flag are to-day possessed
raditions similar in various countries, or inherited from some mother
country
. But, although some historical myths may have des
lieved the earth to be flat and circular. In their opinion, their own
country
occupied the middle of it, and the central point
whose caverns sent forth the piercing blasts of the north wind. Their
country
was inaccessible by land or sea. They lived exemp
did waft the maiden onward. But when she was now far off from her own
country
, and neither sea-beat headland nor steep hill cou
he woods; the air was poisoned by them. Next the disease attacked the
country
people, and then the dwellers in the city. At fir
d come with us to the top of yonder hill.” They hastened to obey. The
country
behind them was speedily sunk in a lake, only the
g to return unsuccessful, consulted the oracle of Apollo to know what
country
he should settle in. The oracle informed him that
d Harmonia quitted Thebes, grown odious to them, and emigrated to the
country
of the Enchelians, who received them with honor,
s espied in the bottom of the valley a pond of clear water, where the
country
people were at work gathering willows and osiers.
this day. Thenceforth Midas, hating wealth and splendor, dwelt in the
country
, and became a worshipper of Pan, the god of the f
f the dog it is told that when about to catch the swiftest fox in the
country
, he was changed with his victim into stone. For t
, and tinging the sky with her bow, seeks the cave near the Cimmerian
country
, which is the abode of the dull god, Somnus. Here
herman, who conveyed the mother and infant to Polydectes, king of the
country
, by whom they were treated at first with kindness
st of the Gorgon Medusa,271 a terrible monster who had laid waste the
country
. She had once been a maiden whose hair was her ch
meda. — On his way back to Seriphus, the Gorgon-slayer arrived at the
country
of the Æthiopians, over whom Cepheus was king. Hi
ence which she dared not tell, she disclosed her name and that of her
country
, and her mother’s pride of beauty. Before she had
or was the slaughter of the Hydra, — a water-serpent that ravaged the
country
of Argos, and dwelt in a swamp near the well of A
act with his mother Earth. He compelled all strangers who came to his
country
to wrestle with him, on condition that if conquer
who inhabited a cave on Mount Aventine, and plundered the surrounding
country
. When Hercules was driving home the oxen of Geryo
arranging their dances, the sleepless nymphs, dread goddesses of the
country
people, Eunice, and Malis, and Nycheia, with her
for the lad, sped through the trackless briars, and ranged over much
country
. “Reckless are lovers: great toils did Heracles b
Colchis, where he was hospitably received by Æetes, the king of that
country
. Phryxus sacrificed the ram to Jupiter, but the f
essed him earnestly to take the shorter and safer way to his father’s
country
, by sea; but the youth, feeling in himself the sp
Several similar contests with the petty tyrants and marauders of the
country
followed, in all of which Theseus was victorious.
ather, and prevented the fatal draught. Medea fled to Asia, where the
country
afterwards called Media is said to have received
s, he carried off their queen Antiope; but they in turn, invading the
country
of Athens, penetrated into the city itself; and t
he by no means justified the wrong which brought this danger upon his
country
. He was united in marriage with the noble Androma
maidens. Recovering, she bewailed her fate, picturing to herself her
country
ruined, herself a captive, and her son, the youth
more than all the rest the strength of my age, whom fighting for his
country
thou hast slain. His body I come to redeem, bring
taken by a storm which drove them for nine days till they reached the
country
of the Lotos-eaters. Here, after watering, Ulysse
o partook of it lost all thought of home and wished to remain in that
country
. It was by main force that Ulysses dragged these
her, careless of mankind…” The Cyclopes. — They next arrived at the
country
of the Cyclopes. The Cyclopes (§ 126) inhabited a
l and dangerous, commanding fair winds to blow the barks toward their
country
. Nine days they sped before the wind, and all tha
him immortality. But he persisted in his resolution to return to his
country
and his wife and son. Calypso at last received th
over him, fell asleep. The land where he was thrown was Scheria, the
country
of the Phæacians. These people dwelt originally n
ce, where the goddess, having first given him some information of the
country
, king, and people he was about to meet, left him.
ar exceeded all other women in household arts as the mariners of that
country
did the rest of mankind in the management of ship
plored her favor and assistance to enable him to return to his native
country
. Then withdrawing, he seated himself in the manne
is gloomy aspect of affairs, Æneas was warned in a dream to leave the
country
, and seek a western land, called Hesperia, whence
her wrath, flew away. Epirus. — The Trojans made haste to leave the
country
, and next found themselves coasting along the sho
es, who had been carried there as prisoners, had become rulers of the
country
. Andromache, the widow of Hector, had become the
o whom she bore a son. Her husband dying, she was left regent of this
country
, as guardian of her son, and had married a fellow
— From hence Æneas coasted along the shore of Sicily, and passed the
country
of the Cyclopes. Here they were hailed from the s
f the earth. It is the volcanic region near Vesuvius, where the whole
country
is cleft with chasms from which sulphurous flames
failed in fidelity to their employers. Here was one who had sold his
country
for gold, another who perverted the laws, making
hat eventful moment. Latinus, third in descent from Saturn, ruled the
country
. He was now old and had no male descendant, but h
“All hail, promised land!” he exclaimed, “this is our home, this our
country
!” He then took measures to find out who were the
d the peasants all urged the old king to drive the strangers from the
country
. He resisted as long as he could, but finding his
s retirement. The Gates of Janus opened . — It was the custom of the
country
, when war was to be undertaken, for the chief mag
s with irresistible force, and burst them open. Immediately the whole
country
was in a flame. The people rushed from every side
ate has brought thee at the propitious moment. The Etruscans hold the
country
beyond the river. Mezentius was their king, a mon
his servant Thialfi, and accompanied by Loki, set out for the giants’
country
. Thialfi was of all men the swiftest of foot. He
to mankind, and generally appeared as fair and lovely children. Their
country
was called Elfheim, and was the domain of Freyr,
understood, And rose up on the sword of Guttorm, and turned from the
country
of death, And spake words of loving-kindness as h
mice were fed in his temple; elsewhere he was honored as freeing the
country
from them. As Mr. Lang says (Myth, Ritual, etc.,
manner as the cattle had been; and the inhabitants of the surrounding
country
, unable to explain the circumstance, imputed the
Apollo Smintheus, the Mouse-Apollo, probably because he had rid that
country
of mice as St. Patrick rid Ireland of snakes and
Guérin 1810, engraved by F. Forster 1821. § 113. Textual. — Cimmerian
country
: a fabulous land in the far west, near Hades; or,
tells us that the cranes used to migrate every winter to the Pygmies’
country
, where, attacking the corn-fields, they precipita
the longer folk-stories, or into the artistic myths and epics of any
country
, is historically unwarranted and, in practice, is
, or Pharsalia. Embla, 367. Encel′adus, a Giant, 42. Enche′lians, the
country
of, 117; Com. § 70. Endym′ion, 2, 142; myth of,
ntroduced them, modelled agreeably to their own ideas, into their own
country
. As this is the case, it might have appeared more
tal. Indigetes signifies deified mortals, or the peculiar gods of any
country
. Chap. III. [The most ancient Divinities accor
s father Saturn, who sought refuge in Italy, with Janus, king of that
country
, by whom he was hospitably received. In gratitude
t Cybele was the daughter of a king of Phrygia, who came from her own
country
into Italy, where she married Saturn. She was the
ling star; Till on the Po his blasted corpse was hurl’d, Far from his
country
in the western world. Ovid’s Met. What was the
rnassus in Phocis. Citherides, from mount Citheron. Aonides, from the
country
Aonia. Pierides, from Pieria in Thrace. Pegasides
le. Bacchus was educated at Nissa or Nysa, in Arabia, and in the same
country
Moses passed forty years. Bacchus, when persecute
recover some treasures, which had been carried thither from their own
country
. This enterprise, and the dangers attending it, w
dog, the eyes of a dragon, and the talons of a lion. She infested the
country
round Thebes, proposing enigmas to passengers, an
lf-a-crown on each one of them, exacted by a Mahommedan prince of the
country
, was 750,000 l.; and 8000 lb. weight of provision
erāpis was not originally an Egyptian divinity, but brought into that
country
from Sinōpe, by Ptolemy Lagus, directed so to do,
of these existed in the earlies period of Egyptian history, when the
country
was divided into several governments, each having
yptian history, when the shepherd kings, from Asia, had inundated the
country
with their barbarous multitudes, and totally chan
al pile. The reformed religion of Persia continued in force till that
country
was subdued by the Mussulmans, who by violence, e
e north of Europe, with his army and the principal inhabitants of his
country
. There, assuming the name of Odin, he became the
ect of worship to the tribes of Hodhail and Khozaah, who occupied the
country
between Mecca and Medina. Manah is supposed to ha
tead of a sphere as science has proved. The Greeks fancied that their
country
occupied a central position, and that Mount Olymp
s also imagined that the portion of the Earth directly north of their
country
was inhabited by a fortunate race of men, the Hyp
this mighty conflict was supposed to have been in Thessaly, where the
country
bears the imprint of some great natural convulsio
icia. Cilix, too, soon followed his example, and settled in a fertile
country
which they had reached, hence called Cilicia; and
ast, who, goaded to madness by its cruel stings, fled wildly from one
country
to another, forded streams, and Anally plunged in
oman divinities. He is said to have first seen the light in Thrace, a
country
noted for its fierce storms and war-loving people
o seek their fortunes. After some time they came to a beautiful hilly
country
, where they decided to found a great city, the ca
d the compassionate inquiries of the daughters of Celeus, king of the
country
. Having heard her bewail the loss of her child, t
n placed it in the sky as the constellation of Cancer (the Crab). The
country
was thus freed from its long state of thraldom; b
er and stronger than they, and of the cranes, which passed over their
country
in great flocks, and sometimes alighted to devour
, for violent rain-storms had recently swept over that portion of the
country
. The Story of Nessus Hercules paused for a
hero had many adventures. Once, when flying high above a mountainous
country
, he caught a glimpse of Atlas, his pale face turn
athers to the frame, Dædalus bade Icarus don his plumage and fly to a
country
where they would be free, promising to follow him
y his strength against the awful Minotaur, and, if possible, save his
country
from further similar exactions. “While Attica th
Hippolytus. Shortly after this joyful event, the Amazons invaded his
country
under pretext of rescuing their kidnapped queen,
. Meleager, on his return, gathered together all the brave men of the
country
, and instituted a great hunt, whose main object w
n who dared encounter the Sphinx and was fortunate enough to free the
country
of its terrible presence. As Œdipus attached no s
“Whoever tasted once of that sweet food Wished not to see his native
country
more, Nor give his friends the knowledge of his f
Ilium from her summit falls. Think not of king’s or country’s claims:
Country
and king, alas! are names: Could Troy be saved by
had saved her then, e’en then. The gods of her domestic shrines That
country
to your care consigns: Receive them now, to shar
st begun. After many days’ sailing, they landed in Thrace, viewed the
country
, decided to settle there, and began to trace the
til they came to Epirus, where they again effected a landing. In this
country
they met the sorrowing Andromache, Hector’s widow
ed Latium, where their wanderings were to cease. Latinus, king of the
country
, received them hospitably, and promised the hand
nations, now scattered over the face of the earth, occupied the same
country
, spoke the same language, and formed but one peop
, 13; forge of Vulcan, 123, 125, 290; Ceres’ visit to, 162 Æ-to′li-a.
Country
between Epirus and Locris, 241 Af′ri-ca. Hercule
hought). Son of Iapetus, 14; husband of Pandora, 18-21, 24 E-pi′rus.
Country
visited by Æneas, who meets Andromache there, 327
, 250; reigns one year, 252; slain by his brother, 253 E-thi-o′pi-a.
Country
visited by Bacchus, 151 E-thi-o′pi-ans. Happy ra
Jason, 237-240; wife of Ægeus, 220, 221; significance, 356 Me′di-a.
Country
in Asia Minor, where Medea took refuge, 221 Med-
e home of Lycomedes, visited by Achilles and Theseus, 229 Scyth′i-a.
Country
north of the Euxine Sea, 169 Seasons. The four d
ic heard in, 59; wicked in, 137-146; significance, 348, 355 Tau′ris.
Country
to which Diana brought Iphigenia, 281; visited by
by, 292 This′be. Babylonian maiden loved by Pyramus, 94, 95 Thrace.
Country
on the Black Sea; the home of Mars, 116, 194, 235
s the sea from us lies the pleasant land of Greece. It is a beautiful
country
, full of wooded hills and green valleys; and the
ls became yellow and barren. Then the North Wind rushed down upon the
country
, bringing hail and frost and snow; for Ceres said
street, proclaiming There was an estray to sell. And the curious
country
people, Rich and poor, young and old — Came in
nt Atlas, who did not like strangers. He ordered Perseus to leave the
country
at once. Perseus did what he could to soothe the
e palace with the king, his father. He was always active, ridding the
country
of monsters, battling against foes, or helping to
nswered “Death I can endure, But not keep back the word to save My
country
from this doom, though sure.” Quick spake the ang
. A sea-nymph; wife of Peleus, 170; mother of Achilles, 182. Thrace.
Country
n. w. of Greece. Home of Orpheus, 65, and of Diom
me of Æthra, the mother of Theseus, 146. Troy, or Il΄ium. A city and
country
of Asia, ruled by Priam, 171; the retreat of Pari
y be sure that they made a great ado over Apollo, so that he left the
country
feeling very proud of himself. As he was going al
, until Io was almost beside herself with pain. She wandered from one
country
to another trying in vain to rid herself of the f
d forth on his own wanderings. He had not gone far, when he came to a
country
ruled by a king who had a very beautiful daughter
together happily for many years, the king had to journey to a distant
country
to consult an oracle. He grieved much at the thou
e Ship Argo Long after Phryxus had died, there lived in a certain
country
a king and queen who had but one child, a boy nam
l and other poets. Aon′ides [Aonides], a name of the Muses, from the
country
Aonia. Apatur′ia [Apaturia], an Athenian festiva
to vagrant flies.” John Phillips. Arca′dia [Arcadia], a delightful
country
in the center of Peloponnessus, a favorite place
d.” Shakespeare. Pan. The Arcadian god of shepherds, huntsmen, and
country
folk, and chief of the inferior deities, is usual
gs of a bird, the paws of a lion, and a human voice. She lived in the
country
near Thebes, and proposed to every passer-by the
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