ely cheerful, that we are apt to think it must have wanted gravity to more believing eyes. Every forest, to the mind’s eye o

ns and friends. If in all this there was nothing but the worship of a more graceful humanity, there may be worships much wor

he spirit languishes and lies At mercy of life’s dull realities. “No more by well or bubbling fountain clear     The Naiad

to trace, in the mythologies of various nations, a resemblance to the more holy histories of our own faith; and they assert

be asserted, that the mind is scarcely able to do justice to them any more than to modern writers, since the works of the la

es the attentive ear, it is Diana, armed with her bow and quiver, and more nimble than the stag that she pursues, who takes

, Genius, Pluto, Bacchus, Love, Cybele, and Proserpine. Besides these more important ones, they had others, such as Chaos; w

y; while rebellion brought its accustomed curse in heavier chains and more rigorous captivity, to all save Saturn, who, led

were spread new oceans to explore, And happy mortals unconcerned for more , Confined their wishes to their native shore: No

laspest the limits of mortality! And sick of prey, yet howling on for more , Vomitest wrecks on its inhospitable shore. Treac

rumbling around my brow, To scent its foul and noisome atmosphere, Is more than frail mortality can bear. Anon. Insérer i

y ridge, Stubborned with iron. Cœus and Gyges and Briareus, With many more , the brawniest in assault, Were pent in regions o

nder Jove. Succeeding times a silver age behold, Excelling brass, but more excelled by gold; Then summer, autumn, winter did

of new revenge. Alas! I pity thee, and hate myself, That I can do no more : aye from thy sight Returning, for a season, heav

slow agonies in hell; And my commission is to lead them here, Or what more subtle, foul, or savage fiends People the abyss,

k. Oh that we might be spared: I to inflict, And thou to suffer! once more answer me: Thou knowest not the period of Jove’s

and echoes know The darkness and the clangour of your wings. But why more hideous than your loathed selves Gather ye up in

aid, And that alluring ill to sight displayed. Thus cursed steel, and more accursed gold, Gave mischief birth, and made the

closed at once in one perpetual night; These Juno takes, that they no more may fail, And spreads them in her peacock’s gaudy

sle of Samos, announcing, at the same time, that she should return no more to the court of the King of Heaven. The latter, n

for the sweetly singing swans it bred; Pergûsa is its name: and never more Were heard, or sweeter sounds than on Cayster’s s

s favourably received: the King of the Scythians, who loved the sword more than the ploughshare, and the spear more than the

ythians, who loved the sword more than the ploughshare, and the spear more than the reaping hook, having attempted to smothe

at hangs upon a summer’s breath!         “Father of rosy day!     No more thy clouds of incense rise;     But waking flower

to meet thee in the skies!         “God of the Delphic fane!     No more thou listenest to hymns sublime;         But they

d Mercury who had invented the lyre, gave it to him that he might the more effectually give vent to his passion. This lyre,

Saddened by his efforts to form an endearing friendship, Apollo once more sighed for the nymph Perses, daughter of Ocean, a

losed above her face, With many a ring. “And still I stayed a little more , — Alas! she never comes again, I throw my flower

the priest, and set in order. Sometimes the spirit of inspiration was more gentle, and not always violent, yet Plutarch ment

ificence, of the temple of Delphi. There were other temples of Apollo more celebrated, such as that at Palmyra, which was co

n nights like this His lashes dark, and left her dewy kiss; But never more upon the Latmos hill May she descend to kiss that

ich Bacchus was confined, opened of their own accord. Pentheus became more irritated, and commanded his soldiers to destroy

maiden named Callirhoe, found his love returned with hatred, and the more he sought to impress her with his affection, the

hatred, and the more he sought to impress her with his affection, the more hateful did he become. Unable to gain her, the pr

f mœnads, under the inspiration of the ‌God. Nothing can be conceived more wild and terrible than their gestures, touching,

thusiasm, with the wild errors from which it sprung. In Rome it had a more familiar, wicked, and dry appearance; it was not

the graces, and the patroness of pleasure. Some mythologists speak of more than one. Of these, however, the Venus sprung fro

ire, The kind deceit, the still reviving fire, Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquenc

whom, Leander braved the Hellespont, and whose touching story will be more minutely given hereafter, was one of the priestes

rt to know, And all the joys from social life that flow; In search no more of casual seats to roam, But rear with skilful ha

, that the king of heaven must have complied, had it not been for the more touching and feminine attributes of Venus, the so

nciled to his parents. He seems, however, to have been retained there more for ridicule than any other purpose; and was inde

foresaw the mischief he would create in the world, as well as in his more immediate kingdom; he therefore banished him from

endeavoured to take a portion of it to herself, that she might appear more beautiful in the eyes of her lost husband. On ope

   The pictured semblance lay, Of him the temple’s lord, it shone      More beautiful than day. “It was a sleeping child, as

affront with patience bore; A boxen shuttle in her hand she took, And more than once, Arachne’s forehead struck.” The high

ious lovers strove. They who have seen her, own they ne’er did trace, More moving features, in a sweeter face: Yet above all

 Are graven, till the characters be grown Into itself, and thought no more can trace;     ’Tis the melodious hue of beauty t

made with the bones of Pelops — while Apollodorus asserts, it was no more than a piece of clock-work which moved of itself.

the promontory to Apollo. Neptune, as god of the sea, was entitled to more power than any of the other deities, except Jupit

of an enthusiast. “Ere I leave this world, oh! allow me to touch once more , and for the last time, the strings of the lyre w

sea.                                We ask not such from thee! “Yet more , the depths have more! what wealth untold, Far do

               We ask not such from thee! “Yet more, the depths have more ! what wealth untold, Far down, and shining thro’

n;                                Earth claims not these again! “Yet more , the depths have more! thy waves have rolled, Abo

            Earth claims not these again! “Yet more, the depths have more ! thy waves have rolled, Above the cities of a wor

l play!                                Man yields them to decay “Yet more ! the billows and the depths have more! High heart

 Man yields them to decay “Yet more! the billows and the depths have more ! High hearts and brave are gathered to thy breast

in, Stalked with majestic port, a martial train; These and a thousand more , swarmed o’er the ground, And all the dire assemb

hey presided, as suited to the modern character of our Mythology, and more generally appreciated by the readers of the ninet

ournful air unheard before, That much surprizing Pan, yet pleased him more , Admiring this new music, ‘Thou’ he said, ‘Who c

ss, my flocks to spare. When December’s nones return Labour’s yoke no more is borne, Sport the cattle in the meads, The blyt

y pity now, repenting, I implore; Oh! may I feel the golden plague no more !’” Ovid. He was told to wash himself in the riv

bration. When however his worship was introduced into Rome, he became more the God of Orchards and Gardens, than the patron

head, That dissevered my ear, but I felt not, whose fate, Was to meet more distress in his love his hate!” Hood. The only

er excel, Or form the pliant souls of plants so well; Or to the fruit more generous flavours lend, Or teach the trees with n

thus he gains; admires the store Of fairest fruit; the fair possessor more ; Then greets her with a kiss; th’ unpractised dam

e I depart to a brighter shore, Ye are marked by care, ye are mine no more , I go where the loved, who have left you, dwell,

ising from his oozy bed, Thus to the poor, desponding lover said, ‘No more in anxious thoughts your mind employ, For yet you

ploy, For yet you shall possess the dear, expected joy, You must once more the unwary nymph surprize, As in her cooly grot s

ngs. Sparta and Elis honoured her, but Phœnicia and Spain paid to her more particularly the homage of a divinity. She inhabi

mage of a divinity. She inhabits the infernal regions; and though, in more modern times, Death has been always addressed as

rn babe hath passed the blight Of fell disease: wait, wait one moment more , Thy hand has touched it, Death, and hope is o’er

n look pale at thee, and gasp for breath, Thou doest this, thou doest more , oh! Death Thou twin’st the cypress wreath round

y Nor with his horny bill provoke the day; Nor watchful dogs, nor the more wakeful geese, Disturb, with nightly noise, the s

of love is there,     Each gleam of beauty fled, Each lost one still more fair —     Oh! lightly, lightly tread!” Hemans.

ages of their deceased friends, that reverence was soon changed for a more regular worship, and they were admitted by their

celebrated during the Saturnalia. Hymn to the Penates. “Yet one song more ! one high and solemn strain, Ere, Phœbus! on thy

, Phœbus! on thy temples ruined wall I hang the silent harp: one song more ! Penates! hear me! for to you I hymn The votive l

s by the dissipated youth of the city, and occupies in poetry, a rank more elevated than that of Comus. He was greatly honou

more elevated than that of Comus. He was greatly honoured during the more dissipated times of Rome, and it was the custom t

he hermit, sighed, — till woman smiled!” Campbell. According to the more received opinions of others, Hymenæus was a young

, but love: Your life I’ll guard, and only crave of you To swear once more — and to your oath be true.’ He swears by Hecate,

single birth But a whole troop of lusty youths rush forth, And what’s more strange, with martial fury warmed, And for encoun

all, By mutual wounds these earth-born brothers fall.     One labour more remains, and, though the last, In danger far surm

ied in the most painful torments. This deed was followed by one still more revolting to the mind, for Medea slew two of her

e bore, his long lost son, and Medea had recourse to her dragons once more , to make her escape through the air, to Colchis,

words provoke worse ill. Hercules. I now am full, and can contain no more . Theseus. What dost thou? Whither doth thy rage

l be my stake: and this were best, That never Grecian might behold me more , With whom in better days I have been happy. Why

lebrated club of brass, according to the opinion of some writers, but more generally supposed to be of wood, and cut by the

er, for he was smitten with an indisposition which compelled him once more to consult the oracle of Delphi. Not being please

in the power of flame, Was all consumed; his body’s nervous frame No more was known; of human form bereft — The eternal par

being the only one subject to mortality, she must be the victim. For more than one reason this was very agreeable to Polyde

To wake the morn, the morn to wake the sun.     Here Atlas reigned of more than human size, And in his kingdom the world’s l

of endless rest from me receive. —’ He said, and backward turned, no more concealed The present, and Medusa’s head reveal’d

elting sorrows flowed. Her faultless form the hero’s bosom fires, The more he looks, the more he still admires. Th’ admirer

ed. Her faultless form the hero’s bosom fires, The more he looks, the more he still admires. Th’ admirer almost had forgot t

thee: Hence; oh! quit the Cephan shore And never curse it with Medusa more ; That horrid head which stiffens into stone, Thos

nce courted in general; but Pirithous king of the Lapithæ, sought the more singular mode of gaining it by meeting him in fig

n thousand streams, With winds that move in perfume and in music, And more than all, the gift of woman’s beauty. What marvel

say it not, Hippolytus! for I Do love thee as —     Hip. I’ll hear no more ! Mother! I leave thee, and I pray the gods To vi

. And dost thou think that thou canst thus deceive me? Away, away, no more pollute my court; Wert thou not called my son, th

ission to the presence of Pluto! Here the power of his genius was yet more eminently exhibited; for even the tortures of Hel

fury thee possest? What frenzy, Orpheus, seized upon thy breast? Once more my eyes are seized with endless sleep, And now fa

fts, my love’s last gifts to thee!     Take me to thy warm heart once more !     Night falls, my pulse beats low;     Seek no

unwearied zeal, that he himself was the unhappy parricide, and still more , that he was the husband of his own mother. Œdi

                          By the gods, I do conjure you to enquire no more . Œd. Furies and Hell! Hæmon bring forth the rack

or what end? Why gave she thee her child? Phor. To murder it. Œd. O more than savage! murder her own bowels Without a caus

e depth of his anguish he deprived himself of sight, as unworthy ever more to behold the light, and banished himself from Th

resence, And on this field of death — And thou, whom I Should call no more my brother, do thou spare The blood of Thebes: th

r the crown thou did’st usurp from me. And that thy soul may fly with more regret Know traitor that thy last blow comes from

” Racine. ‌He approached the fallen monarch, and striking him once more with his sword, Eteocles expired beneath the blow

his personal zeal by furnishing one hundred ships, and lending sixty more for her assistance. The Greek army amounted to si

ot embrace, nor kiss that cools the heart With purity, nor words that more and more Teach what we know, from those we know,

e, nor kiss that cools the heart With purity, nor words that more and more Teach what we know, from those we know, and sink

ed for the space of nine years, and might have lasted much longer, as more than valour was necessary to take the city; for d

e discovered; and that he should be animated with higher thoughts and more exalted sentiments. Ulysses, King of Ithaca, took

t not alone, for the spirit of glory was aroused in Achilles, and one more defender was added to the cause of Menelaus. But

inking realms announced her fated fall; Whirled his fierce spear with more than mortal force, And pierced the thick ribs of

ly monsters rolled, Ring above ring in many a tangled fold, Close and more close their writhing limbs surround, And fix with

o sailors and devoured them; at his repast in the evening he took two more . Ulysses, horrified at his danger, thought how he

companions to their previous shapes. The fascinations of Circe proved more powerful than the sword of Ulysses, and he staid

usband, with such a full and prophetic assurance that she should once more see him, that all their efforts to influence her

ll their efforts to influence her were vain. In order to put them off more effectually, she undertook to make a piece of clo

ated, while at other times she appears in a chariot. She is, however, more frequently represented holding the book of the la

, yet they have frequently celebrated them in their verses; nor could more important engines in the mischiefs which arose in

g eyes, while they deplore Their neighbours’ fate, and country now no more , Their little shed, scarce large enough for two,

trong as it was sudden, consented to become his bride. ———————— “How more than sweet, That moment, as he knelt at Hero’s fe

as a burthen; song, now that the one had gone whose praise she valued more than all beside, became neglected; and in a fit o

g to which, he retired into the country that he might devote his time more uninterruptedly to study. When, upon the death of

some fond despair; Or it might be, a beauty of the earth, Who found a more than common votary there Too much adoring; whatso

emote, it is difficult to separate the true from the false, and still more so to give a plausible explanation of apparent in

that he carried on his shoulders a young bullock, four years old, for more than forty yards, that he then killed it with a b

n Mythology. It is scarcely possible for any religion to possess a more metaphysical and abstract character, than the cre

ebrated, was sown with stones, and from thenceforth doomed to know no more the voice of the sower, the song of the reaper, o

latform of the temple, mid the wild cries of the priests, and the yet more savage greetings of the multitude. The religious

y good, he is never invoked. “The better he is” say the Negroes, “the more useless it is to pray to him,” and as a natural c

n the skies, and from their union sprang the months. The Otaheitians, more advanced in civilization, have also more extended

the months. The Otaheitians, more advanced in civilization, have also more extended ideas of the divinity. They worship a su

elegant reminiscences of the Greek mythology, and followed us to the more painful and revolting creed of the American, we c

here omitted, and it is thought that the stories will require little more mental labor than that of the mere reading. In th

talk, Pluto thought her look and the light she brought with her worth more than all the treasures of his underworld; and fro

s no help at hand and they had seen their beautiful goddess friend no more . When Ceres heard that, her face grew very stern

ut Ceres thought only of her lost child, and day by day the land grew more bare. The leaves fell from the trees, and the hil

his feet and a winged cap upon his head, and he sails through the air more swiftly than any bird. Besides, he has a magic wa

nter can be foretold and men can be ready for it. After that men were more comfortable, but up to this time they knew nothin

ords of steel and armor of brass to use against one another. Men were more comfortable, but they were not happier than befor

ts of Olympus will harm men. Let the world alone.” Epimetheus said no more , but his mind was not changed. Next day he went u

d not to take the gift; then he opened the door. There stood Pandora, more beautiful than any woman of earth and in her arm

t time, to be free and happy. Even Jupiter and the gods of heaven had more joy as they saw how the earth prospered and how t

be doubled. Who knows?” Day by day she grew to love the beautiful box more , and day by day she was more eager to know what w

y day she grew to love the beautiful box more, and day by day she was more eager to know what was in it! “Maybe there is som

trees, he said to himself that he had never seen a lighter step or a more winning face. At that very moment Cupid was strin

but stop and hear me.” But Daphne would not listen. She fled only the more swiftly, and Apollo, with all his speed, could ha

led his, pace and began to gain upon her; but the nearer he came, the more terrified was poor Daphne. It was as if she were

. He told how he had tried to endure her loss, and how he had felt it more and more until at last he had been driven to come

how he had tried to endure her loss, and how he had felt it more and more until at last he had been driven to come down int

than there alone, and if Eurydice may not go, I, too, will return no more to light and life.” So sweet had been the musi

lly let her come? Are we really to begin life again and be happy once more ?” He walked softly, so as to hear her footsteps.

ight. The light of day began to show faintly in the cave. A few steps more and they would be out. Again Orpheus walked softl

future events. “Alcmena,” said the seer, “your son has power that is more than human. He will be a great sufferer and a gre

e life ridding the world of plagues and monsters. Yes, and he will be more than a hero, for I foresee that when he comes to

e way where it forked. Goddesses they really were, though they seemed more like beautiful women. One of them, when she saw H

d besides, I am much taller than you and can get over the ground much more quickly. If you will hold the sky up for me, I wi

” When, however, Atlas, without thinking, had taken his old load once more , Hercules picked up the apples and said: — “After

rt and delivered up the golden fruit. Eurystheus feared and hated him more than ever after this, but Hercules continued to b

ng and his courtiers heard him stop playing; then he would begin once more . After a while they heard him coming back, and so

s — the Crab, the Scorpion, the Serpent, the Lion, the Bear, and many more . These frighten the horses, and a strong hand mus

y little all this grew fainter. Soon he was too high to hear anything more . All this time the steeds were pulling hard at th

nraged at the unusual heat, rose fiercely, and the horses veered once more . Phaëton, now thoroughly scared, tried to turn th

tried to turn them back to the east. He hoped to put the chariot once more into his father’s hands. But the steeds did not h

directed his flight toward them, and there he set his tired foot once more upon the earth. He took off his helmet and prepar

e. Perseus did what he could to soothe the big fellow, but Atlas grew more and more enraged. When at last he made a move tow

s did what he could to soothe the big fellow, but Atlas grew more and more enraged. When at last he made a move toward the h

icked Medea pleased the king, and Theseus was bidden. Never was Medea more beautiful than upon that evening. When the golden

lands she did evil after that, but the people of Athens never saw her more . Then began good days. Theseus lived happily in t

nning, hungry eyes, he hated it, for it was like a beast, and was yet more like a cruel and evil man. With a terrible bellow

w! Theseus, Theseus comes again;    Shake sorrow from your pillow! No more , ye fathers, mourn your sons!    Mothers, weep no

ke this golden apple and give it to her that is the fairest.” Without more words the god was gone, and Paris found himself s

e trials with a brave heart. These things are mightier than power and more precious than wealth; and they shall be yours, if

riend Patroclus, and neither they nor their followers would fight any more against the Trojans. And Achilles wept with grief

Hector, the great Trojan warrior, with brave. Æneas at his side, did more . Jupiter kept his vow and the victory was with th

emnon did me; but what is it all worth to me? Patroclus, whom I loved more than my own life, is dead, and I sit here useless

e be peace between us, O Agamemnon. Let us forget our strife and once more fight side by side against the Trojans. I would t

brothers, Deiphobus,” he said, “but from this time I shall honor you more than ever before.” With that, the two advanced to

cian hero. But as he came near, Achilles hurled his mighty spear once more , and it struck between the joints of Hector’s arm

r place. “I had great beauty: ask thou not my name:    No one can be more wise than destiny. Many drew swords and died. Whe

e wooden horse, impious man that he was!” After that, there was no more talk of burning the horse, or of casting it into

warrior was eager to see them again, and to be at home as a king once more in his rugged island of Ithaca. With his twelve s

At dawn, Polyphemus awoke, milked his flocks, and killed and ate two more of Ulysses’ companions. Then he opened the door o

o him. “It is good,” said the Cyclops, when he had drunk it. “Give me more , and tell me your name. I wish to give you a gift

it raised carried the boat back to the shore. The men pushed off once more and again Ulysses called to the monster: — “Cyclo

me the great mass fell behind the ship and only helped it on. Without more words, the men rowed back to the rest of the flee

of King Æolus. Æolus had been kind, but now he refused to do anything more for them, and sternly ordered them to leave. Sadl

instant, the bristles fell from them and they rose up and became once more Ulysses’ men, but younger and fairer and taller t

loose, when he heard the sweet voices, but his men bound him only the more firmly until the ship was far beyond the place. T

on the middle sea. “Whither away, whither away, whither away? fly no more . Whither away from the high green field, and the

e world o’er? Whither away? listen and stay: mariner, mariner, fly no more .” Alfred Tennyson (Adapted). The Homecoming

worst of them, came to her and said: — “Choose one of us and delay no more , for Ulysses is long since dead. Your son, Telema

raveled all that she had woven. Thus she put them off for three years more . Then her servants betrayed her, and she was obli

r from here.” He was eager to tell her who he was, but he wished even more to punish the men who had made her miserable; so,

ndering fields of barren foam. Then someone said, “We will return no ‘ more ”: And all at once they sang, “Our island home Is

calls up to the mind of one familiar with our subject, illustrations more vivid and striking than the pencil could furnish,

Milton abounds in similar allusions. The short poem “Comus” contains more than thirty such, and the ode “On the Morning of

that they cannot enjoy Milton. But were these persons to add to their more solid acquirements the easy learning of this litt

uld be found “musical as is Apollo’s lute.” Our citations, taken from more than twenty-five poets, from Spenser to Longfello

trust our young readers will find it a source of entertainment; those more advanced a useful companion in their reading; tho

e goddesses were woven by Minerva and the Graces and every thing of a more solid nature was formed of the various metals. Vu

racts, where nursing Nature smiled On infant Washington? Has earth no more Such seeds within her breast, or Europe no such s

tched over and protected their descendants. The words Lemur and Larva more nearly correspond to our word Ghost. The Romans b

riot of the sun, and brought down fire to man. With this gift man was more than a match for all other animals. It enabled hi

, and the blessings all escaped, hope only excepted. This story seems more probable than the former; for how could hope, so

seed and the toiling ox to draw the plough. Next came the Brazen Age, more savage of temper, and readier to the strife of ar

and draw forth from thence the ores of metals. Mischievous iron, and more mischievous gold, were produced. War sprang up, u

s inhabitants, and provide a new race, unlike the first, who would be more worthy of life, and much better worshippers of th

e escaped Milton, who introduces it in Book IV. of Paradise Lost: — “ More lovely than Pandora, whom the gods Endowed with a

naked to the shoulder, and whatever was hidden from view he imagined more beautiful still. He followed her; she fled, swift

ong and the lyre. My arrows fly true to the mark; but, alas! an arrow more fatal than mine has pierced my heart! I am the go

he on the wings of love, and she on those of fear. The pursuer is the more rapid, however, and gains upon her, and his panti

oms of both. They conversed by signs and glances, and the fire burned more intensely for being covered up. In the wall that

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

ultured garden, free uncultured flows, The flavor sweeter and the hue more fair Than e’er was fostered by the hand of care.

ow Argus had a hundred eyes in his head, and never went to sleep with more than two at a time, so that he kept watch of Io c

returning from the chase, Pan met her, told her just this, and added more of the same sort. She ran away, without stopping

Jupiter interceded for her, and upon his promising not to pay her any more attentions Juno consented to restore her to her f

hich if unchanged would have moved the heart to pity, became a growl, more fit to inspire terror. Yet her former disposition

Latona and the Rustics. Some thought the goddess in this instance more severe than was just, while others praised her co

d the paternal presence, but stopped at a distance, for the light was more than he could bear. Phœbus, arrayed in a purple v

sist, — the oath is sworn and must be kept, — but I beg you to choose more wisely.” He ended; but the youth rejected all adm

g like a vessel that flies before a tempest, when the pilot can do no more and betakes himself to his prayers. What shall he

yers. What shall he do? Much of the heavenly road is left behind, but more remains before. He turns his eyes from one direct

t!” Thus spoke Earth, and overcome with heat and thirst, could say no more . Then Jupiter omnipotent, calling to witness all

feels Increased by new intestine wheels; And, what exalts the wonder more . The number made the motion slower; The flier, th

owed with fertility and clothed with herbage and nourishing grain, no more shall you enjoy my favors.” Then the cattle died,

I am Alpheus, the god of this stream.’ I ran, he pursued; he was not more swift than I, but he was stronger, and gained upo

ight,     Cheek after cheek, like rosebuds in a wreath;     And those more distant showing from beneath         The others’

I beseech you to use your incantations, or potent herbs, if they are more prevailing, not to cure me of my love, — for that

ontinue to feel, lift up my child that I may kiss him. I can speak no more , for already the bark advances up my neck, and wi

ude, fashioning the way In which her voice should wander. ’Twas a lay More subtle-cadenced, more forest-wild Than Dryope’s l

y In which her voice should wander. ’Twas a lay More subtle-cadenced, more forest-wild Than Dryope’s lone lulling of her chi

round and stained the herbage ceased to be blood; but a flower of hue more beautiful than the Tyrian sprang up, resembling t

r distinguish his form from the rest. When the vessel itself could no more be seen, she strained her eyes to catch the last

agments. Some of the seamen, stunned by the stroke, sink, and rise no more ; others cling to fragments of the wreck. Ceyx, wi

ear when he arrives. To all the gods she offers frequent incense, but more than all to Juno. For her husband, who was no mor

quent incense, but more than all to Juno. For her husband, who was no more , she prayed incessantly: that he might be safe; t

rested head, never there calls aloud to Aurora, nor watchful dog, nor more sagacious goose disturbs the silence. No wild bea

of himself. Your prayers, Halcyone, availed me nothing. I am dead. No more deceive yourself with vain hopes of my return. Th

ildly. Her nurse asks what is the cause of her grief. “Halcyone is no more ,” she answers, “she perished with her Ceyx. Utter

h to die. If I could bear to live and struggle to endure, I should be more cruel to myself than the sea has been to me. But

thine, my name, at least, shall not be separated.” Her grief forbade more words, and these were broken with tears and sobs.

such there be, thy wife!” Borne by the waves, it came nearer. As she more and more nearly views it, she trembles more and m

re be, thy wife!” Borne by the waves, it came nearer. As she more and more nearly views it, she trembles more and more. Now,

s, it came nearer. As she more and more nearly views it, she trembles more and more. Now, now it approaches the shore. Now m

e nearer. As she more and more nearly views it, she trembles more and more . Now, now it approaches the shore. Now marks that

unite yourself with some one? I wish you would. Helen herself had not more numerous suitors, nor Penelope, the wife of shrew

n Cyprus to be a fact; and I hope it will have the effect to make you more merciful. “Iphis was a young man of humble parent

king and queen had three daughters. The charms of the two elder were more than common, but the beauty of the youngest was s

mischievous enough in his own nature, and rouses and provokes him yet more by her complaints. She points out Psyche to him a

eing prepared, the royal maid took her place in the procession, which more resembled a funeral than a nuptial pomp, and with

Then she returned the way she came, and glad was she to come out once more into the light of day. But having got so far succ

ivine beauty, not take the least bit to put on my cheeks to appear to more advantage in the eyes of my beloved husband!” So

of Love,     And found his footsteps’ traces every where. “But never more they met since doubts and fears,     Those phanto

s, a writer of the second century of our era. It is therefore of much more recent date than most of the legends of the Age o

ness, “I have been intending to tell you, and will now do so, without more delay, that you may see how from the saddest begi

ned away. The horse, once foremost in the race, contested the palm no more , but groaned at his stall and died an inglorious

e discharge; if he drew his bow Apollo himself could not have done it more gracefully. But when he laid aside his helmet, an

s whatever stood in the way of her love. And can any other woman dare more than I? I would encounter fire and sword to gain

re is no need of fire and sword. I only need my father’s purple lock. More precious than gold to me, that will give me all I

at least gaze upon you, if I may not touch you.” With this, and much more of the same kind, he cherished the flame that con

rva produced the olive. The gods gave judgment that the olive was the more useful of the two, and awarded the city to the go

he was proceeding in this strain, but Apollo interrupted her. “Say no more ,” said he; “speech only delays punishment.” So sa

other who had now arrived at the scene, wretched both, but the mother more justly so, stood by, not able to afford protectio

ir hands, but Medea struck him a fatal blow, and prevented his saying more . Then they placed him in the caldron, and Medea h

bore arms with Achilles and Ajax in the Trojan war, — these and many more joined in the enterprise. With them came Atalanta

Meleager, kindling with rage at the wrong done to himself, and still more at the insult offered to her whom he loved, forgo

h were his thoughts, the virgin darted forward. As she ran she looked more beautiful than ever. The breezes seemed to give w

Now, now, do your best! haste, haste! you gain on her! relax not! one more effort!” It was doubtful whether the youth or the

hem, and cleansed them thoroughly in one day. His next labor was of a more delicate kind. Admeta, the daughter of Eurystheus

uests had taken prisoner a fair maiden, named Iole, of whom he seemed more fond than Dejanira approved. When Hercules was ab

ng injured thereby, seemed to start forth with new vigor, to assume a more lofty port and a more awful dignity. Jupiter enve

emed to start forth with new vigor, to assume a more lofty port and a more awful dignity. Jupiter enveloped him in a cloud,

evil-doers and monsters that oppressed the country, determined on the more perilous and adventurous journey by land. His fir

d prevented the fatal draught. Medea, detected in her arts, fled once more from deserved punishment, and arrived in Asia, wh

d begged him not to oppose the god. Their remonstrances only made him more violent. But now the attendants returned whom he

his walk, his face. There was something in them which I felt sure was more than mortal. I said to my men, ‘What god there is

on the ground. The men, astonished, pulled at their oars, and spread more sail, trying to make progress by the aid of both,

bode: —                                           “In shadier bower, More sacred or sequestered, though but feigned, Pan or

uld have sufficed for a city or a nation, was not enough for him. The more he ate the more he craved. His hunger was like th

d for a city or a nation, was not enough for him. The more he ate the more he craved. His hunger was like the sea, which rec

burns all the fuel that is heaped upon it, yet is still voracious for more . His property rapidly diminished under the unceas

n truth,     They made his careless words their law. “And day by day more holy grew     Each spot where he had trod, Till a

t where they parted. Ulysses and Penelope had not enjoyed their union more than a year when it was interrupted by the events

eavored to follow her, and besought permission to return and try once more for her release; but the stern ferryman repulsed

hem at Libethra, where the nightingale is said to sing over his grave more sweetly than in any other part of Greece. His lyr

connection with waterfalls, etc.: — “Less worthy of applause though more admired Because a novelty, the work of man, Imper

ks yet remain, and their influence on poets who succeeded them is yet more important than their poetical remains. The advent

ld would be of little use to us, if on returning home, we could never more be free from fear.” “Grant me, then,” said he, “a

The gods look down upon us. Ye who slay me unoffending, when I am no more , your time of trembling shall come. Ye Nereids, r

lde Harold hailed Leucadia’s cape afar;” etc. Those who wish to know more of Sappho and her “leap” are referred to the Spec

nsumes him. The story suggests aspiring and poetic love, a life spent more in dreams than in reality, and an early and welco

Byron alludes to the lost Pleiad: — “Like the lost Pleiad seen no more below.” See also Mrs. Hemans’s verses on the sam

he one described by the ancients, and the mysterious sounds are still more doubtful. Yet there are not wanting some modern t

is love of slaughter, his fierceness and thirst of blood prevailed no more , and ships that touched at his island went away i

annot stand still, wandered off into the woods. Acis and I thought no more of him, till on a sudden he came to a spot which

knife through my tender throat               Slowly, — and — nothing more .” The wind now proving fair the fleet made sail

to the field, and to lend him his armor, that he might thereby strike more terror into the minds of the Trojans. Without del

not,” said he, “to press the Trojans without me, lest thou add still more to the disgrace already mine.” Then exhorting the

s cloud, the light of heaven restore; Give me to see and Ajax asks no more ; If Greece must perish we thy will obey, But let

ill the morrow, she would procure for him a suit of armor from Vulcan more than equal to that he had lost. He consented, and

ons, so late the flower of Ilium, all have fallen. Yet one I had, one more than all the rest the strength of my age, whom, f

and was descried from the walls, the people poured forth to gaze once more on the face of their hero. Foremost of all, the m

refore be in hopeless imprisonment. Next morning the giant seized two more of the Greeks, and despatched them in the same ma

ter milking them and making his arrangements as before, he seized two more of Ulysses’ companions and dashed their brains ou

e took and drank it, and was hugely delighted with it, and called for more . Ulysses supplied him once again, which pleased t

t them further, and they were obliged to labor over their course once more by means of their oars. The Læstrygonians.

he shore, was horror-struck at perceiving what they had done, and the more so on account of the portentous signs which follo

es explain the Odyssey. The temple of the sea-god could not have been more fitly placed, upon a grassy platform of the most

med him where he was, and told him the state of things at his palace. More than a hundred nobles of Ithaca and of the neighb

emachus viewed him with astonishment, and at first thought he must be more than mortal. But Ulysses announced himself as his

ed in his own hall, but remembering his father’s injunctions, said no more than what became him as master of the house, thou

have become proverbial: “Yield not to disasters, but press onward the more bravely.” 25 Æneas replied that he had prepared h

ions of earth, by which its purity was alloyed and reduced. Thus, the more earth predominates in the composition the less pu

ng again rejected them; but when the woman, after burning three books more , returned and asked for the three remaining the s

eward enough for me, and if they judge the service deserves any thing more , let them pay it to you.” Euryalus, all on fire w

happen 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 su

e with the other matrons in Acestes’ city.” Euryalus replied, “Say no more . In vain you seek arguments to dissuade me. I am

eech you, comfort her in her distress. Promise me that and I shall go more boldly into whatever dangers may present themselv

like a nest of bowls reversed. In the substance of each sphere one or more of the heavenly bodies was supposed to be fixed,

o the Dandelion: — “Not in mid June the golden cuirassed bee Feels a more summer-like, warm ravishment         In the white

t Isis, who held the reins of government, frustrated his plans. Still more imbittered, he now resolved to kill his brother.

ert that they became silent at the birth of Christ, and were heard no more after that date. Milton adopts this view in his H

ugh the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine,     With hollow shriek the steep of Delph

the two following is to the fable of Castor and Pollux; the latter is more appropriate to our present subject. Addressing th

ese lines: — And I will work in prose and rhyme,     And praise thee more in both Than bard has honored beech or lime,     

set the world in flame,     Nor ceased to burn till kingdoms were no more .” Chapter XXXV. Origin of Mythology — Statue

ve been mentioned are true to a certain extent. It would therefore be more correct to say that the mythology of a nation has

out the first century of our era. It is a standing figure, in marble, more than seven feet high, naked except for the cloak

rry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, asked ages more . Thus genius rose and set at ordered times, And s

The Metamorphoses are read with pleasure by youth, and are re-read in more advanced age with still greater delight. The poet

writers, but their chief popularity and currency seem to have been in more modern times. We seek our accounts of them not so

t, some wealthy glutton would surely devour him, though there were no more in the world.”   Dryden in one of his early poe

h’s disk. Fear not, but gaze, — for freemen mightier grow, And slaves more feeble, gazing on their foe.” The Unicorn.

orn. Yet there are animals bearing on their heads a bony protuberance more or less like a horn, which may have given rise to

its body were badly burned.   Dr. Young, in the Night Thoughts, with more quaintness than good taste, compares the sceptic

hich descents are called Avatars. They are very numerous, but ten are more particularly specified. The first Avatar was as M

of which the oldest is in poetry and dates back to the year 1056, the more modern or prose Edda being of the date of 1640. A

s with astonishment, and they saw clearly that the horse did one-half more of the toilsome work than his master. Their barga

m into the forest, and Thor had no wish to stop him or to ask for any more of his company. Thor and his companions proceeded

or.” Then addressing himself to Thor, he said, “Perhaps thou mayst be more than thou appearest to be. What are the feats tha

ld by Utgard-Loki to take hold of Thor. The tale is shortly told. The more Thor tightened his hold on the crone the firmer s

feless. Surely never was there witnessed, either among gods or men, a more atrocious deed than this. When Baldur fell, the g

d Elves. The white spirits, or Elves of Light, were exceedingly fair, more brilliant than the sun, and clad in garments of a

arth sinks into the ocean, the stars fall from heaven, and time is no more . After this Alfadur (the Almighty) will cause a n

oduce its fruits without labor or care. Wickedness and misery will no more be known, but the gods and men will live happily

. In later times they were frequently used for inscriptions, of which more than a thousand have been found. The language is

to have affinity with the Phœnician Baal. What renders this affinity more striking is that the Druids as well as the Phœnic

always nor often found on the oak, so that when it is found it is the more precious. The Druids were the teachers of moralit

dentior ito. —  Virgil. Yield thou not to adversity, but press on the more bravely. No. 17. Page 376. Quadrupedante

nk that even a Chinese could paint the gay colors of a butterfly with more minute exactness than the following lines: ‘The v

t bear to look at Callisto, and the lovelier and fairer she grew, the more the queen of heaven seemed to hate her. At last,

my daughter is hidden. Give her back to me, and the earth shall once more be fruitful, and the people shall have food.” Jup

with thirst.” The water looked so cool and inviting that Latona once more bent to drink of it. But the men only renewed the

heir tiny baby fingers, as though to beg these hard-hearted men to be more gentle. But they were very hard-hearted indeed, a

e he had ever seen. He looked at it in ever-growing surprise, and the more he looked, the fairer did the face seem. Narcissu

the face in the pool seemed touched with a golden light that made it more beautiful than ever; and at night, when Diana dro

ry, as it was called. Now there was no fault that displeased the gods more than conceit; so when Minerva heard of the girl’s

rary, she again asked Minerva to enter into a trial of skill. Without more words, the goddess and the humble girl took their

Apollo.” Apollo Belvedere (Vatican, Rome). But Daphne was only the more terrified at these words, and fled more swiftly,

me). But Daphne was only the more terrified at these words, and fled more swiftly, while Apollo still followed. He had almo

r young wife, Eurydice; and much as he loved his music, she was still more dear to him. She was as beautiful as the dewy mor

il, “Oh, love, What have I done! what have I done!” And then I saw no more the sun,     And lost were life and love. Franc

nd her nymphs. Actaeon was a youth who also was very fond of hunting. More than all else, he loved to follow the deer; and h

rly so pleasant nor so easy as when he was talking with the king. The more he thought of it, the less he liked the idea. In

under a tree by the roadside and began to think very soberly; but the more he thought, the more hopeless did his task seem.

oadside and began to think very soberly; but the more he thought, the more hopeless did his task seem. Perseus was a very br

harp, crooked sword and his winged shoes with which Perseus could fly more swiftly than the swiftest bird. All that Perseus

for the moment, blind. But such an eye as that one was! — worth much more than any other six eyes put together. With it the

ld take revenge. The next morning he went to the palace. The king was more surprised than pleased to see Perseus, for he, to

as so gentle and good that everybody loved her. Many thought her even more beautiful than her mother, for whose vanity she w

e had a hundred eyes, and no matter how tired he was, he never closed more than half of them at one time. If you or 1 had fi

sleep by ceaseless talking and playing; but the watchman never closed more than half his eyes. So they had been sitting for

ly two children, and I have seven times that number, each one of them more lovely than Apollo or Diana, whom you honor. “I a

snow. Ah! what would the world be to us     If the children were no more ? We should dread the desert behind us     Worse t

n they came to a river that crossed their path. Usually it was hardly more than a little stream, but it was now swollen with

his way out again. Perhaps, in another story, you will hear something more about this labyrinth and the Minotaur who lived i

sky which looked so blue above him. But alas! The higher he flew, the more fiercely the sun beat down upon him. Before long

incess seen him than she fell in love with him. She longed to see him more closely and to speak with him, and felt pained at

esides, when that was used up, he could readily send his soldiers for more . But the people in the besieged city had soon eat

of food, and, as you will understand, they had no way of getting any more ; for they could not leave the city without fallin

trong, and I overcame many monsters and giants even when I was little more than a child. Fear not — I will kill the Minotaur

ast came to the entrance of the cave, and saw the starry heavens once more . Then he sank to the ground, worn out with his st

the best fare they have to offer. In olden times people thought even more of this virtue of hospitality than we do nowadays

we do nowadays, and so the conduct of these wicked people was all the more blamable. On the outskirts of the town, there sto

ted by the hearth, while Philemon heaped on the logs to make the room more cheery, and Baucis prepared the simple meal. Soon

orried; for she knew the pitcher must soon be empty, and there was no more milk in the house. But what was her surprise, whe

lf. Baucis whispered to Philemon what she had seen. Then they watched more closely, and noticed that the honey was far sweet

at, luscious clusters of purple black. Although husband and wife were more than astonished at all they saw, they kept silenc

told the story of the shipwreck, and ended with these words: “Weep no more for the absent one; for he is dead, and can never

ng lightly on his playfellow’s back, he would speed through the woods more swiftly than the wind. Apollo often joined this h

ppeared behind the little hill. So it went on, day after day, and the more Glaucus saw of Scylla, the more he loved her. At

So it went on, day after day, and the more Glaucus saw of Scylla, the more he loved her. At last, one evening, as Scylla was

ed for none of them. The women he created in marble seemed to him far more lovely than any of the living ones. So he passed

utiful figure began to take shape in the stone. Each day it stood out more and more clearly, till at last, one evening, the

gure began to take shape in the stone. Each day it stood out more and more clearly, till at last, one evening, the light of

his heart beat fast, and his face became flushed with excitement. The more he looked, the more restless he grew, and it was

and his face became flushed with excitement. The more he looked, the more restless he grew, and it was hard to tear himself

prayer. They led a very happy life; but though Pygmalion carved many more beautiful statues, he never again wrought anythin

Midas, foolish King Midas, said that to his taste Pan’s music was far more beautiful than the sun god’s. To punish him for t

their foreheads with such an angry glare that it frightened you much more than a hundred ordinary eyes could have done. Ind

g: “O Galatea, you are fairer than the petals of the whitest blossom, more beautiful than the green fields or the young tree

blossom, more beautiful than the green fields or the young trees, and more pleasing to me than the winter’s sun or the summe

ched up the bow and arrows, and flew away unseen.” But now he thought more of earth than of heaven, and checking his flight,

him the loveliest being he had ever beheld; and at last, when he once more winged his way to Olympus, he thought it were bet

t, and over the beautiful grounds that belonged to it. This abode was more elegant than any place they had ever seen, and th

n his mother importuned him, he told her the whole story, and she was more than ever provoked with Psyche, and was determine

I gave you, but I shall assign you another, in which you may find it more difficult to procure help.” Venus then leading th

cosmetic that shall revive the bloom of her cheek; that tint which is more beautiful than all the fruits and flowers in natu

ompartments. Never was a story better exhibited.” Ann. Have you any more stories like this of Psyche for me to read? Moth

es was very angry with the boy, though it does not appear that he was more greedy and selfish than she was, and she darted a

r woman is weary, and almost famished. Surely she wants a good supper more than you.” Ceres was more offended at the poor ch

st famished. Surely she wants a good supper more than you.” Ceres was more offended at the poor child than he deserved; for,

ormed a large part of the sustenance of any people, and that they are more easily procured and prepared than other farinaceo

ow Progne cannot come to us. Grant me the pleasure of seeing her once more . You forget how long it is since she left us. Thi

and the Bacchantes, touched with pity for the afflicted sisters, and more especially for Philomela, attended them all the w

When you read of the unworthy conduct of the bad, you honour the good more . Ann. I do not know of any men so bad as Tereus,

think it a long voyage. Mother. It is not a long distance, not much more than two hundred miles, in what is called an air-

usand years ago, but glass windows have not been in fashion in Europe more than three hundred years. Ann. I have read of ve

fields, and to buy and sell property; and he taught them a great deal more , which they did not know before. Cecrops had lear

arned this in Egypt, where he came from. Ann. Did the Egyptians know more than other people? Mother. At that time they did

ht that if he stretched other strings across the shell, it would make more music. He tried the experiment, and it produced v

ppy; and malignant, or spiteful, and she was turned to stone, or made more hard-hearted. That shows that if we are wicked, w

f life seven times longer than that of common men; and Minerva, still more to mitigate his misfortune, gave him a staff, wit

tion and thought, to understand any thing. Another day you shall have more stories of the family of Cadmus. Acteon.  

ent ashore. Bacchus then commenced what are called his conquests, but more properly his travels. He went over different coun

at their behaviour was improper, and have tried to persuade them to a more orderly conduct; but he offended, without reformi

mble. Superstitious persons, whenever they are rudely opposed, become more fixed in their superstitious practices, the Bacch

he tried to interrupt their frantic rites, and persevered in them the more for his prohibition. When Pentheus learned that t

es his lamentation for him: “Dearest of men! for thou, though now no more , Shall yet be numbered ’mongst my best lov’d sons

ugh now no more, Shall yet be numbered ’mongst my best lov’d sons. No more thy hand shall stroke this beard; no more Embrace

ngst my best lov’d sons. No more thy hand shall stroke this beard; no more Embrace thy mother’s father, nor thy voice Addres

said he to her, “do not despair; you are not among barbarians. A king more merciful than Acrisius reigns in this island. The

us could not procure such a horse; but he thought of another present, more rare and curious: this was the head of the gorgon

g, “The monster will come hither at noon, and then” She could not say more , but burst into tears. Perseus tried to comfort h

nders of Perseus were killed. He, perceiving that the assailants were more numerous than his party, led the terrified Androm

Evening Star, and a beautiful star she is. Ann. One or two questions more and I will have done. What was Minerva’s Ægis? M

r neither your numbers nor your talents: there are nine of us, and no more of you. Let us try our skill together; and let th

district of Emathia. We then admonished those conceited women, never more to enter into competition with any but the childr

Conversation: Mother and Ann. Ann. This is a short story; nothing more than that Apollo killed the Python. Mother. A gr

lf, of the minister, and of the congregation; indeed, I think of many more things. They all come into my mind together. Mot

she hurried from the soft, tender voice of Apollo, and the god, with more than mortal swiftness, pursued her. He overtook h

akspeare’s fame, or reputation. Shakspeare was a great poet. He lived more than two hundred years ago; but every reader admi

his undying or immortal fame, as some persons say, because he is now more admired than ever. As, in ancient times, poets we

concerning literal and figurative language. I must tell you a little more concerning Apollo. You have seen casts and medall

efully preserved. I will allow you to read to me another day some few more Classical Tales; but when they shall have been fi

ld have done without reading them. But, at present, you can afford no more time to fictions; you must read facts. I have a b

ion, they served to adorn that party-coloured bird. Juno now hated Io more than ever, and she drove her from place to place

portance and dignity of their relations and ancestors: but we are not more worthy on account of our good fortune, or more es

estors: but we are not more worthy on account of our good fortune, or more estimable because other persons who are related t

r son,” answered Clymene to this complaint, “this young prince has no more glorious ancestors than your own; as I have often

esumptuous are only taught from their own experience, expostulated no more with Phæton, but conducted him to the car. The ca

without dread of their vengeance, Manto called upon the people to be more zealous in their devotions. “Haste, Thebans,” sai

Thebans set about making amends for their impiety; they repaired once more to the sacrifices of Latona and her children, and

d think of the calm pursuit of literature, it may be said to have had more success than could have been reasonably anticipat

n well aware of its defects, it is plain that they thought them to be more than compensated by its merits. Of the present Ed

ts merits. Of the present Edition I think I may venture to speak with more confidence. It is the result of my reading for th

schools, and I felt that I could supply the deficiency. The event has more than justified my anticipation ; and the adoption

in this country. Its size and necessary price (the present containing more by a fifth than the former edition) are perhaps i

therto. Thus the private life of the ancient Greeks and Romans may be more fully elucidated. That of the latter people I int

ork, likely to be as popular, they said they could not afford to give more than 150l. ! I mention these facts not out of ill

ul works. I would say then, as the publishers say they would not give more for a long than for a short term of copyright, le

iot, holding a sceptre and ears of corn : Demeter is handing him some more  : a person, supposed to be Hecate, is behind the

are of rare occurrence. The less the mind is expanded by culture, the more powerful is the operation of this law ; and while

educed to one, possessed of the combined powers of all ; or, which is more probable, rather we may say is the truth, both hy

or Laplanders account for the difference between themselves and their more fortunate southern neighbours by the following le

e whole body of the mythology of any people. Some of them, too, apply more to one system than another : the Scandinavian myt

ystem than another : the Scandinavian mythology, for example, is of a more physical character than the Grecian : the Indian

ple, is of a more physical character than the Grecian : the Indian is more metaphysical than either the Grecian or the Scand

to be found in the works of many mythologists, and nothing has tended more to the bringing of the science of mythology into

often varied so much from that handed down by tradition, that, as is more especially the case with Euripides, the poet appe

allantry to an art, and made a trade of it, that she might not appear more wanton than other women72. Cadmos was cook to a k

had ceased, and writing, by means of the Egyptian papyrus, was become more common in Greece, a set of writers arose who rela

oems of Hesiod, who flourished somewhat later, for he displays a much more extended knowledge of the earth than Homer appear

tercourse with foreign countries increased, just ideas respecting the more distant regions became more common among the Gree

ries increased, just ideas respecting the more distant regions became more common among the Greeks, and districts were conti

imagination of the poets, or the tales of voyagers, had placed in the more remote parts of it several islands, such as Ogygi

om the earth ; and the language of the Odyssey respecting it is still more dubious. Were we to follow analogy, and argue fro

f knowledge, however, their ideas altered, and they began to conceive more justly on these subjects. The voyages of the Sami

are with it that invented by our own great poet in his Paradise Lost, more especially as it is a subject which does not seem

narration of the strange and wonderful adventures of beings older and more powerful than mankind137. The lively and creative

arious parts of nature, under the guise of matrimony and birth (their more cheerful system, unlike those of Asia and Scandin

d must therefore be the personifications of another, but what kind is more difficult to ascertain. It is, however, probable

is, however, probable that they refer to winter, as the Cyclopes seem more especially related to summer, and that they are t

the Titans, and as the view of it given by Völcker seems to us to be more correct than any preceding one, we will lay it be

cumstance of possessing sacred cattle, but they were dedicated to him more frequently than to other deities for obvious reas

ncorrectly, regarded as the cause of dew259 and nothing therefore was more obvious than to say that the dew was the progeny

os, and of the stars of heaven273. The lovely goddess of the dawn was more than once smitten with the love of mortal man. Sh

he taught his heroic pupils music as well as other accomplishments, a more suitable mother could not be assigned him than th

their gods. In the Odyssey, where the deities are of a character far more dignified and elevated than in the Ilias, the pla

rew the following picture of Olympos could have conceived it to be no more than the summit of a terrestrial mountain. Olymp

we shall place here : the two last, as wives of Zeus, will find their more appropriate situation along with their children.

our384. In the Odyssey the character of this god is, agreeably to the more moral tone of that poem, of a higher and more dig

od is, agreeably to the more moral tone of that poem, of a higher and more dignified order. No indecent altercations occur ;

er labour, and who then conveyed the babe to Cnossos in Crete391. The more general tradition, however, was that the nymph Ne

n among themselves. The Cretan legend must however be regarded as the more ancient, for the Arcadians evidently attempted to

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

s, founded on physical or moral grounds, or on both. Nothing could be more natural than to assign the oak402, the monarch of

ian would have derived Poseidôn from that country. Again, what can be more absurd than to suppose that Greece, a portion of

ir crimes, but not apart from the rest of the dead471. Nothing can be more gloomy and comfortless than the whole aspect of t

t men who had such a dreary prospect before them should not have been more attached to life, and more averse from war and ev

prospect before them should not have been more attached to life, and more averse from war and everything that might abridge

he adventurous Iasôn. There is, in fact, none of the Olympian deities more decidedly Grecian in feeling and character than t

Saturnia moves Through the clear air. Few passages in the Ilias are more celebrated than the following picture of the love

o him in marriage593. It was apparently to bring the life of the gods more into harmony with that of men, that the office of

ren of Niobe. The river-god Peneios alone valued justice and humanity more than the wrath of Hera : he checked his stream to

rank, his power, his possessions ; the nymph but urges her speed the more . Fear gave wings to the nymph, love to the god. E

with the muse Calliope, of which the fruit was Orpheus630. No parents more suitable could be assigned to the poet, whose str

ected to be honoured by the service of the god, who, according to the more dignified and probable view of the mythe, pasture

riginal gods of the Grecian race ; and he was worshiped by one people more than another, on the same principle as in India V

another, on the same principle as in India Vishnoo is in some places more worshiped than Seeva ; Thor was most honoured by

oured by the ancient Norwegians, and Odin by the Swedes ; St. Jago is more frequently invoked in Spain, and St. Anthony in I

is god, on account of his bright colour, as some think, but it is far more likely that it was the similitude of his name to

f perfection to which they had attained in sculpture. Few deities had more appellations than the son of Leto. He was called

isos in Crete as her attendants. Of towns and cities she required not more than one, satisfied with the mountains, which she

the gods out of their epithets. Of these practices Artemis furnishes more examples perhaps than any other deity. The Cretan

to that borne by Upis and Arge at Delos. Leucophryne was therefore no more than an epithet of Artemis, who had also a temple

ver beauty was not an attribute of the Asiatic goddess, the former is more likely to be the true supposition705. No spot on

ned as the birth-place of Artemis by Homer, in whose time, as we have more than once observed, that practice had not yet com

Ogygia, that of Calypso ; but when at a later period the Greeks grew more familiar with those distant regions, zeal for the

ey were only restored to their original nature and character. We have more than once hinted our inclination to regard this l

have more than once hinted our inclination to regard this last as the more correct hypothesis. We will now briefly state the

e deities from the sun and moon. This however might have been nothing more than the arbitrary procedure of priests and philo

ng more than the arbitrary procedure of priests and philosophers, and more sure grounds must be sought in the attributes and

and the origin of the sun and moon, and their affinity, could not be more appropriately described. Apollo is represented as

ly cause the sun-god to be regarded as the god of music, though it is more likely that Apollo owes this character to the emp

plendour of her attire. He could not avoid regarding her as something more than human ; he accosts her as one of the Immorta

nd also at Cnidos, Miletos, Côs, Corinth, Athens, Sparta, etc. In the more ancient temples of this goddess in Cyprus she was

on, on which the coherence of the material world depends. Nothing was more natural than to term Aphrodite the mother of Love

e to open the box and take a portion for herself, that she may be the more pleasing to her husband. She opens the box, when

 ; and she is the fairest, because the soul is higher than free-will, more noble than the body. Venus, i. e. lust, envies he

y of Cupid and Psyche may after all have been, as some think, nothing more than a Milesian tale like that of the Matron of E

moon. There are two other interpretations of this name which have had more general currency. The one supposes it to signify

e earth825. There are some mythes which can be explained with so much more ease on this last hypothesis, that we think it no

em ; to his amazement he sees their skins upon the rock, and is still more surprised, when, on going to drive the others on,

as wings at its extremity. The ancient statues of Hermes were nothing more than wooden posts with a rude head and a pointed

iveness in general, but he came gradually to be regarded as presiding more particularly over flocks and herds857. From this

the derivation from the story of Io not be approved of, none appears more probable than the one we ourselves formerly sugge

s drinking some gruel, what was remaining of it in the vessel890. She more justly punished with ever-craving hunger Erysicht

in moral qualities to themselves, and they feared that if promises of more splendid and abundant sacrifices and offerings we

other poets made the Muses the daughters of Heaven and Earth933. The more received opinion makes them, as in the proœmium t

he plural number, and both as a proper and as a common noun, but much more frequently as the former. When a common noun, it

Athenians were by nature one of the most humane people in Greece. The more stern Spartans, we may observe, erected temples t

e long-lived, since he was odious to all the immortal gods.” Language more unsuitable surely could not be put into the mouth

e no advantage over their fellow-mortals, except greater strength and more frequent aid from the gods. But in the Odyssey we

ty-eight books, the wildest and strangest that can well be conceived, more resembling the Ramayuna of India than anything to

e regarded as a vast repertory of Bacchic fable, perhaps deserving of more attention than has hitherto been bestowed on it11

ons, at which modest virgins assisted ; and altogether few ceremonies more immoral or indecent are celebrated in India at th

conceptions of the mind, and to know themselves, there succeeded that more mature and solicitous age, at which when men arri

at more mature and solicitous age, at which when men arrive they feel more strongly and acutely the incentives of pleasure a

which were scattered new fables about the lower-world, and hopes of a more happy life and Elysian abodes promised to those w

hich last she is said to have derived her name, though the reverse is more likely to be the truth. At Pessinos was preserved

orth, Memphis is no longer founded after the destruction of Troy. The more ancient Greeks named the Delta Egypt, the rest Th

was the nymph Pitys, who was also loved by Boreas. The nymph favoured more the god of Arcadia, and the wind-god in a fit of

ve-dwelling ; 6. Sea-roaming. The name Pan (Πὰν) is probably nothing more than the contraction of πάων, feeder or owner 118

p sheep and goats, or stocks of bees ; but the Lampsacenes regard him more than any of the gods, calling him the son of Dion

it hath ; That to the north is pervious unto men ; That to the south more sacred is, and there Men enter not, but ‘tis the

e use of her tongue ; and immediately she lost all power of doing any more than repeat the sounds which she heard. Echo happ

, he still Persists, and says, Let us meet here ; and, ne’er To sound more grateful answering, Echo cried, Let us meet here

ete, we must suppose the country of the Lotus-eaters to have been far more to the west. They seem in the poet’s view to have

declared that the Cyclopes regarded not the gods, for they were much more powerful than they : he then seized two of the Gr

the mast of a merchant-vessel ; and when the monster had devoured two more of his victims gave him wine to drink, and then w

whom in his jealous rage the monster crushed beneath a rock for being more acceptable to the nymph of the waters than himsel

induce the poet to place it among the wonders of the West. It is much more probable that the solution of the difficulty will

nify their attractive power. To us the Semitic Shîr (שּﬧ), song, seems more likely to be the true root, and we regard them as

three times each day absorbs and regorges the dark water. It is much more dangerous, she adds, to pass Charybdis than Scyll

one of which circumstances agrees with Sicily. It seems therefore the more probable supposition, that the poet regarded Thri

o daughters their keepers. He must also have conceived it to lie much more to the west than Sicily, for it could not have be

to lie much more to the west than Sicily, for it could not have been more than the third day after leaving Ææa that Odysseu

d unworn, each part of nature was a source of bliss ; then suns shone more brightly, plants diffused more fragrance, the mel

as a source of bliss ; then suns shone more brightly, plants diffused more fragrance, the melody of groves was poured forth

plants diffused more fragrance, the melody of groves was poured forth more rapturously, the day closed in joy, the morning a

he iron race be succeeded by a new one of gold, when Kronos will once more assume the government, and the former innocent an

ns ; and it is worthy of notice, that in the Theogony (where there is more of order and method than is usually supposed) the

a rivulet derived from the original fount of tradition. It is however more probably an ebullition of that spleen against the

s, conquering and displacing the tribes which previously occupied the more southern parts. This flood, we may observe, did n

r Pelargians, a name which was probably given to a portion of them by more warlike tribes, from their favourite occupation o

nfrequently the god of a preceding one, and he thus became a god once more in the eyes of posterity. The whole mythic histor

ly opposed to the sovereign democracy of Athens. We will now give the more trustworthy accounts of others. In the Theogony M

tradition of a protracted conflict between the rude Centaurs and the more civilised Lapiths, which ended in the expulsion o

ecords to have been spread over the north of Greece ; the latter, the more civilised race, which founded towns, and graduall

dea of κένταυρος having been in its origin simply κέντωρ 1600 as much more probable. Lapiths may, he thinks, have signified

g seven days of winter the Halcyôn sits on her eggs, and during seven more she feeds her young on the surface of the sea, wh

, the Ætolians did not give him the proffered recompense. Such is the more ancient form of the legend, in which it would app

, she took the billet from its place of concealment, and cast it once more into the flames. As it consumed, the vigour of Me

briefly examine it. In the Ilias, though the Cadmeians are spoken of more than once1628, the slightest allusion is not made

and the mode adopted by him on the advice of his mother to stock once more his hives. Actæôn was the offspring of the marria

ttled under their auspices and protection1654. In no place were there more of these traditions than in Cyrene, and hence aro

eir treatment of the ancient mythes. There is none which has suffered more at their hands than the present one, for it was a

ewhat similar to that in France under the last Merovingians, or still more resembling that of Japan at the present day. Welc

n transmitted to us by the Attic dramatists. We will now consider its more ancient forms. The hero of the Odyssey says, “I s

er's hands. The motives assigned by the tragedians are certainly of a more dignified nature than these, which seem trifling

om μάντις. Ϻινύαι кαὶ Φλεγύαι. Minyæ et Phlegyæ. No names are more completely buried in the depths of mythology than

e Muses1723. Their tombs were shown at Anthedôn1724. We know no mythe more difficult than this of the Aloeids. The names of

ence and impiety. We are disposed however to regard the former as the more ancient form of the mythe, and the original conce

arrows ; and having come to the eastern course of Ocean, he was once more accommodated with the Sun-god’s radiant cup, in w

he king of the gods, by a mortal mother. To render his perfection the more manifest, the poet gives him a twin-brother, the

h it has come down to us. There is in it the identification of one or more Grecian heroes with Melcart, a god of the Phœnici

aros. But Eumolpos, being detected plotting againt Tegyrios, was once more forced to fly, and he came to Eleusis. Ismaros dy

nd the monsters that oppressed the country ; and he determined on the more perilous and adventurous journey by land. His fir

hra at Aphidnæ, Theseus prepared to assist his friend in a bolder and more perilous attempt : for Peirithoös, after the deat

We will therefore commence with Erichthonios or Erechtheus, whom the more ancient tradition viewed as the first Attic king.

hes. Erechtheus and Erichthonios are the same person, and are nothing more than the name by which Poseidôn was worshiped on

hero, assigned the origins above related. It is probable that in the more ancient legend there was a Holy Marriage (ἱερὸς γ

se1853. As Iôn is the son of Apollo (for Xuthos is apparently nothing more than an epithet of that god1854), they are to be

Ionians, to whom Theseus evidently belongs, the latter being regarded more as the god of the sea and of navigation, correspo

more as the god of the sea and of navigation, corresponding with the more active military character of the Ionian race. In

among whom literature flourished most, he is presented to us under a more historic aspect than the other heroes. Though his

rvellous in them. If we except the descent to Erebos, they are hardly more wonderful than those of Aristomenes. The poem whi

mysterious connexion between Poseidôn and Pallas-Athene and the horse more fully revealed than elsewhere. They are the paren

it is difficult to determine. Bellerophontes is a name, if possible, more enigmatic than Argeiphontes and Persephone. It is

was named from the former, the people from the latter. Nothing can be more simple than this genealogy. The principal river o

same signification in Coptic1905. This hypothesis appears to us to be more ingenious than true. Analogy would lead us to vie

f Io, is the instrument by which Grecian vanity derived the rulers of more ancient countries from its own gods and princes.

at Argos as somewhat suspicious. In fact there was no part of Greece more thoroughly Hellenic, none which had less similari

nto cows is only to be found in the Latin poet Virgil. Nothing can be more certain than that he did not invent it, and it ha

rogress. It is probable that this of Perseus at first consisted of no more than the account of his birth and the killing of

term for the day, whose light adorns all nature ; and nothing can be more apparent than the suitableness of Dewful to the n

nd statues2015 ; as also had the Leucippides2016, who, in perhaps the more correct form of the legend, are their wives2017.

iôn was a deity whom they worshiped. The sire assigned him is nothing more than a personification of the Olympic games (ἄϵθλ

ivelily exhibits the misery of such a state, and this is probably the more ancient form of the legend. The other form2057 pe

ad drawn on himself the indignation of the gods, they set Pelops once more among the ‘swift-fated race of men2060.’ When Pel

n obscurity ; for in those times lands were not called after gods any more than after men. Pelops, the water-land, is made t

drove Thyestes into exile2080. Another legend continues the tale in a more tragic and horrible form. Atreus, it is said, inv

ount of Agamemnôn’s being the successor of Thyestes, for he calls him more than once the son of Atreus2086, and in the Odyss

is difficult to avoid recognising a worship of the celestial bodies, more particularly of the Moon, of which last the names

us preferred his petition, copious rains descended, and the land once more flourished. When Æacos died, the keys of the neth

tude seems to have struck both Greeks and Scandinavians2138. It still more resembles a Plough, its name in some countries. I

manner. For as the stars rise out of the sea, as it were, nothing was more obvious than to make Oriôn the son of Poseidôn an

f that hero they tore themselves from the Lemnian fair ones, and once more handled their oars. They then came to Samothrace,

forbade the deed, and the Harpies were dismissed on their oath never more to molest Phineus. The isles were thenceforth nam

he signs sent by the gods, and the success of that conducted by their more pious sons, who acted in obedience to the will of

ones ; but all those of the Trojans and their allies are if possible more Greek than those of some of the Achæan chiefs. Su

sferred by the poets to the mythic ages of Hellas. We could make many more objections than these, but we will abstain, as it

readers. Our conviction however is, that the siege of Troy is little more real than that of Albracca, of which ‘romances te

one can believe the mythes in their present form ; and nothing can be more dry and insipid than the manner in which the prag

ere undoubted articles of actual belief ; and Hesiod probably gave no more than the popular creed when he said of the heroes

ly and Rome. No fact of the times anterior to history seems to be more satisfactorily ascertained, than that of Italy ha

natives of Hellas. Their religion was, as far as we can discern, of a more serious character ; no wars or crimes polluted th

rature of Rome became Grecian ; and the extant Roman poetry is little more than a transcript of that of Greece. Italian myth

ter became Jupiter, answering to the Ζϵὺς πατὴρ of the Greeks. In the more ancient monuments of the Roman religion Jovis or

laoph. 1295.) respecting its soundness. The Exegetes, or guides, were more probably the persons who gave explanations of thi

98. Herod. iv. 37-41. 99. Asia seems to have been at first nothing more than the rich land on the banks of the Caÿster. (

that it did not suit the scheme of Providence to give the Israelites more correct ideas on natural subjects than other nati

ly (De Myth. Ant. Opusc. ii. 176.), which he rejected for the present more probable one. Welcker (Tril. 147.) understands by

396. seq. Hermann (Ueber das Wesen, &c. 85.) gives the following, more ingenious perhaps than solid, explanation of this

g fall apace From those two little heavens upon the ground Showers of more price, more orient and more round Than those that

From those two little heavens upon the ground Showers of more price, more orient and more round Than those that hang upon t

little heavens upon the ground Showers of more price, more orient and more round Than those that hang upon the moon’s pale b

154.), or perhaps even four (viii. 185.), those of the gods had never more than two. Il. v. 768 ; viii. 41-45 ; xiii. 23. Od

to her name, that she came down ‘like a star.’ This was probably the more ancient version, but it was also said that she to

89. Serv. Buc. iii. 63. Lucian De Salt. 48. Apollo was, however, much more closely connected with the Peneios and Tempe than

ver. The moon, both here (coast of Africa) and in the West Indies, is more powerful than the sun ; meat hung in the rays of

e, p. 69. 743. Il. v. 247. 313. 744. By asserting that her hair was more beautiful than that of the goddess. Sch. Theocr.

g, rendering her name Statina ; while Böttiger (Kunst-Myth. ii. 110.) more justly, we apprehend, says, “she is the oldest pu

 : What day the genial angel to our sire Brought her in naked beauty more adorned, More lovely than Pandora, whom the gods

he genial angel to our sire Brought her in naked beauty more adorned, More lovely than Pandora, whom the gods Endowed with a

Thus the people of Scandinavia, who afterwards became so terrible to more southern countries, are described by Tacitus (Ger

n that Milton, like Ben Jonson, read Greek by accent ? Nothing can be more inharmonious than it is if Teiresias be pronounce

Latin manner, with the accent on the antepenultimate : few lines are more harmonious, if, as in the Greek, it be laid on th

authors followed by the scholiast on Apollonius (iii. 1094.) give the more probable genealogy of the text. 1706. Apoll. Rh.

on. But these ingenious writers should have known that no practice is more common, and that abundant instances of it are to

rock of Prometheus was on the opposite coast of Ocean. It is however more consistent with analogy to conceive it on the eas

f her father's lock, says the legend, — from the rapacity of the bird more probably. 1831. Choëph. 609. seq. 1832. The g

ary allusion, reference, and tradition. Of such common places few are more frequently recurrent than the situations and agen

e purposes of teacher and pupil, and to the taste of readers somewhat more advanced in years than those addressed by the ori

sentially, my own. Although in the Index of Mythological Subjects the more common myths of some other nations are briefly st

, an unpretentious exposition of the myth or a brief statement of the more evident interpretations advanced by philologists

nce in English poetry Latin names of mythological characters are much more frequently employed than Greek, the Latin designa

of error, syllabicated. In the preparation of the Text and Commentary more or less use has been made of: Roscher’s Ausführli

f course, the evil would be neither so widespread nor so dangerous if more of the guardians and instructors of our youth wer

hout saying that a rational series of somewhat consecutive stories is more serviceable to the reader than a congeries of dat

potentiality that should render the general reading of belles lettres more profitable. For, a previous acquaintance with the

things were despatched, especially in the study of literature, and if more were entrusted to the memory, there would be some

imilate, and time to assimilate it; there would be less dyspepsia and more muscle. Teachers and parents are over-considerate

n, to a near kinship with the spirit of nature humanized can be found more cogent than the contemplation of the poetic tradi

ans, and by our Norse and German forefathers in the dark ages. Myths, more or less like these, may be found in the literatur

ot so important as what the hero does with circumstances. The hero is more independent than in the historic myth, his libert

s. In proportion, however, as their size is grander or their movement more tremendous, these objects must be possessed of fr

believe, of beings worthy of worship and fear and gratitude, all and more than all that is accredited to man? Why not confe

the heart of nature, such personification of natural powers would be more easy for us to appreciate. “If for us also, as f

lieve of the god whom he worshipped and revered, deeds and attributes more silly and more shameful than man can conceive of

d whom he worshipped and revered, deeds and attributes more silly and more shameful than man can conceive of his fellow-man?

s would be imperfect irradiations of the attributes of the one God. A more limited conception is, that all mythological lege

e the scriptural narratives of which they are said to be copies; many more , though resembling the scriptural stories, origin

enomena similarly endowed with life by the imaginative power, usually more or less under the influence of terror. The histor

period than Homer, it is noteworthy that his stories of the gods have more of the savage or senseless element than Homer’s.

us hymns to the gods, references to mythical heroes, and accounts of more or less pathetic legendary adventures. Of the wor

ral, Snorri’s, the treatises on grammar, and rhetoric have been, with more or less certitude, assigned to other writers of t

its composition. The Adventures of Rama, on the other hand, recalls a more primitive stage of credulity, and of savage inven

and the Odyssey, but they display a keener sympathy with nature and a more romantic appreciation of the loves and sorrows of

em, Iapetus and Cronus ; but Hesiod enumerates thirteen. Of these the more important are Oceanus and Tethys, Hyperion and Th

on of Iapetus, was doomed to bear the heavens on his shoulders. But a more famous son of the same Titan, Prometheus, who had

upon their conqueror. Another son was born to her — Typhon, a monster more awful than his predecessors — whose destiny it wa

brutish race, hot-headed, not amenable to reason.56 Of the Giants the more mighty were Alcyoneus of the winter storms and ic

the message!” § 27. Next to the Age of Silver came the Brazen Age,63 more savage of temper and readier for the strife of ar

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

mselves in ever-varying guise. It is important to understand that the more ideal Olympian religion absorbed features of infe

nspired with Minerva and Neptune to bind the cloud-compeller himself. More than once she provoked him to blows; and once to

ys successful. In the battles before Troy, Minerva and Juno bring him more than once to grief; and when he complains to Jupi

antic even; For grief that I depart they weep and frown: What look is more delightful than the smile With which I soothe the

566.] § 40. Venus, goddess of love and beauty, was, according to the more ancient Greek conception, a daughter of Jupiter a

elos, that “inner beauty of the world,” whose tranquil smile he finds more fair than “The Medicean’s sly and servile grace”:

arching boughs he made A place for sleep in russet shade. “His lips, more red than any rose, Were like a flower that overfl

and Eos, children of the Titan, Hyperion. Helios and Selene were the more ancient Greek divinities of Sun and Moon respecti

. The attributes and adventures of Selene were merged in those of the more modern Diana. Eos, or, in Latin nomenclature, Aur

powers of the Ocean were Glaucus, Leucothea, and Melicertes, of whom more is said in another section. The sympathy with cla

were also divinities always peculiar to Roman mythology. Of these the more important are: — (1) Saturn, an ancient Italian d

ors, who watched over and protected their descendants. The Lares were more particularly divinities presiding over the househ

s of the Romans were addressed. Other spirits, the Lemures and Larvæ, more nearly correspond to our ghosts. The Romans belie

ow Argus had a hundred eyes in his head, and never went to sleep with more than two at a time, so that he kept watch of Io c

third watch of the night sets in, and near is the dawning; when sleep more sweet than honey rests on the eyelids, limb-loose

ir unending fooleries…. “There came a change: a glory fell to me. No more ’twas Semele, the lonely girl, But Jupiter’s Belo

feels, Increased by new intestine wheels; And, what exalts the wonder more , The number made the motion slower; The flier, th

ching the forehead of Arachne, she made her realize her guilt. It was more than mortal could bear; and forthwith Arachne han

ound and stained the herbage, ceased to be blood; and a flower of hue more beautiful than the Tyrian sprang up, resembling t

d his father’s presence, but stopped at a distance, for the light was more than he could bear. Phœbus Apollo, arrayed in pur

ey were destroyed. Earth, overcome with heat and thirst, could say no more . Then Jupiter, calling the gods to witness that a

he was proceeding in this strain, but Apollo interrupted her. “Say no more ,” said he; “speech only delays punishment.” So sa

ortal said? One prayer remains For me to offer yet. Thy quiver holds More than nine arrows: bend thy bow; aim here! I see,

Yet after he was dead and gone And e’en his memory dim, Earth seemed more sweet to live upon, More full of love, because of

d gone And e’en his memory dim, Earth seemed more sweet to live upon, More full of love, because of him. And day by day mor

weet to live upon, More full of love, because of him. And day by day more holy grew Each spot where he had trod, Till after

the stroke, Being a noble heart and honoring me! Who of Thessalians, more than this man, loves The stranger? Who that now i

s the authentic sign and seal Of Godship that it ever waxes glad, And more glad, until gladness blossoms, bursts Into a rage

d seek the sun? Surely it has no other end and aim Than to drop, once more die into the ground, Taste cold and darkness and

oblivion there: And thence rise, tree-like grow through pain to joy, More joy and most joy, — do man good again. So to the

e, who had made proof and found The husband wanting, might essay once more , Hear, see, and feel him renovated now — Able to

eart. Forthwith the god was seized with love for the maiden, but she, more than ever, abhorred the thought of loving. Her de

song and the lyre. My arrows fly true to the mark; but alas! an arrow more fatal than mine has pierced my heart! I am the go

thought would forever intrude That you’ve less chance to win her the more she is wood? Ah! it went to my heart, and the mem

me forever, each making its bough! If her tongue had a tang sometimes more than was right, Her new bark is worse than ten ti

; — Like spirits that lie In the azure sky When they love but live no more . Fig. 48. Young River-god. [Bronze head: Baum

cal, and the modern, poets who have identified Diana with Selene, the more ancient goddess of the moon. Fig. 50. Endymion

her secret could not long be hidden from the company of Olympus. For more and more frequently she was absent from her stati

et could not long be hidden from the company of Olympus. For more and more frequently she was absent from her station in the

rom her station in the sky; and toward morning she was ever paler and more weary with her watching. When, finally, her love

Left sudden by a dallying breath of air, He rose in silence, and once more ‘gan fare Along his fated way.174 7. Myths o

king and queen had three daughters. The charms of the two elder were more than common, but the beauty of the youngest was s

fate were made. The royal maid took her place in a procession, which more resembled a funeral than a nuptial pomp, and with

ous commodity, was restored to her; and glad was she to come out once more into the light of day. But having got so far succ

least bit of the divine beauty on her cheeks that she might appear to more advantage in the eyes of her beloved husband. Th

voice of Love, And found his footsteps’ traces everywhere. But never more they met! since doubts and fears, Those phantom-s

s, a writer of the second century of our era. It is therefore of much more recent date than most of the classic myths. To th

eemed likely to win. The virgin darted forward. As she ran she looked more beautiful than ever. The breezes gave wings to he

im. He started up; she blush’d as one asham’d; Wherewith Leander much more was inflam’d. He touch’d her hand; in touching it

with words, with sighs and tears. These arguments he us’d, and many more ; Wherewith she yielded, that was won before. Hero

hen they begin to jar. Thus having swallow’d Cupid’s golden hook, The more she striv’d, the deeper was she strook: Yet, evil

of both. They conversed by signs and glances, and the fire burned the more intensely that it was covered. In the wall betwee

women of Lesbos went wild for love of him. None, however, admired him more than the poetess Sappho, who addressed to him som

dsman of his oxen. Nay even, when Mercury had sworn by sacred Styx no more to try his cunning in theft upon Apollo, that god

gged him not to oppose the god. Their remonstrances only made him the more violent. § 103. The Story of Acetes. — Soon the a

on the ground. The men, astonished, pulled at their oars, and spread more sail, but all in vain. Ivy twined round the oars

light, Whose ivory arms hold up the golden lyre? What form is this of more than mortal height? What matchless beauty, what i

rolls intense around me as I spread My helpless arms… thine, thine no more … to thee.” She spake, and, like a vapour, into ai

ody at Libethra, where the nightingale is said to sing over his grave more sweetly than in any other part of Greece. His lyr

ried to content him, but in vain. He cared for his young wife Procris more than for the goddess. Finally Aurora dismissed hi

’s promised return. To all the gods she offered frequent incense, but more than all to Juno. The goddess, at last, could not

; there comes A glimpse of that dark world where I was born. Once more the old mysterious glimmer steals From thy pure

a time, by the revolt against the divine prerogative of nature, it is more than possible that the heart lost in due proporti

the kirtle-robed Sicilians. And as it still’d the multitude, And yet more joyous rose, and shriller, I saw the minstrel whe

ms, the caitiff craved food; and when he awoke, his hunger raged. The more he ate, the more he craved; till, in default of m

raved food; and when he awoke, his hunger raged. The more he ate, the more he craved; till, in default of money, he sold his

f breath he reached the tree, And, listening fearfully, he heard once more The low voice murmur, “Rhœcus!” close at hand: Wh

or by day or night, Me, who would fain have blessed thee with a love, More ripe and bounteous than ever yet Filled up with n

h exiled and shut out from all. Farewell! for thou canst never see me more .” Then Rhœcus beat his breast, and groaned aloud

ried, “Be pitiful! forgive me yet This once and I shall never need it more !” “Alas!” the voice returned, “‘tis thou art blin

ld sing: — “Oh, milk-white Galatea, why cast off him that loves thee? More white than is pressed milk to look upon, more del

ff him that loves thee? More white than is pressed milk to look upon, more delicate than the lamb art thou, than the young c

, more delicate than the lamb art thou, than the young calf wantoner, more sleek than the unripened grape! Here dost thou re

s her symbol, named it Cornucopia. No writer in modern times has made more graceful poetic use of the divinities of the stre

ther for individual exploits or for the part played by them in one or more of three great expeditions, — the War against Lao

Are graven, till the characters be grown Into itself, and thought no more can trace; ’Tis the melodious hue of beauty throw

o bore it afterward upon her ægis or shield. Of that Gorgon-shield no more poetic interpretation can be framed than the foll

e wild beasts of Apollo tore them to pieces. His ninth labor was of a more delicate character. Admeta, the daughter of Eurys

re arms with Achilles and Ajax in the Trojan War,315 — these and many more joined in the enterprise. With them came, also, A

plumes of the songless reeds Moved as a wave which the wind moves no more . But the boar heaved half out of ooze and slime,

d eyes, The too clear web and thy dumb sister’s shame? Dost thou once more assay Thy flight, and feel come over thee, Poor f

ght, and feel come over thee, Poor fugitive, the feathery change Once more , and once more seem to make resound With love and

ome over thee, Poor fugitive, the feathery change Once more, and once more seem to make resound With love and hate, triumph

hero, and eager to signalize himself like Hercules, determined on the more perilous and adventurous journey by land. His fir

ghing! Ah, what ponderous fears oppressed her languishing bosom, How, more pallid than gold her countenance flashed into whi

ye cease to have A father. All my days are spent and gone; And ye no more shall lead your wretched life, Caring for me. Har

om, and honor have departed from among men”: — Wherefore the gods no more vouchsafe their presence to mortals, Suffer thems

ods no more vouchsafe their presence to mortals, Suffer themselves no more to be touched by the ray of the morning. But ther

her place. “I had great beauty: ask thou not my name: No one can be more wise than destiny. Many drew swords and died. Whe

bright death quivered at the victim’s throat; Touched; and I knew no more .”349 Protesilaüs and Laodamia. — The wind now

onslaught, and to lend him his armor that he might thereby strike the more terror into the minds of the Trojans. Without del

not,” said he, “to press the Trojans without me, lest thou add still more to the disgrace already mine.” Then exhorting the

wait till the morrow, to procure for him a suit of armor from Vulcan more than equal to that he had lost. He consented, and

ons, so late the flower of Ilium, all have fallen. Yet one I had, one more than all the rest the strength of my age, whom fi

and was descried from the walls, the people poured forth to gaze once more on the face of their hero. Foremost of all, the m

refore be in hopeless imprisonment. Next morning the giant seized two more of the men and despatched them in the same manner

ter milking them and making his arrangements as before, he seized two more of Ulysses’ companions, dashed their brains out,

e took and drank it, and was hugely delighted with it, and called for more . Ulysses supplied him once and again, which pleas

t them further, and they were obliged to labor over their course once more by means of their oars. The Læstrygonians. — The

e shore, was horror-struck at perceiving what- they had done, and the more so on account of the portentous signs which follo

med him where he was, and told him the state of things at his palace. More than a hundred nobles of Ithaca, and of the neigh

t where they parted. Ulysses and Penelope had not enjoyed their union more than a year when it was interrupted by the events

emachus viewed him with astonishment, and at first thought he must be more than mortal. But Ulysses announced himself as his

d in his own hall; but, remembering his father’s injunctions, said no more than what became him as master of the house, thou

remains; but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more , A bringer of new things; and vile it were For so

ve become proverbial: — “Yield not to disasters, but press onward the more bravely.” 384 Æneas replied that he had prepared

tions of earth, by which its purity was alloyed and reduced. Thus the more earth predominates in the composition, the less p

reward enough for me, and if they judge the service deserves anything more , let them pay it thee.” Euryalus, all on fire wi

appen to 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 su

e with the other matrons in Acestes’ city.” Euryalus replied, “Say no more . In vain dost thou seek arguments to dissuade me.

ech thee, comfort her in her distress. Promise me that and I shall go more boldly into whatever dangers may present themselv

s with astonishment, and they saw clearly that the horse did one half more of the toilsome work than his master. Their barga

m into the forest, and Thor had no wish to stop him or to ask for any more of his company. Thor and his companions proceeded

or.” Then addressing himself to Thor, he said, “Perhaps thou mayst be more than thou appearest to be. What are the feats tha

ld by Utgard-Loki to take hold of Thor. The tale is shortly told. The more Thor tightened his hold on the crone the firmer s

down lifeless. Never was there witnessed, either among gods or men, a more atrocious deed. So on the floor lay Balder dead;

with mead. So they, with pent-up hearts and tearless eyes, Wailing no more , in silence ate and drank, While twilight fell, a

e Elves. The white spirits, or Elves of Light, were exceedingly fair, more brilliant than the sun, and clad in garments of a

arth sinks into the ocean, the stars fall from heaven, and time is no more . After this Alfadur (the Almighty) will cause a n

oduce its fruits without labor or care. Wickedness and misery will no more be known, but the gods and men will live happily

mbling we shall see emerge From the bright ocean at our feet an earth More fresh, more verdant than the last, with fruits Se

all see emerge From the bright ocean at our feet an earth More fresh, more verdant than the last, with fruits Self-springing

Our eyes with gazing, and rebuild with tears. And we shall tread once more the well-known plain Of Ida, and among the grass

stood face to face with Sigmund, and upheaved the bill to smite. Once more round the head of the Volsung fierce glittered th

nstock’s light, The sword that came from Odin; and Sigmund’s cry once more Rang out to the very heavens above the din of war

ng sore; And he saith, “Awake! I am Sigurd,” but she moveth never the more …. Then with his bright blade Sigurd rends the ri

y of the Peloponnesus, near Corinth. Illustrative. — Milton, P. L., “ More lovely than Pandora whom the gods endowed with al

tals; (3) Demeter, Persephone, Dionysus, and Thetis, whose claims are more or less obscured. According to the same authority

wants and to human affections. The Olympian Religion, as a whole, was more careful of nations, states, public affairs, than

like kind in common with the Norse Valkyries, but she is altogether a more ideal conception. The best description of the god

he golden god of Light. (See Preller and Roscher.) This derivation is more probable than that from Lycia in Asia Minor, wher

ert that they became silent at the birth of Christ, and were heard no more after that date. Milton adopts this view in his H

ugh the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos l

hich set the world in flame, Nor ceased to burn till kingdoms were no more .” In Art. — One of the most esteemed of all the

stic period, probably in bronze). It is a standing figure, in marble, more than seven feet high, naked except for the cloak

rely an allegorical figure, — a personification of wealth and nothing more . Hades is called also the Illustrious, the Many-n

indicated in the usual manner (by the sign =, or by parentheses); the more important characters mentioned in this work are p

t of bears. It is quite possible, therefore, that Artemis inherited a more ancient worship of the bear, that may have been t

ygian, were supposed by some to have been the same as the Lydian; but more probably they were a combination of Lydian and Do

lanation is altogether too conjectural. See A. Lang 2: 221-225, for a more plausible but less poetic theory. Illustrative.

two rivers, one in Achaia, one in Bœotia, of which the latter is the more important. The Greek traveller, Pausanias, tells

ive. — The healing powers of nature may be here symbolized. But it is more likely that the family of Asclepiadæ (a medical c

es had to undergo servitude, — Hercules, Perseus, etc. No stories are more beautiful or more lofty than those which express

servitude, — Hercules, Perseus, etc. No stories are more beautiful or more lofty than those which express the hope, innate i

explain the myth as a physical allegory would be easy, but is it not more likely that the idea of substitution finds expres

has verses on the same subject; Byron, “Like the lost Pleiad seen no more below.” In modern sculpture, The Lost Pleiad of

as performed by Lord Byron. The distance in the narrowest part is not more than a mile, but there is a constant dangerous cu

h the explanations of Professor Müller and the Rev. Sir G. W. Cox are more satisfactory here than usual, Roscher’s the swift

f the sailors into strange animals. Of the Festivals of Dionysus, the more important in Attica were the Lesser Dionysia, in

ive: “Of all the beautiful fictions of Greek Mythology, there are few more exquisite than the story of Proserpine, and none

morning vanish before the glory of the rising sun ( Cox). It might be more consistent to construe Eurydice as the twilight,

h that described by the ancients, and the mysterious sounds are still more doubtful. Yet there is not wanting modern testimo

all the details of a mythical career in terms of any one theory. The more noble side of the character of Hercules presents

vens, she comes of a family skilled in magic. Her aunt Circe was even more powerful in necromancy than she. The Robe of Mede

lauce suggests that of Hercules (in the flaming sunset?). Jason is no more faithful to his sweetheart than other solar heroe

f to-morrow. (See Roscher, Lex. 530-537.) The physical explanation is more than commonly plausible. But the numerous adventu

ing twilight, then her dragons are rays of sunlight that precede her. More likely they are part of the usual equipage of a w

es explain the Odyssey. The temple of the sea-god could not have been more fitly placed, upon a grassy platform of the most

ng again rejected them; but when the woman, after burning three books more , returned and asked for the three remaining the s

st; (3) Sigibert, king of the Austrasian Franks whose history recalls more than one event of the Sigurd and Siegfried storie

that in Sigurd and Siegfried we have recollections combined of two or more of these historic characters. Mythologically, — S

ds of two syllables, it falls on the penult: Cir′-ce. (b) In words of more than two syllables, it falls on the penult when t

cent falls on the first syllable of the word: Hip 2-po-crē′ne. (b) If more than two syllables precede the principal accent,

nd when (b) the syllable is accented and its vowel followed by one or more consonants; e.g. An 2-ax-ag′o-ras, Am-phic′-ty-on

elopment, 15-17; physical, religious, and moral import, 16, 17; myth, more than “sham history,” 18; general conclusion conce

’s Symbolical Language of Ancient Art, “Not trustworthy, being little more than a mass of conjectural memoranda; but the hea

6. Roscher: Ausf. Lex., Article Giganten [ J. Ilberg]. 57. The name more probably signifies Brandisher [of the Lance]. 58

ive it difficult to find, among the most distinguished of your sex, a more suitable patroness, I am actuated by those feelin

eye of youth. The work also brings down the study of Mythology to the more common purposes of education. As an object of fai

of mythological knowledge, and, at the same time, to render the work more valuable and interesting. When the student has ac

ew of awaking in him a spirit of inquiry and thereby leading him to a more minute and useful investigation of the various su

s or cities pretended to have its particular Jupiter. Varron mentions more than three hundred Jupiters. It was so with the o

of the prince were called Harpies. Obs. 4. — The Titans were nothing more than a family of princes, who acknowledged Saturn

; death began With vigour then, to mend its halting pace, And found a more compendious way to man.” Horace. “Thy godlike

nativity at Samos. Juno was married to Jupiter. To render his wedding more solemn, Jupiter charged Mercury to invite all the

and the time at which she disappeared from us. Some explain it still more naturally by saying that king Jupiter allowed her

red at that moment; the second marks the moment at which the rays are more clear; the third figures noon, a time at which th

his circumstance, he has often been considered as the sun. No god was more honoured than Apollo. His oracles were in univers

venly numbers I inspire. Sure is my bow, unerring is my dart, But ah! more deadly his, who pierc’d my heart. Med’cine is min

ourned her loss, and sprinkled all her hearse, With balmy nectar, and more precious tears. Then said since fate does here ou

r Marsyas durst not pretend that the sounds of his flute would please more than those of Apollo’s lyre. Judges were chosen.

d, to aid writers in any particular branch of science. Some reckon no more than three of them, viz. Mnemo, Aæde, and Melete,

who first invented nets. Painters and sculptors represent her with a more exquisite form, a more majestic mien, and a talle

s. Painters and sculptors represent her with a more exquisite form, a more majestic mien, and a taller stature than her foll

ss, leaped into the sea, and were changed into dolphins. Bacchus once more made the ship float onward, and instantly arrived

eys and the sloping hills, Where’er the god inclines his lovely face, More luscious fruits the rich plantations grace. Then

ct not to allow us to disbelieve that the fable of Bacchus is nothing more than an ill formed tradition of the history of Mo

ty gates and house-doors; Hippia, “the horse-woman”. In order to give more solemnity to the worship of Minerva, the Athenian

oks are severe, because she is not in need of ornament. She shines no more under the splendour of purple, than under the sim

lking together in a flowery field, Cupid boasted that he could gather more flowers than his mother. Venus accepted the chall

and, and sink under “the last fond look of his gazing eye;” but still more his “faint, faltering accents, struggling in deat

l more his “faint, faltering accents, struggling in death to give one more assurance of affection!” Thisbe saw Pyramus dead.

ntrol.” Percival. The Graces are sometimes represented dressed, but more frequently naked, to show that whatever is truly

trumpet takes (as given in charge) That from the turning bottom grows more large; This, when the Numen o’er the ocean sounds

tongue no other use was found, Than now she has; which never could be more , Than to repeat what she had heard before. This

hich signifies dirt, or earth, as Uranus does heaven. Chaos alone was more ancient than heaven and earth. He was arbitrarily

mples to his honour. His worship was introduced into Rome, but he was more revered there as the god of orchards and gardens,

to some, a daughter, Irynge, a famous sorceress. The nymph Pithys was more sensible of the tenderness of Pan; but Boreas, je

parts like a shaggy goat. Pan was called Deus Arcadiæ, because he was more particularly adored in Arcadia; Innus or Inculus,

ffects did his uncouth figure produce? Had Pan any amours? Was he not more successful in his addresses to others? What gave

ssions, which alone can check the progress of general corruption. The more we examine ancient traditions, the more clearly i

ss of general corruption. The more we examine ancient traditions, the more clearly it appears that an obscure belief in the

onger glow’d with flame, Nor triple tongue was stain’d with blood; No more his breath with venom flow’d.” Obs. 1. — The de

black, held scissors; and around her was seen a variety of spindles, more or less filled, according to the length or shortn

Mercury, and lived two centuries before the deluge, which period was more than one thousand years before the Greek Æsculapi

e country, resembled the temples of the gods; and to pay them a still more solemn homage there were established to their hon

They burnt off their right breast, in order to brandish weapons with more force, and to shoot arrows with more effect. They

n order to brandish weapons with more force, and to shoot arrows with more effect. They killed the boys at their birth, and

t of the Golden Fleece. Obs. — The Grecian history records no event more celebrated and more replete with fictions than th

ce. Obs. — The Grecian history records no event more celebrated and more replete with fictions than the conquest of the Go

Virgiliæ, and sometimes Atlantides. By his wife Æthras, he had seven more daughters, whose names were Ambrosia, Euloria, Pa

s, attentively regarding the face of heaven. As the people saw him no more , they conceived that he was translated into heave

and sublime idea was admitted and preserved by the priests, who were more enlightened than the multitude: and, as they high

hapter XII. Persian Mythology. The Persian religion was purer and more rational than that of some other nations. It incu

ut yet at last, shall Arimanius fall Before his might, and evil be no more . Glover’s Leonidas. Questions. What is the Zend

having already been nine times incarnate in various shapes, will once more assume the form of a horse in order to destroy ev

ud in their mouths. The third time he sent them out, they returned no more , by which he knew that the earth began to be unco

tes of gold on his breast, and holding in his left hand a golden fan, more highly polished than a mirror, and set round with

above mentioned; but that monarch, according to Berosus, gave it much more extent by the edifices which he built around it,

etal, the weight of which, according to Diodorus Siculus, amounted to more than five thousand talents. The temple of which h

h perfumes were burnt every year, and the weight of which amounted to more than one hundred thousand talents. He mentions, a

f very fine marble, drawn from Mount Pantelica. Antiquity had nothing more magnificent or perfect than the throne and the st

f Agrippa, son-in-law to Augustus. Some authors, however, consider it more ancient, and say, that he only repaired it, and a

for the same reason, many antique temples had this form. The portico, more surprisingly grand and beautiful than the temple

entertained that the predictions of genius will be verified. Nothing more clearly proves the danger of yielding confidence

this murmur, announced futurity to those who consulted her. In time, more artifice was used in the manner of delivering thi

interrogated her, did not understand her language; and in order still more to excite their wonder, she practised some ceremo

her grandson Apollo; and from that time the oracle of Delphi spoke no more but in the name of this god. In the primitive tim

re not of the same antiquity. Every day new ones appeared, whilst the more ancient lost their credit. Oftentimes they were p

perpetual dictator and absolute master of Rome, wished to give still more eclat to his power by being proclaimed king. His

nder. Tarquin still refused to buy. The Sibyl immediately burnt three more , and continued to demand the three hundred pieces

cisions. At first, there were but two judges; but, in order to render more difficult the means of corrupting them, their num

h passed to his descendants, called from his name Scioldungians. Odin more pleased with giving crowns to his sons than with

rious proofs which have been adduced in its favour. It is, doubtless, more rational to see in Odin only the founder of a new

oever he was, came from Scythia, or the confines of Persia; and still more so, that the name of the god whose prophet and pr

, and discovered all treasures hidden under ground. These chronicles, more poetical than faithful, say, that he sung such me

he god of war: than which rank, according to them, no honour could be more worthy of his attention, or better calculated to

y the Latin name of Jupiter; but Lucian gives him another name, which more nearly resembles that of Thor: he calls him Taran

slept as lightly as birds; and day and night, he perceived objects at more than a hundred leagues distant. He heard the gras

f. She encourages sweet songs, and listens to the prayers of mortals. More faithful than Venus, she incessantly weeps over h

tion of it which the Mythology of Iceland has preserved, deserves the more attention, as, in disclosing to us the sentiments

is can be nothing but the vestiges and recollections of a general and more ancient creed. We recognize in these altered acco

in the order which we now admire it. No heathen religion has granted more than that of the Celts to divine providence. This

n earth. The inhabitants of the North joined to this doctrine a still more barbarous and dangerous prejudice, namely; they b

race. There will be an elevated palace in it, covered with gold, and more brilliant than the sun, and there the just will d

h for so holy a purpose. Sometimes these altars were constructed with more elegance, greater regularity, and nicer proportio

h reason they must have been transported a great distance — monuments more lasting than any of modern art or industry. At al

ndustry. At all times, men have thought that in order to honour deity more highly, they ought to make for him some prodigiou

es of Scandinavia, erected temples to Envy; but none, it is said, was more famous than that at Upsal in Sweden. Gold there g

stiny. The choice did not always fall on those of vile blood; for the more dear and noble the victim, the more highly they i

l on those of vile blood; for the more dear and noble the victim, the more highly they imagined they redeemed the divine ben

es we must look, if we wish to find the cradle of the human race. The more we search into history, the more clearly it appea

nd the cradle of the human race. The more we search into history, the more clearly it appears that those rich and flourishin

multiplied, and the nobility, hurried away by its bloody carnage, no more pressed so many to enter into that order. The num

ed Vergobrets, (a title equal to that of kings,) rendered their power more independent of the druids. Tremnor, great-grandfa

which he wishes to celebrate. He knows that measure and harmony will more easily impress his sentiments on the memory: and

land, carried thither their religion; but that those islanders, being more reflecting, and less warlike, than the Gauls, pre

Celts, peopled the vast regions which separate us from Asia; others, more bold, attempted the perils of the sea. History in

han that of other heathen nations.’ Their ideas on divinity were much more , just and spiritual than those of the Greeks and

nce, and of the supreme dominion which God has over him.” Nothing is more celebrated in the history of the ancient Gauls th

separately from men. Their divination had, at one time, rendered them more celebrated than the Druids themselves. When Hanni

which caused them to consider death as a sure means of attaining to a more happy life. They made a great difference between

ng their credit and authority. They maintained that people are always more fond of the marvellous than of truth. They had so

love to those of an inhuman jealousy, or to those of an indifference more insulting than jealousy. The Celts considered the

mans had for their women, caused them to imagine, that they possessed more highly than themselves, the gift of persuading an

very quarter to consult them; and their decisions inspired infinitely more confidence than the oracles of Greece and Italy.

Conclusion. The author conceives that he cannot close his work more appropriately, than by quoting the words of an em

ncies between the First Cause and us: for we, in reality, are nothing more than the dregs of the universe. These mighty powe

e calls up to the mind of one familiar with our subject illustrations more vivid and striking than the pencil could furnish,

beauty cannot fail to appeal even to the colder sensibilities of this more prosaic age. It would be difficult, indeed, to ex

accurately as possible, great care being taken, however, to avoid the more repulsive features of heathen mythology; and when

oid the more repulsive features of heathen mythology; and when two or more versions of the same myth occur, the preference h

he Latin names are usually retained throughout the narrative, because more frequently used in poetry and art. The closing ch

did not long enjoy the possession of the sceptre; for Uranus and Gæa, more powerful than their progenitors, soon forced them

gh to carry out her plans, except Cronus, the youngest of the Titans, more familiarly known as Saturn or Time, who found con

ns were obliged to yield. Some of them were hurled into Tartarus once more , where they were carefully secured by Neptune, Ju

n, exulting in the success of his enterprise. Arrived upon earth once more , he consigned the stolen treasure to the care of

fashioned, each one endowed her with some special charm, to make her more attractive.                         “The cripple

ent wilfulness. Left alone with the mysterious casket, Pandora became more and more inquisitive. Stealthily she drew near an

lness. Left alone with the mysterious casket, Pandora became more and more inquisitive. Stealthily she drew near and examine

earful couple viewed each other inquiringly, and listened again. Once more they heard the same pitiful accents; and Epimethe

y bread. “Succeeding times a silver age behold, Excelling brass, but more excell’d by gold. Then summer, autumn, winter, di

t despairing cries in their seething depths. “Now hills and vales no more distinction know, And levell’d nature lies oppres

rsion was far less popular with the Greeks, although it betrays still more plainly the common source whence all these myths

true or false. “Fame than who never plague that runs         Its way more swiftly wins: Her very motion lends her power: Sh

e god’s evident admiration, Europa ceased to struggle, wound her arms more closely round the bull’s neck to prevent the wave

hat the olive was the sign of peace and prosperity, and therefore far more desirable than the horse, the emblem of war and w

strain, and renewed her rash boast. Minerva gently advised her to be more modest, lest she should incur the wrath of the go

ve since then showed great preference for muddy pools. Driven on once more by Juno’s unrelenting hatred, Latona finally came

w (Daphne). The sun is captivated by its beauty, and longs to view it more closely; the dew, afraid of its ardent lover, fli

they flocked around His feet who such a sudden summer made, His eyes, more kind than men’s, enthralled and bound Them there.

of the condition imposed by Pluto, his longing to feast his eyes once more upon her loved features induced him to turn just

h, and repeatedly plunged into the river, in the hope of finding some more scattered fragments, until the gods changed him i

            “One prayer remains For me to offer yet. Thy quiver holds More than nine arrows: bend thy bow; aim here! I see,

ingly gazed upon his beauty, and before long felt her heart beat with more than admiration. Gliding gently from her chariot,

cast himself down upon the sward, hoping to woo it to visit him once more . It did not come again that night, however; but t

Troy fell into the enemy’s hands, all grew pale with grief, and one, more timid and impressionable than the rest, withdrew

h from its rank thine orb so long hath started,         Thou, that no more art seen of mortal eye!” Hemans. Diana of V

n gorge, Fixed his blank eyes upon the sun.” Longfellow. Happy once more , he resumed his favourite sport, and hunted from

ed youth. “Her loss the Loves deplore: Woe, Venus, woe! Adonis is no more .” Bion ( Elton’s tr.). Very reluctantly Mercury

. As time did not soften Venus’ grief, but, on the contrary, made it more and more unendurable, she went to Olympus, where

e did not soften Venus’ grief, but, on the contrary, made it more and more unendurable, she went to Olympus, where she fell

t of the perils her lover was braving for the sake of seeing her once more . It was only when the dawn began to whiten the ea

wore on, until the waves were lashed into foam, while the wind howled more and more ominously as the darkness came on again;

until the waves were lashed into foam, while the wind howled more and more ominously as the darkness came on again; but none

s lips. At last, exhausted and ready to sink, he lifted his eyes once more to view the cheering light. It was gone, extingui

t the nymph was about to emerge from her hiding place to reconnoitre. More prudent this time, the youth gradually bent furth

but when, encouraged by her loving glances and actions, he tried once more to clasp her in his arms, she vanished as rapidly

ve utterance to her longing to see and converse with her sisters once more . The ardent lover could not refuse to grant this

che alone to carry out their evil suggestions. When safe at home once more , the sisters constantly brooded over the tale Psy

is no Love except with Faith, And thine is dead! Farewell! I come no more !’” Lewis Morris. When he had vanished into the

iousness of her misery in a deep swoon. When she opened her eyes once more , the storm had ceased, the sun was high in the he

d shedding many bitter tears of repentance. Finally she resolved once more to commit suicide, and, with that purpose in view

       “‘Dear, unclose thine eyes. Thou mayst look on me now. I go no more , But am thine own for ever.’” Lewis Morris. The

d Juno’s recriminations, Jupiter had carried on this affair with even more than his usual secrecy visiting his beloved only

end Bacchus, god of wine, hoping his powers of persuasion would prove more effective Armed with a flask of his choicest vint

o she forsook her ill-favoured husband, and went in search of another more congenial mate. Some time after, Vulcan married o

is lair in the waves, and devoured her; then he vanished, and nothing more was heard of him for a whole year, at the end of

Apollo, being immortal, would retain all his youthful bloom when her more ephemeral beauty had vanished, and that he would

l maidens honoured by the love of Jupiter, king of the gods, none was more attractive than Semele, daughter of Cadmus and Ha

s tr.). But, although so much milder than usual, this apparition was more than poor Semele’s human nerves could bear, and s

eys and the sloping hills; Where’er the god inclines his lovely face, More luscious fruits the rich plantations grace. Then

ffered her the means of returning to the upper world, and seeing once more the blue sky and sun on the Sicilian plains. The

o escape him, Arethusa must still have been very glad to see him once more , for Ceres heard her murmur contentedly as she sa

they endured, and to allow Proserpina to revisit the upper world once more . “Arise, and set the maiden free; Why should the

mighty joy To gods and mortal men.” Homeric Hymn. Ceres, happy once more in the possession of her beloved daughter, cheerf

, as her father sold her again, the god was obliged to interfere once more in her behalf, until at last Erisichthon, deprive

a belligerent people, that the temple gates were closed but thrice in more than seven centuries, and then only for a very sh

versed torch. The cave was divided into chambers, each one darker and more silent than the one which preceded it. In one of

, Nor with his horny bill provoke the day: Nor watchful dogs, nor the more wakeful geese, Disturb with nightly noise the sac

mages of things supply, And mock their forms; the leaves on trees not more , Nor bearded ears in fields, nor sands upon the s

rally regarded as the emblem of death, and they were therefore little more than local divinities. The Lacedæmonians paid the

e, in the same plight as he had found him, there to remain until some more compassionate hero should come and set him free.

s was intent upon winning the hand of the fair Deianeira. “Warm, and more warm the conflict grows: Dire was the noise of ra

way homeward again, and her heart bounded with joy, but only to sink more heavily when told that he was accompanied by Iole

atiently borne for many a long year, —  a burden which seemed all the more grievous after the short taste of freedom he had

nd to his wretched existence. Theseus successfully accomplished a few more exploits of a similar character, and finally reac

d not gone very far before he encountered the Minotaur, —  a creature more hideous than fancy can paint, —  and he was oblig

, “Where beauteous Helle found a watery grave.” Meleager. Phryxus, more fortunate than his sister, reached Colchis in saf

the rash youth would lose his life in the attempt, and thus cause no more trouble, with much difficulty restrained all expr

prevent its being carried out, and found her lifeless. This sight was more than the poor monarch could bear, and in his desp

ne’er again would look on her, Never would see his crimes or mis’ries more , Or those whom guiltless he could ne’er behold, O

cut mercifully short by asphyxiation; and, when Hæmon saw she was no more , he, in utter despair, thrust his dagger into his

; and, although the king was heartily glad to know the Chimæra was no more , he was very sorry to see Bellerophon safe and so

in them in their celestial abode. Summoning his faithful Pegasus once more , he rose higher and higher, and would probably ha

f breath he reached the tree, And, listening fearfully, he heard once more The low voice murmur, ‘Rhœcus!’ close at hand: Wh

or by day or night, Me, who would fain have blessed thee with a love More ripe and bounteous than ever yet Filled up with n

ied, ‘Be pitiful! forgive me yet This once, and I shall never need it more !’ ‘Alas!’ the voice returned, ‘’tis thou art blin

was alone on earth.” Lowell. This modern rendering of the story is more spiritual than the ancient versions, in which Rhœ

ht assert greater claims than the goddess of beauty. The dispute grew more and more bitter, and the irate goddesses called u

greater claims than the goddess of beauty. The dispute grew more and more bitter, and the irate goddesses called upon the g

entreated the gods to let her die, or allow her to see her lord once more , were it but for a moment. Her appeal was so touc

y of joy, Laodamia beheld the beloved countenance of Protesilaus once more , and from his own lips heard the detailed account

o, true to his promise, laid aside his armour, determined to fight no more . “The great Achilles, swift of foot, remained Wi

nst each other, until recalled by Jupiter, and forbidden to fight any more . For a little while fortune seemed to favour the

fe Andromache and little son Astyanax, whom he wished to embrace once more before rushing out to battle and possible death.

ro’s side to inform him of his comrades’ flight, and implore him once more to rescue them from inevitable death. But Achille

, and the warlike sons of Greece, Tired as they are, may breathe once more , and gain A respite from the conflict.” Homer (

left him but a short time before full of life and energy, was now no more . So loudly did the hero mourn his loss, that Thet

The Death of Paris The dream was realised. Philoctetes, whole once more , joined the Greek host, and caused great dismay i

e Greek chiefs, on their return from Troy, were, as we have seen, all more or less visited by the wrath of the gods; but non

r tasted once of that sweet food Wished not to see his native country more , Nor give his friends the knowledge of his fate.

d the rock, performed his usual evening duties, and then devoured two more of Ulysses crew. When this part of the evening me

the Æolian Isle, and Ulysses sought the king, to beseech his aid once more ; but this time the god received him coldly, and b

on until no sound of the magic song could reach them, when they once more set their leader free Charybdis and Scylla

fe place without the city, whence he could embark, and sail away to a more fortunate land; and her entreaties finally prevai

ngton’s tr.). Ere many days Æneas and his trusty followers were once more afloat, and forced to battle with fierce storms s

weary of persecuting them, however; and as soon as she saw them once more afloat, she hurried off to Æolus, and bade him le

inds return, and lent a helping hand to float the stranded ships once more . “‘Back to your master instant flee, And tell h

.). Æneas again dutifully obeyed; but when Venus saw him afloat once more , she hastened to Neptune, and bade him watch over

sary support to the almost exhausted Trojans; and now the fight raged more fiercely than ever, and prodigies of valour were

to make peace. But his efforts were of no avail. The war was renewed more fiercely than ever; and in the next encounter, Ca

in a fit of remorse. The Death of Turnus Æneas, appearing once more on the battlefield, finally encountered the long-

tion of their origin, it is impossible, in a work of this kind, to do more than give a very superficial idea of the scientif

h it is almost impossible to separate those of the dawn, are probably more numerous than any others, and have some main feat

urydice) reappears opposite the place where he disappeared, but is no more seen after the sun himself has fairly risen, “the

ort space of time into the depths of Tartarus, whence he emerges once more ; and finally we see him uniting his fate to Phædr

der.” We have also Ceres or Demeter, “the mother of all things,” and more particularly of “the maiden” Cora (or Proserpina)

to the public in the hope that it may render the subject of mythology more generally popular in our schools, and obviate the

id,) And that alluring ill to sight displayed. Thus cursed steel, and more accursed gold, Gave mischief birth, and made that

nysius justified the act on the plea that the latter garment would be more comfortable for the god at all seasons, as it was

[Acœ′tes], their captain, tried to dissuade them from the crime, the more so, as he perceived that there was something more

from the crime, the more so, as he perceived that there was something more than mortal about the captive youth. In the meant

caused an olive to spring out of the earth. The latter was judged the more useful gift; and Minerva named the city, calling

are called by the Arabs, Shama and Dama. The statue of Memnon is the more northerly of the two, and was formerly celebrated

un’s rays upon the air confined in the cavities of the statue. A much more reasonable solution of the mystery has been furni

to move he causes terrible eruptions of the volcano. Tityus was still more cruelly punished. He was chained to the ground in

and twenty-five feet long; and the fore-paws extend about fifty feet more . The face has been much disfigured by the arrows

at was the Phœnix? Ans. A fabulous bird of which there never existed more than one at the same time. It excelled all other

some portion of the viands had been first cast into the fire; in the more solemn form of marriage, the bride always threw a

n, she breathed upon him as he slept. Awaking he craved food, but the more he consumed, the more his hunger raged. In vain t

im as he slept. Awaking he craved food, but the more he consumed, the more his hunger raged. In vain the unhappy man spent a

others in the tenth century before our era. The latter opinion is the more probable. According to the account generally give

t of his age. The poems of Ovid, however beautiful otherwise, are all more or less objectionable on account of their immoral

returning to the shore, was struck with horror at their temerity, the more so on account of the fearful signs which followed

outh of their harbor. The arrival of the hero could not have occurred more opportunely for the deliverance of his wife, the

received of Ulysses, it was generally believed that he had perished. More than a hundred nobles of Ithaca and the surroundi

x books; and when Tarquin again refused to buy them, she burned three more , and still persisted in demanding the same sum of

tian writers, but Bishop Horsley, a learned English divine, thinks it more reasonable to suppose that the sibylline books co

ing a hare, wolf, fox, etc. Some of these last superstitions prevail, more or less, to the present day. Chapter XXXIX. O

word was also applied to the responses given. Ques. Name some of the more famous oracles? Ans. Among the most celebrated w

ed by the attendant priests. The oracles were sometimes in verse, but more commonly in prose; in the latter case they were i

ipture that Satan spoke by the mouths of the possessed, and none were more likely to fall under this demoniac influence than

ugh the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine,     With hollow shriek the steep of Delph

m the year 776, B. C., although the games had been revived by Iphitus more than a century earlier. The Olympic festival last

hand, and his name was proclaimed by the herald. On his return home, more distinguished honors awaited him. He entered his

s. Yes; there was also an intellectual competition, which was perhaps more lively and ardent than any other, as the victory

ively and ardent than any other, as the victory in such a contest was more highly esteemed. The best writers and poets of Gr

ommemoration of his victory over the serpent Python; according to the more probable historic account, they originated at the

ted from the lowest tier to the portico above. The lower seats, being more conveniently placed for seeing and hearing, were

ored masks may have had a very good effect. Nothing would have seemed more out of place to the Greeks, than to see the part

denounced the anger of the gods on the head of a tyrant. Besides this more legitimate action of the chorus, it was occasiona

rpents, in their fleshless hands, and their aspect was rendered still more terrible by the frightful masks which appeared be

ade the circuit of the Theatre. The sound of instruments was heard no more as their choral hymn swelled and rose, thrilling

on the administration of Pericles. It existed in its full beauty for more than a century after his death. It was first desp

ied, as we have already learned, Io, the daughter of Inachus, who was more generally known to the Egyptians by the name of I

perfumes were laid upon the altar of Astaroth. Notwithstanding these more innocent offerings, her worship was rendered infa

ues. What were the doctrines of Zoroaster? Ans. This philosopher was more enlightened than his contemporaries, and was prob

a sage named Vyasa, some five thousand years ago. Ques. What is the more correct opinion? Ans. That they were written in

? Ans. His Avatars, or incarnations, which are numerous, but ten are more especially celebrated. Ques. What was the first

od. Ques. What do you say of Siva? Ans. Siva, or Mahadeva, as he is more generally called, has a vast number of followers.

der to benefit his fellow men. We may see, therefore, that Buddha had more reasonable and humane ideas than those who compos

ism prevails in Thibet and Tartary. The people of these countries are more thoughtful than the Chinese, and more earnest wit

e people of these countries are more thoughtful than the Chinese, and more earnest with regard to religious matters. Their p

and sorcery, but these are generally looked upon with aversion by the more virtuous among their brethren. Ques. Who is the

terize the fables of Greece and Rome; and it differs equally from the more mystical superstitions of the Persians and Hindoo

e scenes around him, and his superstitions, though still sensual, are more gentle and refined. On the other hand, the wild a

, etc. In later times, the runes were used for inscriptions, of which more than a thousand have been found. The language is

ill become dim, the stars will fall from heaven, and time shall be no more . After this universal destruction, Alfâdur (All-F

His account is considered perfectly reliable, although, to render it more intelligible, he gives to the Celtic gods the nam

he “wrote upon stone the arts and the sciences of the world.” In his more beneficent character, the name Gwyon was often gi

ibes of Gaul and Britain, and they were, perhaps for this reason, the more susceptible to its influence. The character of th

to study the deeper mysteries of nature and religion, and to consult more directly the secret will of the divinity. They we

tched carefully to obtain an omen, according as the blood should flow more or less rapidly. This ceremony was repeated with

se of the conquered race. Druidism retired, step by step, before this more classic heathenism, but found a temporary refuge

constructed of stone are sometimes found; but circular earthworks are more common. In this country, as in Brittany, many pop

tive tradition. The Aztecs seem to have adopted the religion of their more civilized predecessors without abandoning their o

r than that below. At the top was a broad area, in which stood one or more towers, containing images of the presiding deitie

which led directly up the centre of the western face of the pyramid. More generally, it was so arranged, that the religious

fore the Spanish Conquest. They were at first exceptional, but became more frequent as the Aztec empire extended, until the

on a musical instrument; at first, joyous airs, which grew graver and more mournful as the cortege advanced, until at length

ctim; but the cannibal repasts of the Mexicans were unknown among the more refined Peruvians. Ques. What were the principal

oned his answer, because, the longer he meditated on the subject, the more obscure it became, and the more he felt his inabi

nger he meditated on the subject, the more obscure it became, and the more he felt his inability to treat it in an adequate

at the holiness and happiness of the Christian world will be rendered more evident by comparison with the times of that igno

rophets, and lastly our Lord Jesus Christ. The patriarchs to whom God more especially revealed himself were Adam, Noah and A

ter Abraham, and fifteen centuries before the birth of Christ, Moses, more fully than any of his predecessors, was instructe

s the past. This double gift of looking before and after, was nothing more than the experience and foresight of a wise man;

y a museum or gallery of the fine arts, which does not contain one or more statues of Apollo. Of these, that which is univer

ust, most hateful in our eyes! [Translator : Pope] The Romans were a more warlike people than the Greeks; they held Mars in

brought forth and made serviceable. Because Prometheus employed fire more curiously and successfully than other men, he is

the motions of the heavenly bodies. The malignity of his enemies is a more rational cause for the sufferings of Prometheus t

ing. Iris was a beautiful female, the constant attendant of Juno, and more particularly the messenger of that goddess. Iris

their dunk, and the latter their food. These imaginary aliments were more delicious than any known to mankind. Hebe present

ed the cestus. The cestus was supposed to make Venus a thousand times more graceful and beautiful than she was without it. T

heaven, and forbade the earth to afford her an asylum. Old Ocean was more compassionate. Neptune, in pity of her desolate c

erce, derived its wealth from the sea, and therefore held. Neptune in more grateful estimation than the other states. Who w

leys and the sloping hills Where’er the god inclines his lovely face, More luscious fruits the rich plantations grace. Then

ly foretelling the approach of storms, seemed to them to be something more than mortal. By attentively observing the directi

Luperci. Pan was regarded as the inspirer of sudden untounded terror; more especially of the consternation which sometimes t

dog is the emblem of faithful attachment and watchful care, and he is more the friend and guard of man than any brute animal

toil of filling with water vessels which had no bottom. Who were the more remarkable criminals punished in the infernal reg

ain, Narcissus beheld the reflection of his own face and form; it was more lovely than any object he had ever seen; he desir

espair cannot be expressed. If, in this state of peril, some man of a more powerful body, and a more courageous spirit than

. If, in this state of peril, some man of a more powerful body, and a more courageous spirit than others of these small comm

rincess Iole, but her father Eurytus refused her to him. He then once more lost his reason, and showing some disrespect to t

him for his son, and will leave him the kingdom. We then shall be no more than the subjects of this upstart: let us kill hi

son, because in those days people pretended to think a prince was of more value than a hundred ordinary persons. We know be

e up the exaction of the tribute. It is probable the truth is nothing more , than that the two princes peaceably agreed that

nd as then there were no books to read, he felt the want of something more to do, so he left his people to govern themselves

y delighted with Peritheus, and they traversed Greece together, doing more harm than good. Among other violent acts, Theseus

eseus? Œdipus. Among the fables of antiquity there is not one more sad than the story of Œdipus. Œdipus, King of The

red about Mount Rhodope, in the rude country of Thrace. Orpheus never more liked the society of females), and they conceived

onours on their native shore, Silent they slept, and heard of wars no more . Castor and Pollux were among the Argonauts, and

nted too high, fell into the sea, and was drowned, but his father was more fortunate, getting safe into Sicily, where he is

the Trojans, who had encouraged Paris in his perfidy. Menelaus, with more forbearance than was common to that age, when pri

ad compelled Circe to restore his men to their natural form, and once more , with his single vessel, he embarked for Ithaca,

essary for his voyage, and she obeyed him, and the hero departed once more for Ithaca. He had almost reached Corcyra, when N

e put out by Ulysses, and thought it just that he should suffer still more as a punishment for that act; so the god raised a

hed after an absence of twenty years. When Ulysses found himself once more in Ithaca, ho resolved to proceed to his palace i

Messinia in Peloponnesus, went to the siege of Troy. His character is more amiable than that of the heroes generally. Nestor

upon the Mediterranean, in hopes to establish himself in some country more favoured than Troy. In his voyage, Eneas stopped

ered as severe a punishment as a capital offender. The wise Solon was more just and humane, and his countrymen respected him

ously mentioned — like them he was a moral philosopher, though little more than his name now remains. He is said to have die

the daughter of Cleobulus, was celebrated for her wit and genius, but more for the sweetness of her temper Cleobulus died 56

ready been incarnate nine times, in different forms, will appear once more in the figure of a horse, in order to put an end

hmé, and the frightful image of Sceva. The principal Hindu temples of more modern date, are those of Juggernaut, Benares, Ma

rway to the Arctic Ocean, and thence to the White Sea, we arrive once more at Russia. We have almost completed a circuit whi

on of Iran or Persia, according to the most authentic historians, was more rational than that of most other nations of the w

ut yet at last, shall Arimanius fall Before his might, and evil be no more . Glover’sLeonidas. What is the character of th

oon? Who reformed the religion in Persia? Did the Persians believe in more than one governing power in the universe? Was Mit

: and it is a truth exhibited in the history of all nations, that the more improved men are in the arts and comforts of life

that the more improved men are in the arts and comforts of life, the more intelligent they are. Intelligence is the power o

ts borne on light clouds, or that they were permitted to descend once more to earth, to warble heavenly music and inhale the

by the different tribes of Mexico; the chief of these, Mex-it-li, was more honoured than any of the gods of Mexico. The Mexi

r classes of the people consecrated their children in infancy, to the more honourable of the temple services; and the lower

ayer is found in the writings of Plato, and was a tradition from some more ancient author: “O thou, who art the king of Heav

r deified men, might have been a little different; because the Romans more readily admitted the apotheosis of heroes, and we

e the Romans more readily admitted the apotheosis of heroes, and were more tolerant than the Greeks. In the latter ages of R

founder of these orders. They were only few in number, sometimes not more than fifteen persons in an order. The Flamines, S

state of Rome. The woman immediately disappeared, and was never seen more . Who were the Sibyls? What were the Sibylline or

ration of intellectual and physical power; and yet there is something more magnificent in the conception of a people, who co

riter eminent in the knowledge of their antiquities , “was in nothing more manifest than in their continued prayers and supp

nt what was honourable and good for them: and they added one petition more , viz. that they might be enabled to suffer injuri

mnon, exclaims, Now by this sacred sceptre hear me swear Which never more shall leaves or blossoms bear, Which severed from

entateuch, or the first five books of the Bible. The law of Moses, or more properly, the dispensation of the true God, was r

alified delight. I feel bound to avow the conviction that it has done more . It has removed not a few perplexities, and has s

he sun, is dead; will he come back again?’ and when they saw him once more in the east, they rejoiced because he brought bac

crets of mythology was given us by Professor Max Müller, who has done more than all other writers to bring out the exquisite

ren, just as mortals do. To make the resemblance between gods and men more complete, the Greeks ascribed to their deities al

y, jealousy, and revenge. “The abode of the gods, as described by the more ancient Grecian poets, such as Homer* and Hesiod*

ere a less civilized people than the Greeks, their mythology was of a more barbarous character, and this circumstance, combi

as also believed to exercise unbounded sway over the animal creation, more especially over the lion. The priests of Rhea wer

e name of Cybele. The people of Crete adored her as the Great Mother, more especially as the sustainer of the vegetable worl

being nearly destroyed by fire in the time of Sulla, was restored to more than its pristine splendor. The original earthen

se Dioscuri flitting about on their golden wings are probably nothing more than what is commonly called St. Elmo’s fire — an

yth has received many embellishments, for the wanderings of lo became more extensive with the growth of geographical knowled

s. He was the presiding deity over fishermen, and was on that account more particularly revered in countries bordering on th

rch, a sword, a knife, a whip, or a serpent. Such was the earlier and more dreadful idea of the Erinnys. Subsequently, they

eadful idea of the Erinnys. Subsequently, they appear in a milder and more kindly guise. So long as men were under the domin

inner and to give succor to all good men. They were then represented, more especially in Athens, as earnest maidens, dressed

Athene, a palpable indication that prudent courage often accomplishes more than impetuous violence. In Thebes, Ares was rega

as preserved. In order to prevent its abstraction, Numa caused eleven more to be made exactly like it, and instituted for th

ith beauty. The Romans called this god Vulcanus, or, according to its more ancient spelling, Volcanus. They honored in him t

agrations. Under the influence of the Greek writers, the original and more common conception of the god gave place to the po

Venus Genetrix*, the goddess of wedlock. Representation. In the more ancient temples of this goddess in Cyprus, she wa

tments they were reunited, and Zeus made her immortal.10 “But never more they met! since doubts and fears,     Those phant

rn means the early light which appears in the morning, but is seen no more when the sun is risen.” Cox . Cassandra*, a da

ntium, and is now in the Vatican. It is a standing figure, in marble, more than seven feet high, nude, except for the cloak

d a real benefactor of mankind by founding cities, and by introducing more civilized manners and a more sociable mode of lif

d by founding cities, and by introducing more civilized manners and a more sociable mode of life among men.” Seemann . Se

Greeks and Romans alike, as the god of wine and of vineyards. In his more extended meaning, he represents the blessings of

was generally depicted as majestic and grave. In later art he became more youthful. The statues of this period are distingu

orlike exhalations which, in warm climates, are emitted from the sea, more especially at sunset. They were represented as mi

ens, which is still to be seen, and is in excellent preservation. Far more extensive was the worship of this goddess at Rome

rophecy, and he possessed an oracle in Arcadia, in which state he was more especially worshiped. The usual offerings to Pan

ace themselves in the closest communion possible with their gods. The more exalted the rank and importance of the divinity i

The more exalted the rank and importance of the divinity invoked, the more elevated was the site selected for his or her wor

ops, founder of the city. A temple was frequently dedicated to two or more gods, and was always built in the manner consider

very god had a form of building peculiar to himself, which was deemed more acceptable to him than any other. Thus the Doric

y and the blessings all escaped, Hope only excepted. This story seems more consistent than the former. “The idea that with

records to have been spread over the north of Greece; the latter, the more civilized race which founded towns, and gradually

ed the Argonauts how to overcome the dangers awaiting them. They once more set sail, but they had not proceeded far on their

o take any further part in the war, while the Trojans, who feared him more than all the other Greeks, became bolder, and no

s as a punishment sent by the gods for his evil counsel, and were the more confirmed in their purpose. The gates being too l

at they would therefore be in hopeless imprisonment. Next morning two more of the Greeks were despatched as their companions

ter milking them and making his arrangements as before, he seized two more of his prisoners and made his evening meal upon t

of man’s flesh.” Delighted with the delicious beverage, he called for more , and was again supplied. The giant was so much pl

men should not escape with them. But the subtlety of the hero proved more than a match for the giant’s strength. The sheep

t them further, and they were obliged to labor over their course once more by means of their oars. The next adventure was wi

in terror back to his ship. Having rejoined his companions, they once more put to sea and returned to Ææa, where they spent

ng to a mast, he floated about in the open sea for nine days. He once more escaped from Charybdis, and on the tenth day was

the work. One of her maids had betrayed her, and the suitors were now more clamorous than ever. At the suggestion of Athene,

emachus viewed him with astonishment, and at first thought he must be more than mortal; but Odysseus announced himself as hi

have become proverbial, “Yield not to disasters, but press onward the more bravely.” Having been directed in a dream to see

Egyptian Mythology. Some of the Egyptian myths seem to have a more direct reference to facts of astronomy than do th

festival the crocodiles became harmless. Apis was not allowed to live more than twenty-five years. If he lived to that age,

itual for the use of the soul in its journeys after death, and a copy more or less complete, according to the fortune of the

*, the winged bull and lion, that presided over war and hunting, were more devotedly worshiped. The race of kings was, accor

e Eddas*. The older is in poetry and dates back to the year 1056, the more modern, or prose Edda, is dated 1640; so that for

ill become dim, the stars will fall from heaven, and time shall be no more . After this universal destruction a new heaven an

to study the deeper mysteries of nature and religion, and to consult more directly the secret will of the divinity. They we

d is not always found on the oak, so that when it is found, it is the more precious.” Amber was valued for certain mysterio

and prosaic, as befits the product of a lower grade of culture and a more meagre intellect. Not only are the personages les

y and labor, walking forever around the earth, and ever increasing it more and more. “The animals on the raft soon found hom

or, walking forever around the earth, and ever increasing it more and more . “The animals on the raft soon found homes on the

, into their own country. As this is the case, it might have appeared more natural to the source before the stream; to intro

ant offspring. Yet as the mythology of Greece and Rome occurs so much more frequently in those books which are most commonly

joy that support which it has hitherto found, and may meet with still more extensive patronage. Cork, January, 1824. Par

different nations? Yes; and this circumstance renders his history the more obscure. The first of them, is the Jupiter Ammon

n birth to this goddess: principally, Samos, and Argos, where she was more particularly worshiped. Who were her children? He

the Goddess waves, To hogs transforms them; whom the sty receives. No more was seen the human form divine, Head, face, and m

young man with horns, a red face, a body bloated, and puffed up; but more frequently, as most beautiful and effeminate, hav

heveled hair and torches, or thyrsi, in their hands. Nothing could be more absurd, impious, and licentious, than these horri

eys and the sloping hills. Where’er the God inclines his lovely face, More luscious fruits the rich plantations grace. Then

with Osiris. We meet with scarcely any personage in the ancient world more celebrated for great knowledge and admirable tale

tretch’d arms implore, In vain they call; those arms are stretch’d no more . In the wide dungeon, she devours her food, And t

ly foretelling the approach of storms, seemed to them to be something more than mortal. By attentively observing the directi

ether, formed of them the rural pipe, and named it Syrinx. Pithys was more favourable to the God, but Boreas being jealous o

he various systems of Pagan Mythology appear to be streams, wandering more or less widely from the patriarchal religion, yet

gyptian, Persian, Babylonian, Celtic, and Grecian, and in many of the more modern religions of tribes, not blessed with the

hmé, and the frightful image of Seeva. The principal Hindû temples of more modern date are those of Jaggernaut, Benares, Mat

ready been incarnate nine times, in different forms, will appear once more in the figure of a horse, in order to put an end

oseph; and others regard him as Moses. Some assert that he was a king more ancient than either of them; while others say tha

f the twelve native deities. His attribute was strength or power, and more particularly the power of gravitation. He was add

t, yet at last, shall Arimanius fall Before his might, and evil be no more . Glover’s Leonidas. Chap. VII. Scythian and

ystem will then be established. Besides those already enumerated, two more vague and doubtful beings are found in the Scandi

ree, to express any doubts on the subject. The wisest sages deemed it more expedient to conceal their better knowledge from

e would still fancy something beyond that, and then some period still more remote would present itself, and so on ad infinit

sunken in barbarism, has some perception, some explanation of, and a more or less well-grounded belief in, a First Cause. F

laws that know no change. To the Greeks and Romans, there was a time more remote than history gives us any account of, when

or turf or rough unhewn stone; but as the mode of sacrificing became more ceremonious grander altars were built. Some were

lled by one common name, Pleiades; and by his wife Æthra he had seven more , who were, in the same manner, called Hyades. Bot

as crystal; and any believer who tastes thereof is said to thirst no more . Cel′eno [Celeno] was one of the Harpies, progen

ed into stone. Ulysses, in the Odyssey, relates that he wished to see more of the inhabitants of Hades, but was afraid, as h

d in Mount Parnassus, at Helicon. “Be thou the tenth Muse, ten times more in worth, Than those old nine which rhymers advoc

us]. A son of Vulcan, who married Lathæa, a woman who thought herself more beautiful than the goddesses, and as a punishment

14th of the calends of January. Opiate-rod, see Caduceus. “Eyes ... more wakeful than to drowse, Charmed with Arcadian pip

hat Hope alone remained in the box. Pandora means “the all-gifted.” “ More lovely than Pandora, whom the gods Endowed with a

mortal. Unknown God, An. With reference to this God, nothing can be more appropriate than St. Paul’s address to the Atheni

……………………………………… The sun, and Mira’s charming eyes,     At thy return more charming grow. With double glory they appear, To

 Qui feros cultus hominum recentum « Voce formasti catus et decoræ «  More palestræ. » (Hor., Od., i, 10.) 161. Deum maxi

volta odiato suo sposo : ma poi succrescendo di tratto in tratto l’a more divenne al fine di esso sì gelosa, che ravvisando

una, ma nella fine, come. Unicus Dei timo Potest procaces continere mores VIII. L’ottava accoppia un Gliconio con un Ascle

giorni mena : Indi in età più fosca, che serena Tra fortuna, ed amor more , e rinasce. Quante poscia sostien tristo, e mendi

vatj dilettevoli racconti, e tra questi la mutazione di colore delle more del Gelso(19). Rimbombò all’improvviso in que’ di

no. Passò l’umor sanguigno per le fibre del Gelso, e tinse le bianche more di color nero, mischiato col porporino. Sopraggiu

coll’amante, impugnò anch’ella il ferro, s’aprì le vene, e spirò. Le more del Gelfo fin d’allora non riacquistarono più la

enosi viaggi. Dic mihi, Musa, virum captae post tempora Trajae Qui mores hominum multorum vidit, et urbes. Traduce così Or

, Il sera chanté Des bords de l’Aurore A ceux de Vesper, Et de l’onde More Aux eaux de l’Ister. Mais, Ombre chérie ! Un tri

unata gente ; Che, spregiando condir le lor vivande, Mangiavan corne, more , fraghe, ghiande. Febo sempre più lieto il suo vi

estinas urgete manus. Meus ecce paratur Ad bellum Stilicho, qui me de more trophaeis Ditat et hostiles suspendit in arbore c

, Il sera chanté Des bords de l’Aurore A ceux de Vesper, Et de l’onde More Aux eaux de l’Ister. Mais, Ombre chérie ! Un trib

. Virg. Aen. I, v. 745. (3). Virg. Georg. 1, v. 245 : perque duas in more fluminis Arctos, Arctos Oceani metuentes acquore

l signor loro; in molte piaghe All’alma irresoluta aprian la fuga. Ei more , e solo colla vita ha fine Il tuo furore, o faret

con una catena di fiori, e gli unse il viso con il succo delle gelse more . Egla era anche il nome di una delle tre Esperidi