ble by land or by sea.” They were “ exempt from disease, old age, and death ,” and were so virtuous that the gods frequently v

favour in the sight of the gods, were transported without tasting of death , and where they enjoyed an eternity of bliss. The

as not sufficient, however, to have saved young Jupiter from imminent death : it was also necessary that his father should rem

omed everywhere. Man was content. Extreme cold, hunger, sickness, and death were unknown. Jupiter, who justly ascribed a good

forgetting their petty quarrels in a common impulse to flee from the death which threatened them, climbed the highest mounta

Jupiter’s knees. Touched with their zeal, yet anxious to prevent the death of the confiding goose, Jupiter revealed himself

After many years of faithful service, when age had made them long for death , Philemon and Baucis were transformed into majest

in the Infernal Regions, while the third found an early but glorious death during the Trojan War. All unconscious of their s

hich lived in the hollow. The prince raised his sword to avenge their death , and dealt the dragon such a deadly blow upon the

the time came which had previously been appointed for the good king’s death , some one should be found willing to die in his s

in speed and endurance, that the chase bade fair to end only with the death of one or both of the participants. The gods, in

him cruelly. When the mountain nymphs heard of their favourite’s sad death , they began to weep and shed such torrents of tea

as again charged not to reveal the secret, under penalty of immediate death . But a secret is difficult to keep; and this one,

m back the fair.             Thus song could prevail             O’er death and o’er hell, A conquest how hard and how glorio

n the stream, the pallid lips still murmured, “Eurydice!” for even in death he could not forget his wife; and, as his spirit

Zethus and Amphion, after besieging and taking the city, put Lycus to death , and, binding Dirce to the tail of a wild bull, l

tain possession of them. He was allowed but scant time to prepare for death ; but, just as they were about to toss him overboa

ed he would make the rash mortal expiate his presumption by immediate death . He therefore selected the deadliest thunderbolt

white, ran ruinous to the Adrian deep.” Worsley. The tidings of his death soon reached poor Clymene, who mourned her only s

burial. In his grief he continually haunted the scene of his friend’s death , and repeatedly plunged into the river, in the ho

efore, to follow the deer to its cover. As she mourned their untimely death , she thought her cup of sorrow was full; but long

mother’s breast; but, even in that fond mother’s passionate embrace, death found and claimed her. Then the gods, touched by

the ground, the hounds sprang at his quivering throat and tore him to death as he lay. Diana was widely worshipped, and templ

his strong tusk in the youth’s unprotected side, and trampled him to death . “The white tusk of a boar has transpierced his

onis. Michael Angelo. Venus ran straight to the scene of his tragic death , rushing through underbrush and briars, tearing h

a faint pink. When she arrived, she found her beloved Adonis cold in death , and her passionate caresses met with no response

ature again droop, and mourn his departure.             “But even in death , so strong is Love, I could not wholly die; and y

te, assumed a blood-like hue, dyed by the blood which flowed from the death wounds of Pyramus and Thisbe. Echo and Narciss

rick Hollyer Consequently, instead of a swift, sharp fall and painful death , Psyche felt herself gently wafted over hill and

esperate attempt at suicide, her miraculous preservation from certain death , her aerial journey, her entrance into the enchan

were considered sacred boundary marks, and their removal punished by death . Solemn annual festivals were held in Rome in Mer

and inspired all with great terror. To save themselves from the awful death which threatened them all, the Trojans consulted

o his slimy cave. Laomedon was, of course, overjoyed at the monster’s death , but, true to his nature, again refused the promi

e found lifeless. The sole survivor, Lynceus, to avenge his brothers’ death , slew Danaus, thus fulfilling the ominous prophec

to ashes. Advent of Bacchus Semele herself perished, burned to death ; and the only person in all the building who esca

his father’s powerful hand. Jupiter was at first inconsolable at the death of Semele; and, to testify [to all mortals how fo

nos), god of sleep and of his twin brother Mors (or Thanatos), god of death ; and both were sons of the Goddess of Night, who

nce on all who ventured near. These forms were the genii of sleep and death , represented in art as crowned with poppies or am

pose, without an air of breath, Dwells here, and a dumb quiet next to death .     An arm of Lethe, with a gentle flow, Arising

ng her anxiety, and wishing to prepare her to receive the news of his death , and especially to view with some composure his c

they would not encounter the mournful fate of poor Ceyx. Mors, god of death , occupied one of the corners of Somnus’ cave. He

ythology, in which Proserpina was generally regarded as the emblem of death , and they were therefore little more than local d

ed themselves around the cradle, and were about to crush the child to death in their folds, when, to the utter astonishment o

of Hercules Then, resolved to end these unendurable torments by a death worthy of his whole life, Hercules called his ser

n the new, unwonted lightness,     Earth’s dark, heavy burden lost in death . High Olympus gives harmonious greeting     To th

al games held in Greece in commemoration of his noble deeds and early death . Chapter XX: Perseus Acrisius and Danae

ing Gorgons should fall upon him and attempt to avenge their sister’s death . Perseus then swiftly winged his way over land an

reptiles destined to infest the region in future ages, and cause the death of many an adventurous explorer. The drops which

uded the danger, and finally caused Sinis to perish by the same cruel death which he had dealt out to so many others. In one

upon a dog lying at the king’s feet, caused his almost instantaneous death . Seeing her crime discovered and Theseus recognis

frail maidens and gallant youths about to perish by such a loathsome death . Theseus, by right of his birth, claimed the prec

il.” Catullus. Theseus, on entering the city, heard of his father’s death ; and when he realised that it had been caused by

for Jason, in which she warned him that the Argo would yet cause his death . Jason, a victim of remorse and despair, now led

ch, falling on his head, fractured his skull and caused instantaneous death . The Argonautic expedition is emblematic of the f

intention to keep it for ever. Meleager, thus saved from an untimely death by his mother’s presence of mind, grew up a brave

ry, and instituted a great hunt, whose main object was the capture or death of the obnoxious boar. Jason, Nestor, Peleus, Adm

heard that they had been slain by her son, she vowed to avenge their death , drew the carefully cherished brand from its hidi

ersonage as the King of Thebes by an unknown band of robbers with the death he had dealt to an arrogant old man, and he there

to a peaceful old age, a terrible scourge visited Thebes, causing the death of many faithful subjects, and’ filling the heart

urder’d Laius were discover’d, And paid the forfeit of their crime by death , Or banishment.” Sophocles ( Francklin’s tr.).

s a relative and the promised wife of his son Hæmon, condemned her to death . “Let her be carried instant to the cave, And le

pale cheek, discolour’d with his blood. Thus lay the wretched pair in death united, And celebrate their nuptials in the tomb.

and then proposed to them to attack Thebes and avenge their fathers’ death . The Epigoni (or those who come after), as these

s, King of Lycia, with a sealed message bidding him put the bearer to death . Quite unconscious of the purport of this letter,

d victorious at court. These repeated and narrow escapes from certain death convinced Iobates that the youth was under the sp

, he began to explore the depths of the sea. “‘I plung’d for life or death . To interknit One’s senses with so dense a breath

in to perish, because an oracle had predicted that he would cause the death of his family and the downfall of his native city

that the first warrior who attempted to land would meet with instant death .                          ‘“The Delphic oracle f

oon as his foot had touched the foreign soil. When the tidings of his death reached his beloved wife, Laodamia, whom he had l

e more, and from his own lips heard the detailed account of his early death . The three hours passed all too quickly in delici

succumbed to the scourge, and all were threatened with an inglorious death . Achilles, mindful of all this, and anxious to sa

wished to embrace once more before rushing out to battle and possible death . Hector and Andromache He found his palace

hus beginning, said: —      ‘Too brave! thy valour yet will cause thy death . Thou hast no pity on thy tender child, Nor me, u

des’ flight, and implore him once more to rescue them from inevitable death . But Achilles, summoning all his pride to his ass

verently bore to Achilles’ tent. To console Achilles for his friend’s death , Thetis exhibited the glorious armour she had jus

f in a fit of frenzy, while Polyxena, inconsolable at her betrothed’s death , committed suicide on the magnificent tomb erecte

pyre rose around him, she rushed into their midst, and was burned to death on his corpse. “But when she gain’d the broader

oiled themselves around him and his sons, and crushed and bit them to death                       “Unswerving they Toward La

d to see his last son perish before his eyes, finally found relief in death . Their object accomplished, the Greeks immediatel

fter escaping from the enemy’s hands, perished in the waves, or found death lying in wait for them by their own fireside. Men

æmnestra and her paramour Ægisthus.         “‘Ægisthus, bent upon my death , Plotted’ against me with my guilty wife, And bad

ally afraid lest Orestes, Agamemnon’s son, should avenge his father’s death , Ægisthus prepared to slay him too; but Electra,

and allies of the Ciconians came upon them unawares, and put many to death . The Greeks, although taken by surprise, fought b

iled, lamenting bitterly Our comrades slain, yet happy to escape From death ourselves.” Homer ( Bryant’s tr.). The Lotus

immortal, escaped unhurt; but poor Acis, her beloved, was crushed to death . The stream of blood from his mangled remains was

at his long-lost master’s feet. “While over Argus the black night of death Came suddenly as soon as he had seen Ulysses, ab

en, the fair cause of all this war and bloodshed, — who, after Paris’ death , had married Deiphobus, his brother, —  and for a

ed, some sank, and still the tempest raged on with unabated fury, and death stared the unhappy Trojans in the face. The commo

thin him, for he suspected its fatal import, and honestly mourned the death of the beautiful queen. The Trojans sailed onward

port, where they celebrated the usual games to commemorate Anchises’ death , which had occurred there just one year previous.

ortals in distress, Oh, let the fleet escape the flame! Oh, save from death Troy’s dying name!’” Virgil ( Conington’s tr.).

to the hands of a troop of Volscian horsemen, who cruelly put them to death , and then hurried with the Rutules to lend assist

, until finally young Pallas fell, slain by Turnus. When aware of the death of this promising young prince, Æneas’ heart was

rial: and he then and there registered a solemn vow to avenge Pallas’ death by slaying Turnus, and immediately hastened forth

the town — farewell.’” Virgil ( Conington’s tr.). Shortly after her death , in the very midst of the fray, Æneas suddenly fe

r let foeman’s hate be shown.’” Virgil ( Conington’s tr.). With the death of Turnus the war came to an end. A lasting peace

me story, where the sun, although enamoured with the dawn, causes her death . As some mythologists have interpreted it, Daphne

the sun again appears, and his unerring spear unwittingly causes the death of his beloved Procris “while she lingers in a th

ook at her, and so was parted from the wife he loved so dearly.” His death in the forest, when his strength had all forsaken

me in sound as the word ios, ‘poison’”), of which he is shorn only at death . Perseus also belongs to this category of myths.

s subsequent career we find him the involuntary cause of his father’s death , then warring against the Centaurs (personificati

d daylight) next charms Jason; and the poisoned robe which causes her death is woven by Medea, now the evening twilight, who

(the sun) in his old age, when he is about to sink into the sleep of death . Meleager is also a solar hero. After joining the

hile Achilles, after a period of sullen gloom, meets with an untimely death shortly after recovering the beautiful Briseis. L

cy and lives to fulfil his destiny, and cause, though indirectly, the death of his parents. In this myth, Helen (the beautifu

me relation as Phaeton to Helios,” and, like him, meets with an early death . In the story of Ulysses we find a reproduction o

they are ruthlessly slain. Niobe grieves so sorely at their untimely death , that she dissolves in a rain of tears, which tur

seis, 283, 284; the Greeks appeal to, 288-289; slays Hector, 290-292; death , 293; in Happy Isles, 321; father of Pyrrhus, 323

e, 194 Ad-me′tus. King of Thessaly, served by Apollo, and saved from death by Alcestis, 47, 48; Hercules restores Alcestis t

nd of Venus, 88; father of Æneas, 322-324; prophecy recalled by, 326; death of, 327; death anniversary, of, 331; Æneas’ visit

; father of Æneas, 322-324; prophecy recalled by, 326; death of, 327; death anniversary, of, 331; Æneas’ visit to, 332-333 A

dolphin, 63, 64 Ar-is-tæ′us. Youth who indirectly causes Eurydice’s death , 59 Ar′te-mis. Same as Diana, goddess of the moo

of the Archipelago, 78 Chi′ron. Learned Centaur, 189, 230, 233, 279; death of, 193 Chry-se′is. Daughter of Chryses; taken b

s of, 187 De-i-a-nei′ra. Wife of Hercules, 201-205; causes Hercules’ death by using the Nessus robe, 205, 206; significance,

, 354 De-iph′o-bus. Son of Priam and Hecuba; married Helen after the death of Paris, 324 De′los, Floating island; birthplac

9 Hel′e-nus. King of Epirus, whose slave Andromache became after the death of Hector, 327 He-li′a-des. Sisters of Phaeton;

rds the cattle of the sun, 315 La-oc′o-on. Trojan priest; crushed to death by two serpents, 297, 298 La-od-a-mi′a. Wife of

ster of Somnus, god of sleep, 179-183 Mors. Same as Thanatos, god of death , 179-182, 183 Mo-sych′lus. Mountain in Lemnos, w

277; duel with Menelaus, 285; in battle, 287; Achilles slain by, 294; death of, 295; significance, 358, 359 Par-nas′sus. Mou

d by, 275; duel witnessed by, 285; Hector, son of, 285, 289; Hector’s death seen by, 292; Mercury leads, 293 Polyxena, daugh

s death seen by, 292; Mercury leads, 293 Polyxena, daughter of, 293; death of, 299, 323 Pri-a′pus. God of the shade; pursue

isits, 60; Adonis welcomed by, 87; Pluto abducts, 136, 159; emblem of death , 182; condemned by Jupiter, 167; significance, 36

the nine Muses; Muse of comedy, 69 Than′a-tos. Same as Mors, god of death , 179 Thebes. Capital of Bœotia founded by Cadmus

that it dispels all phantoms from our life, and all darkness from our death — that it makes our worship a pure and simple ser

not live at the same time, but several centuries passed away from the death of one till the lifetime of another of those holy

originally men who had performed great actions, and whom, after their death , men worshipped. Personifications of certain ide

duty, or violated her vows, nothing could save her from the dreadful death of being buried alive. The temple of Vesta was sa

e supposed that he was a supernatural being, and therefore, after his death he was deified. It is probable, that Janus regula

ounded by clouds and lightning. The celestial fire caused the instant death or Semele. To Leda, he appeared as a swan. This l

ruck Esculapius with lightning and killed him. Apollo, enraged by the death of Esculapius, destroyed the Cyclops, huge one-ey

od promised, whenever the former should be summoned from the world by death , that his life should be spared, provided he coul

diate protection of the goddess, and not only in this life, but after death . Those who broke the vow to conceal what they wer

tence of execration permitted any one to put the supposed criminal to death as a public offender. The mysteries of Eleusis ar

celebrated in Greece and Syria. They commenced with mourning for his death , and concluded with expressions of joy for their

of reception for souls who had lived upon the earth. Immediately upon death , according to the notions of the Greeks spirits w

as stationed a multitude of frightful forms, which produce misery and death . These were Diseases, Old Age, Terror, Hunger, Di

d all over Greece, and continued in operation for centuries after his death . Who were the judges of the dead? What is the pr

ds, especially employed in punishing the wicked upon earth, and after death . The Furies were women, commonly represented with

were supposed to preside over the life of man, from his birth to his death , and to put an end to his life by cutting off a t

d — is the mind lost? All hope that those they love still exist after death ; and they hope to be reunited to their departed f

ul stings, the fearless babe, with his little hands, squeezed them to death , while his elder brother, Iphiclus, who saw the d

ll this lion with his club, pursued him to his den, and choked him to death . Hercules ever after clothed himself in the skin

son. and caused the wounds inflicted by the arrows to produce instant death . The third labour was to take, and bring alive to

t fatal disease, Hercules prayed to Jupiter, and prepared himself for death . He gave his bow and arrows to Philoctetes, pulle

rcules is sometimes called Alcides. Hercules was worshipped after his death . He was often invoked by people who wanted assist

bling round, Their gasping throats with clinching hands he holds; And death untwists their convoluted folds.     Next in red

this they did not succeed. Theseus knew their malice, and put them to death . Some years before the appearance of Theseus at A

osen by lot out of a large number, and they were doomed to slavery or death . On the day when the choice was made, all Athens

ebes? What discovery did Œdipus make concerning himself? What was the death of Œdipus? The Theban Pair. After Œdipus

reon refused to allow him to be buried, and threatened to punish with death any person who should offer to inter him. Accordi

rned her cruel fate killed himself. Sophocles wrote a tragedy on the death of Antigone. This tragedy was exceedingly admired

er? Who took, the part of Polynices; and what was the occasion of his death ? Who resolved to bury Polynices? What was the end

bury Polynices? What was the end of Antigone? Who has celebrated the death and character of Antigone? Was the Theban war ren

death and character of Antigone? Was the Theban war renewed after the death of Eteocles and Polyniices? Orpheus. Orph

from him, and as she was running, a serpent in the grass stung her to death ; so she went to the dark dominions of Pluto and P

Cape Tenarus. What miracle was produced by Orpheus? What caused the death of Eurydice? What effect had the music of Orpheus

what condition was Eurydice restored to Orpheus? What was the reputed death of Orpheus? Who was Amphion? Who was Arion? C

his remains, when his body should be consumed on the pile. After the death of his friend, Philoctetes repaired to Sparta, an

t Cassandra foretold to Agamemnon, that Clytemnestra would put him to death . Agamemnon despised her warning, and entered his

r father’s murder, and anxiously preserving the young Orestes. On the death of Agamemnon, Orestes was the proper successor to

ther to the temple of Apollo, to thank the god for the young prince’s death . Orestes concealed himself near the temple, and,

ector; neither was killed, and at parting they exchanged arms. On the death of Achilles, Ulysses and Ajax contended which sho

nerva and Neptune punish the impiety of Ajax? What description of the death of Ajax is taken from Pope’s Homer? Ulysses.

Troy. Indignant at this misfortune, Achilles determined to avenge the death of his friend by that of Hector. He therefore ret

ess body three times round the walls of Troy. The manner of Achilles’ death is variously related; the common tradition is, th

Paris, there aimed an arrow at his defenceless heel, which caused his death . From this circumstance the tendon of the heel is

destruction of Hector? What is the common tradition in respect to the death of Achilles? Did Achilles desire long life? Where

as this mighty barbarian, instigated by his terrible passions, dealt death at every blow. Hector was not without terror at t

barbarous land. Cassandra was murdered by those who accomplished the death of Agamemnon, and thus ended the race of the Dard

ceably in Latium. Fabulous history does not relate with precision the death of Eneas, but it is somewhere said that he was dr

d to be the foundress of Carthage? What is Virgil’s history of Dido’s death ? How long was the voyage of Eneas before he reach

was the end of the war between Eneas and Turnus? What was the reputed death of Eneas, and what is signified by the word apoth

s could not endure. These laws pretended to punish every offence with death . An idle man, or one who stole a cabbage, or an a

diated weapon, the war-mace, and the lotos. Yama or Yamen, the god of death . He is esteemed to be a child of the sun: he is c

governed them wisely and improved their condition; so that after his death they celebrated him equally as the god of war, an

id, finally, to have retired into Sweden, and feeling the approach of death , and wishing to meet it, as he had often braved i

ous enemv of gods and men. Here resided Hela, the dreadful goddess of death , daughter of the evil genius Loke and the giantes

ation. They believed that those who fell in war, were conveyed, after death , to Heaven, and quaffed nectar from the skulls of

Thammuz was worshipped throughout Phrygia and Syria, and his supposed death by the tusks of a wild boar was annually lamented

the power to think and feel, and also what becomes of the soul after death . Thus the most intelligent become the most religi

kept his people in peace and order, and they worshipped him after his death as their benefactor. The Mexicans could never hav

n? What did they presume was the condition of good and evil men after death ? What is the transmigration of souls? What did th

r observed. The Cholulans could give no account of their benefactor’s death , but that he disappeared from among them. After h

s accused him of worshipping an unacknowledged deity, and he suffered death upon this accusation. Those who are familiar with

y suspected of irreverence to the images of Mercury. A child suffered death because it accidentally picked up a golden olive

eks were an intolerant people, how did they manifest it? Who suffered death for the charge of sacrilege, and how did the Athe

d not be suffered to escape from his asylum, and was thus famished to death . Besides the protection afforded to the wicked an

a falsehood is suborned. Perjury, among the Greeks, was punished with death ; among us, as it ought to do, it makes the perjur

tain. When nature was convulsed on the occasion of our Lord’s violent death , this curtain, or veil, was torn by the shock of

over the dwellings of the Hebrews in Egypt, while an angel smote with death the first-born of every Egyptian family. The lamb

ums were beat; before the breath Of brazen trumpets rung the peals of death , The good old God his hunger did assuage With roo

and air, are all so beautiful, I cannot, dare not, will not, think of death !     Priest. It is thy doom! thy living grave is

ss will touch my brain; I cannot, will not yield. Grant me some other death : poison or steel, Or aught that sends me suddenly

y. “Down from the rock fell the dissevered head, Opening its eyes in death , and falling bled, And marked the passage with a

        “Lord of the dreadful bow!     None triumph now for Python’s death         But thou dost save         From hungry gr

ned her, heard her last melancholy cries, but unable to save her from death , he sprinkled nectar and ambrosia over her tomb,

e turned fragrance in his breath, Kissed by sad Zephyr, guilty of his death .” Hood. But misfortune appeared to cling to all

   The wreck of glory’s gladness!” Apollo was so disconsolate at the death of Hyacinth, that, as we have seen, he changed hi

ny of the solemnities usual at other sacrifices. —— “Pitying the sad death Of Hyacinthus when the cruel breath Of Zephyr sle

ied his opponent to a tree, and punished him as had been agreed. The ‌ death of Marsyas was universally lamented; the fauns, s

and offered to her acceptance a crown of seven stars, which after her death , was formed into a constellation.‌ “Where the r

darkness lies.” Shakspere. Venus, after shedding many tears at his death , changed him into a flower. “And in his blood, t

king bewildered mid the dreary sea: ’Tis young Leander toiling to his death ; Nigh swooning, he doth purse his weary lips For

tain near Mount Ida, threw the flute away, and denounced a melancholy death to him who should find it. Marsyas was the unfort

Fiery and lurid, struggling underneath, The agonies of anguish and of death .     “Yet it is less the horror than the grace,

ow,     Their mailed radiance as it were to mock, The torture and the death within, and saw The solid air with many a ragged

e terror there — A woman’s countenance, with serpent locks, Gazing in death on heaven, from those evil rocks.” Shelley. Som

tured with its gory red, The quivering limb, the eye that’s glazed in death , The groan —     Evadne. ’Tis lost boy, in the dr

hatever is under the earth, where ————— “Cerberus, the cruel worm of death , Keeps watchful guard, and with his iron throat,

eived different names, and became the god of the infernal regions, of death , and of funerals. That he might govern with order

the first moment of his vital breath, To his last year of unrepenting death .” Amongst the most notorious criminals plunged i

w’st along, The rivers stay to hear thy song,     And listen still as death . Tityos with pleasure heard thy strain, And Ixion

trunks, and overshadoweth Eternal whispers, glooms, the birth, life, death , Of unseen flowers in heavy peacefulness. Who lov

able nymph replied. Now pale and breathless on the grass he lies, For death had shut his miserable eyes.” The Gods, however,

of the dædal earth, And of heaven, and giant wars,     And love, and death , and birth, —                      And then I cha

The Witch Queen of that place, Even Circe the Cruel, that came like a death Which I feared, and yet fled not, for want of my

he stream! How fain had I followed, and plunged with that scream Into death , but my being indignantly lagged Thro’ the brutal

hey gone? is their mirth from the mountains passed? Ye have looked on death since ye met me last! I know whence the shadow c

arkness by his side, Round the shore where loud Lofoden     Whirls to death the roaring whale, Round the hall where Runic Ode

th,     May spare the victim fallen low; But man will ask no truce to death ,     No bounds to human woe.” Campbell. Div

by Paris, Thetis issued out of the sea with the Nereids to mourn his death , and after she had collected his ashes in a golde

h thy touch of doom,     Stern Manhood shrinks beneath thy grasp, oh, death , And fragile Age by worldly cares opprest, Sinks,

pose, without an air of breath, Dwells here, and a dumb quiet next to death , An arm of Lethe with a gentle flow, Arising upwa

the Lacedæmonians, the image of Somnus was always placed near that of death on account of their apparent resemblance.     “H

eath on account of their apparent resemblance.     “How wonderful is death ,     Death and his brother Sleep! One, pale as yo

er shapes were most subservient to their intentions. At the moment of death , they delivered up to judgment the person with wh

rs ago. There Silence, thoughtful god, who loves The neighbourhood of death , in groves Of Asphodel lies hid, and weaves His h

killed Lynceus, and was slain in return by Idas — Pollux revenged the death of his brother, by slaying Idas, but was unable a

cts of the deceased king, when they were informed of the cause of his death , were anxious to avenge it, and Medea found herse

while Pelias with his guards lay bound In magic sleep, scarce that of death so sound: The daughters now are by the Sorceress

h had borne him to Colchis, a large beam fell upon and crushed him to death . Medea also died at Colchis, and after her death

n and crushed him to death. Medea also died at Colchis, and after her death is said to have been married to Achilles in Elysi

eed” Euripides. Hercules. This celebrated hero was, after his death , as a reward for the many courageous deeds he had

servants who came to raise it, and on Erginus coming to avenge their death , he slew him, and delivered his country from the

to his den, and after a close and sharp engagement, he choked him to death . He carried the dead beast on his shoulders to My

ling round, Their gasping throats with clenching hands he holds; Till death entwists their convoluted folds. And in red torre

he cries, ‘Glut thy revenge, dread empress of the skies; Sate with my death the rancour of thy heart, Look down with pleasure

and difficulties which he underwent, and became so powerful after his death , that they alone had the bravery to invade the Pe

uscles preys.’” Ovid. As, however, the distemper was incurable, and death inevitable, he determined to die the hero he had

th dignity and composure, his head placed upon his club, to await his death . The pile was lighted, and the flames arose in vo

isible helmet of Pluto, and the attempts of the Gorgons to avenge the death of the sister were fruitless. The conqueror pursu

y. ‌If such desert be worthy of esteem, And, if your daughter I from death redeem. Shall she be mine? Shall it not then be t

u lost her then when she seemed past relief, And wish’d, perhaps, her death , to ease your grief With my afflictions; not cont

t horrid head which stiffens into stone, Those impious men who daring death , look on: I warred not with thee out of hate or s

fortunate murder preyed upon the spirit of Perseus, and though by the death of Acresius he was entitled to the throne of Argo

hanged his kingdom for the maritime coast of Argolis. The time of the death of Perseus is unknown, it is universally agreed h

owing Theseus over a deep precipice. The children of this hero at the death of the usurper, regained the throne of Athens: an

ous numbers softened all beneath Hell, and the inmost flinty seats of death : Snakes round the Furies heads did upward rear, A

ir nests near it, excelled all others in melody and beauty. After his death , he is reported by some to have received divine h

is. By the fortune of war, he became a prisoner, and was condemned to death ; Alcestis, with a beautiful display of conjugal a

ugal affection, laid down her life to save her husband from the cruel death prepared for him. Death-Song of Alcestis. “She c

and the star-like gleam Of jewels trembling from her braided hair And death upon her brow! but glorious death! Her own heart’

trembling from her braided hair And death upon her brow! but glorious death ! Her own heart’s choice, the token of the seal Of

ll the triumph, all the agony, Born on the battling waves of love and death All from her woman’s heart, in sudden song Burst

h,     I meet thy fond look, still     Keen is the strife of love and death ; Faint and yet frantic grows my bosom’s thrill.  

O wretched state! I die, unless I speak; And if I speak most certain death attends me. Œd. Thou shalt not die; speak then,

or Thebes, he told his son Alcmeon to slay his mother, if news of his death should reach him; and when Alcmeon heard that his

ted her two sons in the presence of their dead father, to revenge his death . Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img

his unjust waste of blood, within your presence, And on this field of death — And thou, whom I Should call no more my brother

lynice himself exhausted with his efforts to subdue his pain, and the death struggle which tore his bosom, fell in the very a

of striking him. Their implacable hatred manifested itself even after death , for when their bodies were placed on the bier, t

amemnon, and she foretold that his wife Clytemnestra would put him to death . He, however, returned with Cassandra to Argos, w

meeting of Iphigenia with her father in the lower regions, after his death , when the latter was ignorant of the ‌infamy of h

ignorant of the ‌infamy of her mother, and the cause of her father’s death , is thus beautifully described: — “Iphigenia. Fa

em As little now. Aga. Were life and kingdom all! Iphig. Ah! by our death many are sad who loved us. They will be happy too

is flank descends. The wary Trojan, bending from the blow, Eludes the death , and disappoints his foe: But fierce Atrides wave

the anger of Achilles remained, until his revenge was aroused by the death of Patroclus, his friend, who was slain in battle

rown, So many lives effused, expires his own.” Homer. To avenge the death of his comrade in arms, Achilles conducted the Gr

im. The unfortunate woman, however, lost sight of him, and was put to death by the Greeks. After a vain search to find Creusa

ie,’ she said, ‘And unrevenged, ’tis doubly to be dead; Yet even this death with pleasure I receive, On any terms ’tis better

e might devote his time more uninterruptedly to study. When, upon the death of Romulus, he was chosen by the senators to be t

em additional favour in the eyes of this superstitious people. At his death , which took place after a reign of forty-three ye

written, which being accidentally found four hundred years after his death , were burned by order of the senate. They are sta

a letter to Jobates the father of his queen, entreating him to put to death the man who would have insulted the honour of his

in the eternal round; motion and breath, Time, change, and life, and death , In sudden trance opprest, forgot their powers. A

heir ablutions in its waters, to die on its brink, to be thrown after death into its waves, are the supreme happiness of ‌the

for his kindness and wisdom. It was his doom to meet with a premature death . Aware, from her knowledge of the future, of the

he had a charmed life, and essayed successively the various means of death on the unhappy Balder, who fell a victim to their

ge the slightest offence, would tremblingly submit to blows, and even death itself, from the hand of a pontiff, whom they too

until the day of the solemnity arrived, when he paid the penalty, by death ; his heart was torn from his body, which was afte

ed gold, Gave mischief birth, and made that mischief bold: And double death did wretched man invade, By steel assaulted, and

rding to the fable, Saturn promised his brother Titan, that after his death , the latter should succeed him in his kingdom. To

the fatal day came, Alcestis, the wife of Admetus, devoted herself to death for her husband. Admetus grieved so deeply at her

restore her to her original form, or to terminate her misfortunes by death . Juno was touched with compassion, and allowed Ju

d excel her in the race, but that those who were beaten should suffer death . Hard as were these conditions, many suitors pres

presented themselves, but they were all unsuccessful, and were put to death without mercy. Hippomenes determined to undertake

beauty; but when Aurora begged of Jove that he might be exempted from death , she forgot to ask at the same time for the bloom

hey sacrificed animals by throwing them into the fire to be burned to death . The Athenians also kept feasts of Vulcan, and th

We are told that during this period, twenty Vestals were condemned to death . Of these, seven were permitted to take their own

se mysteries? Ans. We cannot tell with any certainty. The penalty of death was decreed against any one who should betray the

d rushed into the room to save him. Ceres punished her curiosity with death , but she adopted Triptolemus, and sent him throug

ome, Erigone [Erigo′ne], a maiden who hung herself in despair, at the death of her father, was changed into the constellation

with garlands on festivals, offerings were laid upon them, and it was death for any one to remove one. When Constantine embra

ompanion. This sister died young, and Narcissus, deeply lamenting her death , used to go to a neighboring fountain, and try to

f Night; their office was to torment the wicked during life and after death . Ques. How were they represented? Ans. As hideo

ar is said to have been erected by the kindred of Hercules, after the death of that hero. Pudicitia, or Modesty, had two temp

endered themselves famous in life by illustrious actions. After their death , their countrymen believed that they were admitte

ones, with which Hercules put the giants to flight. Ques. Relate the death of Hercules? Ans. This hero had slain the Centau

and Euryale [Eury′ale]. The accounts given of his exploits and of his death are many and contradictory. According to one lege

mption, and sent a scorpion to sting him. The hero was changed, after death , into a constellation which is known as the most

uoit. Perseus, Andromeda, Cepheus, and Cassiopeia were changed, after death , into the constellations which bear their names.

sealed letters in which he requested that prince to put the bearer to death . Jobates was also unwilling to imbrue his hands o

is fall, wandered in lonely places, avoiding the haunts of men, until death came to relieve his misery. Deucalion. Que

isichthon, who was compelled by hunger to devour his own flesh before death came to end his misery. Chapter XXXIII. Poets

of eloquence. Ovid gained some distinction as an orator; but when the death of his elder brother left him sole heir to an amp

interrupted this strange treatment, and Achilles remained subject to death . Calchas had declared that Troy could not be take

ntest, and no entreaties could induce him to return to the field. The death of his friend Patroclus, who fell by the hand of

of Sigæum. The vindictive spirit of Achilles knew no repose, even in death . After the fall of Troy, his ghost appeared to th

which he supported so well, that the latter was condemned, and put to death . Ulysses distinguished himself during the war, by

f to Clytemnestra as a messenger from Strophius, bringing news of the death of her son Orestes. The guilty queen feigned to g

Hector, were permitted to live, he would one day avenge his father’s death , and raise Troy from its ruins. Diligent search w

olynices exposed to the dogs and vultures, and forbade, under pain of death , that any one should bestow on him the rites of s

ather in his exile, and watched over him with touching devotion until death released her from this filial duty. She no sooner

’er proclaimed it, And if I perish ere th’ allotted term, I deem that death a blessing. Who that lives Like me encompassed by

ero were descended the founders of Rome. The Æneid concludes with the death of Turnus, but we have some further particulars h

games were sorely disappointed and dismayed at the sad tidings of his death . They crowded the tribunals and demanded vengeanc

cles. It existed in its full beauty for more than a century after his death . It was first despoiled by Lachares, who stripped

emphis. The Egyptians maintained that the soul of Osiris passed after death into the body of Apis; and that as often as the s

then carefully embalmed, and buried in the temple of Serapis. On the death of Apis, whether it occurred in the course of nat

ypt, since Moses in many places forbids the Israelites, under pain of death , to dedicate their children to Moloch, by passing

is was another name for Adonis, whose story is of Eastern origin. His death , which we have already referred to in connection

oos believe that if a man lead a pure life, his soul will pass, after death , into another human body, but that if he has been

refully educated in virtue and learning by his widowed mother. At her death he retired, according to Chinese custom, for the

ed unbounded popularity during life, but the honors paid to him after death , have no parallel in history. His tablet is in ev

ad fallen in battle. Women, children, and all who had died a peaceful death , were excluded as unworthy. The joys of Valhalla

by anything. Loki, with his usual malice, was determined on Baldur’s death , but did not know exactly how to bring it about.

husband. Loki’s Punishment. Ques. How did the gods revenge the death of Baldur? Ans. They pursued Loki, who made use

united to punish the perpetrators of this sacrilege; they were put to death , and a perpetual fine was imposed on the province

st state of existence had been good or evil. According to the Druids, death was but the central point of a long life. Ques.

r Eve, and the Saint, who must have been well aware of the penalty of death attached to such an act, commanded his disciples

ture life? Ans. Their priests taught that the wicked were sent after death to expiate their sins in a region of eternal dark

nal darkness. Those who died of certain diseases were entitled, after death , to a state of indolent contentment; but the Azte

w. Ques. How did the Aztecs bury their dead? Ans. Immediately after death , the corpse was clothed in certain sacred habilim

dinary faults were punished with extreme rigor; graver offences, with death . Ques. How was this numerous priesthood maintain

on of human life, which, joyous at first, terminates in sorrow and in death . In speaking of human sacrifices, we have yet to

r, to retire to Sicily, where he was kindly entertained by Hiero. His death is said to have occurred in a very extraordinary

ll, and he was killed by the blow, thus verifying a prophecy that his death would come from on high. Of the dramas written by

Euripides retired to Macedon, to the court of King Archelaûs. On the death of the poet, the Athenians begged that his body m

of these, Crescentius, a bitter enemy of the Christians, procured the death of their intrepid defender. The martyrdom of St.

alleviation. We are told, however, that for three years preceding his death , Mæcenas never slept. Pelasgi. A name given

he office of procurator in Spain, and we find him, at the time of his death , in command of the fleet which guarded the coast

ither mortals favored by the gods were transported, without suffering death , to enjoy an immortality of bliss. This happy reg

the place of blood in the veins of the gods. They were not capable of death , but they might be wounded or otherwise injured.

up their heads to welcome her as she passes. The Greeks explained the death of u youth by saying that Eos loved him, and had

with its tail in its mouth meant the year. A scythe meant the god of death . A globe encircled by a starry zodiac meant the o

, and Sarpedon*. The first two became judges in the lower world after death . “Europa is the morning with its broad-spreading

to watch over and guard the life of every woman from her birth to her death . On the first of March, a grand annual festival c

the original dismal conception of this deity as the inexorable god of death was much diminished in course of time, yet Hades,

s company, but returns again in autumn to the regions of darkness and death . This legend grew out of the phrases which had at

r and lovelier garb, was supposed to symbolize the soul, which, after death , is free from corruption and lives in a better an

Greeks afforded. It was commonly believed that the souls of men after death led a dull, miserable existence in the world of s

shadows. Those initiated in the Mysteries, however, were taught that death was only a resurrection of the soul to a brighter

recognized only three seasons, nature being supposed to be wrapped in death or slumber during the cheerless and unproductive

the dark gloom of winter. He is also represented as a terrible god of death , sending virulent pestilences, and dealing out de

their heat increases, they ultimately become the cause of disease and death . With the first beams of the light of the sun, al

s), happening to arrive at the house of Admetus, engaged and overcame death , and restored Alcestis to her family. Hyacinthus*

r brother, and, like him, though she deals out destruction and sudden death to men and animals, she is also able to alleviate

she desired, so, as she refused to withdraw her foolish request, her death was the consequence. “The infant was given to In

isible counselors of every individual, accompanying him from birth to death with advice and comfort. Offerings of wine, cake,

upposed to be the glorified spirits of ancestors, who exercised after death a protecting power over the prosperity of the fam

es of age nor to the pangs of disease, men at last sunk peacefully to death . We are told that this race still continues to ex

ise from his son Alcmæon* that, should he perish, he would avenge his death on Eriphyle. The leaders in this expedition were

eroes, who were called Epigoni* (descendants), resolved to avenge the death of their fathers. By the advice of the Delphic or

cupidity to his father and himself, and he was directed to put her to death . He obeyed, but was instantly assailed by the Eri

us that her infant sons might grow at once to manhood, and avenge the death of their father. Her prayer was granted. The yout

t accidentally struck an old man among the spectators, and caused his death . The old man was Acrisius, and thus Perseus unint

d the prediction. Feeling unwilling to occupy the throne of one whose death he had caused, he exchanged kingdoms with the kin

o avenge the crime of which the bearer was accused, by putting him to death . Iobates, however, did not read the letter until

d that probably Bellerophon had been guilty of a crime which deserved death , so he decided to send him on dangerous enterpris

o again returned victorious. The last effort of the king to cause the death of Bellerophon was placing in ambush the bravest

emainder of his life in the loneliest and most desolate places. After death he was honored at Corinth as a hero, and he had a

hed the ground. The hero lifted him up in the air and squeezed him to death in bis arms. He then passed into Egypt, where Bus

e, and dashed him in pieces against a rock of the sea. Convinced that death was inevitable, he proceeded to Mount Œta*. Deian

ambush for him, and he was thus treacherously murdered. To avenge the death of his son, Minos invaded Attica, conquered Athen

o endure forever the punishment of his too daring ambition. After the death of Antiope, Theseus married Phædra*, daughter of

ved him kindly, but afterwards treacherously slew him. Long after his death the Athenians obtained his bones from the island

ho should outrun her, but those who were vanquished were to be put to death . Notwithstanding this hard condition, some would

d robe as a present to the bride; but it was poisoned, and caused the death of Creusa. Medea then murdered her two children,

red that the safety of Troy depended upon its preservation. After the death of Ilus, his son Laomedon* became king of Troy, a

s*, the youngest son of Priam, in which Troilus was slain, and by the death of Palamedes, which was caused by the treachery o

illes was now entirely diverted by the desire to avenge on Hector the death of his much-loved friend, Patroclus. Thetis broug

hope and stay of Troy. Penthesilea*. Immediately after Hector’s death , Penthesilea, the queen of the Amazons, came to t

ace of safety. Mourning and confusion reigned among the Greeks at the death of Achilles. During seventeen days and nights, Th

nful melodies that neither gods nor men could refrain from tears. The death of the bravest of the Greeks was followed by a qu

istance. Priam perished before the altar of Zeus. The men were put to death ; the women and children, with the rich booty, wer

elebrate his safe return, he and his companions were massacred. Their death was afterwards avenged by Orestes.16 Menelaus ha

ather of one of the slain suitors, incited the people to avenge their death . They took up arms and followed the hero. A confl

ling, self-created God; the immortality of the soul; a judgment after death ; the final annihilation of the wicked, and the ul

sacred cistern, and then buried him in the temple of Serapis*. On the death of this bull, whether it occurred in the course o

ostly carpet, to receive the worship of intelligent human beings! Its death was mourned as a public calamity; its body, wrapp

e Dead.” It is a ritual for the use of the soul in its journeys after death , and a copy more or less complete, according to t

mar, to grind) reappears in the Greek Ares, the Latin Mars, and Mors, death , and in the Teutonic Thor, the crusher. Ushas wa

dus believe that if a man lead a pure life, his soul will pass, after death , into another human body; but that if he has been

ad fallen in battle. Women, children, and all who had died a peaceful death were excluded. The joys of Valhalla consisted in

and sin and misery will be unknown. The constant struggle of life and death is described in the tale of the Volsung, which wa

descendant of Odin, is the hero of this story. He was born after the death of his father, and became the foster-child of Reg

. They therefore induced Guttorm to slay Sigurd during his sleep. His death reawakened all the love of Brynhild, who died hea

redhot rock into the fire-waving abyss, the victim of a trillion-fold death . Observation and reason afford ample testimony to

which men were never admitted. Her favorite was named Atys, for whose death her mad priests commemorated her sorrow. The box

urope. They relate that Dardanus, contemporary with Cadmus, after the death of his brother Jasion, led Cybele, his sister-in-

ted the attack. He was mortally wounded, which caused the despair and death of Sangaris. Concerning the birth of Cybele, hist

, supplanted Titan his elder brother, and put his father to a violent death . In process of time, Saturn having been dethroned

heav’n: The fatal present brought on mortal race An army of diseases; death began With vigour then, to mend its halting pace,

ensions, and released the souls of females struggling in the pangs of death . She was the personification of the rainbow. The

rain.” Ovid. “Then Juno, grieving that she (Dido) should sustain A death so ling’ring, and so full of pain, Sent Iris down

itted; and whoever disclosed their secrets, was put to an ignominious death . Proserpine, the daughter of Ceres, while gatheri

o poplars — weeping amber, because they constantly shed tears for his death . Cygnus, his brother, died of grief, and was meta

reme heat, which the night itself could not abate, the fable of their death was imagined. Homer says that the children of Nio

efending the earth; and with arrows, to signify his power of life and death . His killing the serpent Python is taken for the

s of jealousy are terrible, and often blind. Apollo put that nymph to death , and repented of it too late. He turned her into

e a youth, named Adonis, having tried to please them, they put him to death . This fable is intended to represent unsuccessful

intended to represent unsuccessful attempts at poetry. This pretended death of Adonis, allegorically represents a man, vain o

orks could not survive him. Such was his poetic, or, rather, literary death . Obs. 3. — We learn from history that Pyrenus dr

er with a crown of seven stars, called Gnassia Coronia, which, at her death , he placed in the heavens as a constellation. Ari

ix months with her. Considered, in an emblematical point of view, the death and resuscitation of Adonis in succession, repres

here, in agonizing grief, she had to encounter the awful scene of his death , and feel “the feeble, thrilling pressure” of his

ing eye;” but still more his “faint, faltering accents, struggling in death to give one more assurance of affection!” Thisbe

e was broken. She bitterly repented of being the cause of her lover’s death , and plunging his sword into her own body; she fe

er husband; but that whoever would be beaten by her, should be put to death . Accordingly they made their best efforts to beat

h this he seals in sleep the wakeful sight And eyes, though clos’d in death , restores to light.” Virgil. “Thee, wing-foot,

es of life are continually recurring. To have them unsupplied, causes death . Hence the most unenlightened nations have sought

f men to the gods, and delivered them up to judgment. Just men, after death , were supposed to become dæmons. They are describ

the Genii? What was the office of the Genii? Were not just men after death , supposed to become dæmons? Did not some ancient

light, and some who committed suicide. Lovers whom despair has put to death , are found to wander farther into a forest of myr

s, or Ouragus, because he puts people both to a natural and a violent death ; Summanus, because he is the chief of the inferna

roserpine was the queen of hell, and wife of Pluto. She presided over death , so that none could die; unless the goddess, or A

f nature’s growth and end thou hast the sway, All mortals’ birth with death thou dost repay, Who dost command ‘em both. Obs

, was by wars, petilence, famine, terror, rage, disease, remorse, and death ; and in hell, they visited the guilty with eterna

his hand. He could turn himself into any form. Mors, the goddess of death , was the daughter of Nox. She was worshipped by t

on. Obs. — In the Mythology of the ancients, the souls of men after death , became inhabitants of Hades, a region in the net

, nostrils, and eyes; and uttered such yells as frightened mortals to death . He touched the east with one hand, and the west

ith his head. As soon as born, he made war upon heaven, to avenge the death of his brethren; and the gods, under different fi

n strength the strongest tusks of a wild-boar; and their looks caused death . They dwelt near the gardens of the Hesperides, a

ctorious, if one of Hercules’ children voluntarily devoted herself to death , Macaria, his daughter, killed herself. The Athen

to Jupiter, who killed him with thunder-bolts. Apollo, to avenge the death of his son, slew the Cyclops, who had forged thos

she is equal in all seasons, during absence and presence, in life and death ; that she is exposed to every thing to serve a fr

been mentioned, were in the habit of sitting in judgment after their death upon the actions of kings, generals, and all pers

d to all celebrated men. The ancient philosophers taught, that, after death , the souls of great men inhabited the abodes of t

us, because in that place he wandered, here and there, blind till his death . Letters which the bearer imagines to be written

of Mycenæ, in Greece, and made it the capital of his dominions. After death , he received divine honors, and was placed among

stroy him. These he boldly seized by their necks, and crushed them to death . His twin brother Iphiclus, famed for his incredi

, daughter of Œneus, and sister of Meleager, who was the cause of his death . When Hercules was stopped by the swollen streams

bling round, Their gasping throats with clenching hands he holds; And death entwisted their convoluted folds. Next in red tor

Was not Hercules devoted to female society? Mention the manner of his death . How is Hercules represented? Chapter IV. Jaso

had the box been opened, than the fire burst forth, and burnt her to death , together with her family. — See Fig. 73. Fig. 

led Agamemnon when he returned. She would have put her son Orestes to death ; but his sister Electra delivered him out of her

dying alternately, is founded on their being represented, after their death , by the sign of Gemini; and as one of the two sta

e of Orpheus? To whom was Orpheus married? What did Orpheus do on the death of Eurydice? Did Orpheus perform the condition? W

ere he was hospitably received by Latinus, king of the Latins. On the death of Latinus, Æneas ascended the throne, and with h

cription of his descent into the infernal regions, after his father’s death , to learn from him the fate of himself and of his

ther Atlas. So were the Hyades, because they incessantly lamented the death of their brother Hyas. Hesperus was brother to A

h her son Horus, defeated the conspirators, and avenged her husband’s death . Having recovered the mangled pieces, Isis made a

d his body, and buried it with great pomp in the city of Memphis. His death , which was sometimes natural, produced universal

ter sign, Germanicus, when in Egypt, drew the omen of his approaching death . When his oracle was consulted, incense was burnt

anquished by a usurper, Horus, in conjunction with Isis, revenged his death , and reigned gloriously over all Egypt. The Titan

scure the face of the sun. These circumstances are descriptive of the death of Osiris. In approaching Leo, the sun chases awa

e sun and moon? How is Osiris represented? What was the manner of his death ? How was Iris represented and worshipped? Into wh

r-mace, and the lotos. Yamen or Yama, a son of the sun, is the god of death , king of justice, and judge of departed souls. He

mortality of the soul, in mettempsychosis, that honourable men, after death , became horses and noble quadrupeds, and that mea

ring. Daring the rest of the year, it was forbidden, under penalty of death , to the priestess to go and consult Apollo. Befor

red several days for her to recover from her fatigues. Often a sudden death was the penalty of her enthusiasm. Thus, it appea

e Decemviri were not permitted to let any body see them under pain of death . This first collection of Sibylline oracles, peri

ysteries of redemption, the miracles of the Saviour, his passion, his death , the creation of the world, and the terrestrial p

ombated naked. This usage was adopted, because Callipatira, after the death of her husband, dressed herself after the manner

draw near, he would not await, through the series of a disease, that death which he had so many times braved in battle. Havi

nificence. Such was the end of this man, no less extraordinary in his death than in his life. Some learned men have supposed

r existence to him: the wolf Fenris, the serpent Migdard, and Hela or death , all being enemies of the gods, who, after divers

Odin, called Valhalla, where that god received all who died a violent death , from the beginning of the world down to that gen

eir ministry so consolatory and so necessary. It was not thought that death could break the bonds of blood and friendship. Th

elieved he had his tutelary shade that incessantly followed him. When death was approaching him, the protecting spirit appear

he situation where he was to die, and uttered plaintive cries. At the death of great personages, it was believed that the sou

s resound, it was the shades, who, by that light touch, predicted the death of a great personage. A chief or a king never los

t was the belief in that sublime truth, which caused them to consider death as a sure means of attaining to a more happy life

mong the number of their superstitions, their persuasion that, at the death of great personages, their souls excited storms a

ent motions of nature, all meteors, announced, according to them, the death of a great personage. The Druids delighted in mak

ces. 7. Souls are immortal. 8. Souls pass into other bodies after the death of those which they have animated. 9. If the worl

who arrives last in the assembly of the states is to be punished with death . 14. Children should be raised up until the age o

of families are kings in their houses; and have the power of life and death over their wives, children, and slaves. Such are

hese sublime maxims, that which gave to fathers the right of life and death over their wives, their children, and slaves. Pat

and what the first men? Whence came the commodities of life? What is death , and what becomes of us after death? The answers

the commodities of life? What is death, and what becomes of us after death ? The answers to such questions crystallized thems

ten, charity suffereth long, the waves are angry, time will tell, and death swallows all things. We look unto the hills whenc

rt facts. Jupiter, Odin, and Hercules were accordingly men who, after death , had been glorified, then deified, then invested

ic Hymns to the gods which were composed, by various poets, after the death of Homer, are a source of valuable information co

stories connected with the Trojan War, and the last adventure and the death of Hercules. Of the dramas of Euripides (480 b.c.

r as the point or head of Norse poetry,37 or as a tale concerned with death 38 or as derived from Odde, the home of the reput

begun in the reign of Cronus.58 And when these heroes fell asleep in death , they were translated in a pleasant dream to a sp

her arrows with which she sends upon womankind a speedy and painless death . In her prerogative of moon-goddess she is freque

ter Proserpine, queen of Hades, with the holy ceremonies and rites of death and of the lower world. Of the institutions found

cooperation, scenes were enacted which represented the alternation of death and life in nature, and, apparently, forecast the

ng a Soul to Charon. [Terra-cotta relief: Arch. Zeit.] Here life has death for neighbor, And far from eye or ear Wan waves a

visits the earth in duly recurring season. But when she is goddess of death , sitting beside Pluto, she directs the Furies, an

n them which they used in turn. (b) The Gorgons, whose glance was icy death . (c) The Sirens, muses of the sea and of death, w

, whose glance was icy death. (c) The Sirens, muses of the sea and of death , who by their sweet singing enticed seafarers to

d to be no other than Romulus, the founder of Rome, exalted after his death to a place among the immortals. (4) Bellona, a wa

famous in Greek myth: Minos, who became king of Crete, and after his death a judge in the lower world; Rhadamanthus, who was

leating sheep. The horse groaned at his stall, and died an inglorious death . Everything languished; dead bodies lay in the ro

for the disease attacked them also. At last men learned to look upon death as the only deliverer from disease. All restraint

with extreme cruelty. Finally, when doomed by Dirce to be dragged to death behind a bull, Antiope found means to inform her

s course to make it strike Hyacinthus. § 75. While this youth met his death by accident, another of Apollo’s favorites, his o

eath by accident, another of Apollo’s favorites, his own son, brought death upon himself by presumption. Phaëton 143 was the

ruel sunstroke, by arrows of malarial venom, of manifold sickness and death . The Plague sent upon the Greeks before Troy. —

: was it just To smite them for a beauty such as thine? Deserv’d they death because thy grace appear’d In ever modest motion?

the mothers and children of Argos, especially by such as had lost by death their own beloved. § 79. Æsculapius. — The Thessa

noë) bore to Apollo a child who was named Æsculapius. On his mother’s death the infant was intrusted to the charge of Chiron,

truck the bold physician with lightning and killed him, but after his death received him into the number of the gods.150

n the possession of Alcestis. But Admetus fell ill, and being near to death , Apollo prevailed on the Fates to spare him on co

d, Jupiter gave Endymion, who had been thus honored, a choice between death in any manner that was preferable, or perpetual y

tals glad; For while her limbs were sunk in deadly sleep Most like to death , over her heart ‘gan creep Ill dreams; so that fo

I will be the prize of him only who shall conquer me in the race; but death must be the penalty of all who try and fail.” In

sts on a marble wall. Her competitors were distanced, and were put to death without mercy. Hippomenes, not daunted by this re

ide, first, For she half pitied him so beautiful, Running to meet his death , yet was resolved To conquer: soon she near’d him

s bore his body to the European shore, where Hero became aware of his death , and in her despair cast herself into the, sea an

ing bewilder’d ’mid the dreary sea. ’Tis young Leander toiling to his death . Nigh swooning he doth purse his weary lips For H

nd bloody. “O, hapless girl,” cried he, “I have been the cause of thy death ; but I follow thee!” So saying, he drew his sword

hesitated, she saw the form of her lover struggling in the agonies of death . She screamed and beat her breast, she embraced t

happy parents of us both, deny us not our united request. As love and death have joined us, let one tomb contain us. And thou

s. [Wall painting: H. and P.] The Wanderings of Bacchus. — After the death of Semele,196 Jove took the infant Bacchus and ga

ind him, they brought before the king. Pentheus, threatening him with death , commanded him to tell who he was and what these

in his narrative, when Pentheus, interrupting, ordered him off to his death . But from this fate the pilot, rendered invisible

of Æolus.219 Their reign was happy until the brother of Ceÿx met his death . The direful prodigies that followed this event m

e till they fell into the flame. Every year at the anniversary of his death they celebrated his obsequies in like manner. Aur

rs.222 The kinship of Memnon to the Dawn is certified even after his death . On the banks of the Nile are two colossal statue

ce it, languished for it, and pined until he died. Indeed, even after death , it is said that when his shade passed the Stygia

of life, we give no peace, no rest.” Stillness like the stillness of death sat over the assembly. Suddenly a cry burst from

nd Scylla. [Wall painting: Roscher 10: 1684.] “I plunged for life or death . To interknit One’s senses with so dense a breath

u receivest the merited reward of thy deed, by which Eurydice met her death . To avenge her, the nymphs have sent this destruc

phesied that the son of Danaë would be the means of his grandfather’s death , the hapless girl was shut in an underground cham

tence. Thus are described the horror and the grace of her features in death : — It lieth, gazing on the midnight sky, Upon th

Fiery and lurid, straggling underneath, The agonies of anguish and of death . Yet it is less the horror than the grace Which

rated that all such engagements had been dissolved by the sentence of death passed upon Andromeda, and that if Phineus had ac

isc, falling upon his grandfather’s foot, brought about the old man’s death ; and in that way the prophecy was fulfilled. Of P

uerable hero, but adding a request to his father-in-law to put him to death . For Proetus, suspecting that his wife Antea look

the boys were either despatched to the neighboring nations or put to death . Hippolyta, the queen, received Hercules kindly,

wrestle with him, on condition that if conquered, they should suffer death . Hercules encountered him, and finding that it wa

he upwards to celestial brightness, Earth’s dark heavy burden lost in death . High Olympus gives harmonious greeting To the ha

rib, sheer through bulk and bone, Deep in; and deeply smitten, and to death , The heavy horror with his hanging shafts Leapt,

, in the sixth generation. A son of Jupiter and Europa, he was, after death , transferred, with his brother Rhadamanthus and w

one of the daughters of Cocalus disposed of Minos by scalding him to death while he was bathing. It is said that Dædalus cou

gainst the Marathonian bull, and so had brought about the young man’s death . Fig. 89. Theseus and the Minotaur. [Wall pain

er countenance flashed into whiteness, What time Theseus marched unto death or to glory undying, Manful, minded to quell the

yea, all things summoning deathward! Yet mine eyes shall not fade in death that sealeth the eyelids, Nor from the frame outw

rtal lover. The blooming god of the vine wooed and won her. After her death , the golden crown that he had given her was trans

left Pirithoüs to his fate. § 157. Phædra and Hippolytus. — After the death of Antiope, Theseus married Phædra, sister of the

at first received him kindly, but afterwards treacherously put him to death . Chapter XXII. The House of Labdacus. § 158

rward, Œdipus, learning from an oracle that he was destined to be the death of his father, left the realm of his reputed sire

l in submission to the ways of God, Œdipus approached the hour of his death in Colonus, a village near Athens. His friend The

y of Polynices to lie where it fell, forbidding every one, on pain of death , to give it burial. § 164. Antigone,339 the siste

r whoso lives, as I, in many woes, How can it be but he shall gain by death ? And so for me to bear this doom of thine Has not

s nothing fearful. But, if I had left My mother’s son unburied on his death , In that I should have suffered; but in this I su

not survive her, and fell by his own hand. It is only after his son’s death , and as he gazes upon the corpses of the lovers,

hed during the flight. Alcmæon, returning to Argos, put his mother to death , but in consequence repeated in his own experienc

y afloat; The crowds, the temples, wavered, and the shore; The bright death quivered at the victim’s throat; Touched; and I k

st tenderly attached to him. The story runs that when the news of his death reached her, she implored the gods for leave to c

d for some one whom he might despatch to Achilles .to tell him of the death of his friend and of the imminent danger of his r

Ajax sent Antilochus to Achilles with the intelligence of Patroclus’ death , and of the conflict raging for his remains; and

hilles. — The first glow of pleasure that Achilles had felt since the death of Patroclus was at the sight of this splendid ar

his queen, and all his friends, who lamented him as going to certain death . Priam in the Tent of Achilles. — But Jupiter, b

y. § 169. The Fall of Troy. — The story of the Iliad ends with the death of Hector, and it is from the Odyssey and later p

and later poems that we learn the fate of the other heroes. After the death of Hector, Troy did not immediately fall, but rec

lded to the might of Venus and deserted him for another.367 After the death of Paris, she aided the Greeks secretly on severa

minded her brother by messengers of the duty of avenging his father’s death ; he, too, when he reached maturity, consulted the

, pretending to be a messenger from Strophius, who would announce the death of Orestes. He brought with him what purported to

th, but Pygmalion, who coveted his treasures, caused him to be put to death . Dido, with a numerous body of friends and follow

ose who had died by their own hand, hating life and seeking refuge in death . O, how willingly would they now endure poverty,

ho had fallen victims to unrequited love, not freed from pain even by death itself. Among these, Æneas thought he descried th

racted by the spiritual part. This impurity must be purged away after death , which is done by ventilating the souls in the cu

-side, and had washed his wound. Soon the news reached him of Lausus’ death , and rage and despair supplied the place of stren

l those who have fallen bravely in battle, for all who die a peaceful death are excluded. The flesh of the boar Serimnir is s

, could have given such counsel, and that he should be put to a cruel death unless he contrived some way to prevent the artif

For all the nobler souls of mortal men On battle field have met their death , and now Feast in Valhalla, in my father’s hall;

ver Gyoll’s bridge, and yonder lieth the way he took to the abodes of death .” Hermod pursued his journey until he came to th

fleet-footed Hermod made reply: — 392 “Thou hast then all the solace death allows, Esteem and function; and so far is well.

iotli, poisoned him with a horn of ale. Then Sigmund sorrowed nigh to death over his son, and drove away that queen, and soon

death-heap his deeds had piled that day. To Hiordis, after Sigmund’s death , was born Sigurd, like whom was never man for com

the blood of Odin’s Sleipnir, he avenged upon the sons of Hunding the death of his father. This done, Sigurd rode to Glistenh

poused the cause in battle of those whom the Norns had predestined to death . Her might none but the fearless awaken; and her

, And rose up on the sword of Guttorm, and turned from the country of death , And spake words of loving-kindness as he strove

Finally Gudrun sent her sons by Jonakr to avenge their half-sister’s death ; and so bereft of all her kin, and consumed with

King Jormunrek, the murderer of Swanhild, but were themselves done to death , by the counsel and aid of a certain man, seeming

d vengeance. Siegfried, the author of her mortification, must die the death . The foes of Siegfried persuaded his wife, unawar

h blood were all bedabbled the flowerets of the field. Some time with death he struggled as though he scorned to yield E’en t

ished by his political opponents 1302, he remained in exile until his death , which took place in Ravenna, 1321. His Vita Nuov

of herbs in spring), but from the Greek form Persephone, a bringer of death . The later name Pherephatta refers to the doves (

rs of corn as symbol of vegetation, poppies as symbol of the sleep of death , the pomegranate as the fruit of the underworld o

t of the myth, Jove takes the child Dionysus (Bacchus) after Semele’s death , and sews him up in his thigh for safe keeping. P

pe of immortality. Illustrative. — Keats, Endymion, “Pitying the sad death Of Hyacinthus, when the cool breath Of Zephyr sle

r (Iliad 24: 611), there were six sons and six daughters. After their death no one could bury them, since all who looked on t

Blackmore used to rhyme, And, if the wits don’t do him wrong, ‘Twixt death and epics passed his time, Scribbling and killing

hip of men. Chiron was the wisest and justest of the Centaurs. At his death he was placed by Jupiter among the stars as the c

thousand to atone,” — the truth that was exemplified by the life and death of Christ. Koré (the daughter of Ceres): Proserpi

e grave, Whom Jove’s great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint.” Chaucer, Leg.

right dawn at the touch of the fiery rays of the sun, and at last her death or disappearance in the lap of her mother, the ea

ng, and whom his mistress, the goddess of fertility, seeks, after his death , in the lower regions. With their departure, all

probable that the initiated were instructed in the nature of life and death , and consoled with the hope of immortality ( Prel

edonia. Interpretative. — The loss of Eurydice may signify (like the death of Adonis and the rape of Proserpine) the departu

by Aurora, the dawn. The concealment of Procris in the forest and her death would, then, signify the paling of the moon befor

ck cloud of the heavenly vault, the Gorgon, whose aspect is night and death . The Grææ and the Gorgons may, with greater proba

mphalian) birds and the giant Cacus. Finally, the scene of the hero’s death is a “picture of a sunset in wild confusion, the

omancy than she. The Robe of Medea is the Fleece in another form. The death of Glauce suggests that of Hercules (in the flami

none; also the Death of Œnone, which is not so good. The story of the death of Corythus, the son of Œnone and Paris, at the h

urus: see Scott’s Marmion, Introd. to Canto I. (with reference to the death of William Pitt). In Art. — P. Guérin’s painting

ic Theodoric was not born until two years after the historic Attila’s death . These historic figures were, of course, merely s

is connected with Niflheim, the kingdom of Hela, the shadowy realm of death . The earth, that gathers to her bosom the dead, c

or that, possessing the riches of mortality, march toward the land of death . A Few Rules for the English Pronunciation of

297; slays Hector and drags his body, 298-300; A. and Priam, 301,302; death of A., 303, 304; Com. §§ 165 (1) genealogy; 168.

nce with Evander, 357; infant Rome, 358; Nisus and Euryalus, 360-363; death of Mezentius, 363; of Pallas and Camilla, 364; th

uarrel with Achilles, 290; reconciliation, 297; return to Greece, and death , 310; Com. § 165 (2) genealogy; § 167. Aga′ve, 11

wning, Balaustion’s Adventure; Index of Authors. Balder, 32, 369; the death of, 380-391; extracts from M. Arn.; Id’s Balder D

espot who sacrificed all strangers entering his realm, but was put to death by Hercules. Bu′to: an Egyptian goddess identifie

fe of good with evil, the course of human life, and of the life after death . O. is represented as a mummy crowned with the Eg

e certain distinguishing marks; he was treated like a god; and on his death (he was drowned at twenty-five years of age) the

ied with Samson, 12, 27, 42; son of Alc-mene, 92; saves Alcestis from death , 133-136 I passage from Browning’s Balaustion’s A

oits, 239; loss of Hylas, 240; expedition against Laomedon, 240, 241; death , 241-243; 245, 255, 260, 266, 304, 357; Com. §§ 2

ing happily effected, Æpytus, aided by his mother, put Polyphontes to death , and took possession of the kingdom. Sources: Hyg

ither mortals favored by the gods were transported without tasting of death , to enjoy an immortality of bliss. This happy reg

d to be no other than Romulus, the founder of Rome, exalted after his death to a place among the gods. Bellona, a war goddess

and bloody. “O hapless girl,” said he, “I have been the cause of thy death ! Thou, more worthy of life than I, hast fallen th

le she hesitated she saw the form of one struggling in the agonies of death . She started back, a shudder ran through her fram

ve for once, and my love is as strong as thine. I will follow thee in death , for I have been the cause; and death which alone

as thine. I will follow thee in death, for I have been the cause; and death which alone could part us shall not prevent my jo

happy parents of us both, deny us not our united request. As love and death have joined us, let one tomb contain us. And thou

o revive and not to leave him miserable, to reproach himself with her death . She opened her feeble eyes, and forced herself t

unt of his feelings after his “sea-change:” — “I plunged for life or death . To interknit One’s senses with so dense a breath

riumph; memorials of my grief shall endure, and the spectacle of your death , my Adonis, and of my lamentations shall be annua

ight watch the quoit-pitchers, intent On either side, pitying the sad death Of Hyacinthus, when the cruel breath Of Zephyr sl

he loss of his brother, and direful prodigies following his brother’s death made him feel as if the gods were hostile to him.

er, and lighting up all with a glare. Skill fails, courage sinks, and death seems to come on every wave. The men are stupefie

his eyes, he said, “Do you recognize your Ceyx, unhappy wife, or has death too much changed my visage? Behold me, know me, y

uld have had no remnant of life to spend without thee, nor a separate death to die. If I could bear to live and struggle to e

e, unhappy husband. This time, at least, I will keep thee company. In death , if one tomb may not include us, one epitaph shal

left me but with life. Nor will I leave it to rumor to tell you of my death . I will come myself, and you shall see me die, an

, he exclaimed, “O faithful friends, I will avenge you, or share your death .” So saying he lifted a huge stone and threw it w

its side. His weight bent the tree as he struggled in the agonies of death . While Cadmus stood over his conquered foe, conte

ted the palm no more, but groaned at his stall and died an inglorious death . The wild boar forgot his rage, the stag his swif

ms. At last all hope of relief vanished, and men learned to look upon death as the only deliverer from disease. Then they gav

rned their dying eyes around to take a last look, then closed them in death . “What heart had I left me, during all this, or w

s bore his body to the European shore, where Hero became aware of his death , and in her despair cast herself down from a towe

ckmore used to rhyme,     And, if the wits don’t do him wrong, ’Twixt death and epics passed his time,     Scribbling and kil

had told him that his daughter’s child would be the instrument of his death , caused the mother and child to be shut up in a c

n by a projecting fragment, as the monster floated near he gave him a death stroke. The people who had gathered on the shore

.” Cassiopeia is called “the starred Æthiop queen” because after her death she was placed among the stars, forming the const

of the gods dooming her to such a fate dissolved all engagements, as death itself would have done.” Phineus made no reply, b

, but added at the close a request to his father-in-law to put him to death . The reason was that Prœtus was jealous of him, s

his instance of Bellerophon being unconsciously the bearer of his own death warrant, the expression “Bellerophontic letters”

ruck the bold physician with lightning, and killed him, but after his death received him into the number of the gods. Chiron

ds. Chiron was the wisest and justest of all the Centaurs, and at his death Jupiter placed him among the stars as the constel

? Brothers forgive a mother’s weakness! my hand fails me. He deserves death , but not that I should destroy him. But shall he

oys him. He mourns only that he perishes by a bloodless and unhonored death . With his last breath he calls upon his aged fath

, — “I will be the prize of him who shall conquer me in the race; but death must be the penalty of all who try and fail.” In

on a marble wall. All her competitors were distanced, and were put to death without mercy. Hippomenes, not daunted by this re

; the boys were either sent away to the neighboring nations or put to death . Hercules was accompanied by a number of voluntee

condition that if conquered (as they all were) they should be put to death . Hercules encountered him, and finding that it wa

he upwards to celestial brightness, Earth’s dark heavy burden lost in death . High Olympus gives harmonious greeting To the ha

rived and liberated Theseus, leaving Pirithous to his fate. After the death of Antiope, Theseus married Phaedra, daughter of

les in the hedges, and mindful of his fall, avoids high places.   The death of Icarus is told in the following lines by Darwi

ith wrathful countenance, said, “Fellow! you shall speedily be put to death , that your fate may be a warning to others; but t

his limbs, and he strove to nourish his body by eating his body, till death relieved him from the vengeance of Ceres. Rhœc

s they lived; their only fate Was ripe old age, and rather sleep than death .” The Camenæ. By this name the Latins desi

which he imbodied in the institutions of his rising nation. After the death of Numa the nymph pined away and was changed into

n the possession of Alcestis. But Admetus fell ill, and being near to death , Apollo prevailed on the Fates to spare him on co

ave,     Whom Jove’s great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint.” J. R. Lowell

dy of Polynices to lie where it fell, forbidding every one on pain of death to give it burial. Antigone, the sister of Polyni

aders. The following is the lamentation of Antigone over Œdipus, when death has at last relieved him from his sufferings: —

h you. If you deny me I cannot return alone; you shall triumph in the death of us both.” As he sang these tender strains, the

the Bacchanals’ cries;                 Ah, see, he dies! Yet even in death Eurydice he sung, Eurydice still trembled on his

u receive the merited reward of your deeds, by which Eurydice met her death , for in flying from you she trod upon a serpent,

om you she trod upon a serpent, of whose bite she died. To avenge her death , the nymphs, her companions, have sent this destr

ay die, as I have lived, as becomes a bard. When I shall have sung my death song, and my harp-strings shall have ceased to vi

o voice but yours answers to my cry.” So saying he closed his eyes in death . The body, despoiled and mangled, was found, and

g, and moved in solemn cadence, while stillness like the stillness of death sat over the whole assembly as if in the presence

a life spent more in dreams than in reality, and an early and welcome death . —  S. G. B. The Endymion of Keats is a wild and

e till they fell into the flame. Every year at the anniversary of his death they return and celebrate his obsequies in like m

Laodamia, who was most tenderly attached to him. When the news of his death reached her she implored the gods to be allowed t

nd for some one whom he might despatch to Achilles to tell him of the death of his friend, and of the imminent danger that hi

Ajax sent Antilochus to Achilles with the intelligence of Patroclus’s death , and of the conflict raging for his remains. The

n of day. The first glow of pleasure that Achilles had felt since the death of Patroclus was at the sight of this splendid ar

his queen, and all his friends, who lamented him as going to certain death . But Jupiter, beholding with compassion the vener

ctra. The Fall of Troy. The story of the Iliad ends with the death of Hector, and it is from the Odyssey and later p

and later poems that we learn the fate of the other heroes. After the death of Hector, Troy did not immediately fall, but rec

yielded to the might of Venus and deserted him for another. After the death of Paris she aided the Greeks secretly on several

minded her brother by messengers of the duty of avenging his father’s death , and when grown up he consulted the oracle of Del

ending to be a messenger from Strophius, who had come to announce the death of Orestes, and brought the ashes of the deceased

th, but Pygmalion, who coveted his treasures, caused him to be put to death . Dido, with a numerous body of friends and follow

and second married state! One husband caused thy flight by dying, Thy death the other caused by flying.” Palinurus. Af

ion, Introduction to Canto I., where the poet, speaking of the recent death of William Pitt, says, — “O, think how, to his l

eath of William Pitt, says, — “O, think how, to his latest day, When death just hovering claimed his prey, With Palinure’s u

ose who had died by their own hand, hating life and seeking refuge in death . O how willingly would they now endure poverty, l

ho had fallen victims to unrequited love, not freed from pain even by death itself. Among these, Æneas thought he descried th

racted by the spiritual part. This impurity must be purged away after death , which is done by ventilating the souls in the cu

iverside, and washed his wound. Soon the news reached him of Lausus’s death , and rage and despair supplied the place of stren

nd afterwards eating the whole of it in a single day. The mode of his death is thus related: As he was passing through a fore

was supposed always to inhabit the body of the bull Apis, and at his death to transfer itself to his successor. Apis, the Bu

e sacred cistern and then buried him in the temple of Serapis. On the death of this bull, whether it occurred in the course o

their look caused an instant horror which was immediately followed by death . In Shakspere’s play of Richard the Third, Lady A

he heard the cock crow he expired. The basilisk was of some use after death . Thus we read that its carcass was suspended in t

l those who have fallen bravely in battle, for all who die a peaceful death are excluded. The flesh of the boar Schrimnir is

uld have given such bad counsel, and that he should be put to a cruel death if he did not contrive some way to prevent the ar

ver Gyoll’s bridge, and yonder lieth the way he took to the abodes of death .” Hermod pursued his journey until he came to the

be found a poem entitled Tegner’s Drapa, upon the subject of Baldur’s death .

duty, or violated her vows, nothing could save her from the dreadful death of being buried alive. What was the temple of Ves

sions; and to release the souls of females struggling in the pangs of death . She is the personification of the rainbow. Ch

d giants, who forged Jupiter’s thunder-bolts, in order to revenge the death of his son Esculapius, who was killed by thunder,

ched into gold. In consequence of this, Midas being almost starved to death , entreated the God to deprive him of the dangerou

arnage. How was he depicted? As a formidable armed warrior, breathing death and destruction. He rides in a chariot drawn by h

Auster’s sultry breath, Pregnant with plagues, and shedding seeds of death , Beneath the rage of burning Sirius rise, Choke t

ites, or chases, sleep with wond’rous pow’r, And opes those eyes that death had seal’d before. Thus arm’d, on wings of wind s

d a host of dreadful forms; diseases, terror, old age, hunger, sleep, death , war, discord, and the furies, the avengers of gu

uls of infants who expired as soon as born; then those who are put to death unjustly, or who killed themselves. Beyond them,

ng to the Grecian Mercury; took charge of the body, immediately after death . Another, who wore a mask resembling three heads,

in their life-time, performed illustrious actions, were, after their death , placed in the rank of subordinate Deities; had t

e sea monster, to which she was exposed. At last, he burnt himself to death on a funeral pile, formed of trees, which he had

his successive material coverings are worn out, and are dissolved by death . Are there not found, in most of the Pagan mythol

radiated weapon, the war-mace, and the lotos. Yama or Yamen, God of death . He is esteemed to be a child of the sun, and the

ho was slain by the treachery of Typhon his wicked brother; but whose death was avenged by Horus, his son, and Isis his conso

as vanquished by Typhon, aided by Isis his mother, Horus revenged his death , expelled the usurper, and reigned gloriously ove

urper, and reigned gloriously over all Egypt. The Titans put Horus to death ; but Isis, who possessed the greatest skill in th

equently suffocate travellers. This circumstance was described by the death of Osīris, and the triumph of Typhon. When the su

destroyed accidentally, the unfortunate author of the deed was put to death by the multitude, without form of law. When a hou

his circumstance happened, it excited a general lamentation. Upon the death of a cat, every inmate of the house in which the

tion.” It did not consecrate the horrible symbols of destruction, of death , of licentiousness; but the most beautiful and be

even to wound their trunk, was accounted sacrilege, and punished with death . These oaks were sprinkled with the blood of the

hings; the wind, as the cause of life; and the sword, as the cause of death , were likewise venerated by them. A being, named

id, finally, to have retired into Sweden, and feeling the approach of death , and wishing to meet it, as he had often braved i

ous enemy of Gods and men. Here resided Hela, the dreadful Goddess of death , daughter of the evil genius Loke, and the giante

nder that name, or the appellation of Attis or Atys, and his supposed death by the tusk of a wild boar was annually lamented

4 Heimdāl, a Scandinavian deity 202 Hēla, the Scandinavian goddess of death 204 Hēlĭǎdĕs, daughters of Sol 38 Hĕlĭcŏnĭdĕs, a

The Wonders of the World 118 Y Yāma, or Yamen, the Hindû god of death 136 Z Zend-Avesta, the sacred book of the P

ll. Crimes, frauds, and murders, are the fiend’s delight, The rage of death , and slaughters of the fight. So fierce her looks

ull on the crest the Gorgon’s head they place, With eyes that roll in death , and with distorted face.” Pope. Æ′gle [Ægle].

he was hospitably received by Latinus, king of the Latins. After the death of Latinus Æneas became king. “His back, or rath

equested Jupiter to kill him with a thunderbolt. To revenge his son’s death Apollo slew the Cyclops who had forged the thunde

the earth, so Hercules lifted him off the ground and squeezed him to death . An′teros [Anteros], one of the two Cupids, sons

yg′nus [Cygnus], the bosom friend of Phaeton. He died of grief on the death of his friend, and was turned into a swan. Cyll′

suggested to Numa all his wise laws. She became his wife, and at his death was so disconsolate, and shed so many tears, that

Jewish mythology is the prince of fire and thunder, and the angel of death to the favored people of God. Galatæ′a [Galatæa]

rta, but eloped with Paris, and thus caused the Trojan War. After the death of Paris she married Deiphobus, his brother, and

des], were the daughters of Sol, and the sisters of Phaeton, at whose death they were so sad that they stood mourning till th

feats are mentioned under other headings, as Antæus, Cacus, etc. His death was brought about through his endeavors to preser

Osiris, and won such good opinions from the Egyptians that after her death she was worshiped as the goddess Isis. Iola′us [

ne of the priests of Apollo, who was, with his two sons, strangled to death by serpents, because he opposed the admission of

Pollux, their father being Jupiter, in the shape of a swan. After her death she received the name of Nemesis. Lem′nius [Lemn

enged Apollo to a musical contest, and, being defeated, was flayed to death by the god. He was the supposed inventor of the f

tragedy. Mem′non [Memnon], son of Tithonus and of Eos, who after the death of Hector brought the Æthiopians to the assistanc

y. Ocrid′ion [Ocridion]. A king of Rhodes, who was deified after his death . Ocy′pete [Ocypete]. One of the Harpies, who inf

mpanions of Jason on his Argonautic expedition. He was present at the death of Hercules, and received from him the poisoned a

the first moment of his vital breath, To the last hour of unrepenting death .” Dryden. Rhamnu′sia [Rhamnusia]. A name of Ne

cial request, in all his terrible splendor. She was deified after her death , and named Thyone. Semi-Dei were the demi-gods.

ms (certain fish and animals) were thrown into the fire and burned to death . W War, see Bellona, Chemos, Mars. Water,

h (argilla)21, may be divided into two words (Argi letum), signifying death of Argus ; and hence arose a legend noticed by Vi

termed sparks, sons of the burning coal ; one who is to die, a son of death . The Arabs call a traveller, a son of the way ; a

sequence charged with atheism, and narrowly escaped the punishment of death . Philosophers took warning, and truth was no long

the lord of the whole world and the benefactor of mankind. After his death he was deified by his grateful subjects. We will

commencing with the marriage of Heaven and Earth, and ending with the death of Odysseus. This was named the Epic Cycle, and i

relatives of the king of the gods were transported without tasting of death , to enjoy an immortality of bliss. Thus Proteus s

stem, unlike those of Asia and Scandinavia, excluding the idea of the death of a god) ; causes with them becoming parents, ef

y. The sovereign of Olympos assented, and Tithonos became exempt from death  ; but the love-sick goddess, having forgotten to

pointed to officiate in that temple, and that they might be united in death as in life. Their prayer was granted, and as they

y, while the bow and arrows are a natural symbol of the god who sends death from afar ; that nothing can be concluded from hi

have believed them to have been really and not metaphorically put to death . And in truth it is not easy to give a satisfacto

the flame of the lamp or candle, in which it so frequently finds its death , reminds a mystic philosopher of the fate of the

02, had slain Medusa, her two remaining sisters bitterly lamented her death . The snakes which formed their ringlets mourned i

hem, and of the favour of the gods in life, and the cheerful hopes in death , which were the consequence of it. Hence occasion

n never divest himself of the belief of his continued existence after death , a vivid hope of enjoying bliss in the next life.

uts so as to be heard at either extremity. When Ares1071 hears of the death of his son Ascalaphos, Terror and Fear are comman

ing her intimacy with Attis, seized that unhappy youth and put him to death . Grief deprived Cybele of her reason : with dishe

ed grove Men call them, and with iron never cut. But when the Fate of death is drawing near, First wither on the earth the be

and die ; a new generation is ever filling up the vacancies caused by death  ; races migrate ; where population once flourishe

ruled in heaven. They lived like gods, free from toils and care, and death was to them a sinking into gentle slumber ; and w

heroes who correspond to the golden race are like them rewarded after death , but in an inferior degree : the iron are menaced

original narrative the three races were represented as becoming after death three different classes of spirits, the golden ce

pride and haughtiness and extreme reliance on his powers hurry man to death . It is said by later writers that for his share i

lias had driven his father and mother to self-destruction, and put to death their remaining child. Desirous of revenge, Iasôn

d against her and resolved to put her children (seven of each sex) to death . The children fled to the temple of Hera, but the

s believed the charge, but not thinking that he could lawfully put to death one whom he had purified, invited him to join in

d, but in vain ; and the Centaurs coming on him would have put him to death , but for Cheirôn, who saved him, and then looked

d the Dioscuri, according to others, who add that he put Hippolyta to death and marched his troops into the town between her

. The splendid robe also, which when poisoned by Deïaneira caused the death of the hero, was the gift of Ceÿx. The fable of C

ople. A general hunt was proclaimed, and the boar was slain ; but the death of Meleagros the brave son of Œneus was the conse

Œneus was the consequence. Althæa did not long survive her son, whose death she had caused. After her death Œneus married Per

a did not long survive her son, whose death she had caused. After her death Œneus married Peribœa the daughter of Hipponoös,

n in the fight, had with tears invoked Aides and Persephoneia to send death to her son. The elders of the Ætolians supplicate

chest. But now her love for her son giving way to resentment for the death of her brothers, she took the billet from its pla

e, where Thasos founded a town also named from himself1623. After the death of his mother Cadmos went to Delphi, to inquire o

sian breezes breathed over the isle, and the evil departed. After his death he was deified by the people of Ceos1645. Virgil1

urydice the wife of Orpheus ; his pursuit of her, and her unfortunate death  ; on which the Napæan nymphs, her companions, des

o her at the chase1648 ; while others ascribed his transformation and death to the jealousy of Zeus, who feared he would marr

eter and Kora. Ζῆθος καὶ Ἀμϕίων. Zethus et Amphion. After the death of Pentheus Thebes was governed by Polydoros the

Pentheus, he enrolled them among the citizens of Thebes. Lycos on the death of Labdacos was chosen polemarch by the Thebans ;

son Chrysippos he instructed in the art of driving a chariot. On the death of Amphiôn he succeeded to the throne of Thebes ;

warned him against having children, declaring that he would meet his death by means of his offspring. He long abstained from

gly accomplished the former part of the oracle. Immediately after the death of Laïos, Hera, always hostile to the city of Dio

in a dying state to Orchomenos, charged his son Erginos to avenge his death . Erginos in consequence led an army against the T

expressing his willingness to die for Prometheus, he was released by death from his misery. The other Centaurs fled to diffe

h sticks and beat him to death1776. Heracles therefore, to avenge his death , collected an army. At Tegea in Arcadia he asked

lled him1780. As it was evidently an accident, the father forgave the death of his son ; but Heracles resolved to banish hims

greatest and most rare of all in the heroic age, — the conquest over death . This is represented by his descent into the unde

f Geryoneus, whom with Hecatæus he places in Epeiros, and finally the death on the summit of Œta. He thinks that the Peloponn

as made the scene of the legend. Ἐρϵχθϵύς. Erechtheus. On the death of Pandiôn his sons Erechtheus and Butes divided

four tribes of Attica were named. Πανδίων. Pandion II. On the death of Erechtheus the sceptre passed to his son Cecro

waged by Minôs king of Crete against the Athenians, on account of the death of his son Androgeôs, Megara was besieged, and it

ere to be celebrated by Laïos. Minôs made war on Athens to avenge the death of his son. Megara fell as above related. Athens

editated wresting it from his feeble grasp. Thinking however that his death could not be very remote, they resolved to wait f

end in a bolder and more perilous attempt : for Peirithoös, after the death of Hippodameia, resolved to venture on the daring

e everlastingly in punishment of his audacious attempt1847. After the death of Antiope, who had borne him a son named Hippoly

to Lycomedes, king of the island of Scyros, and there he met with his death , either by accident or by the treachery of his ho

to her falsehood, but would not incur the reproach of putting him to death , as she desired. He therefore sent Bellerophontes

h he was to present to the king of Lycia, and which were to cause his death . Beneath the potent guidance of the gods Bellerop

r to the earth, where he wandered in solitude and melancholy till his death . Though Homer makes no mention of Pegasos, this s

eprived her of life : he also took vengeance on the murderers for the death of Apis. When Io had been changed into a cow, Her

orth his daughter and her nurse ; and putting the latter instantly to death , drew Danae in private with her son to the altar

cattle. A fight ensued, in which all the sons of Electryôn met their death except Licymnios, who was still a child, and all

em to Elis, and redeemed them ; for Electryôn, desirous to avenge the death of his sons, had given to Amphitryôn the kingdom

d he died, and the islands were conquered1965. Amphitryôn, putting to death Comætho, sailed with his booty to Thebes, giving

all see, her frailty caused the war of Troy. It was fabled that after death Helena was united in marriage with Achilleus in t

to the Tyndarids, to give a mythic ground for the alternate life and death of these last, or possibly because in the legend

21. Τυρώ. Tyro. Tyro the daughter of Salmoneus was, after the death of her father, brought up in Thessaly by his brot

plaint flung him into the sea2067. To the vengeance of Hermes for the death of his son were ascribed all the future woes of t

perish by means of one another. They retired to Mideia, whence on the death of Pelops Atreus came with an army to Elis and to

father. Atreus taking the youth to be the son of Thyestes put him to death , and the curse of Pelops thus began to be accompl

. Atreus then called Ægisthos, and directed him to put the captive to death . Ægisthos went to the prison, bearing the sword w

t to Atreus as a proof of having obeyed his commands. Rejoiced at the death , as he thought, of his brother, Atreus offered a

hædra. The Cretans hesitating to give him the royal dignity after the death of Asteriôn, to prove his claim to it he asserted

er the ground, and Oriôn unable to find him retired to Crete2128. The death of Oriôn is differently related. As all the legen

he Scorpion led to the Alexandrian fiction of the mode of the hero' s death . The story of Oriôn and Œnopiôn is perhaps explic

rmed the usual rites of purification to remove the blood-guilt of the death of Apsyrtos. The heroes then departed. Ere long t

as well as his father, consulted Apollo, and by his advice put her to death . He was immediately assailed by her Erinnys. In p

s attachment struck him with lightning2190. Dardanos afflicted at the death of his brother left Samothrace, where they had dw

rt of his territory, on which he built a town called Dardanos. On the death of Teucros, he named the whole country Dardania.

Patroclos at last falls by the hand of Hectôr. Rage and grief at the death of his friend overcome the wrath of Achilleus. He

ed his chaste spouse Penelope and wasted his substance2238. After the death of the suitors Odysseus having offered a sacrific

by Athena, and Apollo interfered to terminate the contest. After the death of Callidice Odysseus gave the kingdom to his son

ays Plutarch2316, the one and the same goddess superintends birth and death . A temple of Venus at Rome was built with the fin

z. Lyc. 175. 1535. Pind. Pyth. iv. 193. seq. Others said that on the death of Æsôn Pelias reigned as guardian to the infant

yas. He says that the earliest author extant who mentioned Meleagros’ death by the billet, was the tragedian Phrynichus in hi

Iocasta ?) was ended, he adds, Œdipûs married Eurygeneia, and on her death Astymedusa the daughter of Sthenelos. 1692. Athe

n occasion to it — long continued. While it was absent no sentence of death could be executed in Athens ; because, as it was

meaning of αἰολόμητιs is swift. 1877. Μέροπεs, mortals, from μόροs death  ; οψ is a mere adjectival ending. 1878. For all

is father, etc.” for the subject of the Euryalos of Sophocles was the death of a son of Odysseus, whose birth was somewhat li

ld displease the gods, and that they would be punished by sickness or death or some other evil; but if they did what was righ

efused, the women flew into a rage, and fell upon him, and put him to death with stones and arrows. Cruel, mad women they wer

ed in rapture to his music, grew pale and thin with grieving over his death . But Orpheus himself, with a happy heart, crossed

eart. William Shakspeare . Eurydice He came to call me back from death     To the bright world above; I hear him yet wit

g to do the boy an honor, he thought he was really sending him to his death . Now after poor Perseus left the palace, he began

ith its hundred starry eyes. Juno grieved sadly when she heard of the death of her favorite, and she set his eyes in the tail

ordering a friend to set fire to the mighty pile, calmly awaited his death . The flames leaped and roared and mounted ever hi

hought of Perdix, whom he had so cruelly killed, and he felt that the death of his own son was his punishment for that wicked

her. When King Minos saw his murdered son, and heard the story of his death , he wept for many a day, and vowed that he would

ng Minos was coming against Athens with a mighty army, to avenge the. death of his son. So all of a sudden the feasting in me

e city without falling into the enemy’s hands. Many people starved to death , and all the men were so weak from hunger that th

“my heart grieves for you and your friends who must die this dreadful death . You are brave and strong, and your sword is shar

ank beneath the raging waters. Ceyx alone clung to a spar and escaped death for a time. As he drifted along, now rising on th

ice to the gods. As they neared the spot where they were to be put to death , suddenly there came flying from the heavens a go

olchis went in a great crowd to the field where Jason was to meet his death , as they thought. In the midst of them sat the ki

st he died of grief. Apollo grieved much over his little friend’s sad death ; he wept over the lifeless body, and loosed the b

ll mourn for others, and shall henceforth be the emblem of sorrow and death .” Then Apollo changed Cyparissus into a cypress t

sang of peace and freedom, Sang of beauty, love, and longing; Sang of death and life undying In the land of the Hereafter.

d her out. Then began the upward climb. The descent into the world of death is easy, but the return — this is the work, this

o whom his own life was not sweeter, and so Admetus came very near to death . But Alcestis prayed silently to Apollo in the ni

shed. In the midst of their sorrow, when Alcestis was on the verge of death , who should come to the palace but Hercules? He w

ow of Death was over Admetus’ house. The truth is, Hercules had faced death so often that he hardly noticed it. Admetus led h

r’s guests with beaming, cheerful faces. Why this great ado about the death of a stranger? All men must die. No one can fores

metus who she was. She herself spoke never a word, for 'the shadow of death still hovered over her. “Take this captive of min

tiful maidens to feed the Minotaur. Thus do we pay King Minos for the death of his son.” “Tell me about it,” said Theseus. “I

inotaur was slain, he was filled with rage. “They shall all be put to death ,” he said furiously, “and Ariadne with them, sinc

d. The chieftains returned disappointed to their ships. Bloodshed and death and the destruction of towns began. The peaceful

brought the sad tidings to Achilles; and when. Achilles heard of the death of Patroclus, whom he loved above all men, he cas

nor shall I rest until I have slain the mighty Hector and avenged the death of Patroclus.” Then Achilles arose and went forth

fe and once more fight side by side against the Trojans. I would that death had carried off Briseis, my beloved slave, rather

s fighting before the walls, a chance arrow struck him and caused his death . After that, the war dragged. The Greeks were una

tale of suffering, and of how he had fled into the marshes to escape death at the hands of the Greeks, who hated him. King P

us and sailed back to Sparta. Her heart was sad for all the grief and death she had caused. But up in the glorious halls of O

nd either with a lyre (as musician) or with a bow or snake (as god of death and of healing). Arca΄dia. Province of Greece, 5

Crete, 158; gave Theseus the clue to the labyrinth, 161; condemned to death by her father, she left Crete with Theseus, 166.

eved, 208,213. Cas΄tor. Son of Leda; twin brother of Pollux, 181. At death , the brothers became gods and were the protectors

Pollux were brothers of Helen. They were famous heroes, and, at their death , became gods.

agans believe in Heaven and Hell, where the good and the bad go after death . Mother. Yes; they called their heaven Elysium,

ure, has done this.” “Your pleasure, then,” replied the goddess, “was death and destruction, but mine is to bestow comfort an

that in the same hour we may cease to breathe.” “We beg one hour of death , that neither she With widow’s tears may live to

helpers and comforters like Baucis, and their husbands constant till death , like Philemon. “The good, said they, are God’s

Her mother gives her a book, and Ann reads.) “Thou wast not born for death , immortal bird!    No hungry generations tread th

their lives had been of no service to others, had their portion after death . The near approach to Hades was through a melanch

breathe the upper air to enjoy a few comforts; soon will the hand of death compel them to this dreary world below. But the j

loved grandson, and soon convinced Agave that she was exulting in the death of her son. Too late, Agave saw the atrocity of s

restore life to the dead. Cadmus grieved bitterly for the undeserved death of Pentheus. One of the Greek poets thus describe

, the hideous head. As soon as Polydectes saw it, he was petrified to death . Perseus was not inclined to reign in Seriphus, s

sat was covered with the skin of the Python. And they celebrated the death of the Python in certain games, called the Pythia

seen gliding by the tomb of his friend. Apollo, immediately after the death of Phæton, refused to guide the chariot of day, a

from behind this murky curtain, they discharged the winged shafts of death upon the devoted family of Niobe. When this fatal

habits noirs parsemés d’étoiles. Le temple de la Mort (The Temple of death ), par le Duc de Buckingham, est une pièce de vers