k clouds, and then formed the zodiac, glittering with stars above his
head
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thin and yet robust, his eyes marked by a stern light; a veil on his
head
, and a serpent round his waist; while in his hand
gh under various names. She is represented with keys in her hand, her
head
crowned with rising turrets, and sometimes with t
d then in awful majesty to shed A thousand graceful charms around her
head
. Next Hermes, artful god, must form her mind, One
and restored her to liberty. “Down from the rock fell the dissevered
head
, Opening its eyes in death, and falling bled, And
the rising flowers, that fed The gentle beast, and fondly stroked his
head
. She placed herself upon his back, and rode O’er
calm: while broad and brown, below Extensive harvests hang the heavy
head
. Rich, silent, deep, they stand: for not a gale R
stic marrow-bones she kneeled, Then to the water’s brink she laid her
head
, And, as a bittern sounds within a reed, ‘To thee
, with curling locks of hair, his brow wreathed with laurels, and his
head
surrounded with beams of light. In his right hand
who slew the boar. A quarrel having arisen for the possession of the
head
of this monster, Meleager killed his brothers. In
is banded over her brow, while sometimes a crescent is painted on her
head
, of which the points are turned towards Heaven. S
k his celebrated expedition into the East, to which he marched at the
head
of an army, composed of men as well as of women,
forms: the grapy clusters spread, On his fair brows and dangle on his
head
.” Unable to bear the horror of the sight, the ro
e energy of their tempestuous dance. “One represents a faun, with the
head
of Pentheus in one hand, and in the other a great
inced by Venus at his loss. “Over one shoulder doth she hang her
head
; Dumbly she passions, frantickly she doteth,
ong beard, dishevelled hair, half naked, and a small round cap on his
head
, while he holds a hammer and pincers in his hand.
times, like a conqueror, he marches triumphantly with a helmet on his
head
, a spear on his shoulder, and a buckler on his ar
and consequence, were equal to those of Jupiter. “From Jove’s awful
head
sprang forth to light, In golden panoply superbly
eared, has the goddess been represented. Usually with a helmet on her
head
, and a large plume nodding in the air. In one han
ne hand she holds a spear, and in the other, a shield, with the dying
head
of Medusa upon it. “With bright wreaths of serpe
r lightened o’er the dazzled field.” Darwin. Sometimes the Gorgon’s
head
was on her breast-plate, with living serpents wri
of pain, Which humanize and harmonize the strain. “And from its
head
as from one body grow, As grass out of a wate
steal it away. Description of Minerva in the Florence Gallery. “The
head
is of the highest beauty. It has a close helmet f
ure, in which all is not pleasure. It is difficult to think that this
head
, though of the highest ideal beauty is the head o
lt to think that this head, though of the highest ideal beauty is the
head
of Minerva, although the attributes and attitude
ove of woman hath gone down, Dark flow thy tides o’er manhood’s noble
head
, O’er youth’s bright locks, and beauty’s flowery
And all her garments float around; Again, again she rises light, Her
head
is like a fountain bright, And her glossy ringlet
s lip the treacherous water flies, Above, beneath, around his hapless
head
, Trees of all kinds delicious fruitage spread; Th
Driope, and is usually described as possessing two small horns on his
head
, his complexion ruddy, his nose flat, and his leg
matchless nymph, and burns with new desires. A crown of pine upon his
head
he wore, And then began her pity to implore. But
s, whose footsteps tread Each snow-crowned hill, and mountain’s lofty
head
; Or wander careless through the lowly brake, Or b
with redoubled sorrow. “Now hanging o’er the spring his drooping
head
, With a sad sigh these dying words he said, ‘Ah!
temple was on the Tarpeian rock, and he was represented with a human
head
, though without feet or arms, to intimate that he
ink, Some star, that shone beneath thy tread, Raising its amorous
head
To kiss those matchless feet, And all heaven’
in horror, but felt as I fled, The stone he indignantly hurled at my
head
, That dissevered my ear, but I felt not, whose fa
praise in their honour; Spring is usually drawn as a nymph, with her
head
crowned by a wreath of flowers; and many are the
mbrance of dull decay! There were steps that flew o’er the cowslip’s
head
, As if for a banquet all earth were spread; There
d, Thy horror-breathing agues cease to lead, And gently on the orphan
head
Of innocence descend. But chiefly spare, O King o
eared generally as an old man with grey hair, a gloomy countenance, a
head
covered with clouds, a sable vesture and dusky wi
pursue, nor ever pause from wrath Tremendous, till destructive on the
head
Of him that sins the retribution falls.” Hesiod.
escribed by some authors. Clotho has on a variegated robe, and on her
head
a crown of seven stars. She holds a distaff in he
e, the fawn’s young glee, The hyacinth’s meek
head
. On my own heart I lay T
is hut of clay: Thy hand can lay the tattered vagrant down Beside the
head
that wore the kingly crown. “Childhood is t
, lightly tread; Revere the pale, still brow, The meekly drooping
head
, The long hair’s willowy flow. Ye know not wh
enance, smiling faces, small mouths, hair negligently tied over their
head
, and with their hands placed in a graceful attitu
sented as a young and drunken man, with a garland of flowers upon his
head
, his face lit up by the deity of wine, and with a
dropping wine, Rigour now is gone to bed, And Advice with scrupulous
head
: Strict age and sour severity, With their grave s
pleasantry, and was the buffoon and satirist of Olympus. He wears as
head
dress, a cap adorned with small bells, a mask in
ding a torch in his hand, and in the other a purple garment, with his
head
ornamented by a crown of roses. “Till Hymen brou
With shrines and pyramids o’erspread — Where many an ancient, kingly
head
Slumbers, immortalized in stone; And where, t
……… His feeble frame resumes a youthful air, A glossy brown his hoary
head
of hair, The meagre paleness from his aspect fled
ove, who slew his sons and wife? Then bid me thence with curses on my
head
. And to the man, whose former days were passed
is enemy. But this was productive of no advantage, for as soon as one
head
was beaten to pieces by the club, immediately two
Iolas, who accompanied him, to burn, with a hot iron, the root of the
head
which he had crushed to pieces. This succeeded, a
ercules expressed a wish to ease his load by putting something on his
head
, and when Atlas assisted him to remove the inconv
h strong grasp, the struggling giant strains; Back falls his fainting
head
, and clammy hair, Writhe his weak limbs, and flit
ough brazen lips, he fled, And shakes the rock-roofed cavern o’er his
head
! Last, with wide arms the solid earth he tears, P
ing upon it his lion’s skin, lay down with dignity and composure, his
head
placed upon his club, to await his death. The pil
that though he was unable to give him a horse, he would bring him the
head
of one of the Gorgons, and Medusa being the only
porting his courage, and with one blow of his sword, cut off Medusa’s
head
. The noise of the blow awoke the two remaining si
ed his way through the air, and from the blood which dropped from the
head
of the slain Gorgon he carried with him, arose th
tlas, monarch of Mauritania. “The victor Perseus, with the Gorgon
head
, O’er Lybian sands his airy journey sped. The gor
d with so powerful a foe, Perseus was obliged to have recourse to the
head
of Medusa, and Atlas was instantly changed into a
aid, and backward turned, no more concealed The present, and Medusa’s
head
reveal’d. Soon the high Atlas a high mountain
me a leafy wood: His hands and shoulders into ridges went, The summit
head
still crowned the deep ascent: His bones a solid,
Jove behold, Got in a kindly shower of fruitful gold, Medusa’s snaky
head
is now my prey, And through the clouds I boldly w
aside; With suppliant mien to Perseus thus he prays, ‘Hence with the
head
, as far as winds and seas Can bear thee: Hence; o
uit the Cephan shore And never curse it with Medusa more; That horrid
head
which stiffens into stone, Those impious men who
’ Phineus turned to shun the shield, Full in his face the staring
head
he held, As here and there he strove to turn asid
nd fearful look, the guilty statue stands.” Ovid. He but showed the
head
of the Gorgon to his adversaries, and they turned
placed him on the throne of Seriphos, after he had employed Medusa’s
head
to turn the wicked Polydectes into stone, with t
ose he makes himself, Speak to me — Say that I yet may hope to lay my
head
On that dear bosom, say thou wilt not spurn The h
s flight!” Dryden. After tearing his body to pieces, they threw his
head
into the Hebrus, which, as it rolled down the cur
istance of a staff.” Enraged at this solution, the monster dashed its
head
against a rock, and delivered Thebes from his unw
ter, that passes around, yet never touches his lips; while, above his
head
, hangs a bough, laden with delicious fruit, which
a ghastly air, Stepped forth, and flung full in the tyrant’s face The
head
of Itys, gory as it was: Nor ever longed so much
evenged, Shares the like fate, and to a bird is changed: Fixed on his
head
, the crested plumes appear; Long is his beak, and
uble wound; These fixed up high behind the rolling wain, His graceful
head
was hauled along the plain. Proud on his car th’
the edge of the sword. He then sought to rally the Trojans, and make
head
against the enemy, but when he abandoned himself
s, the sounding palace shook. Thrice Dido tried to raise her drooping
head
, And, panting, thrice fell grovelling on the bed.
riendship the Greeks represented clothed in a clasped garment, her
head
bare, her bosom revealed near the heart, holding
e, she was a young maiden with a white robe, her bosom half bare, her
head
adorned with myrtle and pomegranate flowers inter
yes sparkling with fire, holding a dagger concealed in her bosom. Her
head
is generally enwreathed with serpents, and she is
t. ——————— “The shepherd boy, He felt the Cyclop’s wrath, for on his
head
The mighty weight descended: not a limb, Or bone,
shing cheek reposes, Violets as fresh as violets could be; Stars over
head
, with each a history Of love told by its light; a
ed to call the tenth muse. “Then came a dark browed spirit, on whose
head
Laurel and withering roses loosely hung: She held
One grief and one alone Could bow thy bright
head
down, — Thou wert a woman, and wert left despairi
rything was created, and everything is sustained; he is the invisible
head
of the Brahmins, and as such, is worshipped by th
mes raised, as if in the act of blessing the human race, while on his
head
is placed a triple storied crown. In the middle o
is drawn with five heads, four hands, and three eyes in his principal
head
. He is carried by a bull, and holds in his hands
e is represented on a mat, his limbs crossed, his bust stiff, and his
head
elevated in an imposing attitude, announcing both
y folds innocuous, overtopping His human height, and arching down his
head
, Sought in their hands for food. Then quitting, r
were laid upon a large stone, and quickly strangled or knocked on the
head
.” Irminsul was another, and not the least celebr
and which is observable in all the tombs and palaces of Egypt; on his
head
he wears a conical cap, not differing much from t
mage. “It is placed on a throne upheld by an azure globe; and on its
head
are plumes of divers colours. His face, severe an
like a bat, and the feet of a goat; while in his middle is drawn the
head
of a lion.” As a proof of the bloody nature of t
metimes was seen carrying his thunderbolts. If Jupiter but nodded his
head
, all creation shook with a muttering of thunder;
top and call. Very soon the river-god would raise his great, dripping
head
above the water and look at her with gentle, maje
seated upon a great black throne, beside the dark-faced god. Upon her
head
was a glittering crown of diamonds and rubies, an
r all of them, and their faces shone with happiness and power. At the
head
of the table sat Jupiter, father of gods and of m
hter again, for he took her from me by force.” Then Jupiter bowed his
head
in thought, and Minerva, the goddess of wisdom, s
us. She went back to the earth and sat silent and alone, with covered
head
, mourning for her daughter. But on Olympus Jupite
Now Mercury has winged sandals on his feet and a winged cap upon his
head
, and he sails through the air more swiftly than a
with a wave of his snake-wand and a whir of the wings on his feet and
head
, he disappeared. Then came happy days. Epimetheus
ed with gold and one with lead. First he drew the golden arrow to its
head
; the bow gave a vicious little twang, and in a mo
Cupid and the Bee. Cupid once upon a bed Of roses laid his weary
head
; Luckless urchin, not to see Within the leaves a
as had said, for his mother, Alcmena, had told him. Then, lifting his
head
, he chose the path of the fair, stern goddess who
Hercules tried his club. He hit the lion with all his might upon the
head
. It was a crushing blow, but the lion only paused
, he found the Titan, standing enormous and supporting the sky on his
head
with his mighty arms. A solemn old giant was Atla
re food and wine were set before him. The strong man even crowned his
head
with garlands, and made merry in the house of mou
uld have been blinded to look at him, and Phaëton dared not raise his
head
. His courage, however, did not fail. He stood wai
ess because you come without a gift.” At this, the young man held his
head
up proudly and said: — “O King, whatever you may
you so willing?” answered the treacherous king. “Bring me, then, the
head
of the Gorgon Medusa. That would be a great gift,
d it.” Then Perseus said: “If I live, O King, you shall have Medusa’s
head
,” and he arose and went quietly out. While the ki
court are feasting?” she asked. “I have promised King Polydectes the
head
of the Gorgon Medusa,” replied the young man, and
ir woman, but, instead of hair, a mass of writhing snakes covered her
head
and surrounded her beautiful face. These snakes w
his shield, he raised his sword and with one blow cut off her direful
head
and ended her misery. To wrap the head in his man
h one blow cut off her direful head and ended her misery. To wrap the
head
in his mantle was the work of a second. Then he s
and would have crushed him, Perseus drew from his mantle the terrible
head
of Medusa and held it up. In a moment Atlas stood
but this offer the hero could not accept. “I must carry the Gorgon’s
head
to Polydectes,” he said, “and take my mother back
,” said Perseus, “I have brought you the gift you wished. Here is the
head
of the Gorgon Medusa.” With that he drew the head
wished. Here is the head of the Gorgon Medusa.” With that he drew the
head
from under his mantle and held it up before Polyd
gave back the winged shoes to the god Mercury, and dedicated Medusa’s
head
to Minerva, who had helped him so constantly. Eve
constantly. Ever after, the goddess of wisdom bore the terrible snaky
head
either upon her shield or upon her golden breastp
d was much too short, the young hero had first to lop off the giant’s
head
. Thus the first day passed. The following days we
the monster. The Minotaur had not yet seen him, but stood turning its
head
this way and that, sniffing the air and listening
in looked thick and hard like leather. Upon its great neck it had the
head
of a bull, but with teeth long and sharp, like th
evil man. With a terrible bellow it rushed upon him, putting down its
head
to gore him with its horns. Theseus struck it wit
Cretan waters. From the trunk with trenchant glaive The monster’s
head
he severed, The mazes of the darksome cave Wit
t oath that she and her son should be avenged; and when he nodded his
head
, the heavens shook with a muttering of thunder. N
above all men, he cast himself upon the earth and threw dust upon his
head
and tore his hair. And all his friends, as they s
had no armor, but the goddess Minerva threw a golden light about his
head
, so that he shone like one of the gods. And Achil
e was fear in their hearts as they saw the great form and the shining
head
of Achilles. And the hero shouted again, and a th
rn and take control, for in those days a strong arm was needed at the
head
of the state. But year after year went by and Uly
an ox, Ulysses was not moved by it. He walked quietly on, shaking his
head
, but curbing his wrath until the proper time shou
eece. Ruled by Ægeus, 146. At΄las. A Titan. Supported the sky on his
head
and hands, 91; outwitted by Hercules, 94; turned
ooked at her was turned to stone, 129-130; slain by Perseus, 136. Her
head
was afterward borne by Minerva upon breastplate o
a small boat; rescued by Dictys, 18; sent by Polydectes to obtain the
head
of Medusa, 18; was helped by Minerva, 130, to who
Medusa, 18; was helped by Minerva, 130, to whom he afterward gave the
head
, 144. Adventure with Atlas, 137. Rescued Andromed
trigued against Perseus, 127-128; was turned to stone by the Gorgon’s
head
in the hands of Perseus, 144. Polyphe ΄ mus, 220
h towers, and she is therefore depicted with a crown of towers on her
head
. How is Cybele described? Cybele is generally rep
eavens. Homer describes him with black eyebrows and curling hair; his
head
surrounded with clouds, and shaking the heavens w
e other, a spindle; wearing a radiant crown, and sometimes having her
head
encircled with a rainbow. Near her was generally
ing upon the rainbow, with expanded wings; a blaze of glory round her
head
; and clothed in floating robes of brilliant and v
having a bow or lyre in his hand; while the Sun is depicted with his
head
surrounded with rays, holding in one hand a globe
e used to pour; Then aiming at the youth with lifted hand Full at his
head
he hurl’d the flaming brand, In awful thunderings
imself, the rushing battle led; A veil of clouds involv’d his radiant
head
: High, held before him, Jove’s enormous shield Po
enge, a sudden night he spread, And gloomy darkness roll’d around his
head
. The fleet in view, he twang’d his deadly bow; An
s in a chariot drawn by tigers and lions, or lynxes and panthers; his
head
is crowned with ivy or vine leaves, and in his ha
ning her birth? Jupiter being tormented with an excessive pain in his
head
, applied to Vulcan to open it with a keen axe; an
by whose milk Jupiter was nourished; having, as a boss, the terrific
head
of the Gorgon Medusa, encircled by snakes instead
t her birth, but rising every hour, While scarce the skies her horrid
head
can bound, She stalks on earth and shakes the wor
reek; the dreadful God of war. Full at the chief, above his courser’s
head
, From Mars’ arm th’ enormous weapon fled: Pallas
locks immortal odours shed, And breath’d ambrosial scents around her
head
. Her sweeping robe trail’d pompous as she trod, A
f a lion, and playing on a lyre; whilst the fierce savage turning his
head
, seems to listen to its harmonious chords. Someti
flying God. From far, huge Atlas’ rocky sides he spies, Atlas, whose
head
supports the starry skies: Beat by the winds and
the dismal regions of the dead, Th’ infernal monarch rears his horrid
head
Leaps from his throne, lest Neptune’s arm should
ond’rous rocks he spread, And hurl’d huge heaps of mountains on their
head
\ And gave a king, commission’d to restrain, And
nd called Syrinx. He was generally venerated by the Arcadians, as the
head
of all the rural Deities. In the month of Februar
he was born at Malea. They represented him as an old man with a bald
head
, a flat nose, large ears, and every mark of intem
mblematical of the impossibility of returning from his dominions; his
head
crowned with the flowers of the Narcissus, or wit
he is seen in a black chariot, drawn by black horses, a helmet on his
head
, which has the power of rendering him invisible.
Apollo, at Delphi, sees, with terror, a vast stone suspended over his
head
, perpetually threatening to fall and crush him be
lip the treacherous water flies. Above, beneath, around, his hapless
head
, Trees of all kinds delicious fruitage spread. Th
ed, dashed to pieces. Who was Chimæra? A dreadful monster, having the
head
and breast of a lion, the belly of a goat, the ta
a dragon’s fiery tail was spread; A goat’s rough body, bore a lion’s
head
; Her pitchy nostrils flaky flames expire; Her ga
ey had the faces and breasts of women, and the tails of serpents. The
head
of one of these monsters, cut off by Perseus, was
ll other Indian statues of gods, they are adorned with bracelets. The
head
is exposed; the hair is plaited up together, at t
Pollear son of Seeva, the God of wisdom, depicted with an elephant’s
head
, the symbol of sagacious discernment, and attende
ant tree, Rock-rooted on a mountain top it grew; Rear’d its unrival’d
head
on high, And stretch’d a thousand branches o’er t
ence, the large bee of that colour is often drawn fluttering over his
head
. His character and attributes greatly resemble th
Her image was usually in the form of a woman, with cows’ horns on her
head
; representing the appearance of the moon, in her
al, but chiefly in the city Cynopolis. The statue of this god had the
head
of a dog: dogs were accounted sacred to him; and
phitheatre. This image was of the human form, bearing a basket on its
head
, emblematic of plenty. The right hand leaned upon
ket on its head, emblematic of plenty. The right hand leaned upon the
head
of a serpent, whose body was coiled round a figur
ts; and which, when seen sitting with the neck bent forwards, and the
head
concealed under the wing, resembled the form of t
ut off his eyebrows; but to celebrate the funeral of a dog, the whole
head
was shaved. In the extremity of famine, when they
om each of which he caused rain to pour down in drops as large as the
head
of an ox. The earth was covered with water, and a
taken in battle. The priest having poured a libation of wine upon the
head
of the destined captive, pierced his throat, and
combats and disputes. He was represented with a cock’s crest upon his
head
. Tyr, the dispenser of victory. Braga, the God of
legs, and running with inconceivable speed. It speaks of the embalmed
head
of Mimer, the prophet, which Odin used to carry w
ven will open; the Genii of fire will enter, and with Surtur at their
head
, will pass the bridge Bifrost. They will unite wi
sive plain. Immediately Heimdal sounds his trumpet; Odin consults the
head
of Mimer; the great ash tree Idrasil, which overs
er bled. Fate demands a nobler quarry; Death must light on Odin’s
head
. See ye not yon silent stranger? Proud he mo
See the serpent weakly crawling! Thor has bruis’d its loathsome
head
! Lo the stars from heav’n are falling! Earth
Who mourn’d in earnest, when the captive ark Maim’d his brute image;
head
and hands lopp’d off. Dagon his name; sea monster
ner of which was a piece of wood carved into the shape of a serpent’s
head
. His forehead also was azure, and a band of the s
same colour passed under his nose, from one ear to the other. On his
head
was a rich plume of feathers, covered on the top
sceptre, and in the other a key, and wears a crown of turrets on her
head
. She is sometimes painted with numerous breasts.
all and all command the sky.” Virgil. Obs. 1. — The towers on her
head
, denote the towers and castles built on the earth
; which gave rise to the representation of a crown of towers upon her
head
. Before she became the wife of Saturn, she had se
he was represented as wearing a long flowing robe, with a veil on her
head
, holding a lamp in one hand and a javelin in the
rgil. “Now lows white bull on Asia’s strand, And crops with dancing
head
the daisied land, With rosy wreaths, Europa’s han
ich they made away. A further account of them will be given under the
head
of the Sufferers in Hell. Questions. Who was Jupi
pon the rainbow, with expanded wings, with a blaze of glory round her
head
, and clothed in floating robes of beautiful, bril
olding in one hand a golden sceptre, and in the other, a spindle; her
head
is sometimes covered with a radiant crown, and at
straight convey’d Her gift, and him the watchful keeper made. Argus’
head
a hundred eyes possess’d, And only two at once re
a thousand colours from the light; Then stood about the dying lover’s
head
, And said, ‘I thus devote thee to the dead: This
ey put their designs and intrigues into execution. She appears with a
head
, but no legs, or other limbs. Volumnus and Volum
d majestic woman, with yellow hair, and a garland of corn-ears on her
head
. In one hand she holds a lighted torch, and in th
n-ears. In Sicily her image was represented in a black veil, with the
head
of a horse, and holding a dove in one hand, and i
olds a bow or a harp in his hand, while the sun is represented with a
head
surrounded with rays, holding a globe in one hand
th a quiver of arrows at his back, and sometimes a lyre, or harp. His
head
was crowned with laurel, and surrounded with rays
but not being able to keep himself in the air; he fell, and broke his
head
. 1. Clio, crowned with laurel, held a trumpet in
represented as holding in his hand a thyrsus, or javelin with an iron
head
, bound about with vine leaves. He is usually depi
nded together. Jupiter complaining of the head-ache, Vulcan split his
head
with a hatchet; whence Minerva sprang out, not a
prophecy. She aided Perseus in killing the Gorgon Medusa, whose snaky
head
she placed in her ægis, or shield, because it had
a, either because her father brought her forth three months after his
head
had been struck, or because she was educated on l
hirlwinds of flame. In process of time the goddess engraved on it the
head
of Medusa. A crown of olive was entwined around h
e Sacred Books, where Wisdom says, that she descended from the divine
head
before any other creature. Minerva allegorically
le him to foresee futurity. Obs. 6. — Minerva comes out of Jupiter’s
head
, to show that wisdom was not invented by man, but
t her birth, but rising every hour; While scarce the skies her horrid
head
can bound; She stalks on earth, and shakes the wo
equently painted sitting on a shell, floating over the waves, and her
head
being surmounted with a veil blown by the breath
s mounted on a lion, playing on a lyre, the fierce animal turning his
head
, and listening to its harmonious chords; at other
avishing to sight, Rose from the ample sea to upper light, And on her
head
the flowers of summer swelled, And blushed all lo
mmonly, however, as a naked youth, standing on tip-toe, having on his
head
a winged hat, called Petasus, and on his feet, wi
prophet. He was described with a long flowing beard, and sky-coloured
head
. By his wife Doris, he had fifty daughters, calle
y Tritons, nymphs, and sea-monsters. He wears a radiated crown on his
head
. — See Fig. 31. Fig. 31. Neptune. Triton was t
e year. Milk, fruits, and cakes, were offered to him. His image was a
head
without a body, to show that he was not to be mov
ed. He was often represented by a pyramidial Stone, surmounted with a
head
. Before Numa introduced his worship, the Romans h
outh, with wings on his shoulders, and a wreath of flowers around his
head
. Feronia was the goddess of woods and orchards.
nd mountains, are painted as libidinous gods, with short horns on the
head
, and with the feet and legs of a goat, dancing un
ins. The upper part of his figure is that of a man, with horns on his
head
, and a long beard; his lower parts have the liken
nted as a fat and jolly old man, with a flat nose, large ears, a bald
head
, a tail, cloven feet, and a crown of flowers. He
pass, . And frown’d and litter’d to your lays; The snakes around his
head
grew tame, His jaws no longer glow’d with flame,
hlegethon, Cocytus, Styx, and Acheron. He has a crown of ebony on his
head
, and holds in one hand a bident, or sceptre with
e-headed dog Cerberus watched at his feet; the Harpies hover over his
head
; and Proserpine sits at his left hand. The Furies
e goddess, or Atropos her minister, cut off one of the hairs from the
head
. She was universally worshipped by the ancients u
with one hand, and the west with the other, and the heavens with his
head
. As soon as born, he made war upon heaven, to ave
rrow, and placed him in hell, where a massive stone, hanging over his
head
, perpetually kept him in such alarms, that, every
religion. ————— A massy stone, Ready to drop, hangs o’er his cursed
head
. Learn justice, hence, and don’t despise the god
lip the treacherous water flies. Above, beneath, around his hopeless
head
, Trees of all kinds delicious fruitage spread; Th
to consent to it, he was pursued by the fifty sons of Ægyptus at the
head
of a powerful army. Finding himself solicited in
tacking travellers; but they were overcome by Perseus, who cut of the
head
of Medusa, which he presented to Minerva. The lat
The Chimæra was a monster begotten of Typhon and Echidna. He had the
head
and breast of a lion, the body of a goat, and the
goat, and the tail of a dragon, and vomitted forth flames. “A lion’s
head
and breast resemble his, His waist a goat’s, his
of a lion, a goat, and a dragon. The Sphinx was a monster, having the
head
and breast of a woman, the body of a dog, the tai
s with a stick.” The Sphinx heard the correct explanation, dashed her
head
against a rock, and instantly expired. Œdipus was
by the practice of virtue. None ever sacrificed to Honour without his
head
uncovered, and without giving marks of the utmost
ity was represented in like manner; but she had a tuft of hair on her
head
in order to leave a hold to seize her. — See Fig.
her Amicitia, and painted her in the form of a young woman, with her
head
uncovered, clad in a very plain garment, with the
purpose of a looking-glass. By the help of these arms, he cut off the
head
of Medusa. Perseus mounted Pegasus, and flew towa
ivered Andromeda from a monster which was ready to devour her. By the
head
of Medusa, he also petrified Phineus, his rival a
val as well as the soldiers who accompanied him; and finally gave the
head
to Minerva, who fixed it on her aegis. — See Fig.
ed horse, sprang from the blood occasioned by the cutting of Medusa’s
head
, when it fell on the ground. In flying over Mount
ived her, and ran to her rescue, which he effected by showing him the
head
of Medusa, which turned him into a rock, and brok
Perseus to the African coasts. The helmet of Pluto, which covered his
head
, was nothing but the secret of which he stood in
St. Giles’ ancient limits spread, An inrail’d column rears its lofty
head
; Here to sev’n streets, sev’n dials count the day
, to burn the wound with a red hot iron; in consequence of which, one
head
was cut off in a moment, and the cautery applied:
h strong grasp the struggling giant, strains; Back falls his fainting
head
, and clammy hair, Writhe his weak limbs, and flit
ough brazen lips, he fled, And shakes the rock-roof d cavern o’er his
head
. Last with wide arms the solid earth he tears, Pi
arriors, who had been concealed in it, appeared with Ulysses at their
head
. The signal being given to the Greeks in ambush w
the like; but Achilles handled the targets, fitted the helmets to his
head
, brandished the swords, and placed them to his si
a.) When Perseus was treated inhospitably by him, he showed Atlas the
head
of Medusa, and changed him into the mountain whic
oon eternal. Osiris is represented with a mitre and two horns on his
head
; in his right hand he held a whip, with three tho
hip, with three thongs, and a staff in the left. Sometimes he has the
head
of a hawk, whose quick and piercing eye denotes t
f corn in the other; sometimes, as a woman, with a cow’s horns on her
head
, a cymbal in her right hand, and a pitcher in her
the capitol at Rome. Serapis appeared in human shape, bearing on his
head
a basket of plenty, with his right hand leaning o
ng on his head a basket of plenty, with his right hand leaning on the
head
of a serpent, whose body was coiled round a figur
ubis, the companion of Osiris and Isis, appears as a man with a dog’s
head
, holding in one hand a caduceus, and in the other
ull; from each of which he poured down rain, in drops as large as the
head
of an ox. The earth was overflown with the water,
e god of wisdom, was son to Seeva. He was depicted with an elephant’s
head
, the symbol of sagacious discernment, and attende
on, a large bee of that colour being often depicted settling over his
head
. As to his character and attributes, he is like A
Who mourned in earnest, when the captive ark, Maim’d his brute image;
head
and hands lopp’d off. Dagon his name; sea-monster
Omorca, and Chronos. Oannes was a monster, represented with an upper
head
like a man’s, and a lower one like a fish’s, with
wings, and others with four. Men were seen to have two heads, a man’s
head
and a woman’s; in short, all animals and beings w
and seeing the world a desert, he ordered one of the gods to cut his
head
, in order to mix with the blood, earth, and form
e days of Pope Eugene, there was found near this edifice, a part of a
head
of bronze, representing Agrippa. At the same time
office of delivering oracles. They represented Jupiter Ammon with the
head
and horns of a ram. Eighty priests of this god ca
f the ministers who made them speak. The following remarks under this
head
will be confined to some singular and remarkable
e and respect of the people was to consult, in difficult affairs, the
head
of a certain Mimer, who, during his life, had a g
his life, had a great reputation for wisdom. This man having had his
head
cut off, Odin embalmed it, and knew how to persua
to the gods. The Icelandic Mythology counted twelve goddesses, at the
head
of whom was Frea or Frigga, the consort of Odin.
the evening, human hair grew out of them. On the next day appeared a
head
; and on the third, an entire man, called Bure. Hi
er bled; Fate demands a nobler quarry; Death must light on Odin’s
head
. See ye not yon silent stranger? Proud he mo
See the serpent weakly crawling, Thor has bruis’d its loathsome
head
; Lo! the stars from heav’n are falling! Earth
ld a sword in his hand. Thor, on the left of Odin, had a crown on his
head
, a sceptre in one hand, and a club in the other.
a chariot drawn by two wooden he-goats, with a silver bridle, and his
head
crowned with stars. Frigga, on the left of Thor,
errors filled the expressive shield.” “Full on the crest the Gorgon’s
head
they place, With eyes that roll in death, and wit
ost famous statue shows him seated on a throne of gold and ivory. His
head
is crowned with rays, and he wears a long beard.
the Furies. She is depicted as having serpents instead of hair on her
head
, and was supposed to breed pestilence wherever sh
by Roman husbandmen to purge their fields. At the spring festival the
head
of each family led an animal, usually a pig or ra
allenged Minerva to a spinning contest, but Minerva struck her on the
head
with a spindle, and turned her into a spider.
left hand is a thyrsus, a kind of javelin, having a fir cone for the
head
, and being encircled with ivy or vine. His chario
illusion, personified in the monster slain by Bellerophon. It had the
head
and breast of a lion, the body of a goat, and the
, a dragon’s fiery tail was spread, A goat’s rough body bore a lion’s
head
, Her pitchy nostrils flaky flames expire, Her gap
ions. In one hand she holds a scepter, and in the other a key. On her
head
is a castelated crown, to denote that she was the
scorpion’s sting. She lived in the river Cocytus, and nothing but her
head
was ever seen. Frey′r [Freyr]. The Scandinavian
ads were covered with vipers. Perseus conquered them, and cut off the
head
of Medusa, which was placed on the shield of Mine
presented riding in a chariot drawn by peacocks, with a diadem on her
head
, and a scepter in her hand. Ju′piter [Jupiter],
n [Kiun]. The Egyptian Venus. Kneph. An Egyptian god, having a ram’s
head
and a man’s body. Krish′na [Krishna]. An Indian
lyre. Arion charmed the dolphins in a similar way. Hercules broke the
head
of Linus, his music-master, with the lyre he was
ful hair into serpents. She was conquered by Perseus, who cut off her
head
, and placed it on Minerva’s shield. Every one who
head, and placed it on Minerva’s shield. Every one who looked at the
head
was turned into stone. Ulysses, in the Odyssey, r
nd in it whispering said, What monstrous ears sprout from King Midas’
head
.” Ovid. Mi′lo [Milo], a celebrated Croton athl
of wisdom, war, and the liberal arts, is said to have sprung from the
head
of Jupiter fully armed for battle. She was a grea
e goat which nourished Jupiter; and for the boss of the shield is the
head
of Medusa. An owl, the emblem of meditation, is o
horse which was said to have sprung from the blood of Medusa when her
head
was cut off by Perseus. His abode was on Mount He
wings. He made a speedy conquest of the Gorgons, and cut off Medusa’s
head
, with which he flew through the air, and from the
ster, and married Andromeda. When he got back, he showed the Gorgon’s
head
to King Polydectes, and the monarch was immediate
husband slew her son Itylus, and at a feast Philomela threw Itylus’s
head
on the banquet table. “Forth like a fury Philome
anquet table. “Forth like a fury Philomela flew, And at his face the
head
of Itys threw.” Pope. “And thou, melodious Phi
Hades, and there was made to sit with a huge stone suspended over his
head
, ready to be dropped on him at any moment. Phœ′b
s [Polydectes] was turned into stone when Perseus showed him Medusa’s
head
. See Perseus. Polydeu′ces [Polydeuces]. The Gree
n by putting corn, frankincense, flour, salt, cakes, and fruit on the
head
of the victim. This was called the Immolation. Th
ew with his knife a crooked line along the back of the beast from the
head
to the tail, and told the assistants to kill the
d, see Auster. Spear, see Pelias. Sphinx, The. A monster having the
head
and breast of a woman, the body of a dog, the tai
ing with thirst, without the power to drink. Whenever he inclined his
head
to the stream, some deity commanded it to be dry,
roned in gold.” Homer. “So when thick clouds enwrap the mountain’s
head
, O’er heaven’s expanse like one black ceiling spr
the offspring of Jupiter, without a mother. She sprang forth from his
head
completely armed. Her favorite bird was the owl,
miserable affairs. The oracle answered, “Depart from the temple with
head
veiled and garments unbound, and cast behind you
know no decay.” The nymph, now changed into a Laurel tree, bowed its
head
in grateful acknowledgment. That Apollo should
em. Then cautiously Thisbe stole forth, unobserved by the family, her
head
covered with a veil, made her way to the monument
your own Thisbe that speaks. Hear me, dearest, and lift that drooping
head
!” At the name of Thisbe Pyramus opened his eyes,
to Argus, to be strictly watched. Now Argus had a hundred eyes in his
head
, and never went to sleep with more than two at a
rcury made haste, put his winged slippers on his feet, and cap on his
head
, took his sleep-producing wand, and leaped down f
Mercury had finished his story he saw Argus’s eyes all asleep. As his
head
nodded forward on his breast, Mercury with one st
breast, Mercury with one stroke cut his neck through, and tumbled his
head
down the rocks. O hapless Argus! the light of you
bodies. But she was taller than the rest and overtopped them all by a
head
. Such a color as tinges the clouds at sunset or a
relled.” Immediately a pair of branching stag’s horns grew out of his
head
, his neck gained in length, his ears grew sharp-p
ling on him to join the sport. At the sound of his name he turned his
head
, and heard them regret that he should be away. He
the Year, and, at regular intervals, the Hours. Spring stood with her
head
crowned with flowers, and Summer, with garment ca
sed; and his father, laying aside the beams that shone all around his
head
, bade him approach, and embracing him, said, “My
r repented of his promise; thrice and four times he shook his radiant
head
in warning. “I have spoken rashly,” said he; “thi
pable of enduring the brightness of the flame. He set the rays on his
head
, and, with a foreboding sigh, said, “If, my son,
sands, and Cayster where the swans resort. Nile fled away and hid his
head
in the desert, and there it still remains conceal
ght the deepest caves for refuge. Thrice Neptune essayed to raise his
head
above the surface, and thrice was driven back by
en back by the heat. Earth, surrounded as she was by waters, yet with
head
and shoulders bare, screening her face with her h
er Pactolus, trace the stream to its fountain-head, there plunge your
head
and body in, and wash away your fault and its pun
ul follower Midas, who happened to be present. Then Tmolus turned his
head
toward the Sun-god, and all his trees turned with
pread with cloths of Tyrian dye, and called her his wife, and put her
head
upon a pillow of the softest feathers, as if she
As when one has broken the stem of a lily in the garden it hangs its
head
and turns its flowers to the earth, so the head o
e garden it hangs its head and turns its flowers to the earth, so the
head
of the dying boy, as if too heavy for his neck, f
nd, and the light glimmers faintly. The bird of dawning, with crested
head
, never there calls aloud to Aurora, nor watchful
the brothers, Morpheus, to perform the command of Iris; then laid his
head
on his pillow and yielded himself to grateful rep
waves, those who looked on doubted, but the body seemed to raise its
head
. But indeed he did feel it, and by the pitying go
motion of a floating corpse. “As shaken on his restless pillow, His
head
heaves with the heaving billow; That hand, whose
for his years, and Pan, who wears a garland of pine leaves around his
head
. But Vertumnus loved her best of all; yet he sped
o the gate-post, on which he had often hung garlands, and putting his
head
into the noose, he murmured, ‘This garland at lea
y say is true or not. If it is, hesitate not to cut off the monster’s
head
, and thereby recover your liberty.” Psyche resist
ands and made you my wife, will you think me a monster and cut off my
head
? But go; return to your sisters, whose advice you
n of purest water. In the cave lurked a horrid serpent with a crested
head
and scales glittering like gold. His eyes shone l
ingushing waters made a sound, than the glittering serpent raised his
head
out of the cave and uttered a fearful hiss. The v
limb. The serpent, twisting his scaly body in a huge coil, raised his
head
so as to overtop the tallest trees, and while the
hrough to his entrails. Fierce with pain, the monster turned back his
head
to view the wound, and attempted to draw out the
, watching his chance, thrust the spear at a moment when the animal’s
head
thrown back came against the trunk of a tree, and
e lock, which glittered among the hair of King Nisus, remained on his
head
. There was a tower on the city walls, which overl
thus alludes to Clytie: — “I will not have the mad Clytie, Whose
head
is turned by the sun; The tulip is a courtly quea
which a horse has leaped forth. Minerva depicted herself with helmed
head
, her Ægis covering her breast. Such was the centr
came off, and her nose and ears likewise. Her form shrank up, and her
head
grew smaller yet; her fingers cleaved to her side
er image reflected in the bright shield which he bore, he cut off her
head
and gave it to Minerva, who fixed it in the middl
tlas. After the slaughter of Medusa, Perseus, bearing with him the
head
of the Gorgon, flew far and wide, over land and s
accept a present;” and turning his face away, he held up the Gorgon’s
head
. Atlas, with all his bulk, was changed into stone
His beard and hair became forests, his arms and shoulders cliffs, his
head
a summit, and his bones rocks. Each part increase
was heard off upon the water, and the sea-monster appeared, with his
head
raised above the surface, cleaving the waves with
s upon him and seizes him by the neck to prevent him from turning his
head
round and using his fangs, so the youth darted do
n near the pole, where every night she is half the time held with her
head
downward, to give her a lesson of humility. Memno
friend here let him turn away his eyes!” and held aloft the Gorgon’s
head
. “Seek not to frighten us with your jugglery,” sa
on his knees and stretching out his hands to Perseus, but turning his
head
away he begged for mercy. “Take all,” said he, “g
house as a memorial of these events.” So saying, he held the Gorgon’s
head
to the side where Phineus was looking, and in the
ed life. Pegasus and the Chimæra. When Perseus cut off Medusa’s
head
, the blood sinking into the earth produced the wi
The Centaurs. These monsters were represented as men from the
head
to the loins, while the remainder of the body was
or Gryphon. The Griffin is a monster with the body of a lion, the
head
and wings of an eagle, and back covered with feat
ll the adventurous young men of Greece, and soon found himself at the
head
of a band of bold youths, many of whom afterwards
surrounding ocean; hoar frost, gathered by moonlight, a screech owl’s
head
and wings, and the entrails of a wolf. She added
oises, and the liver of stags, — animals tenacious of life, — and the
head
and beak of a crow, that outlives nine generation
conqueror, crowding to touch his hand. He, placing his foot upon the
head
of the slain boar, turned to Atalanta and bestowe
he head of the slain boar, turned to Atalanta and bestowed on her the
head
and the rough hide which were the trophies of his
Hercules struck off its heads with his club, but in the place of the
head
knocked off, two new ones grew forth each time. A
bow and arrows to Philoctetes, and laid himself down on the pile, his
head
resting on his club, and his lion’s skin spread o
be devoured by the Minotaur, a monster with a bull’s body and a human
head
. It was exceedingly strong and fierce, and was ke
egret the change, and to think that the heart has lost as much as the
head
has gained by the substitution. The poet Wordswor
side from the tree, gashed his body with many wounds, and cut off his
head
. Then from the midst of the oak came a voice, “I
ishment upon Erisichthon. She nodded her assent, and as she bowed her
head
the grain ripe for harvest in the laden fields bo
Sometimes I become a serpent, and sometimes a bull, with horns on my
head
. Or I should say I once could do so; but now I ha
ented myself for the struggle. He tried to throw me, now attacking my
head
, now my body. My bulk was my protection, and he a
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
the sand. Nor was this enough. His ruthless hand rent my horn from my
head
. The Naiades took it, consecrated it, and filled
rse. When the river swelled, it made itself another channel. Thus its
head
was horned. Hercules prevented the return of thes
ed with his blood. The maniacs tore him limb from limb, and threw his
head
and his lyre into the river Hebrus, down which th
voice of Aristæus interrupting their occupation, one of them put her
head
above the water and seeing him, returned and gave
smen they attacked and slew Lycus, and tying Dirce by the hair of her
head
to a bull, let him drag her till she was dead.15
no purpose. One day, observing Orion wading through the sea with his
head
just above the water, Apollo pointed it out to hi
hat Phœbus took part against Patroclus. He struck the helmet from his
head
and the lance from his hand. At the same moment a
ne with her wand, and they became immediately changed into swine, in “
head
, body, voice, and bristles,” yet with their intel
he yard almost dead with age, and seeing a stranger enter, raised his
head
, with ears erect. It was Argus, Ulysses’ own dog,
m raging, and knowing that he had given no orders for one, raised his
head
above the waves, and saw the fleet of Æneas drivi
thirst, and found nothing to assuage it; for when he bowed his hoary
head
, eager to quaff, the water fled away, leaving the
pen heavens. The god of the stream, Father Tiber, seemed to raise his
head
above the willows and to say, “O goddess-born, de
e spoke the sword fell, and pierced the comely bosom of Euryalus. His
head
fell over on his shoulder, like a flower cut down
times made the circuit, Æneas threw his lance directly at the horse’s
head
. It pierced his temples and he fell, while a shou
god of medicine. Anubis is the guardian god, represented with a dog’s
head
, emblematic of his character of fidelity and watc
bear his worshipped ark.” Isis was represented in statuary with the
head
veiled, a symbol of mystery. It is this which Ten
would be compelled by torture to discover his accomplice, cut off his
head
. Trophonius himself is said to have been shortly
left arm, which seems to have held the bow, is outstretched, and the
head
is turned in the same direction. In attitude and
his royalty, he was said to be endowed with a crest, or comb upon the
head
, constituting a crown. He was supposed to be prod
” I will be seen that “What seemed its
head
The likeness of a kingly crown had on.” Shelley
ferocious beast, similar in the rest of its body to a horse, with the
head
of a deer, the feet of an elephant, the tail of a
he approached with all reverence, couched beside her, and laying his
head
in her lap, fell asleep. The treacherous virgin t
ess. Add to which the authority of numerous sage philosophers, at the
head
of whom are Aristotle and Pliny, affirms this pow
der of their birth, the Brahmans uppermost, as having sprung from the
head
of Brahma. A strong line of demarcation is drawn
d before the altar of a deity, the image is said to have inclined its
head
as a presage of the future greatness of the new-b
here appeared at first the hair of a man, on the second day the whole
head
, and on the third the entire form endowed with be
ng his mallet with both hands he struck a furious blow on the giant’s
head
. Skrymir, awakening, merely asked whether a leaf
Skrymir, awakening, merely asked whether a leaf had not fallen on his
head
, and whether they had supped and were ready to go
s perched on this tree? I felt some moss from the branches fall on my
head
. How fares it with thee, Thor?” But Thor went awa
But Skrymir sat up, and stroking his cheek said, “An acorn fell on my
head
. What! Art thou awake, Thor? Me thinks it is time
ched by thee that he was barely long enough to enclose it between his
head
and tail. Thy wrestling with Elli was also a most
and thin. They bound him with chains and suspended a serpent over his
head
, whose venom falls upon his face drop by drop. Hi
n’s face, beneath the eye of light, And baring unto heaven each noble
head
, Stood in the circle, where none else might tread
ollowers whom he had formed into a religious body of which he was the
head
. To these, as occasion required, others were from
od Vouchsafed of confirmation. All around The sovereign’s everlasting
head
his curls Ambrosial shook, and the huge mountain
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head
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appily. Thus it might have gone on until they died, had not Arachne’s
head
been turned by the praises that were showered upo
the ground and worshiped her. But Arachne, foolish Arachne, held her
head
high, and did not show the least fear or awe; on
ds. Then she raised her shuttle and struck Arachne three times on the
head
. Arachne was too proud to submit to such treatmen
and Daphne. ——— Cupid Cupid once upon a bed Of roses laid his weary
head
; Luckless urchin, not to see Within the leaves a
ged behind. Before he could think of what he was doing, he turned his
head
quickly to see whether she was still following. B
thought of giving Perseus was nothing less than cutting off Medusa’s
head
, snakes and all. Since merely looking at the Gorg
n would turn Perseus to stone, and he could not very well cut off her
head
without looking, the king was pretty safe in thin
u may try it, if you like,” answered the king. “It is to bring me the
head
of Medusa, with its snaky black locks.” Perseus g
enly a voice said, “Perseus, why are you weeping?” Perseus raised his
head
in surprise, and saw a mischievous-looking little
image in the shield, he darted down. With one thrust, he cut off the
head
of the sleeping Gorgon, and then flew up into the
eping Gorgon, and then flew up into the air again, holding the horrid
head
behind him. The hissing of the snakes on Medusa’s
ing the horrid head behind him. The hissing of the snakes on Medusa’s
head
awakened her two sisters, and they started up to
unt of Pluto’s helmet they could not see him, and he escaped with the
head
of snaky-locked Medusa. Back over land and sea he
the helmet, the sword, and the winged shoes; and, after wrapping the
head
of Medusa in a cloth, went to greet his mother. S
answered Perseus, “I have slain Medusa, and have brought you back her
head
.” “That you must prove by showing us the head,” s
ve brought you back her head.” “That you must prove by showing us the
head
,” said the king, with a sneer; for, of course, he
, he did not believe Perseus. “Since your majesty insists, behold the
head
!” Perseus cried; and drawing it from the bag at h
er gods had given him, and he never forgot the debt he owed them. The
head
of Medusa he gave to Minerva. She was much please
rever Minerva was seen in battle, there glistened her shield with the
head
of Medusa, turning to stone all who gazed at its
om the moment she saw his crooked sword flash above the sea serpent’s
head
, and so she gladly consented to be his wife. The
sword raised to strike; for Perseus had lifted the terrible Gorgon’s
head
, and instantly the old man was turned to stone, j
ith his magic wand, he made the slumber sounder, and then cut off the
head
with its hundred starry eyes. Juno grieved sadly
s though eager to devour so great a hero; they had almost reached his
head
, when suddenly the heavens opened, and Jupiter’s
ed aloud to his father. Daedalus turned just in time to see his son’s
head
sink below the waves, while the fatal wings float
er lay sleeping, and quickly cut the lock of purple hair from off his
head
. She did not even feel ashamed of the wicked deed
s crept up behind him, and with his sharp sword cut off the monster’s
head
. Then he started back, carefully winding up the t
the gates of the city. One was a tall, noble-looking man with massive
head
and fine features. His companion was much younger
hin the place. Awakened by the brightness, Somnus drowsily raised his
head
and Iris spoke: “Sleep, thou gentlest of the gods
s, the dragon was fast asleep. Jason thereupon cut off the creature’s
head
and seized the Golden Fleece from the branches ov
he arrow had done its work only too well. The wounded stag lifted its
head
, and gave the boy a last, loving, questioning loo
g boy’s lips. But it was of no use — Hyacinthus was fast sinking, his
head
drooping like a bruised flower, and like a flower
d hide the ugly things. In a short time, the wig was on his majesty’s
head
, and he sent away the barber with the threat that
er my shoulders, and, like a grove of trees, throws a shadow about my
head
. Surely, you must think this beautiful. A tree is
den in the palace garden, wreathing a chaplet of flowers to adorn the
head
of a pretty fawn that was cropping the grass at h
wn looked at her with his large eyes, and sometimes fondly rested has
head
upon her shoulder, or cropped the rose she would
ceptre which was wreathed with poppies, and when he shook it over the
head
of Psyche, she fell into a deep sleep. As soon as
able and capricious, very likely he may, some night, take it into his
head
to kill you. You are extremely foolish to mind hi
the front, she saw the goddess. She was a tall venerable figure, her
head
was crowned with wheat sheaves, and a long robe i
had she come in sight of it, when an eagle darted down from over her
head
, snatched the vase with his beak from her hand, f
ly; he could not bear to be separated from her; and he only shook his
head
, as if to say “No,” when Tereus urged him to grat
hich she might rest if she were tired; and the other to held over her
head
a sort of parasol, to screen her from the sun’s r
traversing the plains of Panope, the heifer stopped, and raising her
head
toward the sky, made it resound with her loud and
n came to the sea-coast, where she was amusing herself; that a bull’s
head
was sculptured upon the prow of his vessel, and t
errand; and Tisiphone, having heard what she had to say, shaking her
head
, to throw back the serpents which hung over her f
ers did not perceive who it was they had killed, and they cut off his
head
and fixed it upon the point of a thyrsus, and Aga
companions. He instantly saw, in the ghastly features of the severed
head
, those of his beloved grandson, and soon convince
ars stood upon her pale cheek; and sorrow and weariness depressed her
head
, and caused her limbs to tremble, as she tried to
ut he thought of another present, more rare and curious: this was the
head
of the gorgon Medusa. The gorgons were three sist
ed at her, they were turned to stone. Perseus proposed to cut off the
head
of Medusa for Polydectes. This would be a great a
of her sleeping posture, Perseus struck her one blow, and severed her
head
from her body, and then bore it over the deserts
their glorious course from east to west. Perseus wrapped up Medusa’s
head
in his mantle, and asked to he conducted to the k
s avoided the blow, nor did he return it; he only uncovered the fatal
head
, and Atlas stood, not a man, but a rock. An accum
base, and exalted its summit, so that at length clouds enveloped its
head
, and forests grew on its sides. Images of Atlas a
he would have seized her, Perseus presented to his view the horrible
head
, and he was instantly changed to stone. Perseus t
ow, my friends that I promised the king of Seriphus, to bring him the
head
of Medusa, though I could not have travelled to h
ain in his cause. He rushed from his concealment, seized the Medusa’s
head
, which was not far off, and exposing it in view o
delay. He had only to expose to the sight of Polydectes, the hideous
head
. As soon as Polydectes saw it, he was petrified t
when he gave it back to her, with solemn thanks, he laid the Medusa’s
head
as an offering. That head was afterward attached
r, with solemn thanks, he laid the Medusa’s head as an offering. That
head
was afterward attached to the shield, but Minerva
a, Urania, Clio, and Calliope.” Soon after Minerva had received the
head
of Medusa, she went to pay a visit to the Muses.
aid, and she was often seen with a spear in her hand, a helmet on her
head
, and her terrible shield on one arm; but this day
dges chosen, who bestowed the prizes, and placed them on the victor’s
head
, and all the surrounding people shouted and prais
frame, her extended arms branched to slender boughs, and her graceful
head
was covered with dark green leaves. Apollo beheld
which he had concealed under his cloak, and with one blow severed his
head
from his body. Juno was grieved at the loss of Ar
Being arrived in Africa, she became calm, knelt down, and raising her
head
toward heaven, implored Jupiter, with her loud an
his memory. Apollo, grieved at the loss of his son, hid his brilliant
head
, and refused to cheer the world by his presence;
ining monuments of Vulcan’s art: Jove on his couch reclined his awful
head
, And Juno slumbered on the golden bed. Pope’s H
eeds, behind which the young god stands erect with flashing eyes, his
head
surrounded with rays, holding in one hand the rei
d colossal statue. He was represented on coins of the Rhodians by the
head
of a young man crowned with rays. Sacrifices offe
1. On coins by the bust of a fair young woman with a crescent on her
head
. 2. Clothed in a long robe, and a veil which cove
d. 2. Clothed in a long robe, and a veil which covers the back of the
head
. Sometimes on her brow a crescent; at others, hor
darkness and terrors. Representations. 1. As a woman having the
head
of a woman, or of a dog, or of a horse. 2. As a w
stone from Rhea. 5. Bust with serene countenance, full beard, back of
head
veiled. Significations. Chronos chained by
him so much to attain. Soon after this, feeling violent pains in his
head
, he sent for Hephæstus* (Vulcan), and ordered him
s. Hera is usually represented seated on a throne, a diadem on her
head
, and a golden sceptre in her right hand. Some pea
Sometimes he is represented sitting on a throne with Persephone*. His
head
is veiled, and he holds a sceptre. Epithets. — S
to expiate by the torments of continual hunger and thirst. Above his
head
were suspended the most beautiful fruits, but whe
e of that god at Delphi. He was placed where a stone hanging over his
head
, and evermore threatening to fall, kept him in a
e terrible imprecations which the defeated deity called down upon the
head
of his rebellious son. Their place of abode was t
has; Egyptian, Neith*. Athene was said to have been produced from the
head
of Zeus, which Hephæstus had been ordered to clea
ly in the dark, was consecrated to her. The shield with the Gorgon’s*
head
on it seems to represent the full-orbed moon, and
Milo, hence its name. It is noted for the dignified expression of the
head
. The Venus de Medici is so called from its having
he was transformed into a laurel-bush. Apollo sorrowfully crowned his
head
with the leaves, and declared that, in memory of
racian women who were performing the rites of Dionysus (Bacchus). His
head
was thrown into the river Hebrus, and, as it floa
left arm, which seems to have held the bow, is outstretched, and the
head
is turned in the same direction. In attitude and
she is turning with angry mien. One hand is laid protectingly on the
head
of the stag, whilst with the other she draws an a
ads, and his statues, called Hermæ* (pillars of stone surmounted by a
head
of Hermes), were placed at cross-roads and in str
ook of affection, or as a somewhat elderly man, with blunt nose, bald
head
, and hairy body. He generally has a satyr on each
d very ugly face, bearing in his hand a pruning-knife, and having his
head
crowned with a wreath of vine leaves and laurel.
was engraved. The first attempts at sculpture were rude images with a
head
and a shapeless trunk tapering slightly to the fe
presentations, Alcmæon accepted the command of the troops, and at the
head
of a large and powerful army advanced against The
told the king, as he could not bring a horse, he would bring him the
head
of Medusa*, if he desired it. The king accepted t
ore, and looking on Medusa as she was reflected in it, he cut off her
head
with his sword. Placing the trophy in the magic w
on of Zeus. Perseus was exasperated, and produced from his wallet the
head
of Medusa, which he held toward the king. Atlas b
into forests; shoulders, hands, and limbs became huge rocks; and the
head
grew up into a craggy peak, which reached into th
monster was about to seize its prey, and, holding before its eyes the
head
of Medusa, the hideous body became transformed in
assailed the bridegroom, who would have been overpowered but for the
head
of Medusa. Warning his friends of the dangerous p
of Medusa. Warning his friends of the dangerous power of the Gorgon’s
head
, they turned away their eyes; but on showing it t
and his friends were assembled, and displayed the formidable Gorgon’s
head
. Each person present was changed to a statue. Per
d helmet, by whom they were taken to the Nymphs. He gave the Gorgon’s
head
to Athene, who had it placed in the middle of her
a monster which was at that time devastating the country. It had the
head
of a lion, the body of a goat, the tail of a serp
s was wont to drink, to approach him boldly and put the bridle on his
head
. Bellerophon did as directed. Pegasus at once yie
of the animal he wore afterwards over his shoulders, the skin of the
head
forming a helmet. His next act was to free the Th
hen made himself a suit of armor of the skin, and a new helmet of the
head
of the animal. Eurystheus was so alarmed by this
off the heads with his sword. To his amazement, in the place of each
head
he struck off two sprung up. He then ordered his
s, thus preventing the growth of others. Heracles buried the immortal
head
and placed over it a heavy stone. He then dipped
greeing, asked Atlas to hold the heavens whilst he made a pad for his
head
. When Atlas resumed his former position, Heracles
counter, Meleager succeeded in killing the monster, and presented the
head
and hide to Atalanta, because she had been the fi
truggle which ensued Meleager killed his uncles and restored hide and
head
to Atalanta. When Althea beheld the dead bodies o
ated, and driven within the walls of the city. With Achilles at their
head
, the Greeks now made an attempt to take the city
ons, came to the assistance of the Trojans, and fought bravely at the
head
of her army of female warriors. Achilles slew her
them one by one with her wand, and they became changed into swine in “
head
, body, voice, and bristles,” yet with their intel
aded the deities of the first order. He was represented as having the
head
of a ram; the hieroglyphic of a ram also signifyi
he was especially worshiped as Bubastis*; but her statues, having the
head
of a cat, are common all over Egypt. Neph*, ofte
Neph*, often confounded with Amun, and, like him, wearing the ram’s
head
, was the Divine Breath or Spirit pervading matter
ith the most precious ointments and perfumed with fragrant odors, its
head
and neck glittering with jewels, wallowing on a r
stones, there appeared the hair of a man; on the second day the whole
head
, and on the third the entire form, endowed with b
The Finding of the Lyre.” — Lowell. 13. The Egyptian Sphinx had the
head
of a man, the body of a lion, and had no wings.
ers, and she is therefore represented with a crown of towers upon her
head
, and seated in a car drawn by lions. The priests
epresented this god as having a face of great dignity and beauty. His
head
wag surrounded with rays and clouds. Beside him w
ne mind which could not be altered. When Jove nodded, or inclined his
head
, that motion expressed his unalterable will. Jupi
n peace, secure thy prayer is sped, Witness the sacred honours of our
head
; The nod that ratifies the will divine; The faith
. Now lows a milk-white bull on Asia’s strand And crops with dancing
head
the daisied land. With rosy wreaths, Europa’s han
is called Pæan. Apollo is sometimes represented with rays around his
head
, to show that he was the dispenser of light, and
majestic, and her countenance severe, and a radiant crown was on her
head
. Near her was commonly placed her favourite bird,
trife among men. She is commonly represented with wings, and with her
head
encircled by a rainbow. The most benevolent offic
ning monuments2 of Vulcan’s art. Jove on his couch reclined his awful
head
, And Juno slumbered on the golden bed. Iliad, Bo
ng her is, that Jupiter being tormented with an excessive pain in his
head
, applied to Vulcan to open it with a keen axe; an
sented as a beautiful woman, of a countenance somewhat severe. On her
head
was a golden helmet, and her breastplate was also
uckler, called the Egis. The Egis of Minerva had embossed upon it the
head
of Medusa. Medusa was one of the Gorgons, a sea n
or. Perseus, a prince of Argos, was employed to cut off this terrific
head
. Perseus, in this expedition, was assisted by the
rror to the Gorgon; — while she was gazing at herself, he cut off her
head
. Perseus afterwards presented the head to Minerva
ing at herself, he cut off her head. Perseus afterwards presented the
head
to Minerva, who placed it upon her shield; and so
ted Perseus in this enterprise? What use did Perseus make of Medusa’s
head
? What does the fable of the shield signify? ———
pagan world. The image of Ceres was that of a tall female, having her
head
adorned with ears of wheat. Her right hand was fi
pomegranate, in her anger she sprinkled water of Phlegethon upon his
head
, and metamorphosed him into an owl, which Minerva
avishing to sight, Rose from the ample sea to upper light. And on her
head
the flower of summer swelled, And blushed all lov
a lion, and playing on a lyre, whilst the fierce savage, turning his
head
, seems to listen to its harmonious chords. Someti
celebrated at Rome in certain festivals, called the Floral Games. Her
head
was adorned with a chaplet of roses. She carried
nd called Syrinx. He was generally venerated by the Arcadians, as the
head
of all the rural deities. In the month of Februar
ter-father of Bacchus. They represented him as an old man with a bald
head
, a flat nose, large ears, and every mark of intem
key, denoting the impossibility of returning from his dominions; his
head
crowned with the flowers of the narcissus, or wit
he was seen in a chariot drawn by black horses, with a helmet on his
head
, which had the power of rendering him invisible.
hell, and was placed under a vast stone, which was suspended over his
head
, perpetually threatening to fall and crush him be
ning with thirst without the power to drink. Whenever he inclined his
head
to the stream, some deity commanded it to be dry
s lip the treacherous water flies. Above, beneath, around his hapless
head
, Trees of all kinds delicious fruitage spread. Th
friend Iolas to despatch the enemy. As fast as Hercules struck off a
head
, Iolas seared the place with a hot iron, and soon
th strong grasp the struggling giant strains; Back falls his fainting
head
, and clammy hair. Writhe his weak limbs, and flit
rough brazen lips, he fled, And shook the rock-roofed cavern o’er his
head
. Last, with wide arms the solid earth he tears, P
abulous race, the Centaurs. The Centaurs were represented to have the
head
and body of a man, terminated by the body and lim
ing one day to the water-side to look at the Argo, a beam fell on his
head
, and he was thus killed. Who was Jason? From wha
addition to his own limbs. The monster, upon hearing this, dashed his
head
on a rock and killed himself. While the Sphinx wa
drastus, King of Argos. Seven chiefs, princes of Peloponnesus, at the
head
of their troops, marched against Thebes, and stat
in their drunken revelry, to have torn him to pieces, and thrown his
head
into the Hebrus, a river of Thrace. The floating
and thrown his head into the Hebrus, a river of Thrace. The floating
head
was carried down to the Egean sea, the lips utter
mpassion or reverence, seized the gray hair of Priam, and severed his
head
from his body. Hecuba was assigned, as a captive,
anesa, son of Seva, the god of wisdom, is depicted with an elephant’s
head
, the symbol of sagacious discernment, and attende
ence, the large bee of that colour is often drawn fluttering over his
head
. His character and attributes greatly resemble th
combats and disputes. He was represented with a cock’s crest upon his
head
. To the gods just described, may be added several
er bled, Fate demands a nobler quarry; Death must light on Odin’s
head
. See ye not yon silent stranger? Proud he mo
See the serpent weakly crawling; Thor has bruised its loathsome
head
! Lo the stars from heaven are falling! Earth
en of Eden. The powers of good and evil contend, and Thor bruises the
head
of the serpent. A good deity destroying evil and
Who mourned in earnest, when the captive ark Maimed his brute image;
head
and hands lopped off. Dagon his name; sea monste
Her image was usually in the form of a woman, with cows’ horns on her
head
. Typhon was the imaginary author of evil who wag
f Osiris and Isis, represented under the figure of a man with a dog’s
head
. Serapis was worshipped under various names and
ghtly confined by ribands. The Greeks had two external covers for the
head
, the Petasus, and the Pileus. Homer mentions no o
the Petasus, and the Pileus. Homer mentions no other covering of the
head
, but the helmet of the military. The Romans usual
On the summit of Mount Olympus, in Thessaly. This mountain hides its
head
, covered with perpetual snows, in a belt of cloud
he sun is often called Phœbus, or Apollo, and in ancient pictures the
head
of the god is represented as darting rays. Apollo
red eyes were closed. The god then drew his falchion, and cut off the
head
of Argus with a single blow. Juno was grieved for
The statues of Mercury were simply wooden posts, surmounted by a rude
head
with a pointed beard. They were set up in the fie
ds. The Greeks had pillars of stone, which they called Hermæ, but the
head
which surmounted them was not always that of Merc
is sometimes represented as seated intoxicated on a cask of wine, his
head
crowned with grape leaves, and his face stained w
wisdom and of war. She had no mother, but sprang full armed from the
head
of Jupiter. Ques. How is Minerva represented? A
d? Ans. As clothed in complete armor. She has a golden helmet on her
head
, holds a lance in her right hand, and her left re
right hand, and her left rests upon a shield to which is affixed the
head
of Medusa. The cock and the owl are also represen
hield. Ques. Why was Minerva said to have sprung full armed from the
head
of Jupiter? Ans. The poets signify by this, that
dden from common eyes. Ques. What is the story of Medusa’s [Medu′sa]
head
? Ans. Medusa was one of three sisters, the daugh
ved that she was asleep, Minerva guiding his sword, he struck off her
head
. Mercury had lent Perseus his wings, and as he fl
eus his wings, and as he flew over the Lybian desert bearing Medusa’s
head
, the blood fell upon the burning sands, and produ
since infested that region. From the blood of Medusa, also, when her
head
was cut off, sprang the famous winged horse calle
spirit. Perseus went through many other adventures in which Medusa’s
head
did him good service, by changing his enemies int
d service, by changing his enemies into stone. He afterwards gave the
head
to Minerva, who fixed it on her shield. Chapte
the Persian king Cambyses, who had the statue cleft asunder from the
head
to the middle of the body, but without discoverin
t was found in the ruins of this edifice, which is supposed to be the
head
of this statue; and has been presented as such to
is Pan represented? Ans. As half man, and half goat, having a human
head
ornamented with horns, and a garland of pine: he
the Chimæra? Ans. A fabulous monster, which vomited fire. It had the
head
and breast of a lion, the body of a goat, and the
Chimæra. Ques. What was the Sphinx? Ans. It was a monster with the
head
and shoulders of a woman, the wings of a bird, an
taff as a third foot. Upon hearing this answer, the Sphinx dashed her
head
against a rock, and expired. Ques. Why is the st
monster, carved in solid rock. Formerly, little was visible save the
head
and neck, but the sand which has been gathering a
und with a firebrand, and by this means he at length cut off the last
head
. Third. He captured the savage wild boar of Mount
hich he had treated them. After tearing him to pieces, they threw his
head
into the river Hebrus, and were surprised to hear
feared; for Perseus, indignant at so much inhumanity, showed him the
head
of Medusa, and changed him into the mountain whic
ghters who underwent the same transformation; they were placed in the
head
of Taurus, and were called by the Greeks, Hyades,
adily promised. When the sea-monster appeared, Perseus showed him the
head
of Medusa, and changed him into a rock, which was
ed the nuptial solemnities into a scene of discord and bloodshed. The
head
of the Gorgon again procured for Perseus an easy
The heroes crowded around to congratulate the victor, who offered the
head
of the boar and the bristling hide to Atalanta. T
at it should not be taken, so long as a purple lock which grew on the
head
of Nisus, remained uncut. Scylla, the daughter of
Dryades went to Ceres in mourning garb, and invoked vengeance on the
head
of their impious foe. The goddess was moved, and
entered, a dog which lay in the court, half dead with age, raised his
head
in sudden recognition, fawned upon his old master
ipped here under this title, and was always represented as having the
head
and horns of a ram. The temple soon became celebr
ersonages represented. The actors wore masks which covered the entire
head
. When gods or heroic personages were represented,
masks were larger than life, and the disproportion of the size of the
head
with the rest of the body, was obviated by two di
ome personage of the drama, or denounced the anger of the gods on the
head
of a tyrant. Besides this more legitimate action
s are there? Ans. Four; the Brahmins or priests, who sprung from the
head
of Brahma; the Warrior caste, which issued from h
sought the dwelling of the Gnomes. These skillful workmen gave him a
head
of hair which they had spun from the purest gold,
d which was so wonderfully wrought that it would attach itself to the
head
of the wearer, and increase in length like ordina
ound with chains in a gloomy cavern. A serpent was suspended over his
head
, whose venom falls upon his face drop by drop. On
ch was flying over him with a tortoise in his claws, mistook the bald
head
of the poet for a stone. The bird dropped the tor
curiously wrought of dark wood, and surmounted by a delicately carved
head
, of such fine workmanship that it seemed to smile
avenge their death, and dealt the dragon such a deadly blow upon the
head
, that he put an immediate end to its existence. W
ing pain any longer, Jupiter bade one of his sons, Vulcan, cleave his
head
open with an axe. With cheerful alacrity the duti
n performed, than Minerva (Pallas, Athene) sprang out of her father’s
head
, full-grown, clad in glittering armour, with pois
song of victory. “From his awful
head
Whom Jove brought forth, in warlike armour drest,
l then had ruled the world. ‘‘Ere Pallas issu’d from the Thund’rer’s
head
, Dulness o’er all possess’d her ancient right, Da
e Was Fortitude, and there was fierce Pursuit, And there the Gorgon’s
head
, a ghastly sight, Deformed and dreadful, and a si
conceit, that she scorned the well-meant warning, saucily tossed her
head
, and declared she wished the goddess would hear h
o his songs with pleasure, and to reward him gave him the position of
head
shepherd. “Then King Admetus, one who had Pu
fugitive, abate thy speed, Dismiss thy fears, and turn thy beauteous
head
; With kind regard a panting lover view; Less swif
ge by causing generous sized ass’s ears to grow on either side of his
head
. “The god of wit, to show his grudge, Clapt asse
ast his mangled remains into the Hebrus River. As the poet-musician’s
head
floated down the stream, the pallid lips still mu
ch bird is ever sailing mournfully about, and frequently plunging his
head
into the water to continue his sad search. The
ent world, the famous Colossus of Rhodes, was a statue of Apollo, his
head
encircled with a halo of bright sunbeams, and his
quiver full of arrows at her side, and a crescent on her well-poised
head
. “Near the Delian olive-tree Latonia gave thy li
and saw it vanish beneath the waves, little suspecting that the dark
head
of Orion, who was refreshing himself by a sea bat
deep to join his beloved. At times the huge billows towered above his
head
; but when he had escaped their threatening depths
r sank, once, twice, thrice, and the billows closed for ever over his
head
. Hero in the meanwhile had relighted her torch, a
ing up and down on the waves. “As shaken on his restless pillow, His
head
heaves with the heaving billow; That hand, whose
ver the pool; and, reassured by his kindly glances, the nymph’s whole
head
appeared. In gentle tones the youth now addressed
bent over her sleeping lover. The lamp, which she held high above her
head
, cast its light full upon the face and form of a
ame monotonous way, Mercury softly shook the poppies over the giant’s
head
, until one by one the remaining eyelids closed, a
seized the giant’s sword, and with one well-directed blow severed his
head
from the huge trunk. Only one half of the task wa
ted in a brilliant suit of armour, a plumed helmet on his proud young
head
, a poised spear in one muscular hand, and a finel
y was that Mars, under the name of Gradivus, marched in person at the
head
of their army, and led them on to victory. Mars’
ining monuments of Vulcan’s art: Jove on his couch reclin’d his awful
head
, And Juno slumber’d on the golden bed.” Homer (
youth and beauty, and when some drops of blood fell from her severed
head
into the salt sea foam, he produced from them the
a stern, dark, bearded man, with tightly closed lips, a crown on his
head
, a sceptre and a key in hand, to show how careful
he stooped to drink, the waters fled from his parched lips. Over his
head
hung a branch of luscious fruit. His hunger was a
ard, and eluded his eager grasp. “Above, beneath, around his hapless
head
, Trees of all kinds delicious fruitage spread. Th
to sit under a huge stone, Which the father of the gods Kept over his
head
suspended. Thus he sat In continual dread of its
Jupiter sprang to her side; but the lightning which played about his
head
set fire to the whole palace, which was reduced t
erity, and Midas beamed with satisfaction as he took his place at the
head
of the board, and viewed the choice dishes and wi
the Penates, they presided over the houses and domestic affairs. Each
head
of a household was wont to choose his own Penates
use to another or from one place to another, it was customary for the
head
of the family to remove his household gods also,
, but all strewn with golden stars. He wore a crown of poppies on his
head
, and held a goblet full of poppy juice in his lan
and held a goblet full of poppy juice in his languid hand. His drowsy
head
was supported by Morpheus, his prime minister, wh
lay the god, And slept supine, his limbs display’d abroad. About his
head
fantastic visions fly, Which various images of th
m the wide Atlantic Ocean’s bed, Tempestuous Corus rears his dreadful
head
, Th’ obedient deep his potent breath controls, An
ared generally as an old man, with grey hair, a gloomy countenance, a
head
covered with clouds, a sable vesture, and dusky w
th strong grasp the struggling giant strains; Back falls his fainting
head
and clammy hair, Writhe his weak limbs, and flits
ould come and set him free. “There Atlas, son of great Iapetus, With
head
inclined and ever-during arms, Sustains the spaci
esented in art as a tall, powerfully built man, with a small, bearded
head
, a lion’s skin carelessly thrown over his shoulde
sandals and helmet, together with a magic pouch in which to carry the
head
of Medusa, from the Hesperides. Thus equipped, Pe
, and, without looking at anything but her mirrored form, severed her
head
from her body, seized it in one hand, and, holdin
e famous winged steed called Pegasus. ‘‘And the life drops from thy
head
On Libyan sands, by Perseus shed, Sprang a scourg
pale-yellow air, that the grey hairs which streamed from the giant’s
head
were like the snow which rests upon the peak of a
bidding his adherents stand behind him, suddenly unveiled the Medusa
head
, and, turning its baleful face toward Phineus and
eld were all duly restored to their respective owners, and the Medusa
head
was given to Minerva in token of gratitude for he
d sleep, and enabled Jason to draw near enough to sever his frightful
head
from his hideous trunk. Jason then tore the covet
trange prophecy, a sudden gale detached a beam, which, falling on his
head
, fractured his skull and caused instantaneous dea
etold success in war, and the Romans believed that the; fought at the
head
of their legions at the celebrated battle of Lake
s, as if afraid of being overheard, the Thebans described the woman’s
head
, bird’s wings and claws, and lion’s body, which w
d Bellerophon to attack the Chimæra, a terrible monster with a lion’s
head
, a goat’s body, and a dragon’s tail. ‘‘Dire
, a dragon’s fiery tail was spread; A goat’s rough body bore a lion’s
head
; Her pitchy nostrils flaky flames expire; Her gap
m the blood which fell into the foam of the sea from Medusa’s severed
head
. This horse, as white as snow, and gifted with im
ttained his dearest wishes, might have settled down in peace; but his
head
had been utterly turned by the many lofty flights
syrinx and shepherd’s crook, and a pine garland around his misshapen
head
. “He tore out a reed, the great god Pan,
chariot, and drive nine times round the city walls, Hector’s princely
head
dragging in the dust. Priam, Hecuba, and Andromac
Thro’ all the clouded years of widowhood, And muffling up her comely
head
, and crying ‘Husband!’ she leapt upon the funeral
them with a wand, and shut them up In sties, transformed to swine in
head
and voice, Bristles and shape, though still the h
ctive by the power of the herb, and, when she waved her wand over his
head
and bade him join his fellows, he drew his sword
owed: Now on the shore behold him dead, A nameless trunk, a trunkless
head
.” Virgil ( Conington’s tr.). Æneas, who arrived
, until he saw a bright flame hover for a moment above his grandson’s
head
, which sign he interpreted as an omen that his ra
n the forest, when his strength had all forsaken him, and his severed
head
floated down the stream murmuring “Eurydice,” may
late of Minerva and Jupiter, 41; lent to Perseus, 211; bears Medusa’s
head
, 216 Æ-gis′thus. Murderer of Agamemnon; slain by
ree sisters — Euryale, Stheno, and Medusa, 210-214; Ægis decorated by
head
of one of, 41; significance, 366 Grac′chi, The.
as Hephæstus, god of the forge, 122-125 » son of Juno, 37; Jupiter’s
head
cleft by, 39; Venus, wife of, 84, 85; Periphetes,
7. Head of Arethusa. [Coin: Baumeister.] 48. Young River-god. [Bronze
head
: Baumeister; Roscher 9: 1489.] 49. Actæon torn by
6: 951.] 77. Medusa. [Relief: Müller.] 78. Perseus with the Gorgon’s
head
. [Vase picture: Gerhard, Herakles der Satyr und D
t occurs, the earliest race of mankind sprang,36 — or as the point or
head
of Norse poetry,37 or as a tale concerned with de
He is, from the beginning, of incalculable years. In works of art his
head
is veiled, to typify his cunning and his reserve;
guidance and aid. The oracle64 answered, “Depart from the temple with
head
veiled and garments unbound, and cast behind you
“Jove said, and nodded with his shadowy brows; Waved on th’ immortal
head
th’ ambrosial locks, — And all Olympus trembled a
r tasselled breast-plate of goat-skin, the ægis, whereon is fixed the
head
of Medusa, the Gorgon, that turns to stone all be
to which side is right. In battle-array, he is resplendent, — on his
head
the gleaming helmet and floating plume, on his ar
also at the birth of Minerva, to facilitate which he split Jupiter’s
head
open with an axe. Fig. 10. Vulcan. [Bronze sta
to Argus, to be strictly watched. Now Argus had a hundred eyes in his
head
, and never went to sleep with more than two at a
attacked and slew Lycus instead, and, tying Dirce by the hair of her
head
to a bull, let her perish by her own device.120
ad leaped forth. The bright-eyed goddess depicted herself with helmed
head
, her ægis covering her breast, as when she had cr
untain of purest water. But in the cave lurked a serpent with crested
head
and scales glittering like gold; his eyes shone l
g his chance, the hero thrust the spear at a moment when the animal’s
head
thrown back came against the trunk of a tree, and
As when one has broken the stem of a lily in the garden it hangs its
head
and turns its flowers to the earth, so the head o
e garden it hangs its head and turns its flowers to the earth, so the
head
of the dying boy, as if too heavy for his neck, f
” He ceased. His father, laying aside the beams that shone around his
head
, bade him approach, embraced him, owned him for h
of enduring the brightness of the flame. He set the rays on the lad’s
head
, and, with a foreboding sigh, told him to spare t
sands, and Caÿster where the swans resort. Nile fled away and hid his
head
in the desert, and there it still remains conceal
ght the deepest caves for refuge. Thrice Neptune essayed to raise his
head
above the surface, and thrice was driven back by
ven back by the heat Earth, surrounded as she was by waters, yet with
head
and shoulders bare, screening her face with her h
8 “Amid nine daughters slain by Artemis Stood Niobe: she rais’d her
head
above Those beauteous forms which had brought dow
ul follower Midas, who happened to be present. Then Tmolus turned his
head
toward the sun-god, and all his trees turned with
always green, and thy leaf know no decay.” The laurel tree bowed its
head
in grateful acknowledgment. The delicious humor o
hen they love but live no more. Fig. 48. Young River-god. [Bronze
head
: Baumeister; Roscher 9: 1489.] § 89. The Fate of
odies. But she was taller than the rest, and overtopped them all by a
head
. Such a color as tinges the clouds at sunset or a
mediately a pair of branching stag’s horns grew out of the huntsman’s
head
, his neck gained in length, his ears grew sharp-p
led on him to join the sport. At the sound of his name, he turned his
head
, and heard them regret that he should be away. He
day, therefore, observing Orion as he waded through the sea, with his
head
, just above the water, Apollo pointed out the bla
ery sweet; he stayed His wandering steps, and half-entranced laid His
head
upon a tuft of straggling weeds, To taste the gen
fearfully raised up the lid; But what was there she saw not, for her
head
Fell back, and nothing she remembered Of all her
deed: Yet, swifter than a wren picks up a grain Of millet, rais’d her
head
: it was too late, Only one step, only one breath,
flew, About her naked neck his bare arms threw, And laid his childish
head
upon her breast, And, with still panting rockt, t
tly they opened as she rose: Thence flew Love’s arrow with the golden
head
; And thus Leander was enamoured. Stone-still he s
, accused him of it, the sweet boy swore a great oath by his father’s
head
that he stole not the cows, nor knew even what co
nd sent him to wash away his fault and its punishment in the fountain
head
of the river Pactolus. Scarce had Midas touched t
ir missiles. Like maniacs they tore him limb from limb; then cast his
head
and lyre into the river Hebrus, down which they f
erfeiting forms of men, to perform the command of Iris; then laid his
head
on his pillow, and yielded himself again to grate
ets mourn.”226 Many a poet has lamented the change. For even if the
head
did profit, for a time, by the revolt against the
these Far shores and twenty centuries later. A ragged cap was on his
head
: But — hidden thus — there was no doubting That,
war, she had fallen violently in love. It seems that Nisus had on his
head
a purple lock of hair, upon which depended his fo
of a bull. Whereupon Hercules, seizing him by the horns, dragged his
head
to the ground, overthrew him, and rent one horn a
nce Upon thy streams with wily glance; Rise, rise, and heave thy rosy
head
From thy coral-paven bed, And bridle in thy headl
sters, — But a third woman paced about the hall, And ever turned her
head
from wall to wall And moaned aloud, and shrieked
y her image reflected in the bright shield which he bore, cut off her
head
, and so ended her miserable existence. Thus are d
nformed. After the slaughter of Medusa, Perseus, bearing with him the
head
of the Gorgon, flew far and wide, over land and s
n Perseus, finding the giant too strong for him, held up the Gorgon’s
head
. Atlas, with all his bulk, was changed into stone
His beard and hair became forests, his arms and shoulders cliffs, his
head
a summit, and his bones rocks. Each part increase
ests heaven with all its stars. Fig. 78. Perseus with the Gorgon’s
head
. [Vase picture: Gerhard, Herakles der Satyr und D
the winged shoes, and the pouch in which he had conveyed the Gorgon’s
head
. The head itself he bestowed upon Minerva, who bo
shoes, and the pouch in which he had conveyed the Gorgon’s head. The
head
itself he bestowed upon Minerva, who bore it afte
bow and arrows to Philoctetes,294 and laid himself upon the pile, his
head
resting on his club, and his lion’s skin spread o
med Argo, probably after its builder. Jason soon found himself at the
head
of a bold band of comrades, many of whom afterwar
urrounding ocean, hoar frost — gathered by moonlight, a screech owl’s
head
and wings, and the entrails of a wolf. She added
ortoises and the liver of stags — animals tenacious of life — and the
head
and beak of a crow, which outlives nine generatio
thus addressed her: — “For thy name’s sake and awe toward thy chaste
head
, O holiest Atalanta! no man dares Praise thee, th
ueror, — crowded to touch his hand. But he, placing his foot upon the
head
of the slain boar, turned to Atalanta, and bestow
e head of the slain boar, turned to Atalanta, and bestowed on her the
head
and the rough hide — trophies of his success. The
bus Apollo, taking part against Patroclus, struck the helmet from his
head
and the lance from his hand. At the same moment a
ne with her wand, and they became immediately changed into swine, in “
head
, body, voice, and bristles,” yet with their intel
he yard almost dead with age, and seeing a stranger enter, raised his
head
, with ears erect. It was Argus, Ulysses’ own dog,
m raging, and knowing that he had given no orders for one, raised his
head
above the waves, and saw the fleet of ÆÆneas driv
thirst, and found nothing to assauge it; for when he bowed his hoary
head
, eager to quaff, the water fled away, leaving the
pen heavens. The god of the stream, Father Tiber, seemed to raise his
head
above the willows and to say, “O goddess-born, de
e spoke the sword fell, and pierced the comely bosom of Euryalus. His
head
fell over on his shoulder, like a flower cut down
times made the circuit, Æneas threw his lance directly at the horse’s
head
. The animal fell with pierced temples, while a sh
appeared at first the hair of some being, on the second day his whole
head
, and on the third the entire form endowed with be
ng his mallet with both hands he struck a furious blow on the giant’s
head
. Skrymir awakening merely asked whether a leaf ha
. Skrymir awakening merely asked whether a leaf had not fallen on his
head
, and whether they had supped and were ready to go
s perched on this tree? I felt some moss from the branches fall on my
head
. How fares it with thee, Thor?” But Thor went awa
But Skrymir sat up, and stroking his cheek said, “An acorn fell on my
head
. What! Art, thou awake, Thor? Methinks it is time
hed by thee, that he was barely long enough to enclose it between his
head
and tail. Thy wrestling with Elli was also a most
forting her; — “Yes, and I fain would altogether ward Death from thy
head
, and with the gods in heaven Prolong thy life, th
ched out Her arms towards him with a cry, but he Mournfully shook his
head
and disappeared. And as the woodman sees a little
stuffed full of good fresh hay, Snuffs at it daintily, and stoops her
head
To chew the straw, her litter at her feet — So ye
and thin. They bound him with chains and suspended a serpent over his
head
, whose venom falls upon his face drop by drop. Hi
ace with Sigmund, and upheaved the bill to smite. Once more round the
head
of the Volsung fierce glittered the Branstock’s l
avers before him and the flame-flood rusheth apart, And high o’er his
head
it riseth, and wide and wild is its roar As it be
of one asleep — in armor cap-a-pie. So he draweth the helm from the
head
, and, lo, the brow snow-white, And the smooth unf
orned to yield E’en to the foe whose weapon strikes down the loftiest
head
. At last prone in the meadow lay mighty Siegfried
ed to ashes, they are all destroyed save Gunther and Hagen. Gunther’s
head
is cut off at her orders; and she herself, with S
r orders; and she herself, with Siegfried’s sword Balmung, severs the
head
of the hated Hagen from his body. With these warr
he left arm which seems to have held the bow is outstretched, and the
head
is turned in the same direction. In attitude and
amples are the Silenus holding the child Bacchus (in the Louvre); the
head
of Bacchus found in Smyrna (now in Leyden— see te
yden— see text, § 154), from an original of the school of Scopas; the
head
(now in London) from the Baths of Caracalla, of t
greater than he. Whereupon Zeus swallowed her; and, in time, from his
head
, sprang Athene, “the virgin of the azure eyes, Eq
s are at work. § 79. Centaurs. — Monsters represented as men from the
head
to the loins, while the remainder of the body was
Illustrative. — Hood, Flowers, “I will not have the mad Clytie. Whose
head
is turned by the sun,” etc.; W. W. Story, Clytie;
in water which receded when he would drink; grapes hanging above his
head
withdrew when he would pluck them; while a great
rom Greek Prōx, dew) which reflects the shining rays of the sun. The “
head
of the day,” or the rising sun, Cephalus, is also
f the heavens near the pole, where she is half the time held with her
head
downward, to teach her humility. Danaë. — Tennys
mion, “And stand astonished like to those which read Medusa’s mageful
head
.” Milton, P. L. 2: 611, 628; Comus (on Ægis and G
lague of the island, 100-102, 189; Com. § 63. Æ′gis, 56; the Gorgon’s
head
, 231. Ægis′thus, 281, 310; Com. § 165 (2) genealo
s, 11; Com. § 17. Chrysa′or, son of Posidon: sprang with Pegasus from
head
of Medusa; by Callirrhoë, father of Geryones and
is the god of earth and its vegetation; represented as a man with the
head
of a goose; he corresponds with the Greek Cronus;
a woman crowned with sun’s disk or cow’s horns, bearing also upon her
head
her emblem, the throne. Ho′rus or Har: son of Os
Ha′thor or Athor: a goddess often identified with Isis. She had the
head
of a cow and wears the sun’s disk, and plumes. He
s, the divinity of the sun. He is of human form; rarely with a goat’s
head
as represented by the Greeks. He corresponds to t
erse; the word or will of Ammon-Ra; the creator. Represented with the
head
of a ram. Khem, Chem (cf Milton’s Cham), called
Painting on a Vase. G. M. 93. Plate III. 1. Hera of Samos, her
head
veiled and bearing the modius, between two peacoc
elect. Num. 83. — 2. The triple Hecate ; one with the crescent on her
head
, and holding two torches ; the second wearing a P
depository of the early religion of the people. It also stands at the
head
of their history, for the early history of every
st lustre on the origin of some noble house by placing a deity at the
head
of its pedigree, or to veil the transgression of
through which the waters flowed off and left the plain dry13. To this
head
may be referred the practice of the Greeks to ass
cular, omitting Iapetos, whom we shall set in his proper place at the
head
of mankind. Though Night, ‘eldest of things,’ doe
Helios is represented by artists driving his four-horse chariot, his
head
surrounded with rays, a whip in his hand, and pre
ame summoned by magic arts. Apollonius307 describes her as having her
head
surrounded by serpents twining through branches o
conferred on him by his brothers, and he thus became the acknowledged
head
of the Olympian gods, the objects of Grecian wors
owed her ; and after a time the goddess Pallas Athene sprang from his
head
. He then married Themis, who bore him the Seasons
thet was probably the germ of the mythe ; Zeus was then placed at the
head
of a genealogy ; and last came the poets, who det
e. When wooed by Poseidôn and Apollo, Hestia, placing her hand on the
head
of Zeus, vowed perpetual virginity. Zeus, in plac
rt tunic, and his right arm bare, sometimes with a pointed cap on his
head
. The Cyclopes are occasionally placed with him. T
nation, and that none of these heroic families could claim him as the
head
of their genealogy. «The first love of Phœbos,» s
Apollo to himself, blew the discus, when flung by Apollo, against the
head
of the youth, and so killed him633. A festival ca
bay, in imitation of the act of the god, he returned to Delphi at the
head
of a theoria 638. This mimic flight also represen
rs fair Of Ægis-holding Zeus, while Leto joys ; O’er all she high her
head
and forehead holds, Easy to know, though beautifu
prus, clothed her in immortal garments, placed a golden wreath on her
head
, rings of orichalcum and gold in her pierced ears
-god. Stesichorus787 had already sung how the goddess issued from the
head
of her sire in perfect panoply, — a circumstance
her radiant armour. Later authorities assign the task of opening the
head
of Zeus to Prometheus789, or Hermes790 . Pallas-A
— Dire and terrific, the great prodigy Of ægis-holding Zeus. Upon her
head
She placed the four-coned helmet formed of gold,
ady, her hair hangs in ringlets on her shoulders, a helmet covers her
head
; she wears a long tunic and mantle, she bears th
c and mantle, she bears the ægis on her breast or on her arm, and the
head
of the Gorgon is on its centre. She often has bra
rk, was consecrated to her ; the shield or corselet with the Gorgon’s
head
on it seems to represent the full-orbed moon ; an
ent statues of Hermes were nothing more than wooden posts with a rude
head
and a pointed beard carved on them. They were wha
the fields and gardens. The Hermæ were also pillars of stone, and the
head
of some other deity at times took the place of th
away Persephone. Together they proceed to Helios ; they stand at the
head
of his horses, and Demeter entreats that he will
sprang from the car ‘like a bird,’ and kissed her mother’s hands and
head
. When their joy had a little subsided, Demeter an
of Black (Mé-λαινα), and her statue in it was clad in black, with the
head
and mane of a horse900. This last legend has noth
r usual symbol are poppies, which sometimes compose a garland for her
head
, sometimes are held in her hand. She is frequentl
ess made by Bupalos for the Smyrnæans had a hemisphere (πόλος) on its
head
, and a horn of Amaltheia in its hand1067. Per
le1069. Strife is said to be small at first, but at last to raise her
head
to the heaven. She is sent forth1070 amidst the A
s long flowing hair is, like that of Apollo1118, collected behind his
head
, wreathed with ivy or a fillet ; he is either nak
at her side ; at other times riding in a chariot drawn by lions. Her
head
is always crowned with towers. She frequently bea
poem1233 their sacred cave is thus described : But at the harbour’s
head
a long-leafed olive Grows, and near to it lies a
cockchafer, ‘of which the boys make a plaything, and cutting off the
head
carry it about ; and the head with the horns is l
s make a plaything, and cutting off the head carry it about ; and the
head
with the horns is like the lyre made from the tor
down on the shore to sleep ; where as he lay, a Tanagrian cut off his
head
with an axe. He relates these legends to account
the Tanagrians. The form of the Tritons is this : — the hair of their
head
resembles the parsley that grows in marshes, both
wearing dark-blue mantles of fine texture. They were often given the
head
or horns of a bull, indicative of their roaring o
s to remain in Erebos lest ‘Persephoneia should send out the Gorgeian
head
of the dire monster’1298 against him1299. Along w
, lay with her in a ‘soft mead amid the spring-flowers,’ and when her
head
was cut off by Perseus, the ‘great’ Chrysaôr (Gol
oung whelp : she has twelve feet, and six long necks, with a terrific
head
and three rows of close-set teeth on each. Evermo
asunder.’ In the Theogony1454 he is said to support the heaven on his
head
and hands in the extreme West, a task assigned hi
epel him from his doors. Perseus, inferior in strength, displayed the
head
of Medusa, and the inhospitable prince was turned
ughter of Deucaliôn. Her son, who was named Aëthlios1608, came at the
head
of a colony of the Æolids to Elis : he was the fa
royed. A quarrel arose between the Curetes and the Ætolians about the
head
and hide, and a war was the consequence. As long
ran him through the flanks and killed him. He presented the skin and
head
to Atalanta ; but the sons of Thestios, offended
se hide he ever after wore on his shoulders, and made the skin of his
head
serve him as a helmet1732. As he was returning fr
is cattle along the Ionian Sea. At the ‘recess of the sea’ (i. e. the
head
of the gulf) Hera set the oxen mad, and they ran
ut begged him to hold the heaven till he had made a pad to put on his
head
. Atlas threw down the apples, and resumed his bur
cted only by his corslet and lion’s skin, he flung his arms about his
head
, and grasping him by the neck made him submit, th
ve something for him and redeem him. She took her golden veil off her
head
, and with it bought him ; and hence he was afterw
corded in modern histories of Greece is the coming of Cecrops, at the
head
of a colony, from Saïs in Lower Egypt to Attica,
Nisos. This prince had a golden or purple lock of hair growing on his
head
; and as long as it remained uncut, so long was h
fore daughters of Danaos, that is of the thirsty land1921. Further, a
head
(кρήνη) is a usual name for a spring in many lang
lied horses, and Perseus made answer that he would bring him even the
head
of the Gorgon. The king said nothing at the time
horse, he desired Perseus to keep his word and fetch him the Gorgon’s
head
. Perseus full of grief retired to the extremity o
he then flung the wallet over his shoulder, placed the helmet on his
head
, and fitted the shoes to his feet. Thus equipped,
on their faces, which changed the beholder to stone, he looked on the
head
of Medusa as it was reflected on his shield, and
for Medusa was at the time pregnant by Poseidôn. Perseus took up the
head
, put it into his wallet, and set out on his retur
; who, coming to the knowledge of his designs, displayed the Gorgon’s
head
, and turned him and his partisans to stone. Perse
Polydectes had summoned thither all the people to see the formidable
head
of the Gorgon, it was displayed, and each became
s, by whom they were brought back to the Nymphs. He gave the Gorgon’s
head
to Athena, who set it in the middle of her shield
in the Ilias1949, and in the Theogony1950 the cutting off of Medusa's
head
is spoken of as a well-known event. There does no
res may perhaps approach to probability. The cutting off the Gorgon’s
head
is the main action of the mythe, and Pallas-Athen
, whom Poseidôn made immortal by setting a golden lock of hair on his
head
. Pterolaos had several sons, and one daughter who
had in his hand after her, which happening to strike Electryôn on the
head
killed him. Sthenelos, the fifth son of Perseus,
other serpent came, bearing a herb in its mouth, which it laid on the
head
of the dead one, who instantly recovered. Asclepi
family of the Neleids seem all to relate to the sea and water. At the
head
of the genealogy is Æolos (Windman), whose son is
ed to be removed to some other place ; the man took up the bad at the
head
, the woman at the foot, Melampûs himself at the m
at they came from Arcadia. Poseidôn, we may observe, is placed at the
head
of the genealogies of both them and the Melampids
round his feet The sable earth appeared ; God dried it up. Above his
head
tall leafy trees displayed Their fruit, pomegrana
gave it to his friends on earth. For this Zeus hung a stone over his
head
, which always menacing to descend and crush him d
y was converted into terror by his fancying a rock suspended over his
head
and ready to crush him, and he sought permission
t from her garment. When she had taken it off, Thyestes, covering his
head
that he might not be known, sprang from his lurki
n his time. The Cretan cycle is confined to the Minoïc family, at the
head
of which are placed Zeus and Europa. Εὐρώπη. E
came the mother of Asterios, called the Minotaur, from his having the
head
of a bull joined to the body of a man. Minôs, in
e. At length, observing one day Oriôn wading through the sea with his
head
just above the waters, he pointed it out to his s
eus in compassion raised them to the skies2136. The Hyades are in the
head
, the Pleiades in the hinder part of the sign of t
170. According to their view, the Argonauts went up the Tanaïs to its
head
, they then carried their vessel overland to the n
cause of the war, perceiving what the goddess was about, cut off the
head
of Melanippos, whom Tydeus though wounded had sla
thunder assented, and in ambiguous terms conveyed the relief : “Cut a
head
” — “of an onion from my garden” subjoined the kin
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