wever in the literary career, my first thought was how I might at the same time promote my own interest, and render some ser

terature, which in my opinion tends so strongly to refine, and at the same time to invigorate the intellect, but which I som

; Tritôn the Wearer-away (from τρύω, tero) ; Amphitrite is nearly the same  ; Proteus is quasi Ploteus (from πλώω), the sailo

a, and (p. 363) we meet them in the under-world under the care of the same herdsman. This looks very like two different form

of the same herdsman. This looks very like two different forms of the same legend ; the hero in the one seeking the abode of

ηѕ, i. e. βότηѕ, from BOΩ βόσκω, to feed) is the Herdsman, and is the same as Hermes. The name of his wife, we may observe (

inus. Libertus and Libertinus were, there is no doubt, originally the same . Valerius was Corvus or Corvinus ; Postumius was

s and Marcellinus. If these observations be correct, Matutinus is the same as Matutus, and is not Janus, i. e. the Sun, but

ctual and real facts, all those who heard of them, and who had at the same time a firm belief in the avenging power of Apoll

, as it combines the ancient and modern legendary explanations of the same natural appearance. It is well known that most of

o error and absurdity if carried beyond its legitimate bounds. 4. The same or even greater caution is required in the applic

hat various circumstances concurred to prevent their attaining to the same power as in those countries. In the Homeric poems

on of various images and fables, many of which are significant of the same objects. The ancient inhabitants of Greece were d

sible. When, therefore, they found any foreign deities possessing the same attributes as some of their own, they at once inf

attributes as some of their own, they at once inferred them to be the same under different names ; but where the legends wou

garded as being different, even when they were in reality perhaps the same . «This,» says Buttmann57, «was the case when they

cribed by Hermes in Panchæic letters, which the voyager says were the same with the sacred characters of the Egyptian priest

ne was the most celebrated, chose the Western coast of Africa for the same purpose77. For this they seemed to have Homeric a

y observed, the allegorical system of interpretation prevailed at the same time with the historical. This mode of exposition

some other narrative poems, which were ascribed, but falsely, to the same author. All these poems, however, have long since

ages ; but of this also only a few fragments have been preserved. The same is the case with the poems named the Melampodia a

legends which formed the Epic Cycle, the Eoiæ, and other poems of the same nature. The principal of these writers were Phere

en, and that the Thessalian mountain, and those others which bore the same name, were called after the original heavenly hil

turally named Hundred-handed, from their acting so extensively at the same moment of time147. Of the Titans we shall present

ound the earth during the night ; and in the following passage of the same poet his palace is evidently situated in the East

wever, akin to the names of the Sun in the languages which are of the same family with the Greek242. Σϵλήνη. Luna. Moon.

distinct, but it sometimes only re-united those which were really the same , but which had been separated in the progress of

g armed with a sickle, which led to the inference of Kronos being the same with the Saturnus of the Latins327. The fabled fl

ere six altars to six pairs of deities, but they were not exactly the same with those above enumerated373. In later times it

f the name of this deity. Its Æolic form is Δεὑς, which is almost the same as the deus of the Latin, the affinity of which l

o the Æolic Greek is well known413. Zeus (Ζεùς) therefore is God, the same as θεòς, deus, and akin to the Persian Deev or De

s from Ida to Olympos, it is Poseidôn that unyokes his horses432; the same god is said to have given the Harpy-born steeds o

shows its true origin to be from the root ΠΟΩ, and that it is of the same family with πότος, πόντος, ποταμòς, all relating

ngled in love’ unknown to their parents501. Hesiod, who gives her the same parents, says that she was the last spouse of Zeu

ed Asteriôn ran by the temple, and on its banks grew the plant of the same name, which was used for weaving the (bridal ?) c

d of the plant named Kyperos, and of the Helichrysos, which is of the same genus with the Asteriôn519. At Argos there was a

image from it. It is probable that the other cities of Bœotia did the same  ; and this was called the Little Dædala. When the

t Ares and Aphrodite are spoken of as brother and sister, much in the same manner as Apollo and Artemis559. The best known o

hat which regards herself as Night, and esteems her name to be of the same family of words with λήθω, λήθη, and with the Lat

ing of the dignity of his character, for he never ventures to use the same familiarity with him as with the other gods, Zeus

r of the ‘pure (ἁγνὸς) god,’ as he was emphatically called, still the same . There is a serene cheerfulness always ascribed t

om gloom and the promoter of joy and innocent pleasure621; but at the same time dignified in his sentiments and actions. The

r the bay-tree being sacred to Apollo. Apollo, it is also said by the same poet, thought himself happy in the love and fidel

from Helios, though probably, as will shortly appear, originally the same . When mysteries and secret doctrines were introdu

deities were united, or perhaps we might say re-united. Apollo at the same period also took the place of Pæeôn, and became t

n race ; and he was worshiped by one people more than another, on the same principle as in India Vishnoo is in some places m

he bears his bow or lyre. The wonderful Apollo Belvidere shows at the same time the conception which the ancients had of thi

of Heracles, bounded across the Keladôn and escaped. According to the same poet, the chariot of Artemis and the harness of h

les perhaps than any other deity. The Cretans worshiped a goddess the same as or very similar to Artemis, whom they named Br

the virginity of the goddess. Welcker regards it as an epithet of the same nature with Opis and Nemesis, and says that it is

the Alexandrian and the Latin poets739 she is sometimes called by the same name as her mother. Hesiod740 says she sprang fro

his parents refer to that part of the world751. He appears to be the same with the Thammuz mentioned by the prophet Ezekiel

s so probable as this goddess. She is generally regarded as being the same with the Astarte of the Phœnicians. There can, we

of marriage762. It was probably on account of her being esteemed the same with Astarte, the moon-goddess and queen of heave

delity was exposed in such a country as degenerate Greece, and at the same time to present an image of a fidelity subjected

f Athens. We may therefore safely reject the legends of her being the same with the Neïth of Saïs in Egypt, or a war-goddess

n between the river or lake Tritôn in Libya and a small stream of the same name in Bœotia. The ancients in general were in f

pect that the streamlet that flowed by Alalcomenæ got its name in the same manner as the hill Delos at Tegyra, and the grove

been identified with the Athenian Maid, may have originally been the same with Hera and Demeter826. Ἐρμϵίας, Ἐρμῆς , Ἐρμ

called the son of Zeus828, but his mother is unnoticed. When, in the same poem, Dione is consoling her wounded daughter829,

e impolicy of making an enemy of one of the consorts of Zeus ; at the same time courtier-like telling her that, if she pleas

ess will not comply with the call. All the other gods are sent on the same errand, and to as little purpose. Gifts and honou

riôn907. The form of Demeter is copied from that of Hera. She has the same majestic stature and matronly air, but of a milde

d Linos941, who was killed by his pupil Heracles. She also had by the same sire Orpheus, whose skill on the lyre was such as

enowned) and Phaënna (Bright)984. The Athenians originally adored the same number, under the names of Hegemone (Leader) and

n of, she appears quite distinct from the celestial phænomenon of the same name. In Callimachus1039 and the Latin poets1040

who is a god, Wears wings and flies, and many other gods Do just the same . Thus Victory, mark ye, flies With golden wings ;

y to Lycia, there to be interred by his relatives and friends. In the same poem, when Hera1051 resolves by her arts and beau

der the name of Adresteia, said by the poet of the Phoronis to be the same with Cybele1059, is named Nemesis by Antimachus10

so indecorously recounts his various amours to Hera, is liable to the same objection, and was rejected by Aristarchus and se

ed in a similar manner with Panchaia, and other happy retreats of the same nature. It therefore had verdant meads, abundant

or rank to those with whom he was joined. This critic accounts on the same principle for the very slight mention of Dionysos

’s able exposure we may venture to reject the notion of its being the same with Devanishi, a title of the Hindoo god Seeva,

y when the regal power had been abolished, increased. But that at the same time the mystic ceremonies, whose first traces ap

f Pythagoras ? But it is not without reason believed, that during the same period the mystic poems of Musæos, Eumolpos, Orph

easy, that the web of the Orphic fable, which is all composed of the same kind of threads with those, was not woven by Pros

ad some analogy with Artemis and Hecate1146, and she was probably the same with Cybele. Her worship also was adopted at Athe

rk around them wastes, the branches fall, And the Nymph’s soul at the same moment leaves The sun’s fair light. “They posses

expressed her gratitude to him for having saved her life, and at the same time desired him to ask what reward he would. Rhœ

him to be her lover, and the Nymph acceded to his desire. She at the same time charged him strictly to avoid the society of

llo was named Amphissos, who founded at the foot of Œta a town of the same name, and ruled over the whole of that part of th

he rest of their body is rough with small scales, and is of about the same hardness as the skin of a fish : they have fish-g

form, and reveals to Menelaos the remedy for his distress. He at the same time informs him of the situation of his friends,

Where armies whole have sunk. Typhon, or Typhaôn, is apparently the same with Typhoeus, though Hesiod makes a difference b

upposition, that the poet regarded Thrinakia as an islet of about the same size as those of Circe and Calypso, belonging to

Phæacians had conveyed Rhadamanthys to Eubœa1425 and returned on the same day, might lead to the supposition of Scheria bei

ancients and moderns who place them in the Ægæan, making the one the same as Delos1433, and the other identical with Syros,

merely to denote a westerly position, and to be an expression of the same nature with that of the ‘risings of the sun’ bein

the brazen race of men. Ovid would appear to view the subject in the same light. To dispel the gloomy prospect presented by

of the races of man. This mythe is an oriental one, derived from the same source with the narrative in the first chapters o

sly represents others having escaped as well as Deucaliôn, yet at the same time intimates that he and his wife alone had bee

posed to resign the kingdom, retaining the herds and pastures, at the same time stimulating Iasôn to the expedition of the G

sued a bleating lamb, she persuaded them to treat their father in the same manner1541. Pelias was buried with great splendou

ic tragedians, in whose hands the hero and heroine have undergone the same fate with those of other places whose people were

ving been at the wedding. Müller1603 regards the Lapiths as being the same people with the Phlegyans, shortly to be describe

e of the dog-star1656. Now Actæôn’s father Aristæos had done just the same at Ceos, and this shows a connexion between their

xion between their mythes, that in fact they were two epithets of the same god. The fifty hounds of Actæôn answer to the fif

y made its way into Greece. Müller regards the Phlegyans as being the same with the Lapiths and the military class of the Mi

es (the Thoughtful or Provident) is perhaps only another title of the same being ; and as corn was preserved in underground

and killed Eurytiôn who came up to his aid. Menœtios, who kept in the same place the oxen of Hades, having informed Geryoneu

Theseus by the hand, and raised him up1767 ; but when he would do the same for Peirithoös, the earth quaked, and he left him

stify ; there may, he allows, have been an Argive hero of perhaps the same name, who was the destroyer of the Nemean lion ;

follower Apollodorus, seem ignorant of his Egyptian birth ; that the same should be the case with the dramatists ; and that

Utopia or any other political romance, and that Plato makes in it the same use of Solôn that he does of Socrates on other oc

only personifications of her epithets. As Herse and Pandrosos are the same in signification, it is probable that, like the A

stand on her defence1802. — The remainder of the legend is nearly the same as the former one. Πανδίων. Pandion. Pand

aughter Æthra ; and Poseidôn, it was also said, took advantage of the same night. Ægeus when departing charged Æthra if she

m the short bedstead, and then cut as much off him as made him of the same length as his bed. But Theseus meted to him with

eus forgot the signal appointed by his father, and returned under the same sails with which he had departed ; and the old ki

population in general ; the establishment of just liberty, and at the same time the augmentation of the royal power, and the

oticed in the early Attic mythes. Erechtheus and Erichthonios are the same person, and are nothing more than the name by whi

d the ‘Erechthean Sea1850.’ That Erichthonios and Erechtheus were the same , appears from this, that Homer and Hesiod tell of

o Lycios1855, it is not unlikely that the god and the prince were the same person. Pallas may in like manner have been conne

where. They are the parents of Pegasos (for Athena and Medusa are the same ), that is, probably of the ship1887 ; and he is w

gyptian theory, presently to be noticed, it is added, that Io has the same signification in Coptic1905. This hypothesis appe

well be the moon1906. Io and Hera in this legend seem to stand in the same relation as Callisto and Artemis in one hereafter

had swum across it1910. A similar strait into the Mæotis received the same name, and Io of course had wandered thither. Fina

d therefore a Bœotian. There is no necessity for supposing two of the same name, as has usually been done. They are both, as

the Minyans, and are only examples of different appropriations of the same legend. Atalanta is apparently Artemis again as a

, taking the form of a swan, sought the embraces of Leda ; and in the same night her husband Tyndareos caressed her. By the

wift Xanthos and Cyllaros. The brothers themselves fell into the very same offence which they had punished in Theseus. Being

w, he rushed on, and killed Lynceus with his spear ; and Zeus, at the same moment, struck Idas with a thunderbolt2008. Polyd

er to renew it. Hermes the rural god restores Pelops to life, and the same Hermes, under the name of Myrtilos, that is Myrto

s arising from different derivations of the name being related of the same object, Pelops, i. e. the Pelopians2077, may also

ir half-brother Chrysippos, were banished by their father, and at the same time, it is added, he pronounced a curse on them

nds of some modern inquirers, who seem to forget that he had only the same sources of information respecting the mythic ages

the dead one, who instantly came to life. Polyeidos, by employing the same herb, recovered the child2107. Minôs, before he l

ing over the sea on a bull is an ancient expression of this idea. The same may have been the origin of the tale of Pasiphae'

e, Aias (the name of a river2118), and Æacos, which is perhaps of the same origin2119. The following are astronomic mythes,

s death. The story of Oriôn and Œnopiôn is perhaps explicable on the same principle. The constellation which rises in July

ing Rocks through which he makes the Argo pass on her return with the same danger as she encounters in the Argonautics on he

the Mediterranean, and, as we have seen, they were made to pursue the same route in it with Odysseus. The only question was

n Men. They then reached the land of the Kimmerians, which lay on the same coast ; and having passed by the isle Iernis (Ire

y have conceived that the great hero of Argos, Heracles, had done the same , or that a monarch of Argos had led a host thithe

Umbrians to the north and the Oscans to the south of them were of the same race with the Sabellians. The rigid virtues of a

2266 that “the ancients called all the gods fathers.” We have not the same direct evidence of the goddesses being called mot

the following lines of Ennius, and which, by the way, are exactly the same with the twelve gods of the Greeks, Juno, Vesta,

hene. The temple or chapel of Minerva on the Capitol was under the same roof with those of Jupiter and Juno, to the right

e given, for it does not seem to be a translation. Vesta. The same obscurity involves this goddess as the correspond

Hortensis she was the goddess of gardens2315. She was held to be the same as Libitina the goddess of funerals, because, say

the goddess of funerals, because, says Plutarch2316, the one and the same goddess superintends birth and death. A temple of

s, «who think that the religions of all nations, old and new, ere the same from the beginning, and deduce the most recent fa

of its most interesting narratives. The reader will also meet in the same place with some remarks on Ossian. 47. We shall

. The Schools of the Prophets among the Hebrews were evidently of the same nature. 56. Völcker, Myth. der Jap. p. 5. seq. B

olvulus, from κύκλος, is a simple, not a compound substantive, of the same class with μώλωψ, with Κέρκωψ, Κέκροψ, Πέλοψ, &am

f timber-trees. Hermann renders μϵλίαι Cicurinæ, deriving it from the same root with μϵιλίσσϵιυ. 151. Völcker, ut sup., fro

0. seq. 153. Namely, that given by Diodorus (iii. 57.) from τιταία, same as γῆ : and supposing the root to be αΐα, ταȋα (b

cian Empedocles lives in the moon, where he feeds on dew ; and in the same writer's True History (i. 20.) the Selenites agre

gree to pay the Heliotes an annual tribute of 10,000 urns of dew. The same notion will be found in modern poets. Thus Tasso,

in the Fairy Mythology (i. 202.), the scene of which is in nearly the same spot. 318. Works and Days, 112. seq. Göttling r

Homer. In the Hindoo poem of Nalas, the heroine Damayanti acts in the same manner as Marpessa, and on the same principle. 6

the heroine Damayanti acts in the same manner as Marpessa, and on the same principle. 628. Apollod. iii. 12. 629. Pindar,

iii. 64. We have not met any Greek authority for this legend, and the same story is told of the Italian god Silvanus. Serv.

Plut. De Def. Orac. 15. 21. Q. G. 12. Ælian. V. H. iii. l. 640. The same notion is expressed in Plutarch (De Def. Or. 21.)

See also Eudocia, 4. Schwenk, 230. Welcker, Tril. 282. Пαλλὰς is the same as πάλλαξ, originally maid. There was a temple of

il. 217. 855. Buttmann (Lexil. s. v.) makes διάκτορος to be from the same root with διάκονος, and identical in significatio

rief (ἄχος) of the goddess. Welcker (Schwenk, p. 293.) says it is the same as γαία ; and Müller (Proleg. 291.) renders it go

ι. 971. The Greck πολὺς and the Germanie voll, full, are plainly the same word, and used alike in composition. The former i

r made Pæôn distinct from Apollo. Solôn would appear to have done the same , ver. 57. compared with ver. 53. 1049. Theog. 21

e names of Seeva. According to Müller (Orchom. p. 384.), Bacchos (the same perhaps with Iacchos) was the πάρϵδρος of Demeter

μηλιάδϵς. 1228. It is plain that δρῠς and the Germanic tree are the same word. Δρῠς has apparently this signification II.

above is the sense of it. Hermann, we observe, has rendered it in the same manner. Ilgen regards the whole as an interpolati

We apprehend that by προτέρω the poet always means further on in the same direction. See Thiersch, Urgestalt der Odyssee, p

ythol. lib. iv. chap. vi. Lylius Giraldus, who tells the story in the same way, puts the evils in pyxide. 1494. Apollod. i

and Argeians. Ἀχαιὸs, according to Völcker (ut sup. 365.), is of the same family with aqua, and relates to agriculture also

of Petit Poucet and the Ogre. 1664. Flight-giving ; λαϕύσσω is the same as σπϵύδω, ϕϵύγω. 1665. Herod. vii. 127. 1666.

11. Paus. ix. 37, 3. 1712. Hom. Hymn to Pyth. Apoll. 118. 1713. The same trick is also said to have been played on Augeas,

Plut. De Cons. ad Apoll. Op. vii. p. 335. ed. Hutten. Plutarch at the same time tells the similar story of Cleobis and Bitôn

relating to which Laomedôn had broken his word. 1750. Hesione is the same as Eïone (name of a Nereïs, Hes. Th. 255.) and co

ngs ; and he speaks (Panath. 258.) of the Athenian autochthony in the same manner as Plato. See also Euripides Fr. Erechtheu

ship sent, called the Paralian Galley, was maintained to be the very same one in which Theseus had sailed ; though it had b

Ιηονία, ̓Ιαονία, the sea-coast. 1854. Ξοȗθοѕ, yellow-haired, is the same as ξανθὀѕ 1855. Paus. i. 19, 3. 1856. We are

άλλαs, is said of this son of Pandiôn. 1857. Νισαία is plainly the same as νησαία. 1858. The daughter of the governor of

is a disputed point whether these characters were letters, or of the same kind with the Mexican picture-writing. See Wolf's

re other instances of legends founded on different derivations of the same name. 1888. There was a temple of Athena under

Ilos, of Peleus, Heracles and Menelaos with the sea-deities, ete. The same appearance is presented in the chivalric romanees

an, whence tinder. 2011. Welcker (Tril. 130. 226.) makes Castôr the same as Astôr (Starry), and Polydeukes the same as Pol

30. 226.) makes Castôr the same as Astôr (Starry), and Polydeukes the same as Polyleukes (Lightful), and views them as sun a

ed by Homer. Iphigeneia is probably an epithet of Artemis. She is the same with the Artemis- Orthia of Sparta, at whose alta

rned him against the consequences of his voyage to Greecc. She at the same time told him to come to her if ever he was wound

ient myths, only where their application is clear and simple. For the same reason the writer has avoided questions of compar

f a liberal education. Ques. Did all the heathen nations worship the same deities? Ans. The mythology of different nations

systems agree? Ans. In the rite of sacrifice. We meet everywhere the same offerings: flowers, first fruits, libations of mi

Him. First, midst and last he holds With His omniscient grasp.” The same idea is expressed in the verses of the poet Aratu

gendary and mythical. Ques. Were the Greek and Roman mythologies the same ? Ans. They were, to a great extent. The ancient

and drew thence gold and iron, potent instruments of ill to man. The same poet says: “Then land-marks limited to each his

d men? Ans. Yes; in many particulars. They supposed them to have the same passions, both good and evil. They were immortal,

rwards amongst the constellations. Ops saved Neptune and Pluto in the same manner. Ques. What were Jupiter’s first exploits

ieves. On one occasion, all the Hermæ in Athens were mutilated in the same night. Alcibiades was accused of this sacrilege,

es of Ocean. In the fables of Bacchus and Hercules, Juno displays the same character, extending to these heroes the enmity s

t of the monster, he was obliged to use great precaution to avoid the same misfortune. He looked, therefore, not at Medusa,

while Hippomenes passed on. A second and a third time did he try the same expedient, and with such success that he reached

and moon) and the nurse of the earth and stars. The Egyptians had the same allegory, with a little variation, as, according

vailed themselves of a dark colored vein in the stone, to produce the same effect, and represent the shades of night. The ve

f Jove that he might be exempted from death, she forgot to ask at the same time for the bloom of immortal youth. When Tithon

e modern Carnival. Saturn is thought by some persons to have been the same as Noah. Janus. Ques. Who was Janus? Ans.

bantes ran about like madmen, with cries and howlings, making, at the same time, a terrific noise with the clashing of cymba

en under the name of Bona Dea, or Good Goddess, is believed to be the same as Cybele. Ancient writers relate an extraordinar

Thamyris [Tham′yris], a musician of Thrace, was struck blind for the same offence. Chapter XX. Gods of the Woods, and Ru

to, and he is often styled the Infernal Jupiter. Ques. Was Pluto the same as Plutus? Ans. No; Plutus was the god of riches

ns. A fabulous bird of which there never existed more than one at the same time. It excelled all other birds in beauty of pl

demon or malignant deity who was supposed to send this calamity. The same superstition has been remarked among the modern H

f his guests. Hercules caused him, in turn, to serve as food to these same horses. Tenth. He overcame Geryon [Ger′yon], who

married to Bacchus, who gave her a crown composed of seven stars, the same which we admire in the heavens as the Corona Bore

Atlas, of whom he claimed the rites of hospitality, declaring at the same time his divine parentage. The king, remembering

nstellation Taurus. Atlas had seven other daughters who underwent the same transformation; they were placed in the head of T

o had persecuted Danaë in the absence of Perseus, was punished in the same manner. The hero afterwards fulfilled the oracle

e fatal brand, so long preserved, and cast it into the flames. At the same moment Meleager started with sudden pain, his str

the sky. Scylla cast herself into the sea, and was transformed at the same moment into a lark. Erisichthon. Ques. Who

ca; he obeyed, and the goddess contrived that he should arrive on the same day with his father, and meet him in the hut of E

mighty bow of Ulysses, with its quiver of arrows; taking care, at the same time, to remove all other weapons from the hall.

, amid the raillery of his companions. When several had failed in the same manner, Ulysses begged that he might be allowed t

o the exiled Trojans. Æneas recalled a prediction of Cassandra to the same effect; and Helenus, who was endowed with the gif

and burned three of the volumes. Returning soon after, she asked the same price for the remaining six books; and when Tarqu

buy them, she burned three more, and still persisted in demanding the same sum of money for those that were left. This extra

resented to the temple a brazen caldron surmounted by a figure of the same metal; the statue held in its hand a whip, the la

phenomenon, the vapors, exhaling from the earth, affected him in the same way; his body was convulsed, and he spoke words w

ths of the lower cave, the future was revealed, but not to all in the same manner; some saw, others heard what they desired

name of Jesus Christ, or by the sign of the cross; and sometimes the same effect was produced by their simple presence in t

Hercules from the land of the Hyperboreans. A palm branch was at the same time placed in the victor’s hand, and his name wa

relate that three couriers were received by Philip of Macedon on the same day, each being the bearer of joyful tidings. The

of Cynisca, drawn by the great Apelles, was afterwards placed in the same temple. Ques. Were any other exercises admitted

he dance were quick and lively. The dress of the chorus varied in the same manner. In certain tragedies, these singers perso

each, so that twelve complete dramas were sometimes performed on the same day. Ques. Were these theatres free to all? Ans

s. Describe the Minerva of the Parthenon? Ans. The statue was of the same dimensions and was composed of the same materials

? Ans. The statue was of the same dimensions and was composed of the same materials as the Olympian Jupiter; it was also th

s. Osiris, Apis and Serapis, are three different names of one and the same god. Osiris was the son of Jupiter and of Niobe,

s goddess, called by the Greeks Astarte, represented the moon, in the same manner as Baal was held to be identical with the

ting, which resembles the runes of Scandinavia, and originated in the same manner from the rods and branches of certain plan

e esteemed exceedingly meritorious. Cæsar supposes Teutates to be the same with Dis or Pluto; but in the mythology of the Ga

these solemnities was Ouisneach, in the centre of the island, but the same rite was performed in many other places. Accordin

nes on the bank, as a remembrance of the miracle. Jacob marked in the same manner the spot on which he had been favored by a

ifices were offered by the Aztecs? Ans. Their sacrifices present the same striking contrasts which we find in everything co

resembles in one or two curious particulars the Mexican legend on the same subject. According to both these traditions, seve

er effigy was of silver, but otherwise resembled that of the Sun. The same metal was used in all the decorations of the buil

Peruvians imagined that the wants and occupations of men would be the same beyond the grave as in this life, costly apparel,

was at length defeated by a younger rival, Sophocles. He retired the same year to the court of Hiero, king of Syracuse, and

the tails of scorpions, etc. The ten books on botany are open to the same objections. He attributes to many plants properti

th year, he carried off the tragic prize from Æschylus. He gained the same triumph over other competitors, taking the first

to demonstrate the importance of mythological knowledge, and, at the same time, to render the work more valuable and intere

es of life. Moreover, when different nations or cities worshipped the same god under the name of Jupiter, each of those nati

e shall find that idolatry and fables have almost all followed in the same steps. The Romans highly distinguished themselves

ocutius. Funerals were patronized by Libitina, whom some consider the same as Venus, and others as Proserpine. In her temple

ift. Apollo, Phœbus, and Sol, are generally thought to be one and the same deity. Apollo is always represented under the fig

son of Jupiter and Latona. He was born in the Island of Delos at the same birth with Diana, and was not unfrequently confou

l blown, Far brighter than the Tyrian scarlet shone, Which seem’d the same , or did resemble right A lily, changing but the r

us, pursued by a young prince on the shores of a river which bore the same name, fell into its waters, and was drowned. The

in Egypt. The former was exposed on the Nile; the poets have told the same thing about the latter. The name of Moses and tha

aters. Bacchus was educated in Arabia; Moses spent forty years in the same country. Bacchus, during a cruel persecution rais

fiction. Yet some learned men endeavour to prove that Bacchus is the same as Nimrod, son of Chus, whose name at first was B

became changed to that of Bacchus. Others suppose that Bacchus is the same as Noah, to whom the Scriptures ascribe the inven

goddesses. Minerva, Athenas, and Pallas, were, among the Greeks, the same divinity. Considered as Minerva, she presided ove

m a mother or nurse’s breast; Pallas, because she slew a giant of the same name, or because she brandished her spear in war;

have been the son of Nox and Æther, and to have been produced at the same time with Chaos and Earth. He attempts to paint b

ir silence respecting his origin, renders it probable that he was the same Tubalcain. The Grecians have made up the history

d Oceanides; Nereus, fifty Nereides, whose names Hesiod mentions. The same poet makes the number of the nymphs of the waters

stom still lingers in Ireland. Anna Perenna was another deity of the same order with Pales, The most natural joy and the si

the celestial gods, they heaped mountains upon mountains, and, at the same time, darted oaks and burning woods against heave

was of longer duration than their lives. The bodies were laid on the same pile to be consumed by the fire; but the flames r

ax, were deposited the rich spoils of the temple at Jerusalem. In the same temple all who professed the arts, assembled, whe

o the manes, irritated by those innocent victims, and to raise at the same time a statue to Fear. She was represented with h

bs. 2. — The serpent becomes the symbol of Æsculapius; and is, at the same time, the symbol of prudence, a quality necessary

to them. The worship of the gods and that of the heroes were not the same . Sacrifices were offered to the divinities, and l

concurred with the former in punishing impiety. Heroines enjoyed the same honours as heroes. Their tombs had no difference.

laws, customs, and manners of Egypt and Phœnicia, introduced, at the same time, the practice of honoring or blackening the

t, in a wrestling match. He sacrificed Busiris, king of Egypt, on the same altar on which that tyrant had been wont to immol

er to ascertain whether Eurydice was following him or not; but at the same time she stopped also; so that he could not hear

he earth and the sea, whence sprang animals and fishes; almost in the same manner that the multitude of insects and of other

the Persian mythology, as explained by Zeratusht (reported to be the same with Zoroaster, who travelled into India in searc

heavenly grace, And sweetest mercy shine. Yet is he still Himself the same , one form, one face, one will, And these his twof

ble. He also had a gigantic statue of solid gold, and a throne of the same metal. The Arabians called the sun Adoneus and da

aven, and sat in the rank of gods with those who accompanied him. The same voice exhorted them to be religious, and after th

od of merchants, a mother of all the gods, and the Tep-it-o-tine, the same as the Penates. The images of the Penates were pl

attributes the construction of it to Belus; but, if this Belus is the same as Nimrod, (as it is said.) he built, not a templ

adnezzar had employed the sea of brass, and the other utensils of the same metal, which had been taken from the temple at Je

al idols of massive gold, and a great number of sacred vessels of the same metal, the weight of which, according to Diodorus

hat this poet was mistaken, and relates, that a long time before, the same Amazons, defeated at first by Hercules, came to t

it the form of the terrestrial globe; and in like manner, and for the same reason, many antique temples had this form. The p

his edifice, a part of a head of bronze, representing Agrippa. At the same time were found a horse’s foot and a piece of a w

he same time were found a horse’s foot and a piece of a wheel, of the same metal. This discovery makes it probable, that thi

red the whole vault, and Pope Urban VIII made use of the beams of the same metal which were there employed, in order to conv

t cupola, but that strength which was necessary to support it; at the same time announcing, that, should their strength ever

ticular day of every month. The oracles were not all delivered in the same manner. Sometimes the priestess spoke in the name

most ancient in Greece, and that of Jupiter Ammon, in Libya, had the same origin; and both owed their establishment to the

s oracle. Some cauldrons of brass were suspended near a statue of the same metal, which held a whip in its hand, and which w

ta a solemn embassy to deliver a public accusation against him. These same priests, however, caressed Alexander the Great, a

tness. It was there that futurity was declared; but not to all in the same manner. Some heard; others saw. One came out of t

f them, however, had so large a number as Apollo. All were not of the same antiquity. Every day new ones appeared, whilst th

ld in her hand; but, unfortunately for her, she forgot to ask, at the same time, to be always preserved in the freshness of

he then cast three of them into the fire, and persisted in asking the same price for the remainder. Tarquin still refused to

ere most commonly instituted from religious motives. They were at the same time a kind of spectacle among the Greeks and Rom

s mother leaped over the barrier, and hastened to embrace him, at the same time calling him her son. She was pardoned this i

century, counted Odin or Woden in the number of their ancestors. The same was true of other Anglo-Saxon princes. The name o

e historians of those times, (that is to say, the poets,) granted the same honour to those whose praises they sung; and thus

oured by the ignorance of the people, soon acquired him in Sweden the same authority as in Denmark. The Swedes came in crowd

usages of his country, established at Sigutna (a city situated in the same province with Stockholm, but now extinct,) a supr

f the family, whose different branches afterwards reigned long in the same country. After these glorious expeditions, Odin r

ion, were the origin of this guilty change; and we are aware that the same causes have tended to corrupt all religions contr

served Earth as a consort of the supreme god. Tacitus attributes the same worship to the ancient Germans, and especially to

ny. We cannot doubt that Hertus, or Earth, of whom he speaks, was the same as the Frea of the Scandinavians. In the old Teut

ty, that his looks were resplendent. He was the sun of the Celts, the same as the Grecian Apollo. His wife Nanna regarded he

l and more ancient creed. We recognize in these altered accounts, the same allegories, the same fictions, the same desire of

eed. We recognize in these altered accounts, the same allegories, the same fictions, the same desire of explaining the pheno

n these altered accounts, the same allegories, the same fictions, the same desire of explaining the phenomena of nature, whi

almost all the nations of Europe and Asia, have been covered with the same opprobrium. The Peruvians and the Mexicans likewi

having been stripped, by crime and force, from all other rights. The same spirit of inquietude which induced the people of

victory, to cure the evils of the body, and to dissipate sorrow. The same characters were employed in all the different cas

f Europe, from the mouth of the Obi in Russia to Cape Finisterre. The same language having been adopted among those nations

tended to redouble the emulation of warriors. The soul preserved the same tastes as during life. In the ethereal state of e

eal state of existence, though in a higher degree, were conferred the same honours as on earth. It was thought that departed

presages of futurity. The good and evil spirits did not appear in the same manner: the good showed themselves to their frien

origin, and did not separate them into gods and goddesses. It was the same with the Druids. Both governed the state, and the

to the water a religious worship; and the Gauls likewise rendered the same honours to that element. These resemblances are s

evident that the religion of the Magi and that of the Druids had the same origin; the differences between them might have b

ntry assembled. Both young and old among the Druids, conformed to the same principles and the same rules. Their clothing dif

ng and old among the Druids, conformed to the same principles and the same rules. Their clothing differed a little according

her hero to war. In the brilliant times of chivalry, we find that the same views of those morals, and of that same respect f

of chivalry, we find that the same views of those morals, and of that same respect for women, still existed: and gratitude o

desses. Their sons were called Titan and Saturn, which latter was the same as Chronos, or time.1 What is the history of Tit

of the Sun. Were Apollo, and Sol or the Sun, considered to be the same ? The Greeks and Romans confounded the Sun with Ap

nd in his hand is a thyrsus or javelin, entwined with branches of the same plants, and a cantharus or ancient cup. What were

he Nile. Bacchus was educated at Nissa or Nysa, in Arabia, and in the same country Moses passed forty years. Bacchus, when p

Moses fled with the Israelites, from the Egyptian bondage, beyond the same sea. The numerous army of Bacchus, composed of me

it is recorded, that Moses was commanded, by the true God, to do the same in Palestine. The god Pan gave Bacchus a dog to a

g thirst of the Israelites. Others have regarded Bacchus as being the same with Nimrod, the first ambitious conqueror, and e

kewise, the annual festival, called Panathena, was instituted for the same purpose. How came the city of Athens to be so nam

eautiful crown of Ariadne; an animated brazen dog, and a woman of the same metal, who was likewise endowed with life by the

Rome. What were the other rural Divinities? Anna Perenna, nearly the same as Pales; Bubona, goddess of herdsmen; Mellona, o

upercalia from the place consecrated to him, being supposed to be the same , where Romulus and Remus were suckled by the wolf

t is, their passing through numerous animal and other forms. With the same principle was closely connected the belief in a f

ed by the sight of beautiful objects, partaking in some degree of the same qualities. Chap II. [Oriental Mythology, conti

limited human capacity, good and evil, men could not believe that the same being was the author of both; and therefore imagi

re is and God the soul; That, changed through all, and yet in all the same ; Great in the earth as in the ethereal frame, War

cative of truth and wisdom, to the Supreme God, who appears to be the same as the Vishnu of the Hindûs. It asserts that at t

heav’nly grace, And sweetest mercy shine. Yet is he still Himself the same , one form, one face, one will; And these his twof

g in her hands the palmira leaf, and the reed for writing. Durgá, the same Goddess, when regarded as difficult of access, th

the east, and filling the palms of their hands with water, and at the same time, repeating a prayer, they throw it towards t

oving bodies in the heavens, as animated and guided by genii; and the same superstition, ornamented, and reduced to a system

tion of the Nile. He was also the Pluto of the Egyptians, and, at the same time, corresponded to the Grecian Esculapius, who

s, whose rites were borrowed from those of Serāpis; to whom, too, the same animals were appropriated, the serpent and the co

n and reverenced in Egypt, in very early periods; and that he was the same with the ox. Apis, whom, when alive, the Egyptian

four usually enumerated one, which they termed Spirit, which was the same as the celestial ether of the Greeks, supposed to

en on their ancient obelisks and temple walls. Who was Eilethyia? The same as the Grecian Lucina. To her was dedicated a cit

other was substituted, the people imagined that they still adored the same being, who had only undergone a new transmigratio

Tyr attacks the horrible dog Garme, and they kill each other. At the same instant Frey is beaten down. Thor overthrows the

s a gigantic statue of Belus, made of solid gold, and a throne of the same metal. This image, supposed to be the great Pul,

ites were most detestable and cruel; and who is regarded as being the same as Typhon; means lord of the opening. Baal-Zebub,

ame signifies the sun worshiped under the form of a fish. Moloch, the same as the Saturn of the Carthaginians, was the chief

e of a serpent’s head. His forehead also was azure, and a band of the same colour passed under his nose, from one ear to the

52 Cōctŭs, a stagnant marsh 95 Cœcŭlus, a son of Vulcan 68 Cœlus, the same as Uranus 5 Cōllīnǎ, the goddess of hills 88 Cōmu

idon, a name of Neptune 74 Prĭāpŭs, the god of gardens 83 Prīscă, the same as Vesta and Terra 5 Prŏmēthĕŭs 117 Prŏsērpĭne, t

guardian of boundaries 85 Tērpsĭchŏre, one of the Muses 42 Terra, the same as Vesta and Prisca 5 Thălīă, one of the Muses 42

U Uller, a son of Odin 203 Urānĭa, one of the Muses 43 Urănus, the same as Cœlus 5 Urgus, a name of Pluto 99 V Vāiv

e writings of the Greek and Latin poets cannot, of course, convey the same rich impressions. They arc, at the best, weak and

something of the debt which art, both ancient and modern, owes to the same inspiration. The myths are told as graphically an

e features of heathen mythology; and when two or more versions of the same myth occur, the preference has invariably been gi

cent pleasures with great delight. And far away, on the shore of this same marvellous river, according to some mythologists,

e. Time passed, and another child was born, but only to meet with the same cruel fate. One infant after another disappeared

gift Of Pallas, in the midst of gods and men. On men and gods in that same moment seiz’d The ravishment of wonder, when they

each other inquiringly, and listened again. Once more they heard the same pitiful accents; and Epimetheus bade his wife ope

r suffering, then quickly flew out of the open window, to perform the same gentle office for the other victims, and to cheer

and armed to the teeth. They were about to fall upon Cadmus, when the same voice bade him cast a stone in the midst of their

ies scattered throughout the ancient world, and was worshipped in the same temples as Jupiter. Many fine statues of this god

gods recoiled in fear before this unexpected apparition, while at the same time a mighty commotion over land and sea proclai

these self-same myths; but one and all are intended to illustrate the same natural phenomena, and are subject to the same in

nded to illustrate the same natural phenomena, and are subject to the same interpretation. Apollo’s principal duty was to dr

to the close; As the sunflower turns on her god when he sets     The same look which she turn’d when he rose.” Moore.

own into the Infernal Regions to seek his wife, but warned him at the same time that the undertaking was perilous in the ext

ting life to confer upon him. Alas! however, she forgot to ask at the same time for continued youth; and her husband grew ol

fell upon her ear “But her voice is still living immortal, —     The same you have frequently heard In your rambles in vall

s arms, she vanished as rapidly as the first time. Time and again the same pantomime was enacted, and time and again the nym

his affections became his happy wife. Cupid and Psyche In those same remote ages of “sweet mythology” there lived a ki

rgus soon closed half his eyes in profound sleep Still talking in the same monotonous way, Mercury softly shook the poppies

e as long as this token of the god’s goodwill was preserved. The very same day the plague ceased its frightful ravages, and

sly dismissed his suit. To console Vulcan for this rebuff, and at the same time punish the Goddess of Beauty, who, according

nal festival, held every four years at Corinth, on the isthmus of the same name. Hither people came from all points of the c

blended tide! And lost in each, till mingling into one, Their lot the same for shadow or for sun, A type of true love, to th

een him and one of his numerous mistresses. To punish her, and at the same time prevent further tale-bearing, the king of th

him, and carried him home in triumph. The Erymanthian Boar The same success crowned his fourth labour, the capture of

aring to resume it, picked up the apples, leaving Atlas alone, in the same plight as he had found him, there to remain until

er. Delighted to be able to win his bride and punish his rival at the same time, Hercules challenged Achelous; and now began

Lord Leighton. By Permission of the Corporation of Leicester. At the same time, too, he saw the waters below the maiden las

kilfully eluded the danger, and finally caused Sinis to perish by the same cruel death which he had dealt out to so many oth

ut she soon overtook him, whereupon a second golden apple cast in the same way caused a second delay. Notwithstanding this,

which from afar propounded the following enigma, warning him, at the same time, that he forfeited his life if he failed to

ought unmistakable proofs which convicted Œdipus of the crime. At the same time the guilty servant confessed that he had not

k around them wastes, the branches fall, And the nymph’s soul, at the same moment, leaves The sun’s fair light.” Homer.

he loving wife, unable to endure a second parting, died of grief. The same grave, it is said, was the resting-place of this

nions, consented to comply with this unreasonable request; but at the same time he swore that, if Agamemnon really took his

upon him in a vague, dreamy way, which aroused his suspicions. At the same moment some of the Lotus-eaters advanced to invit

e distance, raised his voice and taunted Polyphemus, revealing at the same time his identity. “‘Ha! Cyclops! those whom m t

ling, he was startled to see blood flow from its severed stem. At the same time a mysterious voice was heard, bidding him fo

erve as his guide in that perilous journey. She consented, but at the same time informed him that he must first obtain a gol

lology compares only the “myths of races which speak languages of the same family” (as will shortly be demonstrated), anthro

ll nations “resemble each other, because they were formed to meet the same needs, out of the same materials.” They argue th

ch other, because they were formed to meet the same needs, out of the same materials.” They argue that this similarity exis

ue that this similarity exists, “not because the people came from the same stock” (which is the philologist’s view), “but be

hich is the philologist’s view), “but because they passed through the same savage intellectual condition.” By countless exam

s to have the power of assuming the form of animals,” he concedes the same privilege and power to sun, moon, and stars, &

fe may not speak her husband’s name); the latter school interpret the same myth as a beautiful allegory of the soul and the

th bridges, which they evidently called by some name phonetically the same . Further to prove their position, they demonstrat

e the similarity of the most common words in all the languages of the same family, showing (as is the case with the word “fa

ces of literature,” he places “a period represented everywhere by the same characteristic features, called the Mythological

ects his own sentiments and passions, fancying them influenced by the same things, in the same way. This tendency to personi

nts and passions, fancying them influenced by the same things, in the same way. This tendency to personify or animate everyt

many nations, now scattered over the face of the earth, occupied the same country, spoke the same language, and formed but

ered over the face of the earth, occupied the same country, spoke the same language, and formed but one people. Of course, “

o sight. The fact that, there are many different myths to explain the same phenomenon can readily be accounted for by the ol

into the abyss called Tartarus. Zeus (or Jupiter), whose name is the same as the Hindoo Dyaus Pitar, the god and personific

o have been endowed with marvellous curative powers. The sun, for the same reason, was supposed to wage continual warfare ag

erived from Dahana, the Sanskrit dawn, we find another version of the same story, where the sun, although enamoured with the

o rest on Mount Latmus (“the land of forgetfulness,” derived from the same root as “Leto”). Müller, the great authority on p

n exclaimed, “Tantalus is slaying and roasting his own child!” In the same way the stone which Sisyphus painfully forced up

too has unerring poisoned weapons ( “the word ios, ‘a spear,’ is the same in sound as the word ios, ‘poison’”), of which he

existence depends. In the Theban solar myth, Laius (derived from the same root as “Leto” and “Latmus”) is the emblem of dar

a, born of the sky (Jupiter) and of the night (Leda, derived from the same root as “Leto,” “Latmus,” and “Laius”), is carrie

reflection of the sun’s splendour, and stands to him in precisely the same relation as Phaeton to Helios,” and, like him, me

luminating and knowledge-giving light of the sky; for in Sanskrit the same word also means “to wake” and “to know,” while th

know,” while the Latins connected her name of Minerva with mens, the same as the Greek menos and the English mind. Moon

ilgrimage back to the far east, another. As the ancient Aryan had the same word to denote cloud and mountain (“for the piles

e so like Alpine ranges”), the cloud and mountain myths are often the same . In the story of Niobe we have one of the cloud m

is overcome, he is noted for his great roar. His name comes from the same root as Maruts, the Indian god, and means the “gr

2; Tithonus loved by, 70; Æolus’ wife, 184 Aus′ter. South-west wind, same as Notus; a son of Æolus and Aurora, 186 Au-tom′

, 335, 336 E-ve′nus. Father of Marpessa; drowned himself in river of same name, 131; Hercules crosses, 203 F Fa′ma;

cree of, 292 Ju′no. Birth of, 10; flight of, 12; Jupiter’s wife, 30; same as Hera, Here, 36-38; jealousy of, 44, 45, 1 12-1

Pandora, 17-21; Mercury, messenger of, 18, 113; Deluge caused by, 23; same as Jove and Zeus, 27-35; Juno courted by, 36; Min

is, and the Gulf of Corinth, 299 Phœ′be. One of the Titanides, 6, 8; same as Diana, 73-81, 106 Phœ′bus. Name given to Apol

yl′la. Sea nymph changed to monster by Circe. She lived under rock of same name, 314, 315, 327 Scy′ros. Island in the Archi

d still more remote would present itself, and so on ad infinitum. The same insurmountable difficulty confronts us when we se

similarity in the most ordinary words in the various languages of the same family, and show that they have undergone few or

f Aryan or Semitic,” which includes over three thousand dialects. The same authority follows the Agglutinative period with o

lows the Agglutinative period with one “represented everywhere by the same characteristic features, called the Mythological,

re of all countries shows that the savages consider themselves of the same nature as beasts, and regard “even plants, inanim

e origin can never be known with certainty. To most people it has the same significance as a fable, legendary tale, or fanci

the branch of inquiry which classifies and interprets them bears the same name. E. S. E. November 1st, 1895. The Youth′s

hius, from the mountain called Cynthus in the Isle of Delos, and this same island being his native place obtained for him th

rs was tried for murder before twelve of the gods. A′res [Ares]. The same as Mars, the god of war. Arethu′sa [Arethusa] wa

, Pleiades; and by his wife Æthra he had seven more, who were, in the same manner, called Hyades. Both the Pleiades and the

nd begged the gods to grant him immortality, but forgot to ask at the same time that he should not get old and decrepit. See

of his guests. He was overcome by Hercules, and himself given to the same horses as food. Dio′ne [Dione]. A poetic name of

s patroness of enfranchised slaves. Some authors think Feronia is the same as Juno. Fertility, see Lupercus. Festivals, se

. He′ra [Hera]. The Greek name of Juno. Her′acles [Heracles] is the same as Hercules. Her′cules [Hercules] was the son of

and thunder. Infants, see Natio. In′nus [Innus]. A name of Pan, the same as Incubus. In′o [Ino], second wife of Athamas,

nd the sands which he stood on were golden forever after. It was this same king who, being appointed to be judge in a musica

supposed to reside. There were several other smaller mountains of the same name. “High heaven with trembling the dread sign

us [Phorcus], or Porcys. A son of Neptune, father of the Gorgons. The same as Oceanus. Phryx′us [Phryxus], see Golden Fleec

name given to Mars during wartime; Virgil refers to Jupiter under the same name. Quoit, see Hyacinthus. R Race, see

ons of Saturn. Satya′vra′ta [Satyavrata]. The Hindoo god of law. The same as Menu. Sat′yrs [Satyrs]. Spirits of the woodla

s [Serapis]. The Egyptian Jupiter, and generally considered to be the same as Osiris. See Apis. Serpent. The Greeks and Rom

oldest on record, and though he is sometimes referred to as being the same as the god Apollo, there is no doubt he was worsh

t of his wife the gods granted him immortality, but she forgot at the same time to ask that he should be granted perpetual y

rope or noose to bind offenders in the other. Ve′dius [Ve′dius]. The same as Vejovis. Vejo′vis [Vejovis]. “Little Jupiter”

ations from mythology. The prose writers also avail themselves of the same source of elegant and suggestive illustration. On

gh it is believed these topics have not usually been presented in the same volume with the classical fables. The poetical ci

by modern poets, essayists, and orators. Our readers may thus at the same time be entertained by the most charming fictions

h his. He lets loose the rivers, and pours them over the land. At the same time, he heaves the land with an earthquake, and

t convulse,     A mighty lesson we inherit.” Byron also employs the same allusion, in his ode to Napoleon Bonaparte: — “O

I may always remain unmarried, like Diana.” He consented, but at the same time said, “Your own face will forbid it.” Apollo

aw the changed color of the mulberries she doubted whether it was the same place. While she hesitated she saw the form of on

rom the chase, Pan met her, told her just this, and added more of the same sort. She ran away, without stopping to hear his

pposing clouds, and outrun the morning breezes which started from the same eastern goal. The steeds soon perceived that the

right hand launched it against the charioteer, and struck him at the same moment from his seat and from existence! Phaëton,

He took up a stone; it changed to gold. He touched a sod; it did the same . He took an apple from the tree; you would have t

e have passed our lives in love and concord, we wish that one and the same hour may take us both from life, that I may not l

could speak. “Farewell, dear spouse,” they said, together, and at the same moment the bark closed over their mouths. The Tya

Paradise Of Eden strive.” Hood, in his Ode to Melancholy, uses the same allusion very beautifully: — “Forgive, if somewh

the surface. It was said that the Sicilian fountain Arethusa was the same stream, which, after passing under the sea, came

unless sea.” In one of Moore’s juvenile poems he thus alludes to the same story, and to the practice of throwing garlands o

lended tide! Each lost in each, till mingling into one, Their lot the same for shadow or for sun, A type of true love, to th

lt the enchantress Circe. Accordingly he repaired to her island — the same where afterwards Ulysses landed, as we shall see

d blushed, and opening her timid eyes to the light, fixed them at the same moment on her lover. Venus blessed the nuptials s

hered some and offered them to the baby, and Iole was about to do the same , when she perceived blood dropping from the place

back the advancing wood, and would gladly have been enveloped in the same bark. At this moment Andræmon, the husband of Dry

nd can make himself just what you command him. Moreover, he loves the same things that you do, delights in gardening, and ha

ns, and said, “Take and separate all these grains, putting all of the same kind in a parcel by themselves, and see that you

ne of his arrows. “Again,” said he, “hast thou almost perished by the same curiosity. But now perform exactly the task impos

idered allegorical. The Greek name for a butterfly is Psyche, and the same word means the soul. There is no illustration of

cow slowly walking before him. He followed her close, offering at the same time his prayers to Phœbus. The cow went on till

such a host of youths as I see around me, all apparently of about the same age. Yet there are many individuals whom I previo

as I had seen in my dream, and they were passing in procession in the same manner. While I gazed with wonder and delight the

ne came, Narcissus called again, “Why do you shun me?” Echo asked the same question. “Let us join one another,” said the you

another,” said the youth. The maid answered with all her heart in the same words, and hastened to the spot, ready to throw h

look not indifferent upon me. When I stretch forth my arms you do the same ; and you smile upon me and answer my beckonings w

ze upon you, if I may not touch you.” With this, and much more of the same kind, he cherished the flame that consumed him, s

wever, and when he exclaimed, “Alas! alas!” she answered him with the same words. He pined away and died; and when his shade

to the close; As the sunflower turns on her god when he sets     The same look that she turned when he rose.” Hero and

ed in accomplishing it.   In the beginning of the second canto of the same poem, Byron thus alludes to this story: — “The w

of which she spins her thread, often hanging suspended by it, in the same attitude as when Minerva touched her and transfor

he young Niobes.” Sir Richard Blackmore was a physician, and at the same time a very prolific and very tasteless poet, who

rom his uncle, Pelias pretended to be willing to yield it, but at the same time suggested to the young man the glorious adve

when they saw what Medea had done for Æson, they wished her to do the same for their father. Medea pretended to consent, and

nt with delight, and appointed a time for their father to undergo the same operation. But Medea prepared her caldron for him

d, poising himself on the beaten air. He next equipped his son in the same manner, and taught him how to fly, as a bird temp

terror or madness; some leaped overboard; others preparing to do the same beheld their companions in the water undergoing a

n open space where the chief scene of the orgies met his eyes. At the same moment the women saw him; and first among them hi

island where Ariadne was left was the favorite island of Bacchus, the same that he wished the Tyrrhenian mariners to carry h

ook how the crown which Ariadne wore     Upon her ivory forehead that same day     That Theseus her unto his bridal bore,   

Faunus were Latin divinities, whose characteristics are so nearly the same as those of Pan that we may safely consider them

arly the same as those of Pan that we may safely consider them as the same personage under different names. The wood-nymphs,

boldly asked her love and the nymph yielded to his desire. She at the same time charged him to be constant and told him that

The adventures recorded of them in the following stories rest on the same authority as other narratives of the “Age of Fabl

object was in sight, only a flock of cranes flew overhead taking the same course as himself in their migration to a souther

ost Pleiad seen no more below.” See also Mrs. Hemans’s verses on the same subject. Aurora and Tithonus. The goddess o

e opposite cause favored them. Venus enlisted her admirer Mars on the same side, but Neptune favored the Greeks. Apollo was

e struck the helmet from his head and the lance from his hand. At the same moment an obscure Trojan wounded him in the back,

nor tempt the encounter. His mother, Hecuba, also besought him to the same effect, but all in vain. “How can I,” said he to

f the gods, did not fail to awaken in the breasts of the ancients the same abhorrence that it does in ours. The Eumenides, a

g the giant seized two more of the Greeks, and despatched them in the same manner as their companions, feasting on their fle

tise no further harm against him or them; and she repeated it, at the same time promising to dismiss them all in safety afte

to Ulysses, and directed him to make himself known to his son. At the same time she touched him, removed at once from him th

. 22 Accordingly she hastened to Æolus, the ruler of the winds, — the same who supplied Ulysses with favoring gales, giving

n the ground, and the horses, unharnessed, roamed over the plain. The same pride in splendid armor and generous steeds which

       That made the old time splendid.” Milton also alludes to the same fable in P. L., Book III, l. 568. “Like those He

three of the books, and returning offered the remaining books for the same price she had asked for the nine. The king again

ning three books more, returned and asked for the three remaining the same price which she had before asked for the nine, hi

present the various Sibyls as being only reappearances of one and the same individual.   Young, in the Night Thoughts, allu

be spared the insults of his revolted subjects, and be buried in the same grave with his son. He received the fatal stroke

igures, then melted, then stamped anew with others, yet is always the same wax, so the soul, being always the same, yet wear

ith others, yet is always the same wax, so the soul, being always the same , yet wears, at different times, different forms.

the sounding wire, And formed the seven-chorded lyre.” See also the same poet’s Occupation of Orion. “The Samian’s great

s upon himself. Inhaling the intoxicating air, he was affected in the same manner as the cattle had been, and the inhabitant

e entered only in the night. The person returned from the cave by the same narrow passage, but walking backwards. He appeare

derstood literally. Thus Saturn, who devours his own children, is the same power whom the Greeks called Cronos, (Time,) whic

continual revolutions of the moon, which also suggested to Milton the same idea. “To behold the wandering moon Riding near

to have held the bow, is outstretched, and the head is turned in the same direction. In attitude and proportion the gracefu

immortality, Amrita. We may omit the other Avatars, which were of the same general character, that is, interpositions to pro

demanded why Freya’s eyeballs glistened with fire. Loki repeated the same excuse and the giant was satisfied. He ordered th

at the sight that she broke her heart, and her body was burned on the same pile as her husband’s. There was a vast concourse

dur’s horse was led to the pile fully caparisoned and consumed in the same flames with his master. But Loki did not escape h

a white mantle, after which they proceed to slay the victims, at the same time praying that God would render his gift prosp

is inconsistency arises from considering the Saturn of the Romans the same with the Grecian deity Cronos (Time,) which, as i

God, endeavoured to make their contemporaries, persons living at the same time with themselves, love and serve him also; an

e God numerous? ——— As Noah, Abraham, and Moses, did not live at the same time, but several centuries passed away from the

or men to forget the instructions of one, before they should hear the same truth from another, of those inspired persons. At

dominions of his parents, that is over heaven and earth. Saturn, the same as Chronos, signifies Time. Saturn, when he took

very artificer in brass and iron.” This Tubalcain might have been the same man whom the Greeks described either as Prometheu

separated property. The mythologists say, that Isis and Ceres are the same goddess, worshipped under those different names,

. Execration was a sentence which forbade all people to dwell in the same house, to enter the same ship, to drink from the

nce which forbade all people to dwell in the same house, to enter the same ship, to drink from the same vessel, to buy and s

to dwell in the same house, to enter the same ship, to drink from the same vessel, to buy and sell, or to converse with the

nd half the year with her in the infernal regions. This fable has the same meaning with that of Proserpine herself. Proserpi

e founding of Rome. Other rural deities were Anna-Perenna, nearly the same as Pales; Bubona, goddess of herdsmen; Mellona, o

upercalia, from the place consecrated to him being supposed to be the same where Romulus and Remus were suckled by a wolf, i

committed to an urn, and deposited with the remains of others of the same family. When a man perished at sea, or in an unkn

from God: “Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord;” but the same Scripture also says, “whom he loveth he chastenet

g a wheel, which raised up some persons, and threw down others at the same time. Envy and Discord. Envy was personifi

perform twelve most arduous labours, Eurystheus reminding him at the same time that Jupiter had given him the power to comm

f all Greece heard of these regulations, and some of them adopted the same institutions. Before the time of Theseus, Athens

odies lay upon one pyre, the flames from each refused to unite in the same blaze. Hence the expression — hatred, like that o

One bold on foot, and one renowned for horse, My brothers these; the same our native shore, One house contained us as one m

e of Mycenæ. Orestes, upon this discovery, declared himself to be the same individual. Iphigenia confessed that she was that

ing, as it is used in the history of ancient and pastoral people, the same idea as that of a king in modern times. Those kin

Solon died at the age of eighty. Chilo , the Spartan, lived at the same time with Solon. All that is recorded of him, are

heavenly grace, And sweetest mercy shine. Yet is he still Himself the same , one form, one face, one will And these his twofo

in her hands the palmira leaf, and the reed for writing. Durga is the same goddess, when regarded as difficult of access, th

stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy.” In the same way the Scandinavian mythology makes birds of the

gods; this name only signifies lord. Moloch was another name for this same imaginary deity. Moloch was the chief divinity of

adorned with golden rings, and the breast covered with plates of the same metal. In the left hand, this image held a golden

l the gods, like Cybele, and the Tep-it-o-tone, (or little ones;) the same as the Penates, make up the chief objects of the

jectured that a colony of Phœnicians settled there at a period of the same date with the first emigration of the Phœnicians

st emigration of the Phœnicians into Greece; and if that be true, the same religion would naturally be cherished in both cou

yrian and Egyptian fables. The principal gods of both people were the same ; the demi-gods, or deified men, might have been a

in sacred groves in the open air; the Druids of Britain observed the same custom; and the Indians of Asia and America ackno

onsecrated to some god. How happened the religion of Italy to be the same as that of the Greeks? In what respects might the

ew into it a bomb, which demolished the roof of the Parthenon; at the same time setting fire to a powder magazine within the

ced by him into the Panathenaic pomp, there are not two either in the same attitude, or which are not characterized by a mar

practised by all the people as well as by the philosophers, says the same authority. Every morning and evening supplication

gods by kissing the earth; and when they returned, they repeated the same act as a salutation to the guardians of the count

ions of different religions are different, but the sentiments are the same , except in those where human sacrifices are permi

are in the habit of supposing, that they regarded their fables in the same poetical light as ourselves; that they could not

the greater fairies of the ancient world: and we regard them, at the same time, as personifications of all that is beautifu

ould bless him ‌also, if he cultivated the social affections: for the same word which expressed piety towards the Gods, expr

rvels in childhood; and in manhood we ponder over it, if not with the same rapturous delight as formerly, yet at least with

re its reception by the Romans who multiplied their Gods in about the same degree that their vices increased; while their ar

he Hindoos, and those of the American people, must be ascribed to the same source. It has been with many an endeavour to tra

ides, as they are told in different manners, by authors of almost the same times, they are easily perceived to be common, an

ous offerings; and emboldened by her success, Cybele delivered in the same manner Pluto and Neptune, and afterwards, by admi

d, left Jupiter, and retired to the Isle of Samos, announcing, at the same time, that she should return no more to the court

tripod that, though the way was sometimes different, the end was the same . The sibyl delivered the answer of the god to suc

ong the seven wonders of the world, but was burned by Erostratus, the same day that Alexander the Great was born. This madma

phrodite, from the foam, her name, Among the race of gods and men the same ; And Cytheræa from Cythera came; Whence, beauteou

the being he came to see, that he found himself compelled to pay the same homage to her which others had done; and finished

fore him!” Anacreon. Among the ancients, he was worshipped with the same solemnity ‌as his mother Venus; and as his influe

the first peep of day, He began playing on the lyre at noon, And the same evening did he steal away Apollo’s herds.” Shell

reeds, which he called Syrinx, in honour of a beautiful nymph of the same name, who, refusing his addresses, was changed in

he attempted to eat, turned to gold in his mouth, and the wine to the same metal, as it passed down his throat. He was now a

mitigation of his sorrow, was that when in Thessaly “He met with the same as himself,” and obtained with them, if not symp

ing to see whether they were immortal. Achilles would have shared the same fate, if Peleus had not snatched him from her han

ed by her fidelity, changed her and her husband into the birds of the same name, who keep the waters calm and serene while t

he silence he maintains, and hence, all modern works of art adopt the same sign, when they wish to represent the quality ove

successive race,     That visit their dim haunts below, Look with the same unwithering face,     They wore three thousand ye

ind A happy change in body and in mind, In sense and constitution the same man, As when his fortieth active year began.” Ov

with divine honours. It has been asserted that there were many of the same name, some writers extending the number to forty-

flew directly through the air, and stopping on the Mount bearing the same name, became a favorite with the Muses. In the me

and Atlas was instantly changed into a large mountain, which bore the same name in the deserts of Africa. “At this confessi

have fallen a victim to the fury of Phineus, had he not employed the same arms which had proved so successful against Atlas

Cepheus, however, and those who assisted Perseus, were saved from the same fate by a previous warning of Perseus. Soon after

y_1842_img210 The condition being thus broken, he saw her, but at the same moment she was turned into a shadow. “And fainti

their city, but the people of Mount Libethrus, in Thrace, claimed the same honour, remarking that the nightingales which for

the sceptre thou didst wrest from me. Thy brow on which doth rest the same bright drop, Shall bear the crown thou did’st usu

ted through the breach which had been made to admit the horse. At the same time the warriors that were hidden within the col

own to Telemachus, and one of the old officers of the kingdom. In the same disguise he introduced himself to Penelope, by wh

bravery. At Rome he had two temples; one founded by Marcellus, at the same time with the one to Virtue. An augur having warn

that these two divinities would not dwell in the circumference of the same temple, he built the two distinct edifices to whi

orical Divinities, the number being too great to mention all. For the same reason we must omit the crowd of Emperors, Kings,

d Jupiter that neither might outlive the other, they both died on the same day, and their bodies were changed into trees, an

ried, and had by her a son called Paphos, who founded the town of the same name in Cyprus. “There was a statuary, one who l

y Palamedes, an additional four, and by Simonides of Melos, also, the same number. In addition to the alphabet, by which the

y the sparkling light of eight Carbuncles, placed on the heads of the same number of Serpents. He next proceeded to the crea

to appear under a new shape; to die, is to appear no longer under the same form. But, as it is impossible to disown destruct

ower was of a double nature, and who could destroy and produce at the same time. Siva is drawn with five heads, four hands,

eir legends offer an interest by their singularity, they prove at the same time, that the founders of these various faiths h

yme_heathen-mythology_1842_img276a Camdeo, the god of love, takes the same standing in the East, as Cupid in the mythology o

istinguished from it by characteristics perfectly American.” ‌ The same authority says, “The gods of the Tultecans, appe

ely the lotus and the column affixed to the cap, clearly indicate the same tri-une divinity?” The following description of

ictims should be five and twenty: unlike most other lands, who in the same circumstances are too eager for blood, they are a

the Underworld, and the Waters, Myths of the Lesser Divinities of the same regions, Myths of the Older Heroes, and Myths of

Κυθέρεια becomes Cytherēa; Πηνειός, Penēus; and Μήδεια, Medēa. On the same principle, such a name Φειδίας as would be anglic

rb of modern art. For though the phenomena of plastic art are not the same in one continent as in another, or from one centu

longer attribute life indiscriminately to inanimate things; where the same powers and attributes recognized by subjective vi

ool and College Atlas of Ancient Geography, or the new edition of the same by James Cranstoun issued as Ginn and Company’s C

ignifications that have in recent years been proposed for one and the same myth could not all, at any one time, have been en

ed to ask how these myths came into existence, and how it is that the same myth meets us under various forms in literatures

ing side by side with stories of the justice and righteousness of the same god, we must conclude that, since the worshipper

olars about the original meaning of the names of mythical beings. The same name is frequently explained in half a dozen diff

same name is frequently explained in half a dozen different ways. The same deity is reduced by different interpreters to hal

reover, in some cases a great variety of symbolic explanations of the same myth, one with as great claim to credence as anot

ith as great claim to credence as another, since they spring from the same source, the caprice or fancy of the expounder. Am

ons: one, that all nations have had a’ chance to be influenced by the same set of religious doctrines; the other, that God m

d as persons, are mixed up with men, beasts, stars, and stones on the same level of personality and life.” The forces of nat

ature, animals, and things have for these Polynesians and Bushmen the same powers and attributes that men have; and in their

tribution of Myths. § 9. Several theories of the appearance of the same explanatory or æsthetic myth, under various guise

uainted with each other. It will not account for the existence of the same arrangement of incidents in a Greek myth and in a

dents like those related in the Iliad and the Odyssey happened in the same order, and as actual history, in Asia Minor, Itha

peoples whose myths resemble the Aryan, but are not traceable to the same original germ. The Aryan germ-theory has, however

ions narrows the problem, but does not solve it. The existence of the same story in unrelated nationalities remains a perple

mprises prayers for sacrificial occasions, and interpretations of the same . The Atharva-veda shows, as might be expected of

ed to bear the heavens on his shoulders. But a more famous son of the same Titan, Prometheus, who had espoused the cause of

le; although the patron of gamblers and the god of chance, he, at the same time, was the furtherer of lawful industry and of

r maidens of her company, girls of like age with herself, born in the same year, beloved of her heart, the daughters of nobl

to be priests and guardians of this thy temple, and that one and the same hour may take us both from life.” Their prayer wa

their heads. “Farewell, dear spouse,” they said together, and at the same moment the bark closed over their mouths. The Tya

cow slowly walking before him. He followed her close, offering at the same time his prayers to Phœbus. The cow went on till

right hand, launched it against the charioteer, and struck him at the same moment from his seat and from existence. Phaëton,

might remain always unmarried, like Diana. He consented, but, at the same time, warned her that her beauty would defeat her

s on to the close; As the sunflower turns on her god when he sets The same look that she turned when he rose. Fig. 46. G

d gave order, “Take and separate all these grains, putting all of the same kind in a parcel by themselves, — and see that th

er Fancy e’er could feign, Who breeding flowers, will never breed the same ; And there shall be for thee all soft delight Tha

w the changed color of the mulberries, she doubted whether it was the same place. While she hesitated, she saw the form of h

th as he sang a strain of unpremeditated sweetness. At evening of the same day, he stole the oxen of his half-brother Apollo

n open space where the chief scene of the orgies met his eyes. At the same moment the women saw him, among them his mother,

d. He took up a stone; it changed to gold. He touched a sod, with the same result. He took an apple from the tree; you would

near the water, and offered them to her child. Iole, about to do the same thing, perceived that the stem of the plant was b

us boldly asked her love, and the nymph yielded to his desire. At the same time charging him to be mindful and constant, she

ture, to some extent connected. Bearing this fact in mind, and at the same time observing the chronological sequence of adve

hus, in Arcadia. The adventure was, in itself, successful. But on the same journey Hercules made the friendship of the centa

osite cause favored them; she enlisted, also, her admirer Mars on the same side. Neptune favored the Greeks. Apollo was neut

, struck the helmet from his head and the lance from his hand. At the same moment an obscure Trojan wounded him in the back,

f the gods, did not fail to awaken in the breasts of the ancients the same abhorrence that it does in ours. The Eumenides se

rning the giant seized two more of the men and despatched them in the same manner as their companions, feasting on their fle

tise no further harm against him or them; and she repeated it, at the same time promising to dismiss them all in safety afte

to Ulysses, and directed him to make himself known to his son. At the same time she touched him, removed at once from him th

n the ground, and the horses, unharnessed, roamed over the plain. The same pride in splendid armor and generous steeds which

be spared the insults of his revolted subjects, and be buried in the same grave with his son. He received the fatal stroke

demanded why Freya’s eyeballs glistened with fire. Loki repeated the same excuse, and the giant was satisfied. He ordered t

eral pile, on board the ship; and the body of Nanna was burned on the same pile with her husband’s. There was a vast concour

der’s horse was led to the pile fully caparisoned and consumed in the same flames with his master. But Loki did not escape h

ing ancient and one-eyed, — Odin the forefather of the Volsungs,— the same that had borne Sigi fellowship, and that struck t

reyfell, and oft again had appeared to the kin of the Volsungs; — the same god now wrought the end of the Niblungs. The hoar

le Siegfried had bestowed upon Kriemhild, unwisely telling her at the same time the story of Brunhild’s defeat. Although the

t and in fame.” So began the altercation. It attained its climax the same day, when each queen attempted to take precedence

heir tongues aright. Keep thy fair wife in order, I’ll do by mine the same . Such overweening folly puts me indeed to shame.”

and Thetis, whose claims are more or less obscured. According to the same authority, the Distinctive Qualities of the Homer

2 § 33. Zeus.— In Sanskrit Dyaus, in Latin Jovis, in German Tiu. The same name for the Almighty (the Light or Sky) used pro

erior was enriched with sculptures, many of them from the hand of the same artist. The Elgin Marbles now in the British Muse

s upon himself. Inhaling the intoxicating air, he was affected in the same manner as the cattle had been; and the inhabitant

s to have held the bow is outstretched, and the head is turned in the same direction. In attitude and proportion the gracefu

wins of Darkness (Leto) for they do not illuminate the heavens at the same time. — Lang, Myth, Ritual, etc., 2: 199. Illust

of the Dawn. Others translate Saramâ, storm. Roscher derives from the same root as Sarameyas (son of Saramâ), with the meani

: 308; Moral Essays 4: 111; Windsor Forest, — on Lord Surrey, “In the same shades the Cupids tuned his lyre To the same note

on Lord Surrey, “In the same shades the Cupids tuned his lyre To the same notes of love and soft desire.” Poems. — Chauce

n; the Mygdonian, or Phrygian, were supposed by some to have been the same as the Lydian; but more probably they were a comb

finally dedicated to Apollo in Delphi. Harmonia’s robe possessed the same fatality, §§ 163, 164ª. Enchelians: a people of I

he analogy so far, unless one is prepared to explain the amber in the same way. Illustrative. — Milman in his Samor alludes

aid the Inca, “like a tied beast who goes ever round and round in the same track” (Chips 2: 113). Nearly all Greek heroes ha

the surface. It was said that the Sicilian fountain Arethusa was the same stream, which, after passing under the sea, came

sonnet). § 91. Electra. — See genealogical table, I, § 132 (5) C. See same table for Merope, the mother of Glaucus and grand

Milton, P. L. 7: 374; Pope, Spring 102; Mrs. Hemans has verses on the same subject; Byron, “Like the lost Pleiad seen no mor

ded as allegorical. The Greek name for a butterfly is Psyche, and the same word means the soul. There is no illustration of

entury a.d. This author, in distinction from the mythical poet of the same name, is styled the Pseudo-Musæus. The “epyllion”

Byron’s statement concerning the breadth of the water see footnote to same Canto. Poems. — Hero and Leander by Leigh Hunt;

Aurora, the Dawn, but flies from her. The Sun slays the dew with the same gleaming darts that the dew reflects, or gives ba

the stream by confining it within a new and suitable channel. At the same time the old channel, redeemed from the stream, s

f generations of æsthetic, but primitive and fanciful, invention. The same statement holds true of nearly all the heroes and

three of the books, and returning offered the remaining books for the same price she had asked for the nine. The king again

ning three books more, returned and asked for the three remaining the same price which she had before asked for the nine, hi

present the various Sibyls as being only reappearances of one and the same individual. Illustrative. — Young, in the Night

contributions to, the great heroes of the epics, not prototypes; the same is true of any apparently confirmed historic fore

18. The Rev. Sir G. W. Cox, Mythology of Aryan Nations, I. 99; also, same theory, Max Müller’s Chips from a German Workshop

rpent that guarded the shrine of the nymph Chryse, on an islet of the same name, near Lemnos. 362. Vergil, Æneid, Bk. 3.

ey saw in the world around them, they fancied that everything had the same kind of life which they had themselves. In this w

ad come to soothe her son, or her husband, in his dying hour. “In the same way, the sun was the child of darkness, and in th

of life for the thirsting earth. “Now, so long as men remained in the same place, there was no fear that the words which the

ations whose names, apparently different, have been resolved into the same root-word, or to a root of the same meaning. “Phi

rent, have been resolved into the same root-word, or to a root of the same meaning. “Philology has enabled us to read the pr

in the east.” “The ancient Greeks believed their gods to be of the same shape and form as themselves, but of far greater

terogeneous mass containing all the seeds of nature. According to the same legend, Gæa*, or Ge (the earth) first issued, in

produced by the combined influence of heaven and earth; while, at the same time, their fervid and poetical imaginations led

to the close; As the sun-flower turns on her god when he sets     The same look that she turned when he rose.” Epithets ap

the Latmian cave, the cave of night — “Latmos” being derived from the same root as “Leto,” “Latona” the night; but now he sl

latter, with their hundred hands, hurled down upon the enemy, at the same time raising mighty earthquakes. Victory smiled u

Nereus* was believed to live in the deep waters, and he stood in the same relation to Poseidon which Helios, who was believ

n Lemnos, the Ægean isle.” Milton ’s “Paradise Lost ,” Book I. The same fundamental idea lies at the foundation of these

him, shot him in the heart with his golden arrow of love, and at the same time discharged his leaden arrow of aversion into

to have held the bow, is outstretched, and the head is turned in the same direction. In attitude and proportion, the gracef

ge of the goddess on the occasion of her annual festival. This is the same Artemis to whom Agamemnon was about to offer his

Thamyris* was struck blind and deprived of the power of song for the same offence. Calliope* was the Muse of epic poetry.

y of every month, because he was believed to open every month. In the same way Janus was believed to begin every new day, an

were not only consecrated to the service of the gods, but were at the same time monuments in honor of the dead. Thus, for in

lles, Odysseus, and a host of others, are only different forms of the same person, and this personification has grown out of

d to the ground and killed. Theseus conquered Sinis and inflicted the same fate upon him. In the woody district of Crommyon*

e. Athene now urged Odysseus to make himself known to his son, at the same time she touched him and gave him the appearance

f kings, where the great gods were invoked in turn, the images of the same deity placed in different temples were often sepa

new as Argynnis*, Briseis*, Daphne*, Eos*, Helen, and Erinnys. In the same way the Vedas spoke of the Panis* as tempting Sar

is pierced by that of Apollo. As such he is called Ahi*, which is the same as the Greek Echidna* and the Latin word anguis,

olden one. Manu is a wise lawgiver, and the son of Brahma. He is the same as the Greek Minos, and the name is derived from

. He is the same as the Greek Minos, and the name is derived from the same root with the words, mind and man; man being so c

s, public and private. They were also accomplished genealogists.” The same author gives a minute account of the Eisteddfode,

a white mantle, after which they proceed to slay the victims, at the same time praying that God will render his gift prospe

of a pretty fawn that was cropping the grass at her feet, and at the same time she was singing a song. She looked very happ

che sat, and said to himself as he gazed at her, “Ah, mother!” at the same time dropping his bow and arrows, with which he w

rhaps, employ some other minister of her will, who could not feel the same kindness for Psyche that he did; so, in order to

f peace, bade her go to his mother and deliver it, telling her at the same time he Would go to Olympus and ask the sire of g

a third declared, “He had seen the taller stranger before. He was the same who carried off his uncle’s daughter, as she was

thy holy rites; and when this service shall be finished, that in the same hour we may cease to breathe.” “We beg one hour

her position, and slept again, and again she dreamed. She beheld the same youth, who had presented the veil to her sister,

their arts were their wisdom. Ann. Had the Egyptians and Greeks the same gods? Mother. Yes, though they called them by di

agistrates restrained the people from committing any impropriety. The same worship was called the Brumalia at Rome; but the

iated with one another. You have seen the objects you speak of at the same time. This thinking of things together is the ass

ancestors than your own; as I have often told you, they are the very same . Go to the palace of the sun; the god of day will

himself the very spirit of light. The vigilant Aurora appeared at the same time, and with rosy fingers unbarred the shining

r mother, when the wretched queen saw her daughters transfixed by the same unseen darts; and while the youngest of them yet

e of voice, murmured, ‘Protect me, and be propitious!’ I repeated the same words, and then inquired rho was the presiding de

of a nature     Nothing can tame, Changed every moment,     Ever the same . Ceaseless aspiring,     Ceaseless content, Dark

eforth you shall hang from a thread, and all your race shall bear the same punishment forever.” In an instant Arachne’s hair

of Apollo’s golden garments above the tree-tops. Cupid saw him at the same instant, and, quick as a flash, he planted a gold

ast he thought of an adventure that would please Perseus, and, at the same time, be so dangerous that the youth, he felt sur

a peace offering to the sea serpent. But the oracle repeated only the same heartless answer, — “If you wish your town and al

m this island in which he had so long been an unwilling prisoner. The same evening, he set to work to make two pair of wings

, kissing his wife and baby, he started on his journey. Now about the same time that Theseus was born, Minos, king of the is

d were given to the Minotaur for food. The next year and the next the same dreadful thing was done. Although the Athenians w

to each other. Thus the good people had their wish, both dying at the same instant, and in their stead flourished these two

without his dear playfellow, and was ready to pierce himself with the same arrow that had slain the stag. But Apollo, who he

eard the prayer, and would speedily grant it. Full of joy, yet at the same time fearing that his hope would be disappointed,

first made the flute from the reeds that grew by the river. Now this same Pan was a great favorite with King Midas, and the

ould have some of the spirit of the old Greek and Latin myths. At the same time, care has been taken not to burden the pupil

ng to meet her mother. And Ceres, in her joy, wept and laughed at the same time, as she took her daughter in her arms. That

ad steep flights of stairs to climb. He seemed to be passing over the same path again and again, and to be arriving nowhere.

eat bellow. It sounded like the voice of a bull, yet it seemed at the same time human. It was a terrible cry, and Theseus st

hat at last he burst into tears and granted the request. Then, in the same night, the servants of King Priam bore back the b