command you; you must first see Psyche, and then find some very ugly old man, end make her acquainted with him. You must m

That is, they left off paganism; you told me that was the name of the old religion, fifteen hundred years ago. How came the

d, will be followed by misfortunes. Ann. Is the story of Psyche very old ? Mother. Yes; one Apuleius, who lived in Sicily,

e in Greek, about seventeen hundred years ago, said he found it in an old book; so it must be very old. Ann. It is a very

undred years ago, said he found it in an old book; so it must be very old . Ann. It is a very pretty story. Mother. I thin

she named Itys, and she loved him dearly. When Itys was about a year old , Progne begged her husband to allow her to go to

us went, as he had proposed, and Pandion received him kindly; but the old king wept because Tereus had not brought Progne w

ne with him. Tereus told him the reason why she staid behind, and the old man was then satisfied. But Pandion wept afresh w

face. “I can refuse you nothing, my own Philomela,” answered the fond old man, smiling upon her through his tears. “But, my

hich was surrounded by a high wall. Philomela saw nobody there but an old woman, and she felt a strange alarm at her situat

ries in these pictures, or hieroglyphics. Philomela made signs to the old woman that she wanted a piece of cloth, and mater

out her tongue. When she has finished her work, she made signs to the old woman to carry it to the queen, who would give he

e her some money for it. The hope of a magnificent reward induced the old woman to obey Philomela, and she hastened off to

first desire was to release her from confinement, and she bribed the old woman to tell her where Philomela was confined. T

woods, and began the rites of Bacchus. Progne was among them, and the old woman also, from whom she had got the web of Phil

ll they demanded must be granted; accordingly the keeper, to whom the old woman had entrusted Philomela, instantly admitted

Mercury. Not far from Lystra was the province of Phrygia. There is an old fable which is very pretty, that belongs to Phryg

oughts, of his garden and his grape vines, and of pigs and fowls. The old woman was too busy to join in the conversation. B

oft flexible willow branches on the floor, and covered them over with old garments, as a couch for the guests. This done, s

coarse, clean, earthen dishes. The chief ornament of the table was an old pitcher of red pottery, stained black in sundry f

ese gods,” said Baucis. “We have no victim,” said Philemon, “save our old goose yonder.” “The old 6 goose — nobody knew how

“We have no victim,” said Philemon, “save our old goose yonder.” “The old 6 goose — nobody knew how old she was — had serve

emon, “save our old goose yonder.” “The old 6 goose — nobody knew how old she was — had served them as a sentry for forty y

oud cackling gave them the alarm whenever a stranger approached. “The old goose will serve very well,” said Baucis, looking

stantly ran toward the house door, which stood a little open, and the old couple pursued her; but she entered the cottage,

come thither, and were relating the transformation of their cottage, old Philemon perceived his good dame to be covered wi

rceived his good dame to be covered with leaves, of tender green; and old Baucis saw his lengthened arms putting forth bran

ious vices, so she sought out Envy, who was a deformed and disgusting old woman. The dwelling of Envy was a cave, which the

ould be the future fortune of her child; and she went to Tiresias, an old prophet who dwelt in the city of Thebes, to learn

sulted Tiresias, the prophet told her that Narcissus would live to be old , if he could be kept from seeing himself; and, th

ng of Thebes, was the grandson of Cadmus. His grandfather, now become old , had resigned the kingdom to Pentheus. Pentheus d

s, the goodness of Cadmus and of Pentheus. Cadmus was an affectionate old man, and a generous one, for he had given a kingd

ed drunken revels, and he respected age. Mother. His respect for his old grandfather was an excellent quality. How do you

winds wafted the chest in safety to Seriphus, one of the Cyclades. An old fisherman, named Dictys, was standing near the sh

strength very fine qualities for a king: but Polydectes was weak, and old , and ill-natured. He knew this himself. He said t

a great distance from Seriphus, on the borders of Western Africa. An old Greek poet calls them Hesperian maidens. Hesper,

ger its king. His brother, Phætus, a very artful man, had deposed the old king, and taken his place. Perseus immediately re

otten. When she fled from the palace of Polydectes to the temple, the old man heard of it, and afterward conveyed her to hi

rsation, and was related and listened to by the credulous Thebans. An old husbandman, from the neighbouring country, who ha

d to them the following adventure of Latona: “In my youth,” began the old man, “my father, being too old and infirm to bear

re of Latona: “In my youth,” began the old man, “my father, being too old and infirm to bear the fatigues of a long journey

of laughing young girls who were pelting her with flowers. The stern old king felt his heart beat quicker at sight of all

own and let us see you;     If you cannot come to stay, Ask the stern old hill to free you     Just for half a holiday.    

what she meant by her boast. Accordingly, she took on the form of an old , gray-haired woman, and leaning on her staff, as

oastful claim that she could outdo Minerva herself in skill. Then the old woman spoke. “My daughter,” she said, laying her

d, laying her hand on Arachne’s shoulder, “listen to the advice of an old woman who has had much experience in life. Be con

cross and ugly, as she answered in a very churlish tone, “You are an old woman and you speak like one. Let Minerva come an

g from her thread, she spun and spun forever. If you can find a dusty old corner in an attic, or if you will look closely a

th the people went to their temple to consult the oracle. This was an old custom among the people of long ago. In many citi

hole village was invited to be present at the feast. Now there was an old man of whom Andromeda’s parents were very much af

e, and the parents had been afraid to say no. But the girl hated this old man, and that was another reason why she loved Pe

of armed soldiers. There was silence in the room, until at length the old man spoke: “Perseus, I have come to claim my prom

and no power of yours can take her from me.” “We shall see,” was the old man’s answer; and he started toward Perseus. But

for Perseus had lifted the terrible Gorgon’s head, and instantly the old man was turned to stone, just as he stood. When h

ade her their queen. She lived happily for many years, until she grew old and died. Then the people carved a great statue o

ngest and most wonderful man of his time. When he was but a few weeks old , Juno, who hated his mother and therefore wished

ough; Those homes of delight they need not now; And the young and the old they wander out, And traverse their green world r

e yellow furze, like fields of gold, That gladdened some fairy region old ! On the mountain tops, on the billowy sea, On the

Mary Howitt . A Cruel King When Aegeus, king of the famous old city of Athens, was still a young man, he was one

ild, a boy, whom they called Theseus. When this baby was a few months old , Aegeus had to go back to Athens; but, before lea

h a heavy stone. Then, turning to his wife, he said, “When our boy is old and strong enough to lift’ that stone, let him ta

d prepared to lay siege to the city. Now, the king of the city was an old , white-haired man, but, strange to say, hanging r

f this terrible yearly burden, or to die with his people. In vain the old king tried to make him change his mind, the brave

a little, modest-looking cottage, thatched with straw. In it dwelt an old couple, Philemon and his wife Baucis. They were v

ing crowd at their heels, they hastened to meet them. “Friends,” said old Philemon, “our cottage is small and our fare humb

as ready, and the strangers seated themselves at the table, while the old couple filled their plates. There was only bread

morning, Philemon and Baucis arose, for they wanted to kill their one old goose for the strangers’ breakfast. While they we

f good fortune, as they had been in their poverty. So. they grew very old — so old that life no longer seemed beautiful to

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

to ill-treat them. They had to lay aside their rich clothes and wear old rags and live with the shepherds’ children; and a

hey alighted together in the land of Colchis, far away from the boy’s old home. Here Phryxus married the king’s daughter. T

a stream much swollen by the spring rains. On the bank there stood an old woman looking for some means of crossing. Mindful

arting words, Jason spoke to her and offered to carry her across. The old woman gladly accepted the offer, and Jason lifted

he other shore. But what was Jason’s surprise to see, in place of the old woman he had carried across, the stately form of

a good and brave heart, and you shall not regret your kindness to an old woman;” then she vanished. When Jason recovered f

nished, Jason sent word of his intended voyage to his comrades of the old school days, and they all came to join him. These

seized his lyre, for now that Hyacinthus was gone, he turned to this old friend for comfort. And he sang a song of love an

e fairest and whitest of all the sea nymphs was Galatea. To the rough old Polyphemus she seemed just like a bit of sunshine

th and the white sea nymph lived as happily as though the poor, ugly, old Polyphemus had never seen them. The Shepherd’s S

 4. “The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The Power, the Beauty, and the Majesty

h of reason; But still the heart doth need a language; still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names; Spirits or god

eart doth need a language; still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names; Spirits or gods that used to share this ea

ry was inaccessible by land or sea. They lived exempt from disease or old age, from toils and warfare. Moore has given us t

but not with impunity. When I was young, my father, who had grown too old for active labors, sent me to Lycia to drive then

lemon. [Midas.] Bacchus, on a certain occasion, found his old schoolmaster and foster-father, Silenus, missing.

, found his old schoolmaster and foster-father, Silenus, missing. The old man had been drinking, and in that state wandered

ansion received them, a small thatched cottage, where Baucis, a pious old dame, and her husband Philemon, united when young

ious old dame, and her husband Philemon, united when young, had grown old together. Not ashamed of their poverty, they made

mble threshold, and bowed their heads to pass under the low door, the old man placed a seat, on which Baucis, bustling and

t occasions, but ancient and coarse enough, was spread over that. The old lady, with her apron on, with trembling hand set

s, and simple but hearty welcome. Now while the repast proceeded, the old folks were astonished to see that the wine, as fa

hands implored forgiveness for their poor entertainment. There was an old goose, which they kept as the guardian of their h

s. But the goose, too nimble, with the aid of feet and wings, for the old folks, eluded their pursuit, and at last took she

h wonder at the sight, and lamented the fate of their neighbors, that old house of theirs was changed into a temple. Column

rnaments of gold. Then spoke Jupiter in benignant accents: “Excellent old man, and woman worthy of such a husband, speak, t

were the keepers of the temple as long as they lived. When grown very old , as they stood one day before the steps of the sa

tory of the place, Baucis saw Philemon begin to put forth leaves, and old Philemon saw Baucis changing in like manner. And

shows the two trees, standing side by side, made out of the two good old people.   The story of Baucis and Philemon has be

ers. It was where now stands the city of Eleusis, then the home of an old man named Celeus. He was out in the field, gather

goats, and as she passed the goddess, who appeared in the guise of an old woman, she said to her, “Mother,” — and the name

the ears of Ceres, — “why do you sit here alone upon the rocks?” The old man also stopped, though his load was heavy, and

s never weep — fell down her cheeks upon her bosom. The compassionate old man and his child wept with her. Then said he, “C

ht and nursed under my branches, and play in my shade; and when he is old enough to talk, let him be taught to call me moth

d Satyrs would have given all they possessed to win her, and so would old Sylvanus, who looks young for his years, and Pan,

his passion with the sight of her. One day he came in the guise of an old woman, her gray hair surmounted with a cap, and a

s you credit, my dear,” she said, and kissed her, not exactly with an old woman’s kiss. She sat down on a bank, and looked

if you are prudent and want to make a good alliance, and will let an old woman advise you, — who loves you better than you

ssoms!” When Vertumnus had spoken thus, he dropped the disguise of an old woman, and stood before her in his proper person,

ful lines of T. K. Harvey: — “They wove bright fables in the days of old ,     When reason borrowed fancy’s painted wings;

g of Athens, arrived in the island of Ægina to seek assistance of his old friend and ally Æacus, the king, in his war with

on of them. Finally there were none left to mourn; sons and husbands, old men and youths, perished alike unlamented. “Stand

ying deity changed her into a bird. The sea-eagle still cherishes the old animosity; and whenever he espies her in his loft

he is still ready to reply to any one who calls her, and keeps up her old habit of having the last word. Narcissus’s cruelt

ng with Hero’s song, ’Ye waves, divide not lovers long.’ That tale is old , but love anew May nerve young hearts to prove as

y.” Minerva heard this and was displeased. She assumed the form of an old woman and went and gave Arachne some friendly adv

she will pardon you.” Arachne stopped her spinning and looked at the old dame with anger in her countenance. “Keep your co

of that name. Though she attained this honor, yet the Sea-Nymphs, her old enemies, prevailed so far as to cause her to be p

Cepheus. They defended themselves and a general conflict ensued, the old king retreating from the scene after fruitless ex

n childhood creeps on hands and knees, in manhood walks erect, and in old age with the aid of a staff.” The Sphinx was so m

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

hat of spring. Seeing that all was ready, Medea cut the throat of the old man and let out all his blood, and poured into hi

ded to consent, and prepared her caldron as before. At her request an old sheep was brought and plunged into the caldron. V

rbs. In the night she with the sisters entered the bed chamber of the old king, while he and his guards slept soundly under

ointed by his father, and neglected to raise the white sails, and the old king, thinking his son had perished, put an end t

. The procession consisted of persons of all ages and both sexes. The old men carried olive branches in their hands, and th

cchus was advancing, men and women, but chiefly the latter, young and old , poured forth to meet him and to join his triumph

unus haunted.” Paradise Lost, B. IV. It was a pleasing trait in the old Paganism that it loved to trace in every operatio

me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea, And hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.” Schiller, in hi

orter poems. He introduces it thus: — “Hear now this fairy legend of old Greece, As full of freedom, youth and beauty stil

the Carpathian wizard’s hook,14 By scaly Triton’s winding shell, And old soothsaying Glaucus’ spell, By Leucothea’s lovely

munity from ills, Long centuries they lived; their only fate Was ripe old age, and rather sleep than death.” The Camenæ

              “— That Nyseian isle, Girt with the river Triton, where old Cham, Whom Gentiles Ammon call, and Libyan Jove,

shrunk from the thought of dying for him on the bed of sickness; and old servants who had experienced his bounty and that

ere, Love, a god all powerful with us who dwell on the earth, and, if old traditions say true, not less so here. I implore

ith the feast, and after that Cyrene thus addressed him: “There is an old prophet named Proteus, who dwells in the sea and

re his house there stood an oak tree containing a serpent’s nest. The old serpents were killed by the servants, but Melampu

softly in a sleep, His temples bound with poppy, to the steep Head of old Latmos, where she stoops each night, Gilding the

she began to discern, to her great mortification, that he was growing old . When his hair was quite white she left his socie

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

an by the power of love, in a way that shows traces of kindred to the old story of Galatea and the Cyclops. “What not his

p for counsel. But Troy was no feeble enemy. Priam, the king, was now old , but he had been a wise prince and had strengthen

king out over the field, saw the chariot of Nestor and recognized the old chief, but could not discern who the wounded chie

nto the town Hector stood without determined to await the combat. His old father called to him from the walls and begged hi

and Queen Hecuba at this sight! His people could scarce restrain the old king from rushing forth. He threw himself in the

s articles designed for a ransom to Achilles. When all was ready, the old king with a single companion as aged as himself,

nto the tent where Achilles sat, attended by two of his warriors. The old king threw himself at the feet of Achilles, and k

unveiled it should be borne back to Troy. Then Achilles dismissed the old king with his attendants, having first pledged hi

ling strain     And gripe and deepening of the dragon’s grasp     The old man’s clinch; the long envenomed chain     Rivets

ng spindle as they walk.                        * * * * * This was of old , in no inglorious days, The mode of spinning, whe

ended by the conspirators to slay his son Orestes also, a lad not yet old enough to be an object of apprehension, but from

shadows hide     That field with blood bedewed in vain, The desert of old Priam’s pride,     The tombs, sole relics of his

of his reign, All — save immortal dreams that could beguile The blind old man of Scio’s rocky isle.” Bride of Abydos.

hat Ulysses should also go as a beggar, a character which in the rude old times had different privileges from what we conce

ecretly mortified at the failure of their plots to take his life. The old beggar was permitted to enter, and provided with

incident occurred as Ulysses entered the court-yard of the palace. An old dog lay in the yard almost dead with age, and see

ve Of gratulation, impotent to rise, And to approach his master as of old . Ulysses, noting him, wiped off a tear Unmarked.

I am, I was once a soldier, and there is still some strength in these old limbs of mine.” The suitors hooted with derision,

nsolence. But Telemachus spoke up for him, and, merely to gratify the old man, bade him try. Ulysses took the bow, and hand

is kingdom and his wife.   Tennyson’s poem of Ulysses represents the old hero, after his dangers past and nothing left but

is father, and his wife, and young son. The father, Anchises, was too old to walk with the speed required, and Æneas took h

peeding their way prosperously towards their destined shore, felt her old grudge against them revive, for she could not for

me to the black river Cocytus, where they found the ferryman, Charon, old and squalid, but strong and vigorous, who was rec

plain. The same pride in splendid armor and generous steeds which the old heroes felt in life, accompanied them here. He sa

tended With all of brave and excellent and fair         That made the old time splendid.” Milton also alludes to the same

e in P. L., Book III, l. 568. “Like those Hesperian gardens famed of old , Fortunate fields and groves and flowery vales, T

accepted his love, but offended at my refusal, he allowed me to grow old . My youth and youthful strength fled long ago. I

Latinus, third in descent from Saturn, ruled the country. He was now old and had no male descendant, but had one charming

s. Juno, seeing things go thus prosperously for the Trojans, felt her old animosity revive, summoned Alecto from Erebus, an

lecto then speeded to the city of Turnus, and assuming the form of an old priestess, informed him of the arrival of the for

e storm of war, and the queen, Turnus, and the peasants all urged the old king to drive the strangers from the country. He

ich were kept shut as long as peace endured. His people now urged the old king to perform that solemn office, but he refuse

proud city of Rome grew, whose glory reached the skies. By chance the old king, Evander, was that day celebrating annual so

wn and the shrill song of birds beneath the eaves of his low mansion, old Evander rose. Clad in a tunic, and a panther’s sk

attended by his faithful Achates, and, Pallas soon joining them, the old king spoke thus: — “Illustrious Trojan, it is but

from across the sea. They have offered the crown to me, but I am too old to undertake such great affairs, and my son is na

of Milo’s vast strength, such as his carrying a heifer of four years old upon his shoulders and afterwards eating the whol

de to Napoleon Bonaparte, alludes to the story of Milo: — “He who of old would rend the oak     Deemed not of the rebound;

The traditionary story is that he was a wandering minstrel, blind and old , who travelled from place to place singing his la

tary offerings of his hearers for support. Byron calls him “The blind old man of Scio’s rocky isle,” and a well-known epigr

een the successors of the “Gorgons, Hydras, and Chimeras dire” of the old superstitions, and, having no connection with the

accounts of them not so much in the poetry of the ancients as in the old natural history books and narrations of traveller

t was to attack this terrible and unapproachable monster? There is an old saying that “every thing has its enemy” — and the

wife, Iduna, keeps in a box the apples which the gods, when they feel old age approaching, have only to taste of to become

ibutes those who are sent to her; that is, all who die of sickness or old age. Her hall is called Elvidnir. Hunger is her t

ath him to wrestle with thee; let somebody, however, call hither that old crone, my nurse Elli, and let Thor wrestle with h

the ground many a man not less strong than this Thor is.” A toothless old woman then entered the hall, and was told by Utga

place into a hot one. As the messengers were returning, they found an old hag named Thaukt sitting in a cavern, and begged

That mocks the organ’s melody; Nor doth its entrance front in vain To old Iona’s holy fane, That Nature’s voice might seem

weighs the claims of opposing parties. It was a favorite idea of the old poets that these goddesses would one day return,

ed melancholy; To muse and brood and live again in memory, With those old faces of our infancy Heaped over with a mound of

o the traditions; next, that it should have some of the spirit of the old Greek and Latin myths. At the same time, care has

o understood, the rustling of the leaves spoke with meaning. Even the old Earth was not dead. The earthquakes proved that s

beacon yet. James Gates Percival. Gone are the glorious Greeks of old ,    Glorious in mien and mind; Their bones are mi

beautiful in heaven, or on earth, or under the earth. The grim, rough old god was in love with gentle Proserpina. He turned

of rye and barley and seeing that they ripened as they should. Gruff old Pluto tried to comfort the goddess-child. He told

d eat nothing and often wept for her mother, Proserpina made the grim old palace seem a very different place, and Pluto gre

world a race of great creatures called Titans. They were children of old Mother Earth, who is so quiet under our feet, and

d men came from all parts of the earth. Some were young and some were old ; but all those who saw Pandora and came near to t

r him; and the gentle gods of the rivers, and Neptune himself, god of old ocean, would quiet their waters to listen. Even t

ce, and it is said that the tears flowed down the cheeks even of grim old pitiless Charon. On the farther side of Styx stoo

es of the Hesperides. Hercules knew something about these apples. The old goddess Earth had brought them as a bridal gift a

e nymphs could not tell him. They advised him to seek out Nereus, the old man of the sea, for he could surely tell where th

to smother him almost out. Then Nereus changed back to the form of an old man. He had been handled roughly, but he admired

o get the golden apples; but let me go, I say!” Then Hercules let the old man loose, and in a twinkling the god had disappe

ous and supporting the sky on his head with his mighty arms. A solemn old giant was Atlas, for it was not a joyous task to

my shoulders.” When, however, Atlas, without thinking, had taken his old load once more, Hercules picked up the apples and

“surely some one will be found among my friends to die for me — some old man, may be, who has not long to live in any case

to sell. And the curious country people,    Rich and poor, young and old  — Came in haste to see this wondrous    Winged st

way to accomplish his wish. Suddenly he saw before him a woman, very old and much bent with years. “Why are you here, Pers

quer her.” Then in the moonlight Perseus saw that it was no longer an old woman who stood before him, but the goddess Miner

s his home. Here also live the Grææ, and Perseus soon found the three old crones sitting upon a great floe of ice. They had

and and took it. When they discovered that the eye was lost, the poor old crazy goddesses began to weep and moan. “Give us

t know even that his father was living. But when he was sixteen years old , Æthra, said to herself, “The time is almost come

ad upon the ground, and the young hero went on rejoicing. The son of old Ægeus was valiant and brave!    From the near Trœ

ly, I think he is already almost king in Athens.” Then Ægeus, who was old , trembled with fear. “What shall we do?” he asked

ather’s sword, O Ægeus, and I got it by raising the great stone.” The old king wept for joy. But he would have slain Medea.

s was amazed and asked the cause of their grief. “Alas, sir,” said an old man, “it is because the time has now returned whe

son.” “Tell me about it,” said Theseus. “It is a sad story,” said the old man. “Minos, the king of Crete, sent his son to t

r after, it was the custom of the Athenians to send out each year the old black-sailed ship to Delos, to repeat these sacri

Troy, there lived at this time a fair shepherd youth. He was a son of old King Priam, but he had been born under such an ev

h precious gifts and begged the body of his son, and the grief of the old man touched Achilles so that at last he burst int

eeks brought fire, and soon the whole city was a mass of flames. Good old King Priam was slain, and the last of his sons di

n and put a ragged cloak about him, so that he looked like a wretched old beggar. Then Ulysses left the sea-beach and came

us. The faithful swineherd of Ulysses, 238, 239. Eurycle΄a. Ulysses’ old nurse and the chief of his female servants, 246.

sa). Græ΄æ. Daughters of Phorcys; sisters of the Gorgons, 131; three old crones, divinities of the sea; they had but one e

z). Daughters of Nereus; sea-nymphs, 87,168. Ne΄reus (ne΄ruse). “The old man of the sea,” 87; father of Thetis, the mother

ther of Thetis, the mother of Achilles. Nes΄tor. King of Thrace; cry old , and the wisest of men, 176. No΄man. The name as

, forsaking Poetry; How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you! The languid strings do scarcely m

modern literature; and, of course, a sympathy with the imaginings of old is the best incentive to an æsthetic estimate not

s color and breath upon the creatures of a dream, and wraps young and old in the wonder of hearing a new thing. The æstheti

superhuman passions and powers? If we were living, like the Greek of old , close to the heart of nature, such personificati

ars and hills and storms are with us now, as they were with others of old ; and it only needs that we look at them with the

re his house there stood an oak tree containing a serpent’s nest. The old serpents were killed by the slaves, but Melampus

The traditionary story is that he was a wandering minstrel, blind and old , who travelled from place to place singing his la

on the voluntary offerings of his hearers. Byron calls him “the blind old man of Scio’s rocky isle”; and a well-known epigr

edundant. The ‘Metamorphoses’ are read with pleasure by the young and old of every civilized land.” In an incidental manne

n alphabet, itself derived from ancient Greek and Roman coins. Of the old Scandinavian runes several specimens have been fo

autiful is the tradition Of that flight through heavenly portals, The old classic superstition Of the theft and the transmi

lder sister of Jupiter, Juno, Neptune, Pluto, and Ceres. Vesta was an old maid by choice. Averse to Venus and all her ways,

ry was inaccessible by land or sea. They lived exempt from disease or old age, from toils and warfare. “I come” sings one o

Hydra and the avenging Furies. Some evil-doers, such as the Titans of old , were doomed to languish in the gulf of Tartarus

.100 There was no heavy heat, no cold, The dwellers there wax never old , Nor wither with the waning time, But each man ke

who became, by Mother Earth, father of Nereus. This Nereus, a genial old man of the sea, was distinguished for his prophet

to certain traditions, a son of Neptune. Like Nereus, he was a little old man of the sea. He possessed the prophetic gift a

e me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.108 Fig. 31. S

on of them. Finally there were none left to mourn; sons and husbands, old men and youths, perished alike unlamented. “Stand

At last a small thatched cottage received them, where Baucis, a pious old dame, and her husband Philemon had grown old toge

m, where Baucis, a pious old dame, and her husband Philemon had grown old together. Not ashamed of their poverty, they made

mble threshold, and bowed their heads to pass under the low door, the old man placed a seat, on which Baucis, bustling and

h. While all was doing, they beguiled the time with conversation. The old woman with trembling hand set the table. One leg

r dessert, apples and wild honey. Now while the repast proceeded, the old folks were astonished to see that the wine, as fa

hands implored forgiveness for their poor entertainment. There was an old goose, which they kept as the guardian of their h

sacrifice in honor of their guests. But the goose, too nimble for the old folks, with the aid of feet and wings eluded thei

house left standing. While they gazed with wonder at the sight, that old house of theirs was changed. Columns took the pla

rnaments of gold. Then spoke Jupiter in benignant accents: “Excellent old man, and woman worthy of such a husband, speak, t

y, should ask of Hera some blessing on her faithful sons: — … Slowly old Cydippe rose and cried: ‘Hera, whose priestess I

calm, and since no steer Stayed in the byre, dragged out the chariot old , And wore themselves the galling yoke, and brough

lty.” Minerva heard this, and was displeased. Assuming the form of an old woman, she appeared to Arachne, and kindly advise

ould, but at once to ask forgiveness of the goddess. Arachne bade the old dame to keep her counsel for others. “I am not af

nd a stone that lay upon the plain, black, rugged, huge, which men of old time set to be the landmark of a field; this hurl

shrunk from the thought of dying for him on the bed of sickness; and old servants who had experienced his bounty and that

u art, Good, true, remain thou! Practise piety To stranger-guests the old way! So, farewell! Since forth I fare, fulfil my

the lime, And the lizards below in the grass, Were as silent as ever old Tmolus was Listening to my sweet pipings. Liquid

metimes more than was right, Her new bark is worse than ten times her old bite.”163 § 86. Clytie. 164 — In the story of C

ted in the following lines: — They wove bright fables in the days of old , When reason borrowed fancy’s painted wings; When

hen it was known that Bacchus was advancing, men and women, young and old , poured forth to meet him and to join his triumph

ers. It was where now stands the city of Eleusis, near the home of an old man named Celeus. His little girl, pitying the ol

ear the home of an old man named Celeus. His little girl, pitying the old woman, said to her, “Mother,” — and the name was

he ears of Ceres, — “why sittest thou here alone upon the rocks?” The old man begged her to come into his cottage. She decl

she began to discern, to her great mortification, that he was growing old . When his hair was white she left his society; bu

omes A glimpse of that dark world where I was born. Once more the old mysterious glimmer steals From thy pure brows,

n and the Personification of Nature. — It was a pleasing trait in the old paganism that it loved to trace in evei y operati

ng organ play’d, The other held a Pan’s pipe (fashion’d Like those of old ) to lips that made The reeds give out that strain

Galatea joined the throng, — A blowsy, apple-vending slattern; While old Silenus stagger’d out From some new-fangled lunch

shape of a lotus. § 123. Rhœcus. 235 — Hear now this fairy legend of old Greece, As full of freedom, youth, and beauty sti

, now as fisherman, now as soldier, — all to no avail. Finally, as an old woman, he came to her, admired her fruit, admired

r’s funeral. “Consider these things, dearest child,” said the seeming old woman, “lay aside thy scorn and thy delays, and a

meaning), visited earth to punish filial disobedience, irreverence to old age, perjury, murder, treachery to guests, even u

nd the Carpathian wizard’s hook, By scaly Triton’s winding shell, And old soothsaying Glaucus’ spell, By Leucothea’s lovely

ark. The disc, falling upon his grandfather’s foot, brought about the old man’s death; and in that way the prophecy was ful

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

hat of spring. Seeing that all was ready, Medea cut the throat of the old man, let out his blood, and poured into his mouth

dom blows, smote him with their weapons. Starting from his sleep, the old man cried out, “My daughters, would you kill your

! ” … Then with a nod supreme Olympian Jupiter nodded: Quaked thereat old Earth, — quaked, shuddered the terrified waters,

was placed in Italy under the protection of the nymph Egeria. In his old age, Theseus, losing the favor of his people, ret

n childhood creeps on hands and knees, in manhood walks erect, and in old age goes with the aid of a staff.” The Sphinx, mo

he king, son of Laomedon and brother of Tithonus and Hesione, was now old ; but he had been a wise prince, and had strengthe

ooking over the battle, saw the chariot of Nestor, and recognized the old chief, but could not discern who the wounded warr

s articles designed for a ransom to Achilles. When all was ready, the old king with a single companion as aged as himself,

unveiled it should be borne back to Troy. Then Achilles dismissed the old king, having first pledged himself to a truce of

he coiling strain And gripe, and deepening of the dragon’s grasp, The old man’s clinch; the long envenomed chain Rivets the

bosom fixed, Casting the whirling spindle as they walk. … This was of old , in no inglorious days, The mode of spinning, whe

ntion of the conspirators to slay his son Orestes also, a lad not yet old enough to be an object of apprehension, but from

ed melancholy; To muse and brood and live again in memory, With those old faces of our infancy Heaped over with a mound of

hat Ulysses should also go as a beggar, a character which in the rude old times had different privileges from what we conce

ecretly mortified at the failure of their plots to take his life. The old beggar was permitted to enter, and provided with

incident occurred as Ulysses entered the court-yard of the palace. An old dog lay in the yard almost dead with age, and see

ve Of gratulation, impotent to rise, And to approach his master as of old . Ulysses, noting him, wiped off a tear Unmarked.

I am, I was once a soldier, and there is still some strength in these old limbs of mine.” The suitors hooted with derision,

insolence. But Telemachus spoke up for him, and merely to gratify the old man, bade him try. Ulysses took the bow, and hand

f his kingdom and his wife. Tennyson’s poem of Ulysses represents the old hero, — his dangers past and nothing left but to

the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads — you and I are old ; Old age hath yet his honor and his toil; Death c

is taken, much abides: and tho’ We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, w

is father, and his wife, and young son. The father, Anchises, was too old to walk with the speed required, and Æneas took h

peeding their way prosperously towards their destined shore, felt her old grudge against them revive, for she could not for

me to the black river Cocytus, where they found the ferryman, Charon, old and squalid, but strong and vigorous, who was rec

plain. The same pride in splendid armor and generous steeds which the old heroes felt in life, accompanied them here. He sa

accepted his love, but offended at my refusal, he allowed me to grow old . My youth and youthful strength fled long ago. I

Latinus, third in descent from Saturn, ruled the country. He was now old and had no male descendant, but had one charming

s. Juno, seeing things go thus prosperously for the Trojans, felt her old animosity revive, summoned Alecto from Erebus, an

. Alecto then sped to the city of Turnus, and assuming the form of an old priestess, informed him of the arrival of the for

e storm of war, and the queen, Turnus, and the peasants all urged the old king to drive the strangers from the country. He

ich were kept shut as long as peace endured. His people now urged the old king to perform that solemn office, but he refuse

proud city of Rome grew, whose glory reached the skies. By chance the old king, Evander, was that day celebrating annual so

wn and the shrill song of birds beneath the eaves of his low mansion, old Evander rose. Clad in a tunic, and a panther’s sk

attended by his faithful Achates, and, Pallas soon joining them, the old king spoke thus: — “Illustrious Trojan, it is bu

from across the sea. They have offered the crown to me, but I am too old to undertake such great affairs, and my son is na

wife, Iduna, keeps in a box the apples which the gods, when they feel old age approaching, have only to taste of to become

ibutes those who are sent to her; that is, all who die of sickness or old age. Her hall is called Elvidnir. Hunger is her t

ath him to wrestle with thee; let somebody, however, call hither that old crone, my nurse Elli, and let Thor wrestle with h

he ground many a man not less strong than this Thor is.” A toothless old woman then entered the hall, and was told by Utga

, in my father’s hall; Only the inglorious sort are there below — The old , the cowards, and the weak are there, Men spent b

they came, Where sate in the cave’s mouth a skinny hag, Toothless and old ; she gibes the passers-by. Thok is she called, bu

ruin’d palaces of Odin, seats Familiar, halls where we have supp’d of old , Re-enter them with wonder, never fill Our eyes w

mortal awakening and to mortal love, for the evil she had wrought of old when she espoused the cause in battle of those wh

utworn, — Sigurd looked upon Gunnar’s bride, and knew the Brynhild of old , the Valkyrie, whom he had loved; “And Byrnhild’s

in § 185 C. Runes were “the letters of the alphabets used by all the old Teutonic tribes… The letters were even considered

of scales, in which she weighs the conflicting claims of parties. The old poets prophesied a return of these goddesses and

dn why Despite the gods above, The young are often doomed to die, The old to fall in love”; Thos. Ashe, The Lost Eros; Cove

moves attended With all of brave and excellent and fair That made the old time splendid.” Milton, P. L. 3: 568, “Like tho

confining it within a new and suitable channel. At the same time the old channel, redeemed from the stream, subjected to c

P. L. Bk. 4: — “That Nyseian isle, Girt with the river Triton, where old Cham, Whom Gentiles Ammon call, and Libyan Jove,

. The procession consisted of persons of all ages and both sexes. The old men carried olive branches in their hands, and th

ing shadows hide That field with blood bedewed in vain, The desert of old Priam’s pride, The tombs, sole relics of his reig

of his reign, All — save immortal dreams that could beguile The blind old man of Scio’s rocky isle.” On Troy the following

). Devas; see under Hindoo divinities. Di′a, the island of, 176, 262; old name for Naxos; Com. § 102, 103. Di-a′na, usually

imagination from the ancient Mythology, is in a mingled sense of the old popular belief, and of the philosophical refineme

ces of the godhead, not only constituted the worship of the Greeks of old , but governed their lives, their actions, their l

same times, they are easily perceived to be common, and derived from old tradition, and are various only from the addition

ea’s son like measure found ………………………………………………… —— Or who with Saturn old Fled over Adria to the Hesperian fields, And o’er

efore the breath Of brazen trumpets rung the peals of death, The good old God his hunger did assuage With roots and herbs,

n a flying chariot, and sometimes on a throne, under the figure of an old and bearded man, severe in aspect, thin and yet r

e forth an odour ever new, The stars look brighter still than when of old I watched them fading from the mountain top: Eart

ed. There far apart, and high above the rest The Thunderer sat; where old Olympus shrouds His hundred heads in heaven, and

ymns to thee belong,         Though lips are cold,         Whereon of old , Thy beams all turned to worshipping and song!  

er person when bathing in “Such streams as Dian loves, And Naiads of old frequented; when she tripped Amidst her frolic ny

sts, divinely led! Art thou that huntress of the silver bow Fabled of old ? —————————— ………………………………………………… What art thou lik

! It is too late, or thou shouldst have my knee; Too late now for the old Ephesian vows, And not divine the crescent on thy

to denote the joys which commonly prevail at feasts; and sometimes an old man, to teach us that wine taken immoderately, wi

rvate us, consume our health, render us loquacious and childish, like old men, and unable to keep secrets. Bacchus is somet

n the wide home Of thy capacious bosom, ever flow. Thou frownest, and old Æolus, thy foe, Skulks to his cavern, mid the gru

f ancient Nereus, and behold Their streaming dance about their father old , Beneath the blue Egean; where he sate, Wedded to

tature is grand, and his appearance imposing; he wears the look of an old man, his long beard and hair, wet with the vapour

ove the cities of a world gone by! Sand hath filled up the palaces of old , Sea-weed o’er-grown the halls of revelry. Dash o

deceive while you smile, When you chafed into wrath bright Apollo of old , His dun-coloured steers having stol’n from the f

nd That his quiver, alack! from his back was unbound. ’Twas thou, who old Priam didst guide on his way, When he passed unpe

were fifty of them, all children of Nereus, who is represented as an old man with a long flowing beard, and hair of an azu

ng of the fatal effects of self-love. “What first inspired a bard of old to sing Narcissus pining o’er the mountain spring

the thyme, And the lizard below in the grass, Were as silent as ever old Tmolus was,                      Listening to my

my body whatsoe’er I touch, Changed from the nature which it held of old , May be converted into yellow gold:’ He had his w

s placed at his feet to denote it as the season of the chase. “I saw old Autumn in the misty morn, Stand shadowless like s

the moss’d elm; three on the naked lime Trembling, — and one upon the old oak tree!         Where is the Dryad’s immortalit

lled limbs, and white and hoary locks, to represent the appearance of old age. “When first the fiery mantled sun His heave

ent visits from the remainder of the deities. He is represented as an old man, with a long, flowing beard, and sitting upon

ines, the moaning stream,     All hidden things and free, Of the dim, old sounding wilderness,     Have lent their soul to

vaded Europe. Auster, God of the south wind, appeared generally as an old man with grey hair, a gloomy countenance, a head

ature doth pant; And gloomily pondered     O’er sadness and want. An old man was sighing     O’er angel lips gone, His che

lovers,     And listed their vows, Where the woodbine covers     The old oak boughs. Enhancing their pleasures     I flut

beat the seas.” Garth. The Harpies were monsters with the faces of old women, the wings and body of a vulture, the ears

re her young sisters play,     Where shines her mother’s glance. Some old sweet native sound     Her spirit haply weaves; A

he whole proceeding, Would have laughed, but for good breeding; While old Hymen, who was used to, Cries like that these dam

, over which, however, he was carried by Juno, in the character of an old woman. In crossing the stream, he lost one of his

she next applied. And gentle Proserpine, his ravished bride, That for old Æson with the laws of fate; They would dispense,

could not look upon him with pleasure, and before he was nine months old , sent two snakes intending them to devour him. Fa

of human form bereft — The eternal part of Jove alone was left. As an old serpent casts his scaly vest, Wreathes in the Sun

man goes upon his hands and feet; in manhood he walks upright, and in old age with the assistance of a staff.” Enraged at t

. Speak, then. Phor. Alas! what would you have me say? Œd. Did this old man take from your arms an infant? Phor. He did,

s overcome by Pelops, who bribed the charioteer to give his master an old chariot which broke down in the middle of the cou

he coiling strain And gripe, and deepening of the dragon’s grasp, The old man’s clench; the long envenomed chain         Ri

llowed the council of Venus. He awoke his father Anchises, placed the old man on his shoulders, took the young Ascanius, hi

as a beggar, first making himself known to Telemachus, and one of the old officers of the kingdom. In the same disguise he

erwhelm. ———————— “There Had lived long married and a happy pair Now old in love, tho’ little was their store, Inured to w

g?                 What wert thou, thou whose woe                 The old traditions show, With Fame’s cold light around th

d of him that he carried on his shoulders a young bullock, four years old , for more than forty yards, that he then killed i

gave way. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img267 In his old age a melancholy fate awaited him; for failing in

an emblem of mutual affection. ‌ The Mexicans also had a goddess of old age, to whom they rendered honours of the highest

e haunt of some immortal, — but there still — For the heart clings to old idolatry, If not with true belief with tenderness

Loke, an evil genius, and an enemy of the gods, in the disguise of an old woman, went to Frigga, and claimed her hospitalit

ry was inaccessible by land or sea. They lived exempt from disease or old age, from toils and warfare. Moore has given us t

ting, however, to add to it that of eternal youth. When Tithonus grew old , and lost the beauty which had won her admiration

nowhere did they receive welcome till they reached the cottage of an old man and his wife, called Philemon* and Baucis*, w

r of two giant sons called Otus* and Ephialtes*. When only nine years old , they attempted to scale heaven by piling mighty

be crossed only by the aid of Charon*, the ferryman, a grim, unshaven old man. He took only those whose bodies had received

y. Representations. The Mœræ were generally represented as three old women. One held a distaff, another the spindle, t

their parents, in hospitality to strangers, or in the respect due to old age. The early representations depicted them as b

e Bell:”                                                         “Of old Called the wild man from waste and wold, And, in

of her daughter, was wandering over the earth in the guise of a poor old woman, she came to Eleusis, in Attica. The daught

the city, found her sitting on a stone near a well. They offered the old woman service in their father’s house as nurse to

of this statue from the Lenæon* to Ceramicus*, which, according to an old legend, was once done by satyrs. The Lesser Diony

in by all the rural deities. At length Vertumnus* took the form of an old woman, and, representing the advantages of the ma

lk, meat, wine, grapes, wheat-ears, and pigs. He is represented as an old man scattering flowers, and usually bears in his

n its quiet, placid moods. He was represented as a kindly, benevolent old man, the good spirit of the Ægean Sea, where he a

and that she was changed into a reed.” Müller . The Romans had an old Italian deity called Faunus*, who, as the god of

k the way towards Thebes. In driving through a narrow pass, he met an old man, and a herald, driving in a chariot, and when

the noon-tide of life he walks on two feet, and in the evening, when old age has stolen upon him, he needs a staff for a s

rnest solicitations of Œdipus, he said: “Thou art the murderer of the old king, Laius, who was thy father, and thou art wed

thy father, and thou art wedded to his widow, thine own mother.” The old servant who had exposed the infant on Mount Cithæ

of gold, and she became the mother of Perseus. When he was four years old , Acrisius chanced to pass by the brazen chamber a

some games. As he was throwing the discus, it accidentally struck an old man among the spectators, and caused his death. T

lly struck an old man among the spectators, and caused his death. The old man was Acrisius, and thus Perseus unintentionall

a sent two serpents to kill the child ivhen he was about eight months old . Heracles, however, gave the first proof of his d

es is the most complicated of all the Greek myths. It sprung from the old phrases which had spoken of the sun as toiling fo

ed the daughters of Pelias that she possessed the power of making the old young again, she directed them to slay their fath

ould be beset by many dangers, and commanded him to consult the blind old seer Tiresias, in the realm of Aides, concerning

o take vengeance on the suitors, Athene gave him the appearance of an old beggar, and as such he was kindly received by Eum

g and riot. The suitors pretended to receive Telemachus with joy. The old beggar was permitted to enter, and was provided w

maidens to treat the stranger as an honored guest. As Euryclea*, his old nurse, was bathing his feet, her eye fell on a sc

or Iulus*, escaped from the scene of destruction. As Anchises was too old to walk, Æneas carried him upon his shoulders. In

merged to create the Earth. In the dreary chaotical closet Of Erebus old , was a privy deposit, By Night the primæval in se

be “inaccessible by land or by sea.” They were “ exempt from disease, old age, and death,” and were so virtuous that the go

ful is the tradition     Of that flight through heavenly portals, The old classic superstition Of the theft and the transmi

Age, and the people in Italy then throve under the wise rule of good old Saturn, or Cronus. Unfortunately, nothing in this

ms of needy belated travellers, and entered the lowly hut of a worthy old couple, Philemon and Baucis. Eager to offer their

ity where a temple was dedicated to her. On one of these occasions an old priestess was very anxious to go to the temple at

eft her seat in high Olympus to punish the maiden. In the guise of an old crone, she entered Arachne’s house, seated hersel

Fancy weep For thee, thou work of nobler spirits flown. Bright, as of old , the sunbeams o’er thee sleep. In all their beaut

nd slaying him. Others, however, report that Anchises lived to a ripe old age, and escaped from burning Troy on his son Æne

, who was dedicated by her parents to Venus’ service, and, as soon as old enough, spent all her time in the temple, ministe

ng with Hero’s song, ‘Ye waves, divide not lovers long!’ That tale is old , but love anew May nerve young hearts to prove as

for which Proserpina alone had the recipe. Directed by Zephyrus, her old friend, Psyche encountered the terrors of Hades i

oined the general council of the gods. His aversion to Olympus was of old standing. He had once been tenderly attached to h

ng she preferred to link her fate to that of a mortal, who would grow old when she did, and love her as long as they both l

great herds of sea calves to bask on the sunny shores. “In ages past old Proteus, with his droves Of sea calves sought the

n the wide home Of thy capacious bosom, ever flow. Thou frownest, and old Æolus thy foe Skulks to his cavern, ’mid the gruf

-headed dog, called Cerberus, to guard the gate.     “There in state old Cerberus sate, A three-headed dog, as cruel as Fa

h this successfully, she assumed the face and form of Beroe, Semele’s old nurse, and thus entered the young princess’s apar

ed Midas any reward he wished; whereupon Midas, who was an avaricious old king, fell upon his knees, and humbly besought th

my body whatsoe’er I touch, Changed from the nature which it held of old , May be converted into yellow gold.’” Ovid ( Cro

t to offer up his daily prayers and sacrifices. “As, according to the old heathen custom, all men were regarded as enemies

ur.” Notus, or Auster, the south-west wind, “appeared generally as an old man, with grey hair, a gloomy countenance, a head

r, and, questioning them about the golden apples, was told to consult old Nereus, god of the sea, who would probably be abl

but a trifle for the hero who had conquered Medusa; and Acrisius, now old and weak, was taken from the prison where he lang

moreover, mindful of Chiron’s last recommendation, Jason offered the old woman his assistance, proposing to carry her acro

oss on his back if she would but lend him her staff to lean upon. The old woman gladly accepted this offer; and a few momen

wrenched off one of his golden sandals. He was about to part from the old dame with a kindly farewell, when she was suddenl

e Corporation Art Gallery of Bradford. Unfortunately, Æson was now so old and decrepit, that power had no charms for him: s

ry happy in the possession of a little son, Meleager, only a few days old , until they heard that the Fates had decreed the

an unknown band of robbers with the death he had dealt to an arrogant old man, and he therefore composedly inquired what ot

tand, creeps along on hands and knees, in manhood walks erect, and in old age supports his tottering steps with a staff. Th

when he fancied himself most happy, and looked forward to a peaceful old age, a terrible scourge visited Thebes, causing t

e he patiently waited until the children of these brave captains were old enough to bear arms, and then proposed to them to

that all who knew her loved her dearly. Of course, as soon as she was old enough to think of marriage, a host of suitors as

ty, and touched by a father’s tears, consigned Hector’s corpse to the old man’s care, and promised an armistice of fourteen

ces redden’d by the flames Infolding that dark body which had lain Of old in her embrace, paused — and then ask’d Faltering

land. All seemed well now; but Neptune suddenly became aware that his old enemy, the torturer of Polyphemus, was about to e

ad planned. No one recognised the long-expected hero in the miserable old beggar — no one save his aged nurse Euryclea, and

le old beggar — no one save his aged nurse Euryclea, and his faithful old dog Argus, who died for joy at his long-lost mast

the youths laughed aloud in scorn, until Telemachus bade them let the old man try his strength. To the amazement of all, Ul

is taken, much abides: and tho’ We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, w

as reported to have come from thence. “There is a land, by Greece of old Surnamed Hesperia, rich its mould,         Its ch

me,         And calls it Italy. Here Dardanus was born, our king, And old Iasius, whence we spring:         Here our authen

g of the Tuscans, the hereditary foe of the Latins. This monarch, too old to lead his troops in person, nevertheless promis

purer taste. With the latter object in view, the sages and writers of old interpreted all that seemed “silly and senseless”

uman in their nature”. “Poetry has so far kept alive in our minds the old animative theory of nature, that it is no great e

hs to explain the same phenomenon can readily be accounted for by the old saying, “Circumstances alter cases.” Thus the hea

find among the myths of the sky, Uranus, whose name, like that of the old Hindoo god Varuna is derived from the Sanskrit ro

car and flies to the far east, forsaking her husband (the sun) in his old age, when he is about to sink into the sleep of d

m external nature, and from genuine history. But we must preserve our old poetry, and its connexion with the fine arts, and

by tradition. Tradition is an account of past events related by the old to the young, and again related by the person who

e of his reign was called the Golden Age. Saturn is represented as an old man, with a scythe in his hand. At Rome, a festiv

it Was best or not to commence any undertaking. The Pythia was a poor old woman who was intoxicated or disturbed in mind by

e Lost, Book I. Venus was the beautiful wife of Vulcan. ——— when of old , as mystic bards presume, Huge Cyclops dwelt in E

he Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old . I was set up from everlasting, from the beginnin

emple was sculptured the different worshippers of Minerva — young and old , bond and free; and by means of these figures, wh

ppeared in it were selected for their fine appearance. First advanced old men, still vigorous, who were of a majestic and v

able form — these bore in their hands branches of the olive tree. The old men were followed by those of middle age, clothed

o Venus. Some instances are related of beautiful ladies who had grown old , and no longer could take pleasure in the reflect

t clamour against Paul, but one of the town officers, a friend of the old superstition, appeased them, saying, “ Ye men of

the Satyrs, the foster-father of Bacchus. They represented him as an old man with a bald head, a flat nose, large ears, an

ed to live for ages, was in such a state of dotage, that is of infirm old age, that he wished rather to die than live. Tith

orshipped under the form of a serpent, and sometimes under that of an old man, holding a staff encircled by a serpent. Escu

lled all these wretches. When Theseus arrived at Athens, Ægeus was an old man, and having no acknowledged son, the Pallanti

gant: but Theseus caused new houses and temples, much better than the old ones, to be erected: and he showed much respect t

ks on his feet only: and, in the evening of his days, when he is very old , he uses a staff in addition to his own limbs. Th

len. He afterwards reigned in peace and honour, at Argos, and died in old age. Perhaps Iphigenia still continued a priestes

in Ithaca, ho resolved to proceed to his palace in the disguise of an old beggar; but he first went to the cottage of one o

er is more amiable than that of the heroes generally. Nestor was very old , having lived three ages, — that is supposed to s

o signify three of thirty years, and he was consequently ninety years old . Nestor, though a warrior, was a peace-maker. Whe

Messinia. He lost his son Antilochus in the battles of Troy; but his old age is represented to have been passed in the pie

d what was his character? How does Homer describe Nestor? How was the old age of Nestor passed? Diomed. Diomed, the

ed his son’s body. Achilles could not resist the supplications of the old man, and gave up the body. By one of those miracl

and its beauty renewed. The Scriptures say, these elements “shall wax old as a garment,” but there shall be “a new heaven a

rbarians also believed that all those who died at home of disease, or old age, were conveyed to the abode of Hela, where th

hat he might give an account of his doctrines; but from that day, the old dark superstition vanished slowly away before the

les,” is found in the history of all primitive people. “Trees, in the old time, served for the temples of the gods,” said a

stitution became immensely rich; but the oracle was uttered by a poor old woman called the Pythia: who was made to sit upon

that is, plainly, Bulver-landing-place, such being the meaning of the old word hithe. But as this term has gone out of use,

at their pleasure ; ideas imported from Egypt were mixed up with the old tales of gods and heroes ; and the fable to be re

istorians, would seem to have laboured to give a rational form to the old legends68; and we may observe in the explanation

erus was vehemently attacked by all who retained a veneration for the old religion, and the writer himself was stigmatised

Virgil alone will suffice to show the degree in which it affected the old Italian mythology76. Finally, the Fathers of the

the weapons thus presented to them, to defend the new and attack the old religion. By the aid of the principles of Euhemer

the advance of knowledge, they write for the people, who still retain old prejudices. It is thus that in the poets of the A

the god’s favourite plant, the bay. They lived exempt from disease or old age, from toils and warfare, and, conscious of no

wed the maiden to choose for herself ; and fearing that when she grew old Apollo would desert her, she wisely chose to matc

us. It may also be doubted if the temple-legend of Delphi could be as old as the age to which Homer is usually referred. In

7. Apollo is by some derived from ὄλω, to destroy ; by others from an old verb ἀπέλλω, akin to the Latin pello, to drive aw

ed her patroness to a trial of skill. Athena, assuming the form of an old woman, warned her to desist from her boasting ; a

h to trace his cattle. As he passed by Onchestos in Bœotia, he saw an old man engaged in planting his vineyard, whom he str

orning Apollo missed his kine : he set out in search of them, met the old man, who informed him of his having seen a child

easily became the president of the palæstra. So also, trade having of old consisted chiefly in the exchange of cattle, Herm

him is milk and honey ; in other parts of it869 fishermen when grown old dedicate their implements to Hermes, either as th

place ; here we will only observe, that if it should appear to be as old as the age of Homer, there can be no further disp

dless of her person, and no one recognised her. Under the guise of an old woman, — ‘such,’ says the poet, ‘as are the nurse

any other deities, there was no precise number. Pausanias931 gives an old tradition, according to which they were three, — 

h golden wings ; and so, egad, does Love : And like a trembling dove, old Homer saith, Was Iris. Iris is called1044, 1. St

rly if their attributes or festivals have a resemblance to any of the old ones1096, the worship of this new god was adopted

esented the son of Semele — for the popular faith did not give up the old legend of his Theban birth — as roaming through t

d her in secret. Hera’s jealousy took alarm, and under the form of an old woman she came to Semele, and, by exciting doubts

l as if removed to another region, and seem hardly to recognise those old Achæans, who, happy with the present, careless of

nd hence that river became auriferous1210. Silenos was represented as old , bald, and flat-nosed, riding on a broad-backed a

1352, ………………….. that Serbonian bog, Betwixt Damieta and Mount Casius old , Where armies whole have sunk. Typhon, or Typhaô

never visited by famine or by any disease ; but when the people grow old , ‘silver-bowed Apollo comes with Artemis and kill

n the days however when the true sense of the venerable mythes of the old time was lost, Atlas, the keeper of the pillars t

heaven. Yet even so late as the times of Augustus some vestige of the old sense of the mythe seems to have remained ; for H

n of that spleen against the female sex occasionally exhibited by the old Grecian bards, and of which Simonides has left a

to Pelias, who had neglected to sacrifice to her, took the form of an old woman, and asked Iasôn to carry her over, which c

vaunting her art of restoring youth, and proving it by cutting up an old ram, and putting him into a pot whence issued a b

(for writers differ), fled to Adrastos at Argos. When Œneus was grown old and helpless, and his son Tydeus was dead, the so

, who escaped to the Peloponnese ; and as his grandfather was now too old to reign, he gave the kingdom to Andræmôn, who ha

ndræmôn, who had married Gorgo the daughter of Œneus1615. He took the old man with him to the Peloponnese ; but the two sur

hem, and restored the skin to Atalanta. When Meleagros was seven days old , the Moiræ, it was said, came, and declared that

onysos, and underwent a similar fate. As his son Laïos was but a year old , the throne was occupied by Lycos the brother of

an infant creeps on all fours, when a man goes on two feet, and when old uses a staff, a third foot. The Sphinx flung hers

der to retrieve them he abstained from matrimony. As he grew rich and old , he wished to have children ; and going to Delphi

s, the progeny of her mortal lord. The children were but eight months old , when Hera sent two huge serpents into the chambe

ld, and dragging Cerberos to light, as a proof of his victory. In the old mythe he was made to engage with and wound Aïdes 

of Ægeus, had long seen with jealousy the sceptre in the hands of an old man, and meditated wresting it from his feeble gr

feared that if this young stranger should be received as a son by the old king, he might find in him a protector and avenge

nd returned under the same sails with which he had departed ; and the old king, thinking he was bereaved of his newly-found

ess)1975. At Epidaurus Asclepios was represented under the form of an old man with a venerable beard, wrapt in a mantle and

h abode some serpents. His servants finding these animals, killed the old ones, whose bodies Melampûs burned ; but he saved

hat they had seen or heard nothing of the babe, who was now five days old , but lay concealed in the rushes and extensive th

chin. Like one athirst he seemed, but could not drink ; For when the old man stooped to drink intent The water shrank abso

es bright, And luscious figs and olives green and ripe ; But when the old man would grasp them in his hands, The winds stra

e it not that the Athenians were such tamperers with the works of the old poets that one cannot help being suspicious of al

as to do. Menelaos followed her directions ; and by the advice of the old sea-god2232 he returned to the river Ægyptos, and

ich it recorded into his Annals. Grecian forms now supplanted all the old Italian ones : Grecian mythology, with all its le

ude lays of their forefathers and their simpler religion ; the homely old ballads of the Cossi and Cethegi fell into oblivi

ved, do not exist. In Virgil and Ovid we meet a few adventures of the old Italian deities framed in imitation of those of G

ded into a Populus and a Plebes 2263. Another peculiar feature of the old Italian religion, and which testifies for its pur

mple this whole world should be.” In the ‘Council of the Gods’ of the old satirist Lucilius were the following lines2265 :

synchytic mythologists, «who think that the religions of all nations, old and new, ere the same from the beginning, and ded

incing proof of how firmly the vulgar, even in his time, clung to the old notions. 61. Müller, Proleg. 66, 99. Welcker, Tr

ris.» Macrobius also gives the following lines from the Annals of the old poet Accius. Maxima pars Graium Saturno et maxim

62. Il. xiii. 18. 363. Il. xv. 80. 364. Il. v. 722. seq. 365. The old , now provincial, term streaks(German Strichen), s

1114. …………… that Nyseian isle Girt with the river Triton, where old Cham, Whom Gentiles Ammon call and Libyan Jove, H

he English language which so nearly expresses the Greek πίσϵα as this old , now provincial, term. The Anglo-Saxon ץӀæδ is ce

place it is used of Penelope, who was not very young ; but it is the old nurse who speaks. 1247. See Hes. Th. 346. seq. G

the feeling of others, but for our part we remember when this tale of old Phœnix and Nestor's narrative (Il. xi. 670.) of t

fain be “equall’d with in renown.” And Tiresias and Phineus prophets old . Does not this line afford a presumption that Mi

been, as Pearce proposed to read, And Phineus and Tiresias prophets old . Another instance is (i. 720.), Belus or Serapi

e the prince of the Thracians, who were supposed to have dwelt in the old times in Daulis. Thuc. ii. 29. Apollod. iii. 14.

i. 155. Tzetz. Lyc. 17. 1882. Theog. 325. ̛ Εσθλὸs and ἀγαθὸs in the old Greek poets answer exactly to the good of the rom

softly in a sleep, His temples bound with poppy, to the steep Head of old Latmus, where she stoops each night, Gilding the

3. Od. iv. 351. seq. 2234. Herod. ii. 113 — 121. The fiction was as old as the time of Stesichorus, who said that Proteus

s are personified, and “poetry has so far kept alive in our minds the old animative theory of nature, that it is no great e

mmortality, but forgot to ask at the same time that he should not get old and decrepit. See Tithonus. “… So soon as the al

soil or earth, the life and support of plants. He was depicted as an old man covered with moss, and was said to live under

irth, and sent two serpents to kill him, but though only eight months old he strangled them. As he got older he was set by

See Io. I′tys [Itys] was killed by his mother Procne when six years old , and given to his father Tereus, a Thracian of Da

of the Trojans, but was defeated by Diomedes. The first month of the old Roman year [our March] was sacred to Mars. Marsh

vainly trying to withdraw it. The fable is, that when he got to be an old man he attempted to split an oak tree, but having

elicon. “Be thou the tenth Muse, ten times more in worth, Than those old nine which rhymers advocate.” Shakespeare. Mus

na]. The goddess who took charge of children when they were nine days old — the day (Nona dies) on which the Romans named t

                 “... After these appeared A crew who, under names of old renown, Osiris, Isis, Orus, and their train, With

he chief of the Satyrs. He is generally represented as a fat, drunken old man, riding on an ass, and crowned with flowers.

ld be granted perpetual youth. The consequence was that Tithonus grew old and decrepit, while Aurora remained as fresh as t

changed him into a grasshopper, which is supposed to moult as it gets old , and grows young again. Tit′yus [Tityus]. A son

the other gods. Yet some attempted to represent him in the form of an old man, holding between his hands the urn wherein th

e earth with manure. He is represented under the figure of a decrepit old man, with wings, holding in one hand a scythe, an

the father of agriculture, Saturn is represented in the figure of an old man, holding a scythe in his hand. Obs. 2. In a

name to January. He is usually represented with two faces, that of an old man, looking towards the year that is past, and t

festivals were called Meditrinalia, in which the Romans drank new and old wine, which served them for physic. The Romans ga

to offer him perpetual youth, he became so much worn out with infirm old age that he chose rather to die than live. She me

er and Semele; and to effect her ruin, she assumed the likeness of an old woman, and prevailed on Semele to beg of Jupiter,

leaves. His figure is sometimes that of a young, and sometimes of an old man. Sometimes he has horns; at others, he appear

s was called Biformis, because he was depicted both as a young and an old man, or with, and without, a beard; Brisæus, eith

fall to the lot of youth, and the memory of a benefit should not grow old . The poets feigned that they were small and slend

lling star, On Lemnos, the Ægean isle.” —  Paradise Lost. “When of old , as mystic bards presume, Huge Cyclops dwelt in Æ

and a black bull, when it was agitated. Oceanus is represented as an old man, with a long flowing beard, sitting on the wa

ople honoured him as a true god. He was represented in the form of an old man, filthy, covered with moss, pale, and deforme

nted in the character of a ploughman, reaper, vine dresser, or, of an old woman, (because he was the symbol of the year and

, however, he succeeded in gaining access to her under the form of an old woman; and by his artful speeches and caresses, a

nd perpetual companion of Bacchus, was represented as a fat and jolly old man, with a flat nose, large ears, a bald head, a

us, which thence had the fame of having golden sands. Sylvanus was an old man, small in stature, with the tail and feet of

hey appeared. Sometimes they were represented as a boy, a girl, or an old man, and wearing a crown of the leaves of the pla

anded Briareus Charon, (anger,) the ferryman to Hell, was a decrepit old man, with silvery locks, and along and grisly bea

of the most essential qualifications of a physician. He appears as an old man, with-a beard, and a crown of laurel, leaning

Near. These words and symbols signified that Friendship did not grow old ; that she is equal in all seasons, during absence

nion over all his own race, Juno disguised herself in the habit of an old woman, appeared at the door of Alcmena, and prono

ed Galanthis into a weasel. When Hercules was a babe but eight months old in his cradle, Juno sent two serpents to destroy

returned home; and Medea is said to have restored by her charms, the old decrepit Æson to the vigour and activity of youth

to the pleasure of enjoying eternal youth; so that a sad and languid old age succeeded her blooming years. In the time of

was to raise up enemies against an odious and formidable power. This old grudge long fermented secretly in the minds of th

whom he speaks, was the same as the Frea of the Scandinavians. In the old Teutonic language, Frea or Frau, signifies a woma

certain apples, of which the gods ate when they felt the approach of old age, and the power of which was to make them grow

lds, and reserved principally for those who should die of sickness or old age. Hela or Death there exercised her empire; he

of remark, that it was in Great Britain, that the Troubadours and the old romancers, the heroes of the early romances of ch

employ for ordinary purposes, certain trees, even when they fell with old age. That respect clung to the grand idea that th

d the great men and generals of the country assembled. Both young and old among the Druids, conformed to the same principle

n the profession, was performed by their receiving the embrace of the old Druids. The candidate, after having passed throug

ng new ceremonies and new laws, of watching over the execution of the old , or of reforming them, were the offices and the u

othing disordered and novel in intellect, they represent Saturn as an old man, and slow in his motions. “Again, the ancient

g the deity in such a manner seems to have been universal both in the old and the new world, and we are forced to believe t

the jealousy of Juno. This goddess visited Semele in the shape of an old woman, and persuaded her to ask Jupiter to visit

yades. Ques. Who aided the nymphs in their care of Bacchus? Ans. An old man named Silenus. He was considered a demi-god.

t the same time for the bloom of immortal youth. When Tithonus became old and decrepit, Aurora still watched over him with

dren. Ques. How is he represented? Ans. Saturn is represented as an old man armed with a scythe, which signifies that tim

nt he creeps on all fours; in manhood, he walks on two feet, and when old uses a staff as a third foot. Upon hearing this a

f the building of the walls of Thebes, is probably an allusion to the old Dorian and Æolian custom of erecting the walls of

dead with age, raised his head in sudden recognition, fawned upon his old master, and expired. It was Argus, whom Ulysses h

king, with affected indifference, that they might as well gratify the old man, bade him try. Ulysses took the bow, and the

y of ancient writers, and noticing how completely the morality of the old sages was forgotten in China, he determined to re

hinese say this appellation was given him because he was born already old , and with gray hair. The followers of Lao-tze bel

leheim, where she receives as her subjects all who die of sickness or old age. The wolf Fenris gave the gods much trouble b

exactly how to bring it about. He assumed, therefore, the form of an old woman, and went to see Frigga. The goddess asked

and even the rocks and stones were covered with a glittering dew. One old hag only, sat in a cavern, and refused to weep, s

echs. Ques. What are the menhirs? Ans. The word is derived from the old Breton man, stone; and hir, long. They are uprigh

ues. Who was Quetzalcoatl? Ans. The Aztecs, like many nations of the old world, had their Golden Age. During this blissful

ing of Sparta. This poet is accused of having become mercenary in his old age, and Greek writers speak of him as the first

piness and liberty. He is frequently represented under the form of an old man, armed with a scythe, to imply that he presid

it. Consequently, Tithonus was burthened with all the infirmities of old age, while Aurora still flourished in full bloom.

t that is said to have shone around the countenance of Moses, who, in old engravings, is frequently represented with horns.

hem the various tribes of water nymphs. Oceanus was represented as an old man sitting upon the waves, holding a pike, and n

the people at large, as a real being. His figure was that of a dirty old man, pale and disfigured, covered with moss, and

. The poets say that he was born at Malea. They represented him as an old man with a bald head, a flat nose, large ears, an

ed Avernus, was stationed a host of dreadful forms; diseases, terror, old age, hunger, sleep, death, war, discord, and the

worshiped under the form of a serpent, and sometimes under that of an old man, holding a staff encircled by a serpent. C

lub. The poplar tree was consecrated to him. Hercules. The choirs of old and young, in lofty lays, Resound great Hercules’

all the stages of life, until towards the return of winter, he became old and weak. Sometimes a figure with painted wings d

scribed a druidical grove: “Not far away, for ages past had stood An old unviolated sacred wood; Whose gloomy boughs thick

rs his attire; His watchful eyeballs glare with sanguine fire. Though old , still unimpair’d by years, he stood, And hoary v