well as a guide to all virtue — that it dispels all phantoms from our life , and all darkness from our death — that it makes

remote period, less instructed in the useful arts and the comforts of life , than the inhabitants of Crete, over which the us

llo was the son of Jupiter and Latona. He has been called “the god of life , and light, and arts” He was the cause of disease

never the former should be summoned from the world by death, that his life should be spared, provided he could find another

ant of such accommodations we should be in the lowest state of savage life . The ancient Greeks sometimes imputed the art of

ng’s blaze. Pitt’s Translation. Who were the Cyclops? What mode of life did the Cyclops follow? What is meant by the Cycl

kill of Vulcan, and carried to heaven. There Jupiter endowed her with life ; Venus gave her beauty; Pallas, wisdom, and Juno,

ed statues, into whom he transfused fire from heaven, which gave them life . Jupiter, not having succeeded in making the bene

ormed of the gross aliments of earth. For not the bread of man their life sustains, Nor wine’s inflaming juice supplies the

e under the immediate protection of the goddess, and not only in this life , but after death. Those who broke the vow to conc

occupation was hunting Venus often cautioned him against exposing his life to the violence of wild beasts, but he did not at

called Anemone, or wind-flower. Proserpine offered to restore him to life if he would spend half the year with her in the i

tion is towards the mind. The most beautiful object in nature without life cannot be loved. The gift of life to an intellige

beautiful object in nature without life cannot be loved. The gift of life to an intelligent being is only of value accordin

ted under the form of serpents. The Genii presided over the birth and life of men. Each spot had a local genius — one of the

Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos. They were supposed to preside over the life of man, from his birth to his death, and to put a

he life of man, from his birth to his death, and to put an end to his life by cutting off a thread. Stern Clotho weaves the

by cutting off a thread. Stern Clotho weaves the checkered thread of life Hour after hour the growing line extends, The cra

, clothed in black, held the fatal shears, ready to cut the thread of life . ——— Besides those which have been enumerated as

their departed friends in another state of existence. This prolonged life is called the immortality of the soul. Those of t

nto the world. Christ declared that men should live after the present life , and they should receive in the next life, accord

ould live after the present life, and they should receive in the next life , according to the deeds done in the body — punish

tudes, thereby assuring us, that we, like him, shall have everlasting life . “He came,” says the Scriptures , “to bring life

ll have everlasting life. “He came,” says the Scriptures , “to bring life and immortality to light.” The heathen heaven wa

d poets stood, Who sang with all the raptures of a god: Worthies, who life by useful arts refined; With those, who leave a d

deliverer; they admire his generosity and courage; he has exposed his life for their security; he has endangered himself, bu

ther was Pleasure, who offered to his acceptance an easy and indolent life ; but he chose rather to perform the part of a del

Asia Minor. The Amazons admitted no men into their society. All their life was employed in war and martial exercises. The st

fainting head, and clammy hair. Writhe his weak limbs, and flits his life in air; By steps reverted, o’er the blood-dropped

ek literature. It is said that Jason lived a melancholy and unsettled life , after he was separated from Medea; and that goin

ct, that all partially civilized people, and all savages, require the life of one person to be given for that of another, wh

just, and Minos demanded many lives, as a compensation for the single life of his son, because in those days people pretende

Crete? How did Theseus treat Ariadne, and how did Ægeus terminate his life ? ——— The character of Theseus, as a king, belong

condition of his subjects as Theseus, could not have spent his whole life so honourably and usefully; but he became tired o

. In that rude age it does not appear that people set much value upon life . Œdipus did not care whom he had killed, but went

erceived its meaning, and explained it thus: — Man, in the morning of life , walks upon his hands and feet; when he has grown

n he has grown to maturity, which is the noon or middle of the day of life , he walks on his feet only: and, in the evening o

her strong sense of her duty, which she performed at the loss of her life , exhibit exalted virtues — a beautiful specimen o

easts, that he was called the deliverer, and he might have passed his life in rural quiet and honour, if the deities themsel

and who were the most memorable of his children? Where was the early life of Paris spent? What created a dispute between th

learned that she was the victim, she entreated her father to save her life ; but a fatal superstition hardened him against he

Who were Agamemnon and Menelaus, and what happened to both in early life ? What incensed Clytemnestra against her husband,

ome a man, would punish his perfidious conduct. To save her brother’s life , Electra sent him to the care of Strophius, King

ty at the sight of Pylades and Orestes, and she resolved to spare the life of one of them, though she could not so far disob

ated Pylades to be the bearer of the letters, and to preserve his own life . Pylades, in his turn, not to be outdone in gener

, and what was the character of Electra? How did Electra preserve the life of Orestes? Who killed the murderers of Agamemnon

f Ithaca put out the eye of Polyphemus, and narrowly escaped with his life , by tying himself under the body of a sheep, whic

Achilles was young, his mother asked him whether he preferred a long life , spent in obscurity and retirement, or a few year

posterity. Who was Achilles? What is the history of Achilles’ early life ? How was the person of Achilles defended? What wa

adition in respect to the death of Achilles? Did Achilles desire long life ? Where was Achilles buried, and who offered sacri

ition of the enemy. Is there, said he,9 a chief so greatly brave His life to hazard, and his country save? Lives there a ma

nd the goddess Venus. When Troy was in flames, Eneas escaped with his life , taking upon his shoulders his aged father, Anchi

urdered him. Dido, after the loss of her husband, in fear for her own life , escaped with a company of Tyrians to Africa, whe

tor, was born at Athens, and was a contemporary of Thales. During the life of Solon, the people of Athens were agitated by p

d forced to throw up the sacred things, and animals, and the water of life , which it had swallowed. Varuna, the genius of th

condemned to perform all the most laborious and degrading offices of life . What is the religious condition of Hindustan? I

man is formed, Every hill with gladness teeming,     Every shape with life is warmed. Who is he by heaven’s high portal,   

; and they held those in contempt who preferred a quiet and peaceable life to one of violence and depredation. They believed

and rage, Malignity and folly. If the hand Of Oromazes, on precarious life Shed wealth and pleasure, swift the infernal god,

l nations, that the more improved men are in the arts and comforts of life , the more intelligent they are. Intelligence is t

ided with him the charge of that useful element, without which animal life could not be for a moment sustained. Centeot, or

own for the images of the gods. Alcibiades was obliged to fly for his life , because he was only suspected of irreverence to

to the service of God, instead of attending to the common business of life . This vow was only made for a time. The Nazarite

the east, they rejoiced because he brought back their light and their life with him. Knowing but little about themselves and

world around them, they fancied that everything had the same kind of life which they had themselves. In this way they came

said that the bright sun had slain his enemy, and brought a stream of life for the thirsting earth. “Now, so long as men rem

y the sun contending with darkness, but, morally, the power of divine life contending with corruption. Athene is physically

youth by saying that Eos loved him, and had carried him into immortal life . The views and fables connected with Eos were tra

eed. A sickle as emblem of Chronos meant god of harvests, or decaying life , or rebellion against Uranus. A serpent meant ren

r decaying life, or rebellion against Uranus. A serpent meant renewed life of the year. A serpent with its tail in its mouth

led to Sicyon*, where she married Epopeus*. Nycteus put an end to his life , charging his brother Lycus to take vengeance on

r spending one day in Olympus and the next in Hades*. They thus led a life divided between mortality and immortality. “The

ly begged that they might serve the gods in the temple below, and end life together. Their wish was granted; and one day, as

s the type of a matron. Juno was believed to watch over and guard the life of every woman from her birth to her death. On th

ced on earth, or in regretting the lost pleasures they had enjoyed in life , but all in a state of semi-consciousness, from w

a place of imprisonment. The souls of those who had lived a virtuous life were sent to the Elysian Fields. Homer locates th

, and Atropos*. To them was intrusted the management of the thread of life . Clotho drew the thread, Lachesis turned the whee

Atropos cut the thread with a pair of scissors. That is, Clotho gives life or brings us into the world, Lachesis determines

began to surround itself with regular laws which protected individual life from arbitrary assaults, then the conception of t

he joyfully prepared to follow the messenger of the gods to light and life . Before taking leave of her husband, he presented

these Mysteries was to disseminate better and purer ideas of a future life than the popular faith of the Greeks afforded. It

at death was only a resurrection of the soul to a brighter and better life , on the condition, of course, that a man had full

t has been sown, as though dead, but afterwards breaks forth into new life . It was only natural to associate with this last

hne, in despair, hung herself. Athene loosened the rope and saved her life , but the rope was changed into a cobweb, while Ar

d among the ancients a far higher significance than it does in modern life . It served not only for the preparation of meals,

the family, offered sacrifices on all important occasions of domestic life . No offering was made in which Hestia had not her

ing them with a burning glass. The fire of Hestia was a symbol of the life of the State. When a colony was sent out, the bon

e. The service of Vesta occupied a very important place in the public life of the Romans. Her most ancient temple was situat

at her loss. Aphrodite piteously entreated Father Zeus to restore his life . Zeus at length consented that Adonis should spen

ther in the upper world. Clearly, the monster that deprived Adonis of life is only a symbol of the frosty winter, before who

s only a symbol of the frosty winter, before whose freezing blast all life in nature decays.” Seemann . The Roman Venus (

Hymen* Hymenæus was a personification of the happiness of married life . By some authorities he is called a son of Apollo

nd the muse Urania. Others assert that he was a mortal, whose married life was so remarkably happy, that henceforth the name

he first beams of the light of the sun, all nature awakens to renewed life , and the woods re-echo with the songs of the bird

rocks moved to the tones of his lyre. He married Eurydice*, and their life was full of happiness. But Eurydice, while fleein

rated physician, and was so skilful that he could restore the dead to life . Aides complained to Zeus, who killed Asclepius w

and by introducing more civilized manners and a more sociable mode of life among men.” Seemann . Seated in a chariot draw

litude of the woods and the mountains, where they led a merry, joyous life .” Seemann . The water-nymphs comprised the Oce

form of an old woman, and, representing the advantages of the married life , he produced such a change in her sentiments that

ity to whom it was dedicated. If any malefactor fled to an altar, his life was safe from his pursuers, as to force him from

h spontaneously furnished them with all that was necessary to support life . Subject neither to the infirmities of age nor to

forward and explained the riddle. “Man, as a child, in the morning of life creeps upon hands and feet, at the noon-tide of l

n the morning of life creeps upon hands and feet, at the noon-tide of life he walks on two feet, and in the evening, when ol

to the grove of the Eumenides* at Colonus, near Athens, and here his life terminated in a miraculous manner, — the ground o

mbat; Amphiaraus was swallowed up by the earth, and Adrastus owed his life to the swiftness of the steed Arion*. Creon, who

king of Argos. An oracle having declared that Acrisius would lose his life by the hand of a son of Danae, her father impriso

dangerous enterprises, in which he would in all probability lose his life . He first sent him to kill the Chimæra, a monster

o the deepest melancholy, and wandered about for the remainder of his life in the loneliest and most desolate places. After

ame may be traced back to phrases which spoke of the sun as born to a life of toil, as entering on his weary tasks after a b

rned of the fate of her unfortunate victim, she put an end to her own life , and Theseus, when too late, discovered the innoc

red. Althea, full of sorrow for her hasty deed, put an end to her own life . Atalanta. Atalanta had been told by the or

protection at the court of Ægeus. Jason either put an end to his own life or was killed by the fall of a beam from the Argo

otracted absence, and that his aged father, Laertes*, was wearing his life away in anxious longings for his return. He also

nified the unseen cause of phenomena that were antagonistic to light, life , and progress. Demeter, or Ceres, personified the

esided over agriculture. Persephone, or Proserpine, presided over the life of the seed concealed in the earth. Poseidon, or

ually warring with each other. Pestilence, fever, and all the ills of life were personified, and man was like a bewildered t

e, intelligent, and wealthy class. They are noted for their purity of life , honesty, and conciliatory manners. They have num

roes. Yama* was the Hindu god of the dead. As from the east came all life , so in the west lay the land of the dead, the Ely

ers of Vishnu are generally distinguished by a greater tenderness for life , and consequent abstinence from animal food, and

f the followers of Siva. The Hindus believe that if a man lead a pure life , his soul will pass, after death, into another hu

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

whom they gave a name, “Be’al,” which is believed to have meant, “the life of everything,” or “the source of all beings.” Th

listic were intended to convey to the mind the self-renewing power of life in nature, which is exemplified in the sowing of

warmed and fertilized by the sunlight, so that from it sprung organic life , even man himself, who, in so many mythologies, i

born the glorious sun; hence it became to him the home of the gods of life , light, and wisdom.” Brinton . In the Algonqui

sions which are occasionally made; and last of all, those in advanced life , pleasure in retracing a path of literature which

ildhood, and revives at every step the associations of the morning of life . The permanency of those associations is beautifu

By his arrows and torch he pierced and vivified all things, producing life and joy. Saturn and Rhea were not the only Titans

who had given them being, and was regarded as their protector through life . On their birthdays men made offerings to their G

and provide a new race, unlike the first, who would be more worthy of life , and much better worshippers of the gods. So sayi

hilde Harold, iv. 161: — “… The lord of the unerring bow, The god of life , and poetry, and light, The Sun, in human limbs a

,” said he, “I have been the cause of thy death! Thou, more worthy of life than I, hast fallen the first victim. I will foll

were not willing that either should conquer. In the very attitude of life and action they were turned into stone. So lifeli

round him, rending and tearing; and it was not till they had torn his life out that the anger of Diana was satisfied.   In S

to me; it would revive me, and I would own myself indebted to you for life itself. Let these infants move your pity, who str

and concord, we wish that one and the same hour may take us both from life , that I may not live to see her grave, nor be lai

restoring Glaucus to youth, and Scylla and all the drowned lovers to life .   The following is Glaucus’s account of his feel

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

e; The trees, the roses shared sensation,     An echo of my boundless life .” S. G. B. Dryope. Dryope and Iole were

will close them without your aid.” Then the lips ceased to move, and life was extinct; but the branches retained for some t

him and tried all his art to stanch the wound and retain the flitting life , but all in vain; the hurt was past the power of

who turns himself into rocks, waters, woods, and other things without life . These wait upon kings and great personages in th

! It would have been far better. Then I should have had no remnant of life to spend without thee, nor a separate death to di

s head heaves with the heaving billow; That hand, whose motion is not life , Yet feebly seems to menace strife, Flung by the

aise me; and thus shall I prove that the love of you left me but with life . Nor will I leave it to rumor to tell you of my d

ming ages, and add those years to my fame which you have reft from my life .’ Thus he said, and, turning his pale face and we

ighed upon their minds; and one day Cadmus exclaimed, “If a serpent’s life is so dear to the gods, I would I were myself a s

left me, during all this, or what ought I to have had, except to hate life and wish to be with my dead subjects? On all side

eek historian, gives of the plague of Athens. The historian drew from life , and all the poets and writers of fiction since h

her cheek, her eyes glared fixed and immovable, there was no sign of life about her. Her very tongue cleaved to the roof of

to the roof of her mouth, and her veins ceased to convey the tide of life . Her neck bent not, her arms made no gesture, her

s head away he begged for mercy. “Take all,” said he, “give me but my life .” “Base coward,” said Perseus, “thus much I will

ebes, was warned by an oracle that there was danger to his throne and life if his new-born son should be suffered to grow up

e double crime of Œdipus came to light. Jocasta put an end to her own life , and Œdipus, seized with madness, tore out his ey

riod of miserable wandering, he found the termination of his wretched life . Pegasus and the Chimæra. When Perseus cut

n indictment, he condemns himself. Who reads his bosom reads immortal life , Or nature there, imposing on her sons, Has writt

hysician, and even in one instance succeeded in restoring the dead to life . Pluto resented this, and Jupiter, at his request

for my aid, could do me one further service, take some years from my life and add them to my father’s.” Medea replied, “Not

d, “Not at such a cost shall it be done, but if my art avails me, his life shall be lengthened without abridging yours.” The

and his stolen bride that they would not hasten to take the old man’s life . Then she directed that Æson should be led forth,

e shells of tortoises, and the liver of stags, — animals tenacious of life , — and the head and beak of a crow, that outlives

ee Destinies, who, as they spun their fatal thread, foretold that the life of the child should last no longer than a brand t

the flames, the brand which the Destinies had linked with Meleager’s life , she brings forth, and commands a fire to be prep

thou hast lived by my gift; die, now, for thine own crime. Return the life which twice I gave thee, first at thy birth, agai

Now both subside; now both are quenched. The brand is ashes, and the life of Meleager is breathed forth to the wandering wi

nd the old king, thinking his son had perished, put an end to his own life . Theseus thus became king of Athens. One of the m

ytus was killed, but by Diana’s assistance Æsculapius restored him to life . Diana removed Hippolytus from the power of his d

loss of his brother, besought Jupiter to be permitted to give his own life as a ransom for him. Jupiter so far consented as

er so far consented as to allow the two brothers to enjoy the boon of life alternately, passing one day under the earth and

he tree, came and expressed her gratitude to him for having saved her life and bade him ask what reward he would. Rhœcus bol

ms! with eager lips And trembling hands the languid thirsty quaff New life in you; fresh vigor fills their veins. No warmer

with such skill in the healing art that he even restored the dead to life . At this Pluto took alarm, and prevailed on Jupit

e live much longer, and who can feel like them the call to rescue the life they gave from an untimely end?” But the parents,

tion, proffered herself as the substitute. Admetus, fond as he was of life , would not have submitted to receive it at such a

ntary victim. The heroic youth, learning the response, threw away his life in the first encounter. The siege continued long,

ight have died With my poor father; wherefore should I ask For longer life ? O, I was fond of misery with him; E’en what was

of silence and uncreated things, unite again the thread of Eurydice’s life . We all are destined to you and sooner or later m

pass to your domain. She too, when she shall have filled her term of life , will rightly be yours. But till then grant her t

at the river side and thus addressed her: “O mother, the pride of my life is taken from me! I have lost my precious bees. M

tented. He who strives to win may lose.” Arion answered, “A wandering life best suits the free heart of a poet. The talent w

erwise, cast yourself into the sea.” “Will nothing satisfy you but my life ?” said he. “Take my gold, and welcome. I willingl

but my life?” said he. “Take my gold, and welcome. I willingly buy my life at that price.” “No, no; we cannot spare you. You

lingly buy my life at that price.” “No, no; we cannot spare you. Your life would be too dangerous to us. Where could we go t

, then,” said he, “a last request, since nought will avail to save my life , that I may die, as I have lived, as becomes a ba

arp-strings shall have ceased to vibrate, then I will bid farewell to life , and yield uncomplaining to my fate.” This prayer

ke. “He lives, the master of the lay! Kind Heaven protects the poet’s life . As for you, I invoke not the spirit of vengeance

rom guilt and crime! Him we avengers touch not; he treads the path of life secure from us. But woe! woe! to him who has done

we pursue; no pity checks our course; still on and on, to the end of life , we give him no peace nor rest.” Thus the Eumenid

ve been recorded in a previous chapter. Simonides passed much of his life at the courts of princes, and often employed his

s said, took care that his fortunes should not suffer by his inactive life , for she made his flock increase, and guarded his

or which consumes him. The story suggests aspiring and poetic love, a life spent more in dreams than in reality, and an earl

me, and shame with love at strife Soon taught the sweet civilities of life .” Chapter XXVII. The Trojan War. Minerva

oo fondly did my memory hang,     And on the joys we shared in mortal life , The paths which we had trod, — these fountains,

wn father, full of days like me, and trembling on the gloomy verge of life . Perhaps even now some neighbor chief oppresses h

was brought before the chiefs, who reassured him, promising that his life should be spared on condition of his returning tr

gave to Jove-born Helena, Is of such power to stir up joy as this, To life so friendly or so cool to thirst.” Comus. Menel

might be danger. Electra, the sister of Orestes, saved her brother’s life by sending him secretly away to his uncle Strophi

tten his native land, and to have reconciled himself to an inglorious life of ease and pleasure. At length his companions re

sue not for my lone, my widowed wife; I sue not for my ruddy drops of life , My children fair, my lovely girls and boys; I wi

, though secretly mortified at the failure of their plots to take his life . The old beggar was permitted to enter, and provi

f his perils on the deep. Neptune consented, stipulating only for one life as a ransom for the rest. The victim was Palinuru

ith a gloomy forest. Mephitic vapors rise from its waters, so that no life is found on its banks, and no birds fly over it.

s was the wailing of young children, who had died on the threshold of life , and near to these were they who had perished und

h. The next class was of those who had died by their own hand, hating life and seeking refuge in death. O how willingly woul

poverty, labor, and any other infliction, if they might but return to life ! Next were situated the regions of sadness, divid

the judgment hall of Rhadamanthus, who brings to light crimes done in life , which the perpetrator vainly thought impenetrabl

de in splendid armor and generous steeds which the old heroes felt in life , accompanied them here. He saw another group feas

worthy of Apollo, and others who have contributed to cheer and adorn life by their discoveries in the useful arts, and have

father!” said Æneas, “is it possible that any can be so in love with life as to wish to leave these tranquil seats for the

rest, after the impurities of earth are purged away, are sent back to life endowed with new bodies, having had the remembran

ich is still held by the natives of India, who scruple to destroy the life even of the most insignificant animal, not knowin

that happy realm. Addressing the Past, he says: — “Whatever of true life there was in thee, Leaps in our age’s veins.     

and Virgil write, is the most celebrated of them. Ovid’s story of her life protracted to one thousand years may be intended

hich precludes him from the choice. You, equally by birth and time of life , and fame in arms, pointed out by the gods, have

r myself when I joined the standard of Æneas, and resolved to hold my life cheap in comparison with honor.” Nisus replied, “

to me, I wish you to be safe. You are younger than I and have more of life in prospect. Nor can I be the cause of such grief

son. He received the fatal stroke not unprepared, and poured out his life and his blood together. Pallas, Camilla, Turnu

rsook him and he begged for mercy; and Æneas would have given him his life , but at the instant his eye fell on the belt of P

a native of the island of Samos, but passed the chief portion of his life at Crotona in Italy. He is therefore sometimes ca

is not extinct in your bosoms, forbear, I entreat you, to violate the life of those who may haply be your own relatives.”  

f the universe (he taught) there was a central fire, the principle of life . The central fire was surrounded by the earth, th

s. Osiris was worshipped as the god of the sun, the source of warmth, life , and fruitfulness, in addition to which he was al

ame of Naso, was born in the year 43 B. C. He was educated for public life and held some offices of considerable dignity, bu

d undistinguished to have formed his acquaintance. Ovid spent an easy life at Rome in the enjoyment of a competent income. H

poet’s happy circumstances and clouded all the latter portion of his life . At the age of fifty he was banished from Rome, a

is most distinguished contemporaries, spent the last ten years of his life , worn out with grief and anxiety. His only consol

h o’er the body, not the mind, has sway, And snatch the remnant of my life away, My better part above the stars shall soar,

parent bird, a young Phœnix issues forth, destined to live as long a life as its predecessor. When this has grown up and ga

this day a very active, intelligent, and wealthy class. For purity of life , honesty, and conciliatory manners, they are favo

ers of Vishnu are generally distinguished by a greater tenderness for life , and consequent abstinence from animal food, and

l rights, and stigmatized by particular laws regulating their mode of life , their houses, and their furniture. They are not

der, and called the man Aske and the woman Embla. Odin then gave them life and soul, Vili reason and motion, and Ve bestowed

Good, having been tormented with terrible dreams indicating that his life was in peril, told them to the assembled gods, wh

orld, both living and lifeless, weep for him, then shall he return to life ; but if any one thing speak against him or refuse

hey gave a name “Be’ al,” which Celtic antiquaries tell us means “the life of every thing,” or “the source of all beings,” a

ded him with their hostility, and on several occasions endangered his life by their attacks. Yet by his perseverance and zea

to procure for themselves and those dependent on them the comforts of life . Marriage also was allowed them, and most of them

gs its grey hair, or bears a leaf away From the full glory with which life is crowned, Ere youth becomes a shade, and fame a

e forest, she received the name of Cybele from the mountain where her life had been preserved. She is called also the ancien

of clay, of workmanship so exquisite, that it scarcely seemed to need life to add to its beauty, and to complete his perform

Fury. Thou think’st we will live through thee one by one, Like animal life , and though we can obscure not The soul which bur

him who harboured him, is slain. The son-in-law pursues the father’s life , The wife her husband murders, he the wife; The s

aid; Some marks of honour on my son bestow, And pay in glory what in life you owe. Fame is at least by heavenly promise due

ry what in life you owe. Fame is at least by heavenly promise due, To life so short, and now dishonoured too. Avenge this wr

years to some; Others, ill-fated, are condemned to toil Their tedious life , and mourn their purpose blasted, With fruitless

Should flow alike to every creature’s share; One draught, as dear as life I should esteem, And water, now I thirst, would n

hon’s death         But thou dost save         From hungry grave, The life that hangs upon a summer’s breath!         “Fath

rwards sought to raise the dead, and while in the act of bringing ‌to life Hippolitus, son of Theseus, Jupiter enraged with

to the sybil of Cumes, and granted to her the boon of prolonging her life as many years as there were grains in a handful o

laced in his grasp. —————— “The lord of the unerring bow, The god of life , and poesy, and light, The sun in human limbs arr

he wife of Æneas threw into the flames a brand which bore with it the life of Meleager; a fire immediately spread itself thr

oulders; the roundness of his limbs and visage, evidence the generous life he leads; while his smiling countenance and laugh

eness stood.” Shakspere. Proserpine is said to have restored him to life , on condition of his spending six months of the y

Praxiteles. It was formed of white marble, and appeared so much like life , that, according to some historians, a youth of t

’ inventive powers of dædal art to know, And all the joys from social life that flow; In search no more of casual seats to r

s immortal.         “They sin who tell us Love can die;         With life all other passions fly,         All others are bu

of Saturn, and brother to Jupiter, Pluto, and Juno; being restored to life by the draught administered to Saturn, the portio

of the lyre which has so often cheered me: let the last moments of my life , be soothed by its gentle influence.” The boon wa

oddesses whose hand he sought in marriage, and who looked for a gayer life than he could offer them, they all refused to bec

ned to woe His potent lyre, and sought the realms below; Charmed into life unreal forms respired, And list’ning shades the d

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

fold, And breaks unkindly from her feeble hold; Then proudly cries, ‘ life shall this breast forsake, Ere you, loose nymph,

the thought occasioned, he wounded himself in his agony, deeming that life without her would be insupportable. Echo, however

ss fills         All the hollow hills, ‌With a thousand notes of one life telling! Softly mingled notes, of one life tellin

th a thousand notes of one life telling! Softly mingled notes, of one life telling.     “Echo! in my heart     Thus deep th

s in the act of being pronounced, ———————— “I felt with a start, The life blood rush back in one throb to my heart, And saw

Fates, were three powerful goddesses, who presided over the birth and life of mankind. Clotho, the youngest of the sisters,

th,     The lifeless, ranged like sacred things, Nor wanting aught of life , but breath,     Lie in their painted loveliness,

of his brother, by slaying Idas, but was unable after this to support life , so devotedly was he attached to his brother: and

ttached to his brother: and implored Jupiter either to restore him to life , or that he might be deprived himself of his immo

error, yet to ruin move, Nor owe my fate to ignorance, but love: Your life I’ll guard, and only crave of you To swear once m

ity met with a severe punishment, for Medea refused to restore him to life . Meanwhile Pelias with his guards lay bound In m

lifeless blood, And I’ll recruit it with a vital flood: Your father’s life and health are in your hand, And can ye thus, lik

according to other authorities, Jason lived a melancholy and unhappy life ; and, as he was reposing one day by the side of t

should I live? What blessing were it To gain a useless and unhallowed life ?” After his recovery he consulted the oracle of

fainting head, and clammy hair, Writhe his weak limbs, and flits his life in air; — By steps reverted o’er the blood-droppe

ief to Nessus trusts his wife. All pale, and trembling for her hero’s life : Clothed as he stood in the fierce lion’s hide, T

ch he is often seen leaning. Such are the most important parts of the life of Hercules, who is held out by the ancients as a

deservedly rewarded with immortality. “O worthy end of his laborious life , The nectared cup, and Hebe for a wife! Her golde

the bravery to invade the Peloponnesus.‌ “‘Take hence this hateful life , with tortures torn, Inured to trouble, and to la

ntment for his ravished wife, Nor shall thy wings O Perseus, save thy life ; Nor Jove himself, tho’ we’ve been often told He

ped by you, Her spouse and uncle, will you grieve that he Exposed his life , the dying maid to free? And shall you claim his

refuse, By name lie begs their succour, one by one, Then doubts their life , and feels the friendly stone. Struck with remors

quer by Minerva’s power, Favoured of heaven, thy mercy I implore, For life I sue, the rest to thee I yield: In pity from my

) his sire, The sea god Neptune, hath in anger stopped The current of life , and with his trident touch Hath struck him into

ans of his glorious triumph, and to whom he was even indebted for his life . When he came in sight of Athens, he forgot, in t

often looked ‌Upon the marble, wondering it could give Such truth to life and majesty.     Leonarde. You will not marvel Ar

y, That, having given birth to one so shameless, I dared not take the life I gave to him! Wretch that thou art, dost thou no

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

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

flute notes from the vales, Echoes of song — the last sweet sounds of life And the glad sunshine of the golden clime Streame

erving soul — ’twas but a thought That owned the summer loveliness of life To him a worthy offering — so she stood Wrapt in

m’s lord!     Thee, my soul’s loved! I die;     Thine is the torch of life restored, Mine, mine the rapture, mine the victor

have descended to the field of battle In our contention, prodigal of life Ours is the strife, be ours the forfeiture. Let u

                               Drunk with blood, And fury, of his own life quite regardless, Provided his antagonist he slew

t, is borne away by a sudden blast of wind. ‌ Pelops was restored to life by Jupiter, and supplied with an ivory shoulder,

ost light. Time was when for the faintest breath of thine Kingdom and life were little. Iphig. Value them As little now. A

om and life were little. Iphig. Value them As little now. Aga. Were life and kingdom all! Iphig. Ah! by our death many ar

Hector promised her hand to him, on condition that he would save the life of her son, which was menaced by the Greeks: and

with her for a considerable time in the enjoyment of all that renders life desirable. Jupiter, however, grew dissatisfied wi

r. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img245 Unable to bear life in the prospect of a desertion so infamous, she p

beauty.” Galatea was in despair, and as she could not restore him to life , she changed him into a river, on the banks of wh

, but with the enthusiastic ardour of youth, looked forward to a long life of delights. The day to him was a dull blank, and

p the husband from his wife, and in the wildness of his struggles for life , when hope was gone and despair succeeded, his la

his he became so proficient, that his marble busts seemed almost like life — and one, the figure of a female, was regarded b

n, Or some such fine, kind hearted deity, Touched the pale stone with life , and it became At last Pygmalion’s bride.” Barry

ely wrought, as that of poets usually are, this became insupportable; life was a burthen; song, now that the one had gone wh

rds eat it up. This man was one of the disciples of Pythagoras, whose life he had saved, by supporting the whole weight of t

s marriage and royal splendour. 6. His retreat from the world. 7. His life as a hermit. 8. His appearance, whereby he is kno

and tyrannical distinction of castes, and invites the world to peace, life eternal, and to the identification of spirits wit

o venturous goddess, in her mirth,     On Seeva’s eyes, the light and life of earth.     Thereat the heart of the Universe s

ours Stopt in the eternal round; motion and breath, Time, change, and life , and death, In sudden trance opprest, forgot thei

nes, the trees, the fish, the very diseases were sworn to respect his life . No sooner had this been done, than his brothers

one, than his brothers determined to see, if indeed, he had a charmed life , and essayed successively the various means of de

re so overwhelmed with caresses for the present, and promises for the life to come, that they sometimes congratulated themse

viceroy; and Aune of Sweden, in an attempt to obtain a continuance of life , sacrificed the lives of nine of his offspring; e

heir people. But not only did they delight in the sacrifices of human life , they also gave way in their orgies to unbounded

orty days; all that could tend to allure the mind to earth, or render life desirable, was showered upon the victim, his wish

gend extant, relative to this subject. The god Balder dreamt that his life , although made to be immortal, was threat med wit

extreme Classical to the extreme Romantic is a far cry; but as human life knows no divorce of necessity from freedom, so hu

restore them, purified and breathing of Elysian air, to the world of life and art and ever-young mankind. For the reader th

e that pervade the myths of Greece and Rome, — or with the newness of life and fulness and wonder of it, the naïveté and the

the first or the second is the primal pulse of every myth; and to the life of every myth each impulse may be, at some period

ls the lowest stage, hecastotheism, where everything is endowed “with life : with personality, will, and design… where everyt

r the truth unalloyed in zootheism, in which “men no longer attribute life indiscriminately to inanimate things; where the s

xistence, make clear the facts of the universe and the experiences of life , and to teach the meaning and the history of thin

the maker do? and what the first men? Whence came the commodities of life ? What is death, and what becomes of us after deat

imagination that embraces severed continents, inspires the dead with life , bestows color and breath upon the creatures of a

t cultivated men of ordinary poetic sensibility, bestow attributes of life upon inanimate things and abstract ideas. The sun

daily restoration to the sense of passionate gladness and of perfect life — if it means the thrilling of new strength throu

o rejoiced as a strong man to run his course, whose voice, calling to life and to labor, rang round the earth, and whose goi

gress, man, beginning with crude dreams and fancies about experience, life , the world, and God, has gradually developed true

ck in history thousands of years to examine the habits of thought and life of early savages, we are constrained to examine w

king with the dead, are regarded as possible incidents of daily human life .” As the result of such scientific investigation,

over, that savages nowadays think of everything around them as having life and the parts and passions of persons like themse

h men, beasts, stars, and stones on the same level of personality and life .” The forces of nature, animals, and things have

ersonifying them, or else to natural phenomena similarly endowed with life by the imaginative power, usually more or less un

d account of Greek traditions concerning the primitive commodities of life , the arts of agriculture and navigation, the sacr

r name, Naso, was born in the year 43 b.c. He was educated for public life , and held some offices of considerable dignity; b

d undistinguished to have formed his acquaintance. Ovid spent an easy life at Rome in the enjoyment of a competent income. H

the poet’s happy circumstances, and clouded the latter portion of his life . At the age of fifty he was banished from Rome, a

them ghosts of the underworld, but withheld the privilege of immortal life . § 25. Prometheus, Champion of Man. — During this

the soul in rapt suspension, All the quivering, palpitating Chords of life in utmost tension, With the fervor of invention,

providing a new race, unlike the present, which should be worthier of life , and more reverent toward the gods. Fearing lest

rivers flowed, and where Earth sent up in honor of the rite a tree of life , heavy with apples golden like the sunset. Juno w

“All day I flew; and at the set of sun. I fell in Lemnos, and little life was left in me.” Had he not been lame before, he

soft climate, profusion of herbs and flowers, and the very ecstasy of life . During this delay the Delphians sang pæans, — hy

nds and pure hearts of those that worshipped him. But though a god of life and peace, the far-darter did not shun the weapon

ere and is withdrawn. And many days, when all one’s work is vain, And life goes stretching on, a waste gray plain, With even

divinity of the home: of settled, in opposition to nomadic, habits of life . She was worshipped, first of the gods, at every

ius, son of Apollo. By his skill in medicine, he restored the dead to life . Being killed by the lightning of Jove, he was tr

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

le, daughter of Cadmus of Thebes. He was especially the god of animal life and vegetation. He represented not only the intox

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

other, She waits for all men born; Forgets the earth her mother, The life of fruits and corn; And spring and seed and swall

t free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives forever; That dead men rise up never; That

Elysian Fields, where each followed the chosen pursuit of his former life in a land of spring, sunlight, happiness, and son

s, and, like her husband, is cruel, unyielding, inimical to youth and life and hope. In the story of her descent to Hades wi

s of the shades in the lower world. Æacus had been during his earthly life a righteous king of the island of Ægina. Minos ha

and of Ægina. Minos had been a famous lawgiver and king of Crete. The life of Rhadamanthus was not eventful. (2) The Furies

rit who had given them being, and was regarded as a protector through life . On birthdays men made offerings to their Genius,

iter’s Beloved, Semele. With human arms the god came clasping me: New life streamed from his presence; and a voice, That sca

the drunken leaves The random sunshine lightened.121 The musician’s life was, however, not all harmony and happiness. Owin

this thy temple, and that one and the same hour may take us both from life .” Their prayer was granted. When they had attaine

e yoke and horses’ reins with spear of bronze, eager to take away his life . But the bright-eyed goddess Minerva with her han

weighing upon their minds, Cadmus one day exclaimed, “If a serpent’s life is so dear to the gods, I would I were myself a s

unstroke and drought of midsummer, the miasma of autumn; fifthly, his life on earth, as friend and counsellor, of mankind, —

ter would be nectar to me, and I would own myself indebted to you for life itself. Let these infants move your pity, who str

him and tried all his art to stanch the wound and retain the flitting life , but in vain. As when one has broken the stem of

is own son Pelops. The gods were not deceived. Pelops was restored to life , — Tantalus consigned to Tartarus. The daughter,

her cheek, her eyes glared fixed and immovable, there was no sign of life about her. Her very tongue cleaved to the roof of

to the roof of her mouth, and her veins ceased to convey the tide of life . Her neck bent not, her arms made no gesture, her

physician; in one instance he even succeeded in restoring the dead to life . Pluto resented this; and, at his request, Jupite

e live much longer, and who can feel like them the call to rescue the life they gave from an untimely end?” But the parents,

tion, proffered herself as the substitute. Admetus, fond as he was of life , would not have submitted to receive it at such a

s Amphion, in his turn, had aided in the building of Thebes. Apollo’s life as herdsman was spent in establishing wise laws a

o pity for him, nor was her anger appeased till the dogs had torn his life out. Fig. 49. Actæon torn by his hounds. [Reli

e takes care, too, that his fortunes shall not suffer by his inactive life : she yields his flock increase, and guards his sh

is wounded; and sorrow on Cypris he brings, as softly he breathes his life away. His dark blood drips down his skin of snow,

aw not, for her head Fell back, and nothing she remembered Of all her life , yet nought of rest she had, The hope of which ma

he spoke, “Wilt thou not come to me, O dear companion of my new found life , For I am called thy lover and thy wife?… “My swe

e moon o’erhead, So that I trembled when I saw her there, For with my life was born some touch of dread, And therewithal I h

ples fall, and empires fade, Immaculately pure: Exchange this endless life of art For beauty that must die, And blossom with

r fair, To lips that have their day! Oh, perfect arms, grow soft with life , Wax warm, ere cold ye wane; Wake, woman’s heart,

lofty cavern of Cyllene, he found a tortoise, picked it up, bored the life out of the beast, fitted the shell with bridge an

lthough she was a goddess of earth, are intimately connected with the life of the underworld, they will be related in the se

e boy, Triptolemus, seemed past recovery, — she restored the child to life and health with a kiss. In grateful happiness the

was lord both of salt waters and of fresh. The myths that turn on his life as lord of the sea illustrate his defiant invasio

Echo, Pan, Lyde, and the Satyr. — Another interesting episode in the life of Echo is given by Moschus: 232— Pan loved his

rom guilt and crime! Him we avengers touch not; he treads the path of life secure from us. But woe! woe! to him who has done

e pursue; no pity checks our course; still on, still on to the end of life , we give no peace, no rest.” Stillness like the

Cyclops Polyphemus. Polyphemus in Love. — For the first time in his life the Cyclops began to care for his appearance; he

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

s in restoring Glaucus to youth, and Scylla and the drowned lovers to life . § 128. Nisus and Scylla. 247 — The daughter of P

s head a purple lock of hair, upon which depended his fortune and his life . This lock his daughter clipped, and conveyed to

one Polydectes and his court, because the tyrant had rendered Danaë’s life intolerable with his attentions. Perseus then res

he contrived to engage in about as many adventures as would fill the life of an ordinary hero. He threw the bloodthirsty Li

his victory over the giants, his struggle with Death for the body and life of Alcestis,291 and his delivery, according to pr

wine. She implored Pluto and his stolen bride to spare the old man’s life . Then she directed that Æson be led forth; and th

the shells of tortoises and the liver of stags — animals tenacious of life — and the head and beak of a crow, which outlives

ee Destinies, who, as they spun their fatal thread, foretold that the life of the child should last no longer than a certain

uriously, and from raging lips Foamed out the latest wrath of all his life .319 Then rose a shout from those around; they g

son. The fatal brand, which the Destinies have linked with Meleager’s life , she brings forth. She commands a fire to be prep

es, Atalanta and his mother. But speedily the brand is ashes, and the life of Meleager is breathed forth to the wandering wi

d, swinging his arms, — like some cone-burthened pine-tree Oozing the life from his bark, that, riven to heart by the whirlw

ms, the infatuate gaze of the mother, — She whose sole delight, whose life , was her desperate daughter, — How Ariadne made l

fish Scylla, or Syrtis, or vasty Charybdis, Thee, — thus thankful for life , dear gift of living, I gave thee?… Had it not li

t to pieces. Hippolytus was killed, but by Æsculapius was restored to life ; and then removed by Diana from the power of his

have spared Polydorus himself. His son Labdacus, also, lived a quiet life as king of Thebes, and left a son, Lams upon the

Laïus was warned by an oracle that there was danger to his throne and life if his son, new-born, should reach man’s estate.

ble crime of Œdipus came to light. At once, Jocasta put an end to her life by hanging herself. As for Œdipus, horror-struck,

l my days are spent and gone; And ye no more shall lead your wretched life , Caring for me. Hard was it, that I know, My chil

an from him who standeth here, Of who bereaved ye now shall live your life .‌”337 Pl. 14. Œdipus and Antigone. Teschend

ntary victim. The heroic youth, learning the response, threw away his life in the first encounter. The siege continued long,

loss of his brother, besought Jupiter to be permitted to give his own life as a ransom for him. Jupiter so far consented as

er so far consented as to allow the two brothers to enjoy the boon of life alternately, each spending one day under the eart

ee too fondly did my memory hang, And on the joys we shared in mortal life , — The paths which we had trod — these fountains,

wn father, full of days like me, and trembling on the gloomy verge of life . Even now, mayhap, some neighbor chief oppresses

eath of Achilles. — But Achilles, himself, was not destined to a long life . Having by chance seen Polyxena, daughter of King

brought before the chiefs, who reassured him, promising him that his life should be spared on condition of his answering tr

gave to Jove-born Helena, Is of such power to stir up joy as this, To life so friendly or so cool to thirst.”369 At last,

might be danger. Electra, the sister of Orestes, saved her brother’s life by sending him secretly to his uncle Strophius, k

tten his native land, and to have reconciled himself to an inglorious life of ease and pleasure. The Sirens. — At length hi

, though secretly mortified at the failure of their plots to take his life . The old beggar was permitted to enter, and provi

nd, To rust unburnish’d, not to shine in use! As tho’ to breathe were life . Life piled on life Were all too little, and of o

h’d, not to shine in use! As tho’ to breathe were life. Life piled on life Were all too little, and of one to me Little rema

f his perils on the deep. Neptune consented, stipulating only for one life as a ransom for the rest. The victim was Palinuru

ith a gloomy forest. Mephitic vapors rise from its waters, so that no life is found on its banks, and no birds fly over it.

s was the wailing of young children, who had died on the threshold of life ; and near to these were they who had perished und

h. The next class was of those who had died by their own hand, hating life and seeking refuge in death. O, how willingly wou

poverty, labor, and any other infliction, if they might but return to life ! Next were situated the regions of sadness, divid

the judgment hall of Rhadamanthus, who brings to light crimes done in life , which the perpetrator vainly thought impenetrabl

de in splendid armor and generous steeds which the old heroes felt in life , accompanied them here. He saw another group feas

worthy of Apollo, and others who have contributed to cheer and adorn life by their discoveries in the useful arts, and have

father!” said Æneas, “is it possible that any can be so in love with life , as to wish to leave these tranquil seats for the

rest, after the impurities of earth are purged away, are sent back to life endowed with new bodies, having had the remembran

ich precludes him from the choice. Thou, equally by birth and time of life , and fame in arms, pointed out by the gods, hast

r myself when I joined the standard of Æneas, and resolved to hold my life cheap in comparison with honor.” Nisus replied, “

me, I wish thee to be safe. Thou art younger than I and hast more of life in prospect. Nor can I be the cause of such grief

son. He received the fatal stroke not unprepared, and poured out his life and his blood together. Of Pallas. — While these

he begged for mercy; Æneas, indeed, would have spared his opponent’s life , but at the instant his eye fell on the belt of P

and they called the man Ash and the woman Embla. Odin then gave them life and soul, Vili reason and motion, and Ve bestowed

Good, having been tormented with terrible dreams indicating that his life was in peril, told them to the assembled gods, wh

To Höder, and unwitting Höder threw — ‘Gainst that alone had Balder’s life no charm. And all the gods and all the heroes cam

f the gods, to ask her what way there might be of restoring Balder to life and heaven. Might Hela perchance surrender Balder

her ward Death from thy head, and with the gods in heaven Prolong thy life , though not by thee desired — But right bars ties

— But right bars ties, not only thy desire. Yet dreary, Nanna, is the life they lead In that dim world, in Hela’s mouldering

ech, Wandering together through that gloomy world, And talking of the life we led in heaven, While we yet lived, among the o

orld, both living and lifeless, weep for him, then shall he return to life ; but if any one thing speak against him or refuse

long since weary of your storm Of carnage, and find, Hermod, in your life Something too much of war and broils, which make

wherewith we played of-yore; And that shall bring to mind the former life And pastime of the gods — the wise discourse Of O

o through the wile of his sister Signy was rescued. He, driven to the life of an outlaw, sought means to avenge his father,

country of death, And spake words of loving-kindness as he strove for life and breath; “Wail not, O child of the Niblungs! I

than I, Allfather, wilt thou gather my glory in vain?” So ended the life of Sigurd. Brynhild grieved a season, then dealt

16), the author of the greatest of Spanish romances, Don Quixote. His life was full of adventure, privation, suffering, with

g sun upon the waters, in opening navigation, in restoring warmth and life to the creatures of the wave, especially to the d

in Childe Harold 4: 161: — “The lord of the unerring bow, The god of life , and poetry, and light — The sun, in human limbs

ver the moon (or the Star of Love), and over all animal and vegetable life and growth. She was the Istar of the Assyrians, t

Illustrative. — Lowell, addressing the Past, says, “Whatever of true life there was in thee, Leaps in our age’s veins. ...

Athens. That account, much fuller than is here given, was drawn from life , and has been the source from which many subseque

like the Linus festival and the Eleusinian — the transitory nature of life and the hope of immortality. Illustrative. — Kea

of Pelops. The part was replaced in ivory when Pelops was restored to life . Mount Cynthus: in Delos, where Apollo and Diana

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

izes a philosophical conception concerning three stages of the soul’s life : first, a former existence of bliss; second, an e

Venus, during which the statue of Galatea (or passive love) receives life , as the usual Adonis-festival. Illustrative. — T

Dionysus) is regarded by many as the spirit-ualform of the new vernal life , the sap and pulse of vegetation and of the new-b

s, it is probable that the initiated were instructed in the nature of life and death, and consoled with the hope of immortal

in honor of Ceres (Demeter), and referred to institutions of married life . That Proserpine should be under bonds to the und

ring the hot weather deprive the streams of water and consequently of life . That is to say, when the sources (Danaïds) choos

of some tyrant of inferior spirit, but of legal authority. Since the life of Hercules is composed of such tasks, it is easy

and Vergil write, is the most celebrated of them. Ovid’s story of her life protracted to one thousand years may be intended

a native of the island of Samos, but passed the chief portion of his life at Crotona in Italy. He is therefore sometimes ca

rse (as Pythagoras taught) there was a central fire, the principle of life . The central fire was surrounded by the earth, th

d. As a means, it is the process of renunciation by which the love of life and self are extinguished; as an end, it is the h

nd also to the unending strife of good with evil, the course of human life , and of the life after death. O. is represented a

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

o recover the drowned Osiris. A′pis: the sacred bull, into which the life of Osiris was supposed to have passed. The name a

s of his various attributes. He is the victorious principle of light, life , and right, but rules over, rather than sympathiz

Milton’s Cham), called also Min: the energizing principle of physical life . Associated with both Ammon and Osiris. His count

ra. Yama, and his sister Yami: the first man and woman; leaving this life they prepared for those that should follow blissf

t has passed through innumerable existences, and learned the virtuous life ; see under Buddha. Ni′sus, (1) father of Scylla,

, the stranger won the favor of Polyphontes, but came near losing his life at his mother’s hands. A recognition being happil

deration, and aversion to ostentatious display, by which your private life is so eminently distinguished, lasting impression

ver all parts of the universe; over the passions, and vicissitudes of life . Moreover, when different nations or cities worsh

delity, concord, courage, prudence, &c.; and even the miseries of life , as poverty, grief, and the like. The twenty gods

gia, where he killed himself with a hatchet. He was about to lose his life , when Cybele, having compassion upon a mortal who

se he made the laws and customs of hospitality; Zeus, because he gave life to animals, &c. &c. “Here a vast hill ‘g

heathens, namely, that a mixture of good and evil fills up the cup of life ; and that among its bitterest dregs are always fo

he was the queen of heaven; Perfecta, because marriage improves human life ; Pronuba, because marriages were accounted illega

down to free her from the strife Of lab’ring nature, and dissolve her life . Downward the various goddess took her flight, An

he spoke, she cut the fatal hair: The struggling soul was loos’d, and life dissolv’d in air.” Virgil. “At her command rus

Manturna was invoked to make the wife abide with her husband through life . Viriplaca, the goddess of family peace, was wor

s, with which to brush all things cleanly. Janus opened the doors of life to infants. Cunia takes care of infants while th

en at all times, to admonish those who were entering on the scenes of life , that they should “beware of flattery,” and striv

e thanks to Vitula, the goddess of mirth, for mitigating the toils of life . Sentia was invoked to make a full conviction in

ome water to quench her thirst, saying to them, “You will preserve my life ;” but the Lycians, instigated by Juno, refused he

been killed by Jupiter with his thunderbolts for raising the dead to life ; whereupon Apollo killed the Cyclops who forged t

ote his defending the earth; and with arrows, to signify his power of life and death. His killing the serpent Python is take

inted to judge this difference. It decreed that agriculture and rural life should be preferred to the trade of pirates; it m

shows, that the truly wise man does not care for the common events of life , and is attentive to the lessons of wisdom, which

colour of its origin. Proserpine is said to have brought him back to life on condition that he should remain six months wit

t the alternate return of winter and summer. Venus. “Heav’n gave her life , the sea a cradle gave, And earth’s wide regions

d Venus is allegorically represented as the principle of communicated life . In Homer and Virgil, we find Jupiter addressing

ter; except when figured symbolically: she then becomes the source of life and activity throughout the world. Obs. 2. — The

ne statuary, considering the inconveniences incident to a matrimonial life , seriously made up his mind to live single. He ma

is Vulcan’s son, Venus his wife: No wonder then he goes lame all his life .” “Nor was his name unheard or unadored In ancie

from the mortal frame; but when applied to the dead, they returned to life . It also had the power of settling controversies:

Part II. Of the Marine Deities. The wants and necessities of life are continually recurring. To have them unsupplie

general, was the principle of all things, and it only gave motion and life to all that breathes. The Indians rendered the Ga

is represent lust and gluttony, vices which render our voyage through life equally hazardous and perilous. Questions. Who we

d that, having unceasingly withstood the dangers which threatened his life , he was in need of assistance and protection. His

divinity as the spirit of heat, which produces plants, and gives them life . The people honoured him as a true god. He was re

i. The Genii were deities, supposed to preside over the birth and life of man. They are sometimes synonymous with the La

eir most secret thoughts. They carefully watched over their voyage of life , attending them from their cradles to their grave

nk, they danc’d they sung, made wanton sport, Enjoy’d themselves, for life they knew was short.” Horace. Questions. Who we

aking of his education, and by recounting all the good actions of his life . They extolled his justice, his piety, and his co

k, where they were charged with the management of the fatal thread of life . Clotho held a distaff of adamant; Lachesis, a sp

pindles, more or less filled, according to the length or shortness of life . — See Fig. 40. Fig. 40. The Fates or Parcæ. T

s and Flexippus, the brothers of Althaea, in the act of defending his life . Althaea, frantic with rage, threw the fatal stic

se called.” The Fates. “Stern Clotho weaves the chequered thread of life ; Hour after hour the growing line extends, The cr

d poets stood, Who sang with all the raptures of a god: Worthies, who life by useful arts refined; With those, who leave a d

ithout taking notice of it. The gods ordered Mercury to recall him to life , and gave him an ivory shoulder as a substitute f

ub full of holes, to show the impossibility of any one’s returning to life . Questions. Who were the most remarkable sufferer

ed, “ He walks on his hands and feet when young, or in the morning of life ; at noon of life, he walks erect on two feet; and

his hands and feet when young, or in the morning of life; at noon of life , he walks erect on two feet; and in the evening o

me, he performed many wonderful cures, and raised many of the dead to life , of which Pluto complained to Jupiter, who killed

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

s with which he had loaded them, added illustrious particulars to his life , exerted their refinement and genius in bestowing

som friend Philoctetes to put fire to it, ascended it, and closed his life in the most dreadful agonies, and was thence tran

fainting head, and clammy hair, Writhe his weak limbs, and flits his life in air; By steps reverted o’er the blood-dropp’d

the other was Pleasure, who advised him to lead an easy and indolent life ; but he would rather act the part of a benefactor

thers, by Idas; upon which Pollux entreated Jupiter to restore him to life . Jupiter allowed them to share immortality by tur

he infernal regions allowed Eurydice to enter again upon the stage of life , on condition that Orpheus would not look at her,

is garments, and saved them both from the flames at the hazard of his life . He wandered about from one place to another for

omans pretended to have been descended. Virgil acquaints us with the life of Æneas. His Æneid comprises the history of Ænea

What happened to him while he resided in Italy? What poet writes the life of Æneas? What was his end? Chapter IX. Achill

tertained by Calypso. Afterward, he suffered shipwreck, and saved his life by swimming. He went naked and solitary to the po

was hailed with deafening acclamations, as if Osiris was restored to life . The ox found to represent Apis, was left forty d

im, Isis, who possessed the rarest secrets of nature, restored him to life , and rendered him immortal. Obs. 1. — The fable

and rage, Malignity and folly. If the hand Of Oromazes, on precarious life Shed wealth and pleasure, swift the infernal god,

ry to consult this oracle, gives us no information in relation to the life of Trophonius, except that the earth being half o

e time in which he flourished, and various other circumstances of his life , are enveloped in a cloud of obscurity, impenetra

s the end of this man, no less extraordinary in his death than in his life . Some learned men have supposed that the desire o

t, in difficult affairs, the head of a certain Mimer, who, during his life , had a great reputation for wisdom. This man havi

led the air and disposed of tempests; that he could raise the dead to life , predict future events, and transform himself at

quences resulting from this worship. At length, the introduction of a life to come, cemented this religious edifice; cruel p

h they formed man and woman. The elder of the sons gave them soul and life ; the second, motion and science; the third endowe

According to the Celts, matter already existing, but without form and life , was animated and disposed by the gods in the ord

d over his actions, and, beforehand, marked out all the events of his life and the limit of his days. It is to that tenet of

and dangerous prejudice, namely; they believed that the limit of the life of a man could be put forward if some one should

man is form’d; Ev’ry hill with gladness teeming,     Ev’ry shape with life is warm’d. Who is he by heav’n’s high portal,   

many honors and caresses by the assembly, and had so many promises of life to come, that they sometimes congratulated themse

s, and encourage him to tread in the path of virtue in the morning of life ; if they do not sweeten his temper, and spread ov

st of the unfortunate victim of superstition, whilst pleading for his life , after having been stripped, by crime and force,

characters, asserted that, by their means, he could raise the dead to life . There were Runic letters appropriated to obtain

mmortality of the soul, and in the rewards and punishments of another life . According to their notions, the clouds were the

e emulation of warriors. The soul preserved the same tastes as during life . In the ethereal state of existence, though in a

cted the death of a great personage. A chief or a king never lost his life , unless the harps of the bards attached to his fa

ors of mythology. The Druids, hidden in their forests, led an austere life . Thither the nations went to consult them; and Ju

nguished youths was entrusted; so that they prepared them, from early life , to be impressed with a deep sense of respect for

d them to consider death as a sure means of attaining to a more happy life . They made a great difference between those who d

eaceably amidst their relatives and friends, and those who lost their life in serving their country. The former were interre

fourteen out of the presence of their parents. 15. Money lent in this life , will be rendered to creditors in the other world

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

le with these sublime maxims, that which gave to fathers the right of life and death over their wives, their children, and s

man, and slow in his motions. “Again, the ancient theologists called life by the name of Jupiter, to whom they gave a two f

on, δια, dia, and ξηνα, xena, signifying by these names that he gives life through himself. Further still, they report that

e conclusion that a hand mighty enough to call all these wonders into life , could also have created the beautiful earth wher

ins; and swift-darting fishes swam in the limpid streams. All was now life , joy, and motion. Gæa, roused from her apathy, ad

who creates only to destroy. In vain the bereaved mother besought the life of one little one: the selfish, hardhearted fathe

them with instincts which would enable them to preserve and enjoy the life they had received. He therefore called the younge

n form to the gods; bade Eros breathe into its nostrils the spirit of life , and Minerva (Pallas) endow it with a soul; where

xpressed his gratitude to the benevolent deity who had risked his own life to obtain it for him. From his lofty throne on th

d proffered a timid request that they might serve the gods as long as life and strength endured, and finally die together. T

ple, monuments of the-love and faith which had bound the pair through life . Although married to Juno, Jupiter often indulged

ields, the place of endless bliss, where such as they enjoyed eternal life . Chapter IV: Minerva The Birth of Minerv

the world — whose mighty heart Forever pours out love, and light, and life ; Thou, at whose glance, all things of earth are r

g to Coronis’ side, he vainly tried all his remedies to recall her to life .                 “The god of Physic     Had no a

soon rivalled his master, and even, it is said, recalled the dead to life . Of course, these miracles did not long remain co

some favour in his turn, and asked the gods to grant Admetus eternal life . His request was complied with, but only on condi

self-sacrifice offered herself as substitute, and cheerfully gave her life for her husband. But immortality was too dearly b

is exalted position he often cast loving glances down upon men, whose life he had shared for a short time, whose every priva

sed to shade the graves of those who had been greatly beloved through life . The Story of Daphne Some time after this e

e joyous wedding strains; but even the charms of music failed to make life endurable, and Orpheus wandered off to Olympus, w

to tears, whereupon they graciously consented to restore Eurydice to life and to her fond husband’s care.             “Hel

thonus, Prince of Troy, and won from the gods the boon of everlasting life to confer upon him. Alas! however, she forgot to

and on thy way Of glory sheddest with benignant ray,     Beauty, and life , and joyance from above.” Southey. The most ren

r a bow or a lyre.         “The Lord of the unerring bow, The God of life , and poesy, and light — The Sun in human limbs ar

n her well-poised head. “Near the Delian olive-tree Latonia gave thy life to thee, That thou shouldst be for ever queen Of

r entreaties, begged her father’s permission to remain single all her life , and pleaded her cause so ably, that Jupiter was

s head heaves with the heaving billow; That hand, whose motion is not life , Yet feebly seems to menace strife, Flung by the

ng it too beautiful to remain inanimate; he besought Venus to give it life , stating that he wished a wife just like it. “O

t she fled from home with the firm intention of putting an end to the life she could no longer enjoy in peace. To achieve th

ed her ashore, where his daughters, the water nymphs, restored her to life . Thus forced to live, Psyche wandered about disco

ing Venus is that of Berenice, who, fearing for her beloved husband’s life , implored the goddess to protect him in battle, v

accident left him lame and somewhat deformed for the remainder of his life . Now, although Vulcan had risked so much and suff

lso sat near Pluto’s throne. Clotho, the youngest, spun the thread of life , in which the bright and dark lines were intermin

nd woe, Hope, and fear, and peace, and strife, In the thread of human life .” Scott. Atropos, the third sister, armed with

med with a huge pair of shears, remorselessly cut short the thread of life , — an intimation that another soul would ere long

te part of the lad’s shoulder. The gods in pity restored the youth to life , and Ceres replaced the missing shoulder with one

, and, to prevent her being again claimed by Death, gave her immortal life . The Story of Pentheus When but a short dis

my-browed doth ceaseless roam     From many a morn till eventide. ‘My life , immortal though it be, Is naught!’ she cries, ’f

kindled by the rays of the sun. This fire — an emblem of the flame of life , which the ancients fancied was kept burning with

he was the son of Apollo; and, although born in Thessaly, he early in life came to Italy, where he founded a city on the Tib

ch, than the waves washed her husband’s corpse to her feet. To endure life without him seemed too great a task for poor Halc

fixed upon the sands of time; and when they had run out, he knew some life was about to end, and sallied forth, scythe in ha

atened him, she deemed it useless to make another attempt to take his life , but decided to vex his proud spirit by inflictin

ot at all satisfied to see him leading such a peaceful and prosperous life , and to interrupt its even course drove the hero

tudes, where he would probably have lingered all the remainder of his life , had not Mercury brought to him the decision of t

s fainting head and clammy hair, Writhe his weak limbs, and flits his life in air.” Darwin. Now that the gigantic defender

s soon brought forth a full account of Alcestis’ sacrifice of her own life to ensure the immortality of her husband. The her

to hand: Deep was the animated strife For love, for conquest, and for life .” Sophocles ( Francklin’s tr.). The victory, th

lved to end these unendurable torments by a death worthy of his whole life , Hercules called his servants, and bade them buil

early death. Chapter XX: Perseus Acrisius and Danae The life of Acrisius, King of Argos, had been a burden to

created from them the famous winged steed called Pegasus. ‘‘And the life drops from thy head On Libyan sands, by Perseus s

pithæ.” The hotly contested bride did not, however, enjoy a very long life , and Pirithous soon found himself, like Theseus,

to his own home, where he now expected to spend the remainder of his life in peace. Although somewhat aged by this time, Th

lden fleece. Pelias, quite certain that the rash youth would lose his life in the attempt, and thus cause no more trouble, w

sited Phineus, the blind king of Thrace, he heard that this monarch’s life was embittered by the Harpies, vile monsters, par

Jason, a victim of remorse and despair, now led a weary and sorrowful life , and every day he wandered down to the shore, whe

of Iasius, King of Arcadia. This princess had led a very adventurous life , for when but a babe, her father, disappointed to

every unsuccessful suitor should pay for his defeat by forfeiting his life . Atalanta’s Race. Sir E. J. Poynter, P. R. A

touched the father of the gods, that he permitted Castor to return to life on condition that Pollux would spend half his tim

t carry the new-born child out of the city, and end its feeble little life . The king’s mandate was obeyed only in part; for

of its terrible presence. As Œdipus attached no special value to the life made desolate by the oracle’s predictions, he res

ollowing enigma, warning him, at the same time, that he forfeited his life if he failed to give the right answer. “Tell me,

njunction and of Ismene’s prayers to refrain from endangering her own life , Antigone dug a grave for her brother’s remains,

.” Sophocles ( Francklin’s tr.). Hæmon pleaded passionately for her life ; but, when he saw his prayers were vain, he ran t

t all his wrath, Full in his side the weapon fix’d, but still, Whilst life remain’d, on the soft bosom hung Of the dear maid

d then fell into a deep reverie. He did not like to take a stranger’s life , and still could not refuse to comply with Prœtus

severed head. This horse, as white as snow, and gifted with immortal life as well as incredible speed, was the favourite mo

r of darkness, which he alone can overcome. Driven from home early in life , Bellerophon wanders throughout the world like hi

ceased to be, And all the nymph was lost within the tree: Yet latent life through her new branches reign’d, And long the pl

told of Rhœcus, who saved an oak from falling, and thus preserved the life of the Hamadryad within the tree. Filled with gra

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

soon must be Thy widow. All the Greeks will rush on thee To take thy life . A happier lot were mine, If I must lose thee, to

his beloved friend, who had left him but a short time before full of life and energy, was now no more. So loudly did the he

s, save this: that Hector first, Pierced by my spear, shall yield his life , and pay The debt of vengeance for Patroclus slai

and beauty,” and the Fates had almost finished spinning his thread of life . In an early skirmish, while in close pursuit of

llows, he drew his sword and rushed upon her, threatening to take her life if she did not immediately restore his friends to

venture, and at first greatly enjoyed the quiet and peace of his home life ; but after a while these tame joys grew wearisome

Deiphobus, his brother, —  and for a moment he determined to take her life ; but ere he could do so, Venus, his mother, staye

of the orb of day. Another of his appellations, Phœbus (“the lord of life and light”), still further emphasises his charact

ght darts; and, as “the sun was regarded naturally as the restorer of life ” after the blighting influence of winter and dise

darkness, and who, with untiring strength and patience, plods through life , never resting, and always on his journey perform

is forced to labour for mankind against his will. We see him early in life united to Megara, and, like Tantalus, slaying his

symbol of the western sky and clouds at sunset. The main part of his life is spent with Deianeira (“the destroying spouse”)

of Œdipus, doomed by fate to be the murderer of his father. Early in life Œdipus is exposed on the barren hillside to peris

his own mother, Jocasta, now the violet-tinted twilight, and ends his life amid lightning flashes and rolls of thunder, afte

roduction of the story of Hercules and Perseus: for Ulysses, early in life , after wedding Penelope, is forced to leave her t

d by Æneas Silvia, 339 Al-ces′tis. Wife of Admetus: dies to save his life , 47, 48 restored by Hercules, 200 Al-ci′des. Sam

4; significance, 341 At′ro-pos. One of the Fates; cuts the thread of life , 141 At′ti-ca. Province of Greece; Cecrops found

over history, 69 Clo′tho. One of the Fates; she spins the thread of life , 141 Clym′e-ne. 1. Wife of Iapetus; an ocean nym

; arrows of, 3, 90; egg produces, 4; causes man’s creation, 14; man’s life given by, 1 5 Er-y-man′thus. Place where Hercule

s, 304. 305. 2. Statue loved by Pygmalion, who prays Venus to give it life , 98. 99 Gan′y-mede. Trojan prince carried off by

a, or Sparta, 182 Lach′e-sis. One of the Fates; twists the thread of life , 141 La′don. Dragon which guarded golden apples

a Minor, 153, 201 Lyn-′ceus. Husband of Hypermnestra, who spared his life , 143 Lyn′cus. King of Scythia; changed into a ly

68 Mœ′ræ. The Fates, or Parcæ, who spin, twist, and cut the thread of life , 141 Mor′pheus. Prime minister of Somnus, god of

f their descendants, that they petitioned the gods to deprive them of life . They were soon after changed into serpents. Que

s so skilled in medicine that he was even able to restore the dead to life . Hippolytus [Hippol′ytus], son of Theseus, king o

of Athens, was killed by sea-monsters. Æsculapius, by bringing him to life , so offended Jupiter that the latter killed him w

he Fates, that when Admetus should be about to end his existence, his life might be prolonged, provided another died willing

ake refuge in Italy, where he taught the people the arts of civilized life . Janus, king of Italy, made Saturn partner of his

ghters of Chaos, who were appointed to watch over the thread of human life . Their names were, Clotho, Lachesis [Lach′esis] a

the Daughters of Night; their office was to torment the wicked during life and after death. Ques. How were they represented

and Æacus [Æ′acus]. These were princes, who governed so justly during life , that the fate of the dead was entrusted to them.

er being purified from whatever slight offences they had committed in life , they were conducted to a place abounding in deli

ower or rank, they might still excel in modest behavior and purity of life . The two temples were from that time distinguishe

ods? Ans. They were brave men, who had rendered themselves famous in life by illustrious actions. After their death, their

y the courage and generosity of Theseus that she resolved to save his life . For this purpose she gave him a ball of thread w

ymene, one of the Oceanides. He formed a man out of clay, and gave it life by means of fire which he stole from heaven. Que

to abandon everything to their cupidity, if they would but spare his life . The only favor he could obtain was the choice of

hat his daughter would have a son, who was destined to deprive him of life . Acrisius resolved, in consequence, that Danaë sh

birth, the Fates entered the chamber of Althea, and foretold that the life of the child should expire with a billet of wood

composed the greater part of his poems. He afterwards led a wandering life , gaining wealth and fame by the recitation of his

he friendship of Mæcenas and other generous and powerful patrons; his life was, therefore, spent in ease and prosperity. He

he taste for rural pursuits, by his beautiful descriptions of country life . The Æneid, the last and greatest of his works, i

. Perceiving that the strangers were Greeks, she offered to spare the life of one, on condition that he would be the bearer

nd; but as she forgot to ask for health and youthful bloom, this long life proved rather a burden than a benefit. She had re

ods or heroic personages were represented, the masks were larger than life , and the disproportion of the size of the head wi

wisely as to receive divine honors from his subjects even during his life . He married, as we have already learned, Io, the

ndian Apollo; the last of the Sacred Books is that which contains the life of Krishna. Ques. What is there remarkable about

tains the life of Krishna. Ques. What is there remarkable about this life ? Ans. So many circumstances closely resemble cor

s. So many circumstances closely resemble corresponding events in the life of our Saviour, that it is impossible the coincid

ten after our era by some one who had heard imperfect accounts of the life of our Lord. Ques. What is to be the tenth Avata

ransmigration of souls. The Hindoos believe that if a man lead a pure life , his soul will pass, after death, into another hu

ember of a lower caste ever pass to a higher. Only, if he lead a good life , he may console himself with the hope of being bo

o him by his disciples. Confucius enjoyed unbounded popularity during life , but the honors paid to him after death, have no

Chinese philosopher, contemporary with Confucius. With regard to his life and actions, many absurd and impossible things ar

have but a vague idea of the existence of anything beyond the present life . This indifference is the greatest obstacle with

entered, is required to remember the most private acts of the Lama’s life , to recognize, as familiar objects, the articles

y beautiful. He was tormented by terrible dreams, indicating that his life was in peril. He told these things to the assembl

ften attended with much bloodshed. The Arch-druid held his office for life . Ques. Who were the Druidesses? Ans. They were

s, and obtain victory for their people, or because they were weary of life , and desired to hasten the moment of transmigrati

l. According to the Druids, death was but the central point of a long life . Ques. What was the usual mode of sacrifice? An

to some beneficent ruler who instructed them in the arts of civilized life . It is singular that he should have been describe

dwelling. Ques. What did the Aztecs believe with regard to a future life ? Ans. Their priests taught that the wicked were

to the altar, was intended as an allegorical representation of human life , which, joyous at first, terminates in sorrow and

he Sun was adored as the father of the world, the source of light and life . The Moon was honored as his sister-wife, and the

rm men into regular communities, and teach them the arts of civilized life . The celestial pair advanced along the high plain

in ancient times, and instructed the natives in the arts of civilized life . This legend recalls the Mexican story of Quetzal

and occupations of men would be the same beyond the grave as in this life , costly apparel, arms, utensils and sometimes tre

a high rank among Latin authors. During the most active period of his life , he found time to devote to literary pursuits. Of

nd took so prominent a part in public affairs, that an account of his life would be also a history of his times. Cicero wrot

generous patron. Admirable in his public capacity, he was in private life as indolent and luxurious as the most effeminate

the progress of Christianity, and bearing testimony to the purity of life which was the distinguishing mark of its professo

t prize on twenty-four different occasions. Irreproachable in private life , distinguished for his skill in every manly exerc

s, was verified in the case of this great poet. If the morning of his life was bright in the lustre of national glory and pe

, but afterwards by the order of Augustus. He was already advanced in life when he compiled his great work on geography. It

ded the Peruvians, and were farther advanced in the arts of civilized life than any nation existing on the continent at the

latter is dedicated to Cicero, an intimate friend of the author. The life of Varro was eventful: he was favored by Julius C

r to leave it barren; and on her depended the food, and therefore the life , of all the people on the great, wide earth. Cere

er eyes were a deep, clear gray. They were sad eyes, because Latona’s life was very unhappy. Juno hated the gray-eyed woman;

“listen to the advice of an old woman who has had much experience in life . Be content to reign as queen of your art among w

y and woe, Hope and fear and peace and strife, In the thread of human life . Passions wild and follies vain, Pleasures soon

just as fair, The flowers, the open skies are there,     Come back to life and love!” Oh, all my heart went out to him,    

ou art all to me; Go forth, and I will follow thee,     Right back to life and love.” I followed through the cavern black,

what have I done!” And then I saw no more the sun,     And lost were life and love. Francis W. Bourdillon . The Queen

oment, he had promised to do something that would surely cost him his life . When he had passed the gates of the city, he sat

e the festival in her honor; for there had been so much sorrow in her life that she took all the joy that was within her rea

e call his strength Herculean. Hercules spent the greater part of his life in doing things to help weaker people. Juno still

fight hard battles, and kill fierce monsters, and, in short, risk his life all the time. But he was so brave that he feared

ome time, Hercules began to grow restless. He was tired of that quiet life at home, and he often thought of his early advent

her and son prisoners on the island. Daedalus grew very weary of that life , and thought and thought of some means of escapin

ned was called the Icarian Sea. ——— Birds in Summer How pleasant the life of a bird must be, Flitting about in each leafy t

o go, And to look on the green, bright earth below! How pleasant the life of a bird must be, Skimming about on the breezy s

rops are kissed Into green and yellow and amethyst! How pleasant the life of a bird must be, Wherever it listeth there to f

billowy sea, On the leafy stems of the forest tree, How pleasant the life of a bird must be! Mary Howitt . A Cruel Ki

tepped back from her in horror. “What!” he cried, “would you risk the life of your father, and do harm to your city, all for

ried, “I will go with you whether you want me or not, for without you life is worthless to me. The gates of my own city are

they had been in their poverty. So. they grew very old — so old that life no longer seemed beautiful to them, and they no l

morning, she went to the temple of Juno and prayed that her husband’s life might be spared, and that he might soon be restor

my dream was but too true!” She could not bear to think of her lonely life without Ceyx, and she felt that she would rather

ould stay in her palace, she would make him happy all the rest of his life . But Glaucus answered, “Sooner shall seaweed grow

She loved him, of course; for Venus had not only turned the marble to life , she had also made Galatea return the sculptor’s

ar where Pygmalion first offered up his prayer. They led a very happy life ; but though Pygmalion carved many more beautiful

ace and freedom, Sang of beauty, love, and longing; Sang of death and life undying In the land of the Hereafter. Henry Wad

ity, Concord, Courage, Prudence, and others; and even the miseries of life , as Poverty, Pain, &c. What were the Indigete

ead he hurl’d the flaming brand, In awful thunderings  — At once from life and from the chariot driv’n, The ambitious boy fe

the island in which he was born. Phœbus, a word signifying light and life . Pythius, from the dreadful serpent Python, which

zen dog, and a woman of the same metal, who was likewise endowed with life by the fire which Prometheus stole from the chari

it aloud. Philosophers regarded this Deity as the spirit of heat, the life and support of plants, but he was reverenced by t

s, and enjoying those gratifications, which pleased them most, during life . Elysian fields. These rites complete, they reac

poets stood, Who sang with all the raptures of a God: Worthies, -who life by useful arts refin’d; With those, who leave a d

of Necessity. They were supposed to spin and cut the thread of human life and destiny. Clotho held the distaff; Lachesis tu

, clothed in black, held the fatal shears, ready to cut the thread of life . Who was Nemesis? The goddess who presided over t

triple-headed dog of the infernal regions. What other actions of his life were remarkable? When in his cradle, he strangled

With the same principle was closely connected the belief in a former life , or the pre-existence of souls; and the obscure r

eze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees; Lives through all life , extends through all extent; Spreads undivided, o

d forced to throw up the sacred things, and animals, and the water of life , which it had swallowed. Varuna, the genius of th

condemned to perform all the most laborious and degrading offices of life . Do the Hindûs pay adoration to the sun and moon?

onsidered every part of the visible universe as endowed with inherent life , energy, and intelligence. They worshiped the int

solstice, and as passing, during the year, through all the stages of life , until towards the return of winter, he became ol

drifted on the coast of Phenicia, and Osīris to have been restored to life and liberty. The Egyptians annually commemorated

ast from the desert, that burns up and destroys every thing which has life , was imputed to Typhon; whence comes its appellat

rofoundest secrets, finding his body in the Nile, restored her son to life , and rendered him immortal. His statues represent

erived into all animated creatures. This vital ether, or principle of life , was called Ammon, or Jupiter. Who was Sem? Sem w

commerce, but confined her attention to agriculture, and the pastoral life . Her shepherds were true heroes; her kings, philo

ch period, it was asserted, he voluntarily divested himself-of mortal life , by plunging into the Nile. The discovery of a ne

of elements, fire and the solar light; and, above all, the energy of life , and of the soul. Seven Genii of the elements and

two pieces of a hard wood named Semi, which he keeps lighted through life , for the nuptial ceremony, for the performance of

and rage, Malignity and folly. If the hand Of Oromazes, on precarious life Shed wealth and pleasure, swift the infernal God,

war. Fire, as the principle of all things; the wind, as the cause of life ; and the sword, as the cause of death, were likew

he shore of the ocean. The first of these Divinities imparted to them life and soul; the second, reason and movement; the th

Scandinavian poets; his club, which was represented as instinct with life , and voluntarily returning to his hand after he h

of the sculls of their enemies, whom they had killed in their mortal life . It mentions Odin’s steed, as being named Sleipne

man is form’d Ev’ry hill with gladness teeming,     Ev’ry shape with life is warm’d. Who is he by heav’n’s high portal,   

-browed doth ceaseless roam    From many a morn till eventide.    “My life , immortal though it be,    Is naught,” she cries,

It was the spirit that was called Hope. Those who heard it felt that life was good after all, for with all their troubles t

ile hope remained. After that Pandora never opened the box again, but life on earth was not simple or easy. The world was fu

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

go,” he sang to the dark ruler. “She will come back at the end of her life . You do but lend her to me, not lose her. Think,

and if Eurydice may not go, I, too, will return no more to light and life .” So sweet had been the music of Orpheus that

she behind me? Have they really let her come? Are we really to begin life again and be happy once more?” He walked softly,

will be a great sufferer and a great hero, for he will pass his whole life ridding the world of plagues and monsters. Yes, a

him as he had served the snakes in his baby days, for he squeezed the life quite out of the beast. Ever afterward Hercules w

atient and brave, doing great deeds for others to the very end of his life . Then Jupiter, who loves heroes, took him up to O

ion. Apollo heard him and came. “If some one else will freely give up life for you,” said the god of light and song, “you sh

be, who has not long to live in any case.” Yet, sweet as was Admetus’ life to them, there was no one in the land to whom his

s Admetus’ life to them, there was no one in the land to whom his own life was not sweeter, and so Admetus came very near to

the night, and for the love she bore her husband she offered her own life for his. She vowed that she would rather die than

s fall, and empires fade,    Immaculately pure: Exchange this endless life of art    For beauty that must die, And blossom w

air,    To lips that have their day! Oh, perfect arms, grow soft with life ,    Wax warm, ere cold ye wane; Wake, woman’s hea

with it. He prayed to Venus (called by the Greeks Aphrodite) to give life to the image. By her grace, accordingly, it was m

great hulk drifted to the hero and with one blow he put an end to its life . Then Perseus flew back to Andromeda, and the two

e fierce-hearted chief of the plundering clan    Lies in wait for the life of the wayfaring man:            There, there, an

cken with grief. He would have commanded him to remain and not risk a life so precious, but he saw that it would be in vain.

gently on our way; While I of strong Poseidon prayed    To guard the life I mourn to-day!” Thomas Davidson. The Golden

if you were a god.” To the youthful shepherd, who had lived a simple life in the wood and among his flocks, power and wealt

skillful. He sent the priest away with angry words and threatened his life if he were seen again in the Grecian camp. Then t

what is it all worth to me? Patroclus, whom I loved more than my own life , is dead, and I sit here useless to my friends an

ffect. Instead of yielding, Ulysses drew his sword, as if to take her life , and the fair enchantress, trembling, fell at his

nderworld by Orpheus, 69, who had an opportunity to bring her back to life , f3, but failed, 76. Eury l΄ochus (u-ril΄o-kus.)

r. Alces′tis [Alcestis], wife of Admetus, who, to save her husband’s life , died in his stead, and was restored to life by H

o, to save her husband’s life, died in his stead, and was restored to life by Hercules. Alci′des [Alcides], one of the name

ters called The Fates, who held the shears ready to cut the thread of life . A′tys [Atys], son of Crœsus, was born dumb, but

ent at births, and held the distaff from which was spun the thread of life . See Atropos and Lachesis. Clowns of Ly′cia, The

ogor′gon [Demogorgon] was the tyrant genius of the soil or earth, the life and support of plants. He was depicted as an old

lden verge of day begun. When Orpheus (her unhappy lord), Eurydice to life restored, At once beheld, and lost, and was undon

Hippolyte; he was killed by a fall from a chariot, but was raised to life again by Diana, or, as some say, by Æsculapius.

One of the three goddesses of Fate, the Parcæ. She spun the thread of life . Lacin′ia [Lacinia]. A name of Juno. Lactura. O

der of Iphitus. Hercules fell in love with her, and led an effeminate life in her society, wearing female apparel, while Omp

Osi′ris [Osiris]. The Egyptian god of the sun, the source of warmth, life , and fruitfulness; he was worshiped under the for

d, was the first mortal female. Vulcan made her of clay, and gave her life . Venus gave her beauty; and the art of captivatin

hey found out what the father of Pelops had done, restored the son to life , and he afterward became the husband of Hippodami

any moment. Phœ′bus [Phœbus]. A name of Apollo, signifying light and life . “Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds, Toward

such a beautiful statue of a goddess that he begged Venus to give it life . His request being granted, Pygmalion married the

r, when an infant he crawls on his hands and feet, in the noontide of life he walks erect, and as the evening of his existen

th men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he giveth to all life , and breath, and all things; and hath made of one

y be better cultivated than they have been hitherto. Thus the private life of the ancient Greeks and Romans may be more full

, with his copyright, let it become common property at the end of his life , or of the twenty-eight years. Otherwise the grea

tant bounds Of earth, where dwelleth fair-haired Rhadamanthys : There life is easiest unto men ; no snow, Or wintry storm, o

the lowest and deepest gloom ; and Love, the generating principle of life and motion, follow in their due order. As in all

esent the gods in their Olympian abode, and exhibit a sketch of their life and occupations, are the objects of the present c

; their food is called Ambrosia, their drink Nectar344. Their mode of life exactly resembles that of the princes and nobles

fficiate in that temple, and that they might be united in death as in life . Their prayer was granted, and as they were one d

h a dreary prospect before them should not have been more attached to life , and more averse from war and everything that mig

he conclusion of the day and the setting of the sun with the close of life , may have led the Greeks485, or it may be the Phœ

execute the order584. It is thus that mythology changes with modes of life . Hephæstos and Pallas-Athene are frequently joine

ined together as the communicators to men of the arts which embellish life and promote civilization585. The philosophy of th

Youth was given to him in marriage593. It was apparently to bring the life of the gods more into harmony with that of men, t

he soon lay slain by their arrows. His punishment did not cease with life  : vultures preyed on his liver in Erebos605. Leto

it rebounded and struck him in the face. The god, unable to save his life , changed him into the flower which was named from

r his healing powers. Extending them so far as to restore the dead to life , he drew on himself the enmity of Hades, on whose

ty of Hades, on whose complaint Zeus with his thunder deprived him of life . Apollo incensed slew the Cyclopes who had forged

on her father’s knee, besought him to grant her permission to lead a life of perpetual virginity, to get a bow and arrows f

ws an altar to her, and beseeches her to grant him a long and a happy life . But Aphrodite denies her heavenly origin, and fe

g up from it, which by its caducity expresses the brief period of the life of the beautiful son of Myrrha748. The rose also

works, the sophist Eunapius told the following curious legend in his life of Jamblichus, the author of as marvellous a life

rious legend in his life of Jamblichus, the author of as marvellous a life of Pythagoras. Jamblichus and his companions havi

and child, Persephoneia fair, Grant freely, for my song, the means of life . But I will think of thee and other songs. Such

e. admitted to participate in them, and of the favour of the gods in life , and the cheerful hopes in death, which were the

ued existence after death, a vivid hope of enjoying bliss in the next life . It was evidently the principle already stated, o

keres ; — one, to die early at Troy ; the other, to die after a long life at home1009. On the shield of Achilleus1010 Ker a

d Cyclic poems, were diffused far and wide, and occupied the whole of life with new superstitions, is manifest from the numb

scattered new fables about the lower-world, and hopes of a more happy life and Elysian abodes promised to those who received

they portrayed him as a young man hardened by the toils of a country life . Short horns sprout on his forehead, to character

f Nymphs are the Hamadryades, those personifications of the vegetable life of plants1234. In the Homeridian hymn to Aphrodit

great And holy dwell, who neither goddesses Nor women are1236. Their life is long ; they eat Ambrosial food, and with the D

, came to him and expressed her gratitude to him for having saved her life , and at the same time desired him to ask what rew

of man to have been one of peace and happiness. At all periods of his life man looks back to the gay and careless days of ch

k Saturn for arbitrator, and he decided that, as Jupiter had given it life , he should have the body, but that as Care had fo

uge. According to them, it overspread the whole earth, and all animal life perished except Deucaliôn and Pyrrha, whom Ovid,

nt Greece as in modern Italy. Religion will always vary with modes of life , and there is therefore no improbability in the s

llo also obtained from the Fates that, when the day appointed for the life of Admetos to terminate should come, he might def

mplored his aged father and mother to lay down their small remnant of life for his sake, but they were deaf to his prayers.

eprived of his kingdom by his half-brother Pelias1535, who sought the life of the infant Iasôn ; and to save him his parents

d with Medeia to Corinth1549. Iasôn is said to have put an end to his life after the tragic fate of his children ; or, as an

gour of Meleagros wasted away ; and when it was reduced to ashes, his life terminated. Repenting when too late of what she h

epenting when too late of what she had done, Althæa put an end to her life by a cord or a sword. Cleopatra died of grief ; a

to the unfortunate fair-one the imprudent request which cost her her life . Her offspring was Dionysos, who became the god p

fiction. Euripides makes Iocasta survive her sons, and terminate her life by the sword1694. Τϵιρϵσίας. Tiresias. In

annot undo the acts of another, gave him in compensation an extent of life for seven generations, and the power of foreseein

they arrived at the fountain of Tilphussa. Teiresias, whose period of life was fated to be coextensive with that of the city

ch fill his brother with terror. The character of the hero throughout life , as that of the avenger of injustice and punisher

he prepares himself, in the stillness and solitude of the shepherd’s life , by feats of strength and courage, for his future

ers, by the goddess herself, whose favourite he had been, and whom in life she had often visited1801. Another account of the

sisters, as they had entered into a resolution that when one lost her life the others would end theirs, all voluntarily put

owing on his head ; and as long as it remained uncut, so long was his life to last. Scylla, having seen Minôs, fell in love

nd stretched and pulled him, as he said, to make him fit it, till the life left him. But if the stranger should be tall, he

old king, thinking he was bereaved of his newly-found son, ended his life . Theseus, with the general approbation, mounted t

to pieces, and dragged along Hippolytos entangled in the reins, till life abandoned him. Phædra ended her days by her own h

the island, he fell or was pushed off by his companion, and lost his life by the fall. The Athenians honoured his memory by

ros and Earth, who seized all passers-by,) asleep, he deprived her of life  : he also took vengeance on the murderers for the

ut that his daughter would bear a son whose hand would deprive him of life . Fearing the accomplishment of this prediction, h

1969, in which he arrived at such perfection as to be able to restore life to the dead. He is said to have thus recalled fro

again as a nymph. She is reared by a bear, she is devoted to a single life and the chase, and she kills the two Centaurs as

opponents to the Tyndarids, to give a mythic ground for the alternate life and death of these last, or possibly because in t

ing of Pisa. An oracle having told this prince that he would lose his life through his son-in-law, or, as others say, being

ground in order to renew it. Hermes the rural god restores Pelops to life , and the same Hermes, under the name of Myrtilos,

e sovereignty of a part of it. Zeus is said to have bestowed on him a life of treble duration2095 . Rhadamanthys ruled with

ne Minôs’ maid his blooming spouse, And Kronos’ son gave her immortal life . Ariadne (Much-pleasing) evidently belongs to th

hat he who could best tell what she was like could restore his son to life . The soothsayers were all assembled ; and Polyeid

on, discovered where he was. Minôs then ordered him to restore him to life  ; and on his declaring his incapacity so to do, s

lant in its mouth, and laid it on the dead one, who instantly came to life . Polyeidos, by employing the same herb, recovered

res), and Merope, who married Sisyphos2130. These nymphs led a single life , and hunted with Artemis. Oriôn happening to see

lôs, prohibited their landing ; but Medeia by her art deprived him of life . On leaving Crete the night came on so black and

n, both because he was before man, and because like a father he gives life , health and food.” To this we may add the testimo

“of a man” — “the topmost hairs” quickly replied Numa ; — “I demand a life ” — “of a fish.” The deity smiled, and said that h

particular, he makes Elis and Messene the scene of Apollo’s pastoral life , v. 679. 840. Sch. Il. xxiv. 24. 841. Pherecyd.

that country, seeing good houses, and flocks, and all the comforts of life , in the city and its neighbourhood, would go in b

t. He conferred upon him the gift of prophecy, and likewise a term of life seven times longer than that of common men; and M

ere unhappy in this world, the gods would make them amends in another life . These Furies, whom you have read of as very crue

ct; she beat her breast, and tore her hair, but she could not restore life to the dead. Cadmus grieved bitterly for the unde

t to consult the oracle, to know what should befall him in his future life . Silly people go to fortune-tellers, in these day

ut was much surprised at the sight of Danæ, for she had never, in her life , seen a lady so dressed, and so delicate and fair

re. Polydectes admired the project; he thought Perseus would lose his life by his foolhardiness, and he should thus get rid

ve to be his murderer, and that he had only attempted to save his own life , by taking theirs. When Perseus reached Argos, he

, or woman, might go to a temple, as a refuge from injury, or to save life , but no one dared to follow him or her thither, l