s not dead. The earthquakes proved that she could move, if she would. Down under the earth, where the sun never shines, the

foul. It was he who came in the thundercloud and hurled the lightning down upon those who had done him wrong. The eagle whic

a muttering of thunder; yet, great as he was, he would sometimes come down from the sky and walk on earth as a man. He wishe

e with gentle Proserpina. He turned his black horses and drove slowly down the valley toward her. The maidens did not see hi

d be his bride and queen; that she should have all the underworld bow down before her, and that no one should treat her unki

e them, and, with a cry, Proserpina felt herself sinking, and falling down into the dark. When they reached solid ground aga

roserpina looked, and saw upon the torpid stream a boat. It was laden down with the souls of men. In the stern she could mak

s, and the hills became yellow and barren. Then the North Wind rushed down upon the country, bringing hail and frost and sno

ottom of the earth, and Arethusa, the nymph who lived in it, could go down when she pleased and look into the underworld. It

re was a rim of ice about the edge of the water, and Arethusa was far down in the earth below. But at the call of Ceres she

se in courtesy to her, for Ceres was reverenced by all. Then they sat down again at the long table, where they were eating a

is quickest and cleverest among the dwellers of Olympus. Him he sent down to the underworld with messages to Pluto. Now Mer

ived the order of Jupiter, he hurried out of Olympus and came swiftly down to earth. The earth opened at touch of the magic

d the messenger of Jupiter went through it without stopping, straight down to the palace of Pluto.   That day, as Ceres was

e not happier than before, for after that day when Prometheus brought down the fire, the world was never again quite at peac

nd be friends with him. Not by force, but by gentleness, will I bring down the joy of Olympus; and men shall have it.” But P

es and let it go. “I must not do it,” she thought. And then she knelt down beside the box and began to raise up the cover, w

d slender, spotted deer — would come from their hiding places and lie down peacefully about him as he played the lyre and sa

hin an hour the beautiful young wife was dead and her spirit had gone down to the underworld, to the dark kingdom of Pluto a

nt to the promontory of Tænarus. Here there was a long cave which led down into the underworld. Orpheus knew well that none

road, but he went in, leaving behind him the world of light and life. Down and down it led him, but at last it became less s

he went in, leaving behind him the world of light and life. Down and down it led him, but at last it became less steep and,

creatures grew calm and did him no harm, but listening, followed him down to the edge of the river Styx. Charon, the ferrym

tream, Orpheus sang of Eurydice, and it is said that the tears flowed down the cheeks even of grim old pitiless Charon. On t

he had felt it more and more until at last he had been driven to come down into the underworld, not searching for glory or f

en long months of grief before the god Death came at last to take him down to his Eurydice. When he died, Jupiter put the ly

as was never before seen in all the world. Death had to put Alcestis down . Then the two fought for her, Hercules crushing t

ierce strain of all his knotted muscles, Hercules forced the grim god down upon one knee, then half back upon the ground. “L

married her. Their only son was named Phaëton. Helios could not come down often to the earth. Every morning he had to drive

fire-breathing horses as he drove them up the hard road to midday and down the steep to sunset. Every night he had to drive

oy, and set out at once for the far distant east, where the sky comes down to the earth. There the palace of the sun stands

d toward noon it is so high that even I grow sick and dizzy if I look down upon the earth beneath me. In the afternoon the w

eds did not heed him. They were wild with fright. Then Phaëton looked down . Far beneath him he saw the earth spread out like

chariot was carried far away among the stars, then the steeds rushed down within the circle of the moon’s course. The tops

n the sombre village crier,    Ringing loud his brazen bell, Wandered down the street, proclaiming    There was an estray to

er at the beauty of the strange princess, and King Polydectes stepped down from his throne and came to greet her. “By what n

of any avail. Sometimes he rose high in the air, sometimes he darted down close to the waves, hoping to elude his pursuers;

once more upon the earth. He took off his helmet and prepared to lie down to rest. But a new peril awaited him. This region

e was as gentle as she was beautiful. That night Theseus paced up and down his room for many hours. He was thinking of the f

it grew worse and worse as he went on. Sometimes a hall led him deep down into the earth. Sometimes he had steep flights of

ruel and evil man. With a terrible bellow it rushed upon him, putting down its head to gore him with its horns. Theseus stru

iadne. Calling the young men and the beautiful maidens, they hastened down to the harbor, and before King Minos was aware, t

th our dark sails all outspread, Across the southern wave we fled,     Down in the great sea’s twilight deep, Some silent gro

friends, and he was so beautiful that even the gods on Olympus looked down upon him with admiring eyes. Thus it happened tha

eautiful youth. “Paris,” said Mercury, “this evening, when the sun is down and the crimson light is on these slopes, you sha

ing alone with the golden apple in his hand. Long before the sun went down , Paris was waiting in the grove for the coming of

woke at early dawn, the voice of Venus was still ringing in his ears. Down the mountain-side he hastened, nor did he pause u

en morning came, he brought the armor to Thetis, who took it in haste down to the tent of Achilles, her son. Never on earth

, Minerva, who hated the Trojans because of the choice of Paris, came down and stood beside Hector. She took the form of Dei

there was noticed a great stir among the Greeks. The ships were drawn down the beach to the water, and were filled with the

city gate was too narrow to let in the monster, so the wall was torn down and a great breach made to admit it. Three times

and called. In a moment the horse opened on one side, a rope was let down , and the Grecian heroes descended from their hidi

whom praise so close pursued. Apollo from the height divine    Looked down and loved, and came and wooed. He thought to save

should fall. He wooed her with his wondrous song.    The birds flew down to list his lyre; And wild and bloody beasts athr

dy dead. For to the god the thing was done,    The houses burned, and down the wall. The past and future were as one,    Sin

herds. The men kindled a little fire in the midst of the cave and sat down to await his return. He soon came, driving before

stantly. Then he ate them as if he had been some wild animal, and lay down to sleep among his flocks. “Shall I draw my sword

ave until he came to the door-stone. This he lifted away. Then he sat down with his arms outstretched to catch the Greeks as

hen all were out and well away from the cave, Ulysses and his men got down , hurried to their boat, drove some of the rams ab

immortal, if he would but be content with her. But every day he went down to the shore and sat looking out across the sea a

ft, and brought him provisions for the voyage. Then, drawing the raft down to the sea, he pushed off, and started at last on

ppy blossoming shore? Day and night to the billow the fountain calls; Down shower the gamboling waterfalls From wandering ov

s in safety, I will disguise you.” She shriveled him up and bowed him down and put a ragged cloak about him, so that he look

eir hearts. Then, as they feasted in the palace, Ulysses came and sat down , like a beggar, at the door of the banquet hall.

In the evening, after the suitors had gone to their houses, she came down to the hall with her maids to speak with him. “Ca

ent up into her husband’s armory and got his great bow and carried it down among the suitors. Then twelve rings, each upon a

ake, And music in his ears his beating heart did make. They sat them down upon the yellow sand, Between the sun and moon up

, 65. Married Eurydice, who died next day, 68. Orpheus thereupon went down into Hades, 69, and induced Pluto to let Eurydice

s of the sun and the moon and all the world left their homes and came down to visit the people on the earth. Once in a great

enger of the gods on all their errands between heaven and earth. Away down in the center of the earth, there was a gloomy ki

the land of shades; and the Greeks thought that people who died went down into this dark land. Its ruler was King Pluto. He

in the brooks gurgled as they sped merrily by; in vain the sun looked down with his cheery smile; in vain the birds sang the

dancing and singing among the flowers, with her young companions. Way down under the earth, in the land of the dead, lived d

uch merry voices and musical laughter that he drew rein, and stepping down , parted the bushes to see who was on the other si

he chain; They are sweeping on to the silvery main, They are flashing down from the mountain brows, They are flinging spray

tasted no food while in Pluto’s kingdom. So the happy mother hastened down into Hades. But alas! that very day Proserpine ha

t she stepped into the boat and pushed it off from the shore. She sat down , her hands folded in her lap, softly crying as sh

boat went bravely along through the dark water, and the stars looked down in pity, as though’ they wished to comfort Latona

 I make a sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern,     To bicker down a valley. I chatter over stony ways,     In litt

uld forget how the time was passing. Many a time even Juno would come down to earth and listen by the hour to Echo’s delight

ams?                                         (But dreams!) Then come down and let us see you;     If you cannot come to sta

show that even the gods could sometimes make mistakes. When she laid down her spindle, Minerva, in spite of her anger at th

his lyre and drew from it such beautiful music that the dog crouched down at his feet, and licked the hands he had been rea

he singer’s body into the weeping river, His last words as he floated down the stream were, “Eurydice! Eurydice!”; and the r

around the world, Diana left her silvery chariot in the sky and came down to earth. Clad in her short hunting garments, her

y cost him his life. When he had passed the gates of the city, he sat down under a tree by the roadside and began to think v

ame to the island where the terrible Gorgons lived. He dared not look down , even for an instant, for fear of being turned to

word, and, fixing his eyes on Medusa’s image in the shield, he darted down . With one thrust, he cut off the head of the slee

reature raising itself to attack her. Quick as a flash, he had darted down , and was now fighting a fierce battle with the mo

ve by the side of her father’s stream. One day, when Jupiter had come down to earth, he met Io in the woods and began to tal

en away from home for many hours, she suddenly made up her mind to go down to earth and see the maiden of whom he was so fon

r help, to her sisters, the water nymphs. They heard her and drew her down into the stream, and a moment later a clump of re

to the land of Egypt. There, tired out with her long travels, she lay down by the side of the river Nile, and tried with gro

looked very haughty and proud, and she always wanted every one to bow down to her and say “How great is Niobe!” Now every sp

r I am greater than Latona.” At these words the frightened women cast down their wreaths and went silently from the temple.

iled in clouds that hid their glory, the twin brother and sister went down to Thebes, to avenge the insult to their mother.

obe (Uffizi Palace, Florence). Then the childless, humbled woman sat down upon the plain among her dead, and gazed about he

and in the sightless eyes a little stream has its source and trickles down the mountain side, as though poor Niobe wept on f

as the hero was clasping his great arms about his rival to throw him down , the river god used his magic power, and, in the

ero was ready for the attack, and, seizing him by the horns, held him down fast to the ground in spite of his struggles, unt

it stuck fast to his skin. Then the great hero began to stride up and down the seashore, crying aloud in his torture. The se

trees and bushes, and built of them his own funeral pile; then, lying down on it, he wrapped his poisoned shirt about him, a

d, when suddenly the heavens opened, and Jupiter’s mighty arm, thrust down from the sky, snatched Hercules away from the cre

now up into the sky where many birds were flying to and fro, and then down at the sea which was covered with sail boats, whe

ove him. But alas! The higher he flew, the more fiercely the sun beat down upon him. Before long the great heat melted the w

carus now had nothing to hold him up in the air, and he began to fall down , down, down. In his fright he cried aloud to his

now had nothing to hold him up in the air, and he began to fall down, down , down. In his fright he cried aloud to his father

d nothing to hold him up in the air, and he began to fall down, down, down . In his fright he cried aloud to his father. Daed

e day for starting came, the king, weeping bitterly, followed his son down to the black-flagged ship, in which the doomed on

cottage. When the strangers had gone to rest, she and her husband lay down on the kitchen floor. Early in the morning, Phile

o soon came the day for starting. Hand in hand, husband and wife went down to the place where the boat was moored. There the

se and dressed, and, as the gray light of morning broke, she hastened down to the shore, to visit again the spot where she a

g pretended to be very glad indeed to see his nephew. He bade him sit down and rest himself, and placed food and drink befor

ed when he heard what the tasks were. He walked away from the palace, down toward the shore where his boat was anchored, and

e fierce bulls and the armed men. After she left him, he paced up and down the seashore for a long time, thinking about Mede

he did not notice the dark face watching her so closely, and, turning down the hill, she disappeared from view. Glaucus sigh

of pain, sank to the ground. Apollo rushed to his side, and kneeling down , tried to stanch the wound with his hand, while h

ree tops seemed to sigh in sympathy. When he had finished, he stooped down and tenderly touched the boy’s forehead with his

outstretched, and it seemed as though the next minute she must ‘step down from her pedestal and move about like any other w

r, the little flame on the altar leaped up thrice, and then flickered down again. Among the ancient people, this was a sign

opened her eyes, looked at Pygmalion with wonder, and slowly stepped down from the pedestal. She loved him, of course; for

t, heavenly music that all the listeners wept for joy. Even Pan threw down his flute before this wonderful singer, who could

beauty for a Cyclops. Then Polyphemus took his pipe of reeds, and sat down on a rock that overhung the water, and sang a son

nties; and soon the following myth or fable was evolved, to be handed down from generation to generation. At first, when all

their own, and were never visited by the cold wintry winds that swept down from the north. “The Isles of the Blest, they sa

gainst him, he seized them immediately after their birth, hurled them down into a dark abyss called Tartarus, and there chai

o meet with the same cruel fate. One infant after another disappeared down the capacious throat of the voracious Cronus—a pe

then, ye powers above, Join all, and try th’ omnipotence of Jove; Let down our golden everlasting chain, Whose strong embrac

ve all, of mortal and immortal birth, To drag, by this, the Thunderer down to earth Ye strive in vain! if I but stretch this

ased to be worshipped. According to another version, Pandora was sent down to man, bearing a vase in which the evil spirits

bounds. Deucalion and Pyrrha followed the receding waves step by step down the steep mountain side.     “At length the worl

a youth of marvellous beauty, alone on a neighbouring hill. To swoop down , catch him up in his mighty talons, and bear him

Cilicia; and finally Telephassa, worn out with grief and fatigue, lay down to die, charging her eldest son to go on alone. C

many adventurers joined him on the way, and, when the cow at last lay down in the land since called Bœotia, they all promise

ill they did not return. Armed with his trusty sword, he finally went down to the spring to discover the cause of their dela

priestess went into the portico, where her sons had thrown themselves down to rest after their unwonted exertions; but inste

pper skies, The leech that wrought such healing hurled With lightning down to Pluto’s world.” Virgil ( Conington’s tr.). Æ

wonted duties. From his exalted position he often cast loving glances down upon men, whose life he had shared for a short ti

ar, Apollo was very unfortunate indeed in friendship. One day he came down to earth to enjoy the society of a youth of morta

aining upon her. Panting and trembling, she swerved aside, and rushed down to the edge of her father’s stream, calling out l

rest during the noon hour in some shady spot, and as he flung himself down upon the short grass he often called for a breeze

d look about him. He then perceived the rejected flute sailing gently down the stream past his feet. To seize the instrument

nce longer, he sallied out into a field, dug a deep hole, and shouted down into the bosom of the earth, —                  

ed suffering ensued; then Eurydice died, and her spirit was conducted down into the gloomy realms of Pluto, leaving Orpheus

art was moved to compassion. He gave him permission, therefore, to go down into the Infernal Regions to seek his wife, but w

ed remains into the Hebrus River. As the poet-musician’s head floated down the stream, the pallid lips still murmured, “Eury

d he had a tuneful tongue,     Such happy intonation, Wherever he sat down and sung     He left a small plantation; Wherever

t Phaeton, whose burned and blackened corpse fell from his lofty seat down into the limpid waves of the Eridanus River.    

that all the statues representing them in her kingdom should be torn down from their pedestals and destroyed. Enraged at th

tream of running water; and it was said that tears continually flowed down the marble cheeks, for, though changed, Niobe sti

ir brightest to cheer her on her way; and as she drove she often bent down to view the sleeping earth, so shadowy and dreaml

rence had been but a dream, but so sweet a dream that he cast himself down upon the sward, hoping to woo it to visit him onc

t to discover her, cradled on a great blue wave; and they carried her down into their coral caves, where they tenderly nurse

reluctantly Mercury at last appeared to lead the soul of the departed down into the Infernal Regions, where it was welcomed

ings; and all went well until the first fierce storms of winter swept down over the Hellespont. Hero, in the grey dawn of a

g at the foot of the tower, she saw her lover’s corpse heaving up and down on the waves. “As shaken on his restless pillow,

s passed into a proverb. “Come hither all sweet maidens soberly,      Down looking aye, and with a chasten’d light,     Hid

pellucid waters to take a draught; but he suddenly paused, surprised. Down near the pebbly bottom he saw a face so passing f

ters. Echo was avenged; but the gods of Olympus gazed compassionately down upon the beautiful corpse, and changed it into a

in, and, creeping to the very edge of a great precipice, cast herself down , expecting to be dashed to pieces on the jagged r

races and an incoherent volley of questions and answers, they settled down to enjoy a long talk. Psyche related her desperat

tall tree tops; and in less time Than shoots the slanted hail-storm, down he dropt Towards the ground; but rested not, nor

One fine afternoon, all conditions being favourable, Jupiter hastened down to earth to see Io, and began to stroll with her

hastened down to earth to see Io, and began to stroll with her up and down the river edge. They heeded not the noonday heat,

cloud, she sought her husband in Olympus, and, not finding him, flew down to earth, brushing the cloud aside in her haste.

d the appointed victim. A young girl was therefore chosen by lot, led down to the seashore, and chained by the priest’s own

y carried, slew the monster just as he was about to drag poor Hesione down into his slimy cave. Laomedon was, of course, ove

a rival. This was quite equivalent to a challenge; and Idas, stepping down from the chariot, was about to engage in the figh

e fight, when suddenly out of a clear sky a thunderbolt came crashing down to earth, and an imperious voice was heard to dec

he surface of the earth, it was only in search of some victim to drag down into his dismal abode, or to make sure there was

f life, — an intimation that another soul would ere long find its way down into the dark kingdom of Hades. The Fates.

oup of beautiful maidens who carried water to fill a bottomless cask. Down to the stream they hastened, a long procession, f

one; The huge round stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down , and smokes along the ground. Again the restless

hunder, and, to simulate the thunderbolts, had thrown lighted torches down upon the multitude, purposely assembled below. “

ented to their union. Their love grew and prospered, and Jupiter came down from Olympus as often as possible to enjoy the so

er wish, that Semele! ‘ But sitting here upon Olympus’ height, I look down , through that oval ring of stars, And see the far

trayed away from his followers and lost his way, Bacchus laid himself down upon the sand on the sea-shore to rest. Some pira

r, which changed all to gold at a mere touch of one of his fingers. “ Down from a lowly branch a twig he drew, The twig stra

rry din —         ’Twas Bacchus and his kin! Like to a moving vintage down they came, Crown’d with green leaves, and faces a

evice opened under his feet, through which horses and chariot plunged down into the darkness or the Lower World. Proserpina

pear, Ceres’ heart beat fast with apprehension, and the tears coursed down her cheeks as she rushed about from place to plac

tened. on until she came to a crystal fountain, by whose side she sat down to rest. Her eyes were heavy with the combined ef

e.         “And now from their fountains         In Edna’s mountains Down one vale where the morning basks,         Like fr

he superstitious veneration paid to Ceres’ trees took his axe and cut down one of her sacred oaks. At his first blow, blood

y; and on several occasions they therefore carried it out of Rome and down the Tiber, lest it should fall into the enemy’s h

gods cut off Lara’s tongue, and, summoning Mercury, bade him lead her down to Hades to linger there for ever. But on the way

of Gold                  “Saturn fled before victorious Jove, Driven down and banish’d from the realms above. He, by just l

rew to perish in the seething waves. Day after day the queen hastened down to the seashore, followed by her attendants, to w

some life was about to end, and sallied forth, scythe in hand, to mow down his prey with relentless joy. Needless to say, th

him; while Aquilo, dreadful in appearance, caused cold shivers to run down one’s back at his mere sight. Boreas, rough and s

Achelous; and now began a wrestling match, the fame of which has come down to us through all the intervening centuries. Ache

soned robe — by the foot, and flung him from the heights of Mount Œta down into the sea, where he perished. “And Lichas fro

ets of flames, which purged him from all mortality. Then Jupiter came down from his glorious abode, caught the noble soul in

Danae was plainly seen by the everlasting gods; and Jupiter, looking down from Olympus, beheld her in all her loveliness an

upiter, pitying her isolation and admiring her beauty, resolved to go down and converse with her for a little while. To avoi

ing seen, he changed himself into a golden shower, and gently dropped down on the turret beside her, where his presence and

is ghastly trophy behind him; and as he flew, Medusa’s blood trickled down on the hot African sand, where it gave birth to a

til he reached the sea-shore, where a strange sight greeted him. Away down on the “rock-bound coast,” so near the foaming bi

erer, who, dauntless, drew his sword from its scabbard, and, swooping down , attacked the monster, cheered by the shouts of t

e would suddenly raise his foot, kick him over the side, and hurl him down into the sea below, where a huge tortoise was eve

is wings; and Icarus, no longer supported by the light feathers, sank down faster and faster, until he fell into the sea, wh

o view the beautiful island. Ariadne strayed apart, and threw herself down upon the ground to rest, where, before she was aw

iefs, seized with a sudden liking for each other, simultaneously cast down their weapons, and, falling on each other’s necks

bent over the fountain, the nymphs, enamoured of his beauty, drew him down into their moist abode to keep them company. Herc

y a flock of brazen-feathered birds, which rained their sharp plumage down upon the Argonauts, wounding many of them sorely.

uths, however brave, but Jason was of hero mould, and merely hastened down to his vessel to ask the figure-head how he had b

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

ever found, and the ancients fancied that the Furies had dragged him down to Hades to receive the punishment of his unwitti

his broad back; and Bellerophon knew that from time to time he came, down to earth to drink of the cool waters of the Hippo

phinx, and from an unclouded sky he swooped suddenly and unexpectedly down upon the winged monster, whose fiery breath and g

llerophon, having now attained his dearest wishes, might have settled down in peace; but his head had been utterly turned by

uelly, that he shied viciously, and flung his too confident rider far down to the earth below.              “Bold Belleroph

one occasion he made a very fine haul, and threw his net full of fish down upon a certain kind of grass, which the flapping

h soon became so intense that he could no longer resist it, but dived down into the water. The mere contact with the salt wa

gods of Olympus. “Then, with his Queen, the Father of the gods Came down from high Olympus’ bright abodes; Came down, with

e Father of the gods Came down from high Olympus’ bright abodes; Came down , with all th’ attending deities.” Catullus. The

Coluthus ( Elton’s tr.). This act of partiality, of course, called down upon him the wrath and hatred of Juno and Minerva

and implored Apollo to avenge the insults he had received by sending down upon the Greeks all manner of evil. This prayer w

ans, to what Paris says by me. He bids the Trojans and the Greeks lay down Their shining arms upon the teeming earth, And he

To take thy life. A happier lot were mine, If I must lose thee, to go down to earth, For I shall have no hope when thou art

nding scene, and now Jupiter sent Iris to Thetis, and bade her hasten down to Achilles and command him to restore Hector’s b

eal, Or ’tis a pile to o’erlook the town, And pour from high invaders down ; Or fraud lurks somewhere to destroy: Mistrust, m

dragged the colossal image into the very heart of their city, tearing down a portion of their ramparts to allow its passage,

ortion of their ramparts to allow its passage, while Laocoon hastened down to the shore to offer sacrifice to the gods. As h

em thus, ere they were aware of his proximity. For a moment he glared down upon them; then, seizing a huge rock, he vowed hi

should not live to enjoy the love which was denied him, and hurled it down upon the unsuspecting lovers. Galatea, the goddes

gods into an exhaustless stream of limpid water, which ever hastened down to the sea to join Galatea. Ulysses and Polyph

offered him a leathern flask full of heady wine, which the giant took down at a gulp little suspecting its effect. Very soon

scaped, sprang to his feet, set his companions free, rushed with them down to the seashore, taking the choice animals on boa

e.’” Homer ( Bryant’s tr.). With a cry of rage, Polyphemus then ran down to the shore, tore up some huge rocks, which he h

at last Tiresias, the blind seer, approached. He was allowed to stoop down and drink; and, as soon as he had done so, he rec

ghter of Alcinous, King of the Phæacians, in a dream, and bade her go down to the shore and wash her linen robes in readines

red her was near at hand. Nausicaa obeyed, and drove with her maidens down to the shore, where, after their labours were dul

the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down ! It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And se

offer a sacrifice to the gods; but when Æneas, with due ceremony, cut down a sapling, he was startled to see blood flow from

escaped from the rage of Polyphemus, the Cyclops. This giant now came down to the shore, and was regarded with unconcealed h

send And search the coast from end to end, If haply, wandering up and down , He bide in woodland or in town.’” Virgil ( Coni

re to the vessels. When Æneas heard of this new misfortune, he rushed down to the shore, tore his costly festal garments, an

nemy’s course should now prove too smooth, she sent Alecto, the Fury, down upon earth to stir up war and goad Amata to madne

but Juno, afraid lest even now her plans might be set at naught, came down from Olympus, and with her own hand flung wide th

anged into water nymphs by the intervention of the gods, and, sailing down the Tiber, met Æneas, and warned him to hasten to

than she loosed the vessel from its moorings, and allowed it to drift down the stream, bearing Turnus away from the scene of

descent through the ages to the course of a snowball, which, rolling down a mountain-side, gathers to itself snow, earth, r

r told that he hurled the thunder and lightning, his Cyclop children, down from his abode into the abyss called Tartarus. Ze

pasturing “in the infinite meadows of heaven,” whose full udders drop down rain and fatness upon the land, which are stolen

when his strength had all forsaken him, and his severed head floated down the stream murmuring “Eurydice,” may also, percha

isyphus painfully forced up a steep ascent, only to see it go rolling down and plunge into a dark abyss enveloped in a great

t the sun, which is no “sooner pushed up to the zenith, than it rolls down to the horizon.” The name of Ixion has been iden

take possession of a criminal at the end of his course, and hurry him down into darkness to inflict horrible torments upon h

arrows, and in the course of her nightly journey she looked lovingly down upon the sleeping face of the setting sun (Endymi

ans “the wealth-giver,” or “the unseen,” who greedily drew all things down into his realm, never to relinquish his grasp upo

ightning. Same as Arges, 7 Sib′yl. Prophetess of Cumæ, who led Æneas down to the Infernal Regions, 332, 333 Si ca′ni-a. La

vion. We propose to tell the stories relating to them which have come down to us from the ancients, and which are alluded to

heaven, and lighted his torch at the chariot of the sun, and brought down fire to man. With this gift man was more than a m

en the plough. The fishes swim among the tree-tops; the anchor is let down into a garden. Where the graceful lambs played bu

ts. But as, in so doing, he transgressed the will of Jupiter, he drew down on himself the anger of the ruler of gods and men

ing. All was agreed on, and they waited impatiently for the sun to go down beneath the waters and night to rise up from them

y, her head covered with a veil, made her way to the monument and sat down under the tree. As she sat alone in the dim light

th to capture it. Their efforts were all in vain; no dog could run it down ; and at last they came to Cephalus to borrow his

feet, and cap on his head, took his sleep-producing wand, and leaped down from the heavenly towers to the earth. There he l

ts, and here is a pleasant shade such as shepherds love.” Mercury sat down , talked, and told stories till it grew late, and

t, Mercury with one stroke cut his neck through, and tumbled his head down the rocks. O hapless Argus! the light of your hun

,” said she, “that beauty with which you have captivated my husband.” Down fell Callisto on her hands and knees; she tried t

said, but no sound followed the effort. He groaned, and tears flowed down the face which had taken the place of his own. Ye

s towards the skies, and said, “I call to witness the Sun which looks down upon us, that I have told you the truth. If I spe

up in the heavens, whence I myself can scarcely, without alarm, look down and behold the earth and sea stretched beneath me

nd fiery breath, and stamp the ground impatient. Now the bars are let down , and the boundless plain of the universe lies ope

s plough, and all unused to rapid motion. When hapless Phaëton looked down upon the earth, now spreading in vast extent bene

hurling the chariot over pathless places, now up in high heaven, now down almost to the earth. The moon saw with astonishme

his lips, it defied his teeth. He took a glass of wine, but it flowed down his throat like melted gold. In consternation at

o he went out into the meadow, dug a hole in the ground, and stooping down , whispered the story, and covered it up. Before l

aucis, bustling and attentive, spread a cloth, and begged them to sit down . Then she raked out the coals from the ashes, and

shred them from the stalks, and prepared them for the pot. He reached down with a forked stick a flitch of bacon hanging in

slate put under restored the level. When fixed, she rubbed the table down with some sweet-smelling herbs. Upon it she set s

p was hoist. And there stood fastened to a joist, But with the upside down , to show Its inclination for below; In vain, for

search. But it was all unavailing. At length, weary and sad, she sat down upon a stone, and continued sitting nine days and

poke, tears — or something like tears, for the gods never weep — fell down her cheeks upon her bosom. The compassionate old

bles on the bottom. The willows shaded it, and the grassy bank sloped down to the water’s edge. I approached, I touched the

growling outside the fold. A cold sweat came over me, my hair flowed down in streams; where my foot stood there was a pool.

e Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man,      Down to a sunless sea.” In one of Moore’s juvenile po

ay the sisters strolled to the bank of a stream that sloped gradually down to the water’s edge, while the upland was overgro

speak falsely, may my foliage perish with drought and my trunk be cut down and burned. Take this infant and give it to a nur

s of the hunters. Rain falls in torrents, as if the skies were coming down to unite with the sea. When the lightning ceases

tning, the rudder broken, and the triumphant surge curling over looks down upon, the wreck, then falls, and crushes it to fr

ou my fate. Arise! give me tears, give me lamentations, let me not go down to Tartarus unwept.” To these words Morpheus adde

e said, and kissed her, not exactly with an old woman’s kiss. She sat down on a bank, and looked up at the branches laden wi

e die, and feast your eyes on the spectacle. Yet, O ye gods, who look down on mortal woes, observe my fate! I ask but this:

owery dale. By degrees her mind became composed, and she laid herself down on the grassy bank to sleep. When she awoke refre

ligence. Retire, therefore, to your chamber and repose on your bed of down , and when you see fit repair to the bath. Supper

nds, and he, promptly obedient, soon brought them across the mountain down to their sister’s valley. They embraced her and s

to his lord; then leaping up, and not being sustained by Zephyr, fell down the precipice and was dashed to pieces. Psyche me

struction was at hand, being obliged to go with her own feet directly down to Erebus. Wherefore, to make no delay of what wa

g thus set free from its prison, took possession of her, and she fell down in the midst of the road, a sleepy corpse without

ky, filled the air with her lowings. Cadmus gave thanks, and stooping down kissed the foreign soil, then lifting his eyes, g

unscrupulous followers of a political chief are called by that name, down to this day. But the origin of the Myrmidons woul

ur efforts, and we yielded. At the beginning the sky seemed to settle down upon the earth, and thick clouds shut in the heat

n, while the priest made ready for sacrifice, the victim fell, struck down by disease without waiting for the blow! At lengt

with living, moving creatures. It seemed to shake its limbs and throw down over the ground a multitude of those industrious

to him through the hostile ranks; she felt an impulse to cast herself down from the tower into the midst of his camp, or to

e willing to grant us peace, and receive me as a hostage. I would fly down , if I could, and alight in his camp, and tell him

her father who had been changed into that form, — seeing her, pounced down upon her, and struck her with his beak and claws.

; and whenever he espies her in his lofty flight you may see him dart down upon her, with beak and claws, to take vengeance

day the youth, fatigued with hunting, heated and thirsty. He stooped down to drink, and saw his own image in the water; he

nse of heaven; I thither went With unexperienced thought, and laid me down On the green bank, to look into the clear Smooth

k into the clear Smooth lake that to me seemed another sky. As I bent down to look, just opposite A shape within the watery

where Hero became aware of his death, and in her despair cast herself down from a tower into the sea and perished.   The sto

was in sight; The velvet nap which on his wings doth lie, The silken down with which his back is dight, His broad outstretc

ame on, he reached the western limit of the earth, where the sun goes down . Here he would gladly have rested till morning. I

s daughter Andromeda to be devoured by the monster. As Perseus looked down from his aerial height he beheld the virgin chain

from turning his head round and using his fangs, so the youth darted down upon the back of the monster and plunged his swor

adus required the whole of Mount Ætna to be laid upon him to keep him down . We have already spoken of the war which the gian

x was so mortified at the solving of her riddle that she cast herself down from the rock and perished. The gratitude of the

uest, and drawn empyreal air (Thy tempering;) with like safety guided down Return me to my native element; Lest from this fl

ury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropped down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus

is pursuers, and rushed forth against them. One and another is thrown down and slain. Jason throws his spear, with a prayer

im, his throat was dry, the goal yet far off. At that moment he threw down one of the golden apples. The virgin was all amaz

rying off their queen. They instantly armed and came in great numbers down to the ship. Hercules, thinking that Hippolyta ha

le of trees, gave his bow and arrows to Philoctetes, and laid himself down on the pile, his head resting on his club, and hi

too, flushed Ganymede, his rosy thigh     Half buried in the eagle’s down , Sole as a flying star shot through the sky     A

kings.’ Dictys, one of my best hands for climbing the mast and coming down by the ropes, and Melanthus, my steersman, and Ep

o reason why he should spare it and he ordered his servants to cut it down . When he saw them hesitate he snatched an axe fro

ved of the goddess or not; were it the goddess herself it should come down if it stood in my way.” So saying, he lifted the

form of a bull. He grasped my neck with his arm, and dragging my head down to the ground, overthrew me on the sand. Nor was

nd that of his house from their childhood up, were not willing to lay down the scanty remnant of their days to show their gr

imb from limb, and threw his head and his lyre into the river Hebrus, down which they floated, murmuring sad music, to which

e playing, Minerva threw the instrument indignantly away, and it fell down to earth, and was found by Marsyas. He blew upon

of Orpheus sing Such notes as warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto’s cheek, And made Hell grant what love did

ed with admiration. He strode forward to the vessel’s side and looked down into the deep blue sea. Addressing his lyre, he s

e the cheerful light! I must away, but I will not fear. The gods look down upon us. Ye who slay me unoffending, when I am no

flock on Mount Latmos. One calm, clear night Diana, the Moon, looked down and saw him sleeping. The cold heart of the virgi

the virgin goddess was warmed by his surpassing beauty, and she came down to him, kissed him, and watched over him while he

by one, were quenched in the light of the moon, the poet tells us — “ Down fell the red skin of the lion Into the river at h

attached himself to me alone, and he was just sixteen years old, the down just beginning to darken his cheeks. As much as I

ships that touched at his island went away in safety. He paced up and down the sea-shore, imprinting huge tracks with his he

it on either side. Thither one day the huge Cyclops ascended, and sat down while his flocks spread themselves around. Laying

ended, and sat down while his flocks spread themselves around. Laying down his staff, which would have served for a mast to

Diomede, Ulysses, Agamemnon, Machaon, all wounded, the rampart broken down , the enemy among the ships preparing to burn them

ove, ventured to oppose himself in fight to Patroclus. Jupiter looked down upon him and would have snatched him from the fat

stroy himself. His groans reached the ears of his mother, Thetis, far down in the deeps of ocean where she abode, and she ha

ht, and Thetis, receiving it, descended with it to earth, and laid it down at Achilles’ feet at the dawn of day. The first g

t other champions. But none dared stand before him, and Priam looking down from the city walls beheld his whole army in full

l, chariot races, wrestling, boxing, and archery. Then the chiefs sat down to the funeral banquet and after that retired to

d their lamentations. The people all wept with them, and to the going down of the sun there was no pause or abatement of the

ve, Polyphemus, bearing an immense bundle of firewood, which he threw down before the cavern’s mouth. He then drove into the

mouth an enormous rock, that twenty oxen could not draw. Next he sat down and milked his ewes, preparing a part for cheese,

h Ulysses replied, “My name is Noman.” After his supper the giant lay down to repose, and was soon sound asleep. Then Ulysse

leased themselves from their rams, and drove a good part of the flock down to the shore to their boat. They put them aboard

then exerting all his force, hurled it in the direction of the voice. Down came the mass, just clearing the vessel’s stern.

had stood at the helm, without sleep. At last quite exhausted he lay down to sleep. While he slept, the crew conferred toge

out the mules to graze, and unlading the carriage, bore the garments down to the water, and working with cheerfulness and a

garments on the shore to dry, and having themselves bathed, they sat down to enjoy their meal; after which they rose and am

                        “Soon as he perceived Long-lost Ulysses nigh, down fell his ears Clapped close, and with his tail gl

the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down ; It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And se

cruelty; and whenever a meal was placed before him the Harpies darted down from the air and carried it off. They were driven

as heard in the air, and a flock of these odious harpies came rushing down upon them, seizing in their talons the meat from

out. 21 He walked with cautious steps, feeling his way with a staff, down to the sea-side, to wash his eye-socket in the wa

air, the water smooth, and the ship sails steadily on her course. Lie down awhile and take needful rest. I will stand at the

ained, the rock, repulsed by some sudden force, rushed again headlong down to the plain. Again he toiled at it, while the sw

to use the bow and throw the javelin. With her sling she could bring down the crane or the wild swan. Her dress was a tiger

om of Euryalus. His head fell over on his shoulder, like a flower cut down by the plough. Nisus rushed upon Volscens and plu

and many Trojans and Etruscans fell pierced with her darts or struck down by her battle-axe. At last an Etruscan named Arun

Apis. He was placed in a vessel magnificently decorated and conveyed down the Nile to Memphis, where a temple, with two cha

in the temple. It has been inferred from the accounts that have come down to us that the treatment of the sick resembled wh

ther hand it is asked how poems of such length could have been handed down from age to age by means of the memory alone. Thi

the angel Raphael descending to earth to a Phœnix: —               “ Down thither, prone in flight He speeds, and through t

e to meet the giants in a day when the final contest must come, sends down to every battle-field to make choice of those who

mons and a full grown ox, besides other delicacies, washing the whole down with three tuns of mead. Loki, however, assured h

that took the whole breadth of one end of the building. Here they lay down to sleep, but towards midnight were alarmed by an

sed that they should travel in company, and Thor consenting, they sat down to eat their breakfast, and when they had done, S

night in under a large oak tree. Skrymir then told them he would lie down to sleep. “But take ye the wallet,” he added, “an

at they were just going to sleep, and so saying went and laid himself down under another tree. But sleep came not that night

t be obliged to make a second draught of it; but when he set the horn down and looked in, he could scarcely perceive that th

lent struggle Thor began to lose his footing, and was finally brought down upon one knee. Utgard-Loki then told them to desi

of Loki, darted it at Baldur, who, pierced through and through, fell down lifeless. Surely never was there witnessed, eithe

compositions of the Skalds were called Sagas, many of which have come down to us, and contain valuable materials of history,

rature or written memorials, — the record of these things was written down . On the seaboard of this wild land is a rim of gr

oked upon, thought it would be very cruel to make her unhappy. He lay down upon a bank of violets, near where Psyche sat, an

k her up, and bore her over the dark blue waters, and laid her gently down under some flowering myrtle trees in the garden w

rm sun, and had drunk a draught of milk, which a young girl that came down to the river side and saw her distress, brought h

drew her attention, and she smiled graciously as the young girl knelt down before her. In that attitude the afflicted Psyche

ntain; but scarcely had she come in sight of it, when an eagle darted down from over her head, snatched the vase with his be

she climbed to the top of a high tower, that she might throw herself down , and thence be conveyed to the land of spirits. B

us vapour arose from it, and enveloped her like a cloud, and she fell down insensible. Happily for Psyche, Cupid was hoverin

panions, gathered a quantity of flowers in the plain of Enna, and sat down to select some, and to throw away the rest Each c

with her walk, and not knowing what was about to befall her, she sat down and burst into tears. Tereus said, pretending to

up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men. And they called Bar

sses of men, the rich and the poor, which were the best. Jupiter laid down his thunder-bolts, and Mercury his caduceus. They

aucis to cook for supper. Having selected the best of these, she drew down with a long fork, a gammon of bacon which hung up

usy to join in the conversation. But, without saying a word, she took down from certain pegs two snow-white beechen pails, a

they had nearly reached the mountain top; then they turned and looked down upon the valley. It was covered with water; its i

ot born for death, immortal bird!    No hungry generations tread thee down ; The voice I hear this passing night, was heard  

ticed into the apartment of Aglauria. The princess had thrown herself down upon her couch, vexed and mortified; for when she

, just as his fingers brushed its party-coloured wings, threw himself down by a fountain-side, to cool and refresh himself.

they had ever seen. Europa wove a wreath for his horns, and he knelt down beside her, and uttered a mild, kind moan. The ma

ch he should soon meet in the way, and where she should stop, and lie down , to commence a new city. Cadmus went from Delphi,

ith her loud and continual lowings. After a while she ceased, and lay down on the grass to rest. Cadmus judged that this was

d Cadmus? Mother. He might have followed a heifer; and where she lay down might have been a spot on which he thought fit to

hunters in the world. Acteon being one day fatigued by the chase lay down to rest himself by a fountain, in the valley of G

the wheel was a group of distressed looking women; tears were rolling down their cheeks, and they were dipping water in bott

, carrying thyrses and burning torches in their hands, running up and down the hills, and traversing the fields and forests,

ree, though they did not recognise him, and in their rage dragged him down , and abused and mangled him till he was dead. Mob

g a chariot, he won the race; and, in aiming an arrow, he could bring down a bird, or hit a mark, without missing. They love

, and he was instantly changed to stone. Perseus then laid the Medusa down upon some marine plants, and went to unchain Andr

de. When the marriage vows were mutually given, the whole company sat down to a splendid banquet. Before the guests rose fro

inest musician, and he who outran his competitors, or who could throw down an antagonist, received a prize. Ann. What were

rtook her just as she reached the banks of the Peneus. There, sinking down by the river’s side, she entreated her father to

d with trembling to her divine admirer. At this moment, Juno, looking down from high heaven, saw the country of Peloponnesus

he immediately took her car, drawn by peacocks, and was borne swiftly down to the spot which was veiled by the strange cloud

r career into Africa. Being arrived in Africa, she became calm, knelt down , and raising her head toward heaven, implored Jup

pure and transparent, and hastening to the margin, she eagerly knelt down to drink. Some peasants, who were cutting osiers

ize both vowels and consonants according to the recognized rules laid down in the Latin grammars, and the English dictionari

all-seeing divinity, in his wrath at the impiety of men, would shoot down his scorching arrows, causing pestilence to sprea

of Orpheus sing Such notes as warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto’s cheek, And made Hell grant what love did

her hand, it is asked how poems of such length could have been handed down from age to age by means of the memory alone. Thi

e to the occasion. The three great Tragic Poets of Greece have handed down to us a wealth of mythological material. From the

t be his.48 It has also been urged that the poem, having been written down about 1140, was altered in metrical form by young

d to heaven, lighted his torch at the chariot of the sun, and brought down fire. With fire in his possession man would be ab

e of his unselfish devotion to the cause of humanity, Prometheus drew down on himself the anger of Olympian Jove, by whose o

d at noon upon the peak of Heaven, Then with unwilling steps I wander down Into the clouds of the Atlantic even; For grief t

cool breath anywhere, no shadow nigh Where a weary man might lay him down and die, Lo! thou art there before me suddenly, W

to conduct the souls of the dead “that gibber like bats as they fare, down the dank ways, past the streams of Oceanus, past

Fig. 18. Cupid. [Statue: Müller.] “Within a forest, as I strayed Far down a sombre autumn glade, I found the god of love; H

hese doth each guest twine his crown And wreathe his cup, and lay him down Beside some friend he loveth well.101 § 49. Plu

ts, and here is a pleasant shade such as shepherds love.” Mercury sat down , talked, told stories till it grew late, and play

and he lacks nothing but speech.” So she spake, and smiling, she sat down on the back of the bull, and the others were abou

her wish, that Semele!’ But sitting here upon Olympus’ height, I look down , through that oval ring of stars, And see the far

king of the island:119 — “At the beginning the sky seemed to settle down upon the earth, and thick clouds shut in the heat

n, while the priest made ready for sacrifice, the victim fell, struck down by disease without waiting for the blow. At lengt

said he had a tuneful tongue, Such happy intonation, Wherever he sat down and sung He left a small plantation; Wherever in

ed its bushy crown, And, as tradition teaches, Young ashes pirouetted down Coquetting with young beeches; And briony-vine an

nden broke her ranks and rent The woodbine wreaths that bind her, And down the middle, buzz! she went With all her bees behi

country-side descended; And shepherds from the mountain-eaves Looked down , half-pleased, half-frightened, As dashed about t

aucis, bustling and attentive, spread a cloth, and begged them to sit down . Then she raked out the coals from the ashes, kin

ut under restored the level. When it was steady, she rubbed the table down with sweet-smelling herbs. Upon it she set some o

p was hoist, And there stood fastened to a joist, But with the upside down , to show Its inclination for below; In vain, for

was in sight; The velvet nap which on his wings doth lie, The silken down with which his back is dight, His broad outstretc

And Hebe bathed him, and clothed him in gracious raiment, and he sate down by Jupiter, son of Cronus, glorying in his might.

in of Panope. There she stood still. Cadmus gave thanks, and stooping down kissed the foreign soil, then lifting his eyes, g

ch he sent to his mother. She gladly accepting the glorious gift, sat down upon it, to find out that straightway all manner

up in the heavens, whence I myself can scarcely, without alarm, look down and behold the earth and sea stretched beneath me

h his plough, and unused to rapid motion. When hapless Phaëton looked down upon the earth, now spreading in vast extent bene

hurling the chariot over pathless places, now up in high heaven, now down almost to the earth. The moon saw with astonishme

and P.] So spake he in prayer; and Phœbus Apollo heard him, and came down from the peaks of Olympus wroth at heart, bearing

be: she rais’d her head above Those beauteous forms which had brought down the scath Whence all nine fell, rais’d it, and st

and that of his house from their childhood up were not willing to lay down the scanty remnant of their days to show their gr

the booty, — say, Death comes not to the boltered blood, — why, then, Down go I, to the unsunned dwelling-place Of Kore and

ion to keep such a secret; he dug a hole in the ground, and, stooping down , whispered the story, and covered it up. But a th

and Death, and Birth, — And then I changed my pipings, — Singing how down the vale of Menalus I pursued a maiden, and clasp

om crag, With many a jag, Shepherding her bright fountains, She leapt down the rocks, With her rainbow locks Streaming among

ain, Alpheus rushed behind, — As an eagle pursuing A dove to its ruin Down the streams of the cloudy wind. Under the bowers

their Dorian home. And now from their fountains In Enna’s mountains, Down one vale where the morning basks Like friends onc

eum, Rome: Roscher 7: 1246.] For one calm, clear night, Selene looked down upon the beautiful Endymion, who fed his flock on

goddess was unquestionably warmed by his surpassing beauty. She came down to him; she kissed him; she watched over him whil

he brings, as softly he breathes his life away. His dark blood drips down his skin of snow, beneath his brows his eyes wax

my lord, for thyself art stronger than I, and all lovely things drift down to thee. But I am ill-fated, inconsolable is my a

owery dale. By degrees her mind became composed, and she laid herself down on the grassy bank to sleep. When she awoke refre

servants. Retire, we pray thee, to thy chamber, repose on thy bed of down , and when it may please thee repair to the bath.

her. Zephyr, promptly obedient, soon brought them across the mountain down to their sister’s valley. They embraced her, she

to his lord, then, leaping up, failed of the support of Zephyr, fell down the precipice, and was dashed to pieces. Psyche,

pear to more advantage in the eyes of her beloved husband. Therewith down by the wayside did she sit And turned the box rou

ind his shoulder. From his hand now dropt A golden apple: she lookt down and saw A glitter on the grass, yet on she ran. H

enus, and again Vow’d spotless chastity; but all in vain; Cupid beats down her prayers with his wings... Fig. 53. Genius

hus described by Keats 186: — Come hither all sweet maidens soberly, Down looking aye, and with a chasten’d light, Hid in t

me touch of dread, And therewithal I heard her voice that said, ‘Come down and learn to love and be alive, For thee, a well-

another section.199 Behold, behold! the granite gates unclose, And down the vales a lyric people flows; Dancing to music,

his lips, it defied his teeth. He took a glass of wine, but it flowed down his throat like melted gold. Fig. 58. Silenus.

found her still busy in the search. At length, weary and sad, she sat down upon a stone, and remained nine days and nights,

im limb from limb; then cast his head and lyre into the river Hebrus, down which they floated, murmuring sad music, to which

h faltering fingers made „ Her golden girdle’s clasp to join and past Down to the trackless wood, full pale and overcast. A

e; But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills, And beat me down and marr’d- and wasted me, And tho’ they could

hout. Silenus grips My ears and strides On my shaggy hips, And up and down In an ivy crown Tipsily rides; And when in doze H

ink — and feel The grass roll — sea high; Then with shouts and yells, Down mossy dells, I stagger after The wood-nymphs flee

ing, flowing, Combing my yellow, yellow hair. “The ounce and panther down the mountain-side Creep thro’ dark greenness in t

voice from the nymph of the tree, he redoubled his blows, and brought down the oak. The Dryads invoked punishment upon Erysi

he long surf upon a distant shore, Raking the sea-worn pebbles up and down . The night had gathered round him: o’er the plain

Ah me, that my mother bore me not a finny thing, so would I have gone down to thee, and kissed thy hand, if thy lips thou wo

d.”244 He became guardian of fishes and divers, and of those who go down to the sea in ships. Later, being infatuated of t

now-white gown; While o’er their backs their straight white hair hung down In long thin locks; dreadful their faces were, Ca

ld glide On to her breast, or shuddering shoulders white; Or, falling down , the hideous things would light Upon her feet, an

ghter Andromeda to the ravening maw of the prodigy. As Perseus looked down from his aërial height, he beheld the virgin chai

her hands, and her tresses afloat on the water.276 The youth darted down upon the back of the monster, and plunged his swo

of the Argive lad had fluttered the soft hearts of all of them. Then down he sank into the black water, headlong all, as wh

is pursuers, and rushed forth against them. One and another is thrown down and slain. Jason, Nestor, Telamon open the attack

id sun softened the waxen fastenings of his wings. Off they came; and down the lad dropped into the sea, which after him is

s — Heart o’erwhelmed with woe— ah, thus, while thus she is gazing, — Down from her yellow hair slips, sudden, the weed of t

the weed of the fine-spun Snood, and the vesture light of her mantle down from the shoulders Slips and the twisted scarf e

way like some cloud on the inward vision of Theseus. Dropped oblivion down , enshrouding vows he had cherished, Hiding away a

ant, — saw to the southward sails black-bellied — Hurled him headlong down from the horrid steep to destruction, — Weening h

f.” The Sphinx, mortified at the collapse of her riddle, cast herself down from the rock and perished. § 160. Œdipus, the Ki

ation. — Lo, each tremulous frame was wrapped in robe of a whiteness, Down to the ankles that fell, with nethermost border o

high, with wool enfolded, a distaff, Delicate fibres wherefrom, drawn down , were shaped by the right hand — Shaped by finger

Diomede, Ulysses, Agamemnon, Machaon, all wounded, the rampart broken down , the enemy among the ships preparing to burn them

d Laodamia, ventured to oppose the Greek warrior. The Olympian looked down upon his son, and would have snatched him from th

he might destroy himself. His groans reached the ears of Thetis, far down in the deeps of ocean where she abode, and she ha

chariot races, wrestling, boxing, and archery. Later, the chiefs sat down to the funeral banquet, and finally retired to re

newed their lamentations. The people wept with them, and to the going down of the sun there was no pause or abatement of the

e, Polyphemus, bearing an immense bundle of fire-wood, which he threw down before the cavern’s mouth. He then drove into the

mouth an enormous rock, that twenty oxen could not draw. Next, he sat down and milked his ewes, preparing a part for cheese,

leased themselves from their rams, and drove a good part of the flock down to the shore to their boat. They put them aboard

then exerting all his force, hurled it in the direction of the voice. Down came the mass, just forward of the vessel. The oc

had stood at the helm, without sleep. At last quite exhausted he lay down to sleep. While he slept, the crew conferred toge

out the mules to graze, and unlading the carriage, bore the garments down to the water, and, working with cheerfulness and

garments on the shore to dry, and having themselves bathed, they sat down to enjoy their meal; after which they rose and am

ften led to the chase. Soon as he perceived Long-lost Ulysses nigh, down fell his ears Clapped close, and with his tail gl

the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down : It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And se

ruelty; and whenever a meal was placed before him, the harpies darted down from the air and carried it off. They were driven

as heard in the air, and a flock of these odious harpies came rushing down upon them, seizing in their talons the meat from

lind.380 He walked with cautious steps, feeling his way with a staff, down to the sea-side, to wash his eye-socket in the wa

air, the water smooth, and the ship sails steadily on her course. Lie down a while and take needful rest. I will stand at th

ained, the rock, repulsed by some sudden force, rushed again headlong down to the plain. Again, he toiled at it, while the s

to use the bow and throw the javelin. With her sling she could bring down the crane or the wild swan. Her dress was a tiger

om of Euryalus. His head fell over on his shoulder, like a flower cut down by the plough. Nisus rushed upon Volscens and plu

and many Trojans and Etruscans fell pierced with her darts or struck down by her battle-axe. At last an Etruscan named Arun

lmons and a full-grown ox besides other delicacies, washing the whole down with three tuns of mead. Loki, however, assured h

that took the whole breadth of one end of the building. Here they lay down to sleep, but towards midnight were alarmed by an

sed that they should travel in company, and Thor consenting, they sat down to eat their breakfast. When they had done, Skrym

night in under a large oak tree. Skrymir then told them he would lie down to sleep. “But take ye the wallet,” he added, “an

at they were just going to sleep, and so saying went and laid himself down under another tree. But sleep came not that night

t be obliged to make a second draught of it; but when he set the horn down and looked in, he could scarcely perceive that th

ent struggle, Thor began to lose his footing, and was finally brought down upon one knee. Utgard-Loki then told them’ to des

of Loki, darted it at Balder, who, pierced through and through, fell down lifeless. Never was there witnessed, either among

the bridge Bifrost where is Heimdall’s watch, past Midgard fortress, down the dark unknown road to Hel, and there entreat t

hat command.” So speaking, the fleet-footed Hermod came Home, and lay down to sleep in his own house; And all the gods lay d

me Home, and lay down to sleep in his own house; And all the gods lay down in their own homes. And Hoder, too, came home dis

ir; and Sleipnir went to his own stall; And in Valhalla Odin laid him down . That night in a vision appeared Balder to Nanna

am We stir not lest we waken; but there his speech had end And slowly down the hall-floor, and outward did he wend; And none

en spear-wood ’gainst the Volsung’s empty hands: And there they smote down Sigmund, the wonder of all lands, On the foemen,

k to drink. Hagen saw his chance. … Then, as to drink, Sir Siegfried down kneeling there he found, He pierced him through t

ed as though he scorned to yield E’en to the foe whose weapon strikes down the loftiest head. At last prone in the meadow la

ere, too, flushed Ganymede, his rosy thigh Half buried in the eagle’s down ,” etc.; Shelley in the Prometheus (Jove’s order t

eban state; that the selection of the spot on which a heifer had lain down was a frequent practice among settlers, superstit

in the temple. It has been inferred from the accounts that have come down to us that the treatment of the sick resembled wh

Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man, Down to a sunless sea.” In one of Moore’s juvenile po

at the end of the year, when the vital juices are, as it were, drawn down to the central darkness, and held there in bondag

of the Argo through the Symplegades, the nocturnal journey of the sun down the west; the Oak with the Golden Fleece, a symbo

he dove-incident occurs in numerous ancient stories from that of Noah down . If Medea be another personification of morning a

s’ desertion of Ariadne. Landor, To Joseph Ablett, “Bacchus is coming down to drink to Ariadne’s love”; Landor, Theseus, and

nd which are totally unfit for the eye of youth. The work also brings down the study of Mythology to the more common purpose

enged herself upon Atys, by binding Sangaris to a tree, which was cut down , and the nymph perished. Atys, in despair, could

ng Baal was thrown, Trees and beasts fell on ‘t, burnt with lightning down ; One flings a mountain and its river too, Torn up

trikes vast Rhodope’s exalted crown And hurls huge Athos and Ceraunia down . Thick fall the rains; the wind redoubled roars;

.” Virgil. “Jove can’t resist the just man’s cries, They bring him down , e’en from the skies; Hence he’s Elicius call’d.”

.” Eris, his son, succeeded. Obs. 2. — Jupiter’s throwing his father down into the infernal regions, may be thus accounted

With sacrilegious hands Prometheus stole Celestial fire, and bore it down from heav’n: The fatal present brought on mortal

d animals. The nymph Chelone refused to be present. Mercury threw her down into, a river, and changed her into a turtle (whi

) should sustain A death so ling’ring, and so full of pain, Sent Iris down to free her from the strife Of lab’ring nature, a

owards her opprobrious language; she punished Erisichthon for cutting down a grove sacred to her, with such insatiable hunge

hantments. The magicians of Thessaly had the fame of drawing the moon down from heaven by dint of their incantations; eclips

Diana is said to have become so enamoured of Endymion, that she came down every night from heaven to enjoy his company. Thi

us; and again he appears like Apollo, with fine hair, loosely flowing down his shoulders, and with beauty equal to Apollo’s.

es with clotted gore her flaming hair, And through both armies up and down doth flee; While from her horrid breast Tisiphone

en crowned by victory, throwing aside his bloody trophies, and laying down his laurels at the feet of Beauty. Questions. Who

had suspended by a chain from the threshold of heaven, he was thrust down from the celestial court. Having fallen nine days

ether o’er the seas or earth he flies, With rapid force they bear him down the skies. But first he grasps, within his awful

this he draws the souls from hollow graves; With this he drives them down the Stygian waves; With this he seals in sleep th

queen Amphitrite with his left arm. Sometimes he stands up, and sits down at others, in a chariot made of shell, and drawn

, and distributes his power, among a multiplicity of gods: and bowing down to the divinities of his imagination, he vainly h

es. “There Charon stands, who rules the dreary coasts; A sordid god: down from his hoary chin A length of beard descends, u

a fish, &c. Jupiter at last recovered his courage, and threw him down with his thunder-bolts, and crushed him under the

cy against Jupiter, Briareus scaled the walls of heaven, and, sitting down by him, frightened the inhabitants in such a mann

d a hundred rocks against Jupiter at one throw; but Jupiter threw him down , and put him under Mount Ætna, which sends forth

ave. Tityus attempted to offer Latona violence; for which he was cast down into hell, where, when stretched out, he covered

ept him in such alarms, that, every moment, he imagined it would fall down upon him; a situation which induced him to warn m

o roll to the summit of a hill a huge and unwieldly stone, which fell down as soon as it had touched the summit. Some say, t

one; The huge, round stone, resulting with a bound Thunders impetuous down , and smokes along the ground; Again the restless

every where that he had won the affection of Juno, the god struck him down to hell, and ordered Mercury to tie him fast to a

Paleness was represented by a lean and lengthened figure; hair pulled down , and fixed looks. The Lacedæmonians had placed th

them, and tied their limbs to the branches of trees, which, when bent down , threw them up, and tore their limbs in pieces. T

Cerberus, a triple-headed dog that guarded the gates of hell. He went down into hell by a cave on Mount Tænarus, and dragged

their enemies, were buried in sleep, a part of their walls was pulled down . Sinon opened the horse’s flanks, and fifty warri

gonus, or, according to Hesiod, two sons, Agrius and Latinus. He went down into the infernal regions to consult the prophet

to the sun, moon, and stars, their circular motion. Solid matter fell down , and formed the earth and the sea, whence sprang

e bodies, of a man, a horse, and a bull; from each of which he poured down rain, in drops as large as the head of an ox. The

ras, he persuaded all the spirits of his order to aid him in breaking down the celestial harmony, Oromasdes withdrew his ray

m. Thence it is to go up to the first heaven, called Swerga, or to go down to the region of the serpents, called Narse, or t

dders. A second cavern then presents itself, which he enters by lying down on the ground, and holding in each hand honey: (w

ard; others saw. One came out of the cave as he had entered it, lying down upon the earth. Soon after he was asked what he h

nded in at Malea, where there was the oracle of Mopsus. The envoy lay down in the temple, and saw a man who said to him: Bla

ossible. 4. Wrestling, in which one exerted all his strength to throw down his adversary. The combatants appeared naked, rub

were celebrated. Every attempt of this sort caused them to be thrown down from the Tarpeian rock. To avoid deception, they

d skating, was invoked by duellists. He had a silver circle round the down of his chin. His empire was called Ydalir (Rain-V

their door keeper. He appeared with a pensive brow, and his eyes cast down . The rainbow (Bifrost) was the bridge, communicat

ng eye surveyed the whole universe. A squirrel (Rotatoskr) ran up and down the oak to make his reports; four stags (Dain, Dy

eceived all who died a violent death, from the beginning of the world down to that general downfall of nature, which was to

the king of men with speed, And saddled strait, his coal-black steed; Down the yawning steep he rode, That leads to Hela’s d

rses, dogs, and sometimes cocks and a fat bull. When it was once laid down as a principle, that the effusion of the blood of

ages that come to us, are the exaggerated and altered accounts handed down by uncertain tradition. We have already observed,

oods were so sacred among them, that it was not permitted to cut them down . No one could approach them but with a religious

were going to combat, or even after they had commenced it, they laid down their arms to listen to their advice. The Bards w

sual dress for that of the Druids, which was a tunic falling half way down the legs. This dress designated priesthood, to wh

heir candidates, whose novitiate was extremely long. They never wrote down their maxims, nor any thing appertaining to their

e Druids, it must be observed, that we present them as they have come down to us by tradition, since the Druids never wrote

or were they the fictions of that age and of those who delivered them down to us, nothing great and exalted, according to my

espondent, are to earth assigned: The sun with rays, directly darting down , Fires all beneath, and fries the middle zone: Th

igantic strength, should dethrone him; and by his power he threw them down an abyss, into which the light of day could never

unwilling, most unwillingly I come, by the great Father’s will driven down , To execute a doom of new revenge. Alas! I pity t

Io, sent Mercury, who destroyed Argus, and restored her to liberty. “ Down from the rock fell the dissevered head, Opening i

ielding waves he cleaves, And to hell’s centre a free passage leaves; Down sinks his chariot, and his realms of night The Go

often with loud howlings and cries, and her articulations were taken down by the priest, and set in order. Sometimes the sp

them. True to their breed, however, the dogs succeeded in running him down and devouring him. Calista, nymph of Diana was se

m from the power of Pluto, and placed him in a grotto, where she came down from Heaven every night to enjoy his society. Ins

merry din —     ’Twas Bacchus and his kin. “Like to a moving vintage down they came, Crowned with green leaves, and faces a

ollo, and like him, he is represented with fine hair, flowing loosely down his shoulders; the roundness of his limbs and vis

to results so disastrous. “Come hither, all sweet maidens, soberly, Down looking, aye, and with a chastened light, Hid in

h’s icy dart, The groan scarce uttered, dies, but half expressed, And down she sinks in deadly swoon oppressed: But when at

his laurel crown, In weariness, in hopelessness,     In utter misery down . “And what the sorrow, then I asked.     Can thu

from thee! “Yet more, the depths have more! what wealth untold, Far down , and shining thro’ their stillness lies; Thou has

      But all is not thine own! “To thee the love of woman hath gone down , Dark flow thy tides o’er manhood’s noble head, O

s possessions. Pluto, however, was by no means willing to sit quietly down in single blessedness, thinking, perhaps, that th

and their blood was not sprinkled on the altars, but permitted to run down into the earth to penetrate the realms of the God

one; The huge round stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down and smokes along the ground, Again the restless o

h the latter had adopted, deceived the rural God, and he laid himself down by his side. The hero awoke, and kicked the intru

, —                      And then I changed my pipings. ‌Singing how down the vale of Menalus,     I pursued a maiden and c

in, but, as he took his way, Impatient longs to make the first essay; Down from a lowly branch a twig he drew, The twig stra

ed to gold in his mouth, and the wine to the same metal, as it passed down his throat. He was now as anxious to be delivered

e was dismissed from her office by Jupiter, however, because she fell down as she was pouring nectar to the Gods, at a grand

flowing and flowing In falls to her feet, and the blue waters rolled Down her limbs like a garment, in many a fold.” Hood.

olate day, such as this ‌And I yearned at his cheeks in my love, and down bent And lifted him up in my arms with intent To

held with lustful eyes The bride: at once resolved to make his prize. Down went the board, and fastening on her hair, He sei

ary star, The languid hyacinth, and wild primrose, And daisy, trodden down like modesty, The fox-glove, in whose drooping-be

h his rivals, shared a like success.” Ovid. Miserable, but not cast down , by the many refusals he met with, Vertumnus took

he chain, They are sweeping on to the silvery main, They are flashing down from the mountain brows, They are flinging spray

yes and their festal crown, They are gone from amongst you in silence down ! The Summer is coming, on soft winds borne, Ye m

tered where he stood. Bright Sol had almost now his journey done, And down the steepy, western convex run; When the fair Ner

the beggar in his hut of clay: Thy hand can lay the tattered vagrant down Beside the head that wore the kingly crown.     

blood. Now with the greedy flame his entrails glow, And livid sweats down all his body flow. The cracking nerves, burnt up,

press of the skies; Sate with my death the rancour of thy heart, Look down with pleasure and enjoy my smart; Or, if e’er pit

funeral pile on Mount Œta, and spreading upon it his lion’s skin, lay down with dignity and composure, his head placed upon

atue by a hand divine, Had not the wind her waving tresses shewed And down her cheeks the melting sorrows flowed. Her faultl

y to pieces, they threw his head into the Hebrus, which, as it rolled down the current, ejaculated with touching tenderness,

the Fates, that Admetus should never die if another person would lay down his life for him. Being one of the Argonauts, he

death; Alcestis, with a beautiful display of conjugal affection, laid down her life to save her husband from the cruel death

d earth and circling air? To raise new plagues and call new vengeance down , Why did you tempt the gods, and dare to touch me

o bribed the charioteer to give his master an old chariot which broke down in the middle of the course, and killed Œnomaus;

While with his cries the vaulted parlour rings; His imprecations echo down to hell, And rouse the snaky furies from their St

sp on gasp.” Byron. The Trojans following the advice of Sinon, beat down part of the wall to make an entrance for the hors

d by the darkness of night, and the bright star of Venus alone looked down on the expectant lover. He saw not the dark rush

ful bride, who had sate watching, and waiting for the weary sun to go down ; when, lo “Her turret torch was blazing high, Th

rooded over her mind, of some vague, uncertain dread, as she wandered down to the sea shore. “Her heart sick with its terro

    One grief and one alone                 Could bow thy bright head down , — Thou wert a woman, and wert left despairing!”

where the Ganges, suddenly abandoning the mountains, is precipitated down the plains of Hindostan. A temple is elevated in

His mighty folds innocuous, overtopping His human height, and arching down his head, Sought in their hands for food. Then qu

d an uncontrollable power over the moon, and that they could draw her down from heaven at pleasure by the mere force of thei

dous thunderbolts, which the latter, with their hundred hands, hurled down upon the enemy, at the same time raising mighty e

ple to accompany them to the summit of a neighboring hill. On looking down towards their village, they saw nothing but a lak

ge stone up a high mountain, which, on reaching the top, always rolls down again to the plain.                             

the sun, which, daily after reaching the highest point, seems to drop down again. “Ixion means the sun at mid-day, whose fou

ment of all the terrible imprecations which the defeated deity called down upon the head of his rebellious son. Their place

he food, and changed him into a spotted lizard. Erysichthon* once cut down an oak-tree which was sacred to Demeter. As a pun

world, like him, a gloomy, awe-inspiring deity, who pitilessly drags down all that lives into the hidden depths of the eart

of Jupiter for the newly-founded city of Rome, the god of heaven sent down an oblong brazen shield (ancile*). As it fell at

lies at the foundation of these legends, namely, that fire first came down from heaven in the form of lightning. He was wors

heaven and causing fruits and flowers to spring forth when they pour down upon them their refreshing and life-giving stream

cchus). His head was thrown into the river Hebrus, and, as it floated down the stream, the lips continued to murmur the name

had the power of uniting all beings divided by hate, Hermes threw it down between two snakes which were fighting. They curl

ury on Tarcissus. As he was one day hunting on Mount Helicon, he bent down to quench his thirst from a spring clear as cryst

was wooing the nymph Pitys, Boreas, who was his rival, blew the nymph down from a rock and killed her. Pan changed her into

f poor Pitys, the pine-tree wooed by Pan, the gentle wind, and struck down by jealous Boreas, the north wind. As the nymph S

he touched the ears of corn, they vaved in golden lustre. When he sat down to eat, his teeth could not penetrate the golden

ected him to bathe in the river Pactolus, which has ever since washed down gold in its sands. Silenus is represented either

o follow a cow as his guide, and to build a city where she should lie down . On leaving the temple he passed through Phocis,

s afterwards stood, she looked towards heaven and, gently lowing, lay down . Grateful for this mark of divine favor, Cadmus d

igone is the light which looks forth from the east when the sun sinks down in the west.” Max Müller . The Theban Wars.

ts stood on the shore wringing their hands in despair. Perseus rushed down at the moment when the monster was about to seize

sserts that the phrase arose from the habit of collecting gold washed down from the mountains, by putting sheepskins in the

oracle to follow a spotted cow, and build a town where she should lie down . He followed the cow until she came to the hill o

ch Odysseus replied, “Outis” (Noman). After his supper, the giant lay down to repose, and soon fell into a heavy sleep. Then

had stood at the helm without sleep. At last, quite exhausted, he lay down to sleep. His comrades, thinking Æolus had given

eria*, the home of the Phæacians*. He crept into a thicket, and lying down on some dried leaves soon fell asleep. Nausicaa*,

iful daughter of the king, Alcinous*, and his queen, Arete*, had come down to the shore, accompanied by her maidens, to wash

riage portion. When they had finished their task, they bathed and sat down to a repast, after which they amused themselves w

pis.” He was placed in a vessel magnificently decorated, and conveyed down the Nile to Memphis, where a temple with two chap

the dead, the Elysian fields, and thither the sun hastens as he sinks down from the heights of heaven. Thus, “Yama is said t

rature or written memorials, — the record of these things was written down . On the seaboard of this wild land is a rim of gr

him up ever so little a piece of mud. The beaver obeyed, and remained down long, even so that he came up utterly exhausted,

sted, but reported that he had not reached bottom. Then the hare sent down the otter, but he also returned nearly dead, and

s better than none in an emergency, the hare gave her permission, and down she dived. She, too, remained long — a whole day

e be called domestic ; or those of ancient or distant nations, handed down by tradition or brought home by voyagers, and the

teeth which prevented him from eating ; he took pity on him, and came down and relieved him. As long as the ship stayed on t

to be represented on the stage often varied so much from that handed down by tradition, that, as is more especially the cas

with that of Homer. Three only of the poems ascribed to him have come down to us, viz. the didactic poem named Works and Day

Christian æra83. Of this, however, the Homeric portion alone has come down to us : for our knowledge of the events contained

ns, framed a continuous narrative, of which an epitome alone has come down to us ; and Crates, Aristarchus, and the other ed

n, through which the sun-god and other deities ascended from and went down into the stream of Ocean. The celestial luminarie

s gradually affected Erebos, the abode of the dead. Elysion was moved down to it as the place of reward for the good, and Ta

have had a strong persuasion that, to bring creation and similar acts down to the comprehension of tribes led by the senses,

, the god on waking sought him, and would have flung him from the sky down into the sea, but that he took refuge with Night,

said in his Geryoneïs, Helios Hyperionides Into the golden cup went down  ; That, having through the Ocean passed, He to th

the scholiasts inform us that, when this horse had thrown Bellerophôn down to earth, Eôs asked and obtained him from Zeus272

he sister of Leto, flying the love of Zeus, flung herself from heaven down to the sea and became the isle afterwards named D

ting legends told by poets, of Zeus taking the human form, and coming down to view more closely the conduct of mankind over

reat of the children and relatives of the king of the gods, was moved down thither to form the place of reward for good men.

s subjects. Pindar speaks of the staff of Hades, with which he drives down (κατάγει) the dead along the hollow way to Erebos

and earth505 ; and when her son Hephæstos would aid her, he flung him down from Olympos506. In this poem the goddess appears

on the sea-shore bound to a willow, whose longest branches were drawn down so as to envelope it. The priestess then loosed i

at the instigation of the Argives, stole the image, in order to draw down the vengeance of the people on Admeta. But lo ! t

his counsel gave out that he was going to marry another ; and cutting down a handsome tree, they shaped it into the form of

is reached the ears of Hera she could not contain herself, but coming down in a rage from Cithærôn, followed by the women of

d which of them took the meat, and on what tree he sat. They then cut down that tree, and made an image from it. It is proba

d, the master-smith, to furnish her son Æneas with arms ; and he goes down from Heaven to Hiera, and directs his men the Cyc

y, and the goddess was parched with thirst. She saw a pool, and knelt down at it to drink. Some clowns, who were there cutti

When Apollo resolved to choose the site of his first temple, he came down from Olympos into Pieria : he sought throughout a

rged the thunderbolts, for which bold deed Zeus was about to hurl him down to Tartaros, but, on the entreaty of Leto, he was

r complexion and moderate size : his hair, of a rich golden hue, hung down his back, which was bright and clean as that of a

there is hers, and all her commands will be obeyed. She bathes, sits down to a rich repast, and is regaled with music by in

rue desire. Two loves meet it, — the earthly, a deceiver who draws it down to earthly things ; the heavenly, who directs its

Unable then to endure the idea of the felicity of her sister, she sat down at the door, determined not to permit the god to

er whose auspices the land was ploughed up, and the grass or corn cut down . The eyes of Argos might then have originally sig

d at the conduct of Zeus, abandoned the society of the gods, and came down among men. But she now was heedless of her person

nd housekeepers in resounding houses,’ — she came to Eleusis, and sat down by a well, beneath the shade of an olive885. The

stly punished with ever-craving hunger Erysichthôn, who impiously cut down her sacred grove. This infliction gave occasion f

act performed in obedience to the will of Heaven is believed to draw down its favour on the performer. The Mussulman makes

re the god of Arcadia, and the wind-god in a fit of jealousy blew her down from the summit of a lofty rock. A tree of her ow

lody. Pan also loved him, and one time warned him to drive his flocks down into the plain, as a most terrific winter was com

adds, said that Tritôn used to carry off the cattle which were driven down to the sea, and to seize all small vessels ; till

n the shore, he drank of them, and becoming intoxicated threw himself down on the shore to sleep ; where as he lay, a Tanagr

the nymph ; and Proteus drives up and counts his herds, and then lies down to rest. The hero immediately seizes him, and the

immortality by tasting the grass which had revived a hare he had run down in Ætolia ; also1273 that he built and steered th

d shoot over it. A wild fig-tree grows on it, stretching its branches down to the water : but beneath, ‘divine Charybdis’ th

iron was not yet.’ At length, slain by each other's hands, they went down to the ‘mouldy house of cold Aïdes,’ and left no

succeeded she retired to the mountains, whence she occasionally came down in the evening-time, and approaching their abodes

ake by casting his skin annually renews his youth, while man is borne down by the weight of the evils of old-age. The malign

over the earth. In terror at the sight of these monsters, she clapped down the lid just in time to prevent the escape of Hop

, where they abide shunning the earth. Hope alone remained, as he let down the lid before she had escaped1486. Such is what

ace among the ancient Hellenic mythes ; but unfortunately it has come down to us only in a late form, and apparently mixed u

fatal day arrived Admetos implored his aged father and mother to lay down their small remnant of life for his sake, but the

o follow a cow as his guide, and to build a city where she should lie down . On leaving the temple he went through Phocis, an

hrough Bœotia till she came to where Thebes now stands, and there lay down . Wishing to sacrifice her to Athena1624, Cadmos s

inspired with madness the fifty dogs that were with him, and they ran down and devoured their unhappy master. They then went

d may remind us of the moon, which at the full sits so calmly looking down on the earth ; her husband’s name Epopeus is of s

et, and when old uses a staff, a third foot. The Sphinx flung herself down to the earth and perished ; and Œdipûs now unknow

on Ossa, in order to scale heaven, but Apollo killed them before the down had grown on their cheeks1720. Thus far Homer. Pi

e accomplished. Zeus, unsuspicious of guile, swore, and Hera hastened down to Argos, where the wife of Sthenelos the son of

k Phyleus, the son of Augeas, to witness the agreement. He then broke down a part of the wall of the court, and turning in t

off their queen. They instantly armed, mounted their horses, and came down to the ship. Heracles, thinking that Hippolyta ha

old the heaven till he had made a pad to put on his head. Atlas threw down the apples, and resumed his burden ; and Heracles

naron in Laconia, where the entrance to the under-world was, and went down it, accompanied by Hermes and Athena1765. The mom

is hero is of a very mixed character in the form in which it has come down to us. There is in it the identification of one o

well known that some of the Hesiodic poems, as they are called, come down even below the thirtieth Olympiad. Cinæthos of La

ake, and joined Amphitryôn in the chase of it : his dog Lælaps ran it down  ; but just as he was catching it, Zeus turned the

ng challenged, though he had never before attempted such a feat, held down the tree with ease ; and then, to punish Sinis fo

ged in the operation, Scirôn would give him a kick, which tumbled him down into the sea, where a huge tortoise always lay re

rtoise always lay ready to devour the bodies of those who were thrown down . Theseus killed Scirôn himself, and flung his bod

o were thrown down. Theseus killed Scirôn himself, and flung his body down to the tortoise1838. Theseus came now to Eleusis,

the skill, and apprehensive of the rivalry of the young man, cast him down from the Acropolis and killed him. For this murde

leave it. Hermes however reduced him to obedience ; and when he came down , Hades set him to roll a huge stone up a hill, a

nning toil, for as soon as it reached the summit it rolled back again down to the plain1867. The craft of Sisyphos, of which

en ; and under the form of a golden shower he poured through the roof down into her bosom. Danae became the mother of a son,

, Euadne, who had gone to the fount, felt her pains come on. She laid down her silver pitcher and loosed her ‘purple-yellow’

, a reduplication2056, and his mythe is evidently one of those handed down from the ancient serious Pelasgic times. The root

n Pelops came2061. In the dead of the night, says Pindar, Pelops went down to the margin of the sea, and invoked the god who

instead of iron. In the race therefore, the chariot of Œnomaos broke down , and falling out he was killed2063, and Hippodame

taken for granted by all historians from Herodotus and Thucydides2069 down to our own days. Homer, when giving an account of

of the victims and defiled her clothes. Quitting the dance, she went down to the river to wash the dirt from her garment. W

e seems to have been reversed, the constellations having been brought down from the sky, and not the mortals raised to it. M

with his voice, their oars kept time to the harmony. The gods looked down from the sky, the nymphs of Pelion gazed in wonde

ing the Argonauts took them for their enemies the Thracians, and came down in arms to oppose their landing ; but on ascertai

tered and proceeded along it southwards. Hecatæus made them then sail down the Nile and so home, but according to the others

overland to the northern ocean, where they launched it, and so sailed down the west side of Europe to the Mediterranean ; th

hey sailed up the Phasis to the point where it divided, and then went down the other branch named the Saranges into the Mæot

nias and other authors. Of the dramas on this subject there have come down to us the noble ‘Seven against Thebes’ of Æschylu

him a spotted cow, and told him to build a city where she should lie down . Ilos followed the cow till she came to the hill

e banquet of the gods at the nuptials of Peleus and Thetis, and flung down a golden apple, inscribed “The apple for the Fair

enedos. The Trojans, thinking their toils and dangers all over, break down a part of their walls, and drawing the horse into

copious. Of the original poems the Ilias and Odyssey alone have come down to us ; fragments only exist of the remaining par

proofs of such being the usage among the Romans. Cicero, when laying down laws for his ideal republic, says2264, “Patrum de

be appeased. They yielded to his prayer, and on his loosing them drew down (“eliciunt”) Jupiter by their charms. He descende

us (Hymn iv. 37. seq.), who says, alluding to her name, that she came down ‘like a star.’ This was probably the more ancient

rikes vast Rhodope’s exalted crown, And hurls huge Athos and Ceraunia down . Thick fall the rains; the wind redoubled roars;

s the high ethereal throne, Whence fierce he us’d to dart his thunder down ; Whence his dread show’rs and storms he used to p

bathe. She is said to have changed men into beasts, and to have drawn down the stars from heaven, by her powerful incantatio

d earth’s unmeasur’d regions as he flies, Wrapt in a rapid whirlwind, down the skies. Then grasp’d the wand; the wand that c

he dusty whirlwind flies There, Neptune’s trident breaks the bulwarks down , There, from her basis heaves the trembling town;

fury to assuage, He shakes his sceptre, and controls their rage; Or, down the void, their rapid whirls had driven Earth, ai

ne; The huge, round stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down , and smokes along the ground. Again the restless

ar, an animal of astonishing size and fierceness. He, on foot, hunted down , after a chace of a year, a hind consecrated to D

formed of clay, with exquisite skill. For this theft, he was chained down to a rock on mount Caucasus: and a vulture was co

d thence, either ascends to Swerga, or the first heaven; or is driven down to Narac, the region of serpents; or assumes, on

of gems; jewels in their ears; necklaces; garlands of flowers hanging down below their waists; loose mantles of golden tissu

a man, a horse, and a bull; from each of which he caused rain to pour down in drops as large as the head of an ox. The earth

the King of men with speed And saddled strait, his coal-black steed; Down the yawning steep he rode, That leads to Hela’s d

g Garme, and they kill each other. At the same instant Frey is beaten down . Thor overthrows the huge serpent; but in strikin

Mahometans, as being one of the precious stones of Paradise that fell down to the earth with Adam; and being taken up again,

arts were extracted by the high priest, and their bodies precipitated down the steps, which formed the sides of the temple.

ce of Venus? Into what island did Vulcan fall, when Jupiter threw him down from heaven? What animals and plants were consecr

goddess flies Inflam’d with rage and vengeance, from the skies Looks down , and, bending o’er the baneful cell, Calls dire A

would meet in the fields, and to mark the place where she should lie down to rest. He was to build a city on that spot, and

nes saw that Atalanta was going to outstrip him in the race, he threw down a golden apple; the princess paused to admire and

ted as an old man armed with a scythe, which signifies that time mows down everything in its course; and he holds in his han

ho was Vulcan? Ans. He was the son of Jupiter and Juno, but was cast down from heaven on account of his deformed appearance

er was obliged to lay the whole Island of Sicily upon him to keep him down . Briareus was another giant, remarkable for havin

ad gained the affections of Juno. For this insolence Jupiter cast him down into hell, where he was fastened to a wheel which

l a huge stone up a steep mountain. When it touched the top it rolled down again, so that he was tormented with unceasing to

arrows becoming exhausted, he prayed to Jupiter for aid. The god sent down a shower of great stones, with which Hercules put

surprised to hear its murmur, “Eurydice, Eurydice!” as it was carried down the stream to the Ægean Sea. Bacchus was indignan

ng man excited the jealousy of Dædalus, who killed him by casting him down from the summit of the Acropolis. Perdix was tran

ose of an Indian elephant. The cornfields and vineyards were trampled down in its path, and the terrified husbandmen everywh

nster’s lair. Roused by the baying hounds, he rushed forth, trampling down and slaying the nearest huntsmen. In vain Jason t

s ship; but Nisus, who had just been transformed into a hawk, swooped down upon her from the sky. Scylla cast herself into t

with the death of Turnus, but we have some further particulars handed down by tradition. Æneas built a city, called from his

eight salmons, besides a full grown ox and other delicacies, washing down the repast with proportionate draughts of mead. L

from.” As soon as Loki heard this, he went away rejoicing. Having cut down the mistletoe, he repaired to the place where the

r public or private, but the mystic learning of the Druids was handed down by oral tradition only. The few inscriptions they

re. Scarcely have they entered these, when the light craft is weighed down by a ghostly band. The terrified pilot has no nee

rs of the Northern Ocean. Then for a few brief moments the stars look down on the riches buried in ancient times beneath the

rikes vast Rhodope’s exalted crown, And hurls huge Athos and Cerannia down . Thick fall the rains; the wind redoubled roars:

nd began to play with him as with a great but gentle dog; when he lay down at her feet she sprang upon his back. This was wh

           The radiant sun, to mortal sight, Descending swift, rolled down the rapid light, Then to their starry domes the g

a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter? Seeing that these things cannot be

ne, The huge, round stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down , and smokes along the ground. Again the restless

ind goddess, turning a wheel, which raised up some persons, and threw down others at the same time. Envy and Discord.

would tie his limbs to the branches of trees, which, having been bent down , suddenly would spring up, and tear the unhappy s

ead into the Hebrus, a river of Thrace. The floating head was carried down to the Egean sea, the lips uttering the sad sound

unted for, but such is the story told by Virgil. The Trojans, looking down from their walls, and perceiving the absence of t

ere, though he was alone, and exposed to wild beasts, he laid himself down to rest and fell asleep. While Ulysses was sleepi

d that he was drowned in the Numicus, a river of Italy, being weighed down by his armour; and that the Latins, as the Romans

d thence, either ascends to Swerga, or the first heaven; or is driven down to Narac, the region of serpents; or assumes on e

of gems; jewels in their ears; necklaces; garlands of flowers hanging down below their waists; loose mantles of golden tissu

he king of men with speed, And saddled straight his coal-black steed; Down the yawning steep he rode. That leads to Hela’s d

n would enter a strange house, and without uttering a word, would sit down among the ashes upon the hearth, and by his looks

. Lord Elgin, a Scotch nobleman, took pains some years since, to pull down and convey to England some of the finest specimen

ns of Greece, of Egypt, and those of Italy, and of Syria, were bowing down before idols. There is no doubt that the Phœnicia

with perpetual hunger because he defiled the groves of Ceres, and cut down one of the sacred oaks. Er′os [Eros]. The Greek

at dwells In cottages and smoky cells; Hates gilded roofs and beds of down , And though he fears no prince’s frown, Flies fro

d to Eurydice; but she was stung by a serpent, and died. Orpheus went down to Hades to claim her, and played so sweetly with

falling star That in a summer’s evening from the top Of heaven drops down , or seems at least to drop.” Addison. Pha′on [

stone to the top of a hill in the infernal regions, and as it rolled down again when he reached the summit, his punishment

tone, The huge round stone, resulting with a bound Thunders impetuous down , and smokes along the ground.” Pope. “Thy ston

he Thunderer, with flashing ray, Bursts through the darkness and lets down the day.” Pope. Thy′a [Thya], a name of Ops.