ithout a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated. Wh

ry one who would read with intelligence the elegant literature of his own day. In order to understand these stories, it wil

eligion. The Greeks believed the earth to be flat and circular, their own country occupying the middle of it, the central p

little of any real people except those to the east and south of their own country, or near the coast of the Mediterranean.

o them. Every master of a family was the priest to the Penates of his own house. The Lares, or Lars, were also household go

on the subject which we derive from the pages of Scripture, had their own way of telling the story, which is as follows: —

f the husbandman perishes in an hour. Jupiter, not satisfied with his own waters, calls on his brother Neptune to aid him w

s less     The sum of human wretchedness, And strengthen man with his own mind.     And, baffled as thou wert from high,   

of beech leaves; for the laurel was not yet adopted by Apollo as his own tree. The famous statue of Apollo called the Belv

nmarried, like Diana.” He consented, but at the same time said, “Your own face will forbid it.” Apollo loved her, and longe

o gives oracles to all the world was not wise enough to look into his own fortunes. He saw her hair flung loose over her sh

amus,” she cried, “what has done this? Answer me, Pyramus; it is your own Thisbe that speaks. Hear me, dearest, and lift th

her veil stained with blood and the scabbard empty of its sword. “Thy own hand has slain thee, and for my sake,” she said.

ng strength endeavoring to draw forth from the wound the javelin, her own gift. Cephalus raised her from the earth, strove

h espied her as he was hunting. She saw him and recognized him as her own son, now grown a young man. She stopped and felt

f his former boldness, and the hero fled. He could not but admire his own speed; but when he saw his horns in the water, “A

aned, and tears flowed down the face which had taken the place of his own . Yet his consciousness remained. What shall he do

astray     With feeble steps o’er the world’s wilderness;     And his own Thoughts, along that rugged way, Pursued like rag

aught of water would be nectar to me; it would revive me, and I would own myself indebted to you for life itself. Let these

the Sun rises lies next to ours. Go and demand of him whether he will own you as a son.” Phaëton heard with delight. He tra

spare the whip and hold tight the reins. They go fast enough of their own accord; the labor is to hold them in. You are not

moon saw with astonishment her brother’s chariot running beneath her own . The clouds begin to smoke, and the mountain tops

te? If neither of us can excite your pity, think, I pray you, of your own heaven, and behold how both the poles are smoking

, as fast as it was poured out, renewed itself in the pitcher, of its own accord. Struck with terror, Baucis and Philemon r

ir eyes below, they beheld all the country sunk in a lake, only their own house left standing. While they gazed with wonder

th from life, that I may not live to see her grave, nor be laid in my own by her.” Their prayer was granted. They were the

to follow their example. Now do you, if you have any regard for your own interest or mine, join these two in one.” The boy

th a cry and snatched the child from the fire. Then Ceres assumed her own form, and a divine splendor shone all around. Whi

River Cyane, where Pluto made himself a passage with his prize to his own dominions. The river nymph would have told the go

ought, instead of having to seek in vain. Be not diffident, know your own worth. I protest to you that even I, goddess thou

product looked like the workmanship of nature. Pygmalion admired his own work, and at last fell in love with the counterfe

s to thank the goddess, and pressed his lips upon lips as real as his own . The virgin felt the kisses and blushed, and open

ords weighed heavily on the mind of King Ceyx, and it was no less his own wish than hers to take her with him, but he could

roar of the winds and waves his orders are unheard. The men, of their own accord, busy themselves to secure the oars, to st

a. When the lightning ceases for a moment, the night seems to add its own darkness to that of the storm; then comes the fla

air. “Stay!” she cried; “whither do you fly? let us go together.” Her own voice awakened her. Starting up, she gazed eagerl

nd insert therein a graft, making the branch adopt a nursling not its own . She took care, too, that her favorites should no

” Thereupon she calls her winged son Cupid, mischievous enough in his own nature, and rouses and provokes him yet more by h

ich so startled him that in his confusion he wounded himself with his own arrow. Heedless of his wound, his whole thought n

sister possessed of such state and splendor, so much exceeding their own . They asked her numberless questions, among other

fect on her mind, and when her sisters were gone, their words and her own curiosity were too strong for her to resist. So s

claimed, “This is no work of yours, wicked one, but his, whom to your own and his misfortune you have enticed.” So saying,

mplacable mistress, who said, “I know very well it is by none of your own doings that you have succeeded in this task, and

of your beauty, for in tending her sick son she has lost some of her own .’ Be not too long on your errand, for I must pain

isfied that her destruction was at hand, being obliged to go with her own feet directly down to Erebus. Wherefore, to make

oung heroine veiled her light; — For see, she walks the earth, Love’s own .     His wedded bride, by holiest vow Pledged in

can presented the bride with a necklace of surpassing brilliancy, his own workmanship. But a fatality hung over the family

e gods to do it? Another woman, loving as I do, would remove with her own hands whatever stood in the way of her love. And

th hunting, heated and thirsty. He stooped down to drink, and saw his own image in the water; he thought it was some beauti

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

r shoulders. Nine days she sat and tasted neither food nor drink, her own tears and the chilly dew her only food. She gazed

avage love of violence and bloodshed. Athens was her chosen seat, her own city, awarded to her as the prize of a contest wi

pale. But she stood to her resolve, and with a foolish conceit of her own skill rushed on her fate. Minerva forbore no long

sonous rancor turn.” And so the metamorphosis is caused by Arachne’s own mortification and vexation, and not by any direct

ndeed much to be proud of; but it was not her husband’s fame, nor her own beauty, nor their great descent, nor the power of

with a party of his adherents, burst in, demanding the maiden as his own . It was in vain that Cepheus remonstrated, — “You

e young man was Œdipus, who thus unknowingly became the slayer of his own father. Shortly after this event the city of Theb

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

om this instance of Bellerophon being unconsciously the bearer of his own death warrant, the expression “Bellerophontic let

hought futurity denies, Unconscious bears, Bellerophon, like thee His own indictment, he condemns himself. Who reads his bo

d, unfolded the splendor of his wings, and soared towards heaven. Our own poet Longfellow also records an adventure of this

ce, sent a poisoned robe as a gift to the bride, and then killing her own children, and setting fire to the palace, mounted

excited to envy by the praise given to a female, loudly proclaims his own valor, and defies alike the boar and the goddess

. The dart of Jason misses its object, and kills instead one of their own dogs. But Meleager, after one unsuccessful stroke

among the shades? No! thou hast lived by my gift; die, now, for thine own crime. Return the life which twice I gave thee, f

” Venus heard and was propitious. In the garden of her temple, in her own island of Cyprus, is a tree with yellow leaves an

The youth carried off his prize. But the lovers were so full of their own happiness that they forgot to pay due honor to Ve

uman form and turned them into animals of characters resembling their own : of the huntress-heroine, triumphing in the blood

lay in his cradle, but the precocious infant strangled them with his own hands. He was, however, by the arts of Juno rende

ear up the heavens while he was gone? Hercules took the burden on his own shoulders, and sent Atlas to seek the apples. He

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

graces and virtues of his father, and of an age corresponding to her own . She loved him, but he repulsed her advances, and

ngs, he flew off, encouraging him to follow, and looked back from his own flight to see how his son managed his wings. As t

he saw the feathers floating on the water, and bitterly lamenting his own arts, he buried the body and called the land Icar

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

eady the instruments of execution the prison doors came open of their own accord and the chains fell from his limbs, and wh

eyes. At the same moment the women saw him; and first among them his own mother, Agave, blinded by the god, cried out, “Se

nd went his way, thinking his slave had escaped. Then she resumed her own form. Her father was well pleased to find her sti

the like. He created the horse and was the patron of horse races. His own horses had brazen hoofs and golden manes. They dr

lled it with fragrant flowers. Plenty adopted my horn and made it her own , and called it ‘Cornucopia.’”   The ancients were

ce, she determined to brave the hazard, and to bury the body with her own hands. She was detected in the act, and Creon gav

eon, unable to avert her fate, would not survive her, and fell by his own hand.   Antigone forms the subject of two fine tr

sweeter melody, Though there the spirit of the sepulchre      All his own power infuse, to swell         The incense that h

Man avails himself of the instincts of the inferior animals for his own advantage. Hence sprang the art of keeping bees.

at last when he finds all his arts unavailing, he will return to his own figure and obey your commands.” So saying she spr

apid succession. But finding all would not do, he at last resumed his own form and addressed the youth in angry accents: “W

It is said that when he played on his lyre the stones moved of their own accord and took their places in the wall. See Ten

t. Milton alludes to him with other blind bards, when speaking of his own blindness, P. L., Book III. 35. Marsyas. Mi

e memory of the event. When Arion and the Dolphin parted, each to his own element, Arion thus poured forth his thanks: “Far

of his crime, while vengeance seeks for him in vain. Perhaps in their own temple’s enclosure he defies the gods mingling fr

iers and sycophants, he grudged every verse that did not rehearse his own praises. When Simonides approached to receive the

st of women for his wife, each attempting to bias his decision in her own favor. Paris decided in favor of Venus and gave h

raged, Hector returned to the field and Neptune betook himself to his own dominions. An arrow from Paris’s bow wounded Mach

n of by Hector, who retiring a short distance divested himself of his own armor and put on that of Achilles, then returned

lcan’s palace. She found him busy at his forge making tripods for his own use, so artfully constructed that they moved forw

his own use, so artfully constructed that they moved forward of their own accord when wanted, and retired again when dismis

I offer him to yield up Helen and all her treasures and ample of our own beside? Ah, no! it is too late. He would not even

destroyed so many of his sons. “Think, O Achilles,” he said, “of thy own father, full of days like me, and trembling on th

d been drawn into the quarrel to avenge his brother’s wrongs, not his own , was not so fortunate in the issue. During his ab

ysses (Odysseus in the Greek language) in his return from Troy to his own kingdom Ithaca. From Troy the vessels first made

-eaters were kindly entertained by them, and were given some of their own food, the lotus-plant, to eat. The effect of this

ter. All the vessels with their crews were destroyed, except Ulysses’ own ship, which had remained outside, and finding no

scaped. With grief for their slain companions mixed with joy at their own escape, they pursued their way till they arrived

gave his hand to Ulysses and led him to a seat, displacing thence his own son to make room for the stranger. Food and wine

ing promised to furnish a ship in which his guest might return to his own land. The next day the assembled chiefs confirmed

the Phæacian vessel, and in a short time arrived safe at Ithaca, his own island. When the vessel touched the strand he was

anger enter, raised his head, with ears erect. It was Argus, Ulysses’ own dog, that he had in other days often led to the c

rk to restrain his indignation at seeing his father so treated in his own hall, but remembering his father’s injunctions, s

expected. Meanwhile, her son had grown up, and was able to manage his own affairs. She therefore consented to submit the qu

d were separated, so that Æneas thought that all were lost except his own . At this crisis, Neptune, hearing the storm ragin

n. Some of the ships which had got on the rocks he pried off with his own trident, while Triton and a sea-nymph, putting th

d skill were exhibited. The strangers contended for the palm with her own subjects, on equal terms, the queen declaring tha

request a recital of the closing events of the Trojan history and his own adventures after the fall of the city. Dido was c

last they are taken over.” Æneas grieved at recollecting some of his own companions who had perished in the storm. At that

the deeds of each. The next class was of those who had died by their own hand, hating life and seeking refuge in death. O

ects clothed in a purple light. The region has a sun and stars of its own . The inhabitants were enjoying themselves in vari

with her band of mounted followers, including a select number of her own sex, and ranged herself on the side of Turnus. Th

dorned with studs and carvings of gold, he took and clasped round his own body. The rest he remitted to the friends of the

ar, I entreat you, to violate the life of those who may haply be your own relatives.”   Shakspere, in the Merchant of Ven

angelic symphony.” Pythagoras is said to have invented the lyre. Our own poet Longfellow, in Verses to a Child, thus relat

cess of time to be understood literally. Thus Saturn, who devours his own children, is the same power whom the Greeks calle

d his indolent repose; And, in some fit of weariness, if he, When his own breath was silent, chanced to hear A distant stra

and gained sufficient strength, it lifts its nest from the tree, (its own cradle and its parent’s sepulchre,) and carries i

h a load on his back. When he has gained sufficient confidence in his own vigor, he takes up the body of his father and fli

author, and by a kind of poetical justice slew the basilisk with his own weapon. But what was to attack this terrible and

hee? a new Actæon’s error Shall theirs have been, — devoured by their own hounds!         Be thou like the imperial basilis

o created two other mighty beings and imparted to them as much of his own nature as seemed good to him. Of these, Ormuzd (c

o give the earth inhabitants who should be direct emanations from his own body. Accordingly from his mouth came forth the e

d to visit the pagodas or temples of the other castes, but have their own pagodas and religious exercises. They are not suf

f pontiff of the sect. A separate province was assigned to him as his own territory, and besides his spiritual dignity he b

their fathers and kindred. When thrown, it returns to his hand of its own accord. The second rare thing he possesses is cal

The man, seeing that he must fail of completing his task, resumed his own gigantic stature, and the gods now clearly percei

Thaukt will wail With dry tears Baldur’s bale-fire. Let Hela keep her own .” It was strongly suspected that this hag was no

d to all things which have had a beginning, may be said to devour its own offspring. 2. From this origin of the instrumen

l Greece, a race of brave men and beautiful women. They thought their own land the best and the fairest in the world; and a

people on the earth. Once in a great, great while they came in their own true forms; but far oftener they took on the shap

god who had sent them to Latona in her loneliness, had given them his own godlike nature; and when next we hear of them, Ap

e went on calling and questioning, and each time Echo answered in his own words. She did not dare show herself, for fear th

e face seem. Narcissus at last had fallen in love but it was with his own reflection. He spoke to the beautiful image, and

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

he poor boy could scarcely breathe for marveling at the beauty of his own face. Slowly he began to pine away. The red left

r to him. At that moment he heard, in the distance, the baying of his own dogs, coming to join him. Ah! he must hide from t

he pack fell upon him, and the young hunter was torn to pieces by his own hounds. ——— The Hunter’s Song Hark, hark! Who c

ame to the side of the river, all that she saw was her husband in his own true form and the white cow nibbling the grass at

he meant to speak, she heard only a strange “moo” which came from her own lips. She was frightened and hastened to the bank

s for her. But that was too much for the poor girl, — not to have her own father know her! She could not speak to him, but

of the death of her favorite, and she set his eyes in the tail of her own bird, the peacock, where they shine in splendor t

et her free. Juno herself was moved with pity, and restored Io to her own shape. The people of the land found her by the si

feared her; for although she was gentle and tender and loving in her own home, when she went out to walk in the city, dres

rcules was set free. Then with a light heart, he started forth on his own wanderings. He had not gone far, when he came to

self from his torture, he died as he had lived, like a hero. With his own hands he tore up great trees and bushes, and buil

is own hands he tore up great trees and bushes, and built of them his own funeral pile; then, lying down on it, he wrapped

e-sailed vessels on the water, and longed to have one of them for his own . One day Icarus was looking now up into the sky w

shed he fastened them with soft wax to his son’s shoulders and to his own . Then, with a trembling voice, he said, “Icarus,

dix, whom he had so cruelly killed, and he felt that the death of his own son was his punishment for that wicked deed. For

g prince of Crete. And this was nothing less than the coming of their own prince to his father’s kingdom. The boy, Theseus,

, for that would mean being a traitor, not only to my city, but to my own father.” The girl loved her father dearly, for he

and, waking his men, he marched into the city and conquered it by his own bravery and arms, without so much as looking at t

t me or not, for without you life is worthless to me. The gates of my own city are closed against me, for I have betrayed i

at cruel deed of long ago, in return for which he was now to lose his own son! Theseus tried to comfort him. “Father,” he s

had all been destroyed. But most wonderful of all, in place of their own little cottage, there rose a large, magnificent t

-eyed girl. Now Ino hated Phryxus and Helle because they were not her own children, and because they were beautiful and goo

e with a large army, and drove King Aeson and his family out of their own kingdom. Then the brother ruled as king, while th

t floated. He was made the god of the fishermen; and, remembering his own struggles in former days, he sent many a poor fis

rushed to the shore. When she saw that the monsters were part of her own body, she ran screaming to the top of the hill, a

So it went on from day to day. Pygmalion had fallen in love with his own work; and sometimes, as he kissed the beautiful l

n up to him with cries of praise and thanks, and crowned him with his own laurel wreath of victory. But Midas, foolish King

her. He forgot to look after his sheep, but let them wander at their own sweet will. His huge staff — a pine tree stripped

anxious to know everything, were forced to construct, in part, their own theory. As they looked about them for some clue t

nd then, thinking he would be happier with a helpmeet, he married his own mother, Nyx. Of course, with our present views, t

istance would be desirable, they summoned Eros (Amor, or Love), their own child, to their aid. By their combined efforts, P

an eternity of bliss. These islands had sun, moon, and stars of their own , and were never visited by the cold wintry winds

and whenever their muffled cries reached his ear, he trembled for his own safety. Angry beyond all expression, Gæa swore re

d by him. Their satisfaction was complete, however, when he chose his own sister, Rhea (Cybele, Ops) for his consort, and a

into lots, allowing each of his brothers the privilege of drawing his own share. Neptune thus obtained control over the sea

ly expressed his gratitude to the benevolent deity who had risked his own life to obtain it for him. From his lofty throne

s less     The sum of human wretchedness, And strengthen man with his own mind.” Byron. Epimetheus and Pandora The

stayed by the objection that the rising flames might set fire to his own abode, and reduce its magnificence to unsightly a

s usually seen close beside him. His Attendants Jupiter had his own special attendants, such as Victoria, or Nice, th

prize. To commemorate this victory over her rival, Minerva, gave her own name of Athene to the city, whose inhabitants, fr

played such inspiring tunes that the stones moved into place of their own accord. Then, his term of exile being ended, he r

ad not deserved her unjust suspicions, and that his heart was all her own . There are, of course, many other versions of the

mayed by these new ornaments, Midas retreated into the privacy of his own apartment, and sent in hot haste for a barber, wh

t all around it; for the stones moved in rhythmic time, and, of their own volition, marched into their places. The Story

hed the boy’s approach, and, as he drew nearer, recognised him as his own offspring. Timidly now Phaeton advanced to the st

vain, she drew the dagger from his breast, and, plunging it into her own bosom, fell beside him lifeless.                

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

t of pride, Drooping its beauty o’er the watery clearness, To woo its own sad image into nearness: Deaf to light Zephyrus i

ay as Pygmalion clasped the exquisite image to his breast some of his own warmth was infused into the icy bosom, and as he

and made Cupid start back in surprise; but, as he did so, one of his own love arrow; came into contact with his rosy flesh

ose thine eyes. Thou mayst look on me now. I go no more, But am thine own for ever.’” Lewis Morris. Then, hand in hand, t

ans,     Fluttering among the faint Olympians, I see, and sing, by my own eyes inspired. So let me be thy choir, and make a

chosen by lot, led down to the seashore, and chained by the priest’s own hands to a slimy rock. As soon as her mourning fr

s, and Polyphemus. Amphitrite The Queen of the Ocean, Neptune’s own true and lawful wife, was a Nereid, one of the fi

, and on one occasion had even dared to cook and serve up to them his own son Pelops. Most of the gods were immediately awa

Tartarus, were the Elysian Fields, lighted by a sun and moon of their own , decked with the most fragrant and beautiful of f

e delighted Semele bade her lover speedily return to Olympus, don his own majestic form and apparel, and hasten back to her

all in vain. Semele, like many another fair lady, enjoyed having her own way, and would not be denied. Jupiter, therefore,

mas, King of Thebes, who nursed him as tenderly as if he had been her own child. But all her love could not avail to screen

tion of the already excited Bacchantes, who, led by Agave, the king’s own mother, dragged him from his hiding-place and tor

de, and bud and blossom, Breathe thine influence most divine On thine own child, Proserpine. “If with mists of evening dew

t children of the hours, Breathe thine influence most divine On thine own child, Proserpine.” Shelley. One day, weary of

n; and Ceres, returning from the fields of fast-ripening grain to her own dwelling, sought for the missing Proserpina, of w

ased, until she fancied it was talking; not as mortals do, but in its own silvery accents. Arethusa and Alpheus The g

actory information, departed. Neptune then restored the maiden to her own form, and let her return home; but, as her father

and domestic affairs. Each head of a household was wont to choose his own Penates, whom he then invoked as his special patr

ehold gods also, and establish them suitably before he thought of his own or his family’s comfort, and in return for this k

r impotent rage in trying to shake its strong walls. According to his own mood, or in conformity with the gods’ request, Æo

ize and beauty, resolved to keep him, and substituted a bull from his own herds for the religious ceremony. Angry at seeing

Diomedes for this long-continued barbarity, Hercules threw him to his own horses, which were then led off to Eurystheus, as

e of bondage was ended; and Hercules, a free man, could wander at his own sweet will, and enjoy the happiness of freedom. A

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

and her Babe Acrisius, however, was not cruel enough to stain his own hands with his child’s blood, or to witness her e

helmet, which made the wearer invisible at will; Mercury attached his own winged sandals to the youth’s heels, to endow him

w him with great rapidity of flight; while Minerva armed him with her own mirror like shield, the dreadful Ægis.     “Mine

s from his unpleasant position, and thus enabled him to return to his own home, where he now expected to spend the remainde

cacious protection. Next the Speaking Oak bade him cut off one of its own mighty limbs, and carve from it a figure-head for

n each other turn’d Tumultuous battle. On their mother earth By their own spears they sank; like pines, or oaks, Strew’d by

her father, he would overtake her and compel her to return. With her own hands she therefore slew her little brother, Absy

he died. Medea, still full of resentment against Jason, then slew her own children, and, mounting her dragon car, departed,

eiv’d An oracle, which said, it was decreed He should be slain by his own son.” Sophocles ( Francklin’s tr.). To prevent

carried him to Polybus, King of Corinth, who, lacking an heir of his own , gladly adopted the little stranger. The Queen of

joy, placed on a chariot, crowned King of Thebes, and married to his own mother, Jocasta, unwittingly fulfilling the secon

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

on of Sisyphus, King of Corinth, had the great misfortune to kill his own brother while hunting in the forest. His grief wa

n the part of an honoured guest, yet reluctant to punish him with his own hand as he deserved, sent Bellerophon to Iobates,

Neptune also had wooed Her), and demurred, until Jupiter promised his own and the gods’ attendance at the marriage feast. T

having been found and adopted by a shepherd, who made him follow his own calling. When Paris reached manhood, he was a ver

beheld the beloved countenance of Protesilaus once more, and from his own lips heard the detailed account of his early deat

duty called him out upon the field of battle, where he must hold his own if he would not see the city taken, the Trojans s

w, when she promised to bring him a full suit of armour from Vulcan’s own hand. Rapidly Thetis then traversed the wide spac

perished in the waves, or found death lying in wait for them by their own fireside. Menelaus, with his wife Helen, who, in

f revenge, sent by the gods to punish him for taking justice into his own hands. Arrived at Delphi, Orestes consulted the o

oeuvre, fastened his companions under the rams, reserving one for his own use, and watched them pass out one after the othe

ast devoured, Were friends of one not unexpert in war; Amply have thy own guilty deeds returned Upon thee. Cruel one! who d

r her sweet voice raised in song, as she wove a beautiful web for her own adornment; so they pressed eagerly on, and entere

At the end of that time, Ulysses’ companions began to long for their own homes, and prevailed upon their chief to leave th

wed to rest, voluntarily pledging themselves to be content with their own provisions and not to slay a single animal, that

ng-absent husband. “‘Awake, Penelope, dear child, and see With thine own eyes what thou hast pined for long. Ulysses has r

lls of Dis below, Pass deep Avernus’ vale and meet Your father in his own retreat.” Virgil ( Conington’s tr.). Æneas agai

er plans might be set at naught, came down from Olympus, and with her own hand flung wide the brazen doors. This unexpected

raged by his mother’s words, prepared to meet the Latins and hold his own . Venus and Juno were not the only deities interes

ands Have seen me stretch imploring hands: The bride Lavinia is your own : Thus far let foeman’s hate be shown.’” Virgil (

rs are persons, but savage persons”; and, as he believes “many of his own tribe-fellows to have the power of assuming the f

only way possible to him, and attributed to all inanimate objects his own sentiments and passions, fancying them influenced

(the sun), who in time of drought offers to Jupiter the flesh of his own offspring, Pelops (the withered fruits), and in p

ad produced, and men exclaimed, “Tantalus is slaying and roasting his own child!” In the same way the stone which Sisyphus

e him early in life united to Megara, and, like Tantalus, slaying his own offspring in a sudden fit of madness. He loves an

t parts from, Atalanta (the dawn maiden), and is finally slain by his own mother, who casts into the flames the brand upon

s caused great distress. Urged on by unrelenting fate, he marries his own mother, Jocasta, now the violet-tinted twilight,

les, like several of his brother heroes, “fights in no quarrel of his own ; his wrath is the sun hiding his face behind the

ea, the mothers and consorts of the Sky and of Time, who swallows his own children, “the Days, as they come each in order.”

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

y, or to speak in the language of others those ideas which excite our own imaginations. There was something very pleasing a

ke, or in some other as picturesque a form, win her he sought for his own : and thus, every class of society, from the patri

ful as his subject, remarks: — “From having a different creed of our own , and always encountering the Heathen Mythology in

s of various nations, a resemblance to the more holy histories of our own faith; and they assert that, in many of the fable

or symbols of part of that revelation which is the ground-work of our own belief. But this is, at best, so vague and shadow

at best, so vague and shadowy, that its inculcators get lost in their own inventions, and their followers scarcely comprehe

willing rather to present their mature opinions, than to obtrude our own ) we shall find that Lord Bacon treats upon the su

renew; Nor yet was earth suspended in the sky; Nor poised, did on her own foundations lie; Nor seas about their shores the

d, and birthright seized By younger Saturn; he from mightier Jove His own and Rhea’s son like measure found ………………………………………

en where no insulting light Could glimmer on their tears; where their own groans They felt, but heard not; hard flint they

the lesser gods hast well assigned Their proper shares of power; thy own , great Jove, Boundless and universal. Each monarc

sacred forest, was doomed to an hunger so cruel, that he devoured his own limbs, and died in the midst of fearful torments.

dded to this gift, the restriction, that she should never believe her own prophecies. After this he again yielded to the po

yal malady should rest unknown, Both for her husband’s honour and her own . But ne’ertheless she pined with discontent, The

A hymn from Dian’s Temple; while up-swelling The incense went to her own starry dwelling. But though her face was clear as

he doors of the prison in which Bacchus was confined, opened of their own accord. Pentheus became more irritated, and comma

. “The hair, loose and floating, seems caught in the tempest of their own tumultuous motion; their heads are thrown back, l

as inscribed, Detur pulchriori. All the goddesses claimed it as their own , and the contention at first became general; howe

sleeping dove, nor river’s flow — No, nor the Œolian twang of Love’s own bow, Can mingle music fit for the soft ear Of god

dear, And pardon that thy secrets should be sung,     Even into thine own soft-couched ear: Surely I dreamt to day, or did

love A rival crowd of envious lovers strove. They who have seen her, own they ne’er did trace, More moving features, in a

g features, in a sweeter face: Yet above all, her length of hair they own , In golden ringlets waved, and graceful shone. ‌

and thou so partial grown, Well may we deem, the wondrous birth thine own ; Now frantic Diomed, at her command, Against the

owers o’erthrown,                                But all is not thine own ! “To thee the love of woman hath gone down, Dark

iverse was carried on; but mortals in attributing to these gods their own passions and weaknesses, began to blend with them

e crystal mirror shows, His waving hair, above the surface flows, His own perfections all his passions moved, He loves hims

ht of pride, Drooping its beauty o’er the watery clearness To woo its own sweet image unto nearness; Deaf to light Zephyrus

While in slow lingering drops, th’ ethereal tide, As conscious of its own rich essence, ebbed away.” Moore. Her mother em

                Come away! Now each tree by summer crowned, Sheds its own night twilight round; Glancing there from sun to

ons of the midnight air,     At shrieks and thunders louder than your own . Alas! e’en your unhallowed breath,     May spare

r cared to raise up one, Whose fame and greatness, should eclipse his own . On happy Peleus he bestowed her charms, And bles

gn; A minstrel wild and strong thou art,     With a mastery all thine own , And the spirit is thy harp, O wind!     That giv

se notes in thee, wild wind?     These many notes in thee? Far in our own unfathomed souls     Their fount must surely be;

are free, we are free, in our realms of air, We list to no sorrow, we own no care; We hold our carousals aloft with the sta

             The hyacinth’s meek head.                         On my own heart I lay The weary babe; and sealing with a br

. ‌‘Here are knots,’ said Hymen, taking Some loose flowers of Love’s own making; ‘Here are good ones, you may trust ‘em,’

orth, Upon whose silent shore the dead     Have a proud city of their own , With shrines and pyramids o’erspread — Where man

it; adding, that if Jason, were to undertake it, he would resign his own crown and kingdom to him, immediately on his retu

ed by one still more revolting to the mind, for Medea slew two of her own children in their father’s presence, and when the

was anxious to avenge her husband’s wrongs, destroyed him with their own hands. Their credulity met with a severe punishme

also appointed, in which the mother was represented as destroying her own offspring, with all the attributes of a fury, and

   Where peace and mercy dwell for evermore? The land where Heaven’s own hallowed waters play,     Where friendship binds

thy frantic way,     Unholy woman! with thy hands embrued. In thine own children’s gore? Oh! ere they bleed,     Let Natu

punish him, struck him with a sudden madness, in which he killed his own offspring, imagining them to be those of Eurysthe

alousy of Eurystheus imposed upon him, he also achieved others of his own accord, equally great and celebrated. Insérer ima

ld betray: ‌All should at once be ravished from his eyes, And Jove’s own progeny enjoy the prize.     For this, the fruit

he who dared to roam The world infernal, and on Pluto’s queen, Ceres’ own lost Proserpina, did lay His hand: thence was he

he attempt. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img208 “His own despair the very stones admire And rolling follow

rom her braided hair And death upon her brow! but glorious death! Her own heart’s choice, the token of the seal Of love, o’

thless in thy faithful breast,     There shall my memory keep     Its own bright altar place of rest, While o’er my grave t

a maternal tenderness for the deserted child, and adopted him as her own . The accomplishments of the boy, who was named Œd

the unhappy parricide, and still more, that he was the husband of his own mother. Œdipus. “‘Why speak you not according t

e her child? Phor. To murder it. Œd. O more than savage! murder her own bowels Without a cause. Phor. There was a dreadf

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

d pleasure; and although the blood was flowing fast and free from his own mortal wounds, exclaimed: —————— “‘Thou diest, a

o obey, which so exasperated her, that she stabbed the child with her own hands. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_18

ore the banquet sate; And, glutton-like, luxuriously pleased With his own flesh, his hungry maw appeased. Nay, such a blind

s thus, so many chiefs o’erthrown, So many lives effused, expires his own .” Homer. To avenge the death of his comrade in

ules his race, his neighbour not his care, Heedless of others, to his own severe.” Homer. Polyphemus, whose one eye expre

hile Ulysses scarcely knew how to discover himself with safety to his own person, fearing that he might be slain by those w

ent, the hero related to her the history of the siege of Troy and his own adventures. The glowing language and animating ge

rang thy cruel fate? My Pyramus; ah! speak, ere ’tis too late: I, thy own Thisbe; but one word implore, One word thy Thisbe

and corporeal, and of a nature therefore entirely different from his own . They gave birth to a class of supernatural being

uld see, and feel, and think, and that they shone, or moved, of their own accord. Thus they spoke of everything as if it we

. The Greek poets believed the earth to be flat and circular, their own country occupying the middle of it, the central p

knew little of any people except those to the east and south of their own country, or near the coast of the Mediterranean.

propriating those divinities which had the greatest affinity to their own ; and thus they formed a religious belief which na

nd prophesied that he would suffer a similar fate at the hands of his own son. Nyx* (The Night). Nyx was the daugh

her darling son, and her tears fall to the earth as dew. Eos had her own chariot, which she drove across the vast horizon

s with those of the Greek gods whose attributes were similar to their own , declared Chronos to be identical with Saturn. Th

It is said that when he played on his lyre, the stones moved of their own accord, and took their places in the wall. In scu

befriended by Apollo and Athene. Apollo first purified him before his own altar at Delphi, and then defended him before the

s sold again. Even this means not sufficing, Erysichthon devoured his own flesh and died. Ceres of the Romans was the count

ered in gold the triumphs of Athene. It was said that Athene wove her own robe and Hera’s. On one occasion, Arachne, a mort

th love for some inferior being. When Eros saw the lovely maiden, his own heart was filled with love for her. In obedience

asped the chords of his lyre, the huge blocks of stone moved of their own accord, adjusting themselves into the places assi

Metra*, whom the Greek colonists in Asia Minor identified with their own Artemis. There was a magnificent temple erected t

acity, sprinkled him with water, and transformed him into a stag. His own dogs tore him in pieces. Niobe*, being the mother

nysus making him appear as a wild beast, he was torn to pieces by his own mother and her two sisters. “The worship of Dion

s by plucking the feathers from their wings and wearing them on their own heads as a sign of superiority. Pegasus*.

clear as crystal, and the goddess caused him to fall in love with his own shadow, which was reflected in the water. The obj

he produced such a change in her sentiments that, when he resumed his own form, she married him. She is represented as a lo

countered the Persian king, by whom he was entirely defeated; and his own empire being destroyed, the prediction of the ora

g, Laius, who was thy father, and thou art wedded to his widow, thine own mother.” The old servant who had exposed the infa

who had been betrothed to Antigone, in despair threw himself upon his own sword and expired. The Epigoni*. Ten years

*, mother of Andromeda and wife of Cepheus*, had dared to compare her own beauty with that of the Nereides*, who thereupon

to become insane, and while in this condition he killed three of his own children and two of those of his brother Iphicles

t Minos was induced by the beauty of the animal to place it among his own herds, and sacrificed another in its stead. Posei

was in the act of bearing it away in order to erect an oracle of his own , when he was confronted by the angry deity Apollo

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

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

race and carried off his prize. But the lovers were so full of their own happiness that they forgot to pay due honor to Ap

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

e incident, he took the child, named him Paris, and reared him as his own son. Paris afterwards distinguished himself by hi

o open it, he caused the gentle winds to blow the barks towards their own country. Nine days they sailed before the wind, a

th rich gifts, and ordered him to be conveyed to Ithaca in one of his own ships. The voyage was a short and prosperous one,

husband. She determined to test his identity, and commanded that his own bed should be brought from his chamber. This bed

rate mysticism of the priesthood, that they not only identified their own deities with those of Egypt, but fancied that the

mate absorption of the good into the eternal Deity. “God created his own members, which are the gods” they said; and so ou

, even the general idea of time and space. Each month and day had its own god. The Nile, as the source of the country’s fer

hese gods, as well as the many others connected with the sun, had his own specific character. This complex sun-god was imag

s as possible. The dead bodies were thrown before the temple of their own god. The crocodile was principally worshiped abou

” there were innumerable inferior ones, each town and city having its own local deities, which elsewhere received little re

created two other mighty beings, and imparted to them so much of his own nature as seemed proper to him. Of these Ormuzd*

zes the fables of Greece and Rome. The wild and rugged North made its own impress on the Scandinavian tribes, and their sup

d his iron gloves. The hammer when thrown returned to his hand of its own accord. When he girded the belt around him, his s

man conquerors, who built temples and introduced the worship of their own gods. Druidism found a temporary refuge in the Ge

career, my first thought was how I might at the same time promote my own interest, and render some service, however trifli

the opinions of the leading scholars of the continent ; and as to my own , as I advance them without dogmatism, I can see t

public were to insist on admission to theatres and exhibitions on its own terms, the principle of the O. P. riots of our yo

ecome general, the public would have no right to my book except on my own terms. The legitimate course, if these were exorb

hor. Theirs indeed is but too often the lion’s share, as I know by my own experience. For the Outlines of History in Lardne

sfer to them all their rights if they have the power to do it. For my own part, I view the question with tolerable indiffer

liberality of the gentlemen at whose office they are printed, are my own . When the booksellers had refused the present wor

are believed to have occurred either among the people itself, as its own adventures, and those of its princes and heroes,

g pure spirit, and he knows no form so perfect or so beautiful as his own , and none so well adapted to be the vehicle of mi

religion from that country ; and it is but too well known how, in our own days, Sir William Jones and his followers have be

days, Sir William Jones and his followers have been deceived by their own imaginations, and the impostures of artful pundit

ricious fiction any of the legends of the different portions of their own race or those of foreign countries. Whatever tale

ign countries. Whatever tales they learned, they interwove into their own system ; taking care, however, to avoid contradic

d any foreign deities possessing the same attributes as some of their own , they at once inferred them to be the same under

s of other kings of the gods whom they could not reconcile with their own Zeus, and of queens who could not be brought to a

ian literature, they identified the gods of Greece with such of their own deities as had a resemblance to them. Thus Hermes

gion of the Gospel, and Christianity also had soon a mythology of its own to display. On the final overthrow of Heathenism

The Greeks of the days of which Homer sings, or rather of the poet’s own time, though well acquainted with navigation, do

an99. In the Sea the Greeks appear to have known to the west of their own country southern Italy and Sicily, though their i

little of any real people except those to the east and south of their own country, or near the coast of the Mediterranean.

mology of the ancient Greeks, to compare with it that invented by our own great poet in his Paradise Lost, more especially

is married to Rhea (ῥέα, flowingly), and time flows ; he devours his own children, and time destroys what it has brought i

ll in bliss332. We have observed above, that man loves to bestow his own form upon his gods, as being the noblest that he

ces in song. When the sun descends, each god retires to repose in his own dwelling345. They frequently partake of the hospi

ns evidently attempted to transfer the names of places in it to their own country, a practise of which as we proceed we sha

rned round to look, and beheld a lake where the town had stood. Their own house remained, and, as they gazed and deplored t

have had some analogy with the confarreatio of the Romans526, or our own usage of bride-cakes. In the temple there was a s

seeks Olympos, and the armour is fashioned by the artist-god with his own hand. In the Augustan age, Venus prevails on her

, Hera, knowing that the son of Leto would be dearer to Zeus than her own son Ares, was resolved if possible to prevent his

ore that no place should receive the travailing goddess, she took her own station in the sky : she placed her son Ares upon

f his temple there, when the nymph of the place, afraid of having her own fame eclipsed by the vicinity of the oracle of Ap

g in Aleæus ; the swallows and cicadas also sing, not narrating their own fate when among men, but tuning all their melodie

led with them. But the goddess, suspecting his design, had daubed her own face and those of her nymphs with mud, so that he

ing offended Aphrodite744, was by her inspired with a passion for her own father. After a long struggle against it, she gra

h Aphrodite, and the remaining third with Persephone. Adonis gave his own portion to Aphrodite, and lived happily with her 

rant flower750. The tale of Adonis is evidently an Eastern mythe. His own name and those of his parents refer to that part

ed as a second Venus. The queen of beauty was irritated on seeing her own altars neglected, and her adorers diminishing. Sh

. Athena was likewise expert in female accomplishments ; she wove her own robe and that of Hera, which last she is said to

shone all around ; Metaneira filled with awe offered the goddess her own seat, which however she declined. Iambe the servi

anger was regarded as little better than an enemy. Each state had its own favourite deities, under whose especial protectio

ce in the Eleusinian mysteries. The stranger, dazzled and awed by his own conception of the sacredness and importance of al

n said, by him who like the early bards of Greece was one of Nature’s own poets, that The Muse nae poet ever fand her Till

ring from the blood of Uranos when mutilated by his son Kronos, whose own children they are according to Empedocles1018, wh

n of Zeus for the Trojans could not be supposed equal to that for his own son, and finally by offering and swearing to give

come on. But the captain rebuked him sharply, desired him to mind his own business, and declared that they would take their

nce took occasion to fable that Dionysos had, like Heracles and their own great king, marched as a conqueror throughout the

This last is the absurd hypothesis which we have seen renewed in our own days, and supported by all the efforts of ingenio

sea ; but he avenged himself by driving Lycurgos mad, who killed his own son Dryas with a blow of an axe, taking him for a

lso seems to refer to heat ; and perhaps the true origin of the god’s own epithet, Μηρογϵνὴς, usually rendered Thigh-born,

the Hellespont, they found there a religion very different from their own  ; the one being calm and cheerful, the other wild

ship was adopted by the Greeks. From their confounding her with their own Artemis, it would seem that they regarded her as

jealousy blew her down from the summit of a lofty rock. A tree of her own name (πίτυς, pine) sprang up where she died, and

country people met Silenos staggering about, and binding him with his own garlands, led him to their king. Midas entertaine

e had a long-eared father, — Pan or a Satyr perhaps, or it may be his own sacred beast the ass1223 ; others gave him Hermes

hard-heartedness to her and other nymphs and maidens ; for seeing his own figure in a clear spring, he became enamoured of

spring of water to gush out beside it. The nymphs communicated their own nature to Dryope ; and her son Amphissos out of g

ater, and a tree. At length, finding he cannot escape, he resumes his own form, and reveals to Menelaos the remedy for his

ving seen Odysseus in the island of Calypso, — a clear proof that his own abode was not confined to the coast of Egypt. Thi

Lotus-eaters were kindly entertained by them, and given some of their own food, the Lotus-plant, to eat. The effect of this

ps of lofty mountains, and each without regard to others governed his own wife and children. In front of a harbour of their

gainst the next evening Odysseus had prepared a piece of the Cyclôps’ own olive-staff, which was as large as the mast of a

aid by him1362 to be the daughter of Helios by the Oceanis Persa, and own sister of the wise (ὀλοόϕρων)1363 Æætes. The isla

amed Telegonos (Far-born), who, as we shall see, unwittingly slew his own father. The Theogony1364 gives them for offspring

367. The Latin poets thence took occasion to connect Circe with their own scanty mythology. It was fabled, for example, tha

the little-explored waters of the Mediterranean. While presenting our own hypothesis respecting them, we wish not to concea

us’ punishment. The pragmatisers also explained the mythe after their own fashion. Prometheus was, they say, a king of the

sked him to animate it ; he did so, but when Care went to give it her own name, he insisted on its being named from himself

be introduced into mythic history, it has however a chronology of its own , and may be divided into distinct periods. In the

ce, sent a poisoned robe as a gift to the bride, and then killing her own children mounted a chariot drawn by winged serpen

ied Hippodameia daughter of Adrastos king of Argos. The chiefs of his own tribe, the Lapiths, were all invited to the weddi

f Ætolia. His sons were Pleurôn and Calydôn, who built towns of their own name. Agenôr the son of Pleurôn had by Epicaste (

the father of Deïaneira1611. Œneus, it is also said, killed with his own hand his son Toxeus for leaping over the fence of

and defend them : they offered him a piece of land (τέμϵνος), at his own selection, of fifty gyas 1618, half arable, half

ren, and directed her for that purpose to dress them in black and her own in white, that she might be able to distinguish t

Ino however reversed the orders, and Themisto unwittingly killed her own children, and then seeing what she had done slew

eus in the night. As the two cousins slept together, she directed her own son Itylos to lie inside ; but he mistook or negl

to Peribœa the wife of Polybos, who being childless reared it as her own , and named it Œdipûs on account of its swollen fe

e fair Epicaste, who in her ignorance did an awful deed, marrying her own son ; and he married having slain his own father,

an awful deed, marrying her own son ; and he married having slain his own father, and immediately the gods made this known

0. Thus far Homer. Pindar1721 says that they died in Naxos ; by their own hands, according to a later tradition1722. It was

inyans he fell into madness, owing to the envy of Hera, and flung his own three children by Megara, and the two of his brot

om he killed, together with his sons ; and having buried those of his own men who had fallen, among whom were Hippasos the

weal of mankind, or rather in its original form to that of the hero's own nation. This perfection, according to the ideas o

n heroic age, — the destruction of monsters, and bringing home to his own country the valuable productions of other regions

los. Procne then sought out and released her sister ; and killing her own son Itys, served his flesh up to his father. The

se of the oracle, made his guest drunk, and put him to sleep with his own daughter Æthra ; and Poseidôn, it was also said,

ed. Theseus accepting his challenge overcame him, and paid him in his own coin1839. Not far from thence, on the banks of th

him of the same length as his bed. But Theseus meted to him with his own measure1840. Having overcome all the perils of th

vided by Cecrops into twelve Demes or villages, each of which had its own government and chief magistrate, and was almost w

d in the reins, till life abandoned him. Phædra ended her days by her own hand ; and Theseus, when too late, learned the in

efence against Minôs when he pursued him thither1863. Dædalos, as his own name (which perhaps was merely an epithet of Heph

upbraid her with her conduct. But when he found himself again in his own house, he refused to leave it. Hermes however red

n quest of them, he, to the great surprise of the thief, selected his own beasts out of the herd ; for he had marked the in

h cow's horns, they in their usual manner inferred that she was their own Io, with whose name hers had a slight similarity.

Grecian vanity derived the rulers of more ancient countries from its own gods and princes. He married, we are told, Memphi

ed by her for taking the gold off her robe and converting it to their own use1933. It is remarkable that the characteristic

orgons) connected with this goddess, and moreover Gorgo is one of her own appellations1953. The Grecian deities, as the aut

h it was unlawful to enter. A number of Arcadians, among whom was her own son, followed to kill her ; but Zeus, in memory o

the remainder to him who next finished. He then quickly devoured his own and his brother's part, and drove the whole herd

is the Breaker (ἄγω, ἄγνυμι), the son of Feeder (Phorbas)2049, their own names are Possessor and Hold-fast,2050, and they

anted by all historians from Herodotus and Thucydides2069 down to our own days. Homer, when giving an account of Agamemnôn’

revenge, sent Atreus’ son Pleisthenes, whom he had brought up as his own , to murder his father. Atreus taking the youth to

, hearing he was alive, had him sought for, and brought him up as his own son. Atreus afterwards sent his sons Agamemnôn an

to ardent love ; and filled with pity for her lover, and shame at her own ungrateful insensibility, she retired to a founta

she retired to a fountain near the port of Calydôn, and there cut her own throat and died. The spring derived from her its

shepherd, and Aphrodite in compassion changed him into a river of his own name. But his love still continuing, Aphrodite ag

t till he arrived at Crete, not far from Gortyna. Here he resumed his own form, and beneath a plane-tree embraced the tremb

in the Naxian worship. The Athenians, always anxious to enlarge their own narrow cycle at the expense of others, seem to ha

2140. The Spaniards call the Pleiades the ‘Seven She-goats’2141 ; our own popular name for them is the ‘Hen and Chickens’ ;

edibility as historic facts are perhaps equally well founded. For our own part, as we doubt of the proper historic characte

uck with this strange event, he took home the babe, reared him as his own son, and named him Paris. When Paris grew up he d

ty. Who could believe, for example, that Athens, in a quarrel not her own , sent to the coast of Asia, there to remain for t

the Mistress of Italy, by celebrating her origin and her deeds in her own language. Nævius the Campanian sang, in Saturnian

45.) makes Δέλϕύѕ equivalent to Ͳήλϵϕοѕ. The habit of regarding their own country as the centre of the earth prevails at th

e, not knowing what the need is ; they see boats there, but not their own , with no one in them ; they get in, row away, and

In one pull (ῥοπῇ) they reach the isle of Britannia, which with their own boats they can hardly reach in a day and a night.

lands, 1822, quoted by Finn Magnusen (Edda Sæmundar, iii. 530), whose own words are, «Cygnorum cantus dulcissimus in Island

s (Id. ib.) made him the offspring of Theias, king of Assyria, by his own daughter Smyrna. 746. Ares, out of jealousy, too

rom this circumstance that the father of Cæneus is named Elatos ; his own name (from καινὸϛ new) refers to his metamorphose

e of turning foreign words into such as have a signification in their own language, ex. gr. Beefeater and Sparrowgrass. The

223. 2039. On Pind. O1. iii. 18. 2040. Sch. Apoll. Rh. ut sup. Our own Fletcher (Faithful Shepherdess, Act i.) tells Ho

y were, to a great extent. The ancient Latins had, undoubtedly, their own gods and their peculiar superstitions, but they d

sage of the Celestials when they descended to earth. Each god had his own dwelling, but all were obliged to repair, when su

had four daughters, all of whom suffered persecution, either in their own persons, or in those of their children. Cadmus an

which they gashed their arms and shoulders, making libations of their own blood, to the terrible goddess. Chapter V. Mer

erva named the city, calling it Athena [Athe′na] or Athens, after her own name in Greek. Ques. What was the Palladium? An

ris expired in his arms, acknowledging she had fallen a victim to her own groundless jealousy. Ques. To whom was Aurora ma

were condemned to death. Of these, seven were permitted to take their own lives, thirteen suffered the terrible punishment

mage reflected in a fountain, and, not perceiving that it was but his own shadow, gazed at it, lost in admiration, until he

fountain, and try to recall the image of his sister by gazing at his own reflection in the waters. Ques. Were there many

he passed the fatal coasts in safety. Orpheus overcame them in their own art; for he sang the praises of the gods, accompa

culiar cap with which we are familiar from the representations on our own coins. Ques. Were not the Vices also honored by

rd, after having played for the last time upon his lyre, and sung his own death-song. The mariners granted his request, not

proceeded to search for the fugitive elsewhere. She then resumed her own form, and returned to her father, who was well pl

of the unhappy Erisichthon, who was compelled by hunger to devour his own flesh before death came to end his misery. Ch

e kindly entertained by the Lotus-eaters, who regaled them with their own favorite food, the lotus plant. This was of such

every thought of pity, and he slew Clytemnestra and Ægisthus with his own hand. This act, however justified by the guilt of

couraged by this, he performed prodigies of valor, and slew, with his own hand, Patroclus, the friend of Achilles. He next

of Corinth. This monarch was childless, and adopted the infant as his own . When Œdipus was grown to manhood, he desired to

hy laws assign, It nothing grieves me. Had I left my brother, From my own mother sprung, on the bare earth To lie unburied,

ruin a great empire, but as she did not say what empire, whether his own or that of his enemies, the oracle could not fail

ch had been addressed. The wretched murderers, thus betrayed by their own guilty fears, confessed the crime, and suffered t

. Were dramatic entertainments as frequent in ancient times as in our own ? Ans. No; but they took place several times in t

red a favorable omen. It was also a good augury if he entered, of his own accord, a particular stall. When Germanicus offer

reated two other mighty beings, and imparted to them a portion of his own eternal divinity. Ques. Who were these deities?

als for food, lest they may possess human souls, and be perhaps their own friends or relations. Ques. What are Castes? An

form of idolatry, that the Buddhists have incorporated it with their own rites. Chapter V. China. China — Absence o

ich politeness requires that each one should speak slightingly of his own religion, and praise the sect to which he does no

le and refined. On the other hand, the wild and rugged North made its own impress on the Scandinavian tribes, and their sup

Thankt will wail With dry tears Baldur’s bale-fire. Let Hela keep her own .” It was strongly suspected that this hag was no

the sea-shore, and placed upon a funeral pile which was built of his own ship, the largest in the world. All the gods were

parts of Germany, Druidism prevailed. The Germans had, however, their own deities and their own superstitions. Tuisco (some

dism prevailed. The Germans had, however, their own deities and their own superstitions. Tuisco (sometimes written Tuesco o

he was free and self-existent, and the creation of the world was his own voluntary act. The Druids taught that excepting t

le representation of their deities. When the Romans established their own worship in the country, they endeavored, accordin

xysms of wild frenzy which recalled to the Greeks the orgies of their own Bacchantes. It is said that no year passed withou

an conquerors, who built temples, and introduced the worship of their own gods, adopting also those of the conquered race.

still attach to these remains of ancient paganism. Almost within our own day, many an Irish peasant has made his scanty ha

eligion of their more civilized predecessors without abandoning their own dark and cruel superstitions. Hence the contradic

ir abode wherever the sacred emblem should sink into the earth of its own accord. This prodigy took place in the valley of

nca and his household. They were completely secluded, even from their own nearest relatives. The wives of the Inca, and the

avellers. The general opinion is that where Herodotus speaks from his own observation, or relates events of which the memor

ivine pair; but Scopas grudged every line which did not celebrate his own fame. When Simonides approached to receive his re

he year 24, B. C. He spent many years in travelling, at first for his own gratification, and in the pursuit of knowledge, b

; and when he was covered with a veil, he only determined to hide his own plans. — Not to tell his mother his intentions co

saw revealed to her this lovely object. She could hardly believe her own eyes; but in her delightful surprise, the hand wh

e gods and goddesses, and presented her with a cup of nectar with his own hand. “Receive,” said be, fair Psyche, this mark

her blushing cheek. This violet, blue as the eye of Minerva, or your own , my Licinia, and sweet and modest as thou art, I

her husband’s wishes. She was a dutiful wife, and did not set up her own will against his. She readily consented to stay a

hand, and looked lovingly in his face. “I can refuse you nothing, my own Philomela,” answered the fond old man, smiling up

n you for your perfidy.” Tereus was alarmed at these menaces, and his own guilty conscience told him, that if his treachery

ever proclaiming it, he cut her tongue out, and then returned to his own house. Progne was grieved and disappointed, when

entreated Philomela to cease from weeping, and to go with her to her own house. She next turned to the Bacchantes, who sto

d with dust; and after they were cleaned, she wiped them dry with her own hands. She next spread soft flexible willow branc

ry best wine, and running about the table from hand to hand, of their own accord as it were. They looked at each other, and

s smooth and limpid, and in it, for the first time, Narcissus saw his own person reflected in the clear bosom of the stream

at the metamorphosis he had undergone. He was soon met by one of his own dogs, who did not know him, but at sight of him s

ays think before we act, and thus may prevent bad consequences of our own conduct. Ann. Is that all which this fable teach

er of Cadmus, was married to Athamas, who had a little kingdom of his own , not far from Thebes. Bacchus, the god of wine, w

ed king; “if thou delayest an instant, I will thrust thee out with my own hands.” Atlas did not wait to be obeyed, but imme

nster. Andromeda’s mother was a vain, silly woman. She boasted of her own beauty, and said that she was handsomer than Juno

gave her to me when I asked her in marriage; yet, regardless of their own promise, they did not wait for me to claim her, b

d live to be his murderer, and that he had only attempted to save his own life, by taking theirs. When Perseus reached Argo

surpassed their rivals. Thus the trial ended, and we claimed for our own the district of Emathia. We then admonished those

much of their time together. Young persons are apt to boast of their own consequence; some commend themselves for their we

rsons who are related to us, are, or have been wise and virtuous. Our own goodness, knowledge, and amiable manners, alone e

omplaint, “this young prince has no more glorious ancestors than your own ; as I have often told you, they are the very same

is young man’s suspicions of thy mother’s veracity; truly thou art my own , and truly I love thee; to convince thee how well

se which Jupiter himself would scarcely undertake; notwithstanding my own skill and experience, I find it requires my utmos

nowing that the obstinate and presumptuous are only taught from their own experience, expostulated no more with Phæton, but

lied allusions to classic authors, who, by their association with our own literature, have become necessary to be somewhat

ion to make a book of mythology one of a religious tendency. It is my own view of the subject, and I cannot but believe tha

statues, and pictures, and enables us to comprehend the value of our own simple and true faith — the doctrines taught by M

sand years ago. Sixteen hundred years after Adam, God taught Noah his own character and will. Four hundred years after Noah

often love J mortal ladies; however, he did not appear to them in his own awful character, but assumed the shape of some ma

f the sun. Apollo’s chariot was drawn by horses which no hand but his own could control. Many absurd and immoral actions ar

cepts less The sum of human wretchedness, And strengthen man with his own mind. Byron. Prometheus was, doubtless, one of

as the goddess of youth, and had the power of imparting to others her own perpetual healthfulness and vigour. Hebe is, in f

stopped in the midst of their wicked purposes, and terrified at their own guilt, by a power who is of purer eyes than to be

own old, and no longer could take pleasure in the reflection of their own faces, who would send the mirror they had been ac

he was supposed to retain in a vast cave, or to set at liberty at his own will, or at the command of his father. His childr

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

evere!     The muses love thy shrilly tone; Apollo calls thee all his own ; ”Twas he who gave that voice to thee, ”Twas he w

age 101. Tantalus, King of Phrygia, for having savagely murdered his own son, Pelops, and served up his body at a banquet

ountain side. In the fountain, Narcissus beheld the reflection of his own face and form; it was more lovely than any object

e, punishes those who are ungrateful to Providence; who neglect their own minds; who abuse the blessings which they possess

ves. When the predaceous animals learn by their instincts, that their own domain, the wild woods, is shared with new occupa

n by the Greeks to buy and sell: to exchange the commodities of their own with those of a distant country. The voyage of Ja

er, and even persuaded him to offer Theseus a cup of poison, with his own hand. Before this wicked project was executed, Th

owledged the King of Athens for their sovereign, but they chose their own chiefs and inferior magistrates among themselves.

unished. In peaceable and prosperous society, every man must have his own property; every man must take care of his own, an

every man must have his own property; every man must take care of his own , and no man must take what does not belong to him

at does not belong to himself; and if one should take what is not his own , that dishonest and violent conduct is punished b

iminal or the breakers of laws. The right which a man has to keep his own property separately from others is political secu

ordered him to destroy it. The man, not willing to kill him with his own hands, carried the child to the woods, bored his

le Œdipus, as the foundling was called, as well as if he had been her own son; as well as the Egyptian princess loved Moses

of his days, when he is very old, he uses a staff in addition to his own limbs. The monster, upon hearing this, dashed his

ed, Jocasta killed herself; and Œdipus, in his distress, tore out his own eyes. Œdipus had four children: two sons and two

Mycenæ; and, having given his two daughters to the brothers, left his own kingdom of Sparta to Menelaus. When Agamemnon sac

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

rowning on the floods, Impious he roared defiance to the gods; To his own prowess all the glory gave, The power defrauding

dily complied, and afterwards Antinöus had him safely conveyed to his own kingdom, which he reached after an absence of twe

d , Book   I. Nestor returned from the war of Troy in safety to his own dominions and family in Messinia. He lost his son

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

etimes enjoyed independence, and had lawgivers and defenders of their own . When Lesbos was attacked by the Athenians, Pitta

ct, red of eye, Reflecting back upon the sinful mind              Its own inborn deformity. But to the righteous spirit, ho

heir foundation in the beginning; who lifted their lofty heads to his own heaven, and who has fixed the everlasting hills t

ntreats the curse. The misfortunes which happen in consequence of our own or other person’s faults, are sometimes called cu

se were considerable in number. How should we feel in respect to our own privileges and advantages? Who was the person app

as banished by the Athenians, because they accused him of carving his own image upon the shield of Minerva. Phidias retired

ferring to sources, and the Commentary are wholly, or essentially, my own . Although in the Index of Mythological Subjects t

ance for the discrepancy in mental development, imaginations like our own , there is nothing in the history of reasonable my

and God, has gradually developed truer and higher conceptions of his own nature, of his relation to the world about him, o

of words. Max Müller grants that mythology does not always create its own heroes, but sometimes lays hold of real history.

e would come to be understood literally. Thus Cronus, who devours his own children, is identified with the power that the G

by Mr. Andrew Lang 9, whose argument is, when possible, given in his own language. To the question how the senseless eleme

d his indolent repose; And, in some fit of weariness, if he, When his own breath was silent, chanced to hear A distant stra

of antiquity sang their stories or hymns to an accompaniment of their own upon the harp or lyre, they were skilled in the a

cript of the mythological poems of Iceland. Misled by theories of his own and by a fanciful suggestion of the famous antiqu

the ballads to suit himself, strung them together on a thread of his own invention. In fine, the materials of the poem wou

ng learned from his parents that he should be dethroned by one of his own children, conceived the well-intentioned but ill-

ing before the thunderbolt of Jove, he too descended to Tartarus, his own place and the abode of his brethren. To this day,

cepts less The sum of human wretchedness, And strengthen man with his own mind. But, baffled as thou wert from high, Still,

self on fire, he proceeded to drown the world. Not satisfied with his own waters, he called his brother Neptune to his aid.

re. She is protectress of cities, and was specially worshipped in her own Athens, in Argos, in Sparta, and in Troy. To her

perhaps, of the flickering, unsteady nature of fire. According to his own story,77 he was born halt; and his mother, chagri

All light of art or nature; — to my song, Victory and praise in their own right belong.” Fig. 12. Apollo. [In the Museu

s believed the earth to be flat and circular. In their opinion, their own country occupied the middle of it, and the centra

f earth. He created the horse, and was the patron of horse races. His own steeds were brazen-hoofed and golden-maned. They

o them. Every master of a family was the priest to the Penates of his own house. The Lares, or Lars, were also tutelary dei

aciously she herself did welcome me, and regard me as it had been her own child! Ye blessed gods, I pray you, prosper the f

ill did waft the maiden onward. But when she was now far off from her own country, and neither sea-beat headland nor steep

l’s shape. So Crete shall presently receive thee, Crete that was mine own foster-mother, where thy bridal chamber shall be.

tying Dirce by the hair of her head to a bull, let her perish by her own device.120 While among the herdsmen, Amphion had

es, it is said that when he played on his lyre, stones moved of their own accord, and took their places in the wail, with w

, as fast as it was poured out, renewed itself in the pitcher, of its own accord. Struck with terror, Baucis and Philemon r

obey. The country behind them was speedily sunk in a lake, only their own house left standing. While they gazed with wonder

oodshed she, therefore, had no sympathy. Athens, her chosen seat, her own city, was awarded to her as the prize of a peacef

eed nor word, but settest her on, because this pestilent one is thine own offspring. Now hath she urged on Tydeus’ son, eve

can presented the bride with a necklace of surpassing brilliancy, his own workmanship. Of this marriage ere born four daugh

hing my thirst. A draught of water would be nectar to me, and I would own myself indebted to you for life itself. Let these

s youth met his death by accident, another of Apollo’s favorites, his own son, brought death upon himself by presumption.

moon saw with astonishment her brother’s chariot running beneath her own . The clouds began to smoke. The forest-clad mount

to end her agony at once by his thunderbolts, or else to consider his own heaven, how both the poles were smoking that sust

d, at a banquet, to deceive them into eating the roasted flesh of his own son Pelops. The gods were not deceived. Pelops wa

and children of Argos, especially by such as had lost by death their own beloved. § 79. Æsculapius. — The Thessalian princ

r shoulders. Nine days she sat and tasted neither food nor drink, her own tears and the chilly dew her only sustenance. She

of Venus. § 93. Round the goddess of love cluster romances of her own tender passion, of the affairs of the winged Cupi

very Love brighter than dawn of day; And as he lay there smiling, her own name His gentle lips in sleep began to frame, And

laimed, “This is no work of thine, wicked one, but his, whom to thine own and his misfortune thou hast enticed,” — threw th

of thy beauty, for in tending her sick son she hath lost some of her own .’” Psyche, satisfied that her destruction was at

ance dear, And pardon that thy secrets should be sung Even into thine own soft-conched ear: Surely I dreamt to-day, or did

nt fans, Fluttering among the faint Olympians, I see, and sing, by my own eyes inspired. ‘So let me be thy choir, and make

he gathered three golden apples from the garden of her temple, in her own island of Cyprus, and, unseen by any, gave them t

4 But the oracle was yet to be fulfilled. The lovers, full of their own happiness, after all, forgot to pay due honor to

cold lips. “O, Pyramus,” she cried, “what has done this? It is thine own Thisbe that speaks.” At the name of Thisbe Pyramu

r veil stained with blood and the scabbard empty of its sword. “Thine own hand has slain thee, and for my sake,” she said.

ught with it. Finally he approached his native city Thebes, where his own cousin, Pentheus, son of Agave and grandson of Ha

, who threatens to follow their example. Now, if thou regardest thine own interest or mine, join these two in one.” The boy

th a cry and snatched the child from the fire. Then Ceres assumed her own form, and a divine splendor shone all around. Whi

de, and bud and blossom, Breathe thine influence most divine On thine own child, Proserpine. “If with mists of evening dew

t children of the hours, Breathe thine influence most divine On thine own child, Proserpine.” 205 § 107. Orpheus and Eury

ar a sweeter melody, Though there the spirit of the sepulchre All his own power infuse, to swell The incense that he loves.

known ways, His heart was gone; and evermore his gaze Turned from her own , and even farther ranged His woodland war; while

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

oman or other person, except herself, thereabouts. Then, resuming her own appearance, she was again and again sold by her f

ally, increasing demands of hunger compelled the father to devour his own limbs; and in due time he finished himself off. §

cumb till all schemes had failed to set him free. Then he resumed his own form and, in response to the questioning of Arist

formerly been betrothed to the bride, burst in demanding her for his own . In vain, Cepheus remonstrated that all such enga

pples. The hero, accordingly, taking the burden of the heavens on his own shoulders,283 sent Atlas to seek the apples. The

ce: then, sending a poisoned robe as a gift to the bride, killing her own children, and setting fire to the palace, she mou

graces and virtues of his father, and of an age corresponding to her own , loved him. When, however, he repulsed her advanc

tayed at home. Cursing the sons who had abandoned him, but bowing his own will in submission to the ways of God, Œdipus app

nce, she determined to brave the hazard and to bury the body with her own hands. She was detected in the act. When Creon as

eon, unable to avert her fate, would not survive her, and fell by his own hand. It is only after his son’s death, and as he

to Argos, put his mother to death, but in consequence repeated in his own experience the penalty of Orestes. The outfit of

on a brother, Thyestes, by causing him to eat the flesh of two of his own children. A son of this Thyestes, Ægisthus by nam

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

est of women for his wife, — each attempting to bias the judge in her own favor. Paris decided in favor of the last, thus m

ging, Hector returned to the field, and Neptune betook himself to his own dominions. Achilles and Patroclus. — An arrow fr

of by Hector, who, retiring a short distance, divested himself of his own mail, put on that of Achilles, then returned to t

can’s palace. She found him busy at his forge, making tripods for his own use, so artfully constructed that they moved forw

his own use, so artfully constructed that they moved forward of their own accord when wanted, and retired again when dismis

hall I offer to yield up Helen and all her treasures and ample of our own beside? Ah no! even that is too late. He would no

estroyed so many of his sons. “Think, O Achilles,” he said, “of thine own father, full of days like me, and trembling on th

s the wanderings of Ulysses (Odysseus) in his return from Troy to his own kingdom, Ithaca. From Troy, the vessels first mad

-eaters were kindly entertained by them, and were given some of their own food, the lotus-plant, to eat. The effect of this

ter. All the vessels with their crews were destroyed, except Ulysses’ own ship which had remained outside, and finding no s

Ææa. — With grief for their slain companions mixed with joy at their own escape, they pursued their way till they arrived

gave his hand to Ulysses and led him to a seat, displacing thence his own son to make room for the stranger. Food and wine

ing promised to furnish a ship in which his guest might return to his own land. The next day the assembled chiefs confirmed

the Phæacian vessel, and in a short time arrived safe at Ithaca, his own island. When the vessel touched the strand he was

anger enter, raised his head, with ears erect. It was Argus, Ulysses’ own dog, that he had in other days often led to the c

rk to restrain his indignation at seeing his father so treated in his own hall; but, remembering his father’s injunctions,

expected. Meanwhile her son had grown up, and was able to manage his own affairs. She therefore consented to submit the qu

tar, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. “This is my son, mine own Telemachus, To whom I leave the sceptre and the i

d were separated, so that Æneas thought that all were lost except his own vessel. At this crisis, Neptune, hearing the stor

. Some of the ships which had got on the rocks, he pried off with his own trident, while Triton and a sea-nymph, putting th

d skill were exhibited. The strangers contended for the palm with her own subjects, on equal terms, the queen declaring tha

request a recital of the closing events of the Trojan history and his own adventures after the fall of the city. Dido was c

last they are. taken over.” Æneas grieved at recollecting some of his own companions who had perished in the storm. At that

the deeds of each. The next class was of those who had died by their own hand, hating life and seeking refuge in death. O,

ects clothed in a purple light. The region had a sun and stars of its own . The inhabitants were enjoying themselves in vari

with her band of mounted followers, including a select number of her own sex, and ranged herself on the side of Turnus. Th

dorned with studs and carvings of gold, he took and clasped round his own body. The rest he remitted to the friends of the

their fathers and kindred. When thrown, it returns to his hand of its own accord. The second rare thing he possesses is the

The man, seeing that he must fail of completing his task, resumed his own gigantic stature; and the gods now clearly percei

king, the fleet-footed Hermod came Home, and lay down to sleep in his own house; And all the gods lay down in their own hom

ay down to sleep in his own house; And all the gods lay down in their own homes. And Hoder, too, came home distraught with

Valhalla’s gate he rode, and left Sleipnir; and Sleipnir went to his own stall; And in Valhalla Odin laid him down. That

ck it from the oak-wood e’en take it for my gift. Then ne’er, but his own heart falter, its point and edge shall fail Until

cation of Time, which, as it brings all things to an end, devours its own offspring; and also with the Latin Saturn, who, a

e themselves suffer woes outside the course of destiny, through their own perverse offending.” But, beside this general eff

. From the story of Bellerophon being unconsciously the bearer of his own death-warrant, the expression “Bellerophontic let

hor and Woden being worshipped by a tribe, but each family having its own anses, or deified ancestors (Corp. Poet. 2: 413).

aught them to build houses and barns, and to store up grain for their own use and fodder for their flocks. Then he taught t

could sing. Apollo, god of light and song, loved him and gave him his own divine harp, which the Greeks called a lyre. Upon

The birds would cease singing, for they preferred his songs to their own ; the spirits in the trees would hush the murmur o

even the longed-for Islands of the Blessed could be better than their own native land. But happiness such as this was not t

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

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

origin and one day as he was quarreling with Epaphus, a youth of his own age, he boasted of it. “And is Helios proud of su

ed to ashes. Save Neptune, whose waters boil with the heat. Save your own kingdom, for Atlas is fainting and will soon let

“No, no,” they cried; “she is our sister. Give us our eye and go your own way, lest we curse you.” But Perseus thought of M

his beautiful bride, set out at last for Argos and Greece, where his own kingdom awaited him, and there he gave back the w

n the rustling grove, But the bridal veil, as pure as snow,    Of his own young wedded love. And, ah, too sure that arrow s

ng, fair young man, who had slain so many robbers and giants, was his own son. There was one person, however, who knew who

omen under which the youth had been born, but took him to live in his own royal household. Meanwhile there was great rage a

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

n host left off their pursuit of the Greeks and returned within their own walls, and, for that day, again the camp was save

Grecian chiefs, laden with spoil, turned their faces each toward his own home. Their labors seemed now at an end, and they

arried him to Ithaca, with honor and with many gifts, in one of their own ships. Ulysses was fast asleep when the ship reac

while they wooed her, they treated her palace as though it were their own . Every day there could be heard from her halls a

her asleep. “Awake, Penelope!” she cried. “Ulysses has come. With his own hand he has slain the suitors. Come and see him y

believe that it was he. “Son,” said Ulysses, “let us leave her to her own thoughts for a while. She will know me when I hav

octrines of its priests, introduced them, modelled agreeably to their own ideas, into their own country. As this is the cas

s, introduced them, modelled agreeably to their own ideas, into their own country. As this is the case, it might have appea

ey learned those doctrines, which, having modelled according to their own ideas, they introduced into Greece. These were, i

ngs perish, it is allegorically said, that Time or Saturn devours his own offspring. What is the continuation of this ficti

leased them by vanquishing Titan. But, taking the government into his own hands, he drove away his father Saturn, who sough

that Cybele was the daughter of a king of Phrygia, who came from her own country into Italy, where she married Saturn. She

s the Jupiter of the Assyrians. In short, almost every nation had its own Jupiter. The Ethiopians called him Assabinus; the

to swine. Still curst with sense, their minds remain alone, And their own voice affrights them when they groan. Pope’s Hom

deities determined in favour of the latter, who consequently gave her own name to the city. Of what is this goddess emblema

There were many princes of this name, and almost every nation had its own Mars. The original Mars is supposed to be Belus,

e was supposed to retain in a vast cave, or to set at liberty, at his own will, or at the command of his father. Who were h

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

of fire. Tantalus, King of Phrygia, for having savagely murdered his own son Pelops, and served up his body at a banquet o

to recover some treasures, which had been carried thither from their own country. This enterprise, and the dangers attendi

asserted to be infinitely above the comprehension of any mind but his own . He is supposed to manifest his power by the oper

om. He, desiring to raise up various creatures by an emanation of his own glory, first created the waters and impressed the

black of aspect, red of eye, Reflecting back upon the sinful mind Its own inborn deformity. But to the righteous spirit, ho

hen the country was divided into several governments, each having its own monarch. At that time Egypt had no foreign commer

ce of solemn sacrifices, the obsequies of departed ancestors, and his own funeral pile. The reformed religion of Persia con

a great number of other idols; each tribe and family maintaining its own appropriate deity. What was the character of the

and Cybele, his parents, although their rank was far inferior to his own . The Greeks deemed Uranus the most ancient of all

ed thing as he rushes along, he is aptly represented as devouring his own children. Hence, emblematically to figure forth t

Thou double pate, the sliding year doth show, The only god that thine own back can view.” “The laurel that the former year

Terra, the mother of the gods. They also affirm that Cybele gave her own name to that goddess, and that the Corybantes, he

he sum of human misery than wretchedness, And strengthen man with his own mind.” Byron. Obs. 1. — Prometheus is a name d

ay, but Diana, finding her overwhelmed with fear, changed her, at her own request, into a fountain, which she did in order

grove sacred to her, with such insatiable hunger, that he gnawed his own flesh; and she changed some clowns into frogs, be

ee revere. The muses love thy shrilly tone; Apollo calls thee all his own ; ‘Twas he who gave that voice to thee, Tis he who

ierced Chione with an arrow, because she was so rash as to prefer her own beauty to Diana’s. One day, as Actæon pursued the

casting the waters into his face, he was transformed into a stag. His own hounds came up, and tore him in pieces. When Dian

oreign ambassadors. Her priests, called the Bellonarii, offered their own blood, from wounds inflicted on their thighs and

ribed “to the fairest.” Each of the three goddesses claimed it as her own , but, at length, referred the decision to Paris,

being the cause of her lover’s death, and plunging his sword into her own body; she fell on him, gave him a bitter kiss, an

erson and carriage. Pygmalion could not help falling in love with his own workmanship, and begged Venus to make it into a l

limbs. Not unreveng’d Ulysses bore their fate, Nor thoughtless of his own unhappy state. For gorg’d with flesh, and drunk w

third out of that of the first two, together with additions of their own . Obs. 2. — The Cyclops appear to have been the a

to have forced him to believe that there was a power superior to his own . He therefore submits to implore that Being; but

almed bodies were deposited as security in borrowing. Some gave their own bodies as a pledge; and if they failed to meet th

a purple sky: The blissful seats of happy souls below, Stars of their own , and their own sun they know.” “Patriots, who pe

he blissful seats of happy souls below, Stars of their own, and their own sun they know.” “Patriots, who perish’d for thei

e flocks and herds of his neighbours in order to mingle them with his own , knew his bulls by a mark which he had put on the

the gods whose divinity he wished to try. He killed and quartered his own son Pelops, and served up his limbs as food for t

him home. Peribæa, the queen, being childless, brought him up as her own , and called him Œdipus, because his feet were swo

. She was painted in the form of a woman, with the inscription of her own name, Eternity. She held in her hand a radiant su

ed in the figure of the Phenix, a fabulous bird, that was born of its own ashes; or in that of a globe, because it has no b

hat a child being about to be born, should have dominion over all his own race, Juno disguised herself in the habit of an o

n bull he vanquishes and chains: Diomedes’ horses him their conqueror own ; Then he brings low three-headed Geryon: Hesperia

faction for his crimes, which he was ready to expiate by offering his own blood at the altar of Diana Taurica. Thither he w

ed good laws and morals; and after having effected a reform among his own subjects, to have travelled and spread civilizati

d of eye, Reflecting back upon the sinful mind,                   Its own inborn deformity. But to the righteous spirit, ho

ntries unknown to his enemies, that liberty which he found not in his own . His real name was Frige, son of Fridulphe. He as

llow this creed, acknowledging no other subaltern divinity than their own courage. Having thus enumerated the names and att

with the First Cause; yet so, as amidst this union, to preserve their own essence distinct from that of the highest God. He

ory of creation, they were forced to devise a theory to explain their own existence and account for the origin of all thing

e innumerable myths gradually sprang up and developed, which in their own imaginative though often grotesque way explained

parated into two distinct classes or divisions, each of which has its own adherents and supporters. The first school is tha

nd was changed by her into a deer, in which form he was hunted by his own dogs and torn in pieces. A′des [Ades], see Hades

shoulders through the fire, Our knight did bear no less a pack Of his own buttocks on his back.” Butler. Æo′lus [Æolus]

the earth. Apollo courted her, but she fled from him, and was, at her own request, turned into a laurel tree.     “… As Da

icasta), wife of Laius, King of Thebes, who in after-life married her own son, Œdipus, not knowing who he was, and, on disc

, according to others, of Latona. “Lucina, hail! So named from thine own grove, Or from the light thou giv’st us from abov

tingly killed his father, and, discovering the fact, he destroyed his own eyesight, and wandered away from Thebes, attended

in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring. F