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nonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img000a [Frontispiece.] ‌Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img000b Preface

ry;” the “young hunter,” in the pursuit of his favourite sport, might image to his mind the form and figure of Diana, accompa

day is done. Shadows nor shape remain —” Introduction. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img001 In the earl

more than to modern writers, since the works of the latter teem with images drawn from classical subjects. Nor indeed is this

so worthy of contemplation.” The Divinities of Fable. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img005 The stars w

then formed the zodiac, glittering with stars above his head. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img006 The poetic

receive the light; Hence were they Cyclops called.” Hesiod. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img007 Uranus, how

also the foam of the sea, of which was born Venus Aphrodite. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img008 Saturn.

y-born, in the arms of the god, habited in an infant’s dress. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img009 —— “Jealou

ce he was delivered by Jupiter, and replaced upon his throne. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img010 But the fea

eerful love for those whom truth attends.” Laman Blanchard. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img012 This fable

eturns with the years and days; and this part of the fable is also an image of the operations which nature accomplishes under

himself, and the goddess metamorphosed him into a pine-tree. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img013 In the myth

cution, and the meeting was declared to be purely accidental. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img014 Such of the

e atmosphere, Is more than frail mortality can bear. Anon. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img015 Jupiter.

, he stole fire from the chariot of the sun, wherewith to animate his image . Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img

from the chariot of the sun, wherewith to animate his image. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img018 Enraged at

rbolt. One frown from his eyes makes the whole earth tremble. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img023 The Olympia

which, Vulcan achieved the wrath of his sire, the Thunderer. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img026 The intrigu

eft shoulder, is admirably imagined.” Shelley. Ceres. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img029 Ceres, daug

red his own limbs, and died in the midst of fearful torments. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img031 Destiny.

future known, Would sink us into deep and desperate sorrow.” Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img032 Apollo.

refusal to aid her she punished by changing them into frogs. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img033 “The Godde

pool for ever to abide!’ The Goddess has her wish ——” Ovid. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img034 During her

hat of Apollo, though he pursued her with fervour for a year. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img036 Daphne, sti

sess the property of preserving from thunder, and of making dreams an image of reality to those who place it beneath their pi

o the ground, produced the flower which still bears his name. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img038     “Flowe

recognized the nine muses, children of Jupiter and Mnemosyne. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img040 “Mnemosyne

flowed a river of Phrygia, well known by the name of Marsyas. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img041 Undeterred

special favour of turning all that he touched into fine gold. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img042 “Midas the

f genius and the fine arts, and at his feet is placed a swan. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img046 He had temp

o beauty, of being able in many words to express very little. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img048a One day wh

to whom the Romans built a temple and consecrated a fountain. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img048b Diana.

elow, Honour, wealth, power, to him abundant flow.” Hesiod. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img049 She was als

e she came down from Heaven every night to enjoy his society. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img052 ————— “Cre

those whom shipwreck had thrown on their inhospitable shores. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img054 “Mother of

ose his eyelids with thy silver wand.” Hood. Bacchus. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img055 Semele, dau

d beheld a female, who implored him to yield her his support. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img057 “Oh! think

rds Naxos, attended by his train of Dolphins and wild beasts! Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img060a On the alt

led orgies, from a word which signifies fury and impetuosity. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img060b The Baccha

n their hands, covered with the skins of tigers and panthers. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img061 “And as I

d, unless some one could be found to pay the penalty for her. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img063 The oracle

k of trees: In jolly hymns they praise the god of wine, Whose earthen images adorn the pine; And there are hung on high, in ho

rstition, prejudice, murder, madness — to beauty.” Shelley. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img065 Venus.

on the shore by the Seasons, daughters of Jupiter and Themis. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img066 She was soo

g two, they therefore appointed Paris to the unenviable task. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img069 The goddess

f into her temple, to offer his vows of adoration before the lifeless image . Hero, in pursuit of whom, Leander braved the Hel

n of beauty, thy fair eyes On our souls’ sacrifice.” Keats. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img072 Vulcan.

rer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img072 Vulcan. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img073 Vulcan, the

decent growth To make a pipe for my capacious mouth —” Gay. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img074 The first f

the altar of Hymen was that which received all the offerings. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img075 A marriage

ls of the conquered; and to him also, was dedicated the lion. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img077 Cupid.

had visited the earth, Cupid sought the presence of his love. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img080 “——— Who f

, thy master see, Who was, or is, — or is to be.” Voltaire. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img087 Minerva.

ary, where only worship and incense should have been offered. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img091     “It li

Paris by his judgment, gave the palm of loveliness to Venus. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img093 Mars.

battle of Phillippi, and was dedicated to “Mars the avenger.” Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img097      “Rive

vacant place of love!     Evadne. Shame on such craven thoughts, The image of the God frowns on your words — All glorious Ma

your words — All glorious Mars! be thou my god and guide, Be thou the image to fill up my heart, Be thou the spirit leading m

exercises, which have in them a manly or spirited character. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img098 Neptune,

fable of Arion, the illustrious rival of Amphion and Orpheus. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img100 This famous

er, and the ungrateful Arion allowed his liberator to perish. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img101 The worship

God bore her off to his dominions, and she became his bride. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img104 “So in Sic

nfess their crimes, and in punishing them for their offences. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img107 “Awful Rha

was doomed to feel a vulture constantly gnawing his entrails. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img108 Ulysses sou

renews, Dust mounts in clouds, and sweat descends in dews.” Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img109 Mercury.

ter of his sceptre, and Vulcan of his mechanical instruments. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img110 “Hermes wi

divide; Now in the limped streams she views her face, And dressed her image in the floating glass: On beds of leaves she now

l, The favourite of Heaven, the favourite of Hell.” Horace. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img113 Nereids.

generally resided in grottos and caves, adorned with shells. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img114 There were

captivate Diana in the appearance of a beautiful white goat. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img117 His adventu

laid both honey and milk, fit offerings for a rural divinity. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img118 “With clov

larger spread, And by degrees dispersed the fleeting shade.” Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img120 Narcissus f

e, Drooping its beauty o’er the watery clearness To woo its own sweet image unto nearness; Deaf to light Zephyrus, it would n

measure with which they trod to the music of these demi-gods. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img125 To them wer

part was that of a man, and the remainder that of the horse. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img128 Lycus, a mo

as pleased his mind On her, whom chance presented, took. The feast An image of a taken town expressed.” Ovid. Flora, Pom

ressed.” Ovid. Flora, Pomona, Vertumnus, the Seasons. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img131 Flora was u

is shell, and is resembled, in this, by his sons the Tritons. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img141 Proteus, s

taking some unnatural shape, he should elude their vigilance. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img142 Portumnus,

de a sea deity by Oceanus, at the request of the marine gods. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img143 Æolus, god

rawn by their beauty to listen to them, perished on the spot. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img147     “Who,

spreading famine wherever they made their hideous appearance. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img148 Divinit

ced a respect for their divinity, by raising statues to them. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img149 Night.

    Oh! lightly, lightly tread!” Hemans. By the Lacedæmonians, the image of Somnus was always placed near that of death on

celerity she is prepared to punish the crimes of the wicked. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img156 The Romans

d been taught by superstition to pay deep reverence to the statues or images of their deceased friends, that reverence was soo

tle and of roses, the flowers peculiarly consecrated to them. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img159 Comus, M

age anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img159 Comus, Momus. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img160 Comus, God

, and her hand rests on a wheel, to intimate her inconstancy. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img165 Harpocra

lding a pair of scales in one hand, and a sword in the other. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img166 Demi-Go

llux and Helena, and from the other, Castor and Clytemnestra. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img167 Scarcely ha

ate the crown, yet he feared the resentment of his adversary. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img169 As Jason wa

’s desire, restored him to all the power and vigour of youth. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img172 ‌“With lo

f Eurystheus, he appeased the goddess and obtained the beast. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img180 The fourth

ieved others of his own accord, equally great and celebrated. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img182 He delivere

he gave Dejanira his tunic, which was covered with his blood. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img184a “Take this

, it will recall him to your arms;” and with this he expired. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img184b “For now

messenger, and hurled him into the sea with fearful violence. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img186 In vain did

dained), The stars, the heavens, and all the gods sustained. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img192 As Perseus

destroy her, Perseus saw, and was captivated with her beauty. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img193 He offered

received divine honours like the rest of the ancient heroes. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img196 Heroes.

trident touch Hath struck him into marble.” Barry Cornwall. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img197 This hero,

another bound, Bacchus is by his Ariadne’s side.” L. E. L. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img201 Theseus mar

w too fierce to be endured, and she revealed to him her love. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img203     Phæ. “

dreams Pressed on my brain in many a confused shape, All bearing one image , and that image thine, I have striven, wrestled,

on my brain in many a confused shape, All bearing one image, and that image thine, I have striven, wrestled, fought against t

xcited the father’s ire against his son in a terrible degree. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img204     The. “

eas,                     And spears in Marathon!” Hemans. ‌Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img Orpheus.

n was formed by him to recover her, or perish in the attempt. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img208 “His own d

yer denied, All Hell consented to release his bride.” Ovid. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img209 The sorrow

in descends, While he to empty air his arms extends!” Ovid. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img210 The conditi

ry and its might —     Are they not written on my brow? And will that image ever quit thy sight?     No! deathless in thy fai

ct on him, from the hatred she bore to the goddess of beauty. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img214 No sooner h

on found by one of the shepherds of Polybus, King of Corinth. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img215 The shepher

me the murderer of his father, and the husband of his mother. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img216 As he trave

ve called — the ground on which we stand, shall be my grave!” Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img219 As he spoke

, as the place, which crimes like his, would seem to deserve. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img220 Eteocles

s in the presence of their dead father, to revenge his death. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img221 Her wishes

arated as they arose in bright columns from the funeral pile. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img223 Tantalus

him into the sea, under pretext of punishing his negligence. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img224 Thus master

asperated her, that she stabbed the child with her own hands. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img225 Pelops, sus

d atrocious conduct at which the very sun itself had started. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img226 “Asked by

isplay, And, to a lapwing turned, he fans his way.” Ovid. ‌Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img227 Agamemno

e_heathen-mythology_1842_img227 Agamemnon and Menelaus. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img228 Agamemnon a

retending that they sought her hand in marriage for Achilles. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img229 Clytemnestr

 It was Achilles! — who thus betrayed his manly inclinations. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img234 Thus discov

th his terrible weapons to assist them against their enemies. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img234a But this w

of Polyxena, the daughter of Priam, in the temple of Apollo. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img237 Availing hi

jans to offer a bullock to Neptune, to render him propitious. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img238a During the

complicated wreaths, so that he died in the greatest torture. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img238b ———— “By

his mother made known to him the uselessness of his efforts. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img240 Æneas follo

rrhus for attempting that which he designated a base treason. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img241 Following t

was bearing them quickly away from the scene of their danger. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img242 He arrived

o flocked around him, he entered in possession of his throne. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img244 But still h

he curses and reproaches of an infuriated and forsaken lover. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img245 Unable to b

lf to the heart, and fell dead upon the pile she had erected. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img246 “Then swif

t in endless night.” Dryden. Allegorical Divinities. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img247 The ancient

took place when it was consumed, could scarcely be estimated. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img249 Fidelity

the laws, and in her hand a sword with which to defend them. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img250 A temple wa

oses, and her face and form, full, but exquisitely developed. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img251 In her hand

demonians dedicated to her an altar in the Temple of Minerva. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img252 She is draw

e spires and roof of gold!” Ovid. Pyramus and Thisbe. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img254 Pyramus and

imple instruments.” Barry Cornwall. Hero and Leander. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img256 Hero was a

s, and erected a temple to her, and even stamped their money with her image .                 “Thou! whose impassioned face  

e the love of peace, with a reverence for the deity, whose worship by images he forbade, and established a priesthood for it,

ed a priesthood for it, the effect of which was to prevent any graven images or statues from appearing in their sanctuaries fo

lphos, to obtain its assistance in accomplishing his mission. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img264 “Look no lo

ient interest, to induce us to present them to our readers. ‌Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img265 Bellerop

the monster, and returned victorious to the court of Jobates. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img266 After this

hen the roof of the school in which he was teaching gave way. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img267 In his old

s, without entering into elaborate explanations. Brahma! Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img268 This deity,

pencil to write it, and the fire of sacrifice. Vishnu. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img269 Vishnu, the

hurch. They admit oral confession, and make prayers for the dead. The images of Buddh are multiplied in great numbers in all t

imposing attitude, announcing both instruction and education. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img272 In ordinary

of all forms, adored by these ignorant and credulous people. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img273 Of the many

d in the middle of the waters, and surmounted by two cupolas. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img274 Here are co

nts. In most of their temples one of them is sure to be seen. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img275 His colour

woods, and are placed by them among the inferior divinities. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img276a Camdeo, th

endants and attributes, has new and peculiar characteristics. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img276b He is repr

impart, To warm, but not consume his heart.” Sir W. Jones. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img277 Scandin

age anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img277 Scandinavia. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img278a The Edda,

forms of itself a work of great interest. Scandinavia. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img278b The most i

y they would have adorned and the land for which they fought. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img279 One of the

d successful, showed how impossible it is to avert destiny.1 Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img280 His body wa

uccessful of them received from Odin the gift of immortality. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img281 Each of the

er, remarkable for the number of serpents which it harboured. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img282 Teutates, t

ccompanied by flashing eyes, wild cries, and fierce gestures. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img283 “But the g

e committed, as to disgust the wiser part of the community. ‌Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img284 America.

built the magnificent city of Mexico in the midst of a lake. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img285 They had, b

s, we think, also affords additional ground for this opinion. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img288 “In the mi

t monuments of Egypt, and on the top of an immense pyramid stands the image . “It is placed on a throne upheld by an azure glo

which amounted to upwards of one hundred and fifty thousand. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img289 Africa.

less been derived from the mythologies of Greece and India. ‌Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img290 Polynesi

rom green altars, flowers send up their incense.” L. E. L. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img292 1. The

g the Scriptures they perceive, that God has forbidden the worship of images . They must naturally ask, what nations have worsh

nly God, and who worship false divinities. Heathens sometimes worship images of the deities whom they reverence. The worshippe

worship images of the deities whom they reverence. The worshippers of images are Idolaters, the images are Idols, and the wors

ies whom they reverence. The worshippers of images are Idolaters, the images are Idols, and the worship is Idolatry. Men were

id to contain, besides the consecrated fire, the Palladium, or sacred image of Minerva, and the images of Lares and Penates,

consecrated fire, the Palladium, or sacred image of Minerva, and the images of Lares and Penates, or household gods, which Æn

war-maker. He was supposed to open and shut the gates of heaven. The images of Janus had in one hand a key, to denote his pow

r of his throne? How was Janus regarded by his subjects? Why were the images of Janus sometimes surrounded twelve altars? How

nus worshipped at Rome? How were the attributes of Janus expressed by images of him, and who instituted a festival in honour o

andora signifies all gifts. Pandora was originally a beautiful female image , formed by the skill of Vulcan, and carried to he

r eyes than to behold iniquity with complacency. The Palladium was an image of Pallas, which was supposed to have fallen from

and brought it with him into Italy. They assert that this celebrated image was deposited in the temple of Vesta, as a pledge

those different names, in different countries in the pagan world. The image of Ceres was that of a tall female, having her he

rius, who made “silver shrines for Diana,” that is, little altars and images of the goddess, and models of the great temple, (

the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter? Seeing that these t

d keep late hours are now often called orgies. The Bacchæ hung little images of Bacchus upon the pine trees when they went int

od of gardens. He was accounted the son of Venus and Bacchus; and his image , a most hideous mis-shapen figure, was set up to

n immovable rock. Milk, cakes, and fruit were offered to him, and his image was crowned with flowers and rubbed with oil. Æo

d Pithys. Echo preferred the beautiful Narcissus; who, seeing his own image in a fountain, was so captivated with it that he

ns of houses; were worshipped by the Romans under the figure of small images of human form, and were kept in the most retired

ies. During the public feasts of these Lares and Penates, small waxen images of them were suspended in the streets. The Lares

young boys, covered with dog-skins, and at their feet was placed the image of a dog. The dog is the emblem of faithful attac

had ever seen; he desired above all things, to possess the beautiful image — it was but a shadow — he died of grief, because

moment, are begun by pious Hindus, with an invocation of Ganesa. His image is set up in their streets and their high roads:

red marble, interspersed with streaks of gold. On the pavement was an image of the radiant divinity, hardly inferior to himse

conspicuous, the triform representation of Brahmé, and the frightful image of Sceva. The principal Hindu temples of more mod

d. Juggernaut is the residence of the chief Brahmin of all India. The image of Juggernaut stands in the centre of the pagoda,

iberality of the pilgrims frequenting its celebrated shrine. The idol images in these temples are generally of the most monstr

secrated themselves to her service. In a temple at Upsal was seen her image reclining on cushions, adorned with the emblems o

tle. Upon important public occasions, the Druids constructed colossal images of wicker work; filled them with human beings, an

call Astarte, queen of heaven, with crescent horns: To whose bright image , nightly by the moon, Sidonian virgins paid their

ame one Who mourned in earnest, when the captive ark Maimed his brute image ; head and hands lopped off. Dagon his name; sea

and Pharpar, lucid streams. ——————— The captive ark Maimed his brute image . These lines concerning Dagon and the ark refer

earth. As soon as they saw it prostrate, his worshippers replaced the image ; but it was not suffered to remain; again it fell

temple, with a solemn air would draw aside a veil which concealed the image of the divinity, and behold, a crocodile, a cat,

he sources of the inundation of the Nile. The cow was her symbol. Her image was usually in the form of a woman, with cows’ ho

in general, and as the patron of several of its principal cities. His image was erected in a temple, built for that purpose a

brute creation. The ancient Persians regarded the Sun as the peculiar image of the Deity. They represented him by certain fir

ns worshipped the moon and the stars. Temples were dedicated to them; images of them were invented, and magnificent festivals

he ancient Persians regarded it as impious to pretend to form visible images of Orosmades, or to erect temples to his honour,

lling-place. They venerated fire as his sacred emblem; the sun as his image ; and their worship of him consisted in bloodless

finitely deserving of love and praise, and could be represented by no image . The god held nexi in reverence, was Tez-cat-li-p

god to rest upon: and no mortal dared to sit upon them. The principal image of Shining Mirror was of black marble, richly dre

breast covered with plates of the same metal. In the left hand, this image held a golden fan, highly polished like a mirror,

exican god of justice? How is Tez-cat-li-po-ca described? How was the image of Tez-cat-li-po-ca described? ——— The Greeks h

he god. If the children were able, they were made to dance before the image of the god; and after that ceremony, some consecr

the Penates, make up the chief objects of the Mexican polytheism. The images of the Penates were kept in every house. The king

were kept in every house. The kings and great lords kept six of these images , the nobles four, and the lower people two. The n

hose which have been briefly noticed, was very great; and little clay images of them, found by the Spaniards in the woods, hou

ers? Had the Mexicans still other gods? Did the Mexicans possess many images of their gods? ——— The Mexicans prayed to their

ioned with contempt. The utmost reverence, however, was shown for the images of the gods. Alcibiades was obliged to fly for hi

fly for his life, because he was only suspected of irreverence to the images of Mercury. A child suffered death because it acc

ot thinking the gods to be of human shape, as did the Greeks, made no images , and worshipped in the open air, conceiving that

mple stood, if practicable, it was made to front the rising sun — the image of the god standing in the middle of the temple,

when the Greeks arrived at perfection in the arts, they produced such images as the Apollo, Venus, and Jupiter Capitolinus, wh

in respect to the ancient religion? How did the Athenians regard the images of their gods? Did the pagans revere mountains, a

le stand, and what were the different apartments? What were the first images of idolatry? ——— Priests are the ministers of r

adorned with exquisite sculpture. The temples contained a statue, or image of the god or goddess, to whose worship it was co

hand, in token of respect for a sacred place. Besides the temples and images of the gods, pillars and solitary altars were hel

a similar manner. Catholic Christians sometimes erect a cross, or an image of a saint at a fountain, or by a wayside, to rem

g of the ark. A cherub was placed at each end of it. A cherub was the image of a human face attached to a form with wings. It

anished by the Athenians, because they accused him of carving his own image upon the shield of Minerva. Phidias retired to El

words, eidolon and latreia, signifying worship and representation, or image ; and, consequently, it means the worship of image

representation, or image; and, consequently, it means the worship of images , or symbols of gods or superior powers. Where did

id to contain, besides the consecrated fire, the Palladium, or sacred image of Minerva, and the Lares and Penates, or househo

oroaster taught the Persians to venerate the Sun as the most glorious image of the Supreme Being, and to regard fire as the m

ft, a sceptre made of cypress wood, expressive of durability, and the image of victory; treading the Titans under his feet, a

streams and woods and rural deities. O’er all, the heaven’s refulgent image shines, Oh either gate were six engraven signs. T

ence, conquest over vice and the passions. What was the Palladium? An image of Pallas, which was supposed to have fallen from

and brought it with him into Italy. They assert that this celebrated image was deposited in the temple of Vesta, as a pledge

immoveable rock. Milk, cakes, and fruit, were offered to him, and his image was crowned with flowers and rubbed with oil.

od of gardens. He was accounted the son of Venus and Bacchus; and his image , a most hideous mis-shapen figure, was set up to

Pithy s. Echo preferred the beautiful Narcissus; who, seeing his own image in a fountain, was so captivated with it, that he

e guardians of houses. They were worshiped, under the figure of small images of human form, and were kept in the most retired

ies. During the public feasts of these Lares and Penates, small waxen images were suspended in the streets, and they were intr

ifferent names; and worshiped them under various symbolical forms and images . What is the doctrine of Pantheism, which charact

art. According to the respective forms and sizes of his temples, the images of this deity are either standing erect, or sitti

moment, are begun by pious Hindûs, with an invocation of Ganesa. His image is set up in their streets and their high roads;

red marble, interspersed with streaks of gold. On the pavement was an image of the radiant Divinity, hardly inferior to himse

conspicuous, the triform representation of Brahmé, and the frightful image of Seeva. The principal Hindû temples of more mod

rom the centre of which, in an eastern aspect, is protruded, the vast image of a bull, one of the emblems of Seeva, for whom

wheels. This is the residence of the chief Brahmin of all India. The image of Jaggernaut stands in the centre of the pagoda,

iberality of the pilgrims frequenting its celebrated shrine. The idol images in these temples are generally of the most monstr

tians annually commemorated this event by committing to the waters an image of this deity, in a vessel formed of the papyrus

rapidity of motion. But the greatest adoration was paid to his living image , the ox, Apis. Who was Isis? Isis, the consort of

he sources of the inundation of the Nile. The cow was her symbol. Her image was usually in the form of a woman, with cows’ ho

g awakens vigilance by his barking. In the festivals of the gods, his image was the leader of the pompous processions; and he

Sinōpe, by Ptolemy Lagus, directed so to do, by a divine vision. His image was erected in a temple, built for that purpose a

istians and then thrown into a fire kindled in the amphitheatre. This image was of the human form, bearing a basket on its he

enius of destruction. The hippopotamus, the huge behemoth, was an apt image of the god of war. From the time of Job, the hipp

s. Every third day, in each lunation, was consecrated to her; and her images had the form of a female vulture, with the wings

s a personification of Osīris, the tutelar genius of the Nile, and an image of the soul of that deity. Apis was venerated not

un, moon, and other celestial bodies. Temples were dedicated to them; images of them were formed, and magnificent festivals we

he ancient Persians regarded it as impious to pretend to form visible images of him, or to erect temples to his honour, with t

lling-place. They venerated fire as his sacred emblem; the sun as his image ; and their worship of him consisted in bloodless

ding easy access to the summit, on which was erected a cimeter, as an image , or emblem of the God. They sacrificed horses to

tle. Upon important public occasions, the Druids constructed colossal images of wicker work; filled them with human beings, an

crated themselves to her service. In the temple at Upsal was seen her image reclining on cushions, adorned with the emblems o

this appellation was conferred, not only on the angels, but on their images likewise, which they believed to be animated by t

placed a magnificent bed, and a golden table near it; but without any image . Here the God was supposed to come to repose hims

ue of Belus, made of solid gold, and a throne of the same metal. This image , supposed to be the great Pul, or Belus, who was

s call Astarte, queen of heaven, with crescent horns: To whose bright image , nightly by the moon, Sidonian virgins paid their

ame one Who mourn’d in earnest, when the captive ark Maim’d his brute image ; head and hands lopp’d off. Dagon his name; sea m

recipitated down the steps, which formed the sides of the temple. The image of Vitzliputzli was the figure of a man, seated o

ich are the principal Hindû temples of modern date? What kind of idol images are found in the Hindû temples? Which is the high

deva? What was the Swerga? Who was Buddha; and what the figure of his images ? Was there any affinity between the ancient Egypt

ddess of shepherds 87 Palilia, feasts of Pales 87 Pallādĭum, a sacred image of Minerva 54 Pallas, Minerva 53 Pan, the god of

amais vu une seule. — C’est que vous avez fait de bonnes études : les images tirées de la mythologie vous sont si familières q

lité des grands, la turbulence de la plèbe, me présentaient partout l’ image de notre dégradation. A Paris, la ville latine, a

des fantômes d’ombres ; car deux fois la mort a passé sur ces tristes images . Depuis plus de quinze cents ans elles avaient pe

r des interprétations nouvelles, et fournissaient à nos écrivains des images hardies et des rapports ingénieux ; que ces novat

pas à manger et à dormir. Pourquoi faut-il que l’homme seul, créé à l’ image de Dieu, n’ait pu se résoudre à se laver que par

en Macédoine, à Alexandrie en Égypte, on promenait en grande pompe l’ image de cette divinité mystérieuse. A Chypre, il avait

). Selon d’autres (et c’est l’opinion la plus probable), Adonis est l’ image du soleil. Le sanglier sauvage et hérissé qui le

nt, et la terre se gonfle d’amour sous les caresses du printemps. Ces images sont belles, et les inventeurs de ce culte étaien

obligé de le soulever et de l’étouffer dans ses bras. Ce géant est l’ image des peuples, qui sont toujours forts quand on les

ue avec la race conquérante ? Parce qu’elle a emporté dans son cœur l’ image du temple, parce qu’elle le voit dans ses rêves s

ont interprété ce mythe dans son vrai sens, et en ont tiré de grandes images . Apothéose. J’ai vu des tableaux vivants qu

ant à l’entrée du trou. Mais quand ils firent de la cité d’en bas une image des cités d’en haut gouvernées par des lois, quan

 ; mais cela parle aux yeux, cela est compris du peuple, qui aime les images sensibles et qui est resté païen quand il s’agit

de timides brebis, calma les courages émus. » ( Bossuet.) Voilà une image parfaitement juste, comme toutes les images popul

. » ( Bossuet.) Voilà une image parfaitement juste, comme toutes les images populaires. On comprend aussi que l’aigle au vol

u chant, renonçons, jusqu’à ce qu’ils l’aient recouvré, à une vieille image dont le peuple est obligé de demander l’explicati

et marcher les statues. On voyait encore, au temps de Pausanias, des images de bois attribuées au vieux maître. Elles manquai

enait en main un bâton où s’enroulaient deux serpents. Pourquoi cette image du serpent, attribut inséparable d’Esculape ? « 

printemps, plus brillant et plus jeune sous une enveloppe nouvelle : image du malade qui, au retour de la santé, semble se t

-il passer, même métaphoriquement, sous les Fourches Caudines ? Cette image est fort respectable sans doute, puisqu’elle vien

u cœur l’étincelle sacrée, ils voient passer dans leur solitude leurs images rayonnantes et croient sentir sur leur front le s

appé la poitrine) ; ils ont prodigué l’antithèse, l’apostrophe et les images outrées : ils ont trop souvent oublié que nous av

où l’on apprend à se haïr soi-même. A quoi bon ? Ils prendraient leur image pour celle du voisin. On dirait que la bonne natu

ait aussi dans leur corps qu’ils espéraient revivre, ou plutôt dans l’ image de leur corps. Car les corps eux-mêmes étaient de

et impérissable que la conscience nous révèle ; c’est un souffle, une image , une représentation vide et creuse des corps qui

ge, une représentation vide et creuse des corps qui ne sont plus. Ces images étaient, si l’on peut s’exprimer ainsi, des âmes

ient que des essences et des entités, les poëtes verront toujours des images et des ombres, qu’ils soient païens comme Virgile

éponses les satisfont, pourvu qu’elles présentent à leurs esprits des images sensibles. Ils se payent de mots et de légendes,

euf sur la lyre d’Apollon. Palladium. Les Palladium étaient des images sacrées tombées du ciel, et à la conservation des

llesse7. Vénus est vaincue par ses deux rivales, ou, pour parler sans image , les fortes vertus de la Grèce triomphent des vic

verses, ses calmes aussi capricieux que ses colères, n’est-elle pas l’ image de la mobilité des choses périssables ? « Je te

les yeux du corps, ils les peignent, ils les désignent par de grandes images qui deviennent plus tard des personnifications vi

d’un grand poëte. La légende de Saturne a enrichi notre langue d’une image , d’une seule, mais splendide : — La Révolution es

rendre comme eux un farouche plaisir à multiplier dans leur enfer les images des supplices les plus raffinés, les Grecs avaien

t déjà passé en proverbe chez les anciens, qui le regardaient comme l’ image de l’avarice tourmentée d’une insatiable convoiti

aine Philosophie désavoue elle-même. L’usage éclairé de la Fable, les images , le coloris constituent essentiellement cet Art e

l’honneur immortel de t’être comparés. Ton livre offre des mœurs les images correctes : J’ai cru voir sept pinceaux, quand te

l’onde, et les Dieux du bocage. Au-dessus lui des Cieux la rayonnante image  ; Et le cercle des mois, sous des signes divers,

n amant ! Votre maison, vos gens, votre livrée, Tout vous retrace une image adorée ; Et vos enfans, ces gages précieux, Nés d

Tous ses trésors nous sont ouverts, Et le jardin des Hespérides Est l’ image de l’Univers. C’en est fait : la Vierge céleste,

mes yeux, ou frappait dans mes bras. De Ch…. expirant je vois encor l’ image  ; Je le vois à ses maux opposer son courage, Pens

s chars ne roulent plus sur la terre durcie. Par-tout un long silence image de la mort… Roucher 59.    L’Hiver a ses beaut

orêts, S’abreuve de mélancolie Sous de silencieux cyprès, Je sens ton image adorée Par-tout marcher autour de moi ; Dans une

lle de Saturne et d’Ops. Elle présidait au Feu sacré ou éternel, image de celui des astres, et gardien de l’Empire Romai

u’un ciel de verre emprisonne au dedans. Sphérique en ses contours, l’ image de la Terre S’éloigne également de tous les point

la Jeunesse. Belle et fraîche comme le Printemps dont elle est l’ image , elle mérita de verser le Nectar à Jupiter. Ayant

yeux. Votre frère est le seul des Dieux, Dont vous verrez chez moi l’ image … Vos bienfaits, charmantes Déesses, Sont prodigué

Sœurs, sur le mont Piérius.    De la Patrie absente il nous offre l’ image , Loin d’elle vainement on erre transporté, On ret

e Minos une ombre du barreau ; Et de la cour encor cherchant la vaine image , Les grands au noir Pluton vont porter leur homma

      En vain j’espère en adoucir l’horreur : De mon fils expirant, l’ image douloureuse Revient à chaque instant se placer su

S’entoure tout entier d’une nue enflammée, Et dans ces noirs cachots, image des enfers, A leur obscurité mêle d’affreux éclai

le, où le fer à la main, Clytemnestre ! ma mère ! ah ! cette horrible image Est présente à mes yeux, présente à mon courage.

perdant par degrés leur rudesse première, Offrent déjà de l’homme une image grossière. Tels dans un atelier vous pourriez voi

fils : Deux fois il le tenta ; deux fois, sa main glacée Abandonna l’ image à peine encor tracée. Virgile. —  Lefranc 158.

un faible essaim de colombes timides, Se pressaient, embrassaient les images des Dieux. Dès qu’elle voit Priam vainement furie

a démarche, sa voix, Je ne me croirais pas entièrement trahie, Et ton image au moins consolerait ma vie ! Virgile. —  Delill

De ce vaste repos combien l’ame est frappée ! O des mondes détruits, image anticipée ! Triste et dernier Soleil !… jour affr

mort, par les Princes Grecs, l’innocent Astyanax, qui lui retraçait l’ image de son infortuné père. Reine captive, après la pr

reste précieux Du plus juste des rois, et du plus grand des Dieux, L’ image de l’époux, dont j’adore la cendre183 ? Isméni

ous ses trésors nous sont ouverts ; Et le jardin des Hespérides Est l’ image de l’Univers. Bernis 187.    Un vieux Dragon v

ureuse, Un argile céleste, un limon précieux Que pétrit Prométhée à l’ image des Dieux ; Soit qu’un Dieu bienfaisant qui le fo

nds les bras, je rencontre les tiens, Et tes prompts mouvemens sont l’ image des miens. Tu ris lorsque je ris : sensible à mes

iquer, et que je n’entends pas. Mais je n’en puis douter, j’adore mon image  ! ……………………… je cède à ma douleur… De mes jours ma

nçant ces mots ; Et troublé, par ses pleurs, la surface des eaux. Son image , à l’instant, s’obscurcit et s’efface. Quoi ! tu

suivrais tes pas, mon ombre voltigeante Sans cesse irait chercher ton image charmante ; Mais, non, je suis Déesse, et je ne p

emble qu’un poison lent ne consume ta vie, En t’offrant chaque jour l’ image du cercueil. Cependant, arrivée à ton heure derni

Voyez la jeune Isaure, éclatante d’attraits : Sur un enfant chéri, l’ image de ses traits, Fond soudain ce fléau qui, prolong

t plus qu’écouter, et rendre tour-à-tour De la voix qui la frappe une image frivole, Qui répète le son, et double la parole.

id mortel en marbre a durci tout son corps. On voit pleurer encor son image sans vie. Un tourbillon l’emporte aux champs de l

oupable, et n’y tombe jamais. Là, de cent Dieux divers les grossières images Impriment l’épouvante et forcent les hommages ; L

? Les plaines que le Nil féconde, De Tempé les bords enchantés Sont l’ image de ceux qu’inonde Le cours de ces flots argentés.

erriers sur cet heureux rivage ; Et de la vie encore ils embrassent l’ image . Du tranquille bonheur qui règne dans ces lieux,

filles avaient fait entendre leurs accords, Aussi-tôt des objets les images pressées En foule s’éveillaient dans ses vastes p

uis pas égaler son hommage : Mais dans mes souvenirs j’aime encor ton image . Source de voluptés, de délices, d’attraits, Sur

du calme et des douceurs du port. Si j’osais des Héros t’exposer les images , Tu verrais l’infortune enflammer leurs courages,

t je n’ai plus, hélas ! d’autre bien dans la vie,             Que ton image et ma douleur254. Espérance. Elle anime l

x, il emprunta le sublime langage ; Sur la toile muette, il traça son image ,             Et se transmit à l’avenir.    Doux

erche, elle attend : son ame impatiente Se fait d’un si beau jour une image charmante. L’Orient tout-à-coup s’embrase, et loi

 ; Elle tombe, et bientôt succède à ce transport Un long accablement, image de la mort. Trois fois le jour naissant fait pâli

cesse en un vague lointain, Croit, poursuivant dans l’air de bizarres images , L’entendre dans les vents, le voir dans les nuag

harmonieux, une touchante voix, Peignent des sentimens ou tracent des images  ; Et des sons asservis à de brillantes lois, Célè

magique, Tous les objets qui s’offrent à l’entour : De la Gaîté votre image est l’emblême ; Tout s’embellit par son prestige

ire fou, cet air leste et volage : De nos plaisirs nous n’avons que l’ image …    Or mes amis, laissez là nos penseurs, Et ven

s erreurs désabuse Ixion ; Et d’un plaisir plus vrai lui présentant l’ image , Dans ses bras enchantés dissipe le nuage. Que no

ar tant de palmes ennobli, Voulut qu’en sa tombe honorée, D’ Ennius l’ image sacrée Le protégeât contre l’oubli.    Cet Hymne

ude présente d’assez grandes difficultés, parce que les fables sont l’ image ou le voile d’un grand nombre de faits de nature

s divers instincts des animaux, de sorte que, au lieu d’être fait à l’ image de Dieu, l’homme de l’idolâtrie le fut à l’image

lieu d’être fait à l’image de Dieu, l’homme de l’idolâtrie le fut à l’ image de la bête. Prométhée expia son larcin par un sup

Saturnales. Pendant ces fêtes, dont notre carnaval est la suite et l’ image , la liberté allait jusqu’à la licence ; les rangs

de Narcisse, jeune berger qui se consumait lui-même à contempler son image dans le cristal d’une fontaine. Cet insensé fut m

s dans les domaines paternels et devant des juges complaisants sont l’ image de ces illusions de famille qui portent quelquefo

aires, étaient punies avec une extrême sévérité. Culte, temples et images de Diane. Le culte de cette déesse était en ra

es Labdacides, dont nous aurons plus tard à nous occuper. Culte et image de Minerve. Athènes ne se montra pas ingrate e

ans une prison, où il resta pendant plus d’une année. Attributs et images de Mercure. Les fonctions de Mercure sont très

rtie. Divinités de la terre. § 1. Cybèle. Naissance, culte, images de Cybèle. Cybèle, fille d’Uranus et de Titéa,

suivant le proverbe, mangent leur blé en herbe. Plutus. — culte et images de Cérès. Cérès est la mère de Plutus, dieu de

dus : Les jours donnés aux dieux ne sont jamais perdus. Culte et images de Bacchus Les fêtes de Bacchus s’appelaient B

chus ? § 4. Vulcain. Naissance, disgrâces, travaux, culte et images de Vulcain. Vulcain, le dieu du feu, est fils

l’habitude de se lever matin, et le trait qui frappa Procris est une image des méprises si communes dans ce périlleux divert

euves dans l’Enfer ? § 2. Pluton. Pluton. — son culte et ses images . Pluton, que les Grecs nomment Adès, était le

où Pluton le condamna à ce pénible et inutile travail qui semble une image des misères de la vie. Salmonée. A côté de

et les ténèbres. Seul entre toutes les divinités des Perses, il a des images , et un culte spécial accompagné de cérémonies sac

d’Asie et établi au nord de la Germanie, formèrent leurs dieux à leur image  : tout dans leurs croyances respire la guerre. Vo

s’appelle Valhalla : les héros admis dans ce séjour y retrouvent une image embellie de la terre ; ils se livrent, à travers

Idolâtrie est formée de deux mots grecs, dont l’un signifie idole ou image , et l’autre culte, adoration. 2. Il faut disting

aine Philosophie désavoue elle-même. L’usage éclairé de la Fable, les images , le coloris constituent essentiellement cet Art e

l’honneur immortel de t’être comparés. Ton livre offre des mœurs les images correctes : J’ai cru voir sept pinceaux, quand te

lcain, pour couronner l’ouvrage, De la Sphère au-dessus, a suspendu l’ image , Et le cercle des mois, sous des signes divers, S

n amant ! Votre maison, vos gens, votre livrée, Tout vous retrace une image adorée ; Et vos enfans, ces gages précieux, Nés

Tous ses trésors nous sont ouverts, Et le jardin des Hespérides Est l’ image de l’Univers. C’en est fait : la Vierge céleste,

s chars ne roulent plus sur la terre durcie. Par-tout un long silence image de la mort… Roucher 59. Fascinus. C’étoi

orêts, S’abreuve de mélancolie Sous de silencieux cyprès, Je sens ton image adorée Par-tout marcher autour de moi ; Dans une

lle de Saturne et d’Ops. Elle présidoit au Feu sacré ou éternel, image de celui des Astres, et gardien de l’Empire Romai

la Jeunesse. Belle et fraîche comme le Printemps dont elle est l’ image , elle mérita de verser le Nectar à Jupiter. Ayant

yeux. Votre frère est le seul des Dieux, Dont vous verrez chez moi l’ image … Vos bienfaits, charmantes Déesses, Sont prodigué

Sœurs, sur le mont Piérius.     De la Patrie absente il nous offre l’ image , Loin d’elle vainement on erre transporté, On ret

       Envain j’espère en adoucir l’horreur : De mon fils expirant, l’ image douloureuse Revient à chaque instant se placer su

e corps d’ Hector .     Achille, au nom des Dieux, dont vous êtes l’ image . Rappelez-vous un père, un père de mon âge Sur le

e, où le fer à la main, Clytemnestre ! ma mère ! ah ! cette horrible image Est présente à mes yeux, présente à mon courage.

perdant par degrés leur rudesse première, Offrent déjà de l’homme une image grossière. Tels on voit quelquefois, confusément

fils : Deux fois il le tenta ; deux fois, sa main glacée Abandonna l’ image à peine, encor tracée. Virgile . —  Lefranc 158.

De ce vaste repos combien l’ame est frappée ! O des Mondes détruits, image anticipée ! Triste et dernier Soleil !… jour affr

mort, par les Princes Grecs, l’innocent Astyanax, qui lui retraçoit l’ image de son infortuné père. Reine captive, après la pr

reste précieux Du plus juste des Rois, et du plus grand des Dieux, L’ image de l’époux, dont j’adore la cendre187 ? Isménie

ous ses trésors nous sont ouverts ; Et le jardin des Hespérides Est l’ image de l’Univers. Bernis 192. MÉTAMORPHOSES.

ureuse, Un argile céleste, un limon précieux Que pétrit Prométhée à l’ image des Dieux ; Soit qu’un Dieu bienfaisant qui le fo

nds les bras, je rencontre les tiens, Et tes prompts mouvemens sont l’ image des miens. Tu ris lorsque je ris : sensible à mes

iquer, et que je n’entends pas. Mais je n’en puis douter, j’adore mon image  ! ………………………… je cède à ma douleur. De mes jours m

nçant ces mots ; Et troublé, par ses pleurs, la surface des eaux. Son image , à l’instant, s’obcursit et s’efface. Quoi ! tu m

suivrois tes pas, mon Ombre voltigeante Sans cesse iroit chercher ton image charmante ; Mais, non, je suis Déesse, et je ne p

emble qu’un poison lent ne consume ta vie, En t’offrant chaque jour l’ image du cercueil. Cependant, arrivée à ton heure derni

n visage, glacé par le froid du trépas, N’est plus qu’une statue, une image sans vie. Par les enfans d’Eole, enlevée en Phryg

oupable, et n’y tombe jamais. Là, de cent Dieux divers les grossières images Impriment l’épouvante et forcent les hommages ; L

? Les plaines que le Nil féconde, De Tempé les bords enchantés Sont l’ image de ceux qu’inonde Le cours de ces flots argentés.

t la peur, et la faim qui conseille les crimes, La mort et le sommeil image du trépas ; Sur le seuil opposé, le démon des com

filles avoient fait entendre leurs accords, Aussi-tôt des objets les images pressées En foule s’éveilloient dans ses vastes p

uis pas égaler son hommage : Mais dans mes souvenirs j’aime encor ton image . Source de voluptés, de délices, d’attraits, Sur

llons se traçant un passage, Des fleuves infernaux offrent l’horrible image .     L’incendie a gagné les antiques forêts : Le

du calme et des douceurs du port. Si j’osois des Héros t’exposer les images , Tu verrois l’infortune enflammer leurs courages,

je n’ai plus, hélas ! d’autre bien dans la vie,               Que ton image et ma douleur266. Espérance. Elle anime l

x, il emprunta le sublime langage ; Sur la toile muette, il traça son image ,             Et se transmit à l’avenir.     Doux

harmonieux, une touchante voix, Peignent des sentimens ou tracent des images  ; Et des sons asservis à de brillantes lois, Célè

magique, Tous les objets qui s’offrent à l’entour : De la Gaîté votre image est l’emblème ; Tout s’embellit par son prestige

ire fou, cet air leste et volage : De nos plaisirs nous n’avons que l’ image …     Or mes amis, laissez là nos penseurs, Et ve

s erreurs désabuse Ixion ; Et d’un plaisir plus vrai lui présentant l’ image , Dans ses bras enchantés dissipe le nuage. Que no

ar tant de palmes ennobli, Voulut qu’en sa tombe honorée, D’ Ennius l’ image sacrée Le protégeât contre l’oubli.     Cet Hymn

th persecution, of patriotism with usurpation; — these, and countless images like these — affecting, melancholy, serious, gay,

ants never cry till they come into the world; Pessinuntia, because an image of hers fell from heaven into the field of Pessin

wn by lions, having garments of various colours, and figured with the images of different creatures. In one hand she holds a s

als she is depicted with a drum. — See Fig. 5. Fig. 5. Vesta. “No image Vesta’s shape can e’er express, Or fires.” Obs.

originally from the east, where the sun was deemed the most glorious image of the Supreme Being. It was the Persians’ abhorr

o which the frightened gods figured themselves were nothing but their images carved on the prows of the ships in which they ma

remained open, while the other half was given up to sleep, (a perfect image of jealousy.) Yet Mercury, at the request of Jupi

d in the other, a mixed bunch of poppies and corn-ears. In Sicily her image was represented in a black veil, with the head of

ed from the bark of trees, and hung upon high trees wooden or earthen images of Bacchus, called Oscilla. The Bacchanalia, or D

nce please; In jolly hymns they praise the god of wine, Whose earthen images adorn the pine, And there are hung on high, in ho

o stone whoever beheld it. While the citadel of Troy was building, an image of the goddess, called the Palladium, is reported

es, having gained a secret access to the city, removed the miraculous image , and Troy was soon after taken by the Greeks. Min

ife, seriously made up his mind to live single. He made an artificial image of Venus, where the finest features, ranged in th

st day of the year. Milk, fruits, and cakes, were offered to him. His image was a head without a body, to show that he was no

sacred to her. It was once said to be on fire; but no sooner had her image been removed thence, than the grove became green

orshipped the whole world under the name of Pan, which means all. His image represents the universe, of which he is the symbo

, and sometimes around the hearths; and at their feet were placed the images of barking dogs, to express their care and vigila

they take charge of all things. Sometimes they were figured with such images as were calculated to paint the terror and dread

ed by Æacus myrmidons. Obs. 2. — The fable of the Furies exhibits an image of that frenzy which remorse figures to offenders

rtuous, the innocent amusements of the heroes; — these and inumerable images like these, — tender, touching, sublime — are the

ets painted the continual and dangerous labours of Hercules under the image of the persecutions of Juno, in whom they personi

zed and preserved by his sister. After this, Thoas was slain, and the image of Diana was removed, after it had been hidden in

ity; but was brought to Alexandria from Sinope, by Ptolemy Lagus. His image was then erected in a temple, called the Serapeum

y called Barker; also Hermanubis. He had temples and priests, and his image was found in all processions. Obs. — Considered

d of Horus? Was Serapis originally an Egyptian divinity? What was the image of Serapis? By whose order was his temple at Alex

ated sunbeams. Fire was an all-vivifying principle, and the liveliest image of the Omnipresent Deity. Their priests were call

ost brilliant presence in the subtle ether. The Persians did not form images of him; for they deemed it impious to do so, but

to do so, but venerated fire as his sacred emblem and the sun as his image . His worship was celebrated with bloodless and si

rsian mythology? In what does Oromasdes reside? Did the Persians form images of him? Mention Mithras. What is said of Arimaniu

moment, are begun by pious Hindoos with an invocation to Ganesa. His image is set up in their streets and roads, and against

red marble, interspersed with streaks of gold. On the pavement was an image of the radiant Divinity, hardly inferior in splen

edifice, from the middle of which, in an oriental aspect, the immense image of a bull, a symbol of Seeva, is protuded, being

s call Astarte, queen of heaven, with crescent horns; To whose bright image , mighty by the moon, Sidonian virgins said their

me one Who mourned in earnest, when the captive ark, Maim’d his brute image ; head and hands lopp’d off. Dagon his name; sea-m

a and Pharpar, lucid streams. —————— The captive ark Maim’d his brute image . Paradise Lost. The Chaldeans excelled in astro

m how to worship the god. When they recovered, they danced before the image of the god. After this, they drank for a medicine

of all the gods, and the Tep-it-o-tine, the same as the Penates. The images of the Penates were placed in every house. The ki

re placed in every house. The kings and great lords kept six of those images , the nobles four, and the lower people two. The n

have briefly mentioned, was immense. The Spaniards found little clay images of them in the woods, houses, temples, and street

m allegory to the literal sense; which occasions the mixture of their images , the obscurity of their fictions, and often the i

le, and partly upon the sacred wood. With it, they also besmeared the images of the gods, the altars, the benches, and the wal

ulgated by Orpheus; was afterwards disseminated enigmatically through images by Pythagoras; and, lastly, was scientifically un

ite le culte de la nature, dans laquelle les hommes crurent trouver l’ image de Dieu. Alors on adora les choses où il paraissa

sèrent leurs hommages à l’être de la nature qui en offre la plus vive image , au soleil. Mais l’esprit humain, une fois entré

rd qui, d’un vol agile, Fuit sans jamais être arrêté, Le Temps, cette image mobile De l’immobile éternité, A peine du sein de

d’or, qu’elles étaient destinées à rappeler, elles en défiguraient l’ image  ; car les poëtes, dans les tableaux qu’ils en fon

les, parce qu’ils étaient, comme les doigts, au nombre de dix. 15. Images de Cybèle. On représente. Cybèle sous les trai

lie des hommes construisant la tour de Babel. On y a trouvé aussi une image de quelques grandes scènes de la nature. Les mont

mme, avec cette différence, que l’homme, dans la Genèse, est fait à l’ image de Dieu, et celui de la fable à l’image de la bêt

dans la Genèse, est fait à l’image de Dieu, et celui de la fable à l’ image de la bête. 26. Fable de Pandore. Jupiter,

crops fut appelée Athènes, du nom de sa bienfaitrice. 33. Culte et images de Minerve. Athènes reconnaissante éleva à Min

pas contentée de peupler le ciel de ses faux dieux ; elle en voyait l’ image , elle en lisait l’histoire dans ces astres innomb

s de l’Olympe, avait osé outrager la reine des dieux. 48. Culte et images de Mercure. Le culte de Mercure était répandu

’on croyait, l’origine du célèbre tribunal de ce nom. 50. Culte et images de Mars. Mars était peu honoré chez les Grecs,

ctère et les effets de la funeste passion de l’amour. 54. Culte et images de Vénus. Le culte de Vénus était fort répandu

le malheureux finit par dévorer ses propres membres. 57. Culte et images de Cérès. Le culte de Cérès était fort répandu

dus : Les jours donnés à Dieu ne sont jamais perdus. 62. Culte et images de Bacchus. Les fêtes de Bacchus s’appelaient

x femmes qui le portèrent, et le sceptre d’Agamemnon. 64. Culte et images de Vulcain. On célébrait à Athènes, en l’honne

le même bûcher par les soins d’Antigone ; et afin d’exprimer par une image effrayante les sentiments qui les avaient animés

s et la personnification d’Ormuzd, comme principe générateur et comme image de la fécondité qui perpétue et rajeunit le monde

cs, adoptèrent cette divinité, et c’est par eux que nous en avons des images . Il est représenté le plus souvent sous la forme

s feux d’un soleil sans nuage, Fuit la source limpide où se peint son image , Les doux fruits que leur main de l’arbre a détac

les Romains. 3. Idolâtrie vient aussi du grec : de eidôlon, idole ou image , et de latreia, culte, adoration. 4. Prononcez c

raison qui a été indiquée dans la note de la page 16. 14. Que cette image de la vie des dieux dans l’Olympe est misérable,

ch family the worship of these ancestors was an important duty. Their images were kept in a sacred place, and each family obse

hrough the woods with frantic cries, searching for Atys. When he — an image of him — was found, the priests grew frenzied wit

was restored to more than its pristine splendor. The original earthen image was replaced by a statue of gold and ivory, the w

tion by artifice. Cithæron*, King of Platea*, advised him to dress an image in bridal attire, place it in a chariot, and anno

ion was so great that a reconciliation took place, and committing the image to the flames, with joyful laughter she seated he

, drawn by hippocampi. He is sometimes accompanied by Amphitrite. His image is very frequent on coins and medals. He is descr

meals, but was also esteemed the sacred altar of the house. There the images of the household gods were placed, and there the

ginal and more common conception of the god gave place to the popular image of the smith-god, or Mulciber, who had his forges

he Grecian painters and sculptors vied with each other in forming her image the ideal of female beauty and attraction. Epith

but caused instead a number of boys to be cruelly whipped before the image of the goddess on the occasion of her annual fest

place she subsequently, assisted by her brother Orestes, brought the image of the goddess to Brauron in Attica. She was then

es of resort, and at cross-roads, or of arched passages, in which the image of the god was erected. The “Temple of Janus,” ne

ses led to the selection of certain deities as special patrons. Small images of them were placed around the hearth, and honors

e represented was engraved. The first attempts at sculpture were rude images with a head and a shapeless trunk tapering slight

their gods. On a pedestal in the centre of the edifice, surrounded by images of other gods, stood the statue of the divinity t

morning he found in front of his tent the celebrated Palladium* — an image of Pallas Athene carved in wood, and the oracle d

hat Pallas Athene was so deeply offended at the removal of her sacred image , the Palladium, from her temple in Troy, that she

” the Creator, was chief; his symbol was the Scarabæus, or beetle, an image of which was placed over the heart of every mummy

tential observances. (See Jonah iii. 5-9.) The stone, clay, and metal images which adorned the temple shrines of Assyria and B

inscriptions of kings, where the great gods were invoked in turn, the images of the same deity placed in different temples wer

and a distended, blood-red mouth. On festival days, the throne of the image is placed on a tower sixty feet high, moving on w

of Wales, by commission from the kings of England. The Druids used no images to represent the object of their worship, nor did

sar gives an account of the manner in which this was done. “They have images of immense size, the limbs of which are framed wi

ill retaining the taint of pagan corruption, and presenting dangerous images to the youthful mind. It was this difficulty whic

] crept into the city through the common sewers, and brought away the image . Troy was soon afterwards taken and destroyed. Mi

en in the vicinity, and was regarded by the people as the heaven-sent image of their great goddess. At the close of the secon

alus, king of Pergamus, requesting that he would permit the so-called image to be removed to Rome. The monarch consented, and

rs relate an extraordinary incident connected with the arrival of the image of Cybele in Rome. The ship which bore the sacred

e statues of these goddesses, promising to choose from among the nine images , those which they should consider the most beauti

s temple was despoiled by Nero, who removed many costly offerings and images , together with a large quantity of silver and gol

. What was the fate of Narcissus? Ans. One legend is that he saw his image reflected in a fountain, and, not perceiving that

er death, used to go to a neighboring fountain, and try to recall the image of his sister by gazing at his own reflection in

and lances of the Arabs, who are taught by their religion to hold all images of men or animals in detestation. Ques. What was

ples. After the worship of this goddess was introduced into Rome, her image was adorned with different emblems. The mysteriou

cret vice, and were repeatedly forbidden at Rome. Tiberius caused the images of the goddess to be thrown into the Tiber; her w

tar of Moloch. Ques. How was this god represented? Ans. By a brazen image , which was so contrived that when a child was lai

iliate the conquered tribes by adopting their gods, and placing their images in the temples which they built. We read that Zen

Ques. Did the Aztecs worship any household divinities? Ans. Yes; the images of their penates, or household gods, were to be f

e top was a broad area, in which stood one or more towers, containing images of the presiding deities. Before these towers wer

e natives Coricancha, or “Place of Gold.” On the western wall was the image of the Sun; this was a massive golden plate, of e

emblazoned a human countenance darting forth rays on every side. The image was richly ornamented with emeralds and precious

er that the first rays of the morning Sun fell directly on his golden image , and were reflected from the rich ornaments with

proie, Et rayonne d’orgueil, de jeunesse, et de joie13. Telle est l’ image de l’Apollon Pythien ; telle est aussi celle de l

oix, Et du feu des rubis l’émeraude enrichie Répété au loin du dieu l’ image réfléchie18. Quatre chevaux le conduisent, et vo

ux d’usurper notre hommage Que cet astre, des dieux la plus brillante image , Qui dispense les ans, la vie et les couleurs, En

ns des feux du jeune âge, De ton couchant pompeux soient la brillante image . Septième entretien. Diane. La compagnie

x : L’automate est formé ; mais ce groupe immobile N’est qu’une vaine image et qu’une froide argile. Le souffle de la vie est

les divinités du paganisme : Hercule va aujourd’hui nous présenter l’ image de la force physique jointe au courage, qui tantô

S’entoure tout entier d’une nue enflammée, Et dans ses noirs cachots, image des Enfers, A leur obscurité mêle d’affreux éclai

e, n’étaient pas toujours dans les Enfers. Voici quelques traits de l’ image de la Faim : Ses cheveux hérissés cachent son œi

uerriers sur cet heureux rivage, Et de la vie encore ils embrassent l’ image . Du tranquille bonheur qui règne dans ces lieux U

de tes fers. « Je me suis contemplé dans l’onde transparente : « Mon image m’a plu ; ma taille est imposante : « Celui que d

tre43. Enfin, désespérant de posséder jamais l’être dont il chérit l’ image , il meurt. Les Dryades lui préparent un bûcher, e

tte déesse le livra à la Faim, divinité hideuse, dont nous avons vu l’ image effrayante lorsque nous avons suivi Énée dans les

in love but it was with his own reflection. He spoke to the beautiful image , and the red lips in the water parted as though t

view. That was because, when the water was rippled by his touch, the image became blurred. But when the water was still, the

for sleep, and night and day he lay upon the grass, gazing at his own image reflected in the water. When Apollo guided his mo

!” Echo sorrowfully repeated the cry. His last words addressed to the image in the water were, “Oh youth, beloved in vain, fa

flower, called the narcissus, is found by quiet pools, gazing at its image in the water. A Web and a Spider In an anc

m. He took his sharp, crooked sword, and, fixing his eyes on Medusa’s image in the shield, he darted down. With one thrust, h

nd at last, through her sorrow, she was changed to marble. The marble image of grief stood upon the plain for many days; unti

and it swept away the motionless figure in its course. It carried the image aloft to the top of the high mountain overlooking

loveliest young girl that you could imagine. It did not seem like an image ; the rosy sunset gave the marble a soft tinge tha

estless he grew, and it was hard to tear himself away from the marble image . He named his statue Galatea, for he felt almost

at his work; in fact, he could no longer work, for he loved that fair image so dearly that he spent all his time kneeling bef

ance divine se soutenait par sa propre force, mais confondue avec les images venues par les sens ; on adorait tout ce qui para

arole étaient semblables à celles d’un homme : on conserve encore son image . « Ce monstre, selon l’auteur chaldéen, demeurait

l’allégorie au sens littéral ; c’est ce qui cause le mélange de leurs images , l’absurdité de leurs fictions, et souvent l’indé

s’ils honorent le feu et le soleil, c’est qu’ils le regardent comme l’ image la plus pure du créateur, et le temple où il a ét

t un cimeterre ; les Arabes, une pierre brute. Dans l’île d’Orcade, l’ image de Diane était un morceau de bois non travaillé.

iter les poëtes, et ce fut en réalisant sur les toiles les brillantes images de la poésie, qu’ils augmentèrent les progrès des

grandeur des biens attachés à la pratique de la justice ; il opposa l’ image du bonheur à celle des maux qui suivent la barbar

t dans le temple de Testa le Palladium, les dieux pénates et d’autres images des dieux que le pieux Énée avait rapportés de Ph

x restaient ouverts pendant que l’autre moitié se livrait au sommeil ( image parfaite de la jalousie). Cependant Mercure, à la

angereux pouvoir se faisait sentir, et souvent leurs plus séduisantes images s’effaçaient auprès des modèles qu’ils essayaient

Jupiter ; il met un prix à ce service ; il devient l’époux de Vénus. ( Images de ces unions inégales, dans lesquelles on croit

. Ces statues étaient creuses, et dans leur intérieur on trouvait les images des Grâces. (Leçon aussi douce qu’elle est spirit

s. Tous ceux que l’on consacrait à l’Amour étaient embellis par leurs images . Elles occupaient une place dans les temples de M

t consacré comme à Vénus. On trouvait que les fleurs rappelaient leur image . Toute la Grèce était remplie de monumens qui les

aguette, ou plutôt il les réunit, et depuis ce temps il portait cette image de la réunion lorsqu’il allait négocier la paix.

r de sa bouche, et s’attacher aux oreilles de ceux qui l’écoutaient : image parfaite du pouvoir avec lequel son éloquence ent

à fixer les voyageurs auprès d’elles en leur présentant sans cesse l’ image des plaisirs. On les représentait sous la figure

n a throne, overshadowed by a peach tree. Near him were the venerable images of Isis, and Osiris, the most ancient deities of

one true God. Ann. were these gods whom they worshipped nothing but images of wood and stone? Mother. Most likely those god

e stream. He thought he saw a beautiful water-nymph — the most lovely image he had ever seen — and he longed to dive into the

ay after day, Narcissus resorted to the fountain, and supplicated the image to come out. Then he plunged into the water, but

icated the image to come out. Then he plunged into the water, but the image disappeared, and he emerged disappointed and desp

mirror, and in that he beheld her. It is difficult to imagine why the image of her deformity, seen in, that mirror, should no

t at length clouds enveloped its head, and forests grew on its sides. Images of Atlas are made in the form of a man bearing th

casts and medallions of the pagan gods. Ann. Yes; marble and plaster images of them. Mother. The art of making these figures

en, killed himself; and their mother, left alone of all, sat the mute image of despair. In this state, she was hardened to st

hologie, outre ces allégories charmantes, une infinité de traits et d’ images dans lesquels on reconnoît cette simplicité naïve

dessein de former des contrastes, ils unissent presque toujours, aux images les plus riantes, les idées les plus mélancolique

pe tous les événemens de la vie.   Cette seconde page n’offre pas des images plus gracieuses : une mère qui expose sa fille au

evenoit avec le jour, et l’on se trouvoit dans des jardins délicieux, image des Champs-Élysées. C’étoit là qu’on révéloit aux

inerve la blessa à mort ; elle en eut tant de regret, qu’elle fit une image toute semblable à Pallas et elle arma sa poitrine

eurs se sont expliqués diversement. Quelques-uns veulent que ce fut l’ image des grands Dieux, d’autres croyent que c’étoit ce

l’Amour de deux carquois, il dit seulement qu’il a différens traits : image plus naturelle et beaucoup plus agréable. On ne p

x qu’on regardoit comme les protecteurs des maisons. On plaçoit leurs images dans son foyer, on leur faisoit même des chapelle

nsmuted Atoms culled for human clay.” Horace. They first moulded an image similar in form to the gods; bade Eros breathe in

t-god, Illustrious, moulded from the yielding clay A bashful virgin’s image , as advis’d Satumian Jove. …………………………………………………… “

d it is said her master loved her so dearly that he generally held an image of her in his hand. The hundred-tongued goddess o

yer, sent a vivid flash of lightning, which played about the colossal image , illuminating it, but leaving it quite unharmed.

youth could not tear himself away from the spot haunted by this sweet image , whose sensitive face reflected his every emotion

til he died, little suspecting that the fancied nymph was but his own image reflected in the clear waters. Echo was avenged;

which has ever since flourished beside quiet pools, wherein its pale image is clearly reflected.                           

de, Drooping its beauty o’er the watery clearness, To woo its own sad image into nearness: Deaf to light Zephyrus it would no

l of the gods and goddesses, but one day he determined to fashion the image of a lovely woman. The statue became so beautiful

wilt canst give, Oh, listen to a sculptor’s prayer,     And bid mine image live!” Andrew Lang. Pygmalion. Sir E. Bur

opportunity soon arrived. One day as Pygmalion clasped the exquisite image to his breast some of his own warmth was infused

g o’er him shone.” Schiller. Pygmalion’s delight at seeing his fair image a living and breathing maiden was unbounded, and

s hurt, he hung enraptured over the sleeping maiden, and let her fail image sink into his heart; then, noiselessly as he had

display’d abroad. About his head fantastic visions fly, Which various images of things supply, And mock their forms; the leave

, and after many difficulties succeeded in escaping with the precious image . The Wooden Horse Men and chiefs, impatient

tr.). Deaf to all warnings and entreaties, they dragged the colossal image into the very heart of their city, tearing down a

e, he found his long-lost sister Iphigenia, who helped him obtain the image he sought, and accompanied him back to his native

money with which her guards were bribed; Prometheus, a maker of clay images , “whence it was hyperbolically said he created ma

e savage considers himself akin to beasts (generally to the one whose image is used as a tribal or family badge or totem), an

s also, 261 Nar-cis′sus. Youth loved by Echo; enamoured with his own image , 96-98 Nau-sic′a-a. Daughter of Alcinous and Are

regular concerted system. It is rather a loose collection of various images and fables, many of which are significant of the

eye in its forehead. The tradition was that it had been the domestic image of Priamos, and had been brought from Troy by Sth

bol of his power : the dolphin and other marine objects accompany his images . The poetic epithets of Poseidôn are456, 1. Earth

e Imbrasos was said to be Parthenios523. Every year an ancient wooden image (βρέτας) of Hera disappeared from the temple ; it

scerned a reference to the marriage of Hera. The disappearance of the image looks like the carrying away of the betrothed mai

Some Tyrrhenian pirates, at the instigation of the Argives, stole the image , in order to draw down the vengeance of the peopl

ople on Admeta. But lo ! their ship became motionless when the sacred image was brought on board. Interror the pirates carrie

y and laughter took herself the place of the bride, and committed the image to the flames530. This legend was invented to exp

t, and on what tree he sat. They then cut down that tree, and made an image from it. It is probable that the other cities of

e Dædala. When the time of the Great Dædala came, there were fourteen images ready (one for each of the cities of Bœotia), wit

of Bœotia), with which they repaired to the banks of the Asopos. Each image was placed on a car, and a bridemaid (νυμϕϵύτρια)

perfumes, and other victims, were cast on the altar, as also were the images , and the whole was set on fire, and a flame thus

erefore that the real origin of the name was unknown. The temples and images of Ares were not numerous. He is represented as a

s with pointed heads, placed before the doors of the houses, were the images of the god under this name. This practice was pec

ticularly Praxiteles and Apelles, vied with each other in forming her image the ideal of female beauty and attraction. She ap

ns used to celebrate games in his honour on Mount Helicôn. The oldest image of the god in their city was of plain stone, but

ch a country as degenerate Greece, and at the same time to present an image of a fidelity subjected to numerous temptations a

(Πλοȗτος) in her arms, whether as mother or nurse was uncertain. The image of this goddess made by Bupalos for the Smyrnæans

of the sea.’ And again ; Odysseus beholds in the realms of Hades the image (εἴδωλογ) of Heracles, pursuing his usual occupat

tain the highest respect and esteem. “After that most happy age whose image we behold expressed in the poems of Homer had pas

s was preserved the aërolite1138 which was held to be her heaven-sent image . The following pragmatised account of Cybele is g

a solemn embassy was sent to Attalus king of Pergamus, to request the image at Pessinos which had fallen from heaven. The mon

is covered with breasts and with the heads of animals, and stands an image either of the natural fecundity of the earth, or

ow he detained Helena when Paris was driven to Egypt, and gave him an image or phantom in her stead, and then restored her to

hed in Deucaliôn’s flood, Zeus directed Prometheus and Athena to make images of clay, on which he caused the winds to blow, an

at last to the cave of Cheirôn, who appeased their grief by making an image of Actæôn1647. Another cause assigned for the ang

heep-skins ; the cave of Cheirôn was on Mount Pelion. The tale of the image may perhaps be connected with the following legen

mage may perhaps be connected with the following legend. There was an image in a rock that caused injury to the land of Orcho

of Actæôn should be hidden in the earth, and a brazen figure of that image be made, and bound with iron to the rock, and tha

ortal part is consumed by fire, the purest of elements ; his shade or image (ϵἵδωλον)1787, like those of other men, descends

ant on riches ; or it may be, as has been ingeniously conjectured, an image of the evils of ambition and the inordinate pursu

ay he found the Zeus-fallen Palladion lying before his tent2196. This image of Pallas-Athene, we are told, was three ells lon

a prey for dogs and birds ; while, in this place of the Odyssey, the image (ϵἲδωλον) of Heracles was in the house of Aïs, hi

e ne dit presque jamais rien naturellement ; elle relève tout par des images et un langage surnaturel. Ici, les Bergers sont d

rd qui, d’un vol agile, Fuit sans jamais être arrêté, Le Temps, cette image mobile De l’immobile éternité, A peine du sein de

taine           Narcisse goûtoit le repos ;           De lui-même une image vaine           Se présente à lui dans les flots.

    Veut-il embrasser ce qu’il aime ?           L’eau se trouble et l’ image fuit. Quand elle reparoît, son plaisir est extrêm

le alloit l’immoler : Armons-nous d’une noble et sainte confiance. L’ image de Diane est en votre puissance : Pour expier l’h

le n’a pas su prévoir. La Fable du Bouc imprudent est une trop fidèle image de la jeunesse étourdie, inconsidérée, qui se lai

de la poésie, qui ne dit rien naturellement, mais relève tout par des images et un langage surnaturel. Ici, les bergers sont d

rd, qui d’un vol agile, Fuit sans jamais être arrêté, Le Temps, cette image mobile De l’immobile éternité, A peine du sein de

qu’il répand à son gré sur le monde. Son front est chargé de sombres images  ; ses yeux, menaçants brillent sous de noirs sour

eux ; les insomnies aussi cruelles que les tristes songes. Toutes ces images funestes environnoient le fier Pluton, et remplis

éjour informe, aride, affreux, sauvage, De l’antique Chaos abominable image , Impénétrable aux traits de ces Soleils brillants

’onde, et les dieux du bocage. Au-dessus luit des cieux la rayonnante image  ; Et le cercle des mois, sous des signes divers,

outs ses trésors nous sont ouverts, Et le jardin des Hespérides Est l’ image de l’univers. C’en est fait, la Vierge céleste, E

Dans les rênes lui-même il tombe embarrassé. Excusez ma douleur cette image cruelle Sera pour moi de pleurs une source éterne

ois promis ; et, quoique mon courage Se fît de ce complot une funeste image , J’ai couru vers le temple, où nos Grecs dispersé

un foible essaim de colombes timides, Se pressoient, embrassoient les images des dieux. Dès qu’elle voit Priam vainement furie

t un Dieu consolateur laissé au milieu de ses enfants pour y être une image vivante du Dieu qu’ils adorent, pour leur transme

ard qui, d’un vol agile, Fuie sans jamais être arrêté, Le Tems, cette image mobile De l’immobile éternité, A peine du sein de

iquité du tems ; Et, dans le registre des âges, Consacrant les nobles images Que la gloire lui vient offrir, Sans cesse en cet

uelles ils viennent à bout d’ennoblir et de rendre plus agréables les images qu’ils nous tracent du séjour de la campagne. Ici

fontaine         Narcisse goûtoit le repos ;         De lui-même une image vaine         Se présente à lui dans les flots.  

     Veut-il embrasser ce qu’il aime ?         L’eau se trouble, et l’ image fuit ; Quand elle reparoît, son plaisir est extrê

sens ; Et, ce qu’aucun mortel n’avoit encore pu faire, J’en dévoile l’ image , et perce le mystère. P. Corneille. Œdipe répon

ses deux poëmes épiques, l’Iliade et l’Odyssée : Virgile en retrace l’ image dans son Enéide, et c’est sur les murs ou dans le

e alloit l’immoler : Armons-nous d’une noble et sainte confiance ; L’ image de Diane est en votre puissance : Pour expier l’h

qui l’entourent, les détails qui embellissent le corps de sa fable, l’ image sensible qui le représente, ne sont-ils que des f

s, divinités que nous retrouverons par la suite. Seulement Atys est l’ image du soleil à l’instant où il est le moins éclatant

simple pierre conique et quadrangulaire, ou béthyle, fut la grossière image de la Cybèle de Phrygie, telle fut encore celle q

oi au plaisir. Du reste, il existait un grand nombre de statues et d’ images des Heures, toujours représentées planant dans l’

, sur lequel le bien finit toujours par reprendre le dessus ; c’est l’ image de la race quasi-humaine, anté-diluvienne, cruell

gide, Pylotis ou des portes, ou des portes des faubourgs, parce que l’ image de Minerve était au contraire, au-dessus des port

quaient, dit-on, comment les symboles de ce culte étaient une suite d’ images représentant les différens passages de l’homme à

Phylandre qui, selon Diodore, furent allaités par une chèvre, dont l’ image était consacrée dans le temple de Delphes. Garama

d’Acacallis, ils furent allaités par une chèvre dont on conservait l’ image dans le temple de Delphes ; Ptous devait le jour

était une fontaine qui rendait des oracles en montrant ses arrêts en images sur une glace que l’on tenait avec un fils suspen

’une de ses suivantes, qui plus tard fut adorée dans Epidaure, sous l’ image de Vénus, par ceux qui voulaient des succès rapid

e indifférence, elle essaya de l’oublier. Ce fut inutilement, car son image la suivait partout ; enfin elle voulut aussi fair

d’une fontaine et n’adoucissait ses peines qu’en regardant sa propre image , dans les eaux limpides de cette fontaine, mais l

jours un espion ou un gardien assidu et vigilant, et ses yeux sont l’ image parfaite de la jalousie et d’une active surveilla

mple à Thèbes ; Pronoœa ou la prévoyante à Delphes, Pylotis ou dont l’ image se plaçait au-dessus des portes en Grèces ; Saïs

r se consoler, elle orna l’égide qu’elle portait sur sa poitrine de l’ image de Pallas : de là vint l’origine du Palladium ou

our aller en Grèce ; aussi les Latins l’ont entouré des plus aimables images . Ainsi, au lieu de lui donner pour femme Chloris,

-dessus l’une de l’autre, de manière que l’une tenait une quenouille, image du passé, l’autre un fuseau ou le présent, et la

, il eut pour sa part dans le butin la châsse sacrée, qui contenait l’ image de Bacchus Esymnète. Eurypyle ouvrit cette châsse

i palladium et se donna les titres d’héritière directe, de fille et d’ image de Troie, vivante ou ressuscitée. Quoiqu’il en so

laquelle on portait avec beaucoup de pompe la châsse qui renfermait l’ image de ce dieu sous la forme d’un bélier. Amoun s’ide

blanche en forme d’amphycicle ou croissant sur l’épaule gauche, et l’ image d’un Scarabée sous la gorge ; taches, du reste, q

ux. Anubis fut surtout honoré à Hermopolis, la grande ; on voyait son image à l’entrée du temple d’Isis et d’Osiris ; on la p

relève et rentre en bonne grace auprès de ses concitoyens. On porte l’ image de ce Dieu à la tête des armées ; on lui offre le

 ; puis on leur suspend au cou une petite boîte, contenant de petites images , représentant la statue du dieu. On le représente

Le culte qu’on rendait à Élagbaal était magnifique et voluptueux. Son image resta toujours dans sa simplicité grossière et pr

r des tables sacrées, par les sept cabires fils de Sidick. Il fit les images d’Uranus et de Chrône, de Dagon et d’autres dieux

a terre et vers le soleil, qu’ils adorent ensuite comme la plus belle image de l’éternel. A midi, ils renouvellent leurs homm

du corps ; elle tient à la main la fleur appelée Tchankarinirpou. Son image , ainsi que celle de sa rivale, se voit toujours a

légèrement en cadence ; leur vie est toute rhythmique et elles sont l’ image toute divine des sciences ; l’une des nombreuses

s, et donnant naissance au monde vivant, que l’on a personnifié par l’ image d’un homme ou d’un grand animal. Quant au reste d

s entières dans une fournaise ardente sans être incommodé. Devant son image on fait brûler perpétuellement une lampe pleine d

es cheveux crépus et la tête ornée de rayons d’or, que surmontent des images de divinités inférieures ; ses mains en portent a

En outre, il a une fête tous les quinze de chaque mois. On place son image sur la porte des maisons. Maristin, dieu de la g

l’une d’elles s’avoue vaincue. Chaque combattant porte sur l’épaule l’ image de Maristin. Mirokou ou Fottée, dieu présidant à

retenait sur les plus hautes montagnes, sans le discontinuer, était l’ image du soleil adoré. Le plus grand respect était fidè

Dieu adoré surtout à Zela, conjointement avec Anandate et Anahid. Son image était placée sur un autel où des hommes étaient c

du fruit du Tamaraka orné de plumes ; les prêtres mettaient aussi ses images au bout de longs bâtons qu’ils enfonçaient en ter

game et d’Ilion à la ville de Buthrote ; Énée y reconnut en petit une image de Troie, le ruisseau qui la baignoit s’appeloit

donna des tissus merveilleux, ouvrages de ses mains. Ces détails, ces images douces et charmantes n’appartiennent pas plus au

les tournois et les carrousels étoient, comme les jeux antiques, les images de la guerre ; l’esprit chevaleresque semble être

nt personnifiée sous la figure d’une femme légèrement drapée, ayant l’ image d’un soleil sur la poitrine et tenant une palme.

ui ne s’élève jamais davantage qu’en se jetant à terre est, dit-on, l’ image de l’Humilité. La Curiosité et le Secret.

r les poètes et les artistes de tous les temps un fonds inépuisable d’ images riantes et d’idées ingénieuses. Beaucoup de fable

à s’y désaltérer. Tandis qu’il se penchait pour boire, il aperçut son image dans le miroir de l’eau, et devint tellement amou

ncore des souvenirs de l’histoire de la Genèse. 5. Le Destin est une image voilée du vrai Dieu. Dieu, tel que nous le concev

pour avoir touché une fleur qu’elle ne connaissait pas, est une vive image des dangers de l’ignorance imprudente. [Boileau]

ok some of this earth, and kneading it up with water, made man in the image of the gods. He gave him an upright stature, so t

e of a reaper, did he bring her corn in a basket, and looked the very image of a reaper! With a hay band tied round him, one

unting, heated and thirsty. He stooped down to drink, and saw his own image in the water; he thought it was some beautiful wa

, while he hovered over the brink of the fountain gazing upon his own image . He talked with the supposed spirit: “Why, beauti

nings with the like.” His tears fell into the water and disturbed the image . As he saw it depart, he exclaimed, “Stay, I entr

slept, and taking care not to look directly at her, but guided by her image reflected in the bright shield which he bore, he

Ulysses, but kept the secret and even assisted them in obtaining the image . Thus she became reconciled to her husband, and t

I have watched your career!” To which Æneas replied, “O father! your image was always before me to guide and guard me.” Then

is father in his embrace, but his arms enclosed only an unsubstantial image . Æneas perceived before him a spacious valley, wi

he Persians: —        “—— the Persian, — zealous to reject Altar and Image , and the inclusive walls And roofs of temples bui

, and a distended blood-red mouth. On festival days the throne of the image is placed on a tower sixty feet high, moving on w

few days after his birth, presented before the altar of a deity, the image is said to have inclined its head as a presage of

that the Druids also worshipped numerous inferior gods. They used no images to represent the object of their worship, nor did

n a detailed account of the manner in which this was done. “They have images of immense size, the limbs of which are framed wi

eir weight. And, on the other hand, collaterally with these corporeal images , and never for one instant separated from them, h

its brother or its sister; and lastly, the moral significance of the image , which is in all the great myths eternally and be

ese. Taking some earth and kneading it with water, he made man in the image of the gods. He gave him an upright stature, so t

s, and Lares of the sea. To the Penates, to the domestic Lares (whose images were preserved in a private shrine), and to the M

thou wilt canst give, Oh, listen to a sculptor’s prayer, And bid mine image live! For me the ivory and gold That clothe her c

8 According to another version of the story, he said not, “bid mine image live,” but “one like my ivory virgin.” At any rat

eager eyes aflame, He saw betwixt him and the setting sun The lively image of his loved one. He trembled at the sight, for

Venus’ address to the statue is the following: — “O maiden, in mine image made! O grace that shouldst endure! While temples

rd. Narcissus, stooping over a river-brink, fell in love with his own image in the water. He talked to it, tried to embrace i

say, while she was sleeping, Perseus approached, — and guided by her image reflected in the bright shield which he bore, cut

Ulysses, but kept the secret, and even assisted them in obtaining the image . Thus she became reconciled to Menelaüs, and they

I have watched thy ‘ course!” To which Æneas replied, “O father! thy image was always before me to guide and guard me.” Then

he goddess as the brandisher of lightnings. Her Palladium — or sacred image — holds always high in air the brandished lance.

nd at Pessinus in Galatia. During the Second Punic War, 203 b.c., her image was fetched from the latter place to Rome. In 191

e spring is personified as a beautiful youth who is represented by an image surrounded by quickly fading flowers from the “ga

vals. (5) These events take place in midsummer and in spring. (6) The image and the Adonis plants are thrown into water. (7)

serpine to her mother; those of the Autumn the rape of Proserpine. An image of the youthful Bacchus headed the procession in

Bulls, the advent of morning; the Offspring of the dragon’s teeth, an image of the sunbeams leaping from eastern darkness. Me

Lang’s New Pygmalion, 168,169; from William Morris’ Pygmalion and the Image , 169; Com. § 97. Pygma′lion, king of Tyre, 342. P

thly Paradise, Story of Cupid and Psyche, 155, 158; Pygmalion and the Image , 169; Doom of K. Acrisius, 226; Sigurd the Volsun

Lang, The New Pygmalion. 189. From William Morris, Pygmalion and the Image , in The Earthly Paradise. 190. Andrew Lang, The

quitta en soupirant un séjour souillé de forfaits2. — Saturne est une image ou emblème du temps. C’est pourquoi on le représe

entreprises extravagantes et au-dessus de ses forces. Le Soleil est l’ image de ces pères faciles, qui n’osent rien refuser à

brûlait des parfums en leur honneur, et l’on suspendait devant leurs images des lampes allumées. Rien d’important ne se comme

s colombes de Vénus faisant leur nid dans le casque de Mars, sont une image ingénieuse et douce, qu’on a souvent employée com

saient pour se défendre, leurs cris, leurs gémissements retraçaient l’ image d’une ville prise d’assaut. Thésée accourt à leur

sait jamais. » Un jour qu’il parcourait les campagnes, il aperçut son image dans une source limpide, devint amoureux de sa pr

nir d’Alcyone ; Alcyone seule l’occupe ; il ne parle que d’elle ; son image seule est présente à son esprit. S’il avait du mo

ons d’Ulysse, changés en pourceaux par les breuvages de Circé, sont l’ image trop fidèle de l’abrutissement où jettent l’intem

s une douleur profonde, continuent les saintes Ecritures, fit faire l’ image de son fils qui lui avait été trop tôt ravi ; il

rd qui, d’un vol agile, Fuit sans jamais être arrêté, Le Temps, cette image mobile De l’immobile éternité, A peine du sein de

qui n’avaient ni pieds ni mains, s’appelaient hermès. On plaçait son image au-dessus des portes, pour détourner les voleurs,

e avait aussi à Rome un temple. Cette déesse était représentée sous l’ image d’une jeune fille couronnée de guirlandes, portan

ans les rênes lui-même il tombe embarrassé. Excusez ma douleur. Cette image cruelle Sera pour moi de pleurs une source éterne

’Etre suprême est unique, et qu’on ne peut le représenter sous aucune image corporelle. En approfondissant leurs doctrines ph

aisons étaient sous la protection de Mercure ; on les décorait de son image , persuadé qu’il en écartait les voleurs. Attri

ceinture de Cybèle. » Demoustier. Pendant que le dauphin parlait, l’ image sombre de Neptune se présenta au souvenir d’Amphi

jours Morphée tenant des pavots à la main. Son nom signifie Figure ou Image  ; parce que, durant le Sommeil, il se présente so

it doit avoir une âme. Ce système peut offrir quelquefois d’agréables images .        Dans le corps caverneux de cet antique o

nt de soif, il courut à une fontaine pour se désaltérer. Ayant vu son image dans le miroir des eaux, il devint amoureux de sa

u wilt canst give, Oh, listen to a sculptor’s prayer,    And bid mine image live! For me the ivory and gold    That clothe he

t,    Thy doves be bought and sold!” * * * * * * “O maiden, in mine image made!    O grace that shouldst endure! While temp

lion was a sculptor of the isle of Cyprus. He is said to have made an image of a maiden which was so beautiful that he fell d

prayed to Venus (called by the Greeks Aphrodite) to give life to the image . By her grace, accordingly, it was made into a li

e pensassi come al vostro guizzo « Guizza dentro allo specchio vostra image , « Ciò che par duro ti parrebbe vizzo. » E per q

n. Les poëtes ajoutaient que la Chimère vomissait des flammes ; cette image leur servait à peindre un volcan placé sur l’une

, et les poëtes peignirent ses travaux continuels et dangereux sous l’ image des persécutions de Junon. Hercule fut élevé chez

e des dieux. Les cérémonies funèbres des Égyptiens lui fournirent les images avec lesquelles il peignit l’enfer. Ce grand homm

e. On les porta sur le même bûcher, et dans la vue d’exprimer par une image effrayante les sentimens qui les avaient animés p

artie sur le peuple, en partie sur le bois sacré ; on en arrosait les images des dieux, les autels, les bancs et les murs du t

sing snakes, Should fix me, stiffened at the monstrous sight, A stony image in eternal night.” Pope. “Medusa with Gorgonia

being driven from heaven in disgrace. He is represented as holding an image of Folly in one hand, and raising a mask from his

t on les punissait en les privant de tout honneur ou en brisant leurs images , lorsque leur protection s’était montrée ineffica

e tout ce qu’elle à de beau, de fort ; se sculpte infaticablement a l’ image d’Apollon, d’Hercule, emprunte l’énergie du secon