f them all. He drove his golden sun chariot through the heavens every day , and on his lyre he played sweet music. He could

st of the goddesses. She was supposed to have sprung from the sea one day , in a cloud of spray, and all the beings who dwel

e grew, the more the queen of heaven seemed to hate her. At last, one day when Juno met her in the forest, hunting and sing

not want them to find her. Many a time her thoughts went back to that day when she had last seen her little son, and she wo

d his hound brought the wild deer to bay.” The Chase ( Debay ). One day he took his bow and arrows, and started out alone

une promised to do as she wished, and he kept his word, for from that day to this, the Great Bear and the Little Bear have

leave the bright sunlight above and dwell in the land of shades. One day Pluto came up to earth and was driving along in h

t searching for her child.” Ceres (Glyptothek, Munich). On that sad day , Ceres began a long, long wandering. Over land an

all the earth in her fruitless search, Ceres returned to Sicily. One day , as she was passing a river, suddenly a little sw

om. So the happy mother hastened down into Hades. But alas! that very day Proserpine had eaten six pomegranate seeds; and f

the starlight,     Rushing in spray, Happy at midnight,     Happy by day ! Ever in motion,     Blithesome and cheery, Stil

ona had to flee from place to place, to escape the queen’s anger. One day , she came to a stream; and there lay a little row

as they lay asleep.” Latona and her Children ( Rinehart ). One sad day , when she was sitting in the sunshine with her ch

ometimes seemed to weigh like lead, she was so tired from walking all day long. Yet her cloak was always held so as to shie

her prayer, and the men were at once changed into frogs; and to this day they haunt the quiet pools, now sitting on the ro

word. You can find out for yourselves whether or not it is true, any day when you walk in the woods or go through a tunnel

n to earth and listen by the hour to Echo’s delightful tales. But one day she found out that Echo amused her in this way on

there was a youth named Narcissus, who was as beautiful as a sunshiny day in spring, and he was brave and manly as well. Ev

but he seemed to have no heart, for he loved no one but himself. One day he was wandering through the forest with some com

had treated her so rudely. She suffered very much and wept night and day and could not touch any food; so that she grew pa

morning till night, with only his bow and arrows for companions. One day he had been tracking the game through the forest

mere shadow. He lost all desire for food or for sleep, and night and day he lay upon the grass, gazing at his own image re

white petals, which nodded to its reflection in the pool. And to this day the lovely flower, called the narcissus, is found

rk that she could think of nothing but how wonderful she was; and one day she boasted that, though she was only a humble gi

onstant terror. No one dared go near the hideous creature, until, one day , the archer Apollo came with his glittering arrow

ter.” And so it came to pass, — the laurel, Apollo’s emblem from that day on, became the sign of honor and triumph. If now

od, for she had never had a thought that was not pure and lovely. One day , Eurydice was walking in the fields with some you

for a long time in this sorrowful quiet. So time passed on, until one day , as Orpheus was walking on the mountain, he met a

, her shining quiver of arrows slung over one shoulder, she spent the day in the green woods, enjoying the pleasures of the

d to track the game when once they had caught scent of the trail. One day , Actaeon had been out hunting for many hours. He

far away, and Danaë had no one to take care of her and her child. One day , some cruel people put Perseus and his mother int

h would die; but somehow the frail little bark did not upset, and one day a large wave carried it upon an island, where it

in the middle of the ocean, on whose shores the fierce waves beat all day long, there lived three terrible sisters known as

she was very beautiful. She was also very vain of her beauty, and one day boasted that she was fairer than any of the sea n

serpent, but from the man whom she dreaded quite as much. The wedding day dawned at last, bright and sunny, and with great

r than to wander in the grove by the side of her father’s stream. One day , when Jupiter had come down to earth, he met Io i

uld not bear to have Jupiter care for any one besides herself. So one day , when he had been away from home for many hours,

alf of them at one time. If you or 1 had fifty sharp eyes watching us day and night, we should find it hard to do anything

as Io left unguarded. At night she was tied to a tree, but during the day she could wander about as she pleased. The poor g

at Pan, the god of the shepherds and chief of the satyrs, saw her one day , as she was passing through the grove. He came up

il of her own bird, the peacock, where they shine in splendor to this day . But alas! the queen blamed Io for all her troubl

her, sent a large gadfly to torment her. The fly worried the poor cow day and night, and bit her and stung her, until Io wa

mong her dead, and gazed about her in silent grief. And thus she sat, day after day, and never moved nor spoke. Her grief w

ead, and gazed about her in silent grief. And thus she sat, day after day , and never moved nor spoke. Her grief was hardeni

ooking Thebes, and placed it there among the other rocks. And to this day , you can see the woman of stone seated on the hig

slavery; for he had a restless spirit, which made him chafe night and day under the chains that bound him. The king at last

r lands and to do other great deeds became too strong for him. So one day he started on his journeys. His wife missed him v

oved Deïanira. He forgot all about his wife awaiting him at home, and day after day he lingered in the palace of the prince

ira. He forgot all about his wife awaiting him at home, and day after day he lingered in the palace of the princess. Of cou

ng with praises of the clever lad, and it was said that he would some day be far greater than his uncle. Thus all the uncle

eans of escaping from the island; but he could not get a boat, though day after day he looked at the white-sailed vessels o

caping from the island; but he could not get a boat, though day after day he looked at the white-sailed vessels on the wate

vessels on the water, and longed to have one of them for his own. One day Icarus was looking now up into the sky where many

g of the famous old city of Athens, was still a young man, he was one day passing through a village, where he saw a beautif

king had last seen as a baby, had grown to be a strong youth, and one day his mother took him to the place where the sword

thens was almost beside itself with joy, King Minos, in Crete, waited day after day for the return of his son. But alas! cr

almost beside itself with joy, King Minos, in Crete, waited day after day for the return of his son. But alas! cruelly slai

is murdered son, and heard the story of his death, he wept for many a day , and vowed that he would take vengeance on the cr

wed that he would take vengeance on the cruel king of Athens. And one day , as Aegeus was walking in the palace gardens with

ly prepared for war. ——— Rise! For the Day Is Passing Rise! for the day is passing,     And you lie dreaming on; The othe

never be stronger,     Or the need so great as to-day. Rise! for the day is passing;     The sound that you scarcely hear

very kind to her, and would do anything to. give her pleasure. Still, day after day, as she watched Minos from her high tow

to her, and would do anything to. give her pleasure. Still, day after day , as she watched Minos from her high tower, the th

e die in the struggle. A Thread That Saved Many Lives When the day for starting came, the king, weeping bitterly, fo

ke a place in which to sleep; for they had come a great distance that day , and were very weary. Baucis hastened to lead the

soon as he could. The ship was fitted out, and all too soon came the day for starting. Hand in hand, husband and wife went

all her while he was away. For a time all went well; but on the fifth day , toward evening, dark clouds gathered in the sky

sunlight ever pierced; a dull, heavy darkness surrounded it night and day . No singing of birds or barking of dogs disturbed

n, Phryxus a boy, and Helle a girl, and they were all as happy as the day is long. Only one thing marred their joy. In the

hes and wear old rags and live with the shepherds’ children; and all’ day long they guarded the flocks on the hillsides. St

Helle were very unhappy. They loved to frolic in the green fields all day long, and healthy young people do not care much a

. Nephele had now been gone a long, long while. The sky was cloudless day after day. Not a drop of rain fell, the fields be

had now been gone a long, long while. The sky was cloudless day after day . Not a drop of rain fell, the fields became parch

narrow sea over which they were passing, and was drowned. Since that day this narrow sea has been called the Hellespont. P

and was the Golden Fleece, which hung in the woods, guarded night and day by the terrible dragon. ——— The Cloud I bring f

Jason. The king, Aeson, was a rather weak, good-natured man; and one day Jason’s uncle came with a large army, and drove K

which there happened many wonderful things about which you will some day hear, the Argonauts arrived at Colchis, the land

guards the Golden Fleece in the wood, and never sleeps by night or by day . When you have succeeded in doing these three thi

gin his third task, the king answered that he had done enough for one day , and that he should rest until the morrow. But in

yed with them, just as though he, too, were a child. One hot summer’s day , Cyparissus and the stag had been wandering throu

rests, with the birds and the flowers he loved so dearly. And to this day the cypress tree is planted above graves as an em

laucus, who earned his daily bread by selling the fish he caught. One day his net felt very heavy, and when he drew it in,

an home with a full net and a happy heart. So years passed, until one day , as the sea god was floating on the top of the wa

aucus sighed and slowly swam back to his home under the sea. The next day he came again to the spot, and as before, the nym

hing her until she disappeared behind the little hill. So it went on, day after day, and the more Glaucus saw of Scylla, th

ntil she disappeared behind the little hill. So it went on, day after day , and the more Glaucus saw of Scylla, the more he

lla did not care for this strange-looking creature, whom she saw that day for the first time; and she turned away from him,

ogs from the base of the rock. Poor Glaucus mourned for Scylla many a day , and never again went near the cruel Circe. To th

Scylla many a day, and never again went near the cruel Circe. To this day , the rock Scylla stands in the blue Mediterranean

difference between a little hunter boy and a great god of heaven. One day , while they were resting in a shady nook, Apollo

of the blood that had flowed from the boy’s forehead. And since that day , so long ago, the beautiful purple hyacinth comes

his work, and perfectly happy in living for that alone. At last, one day , a beautiful thought came into his mind. Pygmalio

ually, a most beautiful figure began to take shape in the stone. Each day it stood out more and more clearly, till at last,

was up early and again standing before the statue. So it went on from day to day. Pygmalion had fallen in love with his own

early and again standing before the statue. So it went on from day to day . Pygmalion had fallen in love with his own work;

“The great goddess of love.” Venus de Milo (Louvre, Paris). On this day Pygmalion joined the train of young men and at la

he, too, thought himself the greatest musician in the world; and one day he went so far as to ask the great god Apollo to

at these fierce, wild-looking creatures, who guarded their flocks all day long when they were not roaring or shooting out f

ea, there lived one of these Cyclops whose name was Polyphemus. Every day he sat upon the rocks, watching his flocks graze,

precious as the gods do eat, Shall on an ivory table be Prepared each day for thee and me. The shepherd swains shall dance

the lake floated white swans; in the groves sang choirs of birds, all day long; and above the meadows soared the lark. Whil

er the fields of wheat and rye and barley, Proserpina would spend the day wandering in the valley of Enna, watching the swa

rs with her friends the water-nymphs. It happened that upon a certain day there was strife between Jupiter and some great e

er worth more than all the treasures of his underworld; and from that day , though she was always a little sad, and though s

the valley of Enna with its sunny meadows. It was a lonely place that day when she returned. The birds had stopped singing

n was a great god, he could not tell what had become of Proserpina. A day passed, and another, and another; still Ceres cou

are for its vegetation. But Ceres thought only of her lost child, and day by day the land grew more bare. The leaves fell f

its vegetation. But Ceres thought only of her lost child, and day by day the land grew more bare. The leaves fell from the

o down when she pleased and look into the underworld. It was a chilly day . There was a rim of ice about the edge of the wat

ything.” When Ceres heard that, she covered her face, and for a whole day sat speechless with grief, for she knew that the

ugh it without stopping, straight down to the palace of Pluto.   That day , as Ceres was sitting alone in her grief, she hea

laughed at the same time, as she took her daughter in her arms. That day the reign of happiness began again over all the e

takes the cleft pomegranate seeds:    “Love, eat with me this parting day Then bids them fetch the coal-black steeds —    “

t Titan hung, with the storm and the sunshine beating upon him. Every day an eagle came and fed upon him, and every night h

re comfortable, but they were not happier than before, for after that day when Prometheus brought down the fire, the world

ace. All this Epimetheus saw, and it grieved him deeply. At last, one day , an idea came to him and he went to the cliff whe

d alone.” Epimetheus said no more, but his mind was not changed. Next day he went up the star-road and into the great hall

nder what it is that the gods put into it to give it such power.” One day she said to Epimetheus, “Would it be wrong, do yo

lent, but she could not help thinking, of the box. It was in her mind day and night. “If it does so much good to mankind wh

t to herself. “Maybe the blessing will be doubled. Who knows?” Day by day she grew to love the beautiful box more, and day

. Who knows?” Day by day she grew to love the beautiful box more, and day by day she was more eager to know what was in it!

nows?” Day by day she grew to love the beautiful box more, and day by day she was more eager to know what was in it! “Maybe

uld close it again so quickly that nothing could escape. At last, one day , the charm was too great to resist, and she found

word to say. What good could come of talking? The evil was done. Next day it was even worse, for men came from the cities r

its hills and brooks. To the Sun-god all our hearts and lyres    By day , by night, belong; And the breath we draw from hi

e words he walked away, leaving Cupid almost in tears with rage. Next day , as Apollo was wandering through the forests of A

urned or not. Yet an evil fate was waiting, and it came quickly. Next day , as Eurydice was walking through the grass, she t

ess tread of a spirit. But at last the end was in sight. The light of day began to show faintly in the cave. A few steps mo

h Hercules. His troubles began early, and they never ceased until the day he died, but he was always cheerful and strong. W

he had to meet a great temptation and make a very serious choice. One day , as he was walking along a quiet woodland path, h

em he had to conquer some fierce beast. He had even to bring up for a day the great three-headed dog, Cerberus, from the un

ooking for Nereus. He almost despaired of ever finding him, when, one day , as the hero was walking along the sea beach, he

s of their hearts in song and joyful music and in graceful dance. One day there came to the palace of Admetus a stranger. H

native land. But happiness such as this was not to last forever. One day a grim stranger, close wrapped in dark robes, cam

the stranger was none other than the god Death, and he felt that his day of doom was come, for against Death no mortal mea

l, he showed Alcestis, brave and gracious and beautiful as ever. That day there was joy such as there had never been, even

o gray; Change, silent lips, forever fair,    To lips that have their day ! Oh, perfect arms, grow soft with life,    Wax wa

drive the sun-chariot out from the great palace in the east, and all day he had to control the fire-breathing horses as he

eady for sunrise. Phaëton was very proud of his divine origin and one day as he was quarreling with Epaphus, a youth of his

ll that night the proud youth lay awake, thinking of the insult. Next day Clymene noticed how her son was grieving, and sai

oment’s pause, cried:“ Father, let me drive the sun’s chariot for one day .” When he heard this, Helios was sorry he had pro

iter himself. I alone can control it. The road is difficult. Half the day it ascends, and toward noon it is so high that ev

he chariot seat. The steeds started. The great car began to move. The day had begun. In a few moments Phaëton found himself

time wore slowly on, but sunset was as far distant as ever. When the day should have been ending, the chariot of the sun w

nd split open in great chasms so that the underworld saw the light of day and Pluto was alarmed. At last, the ancient godde

horses, tired and trembling, went to their stables in the west. Next day there was no light in the world, for Helios spent

ste to see this wondrous    Winged steed with mane of gold. Thus the day passed, and the evening    Fell, with vapors cold

Many a rich robe, many a golden cup, did King Polydectes receive that day . But Perseus had not been able to bring anything,

at his feet Perseus saw the winged sandals and the magic helmet. Next day at sunrise he was gone, and King Polydectes was g

days, if she refused, he would come with his soldiers to get her. All day long Perseus was flying north upon the winged san

illtops. Cities and rivers and great forests passed under him all the day , but in the evening he came to the ice cliffs, wh

ow chill. “Will he never come?” Medusa was saying. She knew that some day a hero would come to put an end to her woe. “Shal

d. For two days and nights they followed him close. Only on the third day did he begin to draw away from them, and in the e

ake my mother back to her home in Argos. My home also is there.” Next day the wedding of Perseus and Andromeda was celebrat

fer of King Polydectes and was not moved by his threats. On the tenth day she went for safety to the temple of Minerva. Whe

he door of the temple to seize Danaë if she should come out. All that day the queenly woman remained there, and Dictys, the

emained there, and Dictys, the good fisherman, brought her food. Next day the king returned. His wrath now knew no bounds.

white-horn’d doe,” the hunter cries,    “I have sought since break of day .” Quick o’er the sunny glade he springs,    The a

. The boy is already taller and stronger than any man in Trœzen.” One day she led Theseus out into the woods. They wandered

father, King Ægeus, for the time has come when I must lose you.” Next day Theseus was ready to set out. His grandfather and

the young hero had first to lop off the giant’s head. Thus the first day passed. The following days were much like it, but

she resolved to destroy him, lest he should make her power less. One day she said to the king: — “Is it well, O Ægeus,

ver had it been so prosperous. But all was not yet done. On a certain day , as Theseus was walking through the streets of At

eep    The Minotaur devour them. Woe 1 woe! the year of blood!    The day of desolation! When sorrow streameth like a flood

he heart of the young hero was set upon the adventure. When the fatal day came, the seven young men and the seven beautiful

carried the young men and maidens swiftly toward Crete. On the third day the ship hove to in the strange port, and the you

as thinking of the fight with the Minotaur which must take place next day , but most of all he was thinking of beautiful Ari

who had given Theseus his lovely bride, and had saved them all. Next day the ship stopped at the island of Delos. There Th

Ariadne at Naxos. High upon the Hill of Drios,    As the day began to waken, All alone sate Ariadne,    Watchi

King’s deserted daughter.     “In vain I in vain! The seventh bright day Is breaking o’er yon eastern land,    That mid th

to the marriage feast — all but the goddess Discord. On the appointed day the palace was thronged, but as the guests were f

put out to sea. Three days they sped over the waves, but on the third day they came to Pylos, where Nestor, the wisest of m

and said, “It was only a rumor, after all. They do not dare.” But one day the watchman spied a mighty fleet far out at sea,

crowded ashore from all the ships. Thus the fighting began. But next day a truce was made. Ulysses, the wise warrior, and

to the lot of Agamemnon, the leader of the Greeks. But upon a certain day the father of the maiden came to the Grecian camp

his vow and the victory was with the Trojans. By the end of the first day all the great warriors of the Greeks, except Ajax

suit of the Greeks and returned within their own walls, and, for that day , again the camp was saved. Meanwhile Thetis we

forth to battle against the Trojans. Many a brave deed was done that day , but wherever Achilles went with his shining armo

r and his terrible spear, the Trojans fled before him like sheep. All day long the battle lasted, and all the day Achilles

ed before him like sheep. All day long the battle lasted, and all the day Achilles moved along the line, looking for Hector

etter to die than to live in shame behind the Trojan walls after this day .” When Achilles saw that Hector was waiting to fi

city must yield, for the Trojans had lost courage; but upon a certain day , as Achilles was fighting before the walls, a cha

hear the Greeks at work. Then all was still. With the first light of day , a great shout arose from the walls of Troy. Ther

a loved its ramparts free,    Beaten with spray and salt sea-air. All day her brothers chased the deer,    At night they fe

it shall be vain.    Troy-town shall fall.” “Then let me perish that day , too!    Leave me to that,” the maiden said. And

ne,    Since Troy must fall But sweet Cassandra, ever true,    Spake day by day and would not cease, Beseeching, praying (

Since Troy must fall But sweet Cassandra, ever true,    Spake day by day and would not cease, Beseeching, praying (well sh

eet was far beyond where any ships had ever been before. On the tenth day they came to a land that looked very sunny and pl

That whole night Ulysses and his men sat, sleeplessly waiting for the day . At dawn, Polyphemus awoke, milked his flocks, an

use as a staff, and had left it in the cave to season, but during the day Ulysses and his men had sharpened one end of it a

ee by three. Under the middle ram of each three, a man was tied. When day dawned, the Cyclops called his sheep and goats, a

er that he would let no one else touch the helm, but held it himself, day and night, to avoid every chance of misfortune. O

the hillsides. It was their home. They sailed slowly, waiting for the day , and a deep sleep came upon Ulysses, worn with wa

anchor and rested, and gave up two whole days to grief. On the third day Ulysses sent half of his ship’s crew, under Euryl

hough their provisions ran shorter and shorter. At last, however, one day while Ulysses slept, the hungry men took the chan

to make him immortal, if he would but be content with her. But every day he went down to the shore and sat looking out acr

wooed her, they treated her palace as though it were their own. Every day there could be heard from her halls a great tumul

, and she hated the crowd of evil men who reveled in her halls. Every day she worked at the robe, but at night she unravele

ors are lying in wait to kill him as he comes back.” But at dawn next day , as Ulysses awoke in the swineherd’s house, who s

sician, son of the muse Calliope, 65. Married Eurydice, who died next day , 68. Orpheus thereupon went down into Hades, 69,

of the cows of the sun, which the children of the morning drove every day to their pastures in the blue fields of heaven. S

east. Milton alludes to this in his “Comus.” “Now the gilded car of day His golden axle doth allay In the steep Atlantic

at hall of the palace of the Olympian king that the gods feasted each day on ambrosia and nectar, the latter being handed a

r snow invades, but calm The expanse and cloudless shines with purest day ; There the inhabitants divine rejoice Forever’

* (Night) were the children of Chaos, and the parents of Hemera* (the day ) and Æther* (the air). In mythology, effects are

t his turbulent offspring, the Hecatoncheires and Cyclopes, might one day seize his power, buried them in Tartarus directly

h*. The office of Helios was to give light to men and gods during the day . He is described as rising every morning in the e

about to appear. When he has burst forth in all the glorious light of day , Eos disappears, and Helios drives his flame-dart

om the Egyptian name Horus those parts into which the sun divides the day are called horse or hours. Helios and the ocean-n

outh instantly demanded permission to guide the solar chariot for one day , to prove himself thereby the undoubted progeny o

of her violet-tinged mantle, she leaves her couch before the break of day and yokes her two horses, Lampetus* and Phaethon,

the sky whilst her brother Helios was reposing after the toils of the day . When the shades of evening began to enfold the e

, having an uneasy conscience, was afraid that his children might one day rise up against his authority, and thus verify th

compel his father to restore his brothers and sisters to the light of day . He espoused Metis* (Prudence), who artfully pers

to allow them to remain together, on condition of their spending one day in Olympus and the next in Hades*. They thus led

l daughter of Agenor* (king of Phœnicia) and Telephassa*. She was one day gathering flowers with her companions in a meadow

temple below, and end life together. Their wish was granted; and one day , as they were standing before the temple, they we

the charge of the Hesperides at the foot of Mount Atlas. On the first day of every month a ewe-lamb and a sow were sacrific

it were, remains dead for a time in the dark earth, only to rise one day dressed in a newer and lovelier garb, was suppose

anged into a cobweb, while Arachne became a spider. As Athene was one day bathing at the fount of Helicon with Chariclo*, o

ized him by the foot and hurled him from Olympus. He fell for a whole day , and alighted at sundown on the isle of Lemnos. T

       “From morn To noon lie fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer’s day , and with the setting sun Dropped from the zenith

te, a brazen man named Talos*, who compassed the island three times a day to guard it from invasion. He destroyed people by

and of the arts and sciences. He represented, first, the great orb of day which illumines the world, and, secondly, the hea

nd the mode of managing bees. Apollo afterwards married Coronis*. One day , his favorite bird, the raven, flew to him with t

autiful youth beloved by Apollo. As the god and his favorite were one day playing with the discus, it rebounded, and killed

the hills. Aphrodite avenged this injury on Tarcissus. As he was one day hunting on Mount Helicon, he bent down to quench

t month, January, was called for him and dedicated to him. New-Year’s day was the most important festival of this god; the

ned with fresh laurel boughs. This offering was repeated on the first day of every month, because he was believed to open e

en every month. In the same way Janus was believed to begin every new day , and was called Matutinus Pater*. He appears also

aucus*. Glaucus* was said to have been originally a fisherman. One day , he saw the fish which he had caught and thrown o

down by jealous Boreas, the north wind. As the nymph Syrinx* was one day returning from the chase. Pan fell in love with h

renowned hero of antiquity, was the son of Zeus and Alcmena*. On the day on which he was to be born, Zeus announced to the

y on which he was to be born, Zeus announced to the gods that on that day would be born one of his race who should rule ove

der the care of the best preceptors. Linus* taught him music; but one day , when he corrected his pupil rather severely, the

ary strength and stature became the wonder and admiration of all. One day , Heracles was in a solitary spot meditating upon

tables of Augeas*. — The fifth task of Heracles was to cleanse in one day the stables of Augeas, king of Elis, whose wealth

cles presented himself before the king, and offered to cleanse in one day the stables in which there were three thousand ox

ery four years, at which silver cups were given as prizes. The fourth day of every month was held sacred to him, being rega

besought Poseidon to punish his faithless son. As Hippolytus was one day driving his chariot along the shore, a sea-monste

pair of compasses. Dædalus, envious of his nephew’s performances, one day pushed him off the top of a high tower. Athene, w

roperty of rendering any person anointed with it invulnerable for one day . She instructed him to also anoint his spear and

to sleep the dragon that guarded the Golden Fleece. On the following day , Jason, surrounded by his companions, appeared on

kindred of his father. King Priam received him with great honors. The day after his arrival, Memnon led his troops to the f

ris, which was directed by Apollo. A furious contest, lasting a whole day , took place for the possession of his corpse and

nd darkness. Paris represents the night fighting with the children of day .” “That the story of the Trojan war is almost who

f the crew summoned from the shore, and all magnificently entertained day after day until Odysseus seemed to have forgotten

summoned from the shore, and all magnificently entertained day after day until Odysseus seemed to have forgotten his nativ

, they once more put to sea and returned to Ææa, where they spent one day with Circe. They then took a final leave of her,

aricious woman, and was changed into a whirlpool, which three times a day absorbed and regorged the water. While Odysseus a

consumed, and they lived on what fish and birds they could catch. One day , in the absence of Odysseus, they slew some of th

for nine days. He once more escaped from Charybdis, and on the tenth day was cast ashore on the island of Ogygia*. Ogygia

ed Laertes; but by secretly undoing at night what she had done in the day , she prevented the completion of the work. One of

oud in her joy, but the hero implored her not to betray him. The next day Penelope brought into the hall the bow of Odysseu

enth the fortress falls, as the dark shades are scattered at break of day . The victory is won, but the Sun still longs to s

g years come to an end. The sun cannot see the twilight until another day is done.” “‘Land of the Lotus-eaters,’ the fair f

piter, presided over all phenomena of the heavens, the alternation of day and night, and the change of the seasons. Hera, o

———— Anthesteria, ——————————— “Supper of Hecate” was held on the last day of each month. Roman Festivals. Saturnalia,

st, the west, even the general idea of time and space. Each month and day had its own god. The Nile, as the source of the c

rning to roll over the heavens with all the splendor of the preceding day , were events full of symbolic meaning. The rising

odile was so abhorred as an emblem of the evil spirit, that a special day was set apart to hunt and kill as many crocodiles

Pars, the ancient name of Persia. At Bombay, the Parsees are at this day a very active, intelligent, and wealthy class. Th

nt by licking the hoar-frost and salt from the ice. While she was one day licking the salt stones, there appeared the hair

king the salt stones, there appeared the hair of a man; on the second day the whole head, and on the third the entire form,

ers were the ravens Hugin* (Mind) and Munin* (Memory), who flew every day over the whole world and reported all they had se

ey feasted on the flesh of the boar Schrimnir, which was cooked every day , and became whole again every night. The goat Hei

imes written Woden*, and from this was derived the name of the fourth day of the week, Wednesday. The wife of Odin was Frig

uids were in the habit of observing the full moon, and also the sixth day of the moon. On the latter they sought the mistle

her permission, and down she dived. She, too, remained long — a whole day and night — and they gave her up for lost. But at

o, in the myth, are called Gijigouai, which means ‘those who make the day ,’ and they light the world. He is never identifie

help but observe and admire the wonders of nature. The succession of day and night, summer and winter, rain and sunshine;

ills and brooks. “To the Sun god all our hearts and lyres         By day , by night, belong; And the breath we draw from hi

,     The Isles of the Blest, Are peaceful and happy, by night and by day .     Far away in the glorious west. “They need n

delight,     They need not the pale, pale star; The sun is bright, by day and night,     Where the souls of the blessed are

s. The Titans did not long remain sole occupants of Tartarus, for one day the brazen doors were again thrown wide open to a

Enraged at this insult, Uranus cursed his son, and prophesied that a day would come when he, too, would be supplanted by h

thing curls convolved, And shades the sun’s bright orb, and blots out day .” Addison. Enceladus under Mount Ætna. B.

but a moment’s work. There a voracious vulture was summoned to feast day by day, upon his liver, the tearing of which from

moment’s work. There a voracious vulture was summoned to feast day by day , upon his liver, the tearing of which from his si

bird’s cruel beak and talons caused the sufferer intense anguish. All day long the vulture gorged himself; but during the c

ng, professing himself too weary to convey it to its destination that day , and promised to call for it shortly. The permiss

ble him to ascertain all he wished without any risk of detection. One day he and Mercury, his special messenger and favouri

ts upon them. Jupiter Became a bull and bellow’d.” Shakespeare. One day Europa was playing in her father’s meadows with h

visiting her, Juno discovered the object of his affections. Night and day she thought and planned, until she devised a spec

Although immortal, the gods were not exempt from physical pain. One day Jupiter suffered intensely from a sudden headache

cessful in war, Apollo was very unfortunate indeed in friendship. One day he came down to earth to enjoy the society of a y

ions, and who now resolved to put an end to the bliss she envied. All day long Cephalus hunted in the forest, and, when the

valuable, as Lelaps was swift of foot, and tireless in the chase. One day , to test his powers, the gods from Olympus watche

tion. Apollo’s principal duty was to drive the sun chariot. Day after day he rode across the azure sky, nor paused on his w

urney, to bear him in safety back to his eastern palace. “Helios all day long his allotted labour pursues;     No rest to

es repeat to me Eurydice! Eurydice!” Lowell. At last there dawned a day when some Bacchantes overtook him in the forest,

aring this oath, begged permission to drive the sun chariot that very day , stating that all the world would be sure to noti

sing were burned black, — a hue retained by their descendants to this day . Terrified at what he had done, Phaeton whipped u

rom this spot was a small altar devoted to the Muses, and Comatas one day took a kid and offered it as a sacrifice. When hi

ed to him, daily through a chink in the chest. Months passed, and one day the chest was opened; but, instead of a heap of m

the sky, whose beams are seen afar! By night heaven owns thy sway, by day the grove, When, as chaste Dian, here thou deign’

s. It always seemed to her then as if Nature, so beautiful during the day , borrowed additional charms from the witching hou

ffections were bestowed upon a young hunter by the name of Orion. All day long this youth scoured the forest, his faithful

s youth scoured the forest, his faithful dog Sirius at his heels. One day , in the dense shade of the forest, he met a group

easure by Apollo, from whose piercing glance nothing that occurred by day could be hidden, and he resolved to put an end to

ddess and her attendant nymphs had not been the only hunters out that day . Actæon, the huntsman, had risen at dawn to stalk

o interpose; Cynthia’s shining orb was made     Heaven to clear, when day did close; Bless us then with wished sight, Godde

lying hart     Space to breathe, how short soever: Thou that mak’st a day of night, Goddess excellently bright.” Ben Jonso

nued to join the other hunters in his favourite sport. But, alas, one day , after an exciting pursuit, he boldly attacked a

e daily duties which would soon claim her attention But separation by day was all these fond lovers could endure, and night

o fiercely already in the early morning, increased in violence as the day wore on, until the waves were lashed into foam, w

r, And the pale breakers thundered on the beach.” Edwin Arnold. All day long Hero had hoped that her lover would renounce

restrained meetings; so they made an appointment to meet on a certain day and hour, under a white mulberry tree, just witho

rom its slaughtered lord.” Ovid ( Eusden’s tr.). Since that ominous day the fruit of the mulberry tree, which had been wh

ayer, and was biding her time to punish the disdainful Narcissus. One day , after a prolonged chase, he hurried to a lonely

ess, and saw her gazing longingly up at him. There Narcissus lingered day and night, without eating or drinking, until he d

re spent in the faithful portrayal of the gods and goddesses, but one day he determined to fashion the image of a lovely wo

solved to grant his request. A suitable opportunity soon arrived. One day as Pygmalion clasped the exquisite image to his b

, and inflicted a wound, from which he was to suffer for many a weary day . All unconscious of the gravity of his hurt, he h

e farewell, promising to return with the welcome shades of night. All day long Psyche thought of him, longed for him, and,

h gold the quiver’d shafts suspends.” Darwin. Although the hours of day seemed interminable, spent as they were in comple

be some monster, so hideous that he dare not brave the broad light of day , lest he should make her loathe him, and further

h the heifer closely, and report anything unusual in its actions. One day , therefore, as he was watching his charge pasture

long as this token of the god’s goodwill was preserved. The very same day the plague ceased its frightful ravages, and the

en and earth was so great, that Vulcan’s fall lasted during one whole day and night, ere he finally touched the summit of M

        “From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer’s day : and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith l

e shades you go a down-hill, easy way; But to return and re-enjoy the day , This is a work, a labour!” Virgil. To prevent

adamant away. Here rose an iron tow’r: before the gate, By night and day , a wakeful Fury sate, The pale Tisiphone; a robe

f Sicily, her favourite place of resort, where she wandered about all day long, attended by a merry girlish train, gatherin

influence most divine On thine own child, Proserpine.” Shelley. One day , weary of labour, Proserpina called these fair pl

Proserpina called these fair playmates to join her and spend a merry day gathering flowers. The maidens sang merry lays as

lly returned to Italy; and, while wandering along the river banks one day , the waters suddenly cast a glittering object at

lared that the queen had partaken of some pomegranate seeds that very day . Proserpina could not refute the charge, and Jupi

te man, and sent Famine to gnaw his vitals, and torment him night and day . The wretch, tortured by a hunger which no amount

renewed the fuel, and fanned the flame, nor lost sight of it night or day ; for the Romans considered the extinction of this

t, and because he is considered an emblem of the sun, which opens the day at its rising, and closes the day at its setting.

emblem of the sun, which opens the day at its rising, and closes the day at its setting. In some statues he is represented

of men.” Longfellow. The commencement of every new year, month, and day was held sacred to Janus, and at that time specia

ort period. Festivals in honour of Janus were celebrated on the first day of the new year; and one month bore the god’s nam

and relatives to exchange calls, good wishes, and gifts on the first day of this month — a Roman custom in force to this d

ifts on the first day of this month — a Roman custom in force to this day . Janus is not the only one among the Greek and La

year or week; for in Latin the names of the days are dies Solis (Sun day ), dies Lunæ (Moon day), dies Martis (Mars’ day),

Latin the names of the days are dies Solis (Sun day), dies Lunæ (Moon day ), dies Martis (Mars’ day), dies Mercurii (Mercury

ys are dies Solis (Sun day), dies Lunæ (Moon day), dies Martis (Mars’ day ), dies Mercurii (Mercury’s day), dies Jovis (Jove

es Lunæ (Moon day), dies Martis (Mars’ day), dies Mercurii (Mercury’s day ), dies Jovis (Jove’s day), dies Veneris (Venus’ d

Martis (Mars’ day), dies Mercurii (Mercury’s day), dies Jovis (Jove’s day ), dies Veneris (Venus’ day), dies Saturni (Saturn

rcurii (Mercury’s day), dies Jovis (Jove’s day), dies Veneris (Venus’ day ), dies Saturni (Saturn’s day); Latin names which

Jovis (Jove’s day), dies Veneris (Venus’ day), dies Saturni (Saturn’s day ); Latin names which are still in use in legislati

ock does there his wings display, Nor with his horny bill provoke the day : Nor watchful dogs, nor the more wakeful geese, D

used, him and all his crew to perish in the seething waves. Day after day the queen hastened down to the seashore, followed

r than when she obtained some new ornament or article of apparel. One day Admete heard a traveller describe a girdle worn b

tar. “O Hesperus! thou bringest all things home; All that the garish day hath scattered wide; The sheep, the goat, back to

laced the dragon Ladon at its foot to guard their treasures night and day . Unfortunately, no one could tell Hercules in wha

lance into her sweet face rekindled all his former passion. Day after day he lingered by her side, forgetful of duty, Deian

s, King of Argos, had been a burden to him ever since the unfortunate day when an oracle had predicted that he would be kil

gods’ decree was always sure to be fulfilled sooner or later; and one day , when Perseus was playing quoits, he accidentally

r magic dragon car, and fled to Media, whence she never returned. One day , some time after his arrival at Athens, Theseus h

owned, and which, in memory of him, bears the name of Icarian to this day . “His scattered plumage danced upon the wave, An

s bride, were he only successful in his undertaking. At dawn the next day Theseus was conducted to the entrance of the laby

ece on a tree, near which he stationed a dragon to guard it night and day . The bards then went on to relate that the glitte

of remorse and despair, now led a weary and sorrowful life, and every day he wandered down to the shore, where he sat under

nder the shade of the Argo’s hulk, which was slowly rotting away. One day , while he was sitting there musing over his youth

ndaunted by these ghastly trophies, Hippomenes, or Milanion, came one day to Atalanta and expressed a desire to race with h

nces under which he had made his first appearance at court, until one day at a banquet one of his companions, heated by dri

e many others, is merely a sun myth, in which Bellerophon, the orb of day , rides across the sky on Pegasus, the fleecy whit

or earth when they became the parents of a charming little son. Every day Dryope carried the child along the banks of a lit

sing charge) she press’d Between her arms.” Ovid ( Pope’s tr.). One day , while wandering there as usual, accompanied by h

en sighed the voice, ‘O Rhœcus! Nevermore Shalt thou behold me or by day or night, Me, who would fain have blessed thee wi

ped, and cleverly determined to ascertain the truth by stratagem. One day , therefore, when the king was ploughing the sea-s

eady to embark; but no favourable wind came to swell the sails, which day after day hung limp and motionless against the ta

bark; but no favourable wind came to swell the sails, which day after day hung limp and motionless against the tall masts o

until the very firmament shook, and swore to make the Greeks rue the day they left their native shores, “To give Achilles

ny; and, when the anxious bleating of his herd roused him at break of day , he fumblingly milked them, and prepared to let t

ed there for one whole year.                         “And there from day to day We lingered a full year, and banqueted Nob

e for one whole year.                         “And there from day to day We lingered a full year, and banqueted Nobly on p

knowing that she undid at night the web so carefully woven during the day .                                     “Three full

darts into her heart, and made her fall in love with Æneas. Day after day now passed in revelry and pleasure, and still Æne

, in long line, The illustrious shades of those who were to shine One day the glory of the Italian shore.” Tomas de Iriart

here is also a noun dyu in that language which means either “sky” or “ day .” In early times the name was applied to the one

race, who worshipped in him the radiant personification of the orb of day . Another of his appellations, Phœbus (“the lord o

d the English axle.” This whirling wheel of fire is the bright orb of day , to which he was bound by order of Jupiter (the s

to the golden-haired Perseus, a personification of the radiant orb of day ; and he, like many another solar hero, is cast ad

e Eumenides, or Erinnyes, were at first merely the searching light of day , from which nothing can be hidden, they came grad

ance, 357 Jove. Same as Jupiter, 27; birth of 9; omnipotence of, 11; day of, 178; Leda courted by, 276; decree of, 292 Ju

f Jupiter and Juno, 37; god of war, 116-121; Venus courted by, 84-86; day of, 178; descendants of, 339; significance, 365

cchus guarded by, 150; Proserpina guided by, 168; Lara loved by, 174; day of, 178; leader of dreams, 180; Perseus helped by

7; father of Jupiter, 9; Italy ruled by, 12, 22; husband of Rhea, 14; day of, 178 Sa′tyrs. Male divinities of the woods, h

, Aphrodite, Cytherea, goddess of beauty, 82-108; loved by Mars, 118; day of, 178; Hippomenes aided by, 243; Juno and Miner

t used to share this earth With man as with their friend; and at this day ’Tis Jupiter who brings whate’er is great. And Ve

ne who would read with intelligence the elegant literature of his own day . In order to understand these stories, it will be

east. Milton alludes to this in his “Comus.” “Now the gilded car of day His golden axle doth allay In the steep Atlantic

at hall of the palace of the Olympian king that the gods feasted each day on ambrosia and nectar, their food and drink, the

r snow invades, but calm The expanse and cloudless shines with purest day . There the inhabitants divine rejoice Forever.”

ding to this account, was the consequence of his fall. He was a whole day falling, and at last alighted in the island of Le

      “… From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer’s day ; and with the setting sun Dropped from the zenith

caduceus.2 Mercury is said to have invented the lyre. He found, one day , a tortoise, of which he took the shell, made hol

ized with an eager curiosity to know what this jar contained; and one day she slipped off the cover and looked in. Forthwit

cepted, which lay at the bottom, and that was hope. So we see at this day , whatever evils are abroad, hope never entirely l

d race, and well adapted to labor, as we find ourselves to be at this day , giving plain indications of our origin.   The co

the tree ever after brought forth purple berries, as it does to this day .   Moore, in the Sylph’s Ball, speaking of Davy’

mortal, keep your wife, whom, if I am not much mistaken, you will one day be very sorry you ever saw again.” Cephalus retur

east, come and allay the heat that burns me.” Some one passing by one day heard him talking in this way to the air, and, fo

— Diana and Actæon — Latona and The Rustics. [Io.] Juno one day perceived it suddenly grow dark, and immediately

t he kept watch of Io constantly. He suffered her to feed through the day , and at night tied her up with a vile rope round

nting dress, only that her bow was of horn and Diana’s of silver. One day , as she was returning from the chase, Pan met her

em as ornaments on the tail of her peacock, where they remain to this day . But the vengeance of Juno was not yet satiated.

ild beast herself; and, bear as she was, was afraid of the bears. One day a youth espied her as he was hunting. She saw him

e wet with the blood of our victims; we have had sport enough for one day , and to-morrow we can renew our labors. Now, whil

ry with hunting and lave her virgin limbs in the sparkling water. One day , having repaired thither with her nymphs, she han

ëton. Phaëton was the son of Apollo and the nymph Clymene. One day a schoolfellow laughed at the idea of his being t

olemn engagements.” Phaëton immediately asked to be permitted for one day to drive the chariot of the sun. The father repen

gods themselves may do. None but myself may drive the flaming car of day . Not even Jupiter, whose terrible right arm hurls

byan desert was dried up to the condition in which it remains to this day . The Nymphs of the fountains, with dishevelled ha

n days and nights with an unceasing round of jollity. On the eleventh day he brought Silenus back, and restored him in safe

and the river-sands became changed into gold, as they remain to this day . Thenceforth Midas, hating wealth and splendor, d

th, began whispering the story, and has continued to do so, from that day to this, every time a breeze passes over the plac

temple as long as they lived. When grown very old, as they stood one day before the steps of the sacred edifice, and were

armed, and feared that his kingdom would be laid open to the light of day . Under this apprehension, he mounted his chariot,

cared nothing for it, and rather boasted of my hunting exploits. One day I was returning from the wood, heated with exerci

pine is restored to her mother. Spring leads her back to the light of day .   Milton alludes to the story of Proserpine in

with a kiss.” Glaucus and Scylla. Glaucus was a fisherman. One day he had drawn his nets to land, and had taken a gr

pearance, and he fancied himself rather a good-looking personage. One day Glaucus saw the beautiful maiden Scylla, the favo

e bay on the shore to which Scylla used to resort, in the heat of the day , to breathe the air of the sea, and to bathe in i

eloved by her husband, and happy in the birth of her first child. One day the sisters strolled to the bank of a stream that

lling of her child;” etc. Venus and Adonis. Venus, playing one day with her boy Cupid, wounded her bosom with one of

in the mountains, and neglected for him his lyre and his arrows. One day they played a game of quoits together, and Apollo

with his sorrow, and inscribed “Ah! ah!” upon them, as we see to this day . The flower bears the name of Hyacinthus, and wit

o her again and again, and fed his passion with the sight of her. One day he came in the guise of an old woman, her gray ha

own the precipice and was dashed to pieces. Psyche meanwhile wandered day and night, without food or repose, in search of h

carelessly out of the weary reapers’ hands in the sultry hours of the day . This unseemly confusion the pious Psyche put an

ay she came, and glad was she to come out once more into the light of day . But having got so far successfully through her d

a dull, grovelling, caterpillar existence, to flutter in the blaze of day and feed on the most fragrant and delicate produc

misfortunes of their children still weighed upon their minds; and one day Cadmus exclaimed, “If a serpent’s life is so dear

followers of a political chief are called by that name, down to this day . But the origin of the Myrmidons would not give o

an drew from life, and all the poets and writers of fiction since his day , when they have had occasion to describe a simila

lking, and whether in chat or argument, would have the last word. One day Juno was seeking her husband, who, she had reason

with impatience for him to speak first, and had her answer ready. One day the youth, being separated from his companions, s

He shunned all the rest of the nymphs, as he had done poor Echo. One day a maiden who had in vain endeavored to attract hi

h around it, and the rocks sheltered it from the sun. Hither came one day the youth, fatigued with hunting, heated and thir

ive of the first sight of herself reflected in the fountain: — “That day I oft remember when from sleep I first awaked, an

e with Apollo, who made her no return. So she pined away, sitting all day long upon the cold ground, with her unbound tress

Twixt death and epics passed his time,     Scribbling and killing all day long;         Like Phœbus in his car at ease,    

that an ancient prophecy had warned him that a son of Jove should one day rob him of his golden apples. So he answered, “Be

Alpheus and Peneus through them, and cleansed them thoroughly in one day . His next labor was of a more delicate kind. Adme

issed from her office in consequence of a fall which she met with one day when in attendance on the gods. Her successor was

e imprecated the vengeance of Neptune upon him. As Hippolytus was one day driving his chariot along the shore, a sea-monste

performances that he took an opportunity, when they were together one day on the top of a high tower, to push him off. But

w the two brothers to enjoy the boon of life alternately, passing one day under the earth and the next in the heavenly abod

ow the crown which Ariadne wore     Upon her ivory forehead that same day     That Theseus her unto his bridal bore,     Th

ittingly, in truth,     They made his careless words their law. “And day by day more holy grew     Each spot where he had

y, in truth,     They made his careless words their law. “And day by day more holy grew     Each spot where he had trod, T

e her choice among the suitors when the robe was finished. During the day she worked at the robe, but in the night she undi

ay she worked at the robe, but in the night she undid the work of the day . This is the famous Penelope’s web, which is used

y bore with him as long as they could; but finding him insensible one day , excited by the rites of Bacchus, one of them exc

rs to the shades of Orpheus and Eurydice; then returning on the ninth day he examined the bodies of the animals, and, wonde

nus. Linus was the instructor of Hercules in music, but having one day reproved his pupil rather harshly, he roused the

but Melampus took care of the young ones and fed them carefully. One day when he was asleep under the oak the serpents lic

ther was highly displeased and often chid her, but to no purpose. One day , observing Orion wading through the sea with his

The Pleiads were daughters of Atlas, and nymphs of Diana’s train. One day Orion saw them and became enamoured and pursued t

miration to his narrative of the wonders of the ocean shore. The very day after his arrival, Memnon, impatient of repose, l

go to the grotto of Galatea, and tell her how she was persecuted. One day the goddess, while Scylla dressed her hair, liste

ch projects into the sea, which washes it on either side. Thither one day the huge Cyclops ascended, and sat down while his

were in a manner besieged themselves, within their rampart. The next day after the unsuccessful embassy to Achilles, a bat

arth! deliver thou Achaia’s host from darkness; clear the skies; Give day ; and, since thy sovereign will is such, Destructi

ince thy sovereign will is such, Destruction with it; but, O, give us day .” —  Cowper. Or, as rendered by Pope, —        

Greece must perish we thy will obey, But let us perish in the face of day .” Jupiter heard the prayer and dispersed the clo

d with it to earth, and laid it down at Achilles’ feet at the dawn of day . The first glow of pleasure that Achilles had fel

btless knowing that Achilles lives he still rejoices, hoping that one day he shall see thy face again. But no comfort cheer

n of the sun there was no pause or abatement of their grief. The next day preparations were made for the funeral solemnitie

he city. This was done with songs and triumphal acclamations, and the day closed with festivity. In the night the armed men

crew summoned from the shore, and the whole magnificently entertained day after day, till Ulysses seemed to have forgotten

ned from the shore, and the whole magnificently entertained day after day , till Ulysses seemed to have forgotten his native

Charybdis, was a gulf, nearly on a level with the water. Thrice each day the water rushed into a frightful chasm, and thri

s and fishes they could catch. Famine pressed them, and at length one day , in the absence of Ulysses, they slew some of the

elf. The king then dismissed his guests, notifying them that the next day he would call them to council to consider what ha

nish a ship in which his guest might return to his own land. The next day the assembled chiefs confirmed the promise of the

other in loading the illustrious stranger with costly gifts. The next day Ulysses set sail in the Phæacian vessel, and in a

e recent death of William Pitt, says, — “O, think how, to his latest day , When death just hovering claimed his prey, With

e descent to Avernus is easy: the gate of Pluto stands open night and day ; but to retrace one’s steps and return to the upp

montory should bear the name of Cape Palinurus, which it does to this day . Leaving Palinurus consoled by these words, they

wers, the vessels shot rapidly up the stream. About the middle of the day they came in sight of the scattered buildings of

se glory reached the skies. By chance the old king, Evander, was that day celebrating annual solemnities in honor of Hercul

rewn on the grass and among the wagons. The laws of war at that early day did not forbid a brave man to slay a sleeping foe

upon his shoulders and afterwards eating the whole of it in a single day . The mode of his death is thus related: As he was

was found. We find the following item in one of the newspapers of the day : — The Tomb of Apis. — The excavations going on

lonely herdsman, stretched On the soft grass through half a summer’s day , With music lulled his indolent repose; And, in s

me, nor sword, nor fire Shall bring to nought. Come when it will that day Which o’er the body, not the mind, has sway, And

Arabic word signifying unbelievers. At Bombay the Parsees are at this day a very active, intelligent, and wealthy class. Fo

dha himself, in which capacity the line is continued till the present day , in the several Lamas of Thibet, China, and other

nt by licking the hoar frost and salt from the ice. While she was one day licking the salt stones there appeared at first t

salt stones there appeared at first the hair of a man, on the second day the whole head, and on the third the entire form

stined to become the abode of man. Odin then regulated the periods of day and night and the seasons by placing in the heave

rth. Upon his shoulders are the ravens Hugin and Munin, who fly every day over the whole world, and on their return report

elt Woden, as it sometimes is, came Wednesday, the name of the fourth day of the week. Odin is frequently called Alfadur, (

he heroes are not feasting they amuse themselves with fighting. Every day they ride out into the court or field and fight u

ct a great many heroes in Valhalla to be able to meet the giants in a day when the final contest must come, sends down to e

) He requires less sleep than a bird, and sees by night as well as by day a hundred miles around him. So acute is his ear t

ignorant that these monsters were growing up, and that they would one day bring much evil upon gods and men. So Odin deemed

pace of one winter. But if any thing remained unfinished on the first day of summer he should forfeit the recompense agreed

e of Loki was granted to him. He accordingly set to work on the first day of winter, and during the night let his horse dra

heim. Thor’s Visit to Jotunheim, the Giant’s Country. One day the god Thor, with his servant Thialfi, and accom

appen. A terrible groaning was heard during the night, and at dawn of day Thor went out and found lying near him a huge gia

were hard put to it to keep up with him. So they travelled the whole day , and at dusk Skrymir chose a place for them to pa

y passed the night there in good cheer. The next morning, at break of day , Thor and his companions dressed themselves and p

kept the bridge asked him his name and lineage, telling him that the day before five bands of dead persons had ridden over

ard, together with their habitations, would be destroyed. The fearful day of destruction will not, however, be without its

remains in the name given to Whitsunday in parts of Scotland to this day . Sir Walter Scott uses the word in the Boat Song

ere in the habit of observing the full moon, and especially the sixth day of the moon. On the latter they sought the Mistle

e descent of Avernus is easy; the gate of Pluto stands open night and day ; but to retrace one’s steps and return to the upp

t was a favorite idea of the old poets that these goddesses would one day return, and bring back the Golden Age. Even in a

the height; To hear each others’ whispered speech; Eating the Lotos, day by day, To watch the crisping ripples on the beac

ight; To hear each others’ whispered speech; Eating the Lotos, day by day , To watch the crisping ripples on the beach, And

he most ill-looking, disagreeable man that can be imagined. Venus one day called to her the god of love, and said, “I have

med to his society, that she found it painful to live without it. All day long she only thought of the hour when he would r

g in the world, that her husband should absent himself from her every day . It was enough, they said, to make any woman mise

f the gay. Conversation: Mother and Ann. Little Ann Walton one day read die story of Cupid and Psyche to her mother.

ant in planting trees, or in making bread, and other useful arts. One day it happened that Pluto, the king of the infernal

r, resolved to have her without her mother’s permission. One charming day , Proserpine, and her young companions, gathered a

search all night for the lost one — but her search was vain. The next day she found, by a fountain side, a naiad named Aret

time in the woods, hunting or sporting among the trees; but going one day to bathe in the river Alpheus, the river-god saw,

r help to set her free. It was not difficult to do this. On a certain day , a great number of Thracian women issued forth to

ly lighted up the small apartment, from which every beam of declining day was excluded. When the fire burned clear, Baucis

in the precincts of his temple, and assisted in his worship. But one day , as they stood at the gate discoursing with some

when the weather was disagreeable, they could not enjoy the light of day . Ann. I think Baucis and Philemon were a very ha

tears amid the alien corn. Mercury and Herse. Mercury was one day hovering in the air over the city of Athens, then

withdrew from the dark cavern, and returned to the cheerful light of day . Envy cast a scowling look upon her, as she depar

nd, where, as he grew up, he ran about the woods, and spent the whole day in gathering flowers, and in chasing butterflies.

he longed to dive into the water, and take it by the hand. Day after day , Narcissus resorted to the fountain, and supplica

. It requires attention and thought, to understand any thing. Another day you shall have more stories of the family of Cadm

eon was one of the most expert hunters in the world. Acteon being one day fatigued by the chase lay down to rest himself by

people collect, in considerable numbers, in some public place, on the day of the feast. A car, on which a sort of throne, c

and over again, for all their goodness; and hoped, she said, that one day or other she should be able to repay them. ——— Pe

he shall be very miserable, and go away to some distant country. One day Polydectes invited Perseus to a great banquet. On

ad arrived. Perseus still slumbered, but Aurora unbarred the gates of day , and roused him from his rest. He rose with renew

request, and preparations were made for the wedding. On the appointed day , a marriage procession was formed. Cupid and Hyme

avourite valley. They sang, and danced, and played upon the lyre, all day , and sometimes the god Apollo came to see them. P

d, a helmet on her head, and her terrible shield on one arm; but this day , at Mount Helicon, she put off her warlike attire

the snow-covered mountains of Pæonia.’ “We accepted the challenge. A day was appointed, and the nymphs who were constitute

they become conceited, but they produce nothing fine. The chariot of day began to decline in the west; Minerva knew that t

perhaps the sun, and was sometimes represented driving the chariot of day over the heavens. His car was drawn by two fiery

did not suit his weak hands: that he should leave them to the god of day , and to his sister Diana, who was a huntress. Cup

d, and resolved to punish what he deemed the insolence of Apollo. One day , awaking from a delicious slumber, Cupid recollec

ere it is carefully preserved. I will allow you to read to me another day some few more Classical Tales; but when they shal

d to have had an hundred eyes, some of which were always awake. Every day Argus turned Io into the fields, and at night he

turned Io into the fields, and at night he shut her up securely. One day , as she was grazing on the banks of the Inachus,

bade her followers to listen to any male, either divine or human. One day as Syrinx was descending from Mount Lyceus, she m

you, they are the very same. Go to the palace of the sun; the god of day will receive you with tenderness, I am sure; he w

ee.” Phæton eagerly took advantage of this promise, and asked for one day to guide the chariot of the sun, which was drawn

ed the god; “you know not what you ask. To conduct the flaming car of day is an enterprise which Jupiter himself would scar

mmediately after the death of Phæton, refused to guide the chariot of day , and the gods assembling around him, entreated th

ches! behold these innocent children; they have not tasted water this day !’ “‘The countrymen only laughed at this expostula

t flit by the Lethean stream until at beck of Fate they revisit upper day and the ever-tranquil stars, these ghosts of “far

t of the course be read aloud in class for some fifteen minutes every day , in order that interest in the narrative as a who

is the case in many of our schools; and such was not the case in the day of our fathers. Pupils should be encouraged to re

led hidden treasures. The yellow-haired sun Phœbus drove westerly all day in his flaming chariot; or, perhaps, as Meleager,

and, as Mr. Jasper maintains, “do move.” By personification we, every day , bestow the attributes of human beings upon inani

ection a disease of language. In ancient languages every such word as day , night, earth, sun, spring, dawn, had an ending e

gation, numerous races of savages have been found who at this present day accept and believe just such silly and senseless

lonely herdsman, stretched On the soft grass through half a summer’s day , With music lulled his indolent repose; And, in s

nts were killed by the slaves, but Melampus saved the young ones. One day when he was asleep under the oak, the serpents li

tionality of Eddic phraseology, figures, and art. Even at the present day , in Iceland, it is common to hear the term “void

ded to Tartarus, his own place and the abode of his brethren. To this day , however, he grumbles and hisses, thrusts upward

n unaccountable curiosity to know what this vessel contained, she one day lifted the cover and looked in. Forthwith there e

erworld. In the great hall of the Olympian king the gods feasted each day on ambrosia and nectar. Here they conversed of th

r snow invades, but calm The expanse and cloudless shines with purest day . There the inhabitants divine rejoice Forever.”67

oot and hurled by the son of Cronus from the heavenly threshold: “All day I flew; and at the set of sun. I fell in Lemnos,

shafts, with which I kill Deceit, that loves the night and fears the day ; All men who do or even imagine ill Fly me, and f

elf to interpose; Cynthia’s shining orb was made Heaven to clear when day did close: Bless us then with wished sight, Godde

he flying hart Space to breathe, how short soever: Thou that mak’st a day of night, Goddess excellently bright.”81 Fig

sed from her position in consequence of a fall which she met with one day when in attendance on the gods. Her successor was

to, or the giver of wealth. At his pleasure, he visited the realms of day , — as when he carried off Proserpina; occasionall

was the river-god Inachus, son of Oceanus. It is said that Juno, one day , perceiving the skies suddenly overcast, surmised

he kept watch of Io constantly. He suffered her to graze through the day , and at night tied a rope round her neck. She wou

ful worshipper of Diana, and followed the chase. Pan, meeting her one day , wooed her with many compliments, likening her to

ed as ornaments on the tail of her peacock, where they remain to this day . But the vengeance of Juno was not yet satiated.

a wild beast herself; and bear, as she was, she feared the bears. One day a youth espied her as he was hunting. She saw him

er was granted. When they had attained a great age, as they stood one day before the steps of the sacred edifice, and were

ortunes of their children still weighing upon their minds, Cadmus one day exclaimed, “If a serpent’s life is so dear to the

ons in the mountains, and neglected for him both lyre and arrows. One day they played a game of quoits; Apollo, heaving alo

mption. Phaëton 143 was the son of Apollo and the nymph Clymene. One day Epaphus, the son of Jupiter and Io, scoffed at th

should be granted. Phaëton immediately asked to be permitted for one day to drive the chariot of the sun. The father repen

ndertaking. “None but myself,” he said, “may drive the flaming car of day . Not even Jupiter, whose terrible right arm hurls

byan desert was dried up to the condition in which it remains to this day . The Nymphs of the fountains, with dishevelled ha

emed more sweet to live upon, More full of love, because of him. And day by day more holy grew Each spot where he had trod

re sweet to live upon, More full of love, because of him. And day by day more holy grew Each spot where he had trod, Till

at consecration to the lower Gods, - And on our upper world the third day rise! Lead her in, meanwhile; good and true thou

adow began whispering the story, and has continued to do so from that day to this, every time a breeze passes over the plac

dark Tempe lay, In Pelion’s shadow, outgrowing The light of the dying day , Speeded by my sweet pipings. The Sileni, and Syl

story amply justifies the following citation: — Phœbus, sitting one day in a laurel tree’s shade, Was reminded of Daphne,

e, Was reminded of Daphne, of whom it was made, For the god being one day too warm in his wooing, She took to the tree to e

e with Apollo, who made her no return. So she pined away, sitting all day long upon the cold ground, with her unbound tress

he delighted not in her comeliness, but in the joys of the chase. One day , returning from the wood, heated with exercise, s

mus whose kindred fell under the curse of Mars, is thus narrated. One day , having repaired to a valley enclosed by cypresse

er brother, highly displeased, often chid her, but to no purpose. One day , therefore, observing Orion as he waded through t

e, beloved by Aurora, he remains gradually paling before the light of day till, finally, Diana, jealous of his happiness, d

he heavens, were daughters of Atlas, and nymphs of Diana’s train. One day Orion saw them in Bœotia, became enamoured of the

s and Adonis. Adonis. 176 — The sweetly smiling goddess, playing one day with her boy Cupid, wounded her bosom with one of

she saw; for there before her lay The very Love brighter than dawn of day ; And as he lay there smiling, her own name His ge

the precipice, and was dashed to pieces. Psyche, meanwhile, wandered day and night, without food or repose, in search of h

ored to her; and glad was she to come out once more into the light of day . But having got so far successfully through her d

the manly Leander, who, as luck would have it, bethought himself one day of the festival of Venus in Sestos, and thither f

fared to do obeisance to the goddess. On this feast-day, — O cursed day and hour! — Went Hero thorough Sestos, from her t

r.’ … Then she told him of the turret by the murmuring sea where all day long she tended Venus’ swans and sparrows: — ‘Co

s to gray; Change, silent lips, forever fair, To lips that have their day ! Oh, perfect arms, grow soft with life, Wax warm,

ple berries. § 99. Phaon ferried a boat between Lesbos and Chios. One day the queen of Paphos and Amathus,192 in the guise

§ 101. Homer’s Hymn to Mercury. — Maia bore Mercury at the peep of day , — a schemer subtle beyond all belief. He began p

he sang a strain of unpremeditated sweetness. At evening of the same day , he stole the oxen of his half-brother Apollo fro

their king, Midas. Midas entertained him royally, and on the eleventh day restored him in safety to his divine pupil. Where

into them, and the river sands became golden, as they remain to this day . Thenceforth Midas, hating wealth and splendor, d

lest the shock of their fall might expose his kingdom to the light of day . Under this apprehension, he mounted his chariot,

re, saying, “Go, ungrateful mortal, keep thy wife; but thou shalt one day be sorry that thou didst ever see her again.” Ce

ed, Sighed for his lost caress, by some hard god estranged. So, on a day , she rose and found him not. Alone, with wet, sad

and past Down to the trackless wood, full pale and overcast. And all day long her slight spear devious flew, And harmless

boughs I can see A star, with a smile, Looking at me. ... “Why, all day long, I run about With a madcap throng, And laugh

gh his veins Instead of blood, so light he felt and strange. But the day was past its noon. Joining some comrades over the

hen sighed the voice, “O Rhœcus! nevermore Shalt thou behold me or by day or night, Me, who would fain have blessed thee wi

ing in his place, he sat by the seaweed of the beach from the dawn of day with the direst hurt beneath his breast of mighty

t has seen the gray wolf. I fell in love with thee, maiden, I, on the day when first thou earnest, with my mother, and dids

and it is plain that I, too, seem to be somebody! ” 241 Having, one day , in such wise, sung, Polyphemus wandered, beside

thfully obeyed these directions. Returning to the grove, on the ninth day , he found that a swarm of bees had taken possessi

ent prophecy that had warned him against a son of Jove who should one day rob him of his golden apples, attempted to thrust

m and virtue, Linus in music. Unfortunately the latter attempted, one day , to chastise Hercules; whereupon the pupil killed

effected between the combatants by the gods of Olympus; and from that day forth Apollo and Hercules remained true friends,

ivers Alpheüs and Peneüs through them purified them thoroughly in one day . His seventh labor was the overthrow of the Creta

hould aid him in the contest to come. Accordingly, when the momentous day was arrived, Jason, with calmness, encountered th

Minotaur, a monster, bull-headed and man-bodied, remained, for many a day , a terror to Crete, — till finally a famous artif

nd mine, that mine eyes may see the propitious sign and know the glad day that restores thee safe to me.” Fig. 91. Head

son, imprecated the vengeance of Neptune upon him. As Hippolytus, one day , drove his chariot along the shore, a sea-monster

th Folding his arms around them, thus he spake: “My children, on this day ye cease to have A father. All my days are spent

f the famous poem, The Wedding of Peleus and Thetis: — … Now, on the day foreset, Aurora forsaking the ocean344 Crimsons

he stream, the prolific breath of the West Wind, Warming, woos to the day , all such in bunches assorted Bore he. Flattered

st above sires in the offspring of promise, Hear with thine ears this day what oracles fall from the Sisters Chanting the f

two brothers to enjoy the boon of life alternately, each spending one day under the earth and the next in the heavenly abod

Troy, in a manner themselves besieged, within their rampart. The next day after the unsuccessful embassy to Achilles, anoth

arth! deliver thou Achaia’s host from darkness; clear the skies; Give day ; and, since thy sovereign will is such, Destructi

nce thy sovereign will is such, Destruction with it; but, oh, give us day !”353 Jupiter heard the prayer and dispersed the

g it, descended to earth and laid it at Achilles’ feet at the dawn of day . The Reconciliation of Agamemnon and Achilles. —

ing that Achilles lives, he doubtless still rejoices, hoping that one day he shall see thy face again. But me no comfort ch

n of the sun there was no pause or abatement of their grief. The next day , preparations were made for the funeral solemniti

the city. They did so with songs and triumphal acclamations, and the day closed with festivity. In the night the armed men

n the height; To hear each others whispered speech; Eating the Lotos, day by day, To watch the crisping ripples on the beac

eight; To hear each others whispered speech; Eating the Lotos, day by day , To watch the crisping ripples on the beach, And

ms below the barren peak: The Lotos blows by every winding creek: All day the wind breathes low with mellower tone: Thro’ e

crew summoned from the shore, and the whole magnificently entertained day after day, till Ulysses seemed to have forgotten

ned from the shore, and the whole magnificently entertained day after day , till Ulysses seemed to have forgotten his native

Charybdis, was a gulf, nearly on a level with the water. Thrice each day the water rushed into a frightful chasm, and thri

the king, had a dream sent by Minerva, reminding her that her wedding day might not be far distant, and that it would be bu

arents to tell them what was on her mind; not alluding to her wedding day , but finding other reasons equally good. Her fath

elf. The king then dismissed his guests, notifying them that the next day he would call them to council to consider what ha

nish a ship in which his guest might return to his own land. The next day the assembled chiefs confirmed the promise of the

other in loading the illustrious stranger with costly gifts. The next day Ulysses set sail in the Phæacian vessel, and in a

ke her choice among the suitors when the web was finished. During the day she worked at it, but in the night, she undid the

the day she worked at it, but in the night, she undid the work of the day . Fig. 105. Penelope at the loom. [Vase picture

trove with Gods. The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round

e descent to Avernus is easy; the gate of Pluto stands open night and day ; but to retrace one’s steps and return to the upp

tory should bear the name of Cape Palinurus, — and so it does to this day . Leaving Palinurus consoled by these words, they

owers, the vessel shot rapidly up the stream. About the middle of the day they came in sight of the scattered buildings of

se glory reached the skies. By chance the old king, Evander, was that day celebrating annual solemnities in honor of Hercul

rewn on the grass and among the wagons. The laws of war at that early day did not forbid a brave man to slay a sleeping foe

nt by licking the hoar frost and salt from the ice. While she was one day licking the salt stones there appeared at first t

stones there appeared at first the hair of some being, on the second day his whole head, and on the third the entire form

stined to become the abode of man. Odin then regulated the periods of day and night and the seasons by placing in the heave

are the ravens Hugin and Munin, — Thought and Memory, — who fly every day over the whole world, and on their return report

he heroes are not feasting they amuse themselves with fighting. Every day they ride out into the court or field and fight u

many heroes in Valhalla that he may gloriously meet the giants in the day of the final contest; he therefore sends to every

flowers, and the fairies of Elfheim. She is the goddess of love. Her day is Friday. Bragi is the god of poetry, and his s

. He requires less sleep than a bird, and sees by night as well as by day a hundred miles around him. So, acute is his ear

t ignorant that these monsters were maturing, and that they would one day bring much evil upon gods and men. So Odin deemed

space of one winter. But if anything remained unfinished on the first day of summer, he should forfeit the recompense agree

advice of Loki was conceded. He accordingly set to work on the first day of winter, and during the night let his horse dra

htered Thrym and all his followers. Thor’s visit to Jötunheim. — One day Thor, with his servant Thialfi, and accompanied b

appen. A terrible groaning was heard during the night, and at dawn of day Thor went out and found lying near him a huge gia

were hard put to it to keep up with him. So they travelled the whole day , and at dusk, Skrymir chose a place for them to p

ey passed the night there in good cheer. The next morning at break of day , Thor and his companions dressed themselves and p

kept the bridge asked him his name and lineage, telling him that the day before five bands of dead persons had ridden over

ard, together with their habitations, would be destroyed. The fearful day of destruction will not, however, be without warn

The generations pass, the ages grow, And bring us nearer to the final day When from the south shall march the fiery band An

rth, the gods in heaven, Who live, and with their eyes shall see that day ! The day will come, when fall shall Asgard’s towe

gods in heaven, Who live, and with their eyes shall see that day! The day will come, when fall shall Asgard’s towers, And O

I, what were I, when these can nought avail? Yet, doubtless, when the day of battle comes, And the two hosts are marshall’d

mes less alien to a spirit mild, In new re-covered seats, the happier day .” He spake; and the fleet Hermod thus replied: —

t Hermod thus replied: — “Brother, what seats are these, what happier day ? Tell me, that I may ponder it when gone.” And t

all lands, On the foemen, on the death-heap his deeds had piled that day . To Hiordis, after Sigmund’s death, was born Sig

strange.” But, apparently, all went well till the young queens, one day , bathing in the Water of the Niblungs, fell into

all these, and my love, they lie In the hollow hand of Odin till the day of the world go by. I have done and I may not und

ourtly care; Never met friend or kinsman reception half so fair. One day at the hour of vespers certain knights proved the

in fame.” So began the altercation. It attained its climax the same day , when each queen attempted to take precedence of

ad been suborned by Brunhild to the baleful deed, bided his time. One day , when heated by running, Gunther, Hagen, and Sieg

ning. The relation is not very plausible between the awakening of the day and the awakening of thought ( Max Müller, as abo

740: — “From morn to noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer’s day ; and with the setting sun Dropped from the zenith

eans either “goddess of the bright heaven,” or “goddess of the bright day .” She is frequently identified with Artemis, Heca

Plain, see § 48. Illustrative: Milton, Comus, “Now the gilded car of day ,” etc. § 45. Ceres. — Illustrative. — Pope, Moral

eping. Preller finds here “the wedlock of heaven and earth, the first day that it thunders in March.” Exactly why, might be

turned to stone. The burial was, accordingly, performed on the tenth day after the massacre, by Jupiter and the other gods

g, ‘Twixt death and epics passed his time, Scribbling and killing all day long; Like Phœbus in his car at ease, Now warblin

: 268-275; P. R. 2: 187; Lord de Tabley (Wm. Lancaster), Daphne, “All day long, In devious forest, Grove, and fountain side

a dull, grovelling, caterpillar existence, to flutter in the blaze of day and feed on the most fragrant and delicate produc

ohn Lyly, Play of Mydas, especially the song, “Sing to Apollo, god of day ”; Shakespeare, M. of Venice 3: 2 (casket scene);

pine is restored to her mother. Spring leads her back to the light of day . The following, from Aubrey de Vere’s Introductio

ōx, dew) which reflects the shining rays of the sun. The “head of the day ,” or the rising sun, Cephalus, is also wooed by A

th would, then, signify the paling of the moon before the approaching day . Hardly so probable as the former explanation. I

de on St. Cecilia’s Day. § 114. Interpretative. — Tithonus may be the day in its ever-recurring circuit of morning freshnes

Shepherdess); Landor, Pan and Pitys, “Pan led me to a wood the other day ,” etc.; Landor, Cupid and Pan; R. Buchanan, Pan;

into springs ( Rapp in Roscher, — and Max Müller). At the end of the day , falling from heaven, this knight of the sun walk

Athens; Milton, Il Pens.; Richard Barnfield, Song: “As it fell upon a day ”; Thomson, Hymn on the Seasons; M. Arnold, The Ne

in the Lay of the Nibelungs: beings that dwell far from the light of day ; or that, possessing the riches of mortality, mar

s or Har: son of Osiris and Isis, who, as the strong young sun of the day , avenges his father, the sun of the underworld. H

is sons, 49, 231, 244; Com. §§ 59, 132 (5)- Hellespont, 244. Hem′era, day , sister of Æther and daughter of Erebus and Night

; meaning born near Lake Tritonis, or head-born, or born on the third day . Tri′ton, 86, 87; the Tritons, 97, 222, 342. Triv

Barnfield, Richard, 1574-1627. Com. § 151, Song, “As it fell upon a day ” (Philomela). Bartsch, K. F. Der Nibelunge Nôt,

olonged, provided another died willingly in his stead. When the fatal day came, Alcestis, the wife of Admetus, devoted hers

nd rhetoric; and the nine Muses were subject to him. He regulated the day by guiding the chariot of the sun. Ques. What el

Phæton immediately prayed that he might be allowed to drive, for one day only, the chariot of the Sun. Apollo tried to dis

e? Ans. No; he was most skillful in the art of thieving. On the very day of his birth, he stole some cattle from King Adme

′les], however, appeared on the field, and changed the fortune of the day . The Trojans were routed in their turn, and Memno

ullus Hostilius, king of Rome. In early times the festival lasted one day , but after Julius Cæsar, it was prolonged to thre

the brazen man Talus, who passed around the island three times every day , to guard it from invasion. For himself, Vulcan f

tality by taking care of his young son, whom she nourished during the day with celestial food; but in the night, she covere

, and humble the haughty Niobe. This they effected by slaying, in one day , all the children of the unhappy queen. Her sons

fire to this magnificent building. This event took place on the very day on which Alexander the Great was born. The temple

r with regard to the color of his sails, and Ægeus, who watched every day for his son’s return, saw the black sails in the

er. It was arranged, therefore, that they should live every alternate day . Ques. What Constellation is named from these br

eus married the beautiful nymph Eurydice [Eury′dice]; but on the very day of their nuptials she was stung in the foot by a

tenance and dripping garments. She hastened to the strand at break of day , and gazing over the waters, beheld the body of C

oin in a hunt and destroy the common foe. There came on the appointed day , Castor and Pollux, Theseus and his friend Pirith

of Meleager, indignant that a woman should bear off the honors of the day , snatched them rudely from her. Meleager forgot,

immortal, and for that purpose anointed him with ambrosia during the day , and laid him in the fire at night. The fears of

erds. They were, however, so pressed by famine that they ventured one day , in the absence of Ulysses, to slay a number of t

eceived them for a long time, plying her needle diligently during the day , and undoing the greater part of her work at nigh

line. The conditions were accepted: and it was on the very eve of the day appointed for the contest, that Ulysses landed in

e obeyed, and the goddess contrived that he should arrive on the same day with his father, and meet him in the hut of Eumæu

[Asty′anax], the son of Hector, were permitted to live, he would one day avenge his father’s death, and raise Troy from it

chises also recounted to Æneas the glorious deeds which they were one day to perform. In this passage, Virgil takes occasio

. It is believed that the terrible defeat the Romans suffered on that day was owing, in great part, to the discouragement o

ome of these last superstitions prevail, more or less, to the present day . Chapter XXXIX. Oracles. Oracles — Oracle

r labor. Apollo promised that he would recompense them on the seventh day , and bade them live happily during the interval.

te that three couriers were received by Philip of Macedon on the same day , each being the bearer of joyful tidings. The fir

as quite open above, and the dramas were always acted in the light of day , beneath the bright canopy of a southern heaven.

were subject to heavy fines if they failed to appear on the appointed day . When such an entertainment was about to take pla

bout to take place, the people hastened to the theatre at the dawn of day , that they might secure good seats, as the perfor

ly hour. There were three or four distinct representations during the day , divided by short intervals of repose. During the

, so that twelve complete dramas were sometimes performed on the same day . Ques. Were these theatres free to all? Ans. No

d infants, many the first-born of noble parents, were consumed in one day on the altar of Moloch. Ques. How was this god r

e Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer’s day ; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran pur

strongly inculcated. It would be well for the Chinese of the present day , if their conduct corresponded to the maxims of t

arth. On his shoulders sit the ravens, Hugin and Munin, who fly every day over the whole world, and on their return report

imes written? Ans. Woden; and from this comes the name of the fourth day of the week, Woden’s day, changed to Wednesday.

; and from this comes the name of the fourth day of the week, Woden’s day , changed to Wednesday. Ques. Has Odin any other

ey feasted on the flesh of the boar Schrimnir, which was cooked every day , and became whole again every night. The goat Hei

were not ignorant that these monsters were growing up, and would one day bring much evil upon gods and men. Odin, therefor

es, would be destroyed, together with their habitations. This fearful day will not be without its forerunners. First will c

or Tuisto) was worshipped by the Saxons as the god of war. The third day of the week takes its name from this divinity.

er efficacy, it should be gathered in February or March, on the sixth day of the moon. As soon as the mistletoe was found g

hite heifers were instantly offered in sacrifice, and the rest of the day was spent in rejoicing. In like manner, the samol

mbly, but the result was favorable to the missionaries, and from that day may be dated the rapid though peaceful decline of

e have been long forgotten but the custom of lighting fires upon that day , still prevails. The bonfires of St. John’s Eve (

ancient Druid festival. Ques. What rites were observed on the first day of November? Ans. The day was consecrated to the

ues. What rites were observed on the first day of November? Ans. The day was consecrated to the Moon, (called in Ireland S

ll attach to these remains of ancient paganism. Almost within our own day , many an Irish peasant has made his scanty harves

due to the divinity whom he was supposed to represent. When the fatal day arrived, the victim, who had been trained to perf

d no Aztec noble would venture to entertain his friends on a festival day without placing before them this loathsome food.

k. Euripides, a Greek tragedian, was born in 480 B. C., on the day rendered famous by the victory of Salamis. After

ed for his satires, in which he attacked the vices and follies of his day , not sparing the emperors themselves where their

. He rose to his studies at two in the morning, and during the entire day , whether in the bath, at table, or sitting in his

ng inquired of him concerning the nature of God, the poet requested a day to deliberate on the subject. When Hiero repeated

erature, in poetry, in war, or in dominion.” The reality of an every day world has now set its seal upon all that delighte

the mountains, nor the Nereid steer     Her way among the waves when day is done. Shadows nor shape remain —” Introduc

nt that he assigned to each element its place. To create the light of day , he repelled all the dark and thick clouds, and t

and by his power he threw them down an abyss, into which the light of day could never penetrate. This tyranny, however, onl

beguiled; Nor thought the wretched god of aught to fear, Nor knew the day of his disgrace was near; Invincible remains his

scythe and with his wings, our eyes are familiar, as, to the present day , he is never drawn without these accompaniments.

rks the quick and certain round Of year on year, and finds that every day Brings its grey hair, or bears a leaf away From t

or a season, heaven seems hell, So thy worn form pursues me night and day , Smiling reproach. Wise art thou, firm and good,

rms around her head. Next Hermes, artful god, must form her mind, One day to torture, and the next be kind: With manners al

ace distempers silent stray, And multiply their strength by night and day ! ’Twas Jove’s decree they should in silence rove,

The life that hangs upon a summer’s breath!         “Father of rosy day !     No more thy clouds of incense rise;     But

laurel. Apollo took a branch and formed it into a crown, and to this day the laurel remains one of the attributes of the G

haeton demanded of him to drive his chariot (that of the sun) for one day . In vain Phœbus represented the impropriety of hi

very little. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img048a One day when the Muses were distant from their place of a

her vengeance fell so heavily on Actæon, who following the chase one day with all the ardour of his profession, unhappily

ure Diana, with her nymphs, was enjoying, in the heat of the summer’s day , the luxury of bathing. Horrified by this violati

o the forests and brought forth a son, with whom she dwelt, until one day she was induced to enter a temple at Lycaen (wher

he seven wonders of the world, but was burned by Erostratus, the same day that Alexander the Great was born. This madman ha

itful Theseus fills her mind; For him alone she grieves the live-long day , Sickens in thought, and pines herself away. …………

hough warned by her not to speak of their intimacy, boasted of it one day at a feast, and was struck by thunder as a punish

ht, Hurled headlong downward from the ethereal height; Tossed all the day in rapid circles round; Nor till the sun descende

lements: from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer’s day ; and with the setting sun, Dropped from the zenit

be sung,     Even into thine own soft-couched ear: Surely I dreamt to day , or did I see     The winged Psyche with awakened

lance lay, Of him the temple’s lord, it shone     More beautiful than day . “It was a sleeping child, as fair     As the fi

f, that she received the greatest honour. On the evening of the first day , there was a race with torches, in which men on f

ve, supine, flagitious acts survey And brook the furies of the daring day ? For mortal men, celestial powers engage, And god

stealing, A night watching and door waylaying thief.” Shelley. The day following his birth he offered an early proof of

Admetus which Apollo tended. “The babe was born at the first peep of day , He began playing on the lyre at noon, And the sa

then-mythology_1842_img110 “Hermes with gods and men, even from that day Mingled and wrought the latter much annoy, And li

oud, Love wakening dance, or feast of solemn state, A joy by night or day , for those endowed With art and wisdom, who inter

is mother; at the age of fifteen, he began to travel, and bathing one day in a fountain in Cana, excited the passion of Sal

g with Hercules, a sacrifice which was to take place on the following day , caused Omphale and the hero to seek separate apa

k Tempe lay In Pelion’s shadow, outgrowing     The light of the dying day ,                      Speeded by my sweet pipings

vourite of Jupiter, succeeded to her office.             “’Twas on a day When the immortals at their banquet lay,         

orrow, no kindness, e’er came like a kiss On my heart in its desolate day , such as this ‌And I yearned at his cheeks in my

t hue; In the woods the breath of song                      Night and day Floats with leafy scents along — Where the boughs

r of Chaos. From her union with her brother Erebus, she gave birth to day and light: she is called by some of the poets, th

ock was offered to her, as the bird which proclaims the coming of the day . She is drawn mounted on a chariot, and covered w

r her arms, one of which is dark like night, and the other light like day . “Night, when like perfumes that have slept All

other light like day. “Night, when like perfumes that have slept All day within the wild flower’s heart, Steal out the tho

art: And voices we have pined to hear, Through many a long and lonely day , Come back upon the dreaming ear, From grave land

, unheard amidst their glades                         Till the bright day is done.                         But in the huma

cock does there his wings display Nor with his horny bill provoke the day ; Nor watchful dogs, nor the more wakeful geese, D

de to them, their shrines were crowned with garlands, and besides one day in every month set apart for their homage, their

wave, the murmuring of the breeze; Still slowly passed the melancholy day , And still the stranger wist not where to stray.

ver’s sparkling eyes, So flamed the virgin’s breast. For chance, that day , had with uncommon grace; Adorned the lovely yout

the the object of his expedition. “Impatient for the wonders of the day , Aurora drives the loitering stars away. Now Mars

ason lived a melancholy and unhappy life; and, as he was reposing one day by the side of the ship which had borne him to Co

n offspring, with all the attributes of a fury, and was regarded as a day of solemn mourning. “O haggard queen! to Athens

ppointed to guard some golden apples, given by Jupiter to Juno on the day of their marriage. Ignorant of the precise situat

youth did with new transports play, And crowned his toils in empyrean day . Yet did he oft, though in her arms he lay, And t

ul of what an oracle declared, That the dark womb of time concealed a day , Which should, disclosed, the gloomy gold betray:

untrue — This ever has been woman’s fate, to love, To know one summer day of happiness, And then to be most wretched!     L

.     “There was one a leader crowned,     And armed for Greece that day ; But the falchions made no sound     On his gleam

so lest her steps might stray, And gladsome of the glimpse of dawning day , He stopped — looked back — (what cannot love per

men, and oh! the hated light, What did you force me back to curse the day , To curse my friends, to blast with this dark bre

with Cassandra to Argos, where the sad prediction was fulfilled. One day as he came from the bath, Clytemnestra gave him a

laws. Iphig. Father! we must not let you here condemn; Not, were the day less joyful: recollect We have no wicked here; no

tranquil realm, nor envies their’s above. No change have we, not even day for night, Nor spring for summer,                

above? Unworthy am I then to join in prayer? If, on the last, or any day before, ‌Of my brief course on earth, I did amis

tter to deceive them, she undid at night that which she worked in the day , so that when Ulysses arrived, she was no nearer

iter that neither might outlive the other, they both died on the same day , and their bodies were changed into trees, and pl

s, loved Galatea, one of the beautiful race of the sea-nymphs. Day by day , did the giant sit by the side of a fountain, neg

astic ardour of youth, looked forward to a long life of delights. The day to him was a dull blank, and was employed in watc

far west, where Summer-day was dying?                 Did’st thou, as day by day,                 Rolled heavily away, And

t, where Summer-day was dying?                 Did’st thou, as day by day ,                 Rolled heavily away, And left th

              Fix’d on the starry skies, Wait feverishly for each new day to waken?                 Trusting some glorious

” Mrs. Norton. Numa Pompilius. This hero was born on the very day that Romulus laid the foundation of the Roman cit

   It had its birth, so sages say,                 Upon the memorable day             When Parvati presumed to lay,        

renewed this bloody ceremony, which was to last nine days, and every day they offered up nine victims, whether men or anim

towards the altar on which the sacred fire was kept burning night and day . It was surrounded by all sorts of iron and braze

icating liquors were then given him, to sustain his courage until the day of the solemnity arrived, when he paid the penalt

is false divinity, and in order to receive the crowd of pilgrims, who day by day assembled, it was found necessary to maint

e divinity, and in order to receive the crowd of pilgrims, who day by day assembled, it was found necessary to maintain as

strongly tend to aid. “Pyramids,” says an able writer of the present day , “not inferior to the Egyptian, exist in many par

aturn. At first, this festival, called the Saturnalia, lasted but one day ; its duration was afterwards extended to three, f

estival in honour of Janus, which was celebrated at Rome on the first day of the year. On the first day of the year, the Co

ich was celebrated at Rome on the first day of the year. On the first day of the year, the Consuls entered upon their offic

ere entertained with spectacles. New enterprises were dated from this day , but they commenced after it: for on the day itse

ses were dated from this day, but they commenced after it: for on the day itself, business was suspended, quarrels were for

friendly intercourse. This agreeable mode of spending the New-year’s day has been much followed by Christian nations even

a festival in honour of him? How did the Romans celebrate New-year’s day ? When was the temple of Janus shut? What has been

ase, and the restorer of health. He is often called Phœbus the god of day ; and was supposed to be the patron of poetry, mus

e son of Apollo and the nymph Clymene. Epaphus, a son of Jupiter, one day told Phaeton that Apollo was not his father. The

eton petitioned to be allowed to drive the chariot of the sun for one day . Apollo in vain assured him that he could not gov

         From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer’s day ; and with the setting sun, Drops from the zenith,

ud this gracious promise was uttered, “henceforth, summer and winter, day and night, seed-time and harvest shall never fail

light. Iliad, Book I. The heathen deities, like mortals, had their day and night.                             The radia

the assembly dispersed to different places, where they concluded the day in feasting and mirth. The most celebrated statue

panions as lovely as herself, she delighted in gathering flowers. One day as Proserpine, with the daughters of Oceanus, was

the seven wonders of the world. This was burnt to the ground the very day on which Alexander the Great was born. A man name

mant away.     Here rose an iron tower: before the gate, By night and day a watchful Fury sate, The pale Tisiphone;5 a robe

unsettled life, after he was separated from Medea; and that going one day to the water-side to look at the Argo, a beam fel

grown to be a man, she thought proper to send him to Ægeus. Æthra one day , previously to the departure of Theseus, took him

t of a large number, and they were doomed to slavery or death. On the day when the choice was made, all Athens was in tears

et; when he has grown to maturity, which is the noon or middle of the day of life, he walks on his feet only: and, in the e

y neighbour’s wife,” and often stole each other’s wives. Aristæus one day ran after Eurydice; she fled from him, and as she

come to upper air. Orpheus thus satisfied, proceeded to the region of day , and Eurydice followed; but before he had set his

nce, and that they might be alive and dead alternately, whether for a day each, or for six months, the mythology does not d

er at once deplores, His wasted vigour and exhausted stores. But one day while some of his men were gone to the shore for

our injury; that we should live with our friends as if they might one day become our enemies, and that health is the felici

r the worship of Odin, and sacrifices were offered to him. The fourth day of the week was consecrated to him, and called Wo

The fourth day of the week was consecrated to him, and called Wodin’s day , now corrupted into Wednesday. The supposed actio

hipped by most of the German tribes. To her was consecrated the sixth day of the week; which still bears her name, Frea’s d

ecrated the sixth day of the week; which still bears her name, Frea’s day , or Friday. She was attended by Fulla her handmai

r favourable winds, refreshing rains, and fruitful seasons. The fifth day of the week was dedicated to him, and called afte

y of the week was dedicated to him, and called after his name, Thor’s day or Thursday. The principal of the inferior deitie

he birds; seeing a hundred leagues around him, by night as well as by day ; hearing the grass growing on the ground, and the

ling flood. Dark to dwell in wo repining.     Far beyond the path of day . In that bower, where serpents twining,     Loath

y the Scandinavian mythology makes birds of the morning celebrate the day when “God saw all that he had made, and behold it

d regulator of time; and therefore, he was represented as the star of day . Anubis was the faithful companion of Osiris and

east, at his creating voice; When straight beyond the golden verge of day , Night showed the horrors of her distant reign, W

believe it. Some of the Hindus believe in the Metempsychosis to this day . The Mexicans had thirteen principal gods, beside

e festivals, and the care of the mythological paintings. Four times a day , the Mexicans offered incense to their idols, and

opagus, that he might give an account of his doctrines; but from that day , the old dark superstition vanished slowly away b

ibes the ceremony nearly thus: “Upon the 2lst of July, being a clear day , the ground upon which the temple was to be raise

were called auspices; and when unfavourable, portents. An auspicious day is one that promises some happiness. We say a por

grateful, that the revelation in which we are instructed in this our day exalts us to the higher excellence of Christian f

d from fears and error. What were soothsayers? What is an auspicious day , etc.? What was the lucky or unlucky flight of bi

od gave to Moses. The Hebrews had a holy Sabbath; the heathens had no day of rest, and of instruction. The Hebrews had true

amb. Ripe corn (barley) was also offered at the Passover. On the last day of the Passover was held a solemn assembly of the

even course becomes an indifferent arbiter between the night and the day .» Perhaps the idea was suggested to Sidney by Psa

that Helios, the Hindoo that Surya, guided the course of the sun each day . When, therefore, we shall in future speak of god

e. It is the opinion of one of the ablest mythologists of the present day , that there is a certain stage in the culture of

Samian named Elpis, having made a voyage to Africa, saw as he was one day on the seashore a huge lion approaching him with

s long as the ship stayed on the coast the grateful lion brought each day a portion of the produce of his hunting, and Elpi

red by a lake, which was drained by the Jinns (i. e. Genii) in half a day 23. But, as the writer from whom we have taken th

of the revelations made to man by the true God ; and, at the present day , Görres, Creuzer and others42, assigning a common

contained in Homer and Hesiod accord with the current creed of their day , and are a faithful picture of the mode of thinki

and infantile periods of society the just conceptions of the present day in geography and astronomy, give to them a degree

Tartaros was, as we have already remarked, unvisited by the light of day . It was regarded as the prison of the gods, and n

ide-shining). His office was to give light to men and gods during the day . In the Odyssey, when Helios ends his diurnal car

ct that men, seeing the sun rise in the east and set in the west each day , were naturally led to inquire how his return to

wing lines in his poem named Nanno. Helios is doomed to labour every day  ; And rest there never is for him Or for his hors

outh instantly demanded permission to guide the solar chariot for one day , to prove himself there by the undoubted progeny

chariot through the sky while he was reposing after the toils of the day . There is, however, no allusion in Homer or Hesio

Zeus the rearer of children, whom she has brought to see the light of day . This passage is, however, plainly an interpolati

l in his honour named the Kronia, which was celebrated on the twelfth day of the month Hecatombæôn, i. e. in the end of Jul

visited or were summoned to it355. Eôs, Helios, and Selene rose every day out of the Ocean-stream, and drove in their chari

ons from the streams of Ocean, and on nectar which an eagle drew each day with his beak from a rock389. This legend was gra

d in death as in life. Their prayer was granted, and as they were one day standing before the temple, they were suddenly ch

th. The calmness and stillness of evening succeeding the toils of the day , the majesty of the sun sinking as it were to res

fore an obvious one484. Finally, the analogy of the conclusion of the day and the setting of the sun with the close of life

bably supposed to be himself the agent in removing from the realms of day those who were to be his subjects. Pindar speaks

ive legend, Zeus, who had long secretly loved his sister, watched one day when she was out walking alone near Mount Thronax

made an offering of cakes to appease it. They then departed, and next day the rude ignorant people of the isle, in their se

h573. He gave to Minôs, king of Crete, the brazen man Talôs, who each day compassed his island three times, to guard it fro

n his phorminx or lyre, while the Muses sang611. Thus they the whole day long till set of sun Feasted ; nor wanted any one

ich bears his name631. The latter, a youth of Amyclæ, was playing one day at discus-throwing with the god. Apollo made a gr

cadian nymph, and a companion of the huntress-goddess. As she was one day returning from the chase she came to the clear st

-state in which it had previously existed, fluttering in the blaze of day , and feeding on the most fragrant and sweetest pr

wing prank is also laid to the charge of this sly deity. Watching one day his mother and her sisters when they went to bath

d Daphnis was the offspring of this god and one of the nymphs845. One day Hermes beheld Herse, the daughter of Cecrops, amo

relates to her mother the whole story of her abduction. They pass the day in delightful converse : And joy they mutually r

ertile isle of Sicily, which was given by Zeus to his daughter on her day of unveiling (ἀνακαλυπρια), that is, at her marri

ree seasons into which the ancient Greeks divided the year964. As the day was similarly divided965, they came to be regarde

is said1002 by Hera of Achilleus, that the gods will protect him that day , but that hereafter he will suffer ‘what Aisa [a

s by a mortal mother. The vintage is in wine-countries at the present day , like haymaking and harvest-home in England, a ti

onies more immoral or indecent are celebrated in India at the present day , than polished Athens performed in the Phrygio-Gr

dia, and devoted to the service of Artemis : as she was returning one day from the chase, and passed by Mount Lycæon, Pan b

ame trees where they stood, at the temple of the nymphs ; and to this day , says Nicander, a voice as of lamentation is hear

ntry. He built a temple to Apollo ; at which when Dryope appeared one day , the Hamadryades carried her away and concealed h

fisherman, it was said1271, of Anthedôn in Bœotia, and observing one day the fish which he had caught and thrown on the gr

re not improbable that the theory of some mythologists of the present day may be the true one ; namely, that the two Gorgon

of the food of the people of the north coast of Africa at the present day . Κύκλωπϵς. Cyclopes. When Odysseus left th

And one as keeper of the snowy sheep ; For near the paths are of the day and night. The ancients explained this by the cu

blind prophet Teiresias. Accordingly they left Ææa rather late in the day , as it would appear, and impelled by a favouring

down to the water : but beneath, ‘divine Charybdis’ three times each day absorbs and regorges the dark water. It is much m

the west than Sicily, for it could not have been more than the third day after leaving Ææa that Odysseus arrived at it.

in an easterly or southeasterly direction, he came on the eighteenth day within sight of Scheria, the country of the Phæac

ft from Ogygia, the isle of Scheria appeared to him on the eighteenth day ‘like a shield in the dark sea’1421 ; and when th

by a strong northerly wind for two days and nights, and on the third day he got on shore in that island1422. The princess

cians had conveyed Rhadamanthys to Eubœa1425 and returned on the same day , might lead to the supposition of Scheria being t

ragrance, the melody of groves was poured forth more rapturously, the day closed in joy, the morning awoke to renewed delig

e race who still possess it. This race, says Hesiod, will never cease day or night from toil and misery ; the gods will giv

ng on his liver, which grew every night as much as it had lost in the day . After a long interval of time, however, he conse

d the inferior animals, while man was left naked and helpless. As the day for their emerging from the earth was at hand, Pr

s divine herdsman. Apollo also obtained from the Fates that, when the day appointed for the life of Admetos to terminate sh

, he might defer it if any one would die in his place. When the fatal day arrived Admetos implored his aged father and moth

al, he saw the accomplishment of the oracle, and sending for him next day , asked him what he would do, if he had the power,

o purge away what he had inherited of mortal from his father ; and by day she anointed him with ambrosia. But Peleus watche

hat Hippodameia bore Polypœtes to Peirithoös, the son of Zeus, on the day that he drove the ‘shaggy Wild-men’ from Pelion t

ng the wild beasts, and thus protecting the cattle of her father. One day as she was engaged in combat with a lion, Apollo

in pursuit of the wild beasts that haunted Mount Cithærôn. One sultry day , as he rambled alone, he chanced to surprise Arte

ined by the wild beasts. Having wandered over many lands, he came one day to where some wolves were devouring the thighs of

ffspring of the Deity and the Moon, may then be the Sun who goes each day his round, and whose eye searches out all things1

t Merovingians, or still more resembling that of Japan at the present day . Welcker's1683 views are not very dissimilar. He

they asked a reward of the god. He promised to give it on the seventh day , desiring them meanwhile to live cheerful and hap

s. The cause of Eurystheus’ obtaining this power was as follows : The day on which Alcmena was to be delivered in Thebes, Z

in exultation, announced to the gods that a man of his race was that day to see the light, who would rule over all his nei

dess brought on a premature labour, and Eurystheus came to light that day , while she checked the parturition of Alcmena, an

a sacrifice, Heracles begged of him to reserve it till the thirtieth day , saying that if he should then return victorious

on his shoulders, he proceeded toward Mycenæ, and coming on the last day of the appointed period to Molorchos’ abode, he f

aught and bound him, and then took him to Mycenæ. To clear out in one day all the dung in the stables of Augeas king of Eli

but offered for a tenth of his herds to clean out his stables in one day . Augeas agreed, not thinking the thing possible ;

d, by whose daughter Astyoche he became the father of Tlepolemos. One day at the table of Œneus, as Eunomos the son of Arch

e very reverse. Elsewhere he states the genuine Athenian creed of his day . “Neither a Pelops nor a Danaos, nor a Cadmos, no

Atthis the daughter of Cranaos. Others relate, that Athena coming one day to the workshop of Hephæstos to get some arms, th

by the Dawn1823. The name of Procris seems also to refer to the early day (πρωΐ). Ὠρϵιθυῐα. Oreithyia. As Oreithyia

and evil-doers. We also find that Theseus was worshiped on the eighth day of the month, which was the sacred day of Poseidô

us was worshiped on the eighth day of the month, which was the sacred day of Poseidôn1861. There seems to have been a disti

the head of the Gorgon. The king said nothing at the time ; but next day , when the rest brought each his horse, he desired

virtue. She long concealed her shame ; but at length, as she was one day bathing with her divine mistress, the alteration

been separated from his mother and reared among men, meeting her one day in the woods, was on the point of slaying her, wh

ost distinguished pugilist, Castôr the most expert charioteer, of his day . Hermes bestowed on them the fleet steeds Phlogio

nd Athena, or of dividing them with his brother, and for them to live day and day about in heaven and under the earth. Poly

a, or of dividing them with his brother, and for them to live day and day about in heaven and under the earth. Polydeukes c

other form of Selene ; the Adorner is a very appropriate term for the day , whose light adorns all nature ; and nothing can

rned ; but he saved and reared the young ones. As he was sleeping one day , these serpents, which were now grown to full siz

when the beasts came out to feed, and to sleep in a cavern during the day  ; and hence he was supposed to be always asleep20

king it back with her, concealed it in the temple of Athena. The next day Thyestes presented himself to the king of Sicyôn,

ephæstos, or to Europa by Zeus, who compassed the isle thrice in each day to prevent the landing of enemies. His mode of de

ased, and often chid her, but to no purpose. At length, observing one day Oriôn wading through the sea with his head just a

ted the oracle, and was directed to invite the greatest heroes of the day to share in the dangers and glories of the voyage

cheered them, and prayed for their happy return2154. At the close of day they had reached the mouth of the bay of Pagasæ.

ody, shield, and spear. The virtue of this salve would last an entire day , and protect alike against fire and steel. She fu

, they disembarked, and dragging their vessel along came on the sixth day to the country of the Long-lived (Macrobii), to w

Ancæos steered for the isle of Circe, which they reached on the third day . Leaving it, they entered the strait of Tartessus

from himself. He prayed to Zeus to give him a sign, and the following day he found the Zeus-fallen Palladion lying before h

k of provisions was nearly run out, and they were obliged to pass the day in endeavouring to catch fish to support them ; w

ried him homewards ; and he arrived in his native country on the very day that Orestes was giving the funeral feast for his

m, from which they were obliged to seek refuge on shore. On the third day , the weather clearing, they put again to sea, and

lian religion it is scarcely possible to assign ; even at the present day Italy yields to Spain in the number, variety and

ated on his maple throne looked for the rising of the sun. The orb of day was just wholly emerged above the horizon, when a

st her lightnings2299. It was named Quinquatrus as being on the fifth day after the Ides2300 : the ignorance of the Romans

rence to this goddess. The first was on the 23rd of April, the second day from the Palilia. The offering was made to Jupite

econd day from the Palilia. The offering was made to Jupiter, but the day was also sacred to Venus2323. Ovid directs the me

d to Venus2323. Ovid directs the meretrices to go and worship on this day at the temple of Venus Erycina near the Colline g

August ; and here we find Jupiter and Venus again united, for on this day the Flamen Dialis, having first sacrificed a ewe-

oliday, for we are told that “a temple was dedicated to Venus on this day , and gardens are placed under her protection2324.

their own country as the centre of the earth prevails at the present day among the Chinese and the Hindoos ; it was also a

dently had it in view in the following lines : ……… The gilded car of day His glowing axle doth allay In the steep Atlantic

e of Britannia, which with their own boats they can hardly reach in a day and a night. They still see no one, but they hear

yssey (xii. 63.) would seem to say that the ambrosia was brought each day by pigeons to Olympos from the shores of Ocean in

i. 722. 511. Dionys. xii. 72. 512. Its Persian name at the present day is Taous. 513. Athen. xiv. 655. 514. Ovid, Met

ems however to be some foundation for it. A naturalist of the present day says, «This species of swan deserves the title Mu

ays of the moon and the night-damp air, after the burning heat of the day , was almost sure of a fever. The moon, both here

not how else to express it. It was the gift bestowed on the child the day it was named, which was usually the eighth day af

towed on the child the day it was named, which was usually the eighth day after the birth. See Terence, Phormio, i. 1, 12.

lides, Fr. 2. 1488. Milton runs the parallel pretty closely : What day the genial angel to our sire Brought her in naked

Sun the father of the Moon, and on the hypothesis of night preceding day , the Moon might be the mother of the Sun. Zeus-Ep

ing, κηλὰs windy, as κηλὰs cloud-portending wind, κηλὰs ἡμέρα a windy day . See Welcker, Tril. 565, note. 1827. Apollod. u

out in the place where St. Osithe was beheaded, which is seen to this day near the town of Chich.” Britannia Sacra, p. 154.

rodotus (ii. 117.) the Cypria made Alexandros reach Troy on the third day . …………………………………………………………. ϵὐαέϊ τϵ Πνϵύματι χρησ

In Italy, during the middle ages (and perhaps it is so at the present day ) the place of Juno Lucina was occupied by the Vir

Phaeton demanded of his father, to drive the chariot of light for one day . The Sun having sworn to grant whatever Phaeton s

Circe’s coast they bend their way, Circe, fair daughter of the God of day . A dangerous shore; the echoing forests rung, Wh

the seven wonders of the world. This was burnt to the ground the very day on which Alexander the Great was born. A man, nam

portals and the skies command, Involve in clouds th’ eternal gates of day , Or the dark barrier roll with ease away. The sou

r Nile. The Indians paid divine honours to the Ganges, which, to this day , is accounted sacred by the Hindoos. Oceanus and

throne, lest Neptune’s arm should lay His dark dominions open to the day , And pour in light on Pluto’s drear abodes, Abhor

glowing æther shoots a purple ray. And o’er the region pours a double day . From sky to sky th’ unwearied splendour runs, An

ough the trees, his eyes survey The streams of Po descending from the day . Here, a blest train advance along the meads, And

on of warlike women, and took prisoner Hippolyte, their queen. In one day , by turning a river through it, he cleansed the s

pples in the gardens of the Hesperides. He dragged up to the light of day , Cerberus, the triple-headed dog of the infernal

It took 220 years to finish it. It was designedly set on fire on the day that Alexander the Great was born. Third. The Mau

he moon and stars, objects next in splendour to the great luminary of day , attracted also a proportionate degree of their a

ks of Hermes ascribed to him the office of presiding over the star of day , of guiding its movements, and, consequently, of

passing the winter solstice, when his beams are as yet weak, and the day has but a short duration. He represented also tha

me. She was ranked among the ancient or elder divinities. Every third day , in each lunation, was consecrated to her; and he

ther kind of serpent was preserved in a tower, and the priests, every day , placed cakes in its chamber. It is related that

rs, or divine prototypes and ideas of all created things. The star of day , Mithras, or the friend of mankind, stood as the

east, at his creating voice; When, strait beyond the golden verge of day . Night show’d the horrors of her distant reign, W

ty; magnificent temples were built and sacrifices offered. The fourth day of the week was consecrated to him, and called Wo

The fourth day of the week was consecrated to him, and called Wodin’s day , now corrupted into Wednesday. The supposed actio

pleasure; the patroness of marriage. To her was consecrated the sixth day of the week; which still bears her name, Frea’s d

ecrated the sixth day of the week; which still bears her name, Frea’s day , or Friday. She was attended by Fulla, her handma

r favourable winds, refreshing rains, and fruitful seasons. The fifth day of the week was dedicated to him, and called afte

y of the week was dedicated to him, and called after his name, Thor’s day ; Thursday. Which were the principal of the second

world, situated towards the south; and as being destined, at the last day , to vanquish the Gods, and to give up the earth t

an a bird; seeing a hundred leagues round him, by night as well as by day ; hearing the grass growing on the ground, and the

ho had fallen in battle, enjoy their supreme felicity. They spend the day in hunting shadowy forms of wild beasts, or in co

ing flood. Dark to dwell in woe repining,     Far beyond the path of day , In that bower, where serpents twining,     Loath

e historical account of Odin? What was the name of his wife, and what day of our week is called after her? After which of t

ed after her? After which of the Scandinavian Divinities is the fifth day of the week named, and what is said of his palace

f Nations. 2. During this festival, which lasted, at first, only one day , but from the time of Julius Cæsar, three, four,

adamant away. Here rose an iron tow’r: before the gate, By night and day , a wakeful fury sate, The pale Tisiphone; a robe

offered cakes of new meal and salt, new wine and frankincense, on the day that the Roman consuls entered on their office. A

lights.” An ewe lamb and a sow were burnt on her altars on the first day of every month. Young geese, the hawk, and peacoc

ir birth; and was also called Nona Dies. When a boy entered the ninth day of his age, or when a girl reached her eighth day

y entered the ninth day of his age, or when a girl reached her eighth day , this was called the day of the purification. In

f his age, or when a girl reached her eighth day, this was called the day of the purification. Inventas, or Inventus, take

the son of Sol, begged leave to drive the chariot of the sun for one day ; but he found himself unequal to the task: the ho

of his hoof the fountain Hippocrenus, celebrated among the poets. One day when the Muses were going to Mount Parnassus to l

, because she was so rash as to prefer her own beauty to Diana’s. One day , as Actæon pursued the pleasures of the chase, he

          From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve A summer’s day ; and with the setting sun. Drops from the zenith,

e time in the nether world, he led them back to revisit the realms of day , according to the doctrine of transmigration. Mer

and, in his infancy, was entrusted to the care of the seasons. On the day of his birth, he is said to have stolen the oxen

“———— He smooth’d the sea, Dispell’d the darkness, and restor’d the day . High on the waves his azure car he guides, Its a

, Portumnus, Phorcys, Saron. Glaucus was a Bœotian fisherman. One day he perceived that the fishes recovered their stre

Earth, one was called the festival of the good goddess. On the first day of May, Vestals entered the house of the high pri

ed. His festivals called Terminalia, were always observed on the last day of the year. Milk, fruits, and cakes, were offere

rns, of the new moon; his smiling, rubicund face, of the splendour of day ; his leopard’s skin, of the starry firmament; the

re buried.” “In funeral ceremonies, they began with designating the day on which the body should be interred. The judges

adamant away. Here rose an iron tow’r: before the gate, By night and day , a wakeful fury sate, The pale Tisiphone; a robe

that frenzy which remorse figures to offenders, and which haunts them day and night, attends them both in solitude and at t

of the Furies. So was the cock, because he proclaims the approach of day . — See Fig. 42. Fig. 42. Nox. Somnus, the god

s by Jocasta. His father was informed by an oracle that he should one day be killed by his son. He therefore ordered his wi

mn rears its lofty head; Here to sev’n streets, sev’n dials count the day , And from each other catch the circling ray. Here

in marriage to Theseus. The belt was presented to Eurystheus. In one day , he cleansed the stable of Augeas, king of Elis,

nster to the upper regions. As soon as Cerberus was in the regions of day , he vomitted, and thence sprang up the poisonous

e grateful off’rings which we pay, And smile propitious on thy solemn day .” Virgil. “———— The Cleonian lion first he kil

ity by turns. Accordingly they lived and died alternately every other day , or, as some say, every other fortnight, or, acco

would not look at her, until they had both ascended to the tracts of day . On his way, he stopped to listen, in order to as

golden apples, which Juno is reported to have given to Jupiter on the day of their nuptials. The place of their residence,

the Thebais, were named after him. He was represented as the star of day and the regulator of time. When his father was va

east, at his creating voice; When straight beyond the golden verge of day , Night show’d the horrors of her distant reign, W

prayed, kneeling or prostrate. They offered incense four times every day to their idols, and were all furnished with cense

s practice was changed; and the god then spoke only on one particular day of every month. The oracles were not all delivere

o large a number as Apollo. All were not of the same antiquity. Every day new ones appeared, whilst the more ancient lost t

ant him this title, and the senate was to deliver the decree the very day that Cæsar was assassinated. The Romans raised a

p paid to him among the people of the North, still remain. The fourth day of the week still bears his name. It is called, a

thought to correspond with the Mercury of the Greeks and Romans. The day sacred to Mercury was called Dies Mercurii (the d

s and Romans. The day sacred to Mercury was called Dies Mercurii (the day of Mercury.) The French call it Mercredi. Odin wa

shared with Odin the souls of those who were killed in war. The sixth day of the week was sacred to her under the name of F

name of Freytag (Friday,) and called by the Latins Dies Veneris (the day of Venus.) It is named Vendredi by the French. Th

ent the giants from scaling heaven. He slept as lightly as birds; and day and night, he perceived objects at more than a hu

forts, inclosed the wolf Fenris, where he is to remain until the last day , when he will be let loose, and devour the sun. T

n which Ymer lived. The cow fed on the salt stones, which she was one day licking, when, in the evening, human hair grew ou

cking, when, in the evening, human hair grew out of them. On the next day appeared a head; and on the third, an entire man,

t with the deep Ocean, on the shores of which they placed giants. One day as the sons of Bor, or the gods, walked there, th

ming principle,) Jord, (the earth;) by Dellinger, (twilight,) Dagur, ( day .) Alfadur transported Nott and Dagur to the heave

ling flood. Dark to dwell in wo repining,     Far beyond the path of day ; In that bower where serpents twining,     Loaths

l remains, the stones of which are of a prodigious size. Even at this day , men might well hesitate to undertake a similar w

it was conducted towards the altar, where the sacred fire was burning day and night. Among the vessels of iron and copper e

llowed nothing but the profession of arms. The Druids taught that one day water and fire would destroy all things. They bel

bread and wine. The vervain was collected before sunrise on the first day of the dog-star, after one had offered to Earth a

collect that plant except in the month of December, and on the sixth day of the moon. This month and the number six were s

h of the moon that they made their principal acts of devotion. On the day intended for the ceremony of collecting the misle

s misletoe was consecrated and distributed to the people on the first day of the year. Chapter XI. Principal Maxims of t

collected with great ceremony, and always, if possible, on the sixth day of the moon, and a golden sickle must be made use

where they cleared tables, and did not see their husbands but for one day in the year; the third did not quit their husband

or to imagine the passing of a million years without bringing us one day or one minute nearer to their close. Suppose that

m, the changing hues and the fragrance of flowers, the alternation of day and night, the flash of the rock-rending lightnin

a], the goddess of the morning, “Whose rosy fingers ope the gates of day .” She was daughter of Sol, the sun, and was the

lled by a serpent on her wedding night. “Nor yet the golden verge of day begun. When Orpheus (her unhappy lord), Eurydice

cules himself do what he may, The cat will mew, and dog will have his day .” Shakespeare. Herdsmen, see Bubona. Her′mæ [

d to guard the golden apples which Juno gave Jupiter on their wedding day . See Hercules. Hes′perus [Hesperus], brother of

star. “To the ocean now I fly, And those happy climes that lie Where day never shuts his eye, Upon the broad fields of the

dens. Ho′rus [Horus]. The name of two deities, one Sol, the Egyptian day god; the other, the son of Osiris and Isis. See H

according to others, because he was taken for the sun, who opens the day at his rising, and shuts it at his setting. A bra

u′percus [Lupercus], or Pan. The Roman god of fertility; his festival day was 15th February, and the festivals were called

o have felled an ox with his fist, and to have eaten the beast in one day . His statue is often seen with one hand in the ri

oddess who took charge of children when they were nine days old — the day (Nona dies) on which the Romans named their child

and into which the sun and moon and other heavenly bodies sank every day . Ocrid′ion [Ocridion]. A king of Rhodes, who was

d holding in her left hand a loaf of bread. Her festival was the 14th  day of the January calends. Oracles, see Themis. Or

horsemanship, he was allowed to drive the chariot of the sun for one day . The horses soon found out the incapacity of the

liver, which grew in the night as much as it had been reduced in the day , so that the punishment was a prolonged torture.

rtains shot a timorous ray, And oped those eyes that must eclipse the day .” Pope. Som′nus [Somnus]. The Roman god of sle

rer, with flashing ray, Bursts through the darkness and lets down the day .” Pope. Thy′a [Thya], a name of Ops. Thya′des

commandeth all men everywhere to repent: because he hath appointed a day , in the which he will judge the world in righteou