he same kindness for Psyche that he did; so, in order to learn how he should act, he repaired to a god who dwelt in Egypt, thi

. — Not to tell his mother his intentions concerning Psyche, lest she should be offended, nor to tell Psyche that he was a god

he should be offended, nor to tell Psyche that he was a god, lest she should imprudently inform some person who he was, that w

o a promontory near the sea, and there left till her destined husband should find her and marry her. The parents of Psyche dar

my parents, but the gods are good, they cannot intend to hurt me. Why should they harm me? I have always honoured them. I have

is alone in that bleak and solitary spot. It is the will of Cupid she should be removed to a delightful palace in the midst of

r of the night, and then you must never attempt to look at me. If you should forget what I now tell you, if you should be very

tempt to look at me. If you should forget what I now tell you, if you should be very curious to see me, and should inconsidera

get what I now tell you, if you should be very curious to see me, and should inconsiderately look at me, a dreadful misfortune

ressed her. His voice was uncommonly sweet. If, thought she, his face should resemble this delightful voice, how great a pleas

y; if I could sometimes be indulged with the society of my sisters, I should be grateful to you for it” This request was very

ey told her it was the strangest thing in the world, that her husband should absent himself from her every day. It was enough,

w that he is fast asleep, take a lamp and examine his features. If be should be found to be a very shocking object, you had be

h where be shall be asleep, take this instrument in your hand; if you should find him the deformed object you suppose him to b

loor — Cupid, waked by the smart and the noise, started up; and, what should he behold but the blushing and affrighted Psyche,

o kill her son, demanded of him to go in pursuit of her, and when she should be found, return to the skies, and inform her whe

iver side and saw her distress, brought her, thought, perhaps, if she should repair to the shrine of some deity and offer her

make a quarrel with her on your account. It would greatly offend her should I screen from her displeasure a mortal against wh

e is so incensed.” When Psyche heard this refusal, she felt as if she should die of despair; but after a moment she indulged a

one of those sheep.” Psyche instantly set off, not daring to hope she should ever reach the top of the mountain, which was alm

nly gave consent to the marriage of Cupid and Psyche, but declared it should be celebrated in the presence of all the gods and

ll, (and none of the gods ever opposed his sovereign will,) that they should be united. Venus was not much pleased with this d

een for him, but he knew that her fond mother would never consent she should go to his gloomy kingdom; for such, all who dwelt

n. I am not quite satisfied with this story, mother, of Proserpine. I should like to know if Pluto kept her, and how her mothe

erable, now that she must lose her daughter, that Pluto consented she should dwell with her mother half of the year, and the r

dwell with her mother half of the year, and the rest of the time she should remain with Pluto. Becubo’s son. While Cer

when she punished Becubo’s son so severely for so small a fault. She should have remembered his mother’s kindness to herself,

grateful to Tereus, and invited him to live with his family, while he should stay in Greece. Pandion had two amiable daughters

ys is too young to be exposed to the rude gales of the sea; and if we should leave him with his nurse, we should not be happy

rude gales of the sea; and if we should leave him with his nurse, we should not be happy away from him. Will it not be better

s through the thick wood into which Tereus had entered, supposing she should soon embrace Progne and Itys. At length they ente

enaces, and his own guilty conscience told him, that if his treachery should be known, every one would abhor him. To prevent P

cchantes, and to go with them into the woods. She designed, when they should be running about in the forest, to direct them to

ories of bad men and women. Mother. Because I wish that all you read should give you a true account of human nature and human

Mother. How do you like Baucis and Philemon? Ann. Very much. But I should like to know why they had no glass windows in the

mmediately descended the king’s house that he might be there when she should return from the sacrifice. Aglauria, the eldest d

roposal of Aglauria. She knew it displeased Aglauria, that her sister should be preferred to herself. Minerva saw that she env

story true? Mother. Yes; all stories have some truth in them, or we should not like them. Ann. Why not? Mother. Because ev

ey are different. A fiction must have some truth mixed with it, or we should not like it we call a story impossible, when it c

and the people worshipped the animals? Ann. Yes, I remember that. I should like to know something about Mercury. Mother. Me

hat like them. Shall I tell you another story? Ann. If you please. I should like to hear one. Mother. That gentleman who sai

; and they could not settle it, so they went to Tiresias, and said he should decide for them. Tiresias heard what each party h

em, prayed the gods to torment him with a wish for something which he should never be able to obtain. Those who refuse to enjo

nor fed. He saw the pretty Europa, the king’s daughter. He thought he should like to have her himself; so he came like a beaut

ad prayed to the gods for instruction. The oracle told him, before he should fix upon a residence, to follow a certain heifer,

he should fix upon a residence, to follow a certain heifer, which he should soon meet in the way, and where she should stop,

a certain heifer, which he should soon meet in the way, and where she should stop, and lie down, to commence a new city. Cadmu

est. Cadmus judged that this was the place where the gods intended he should establish himself. The first act which the founde

y had said it belonged to that god, and that none but his worshippers should have any of it. and it was guarded by a dragon, w

abitants for it. Grieved and perplexed, he stood pondering on what he should do, when Minerva appeared before him. Minerva was

ed unobserved, but Diana saw him, and was greatly incensed that a man should enter her sacred grove. In her displeasure, she s

th kept for the use of females only, and it was improper that any man should enter it. Acteon, unluckily, went into it. When s

fable teaches? Mother. No; it teaches that when others offend us, we should know whether they really intended it, before we a

e unhappy who are amiable, and who love one another; because, if they should be afflicted, they comfort each other, and sympat

that the beautiful boy was the son of rich parents, and that if they should carry him off; his father would offer a large sum

that noise and drunkenness could not be acceptable to a god. Pentheus should have told the Bacchantes that their behaviour was

rdered soldiers to march against them and disperse them wherever they should assemble. Superstitious persons, whenever they ar

does any one ever dare to offend thee by the least disrespect? If any should forget to honour thy reverend age, I will punish

æ was very young, her father went to consult the oracle, to know what should befall him in his future life. Silly people go to

rock on the sea coast, and her father ordered that she and her infant should be put into a chest, and thrown into the waves. M

or all their goodness; and hoped, she said, that one day or other she should be able to repay them. ——— Perseus grew up under

that he may be king himself. But I will be too cunning for him. If I should kill him, my subjects would kill me, because they

ould kill him, my subjects would kill me, because they love him; so I should gain nothing by that. I will not do so; I will, h

; he thought Perseus would lose his life by his foolhardiness, and he should thus get rid of him for ever. Polydectes, however

cult to imagine why the image of her deformity, seen in, that mirror, should not kill him as well as the sight of the gorgon h

collected. An oracle had declared, that the gardens of the Hesperides should be robbed by a son of Jupiter; and the moment tha

“horned Ammon.” Cepheus entreated the oracle to instruct him what he should do to satisfy the angry Neptune. “You must,” said

first some ugly women, called the Graiæ, and they informed me where I should find their frightful neighbours. I took the right

matter, by telling Phineus, that Andromeda was his, and no man living should separate them. The friends of Perseus took his pa

to save life, but no one dared to follow him or her thither, lest he should offend the compassionate deity. Danæ received Per

t always speaks truth, and I think of truth when I think of her. If I should draw a figure like hers, and not call it by her n

If I should draw a figure like hers, and not call it by her name, but should call it Truth, I should make a person of truth; I

e like hers, and not call it by her name, but should call it Truth, I should make a person of truth; I should personify truth.

er name, but should call it Truth, I should make a person of truth; I should personify truth. Mother. That is right. I will g

water burst from the chasm opened by his hoof.” Minerva proposed they should all go to the fountain, and immediately she and t

he valley decide between us. If you are vanquished, we claim that you should resign to us Mount Helicon, and the fountains Hip

rown was the laurel, and you shall read a story concerning it Ann. I should like first to know the true story of the Python,

emptuously, that bows and arrows did not suit his weak hands: that he should leave them to the god of day, and to his sister D

en-tipped arrow would love the lady he next saw; while the person who should be wounded by the leaden one would dislike the fi

ld be wounded by the leaden one would dislike the first one he or she should look upon. Cupid aimed the former at Apollo, and

e sovereign of the gods; “go and destroy Argus. It is my will that Io should be transported to Egypt, to preside over the wate

, few the preservation of the earth, that the presumptuous charioteer should die; and afterward induced Apollo to reascend his

there was time for men to forget the instructions of one, before they should hear the same truth from another, of those inspir

did to Juno. Jupiter had sworn by the Styx to grant her whatever she should ask, so he was forced to keep his word, and he en

s treated Apollo so kindly that the god promised, whenever the former should be summoned from the world by death, that his lif

the former should be summoned from the world by death, that his life should be spared, provided he could find another person

nd to comfort him, promised that he would bestow upon him any gift he should ask. Phaeton petitioned to be allowed to drive th

eld had fallen from heaven, and that Mars would favour the people who should preserve it, and that they should overcome their

at Mars would favour the people who should preserve it, and that they should overcome their enemies and conquer the world; tha

ents, or carry on any manufacture. For want of such accommodations we should be in the lowest state of savage life. The ancien

ains of the deep. When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the f

ng a name to the capital of Attica. The gods decided that whichsoever should bestow the most useful gift upon the citizens, sh

hat whichsoever should bestow the most useful gift upon the citizens, should give a name to the city. Neptune gave them a hors

her. Again Ceres entreated Jupiter, and he consented that Proserpine should divide the year between earth and hell. She was t

be set at naught, but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destr

e of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worship

established till Christ came into the world. Christ declared that men should live after the present life, and they should rece

Christ declared that men should live after the present life, and they should receive in the next life, according to the deeds

and Earth. Juno condemned her to repeat the last syllable of all she should hear said. Echo loved the beautiful Narcissus, bu

, Hercules resolved to bear with fortitude whatever trial gods or men should impose upon him. When he undertook the enterprise

offered a poisoned robe to Dejanira, telling her, that if her husband should ever cease to love her, if she could contrive to

more, than that the two princes peaceably agreed that this bad custom should cease. Theseus married Ariadne, and promised to t

ssels was black, and that when he left Athens he promised his father, should he return successful, that he would displace the

own, and no man must take what does not belong to himself; and if one should take what is not his own, that dishonest and viol

army, and command the soldiers: and when the army of any other state should come into Attica, he would be ready to punish suc

assemblies of the people — that is, all the men who were respectable should come into one place, and deliberate upon what was

to do; and if any man did wrong, he might be complained of; and there should be courts, and the judges should be taught the la

he might be complained of; and there should be courts, and the judges should be taught the laws, and they should prevent bad m

should be courts, and the judges should be taught the laws, and they should prevent bad men from doing wrong to others, by pu

g to others, by punishing the persons who were guilty; and the courts should be held in Athens; and the people all over the pr

as married to Jocasta, and an oracle foretold to them that the former should be killed by his son. As soon as Jocasta had a so

resolved not to go back to Corinth, lest the prediction of the oracle should be accomplished. Œdipus, uncertain whither he sho

on of the oracle should be accomplished. Œdipus, uncertain whither he should go, took the road to Phocis, but he had not proce

a robber. The Sphinx had proposed a riddle, and it was said, whoever should expound it, would be able to kill him. The riddle

en’s brother, proclaimed that the man who would destroy that monster, should marry the queen, and govern the kingdom; accordin

racle answered that the plague would cease when the murderer of Laius should be discovered and punished. Œdipus loved his peop

daughters, Antigone and Ismene. The oracle had pronounced that Œdipus should not die in Thebes, so, blind as he was, and led b

him to be buried, and threatened to punish with death any person who should offer to inter him. According to the notions of t

music, and pitying the affliction of Orpheus, consented that Eurydice should return to earth, if her husband would refrain fro

n to earth, if her husband would refrain from looking at her till she should be come to upper air. Orpheus thus satisfied, pro

ssandra. It was foretold to Priam, that the last-born of his children should cause the destruction of Troy. Priam, on the birt

bribe, Juno promised him a kingdom; Minerva victory and glory when he should engage in war; and Venus, the most beautiful woma

s of Troy, and promised that the most beautiful bull in his dominions should be given as a price to the victorious combatant.

and her numerous admirers, the princes of Greece, made a vow, if she should ever again be forced away, that they would unite

again be forced away, that they would unite to punish the person who should commit the outrage. The injured Menelaus remember

equite the hospitality of Menelaus? Who had vowed to punish those who should carry off Helen? Did Menelaus proceed rashly to t

of the goddess to detain the Greeks by adverse winds, until the king should sacrifice to her, his daughter Iphigenia. At firs

ng of Troy. It is said that it had been decreed by the gods that Troy should not fall till large numbers of the Trojans should

the gods that Troy should not fall till large numbers of the Trojans should be slain by the arrows of Hercules. These arrows

lace where Hercules commanded him to inter his remains, when his body should be consumed on the pile. After the death of his f

rwards taking offence at her, he ordained that though her predictions should be true, she should never be believed. Thus it wa

e at her, he ordained that though her predictions should be true, she should never be believed. Thus it was in vain that Cassa

Electra knew that the usurper, Egisthus, feared that Orestes, when he should become a man, would punish his perfidious conduct

Greek, that she had friends in Greece, and that one or other of them should be permitted to return to their country, if he wo

to her friends. Iphigenia did not determine which of the two friends should be spared. Orestes declaring that he was willing

instructed them to take her father by surprise, and hold him till he should declare the will of the gods, of which he was inf

nged arms. On the death of Achilles, Ulysses and Ajax contended which should possess his armour, and because it was given to U

th Ulysses, that she wished to detain him in her island as long as he should live; but after he had resided with her seven yea

ad had his single eye put out by Ulysses, and thought it just that he should suffer still more as a punishment for that act; s

was the chief of the expedition, and the laws of war required that he should be obeyed. Even the fierce Achilles could not ref

doom, Sure to so short a race of glory born; Great Jove, in justice, should this span adorn; Honour and fame, at least, the T

kingdom and family in the condition which any might presume upon, who should abandon his duties for ten years. His wife had ma

at Andromache would be cruelly treated by whomsoever among the Greeks should make her his prisoner; he says, “I see thee weep

to live virtuously we must avoid the faults we see in others; that we should avoid saying any thing which another can repeat t

void saying any thing which another can repeat to our injury; that we should live with our friends as if they might one day be

self spent his days on earth, that a universal corruption of religion should exist, — that Mohammedanism or Paganism should un

corruption of religion should exist, — that Mohammedanism or Paganism should universally prevail among the natives. The Mohamm

easy to see why the Christian religion, which declares all men equal, should not be introduced among such a people. The Brahmi

ere standing around a fire, one person suddenly declared, that he who should throw himself into the flames would be transforme

r was placed in her little hands, to denote that at a future time she should sweep the sacred floors and offer incense in the

servation of society, it was enacted at Athens, that no foreign deity should be worshipped in that city, without a decree of t

ther we ask it not! Refuse us what would be hurtful to us, even if we should ask it.” Priests are held in high honour among a

ly what they ought to do. When Herod inquired of the Jews were Christ should be born, they answered, in Bethlehem of Judea, fo

lphi, and inquired if it were the will of the gods, that the Spartans should adopt his laws. The oracle replied that it was th

r, other credulous persons repaired to that place, to learn what they should do, or what they might. The most famous oracle of

e, he was said to be polluted, unfit for a religious service, till he should be put into a proper state by a suitable ceremony

Christ, God instructed Abraham, who had then no child, that from him should descend a race who should preserve the knowledge

raham, who had then no child, that from him should descend a race who should preserve the knowledge of one true God; and that

eserve the knowledge of one true God; and that from him, in due time, should also descend, one in whom all the families of the

time, should also descend, one in whom all the families of the earth should be blessed, namely, our Lord Jesus Christ. Four h

o those of the Pagan nations: these were considerable in number. How should we feel in respect to our own privileges and adva

imating that the fruits of righteousness, that is a virtuous conduct, should always attend the sound, the fame or reputation o

But such stories are not often referred to, and if they occasionally should be, the English reader need feel no mortification

nts of courtesy;     They teach us how to each degree and kind     We should ourselves demean, to low, to high, To friends, to

awk. It is for love I pursue you. You make me miserable, for fear you should fall and hurt yourself on these stones, and I sho

le, for fear you should fall and hurt yourself on these stones, and I should be the cause. Pray run slower, and I will follow

Laurel tree, bowed its head in grateful acknowledgment.   That Apollo should be the god both of music and poetry will not appe

d both of music and poetry will not appear strange, but that medicine should also be assigned to his province, may. The poet A

in, Though unsuccessful, was not sung in vain. All but the nymph that should redress his wrong, Attend his passion and approve

arents forbade. One thing, however, they could not forbid — that love should glow with equal ardor in the bosoms of both. They

y’s bounds, called the Tomb of Ninus, and that the one who came first should await the other at the foot of a certain tree. It

. The heavenly powers who had given both were not willing that either should conquer. In the very attitude of life and action

er, except her beauty. At first she was afraid to speak, for fear she should low, but gradually she recovered her confidence a

here the circle is the smallest, in the neighborhood of the pole. Why should any one hereafter tremble at the thought of offen

punishments result — such is the extent of my power! Better that she should have resumed her former shape, as I permitted Io

e sound of his name he turned his head, and heard them regret that he should be away. He earnestly wished he was. He would hav

g. Tethys, who is waiting to receive me, often trembles for me lest I should fall headlong. Add to all this, the heaven is all

on my guard lest that movement, which sweeps every thing else along, should hurry me also away. Suppose I should lend you the

h sweeps every thing else along, should hurry me also away. Suppose I should lend you the chariot, what would you do? Could yo

reward, whatever he might wish. He asked that whatever he might touch should be changed into gold. Bacchus consented, though s

e to the command of the oracle, which had said that their future king should come in a wagon. While the people were deliberati

e celebrated Gordian knot, which, in after times it was said, whoever should untie should become lord of all Asia. Many tried

Gordian knot, which, in after times it was said, whoever should untie should become lord of all Asia. Many tried to untie it,

e breast of yonder dark monarch, who rules the realm of Tartarus. Why should he alone escape? Seize the opportunity to extend

daughter. Jupiter consented on one condition, namely, that Proserpine should not during her stay in the lower world have taken

nd Tethys, the sovereigns of the sea, that all that was mortal in him should be washed away. A hundred rivers poured their wat

goddess though I be, and learned in the virtues of plants and spells, should not know how to refuse you. If she scorns you sco

pulsing came A lively prelude, fashioning the way In which her voice should wander. ’Twas a lay More subtle-cadenced, more fo

thou hadst taken me with thee! It would have been far better. Then I should have had no remnant of life to spend without thee

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

adopt a nursling not its own. She took care, too, that her favorites should not suffer from drought, and led streams of water

ef. But Psyche said, “Why, my dear parents, do you now lament me? You should rather have grieved when the people showered upon

it was his pleasure, for the best of reasons, to keep concealed. “Why should you wish to behold me?” he said; “have you any do

ress, and at last drew from him an unwilling consent that her sisters should be brought to see her. So, calling Zephyr, she ac

of Venus, endeavoring to fortify her mind and ruminating on what she should say and how best propitiate the angry goddess, fe

unsuccessful, consulted the oracle of Apollo to know what country he should settle in. The oracle informed him that he should

now what country he should settle in. The oracle informed him that he should find a cow in the field, and should follow her wh

. The oracle informed him that he should find a cow in the field, and should follow her wherever she might wander, and where s

d should follow her wherever she might wander, and where she stopped, should build a city and call it Thebes. Cadmus had hardl

onths and the city still held out, for it was decreed by fate that it should not be taken so long as a certain purple lock, wh

I think we shall be conquered; and if that must be the end of it, why should not love unbar the gates to him, instead of leavi

by war? Better spare delay and slaughter if we can. And O, if any one should wound or kill Minos! No one surely would have the

h such a monster!” Thus he said, and gave orders that equitable terms should be allowed to the conquered city, and that the fl

ble terms should be allowed to the conquered city, and that the fleet should immediately sail from the island. Scylla was fran

He started back, exclaiming, “Hands off! I would rather die than you should have me!” “Have me,” said she; but it was all in

twas by Providence designed,     Rather in pity than in hate, That he should be like Cupid blind,     To save him from Narciss

es contended for the possession of the city. The gods decreed that it should be awarded to that one who produced the gift most

er beings whom you never saw to those who stand before your eyes! Why should Latona be honored with worship, and none be paid

; I shall still have much left. Were I to lose some of my children, I should hardly be left as poor as Latona with her two onl

remembered that an ancient prophecy had warned him that a son of Jove should one day rob him of his golden apples. So he answe

e maiden as his own. It was in vain that Cepheus remonstrated, — “You should have claimed her when she lay bound to the rock,

acle that there was danger to his throne and life if his new-born son should be suffered to grow up. He therefore committed th

ng to them a riddle, with the condition that those who could solve it should pass safe, but those who failed should be killed.

that those who could solve it should pass safe, but those who failed should be killed. Not one had yet succeeded in solving i

ent, surrendered his crown to his brother Pelias on condition that he should hold it only during the minority of Jason, the so

is task for the flowers in the way. “Thus many like me, who in youth should have tasted     The fountain that runs by Philoso

ld not hasten to take the old man’s life. Then she directed that Æson should be led forth, and having thrown him into a deep s

as they spun their fatal thread, foretold that the life of the child should last no longer than a brand then burning upon the

other’s weakness! my hand fails me. He deserves death, but not that I should destroy him. But shall he then live, and triumph,

stle with him, on condition that if conquered (as they all were) they should be put to death. Hercules encountered him, and fi

ent; Juno only heard the closing words with some displeasure that she should be so particularly pointed at, yet not enough to

as, and fearing the loss of her influence with her husband if Theseus should be acknowledged as his son, she filled the mind o

ome by signs and others by whispers signified to me their will that I should sail in the opposite direction, and take the boy

o take me to; yonder island is not my home. What have I done that you should treat me so? It is small glory you will gain by c

ut Venus took pity on her, and consoled her with the promise that she should have an immortal lover, instead of the mortal one

ped the shrubbery. But for all that, Erisichthon saw no reason why he should spare it and he ordered his servants to cut it do

a tree beloved of the goddess or not; were it the goddess herself it should come down if it stood in my way.” So saying, he l

e at the same time charged him to be constant and told him that a bee should be her messenger and let him know when she would

in marriage; but having learned from Prometheus the Titan that Thetis should bear a son who should be greater than his father,

g learned from Prometheus the Titan that Thetis should bear a son who should be greater than his father, Jupiter desisted from

an his father, Jupiter desisted from his suit and decreed that Thetis should be the wife of a mortal. By the aid of Chiron the

overflow of his waters. Having finished his story, he added, “But why should I tell of other persons’ transformations when I m

I become a serpent, and sometimes a bull, with horns on my head. Or I should say I once could do so; but now I have but one ho

hand of Alcestis, the daughter of Pelias, who promised her to him who should come for her in a chariot drawn by lions and boar

Eriphyle, the king’s sister, had agreed that whenever he and Adrastus should differ in opinion, the decision should be left to

that whenever he and Adrastus should differ in opinion, the decision should be left to Eriphyle. Polynices, knowing this, gav

f future events. When consulted by Eteocles, he declared that victory should fall to Thebes if Menœceus, the son of Creon, gav

, with various success. At length both hosts agreed that the brothers should decide their quarrel by single combat. They fough

wn hands. She was detected in the act, and Creon gave orders that she should be buried alive, as having deliberately set at na

“Alas! I only wished I might have died With my poor father; wherefore should I ask For longer life? O, I was fond of misery wi

eus was permitted to take her away with him on one condition, that he should not turn around to look at her till they should h

ne condition, that he should not turn around to look at her till they should have reached the upper air. Under this condition

him, returned and gave information to his mother, who ordered that he should be brought into her presence. The river at her co

oo dangerous to us. Where could we go to escape from Periander, if he should know that you had been robbed by us? Your gold wo

montory of Leucadia into the sea, under a superstition that those who should take that “Lover’s-leap” would, if not destroyed,

adventures to record. Diana, it was said, took care that his fortunes should not suffer by his inactive life, for she made his

the subject of a poem. It seems the oracle had declared that victory should be the lot of that party from which should fall t

had declared that victory should be the lot of that party from which should fall the first victim to the war. The poet repres

no worthier led the way, resolved     That of a thousand vessels mine should be The foremost prow impressing to the strand, —

ountains, flowers; My new planned cities and unfinished towers. “But should suspense permit the foe to cry,     ‘Behold they

ed. Thereupon Chryses implored Apollo to afflict the Greeks till they should be forced to yield their prey. Apollo granted the

aged, consented to relinquish his captive, but demanded that Achilles should yield to him in her stead Briseis, a maiden who h

themselves. It was well known to them that fate had decreed that Troy should fall, at last, if her enemies should persevere an

that fate had decreed that Troy should fall, at last, if her enemies should persevere and not voluntarily abandon the enterpr

ncil of his wisest and bravest chiefs. Nestor advised that an embassy should be sent to Achilles to persuade him to return to

nt to Achilles to persuade him to return to the field; that Agamemnon should yield the maiden, the cause of the dispute, with

for battle. But before he went, Achilles strictly charged him that he should be content with repelling the foe “Seek not,” sai

tes to receive the fugitives, and to shut them as soon as the Trojans should have passed, lest the enemy should enter likewise

o shut them as soon as the Trojans should have passed, lest the enemy should enter likewise. But Achilles was so close in purs

on the litter, and spread the garments over it, that not unveiled it should be borne back to Troy. Then Achilles dismissed th

Greeks to bestow her son’s armor on the hero who of all the survivors should be judged most deserving of it. Ajax and Ulysses

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

er, he rendered the gift unavailing by ordaining that her predictions should never be believed. Polyxena, another daughter, wh

yet old enough to be an object of apprehension, but from whom, if he should be suffered to grow up, there might be danger. El

d desirous of keeping his arrival a secret till the hour of vengeance should arrive, produces the urn in which his ashes are s

ich pleased the giant so much that he promised him as a favor that he should be the last of the party devoured. He asked his n

of the cave to feel of all as they went out, that Ulysses and his men should not escape with them. But Ulysses had made his me

irected Ulysses to fill the ears of his seamen with wax, so that they should not hear the strain; and to cause himself to be b

ed, whatever he might say or do, by no means to release him till they should have passed the Sirens’ island. Ulysses obeyed th

him a girdle, directing him to bind it beneath his breast, and if he should be compelled to trust himself to the waves, it wo

eously, promising present relief and her father’s hospitality when he should become acquainted with the facts. She called back

ods would send her such a husband. To Ulysses she recommended that he should repair to the city, following herself and train s

elf and train so far as the way lay through the fields; but when they should approach the city she desired that he would no lo

e king, said, “It is not fit that a stranger who asks our hospitality should be kept waiting in suppliant guise, none welcomin

st was provided. After the feast the king proposed that the young men should show their guest their proficiency in manly sport

eir guest to the highest pitch. The king proposed that all the chiefs should present him with a gift, himself setting the exam

e might be able to take vengeance upon them, it was important that he should not be recognized. Minerva accordingly metamorpho

dulged His grief.” The father and son took counsel together how they should get the better of the suitors and punish them for

s and punish them for their outrages. It was arranged that Telemachus should proceed to the palace and mingle with the suitors

d to the palace and mingle with the suitors as formerly; that Ulysses should also go as a beggar, a character which in the rud

as laid in the hall. Telemachus had taken care that all other weapons should be removed, under pretence that in the heat of co

ose; it would not bend. Then spoke Ulysses, humbly suggesting that he should be permitted to try; for, said he, “beggar as I a

s, the queen declaring that whether the victor were “Trojan or Tyrian should make no difference to her.” 24 At the feast which

t the people of the shore where his body had been wafted by the waves should be stirred up by prodigies to give it due burial,

tirred up by prodigies to give it due burial, and that the promontory should bear the name of Cape Palinurus, which it does to

who were hereafter to be born, and to relate to him the exploits they should perform in the world. After this he reverted to t

bride to be won, and in the result a Trojan state founded, from which should rise the Roman power, to be in time the sovereign

in a dream by his father Faunus, that the destined husband of Lavinia should come from a foreign land. From that union should

d husband of Lavinia should come from a foreign land. From that union should spring a race destined to subdue the world. Our r

In particular she predicted that before their wanderings ceased they should be pressed by hunger to devour their tables. This

They found the chief officers in consultation, deliberating how they should send notice to Æneas of their situation. The offe

he saw the whole band surrounding Euryalus with noisy questions. What should he do? how extricate the youth, or would it be be

-known lines of Pope, in which, illustrating the rule that “the sound should be an echo to the sense,” he says: — “When Ajax

to be Apis was recognized by certain signs. It was requisite that he should be quite black, have a white square mark on the f

ish. That the skin of an animal which could resist the action of fire should be considered proof against that element is not t

es: At the creation Brahma resolved to give the earth inhabitants who should be direct emanations from his own body. According

ame and offered to build them a residence so well fortified that they should be perfectly safe from the incursions of the Fros

r. But if any thing remained unfinished on the first day of summer he should forfeit the recompense agreed on. On being told t

agreed on. On being told these terms the artificer stipulated that he should be allowed the use of his horse Svadilfari, and t

ld not have thought himself safe among the gods, especially when Thor should return from an expedition he had then undertaken

of so many evil deeds, could have given such bad counsel, and that he should be put to a cruel death if he did not contrive so

et it cost him what it would, he would so manage matters that the man should lose his reward. That very night when the man wen

ions had sought refuge was the thumb. Skrymir then proposed that they should travel in company, and Thor consenting, they sat

, resolved that if he had an opportunity of striking a third blow, it should settle all matters between them. A little before

t children. It consists in merely lifting my cat from the ground; nor should I have dared to mention such a feat to the great

rm, by my troth, a deed so marvellous that had I not seen it myself I should never have believed it. For one end of that horn

t lamentations were to be heard among the gods. Hela answered that it should now be tried whether Baldur was so beloved as he

r, the study, when illustrated by masterpieces of literature and art, should lead to the appreciation of concrete artistic pro

usts to meagre and disjointed textbook notes, but a potentiality that should render the general reading of belles lettres more

English Literature may, perhaps, be acceptable. From the outset care should be taken that pupils give to the classical names

ied. The maps accompanying this volume will be serviceable; but there should be in the class-room one of Kiepert’s maps of the

rratives contains. Throughout the course, all stories and all minutiæ should be kept fresh in the mind of the pupil, whether b

e myths and the proper perspective of their relation, one to another, should be fixed by the study of the family ties that mot

ations have been mentioned in §§ 10-12 of the Commentary. Instructors should also read to the classes illustrative English poe

r portions of them based upon the myths under consideration; and they should encourage the pupils to collect from their Englis

some of the best-known literary applications of each myth. The myths should provide not only nutriment for thought, but mater

schools; and such was not the case in the day of our fathers. Pupils should be encouraged to recite memoriter the best poems

e best poems and verses that accompany the myths here given; and they should not be allowed to pass allusions already explaine

ed without recalling verses that contain them. But, above all things, should be cultivated, by means of this study, the spirit

e myths are presented in a logical and genealogical arrangement, they should be recited in this order. When there is not time

al or written composition, once a week or fortnight. These narratives should not, however, be assigned in arbitrary and incons

responding to those of the text. The Textual and Interpretative Notes should be studied by older pupils in connection with eac

d be studied by older pupils in connection with each lesson. But they should not be suffered to spoil the interest in the stor

of freedom, personality, and power exceeding those of man. Why, then, should not the savage believe, of beings worthy of worsh

son at all. And this latter, in studying the origin of myths, is what should first be ascertained. We must not, however, fall

but sometimes lays hold of real history. He insists that mythologists should bear in mind that there may be in every mythologi

tures based upon qualities and incidents like these. If these stories should survive in the literature of these nations after

rewdest and most influential. This mental condition of the myth-maker should be premised in all scientific explanations of myt

and fruits, varying in form and hue according to the soil to which it should be committed and the climate under which the plan

montory of Leucadia into the sea, under a superstition that those who should take that “Lover’s-leap” would, if not destroyed,

lse. Next came into being broad-bosomed Earth, and beautiful Love who should rule the hearts of gods and men. But from Chaos i

and Jupiter. Cronus, however, having learned from his parents that he should be dethroned by one of his own children, conceive

e underworld, dark, unseen, mysterious, where the spirits of the dead should dwell, and of Tartarus, wherein were held the fal

as supported by the knowledge that in the thirteenth generation there should arrive a hero, — a son of the mighty Jove — to re

its inhabitants, and providing a new race, unlike the present, which should be worthier of life, and more reverent toward the

rove of oaks, proclaimed to the inhabitants of the district that they should establish there an oracle of Jupiter. The other d

by priests. That Jupiter himself, though wedded to the goddess Juno, should be charged with numerous other love affairs, not

their wives. Beside the children of Jupiter already enumerated, there should here be mentioned, as of peculiar consequence, Ba

ctor in feats of strength, swiftness of foot, or in the chariot race, should be crowned with a wreath of beech-leaves. Apollo

complements of courtesy; They teach us how to each degree and kind We should ourselves demean, to low, to high, To friends, to

— she and her hateful son are placed among the stars. Better that she should have resumed her former shape, as I permitted Io

d dross, the lithe limbs shrunk? The deathless longings tamed, that I should seethe My soul in love like any shepherd girl? On

iating in the solemn rites thought meet that so reverend a worshipper should herself approach the goddess, — ay, should ask of

t so reverend a worshipper should herself approach the goddess, — ay, should ask of Hera some blessing on her faithful sons: —

ad contended for the possession of the city. The gods decreed that it should be awarded to the one who produced the gift most

69. Mars and Minerva. — It would seem that the insatiate son of Juno should have learned by this sad experience to avoid meas

unsuccessful, consulted the oracle of Apollo to know what country he should settle in. The oracle informed him that he would

le in. The oracle informed him that he would find a cow in the field, should follow her wherever she might wander, and where s

d, should follow her wherever she might wander, and where she stopped should build a city and call it Thebes. Cadmus had hardl

son, and swore by the river Styx144 that whatever proof he might ask should be granted. Phaëton immediately asked to be permi

g. Tethys, who is waiting to receive me, often trembles for me lest I should fall headlong. Add to this that the heaven is all

ven, and with husky voice prayed Jupiter if it were his will that she should perish by fire, to end her agony at once by his t

en? I have seven times as many. Were I to lose some of my children, I should hardly be left as poor as Latona with her two onl

he child burst into a prophetic strain, foretelling the glory that he should achieve. Æsculapius, when grown up, became a reno

hand of Alcestis, the daughter of Pelias, who promised her to him who should come for her in a chariot drawn by lions and boar

Apollo prevailed on the Fates to spare him on condition that some one should consent to die in his stead. Admetus, in his joy

e. Fear took the place of his former boldness, and the hero fled What should he do? — go home to the palace, or lie hid in the

sound of his name, he turned his head, and heard them regret that he should be away. He earnestly wished he was. But Diana ha

to her lord, she drew from him an unwilling consent that her sisters should be brought to see her. Zephyr, promptly obedient,

ses, and then committed them to the care of her attendant voices, who should refresh them in her bath and at her table, and sh

y sweet enforcement and remembrance dear, And pardon that thy secrets should be sung Even into thine own soft-conched ear: Sur

ed for her hair, And offer’d as a dower his burning throne, Where she should sit, for men to gaze upon… Some say, for her the

ate. When two are stript long e’er the course begin, We wish that one should lose, the other win; And one especially do we aff

ho taught thee rhetoric to deceive a maid? Ay me! such words as these should I abhor, And yet I like them for the orator.’ Wit

could not forbid (for Venus and Cupid favored the match), — that love should glow with equal ardor in the bosoms of both. They

out the city’s bounds, — the Tomb of Ninus. The one who first arrived should await the other at the foot of a white mulberry-t

and dreams (the caduceus), it being understood, however, that Mercury should indicate the future only by signs, not by speech

his choice of a reward. The king asked that whatever he might -touch should be changed into gold. Bacchus consented. Midas ha

ution of her daughter. Jupiter consented on condition that Proserpine should not during her stay in the lower world have taken

Orpheus was permitted to take her away with him on condition that he should not turn round to look at her till they should ha

m on condition that he should not turn round to look at her till they should have reached the upper air. Under this condition,

regions, are closely interwoven. That the winds, which sweep heaven, should kiss the stars is easy to understand. The stories

both, and rejoiced in the speed of both, were not willing that either should conquer. The javelin was destined to a sad office

at fill with tears To hear me? Let me go; take back thy gift: Why should a man desire in any way To vary from the kindly

indly race of men, Or pass beyond the goal of ordinance Where all should pause, as is most meet for all? “A soft air fa

the strains of the Cyclops. The monster, infuriate, crying that this should be the last of their love-meetings, overwhelmed h

abode under her river, overheard his complaints, and ordered that he should be brought into her presence. The stream at her c

as they sat they crooned a dreary song, Complaining that their lives should last so long, In that sad place that no one came

ing an ancient prophecy that had warned him against a son of Jove who should one day rob him of his golden apples, attempted t

ster, on condition that, if the maiden were rescued by his valor, she should be his reward. The parents consented. Perseus emb

his country to wrestle with him, on condition that if conquered, they should suffer death. Hercules encountered him, and findi

to his end. But Jupiter took care that only his mother’s part in him should perish by the flames. The immortal element, deriv

rendered the crown to a half-brother, Pelias,300 on condition that he should hold it only during the minority of the lad. This

o give up the golden fleece on certain conditions: namely, that Jason should yoke to the plough two fire-breathing bulls with

plough two fire-breathing bulls with brazen feet; and that he, then, should sow the teeth of the dragon that Cadmus had slain

ar of Hecate. The princess then furnished her hero with a charm which should aid him in the contest to come. Accordingly, when

as they spun their fatal thread, foretold that the life of the child should last no longer than a certain brand then burning

er a large stone, and had directed her to send the child to him if it should prove strong enough to roll away the stone and ta

s, and fearing the loss of her influence with her husband, if Theseus should be acknowledged as his son, she tried to poison t

rning victorious. So, — Rather than cargo on cargo of corpses undead should be wafted‌ 333 Over the ravening sea to the piti

gift of Vulcan, — which, unrolled by Theseus as he entered the maze, should enable him on his return to retrace his former pa

nthine, Some perverse, perplexing, erratic alley might foil him. Why should I tarry to tell how, quitting her sire, Ariadne Q

— How Ariadne made less of the love of them all than of Theseus? Why should I sing how sailing they came to the beaches of Di

le that there was danger to his throne and life if his son, new-born, should reach man’s estate. He, therefore, committed the

ed to them a riddle, with the condition that those who could solve it should pass safe, but those who failed should be killed.

that those who could solve it should pass safe, but those who failed should be killed. Not one had yet succeeded in guessing

ot seen What ills he suffered, and what ills he did, They in the dark should look, in time to come, On those whom they ought n

phyle, the king’s sister, he had agreed that whenever he and Adrastus should differ in opinion, the decision should be left to

that whenever he and Adrastus should differ in opinion, the decision should be left to Eriphyle. Polynices, knowing this, gav

f future events. When consulted by Eteocles, he declared that victory should fall to Thebes if Menoeceus, the son of Creon, ga

, with various success. At length both hosts agreed that the brothers should decide their quarrel by single combat. They fough

Before the gods to bear the penalty Of sinning against these. That I should die I knew (how should I not?), though thy decree

r the penalty Of sinning against these. That I should die I knew (how should I not?), though thy decree Had never spoken. And

. But, if I had left My mother’s son unburied on his death, In that I should have suffered; but in this I suffer not.340 Cre

e to conceive of a law higher than that he knew, gave orders that she should be buried alive, as having deliberately set at no

marriage; but having learned from Prometheus, the Titan, that Thetis should bear a son who should be greater than his father,

learned from Prometheus, the Titan, that Thetis should bear a son who should be greater than his father, the Olympian desisted

father, the Olympian desisted from his suit, and decreed that Thetis should be the wife of a mortal. By the aid of Chiron, th

unes or Achilles, — the future hero of the Trojan War, — the son that should spring from this union of a goddess with a mortal

s prophesied the future of the hero, Achilles. How by him the Trojans should fall, as fall the ears of corn when they are yell

hen they are yellow before the scythe, — how because of him Scamander should run red, warm with blood, choked with blind bodie

into the whirling Hellespont; how finally he, himself, in his prime, should fall, and how on his tomb should be sacrificed th

w finally he, himself, in his prime, should fall, and how on his tomb should be sacrificed the fair Polyxena, daughter of Pria

cs. The oracle, according to the tradition, had declared that victory should be the lot of that party from which should fall t

had declared that victory should be the lot of that party from which should fall the first victim in the war. The poet repres

if no worthier led the way, resolved That of a thousand vessels mine should be The foremost prow in pressing to the strand, —

ountains, flowers; My new-planned cities and unfinished towers. “But should suspense permit the foe to cry, ‘Behold they trem

ed. Thereupon Chryses implored Apollo to afflict the Greeks till they should be forced to yield their prey.351 Apollo granted

ted, thereupon, to relinquish his captive, but demanded that Achilles should yield to him in her stead Briseis, a maiden who h

est chiefs. In the debate that ensued, Nestor advised that an embassy should be sent to Achilles persuading him to return to t

to Achilles persuading him to return to the field; and that Agamemnon should yield the maiden, the cause of dispute, with ampl

tes to receive the fugitives, and to shut them as soon as the Trojans should have passed, lest the enemy should enter likewise

o shut them as soon as the Trojans should have passed, lest the enemy should enter likewise. But Achilles was so close in purs

he dogs. Though twenty ransoms and thy weight in gold were offered, I should refuse it all.” Pl. 15. Hector’s Farewell to

on the litter, and spread the garments over it, that not unveiled it should be borne back to Troy. Then Achilles dismissed th

reeks to bestow her son’s armor on that hero who of all the survivors should be judged most deserving of it. Ajax and Ulysses

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

he had rendered the gift unavailing by ordaining that her predictions should never be believed. Polyxena, another daughter, wh

yet old enough to be an object of apprehension, but from whom, if he should be suffered to grow up, there might be danger. El

d desirous of keeping his arrival a secret till the hour of vengeance should arrive, he produced the urn. At once, his sister,

hearths are cold: Our sons inherit us: our looks are strange: And we should come like ghosts to trouble joy. “… But, propt o

ich pleased the giant so much that he promised him as a favor that he should be the last of the party devoured. He asked his n

of the cave to feel of all as they went out, that Ulysses and his men should not escape with them. But Ulysses had made his me

irected Ulysses to fill the ears of his seamen with wax, so that they should not hear the strain; to have himself bound to the

le, whatever he might say or do, by no means to release him till they should have passed the Sirens’ island. Ulysses obeyed th

ith a girdle, directing him to bind it beneath his breast, that if he should be compelled to trust himself to the waves, it mi

eously, promising present relief and her father’s hospitality when he should become acquainted with the facts. She called back

and her train so far as the way lay through the fields; but when they should approach the city she desired that he no longer b

panions to reach the city, he was then to pursue his way thither, and should be easily guided by any he might meet to the roya

e king, said, “It is not fit that a stranger who asks our hospitality should be kept waiting in suppliant guise, none welcomin

st was provided. After the feast the king proposed that the young men should show their guest their proficiency in manly sport

eir guest to the highest pitch. The king proposed that all the chiefs should present him with a gift, himself setting the exam

be able to take vengeance upon the suitors, it was important that he should not be recognized. Minerva accordingly metamorpho

ged His grief.378 The father and son took counsel together how they should get the better of the suitors and punish them for

s and punish them for their outrages. It was arranged that Telemachus should proceed to the palace and mingle with the suitors

d to the palace and mingle with the suitors as formerly; that Ulysses should also go as a beggar, a character which in the rud

as laid in the hall. Telemachus had taken care that all other weapons should be removed, under pretence that in the heat of co

ose; it would not bend. Then spoke Ulysses, humbly suggesting that he should be permitted to try; for, said he, “beggar as I a

s, the queen declaring that whether the victor were “Trojan or Tyrian should make no difference to her.” 383 At the feast whic

t the people of the shore where his body had been wafted by the waves should be stirred up by prodigies to give it due burial,

tirred up by prodigies to give it due burial, and that the promontory should bear the name of Cape Palinurus, — and so it does

who were hereafter to be born, and to relate to him the exploits they should perform in the world. After this he reverted to t

ide to be won, and, in the result, a Trojan state founded, from which should rise the Roman power, to be in time the sovereign

in a dream by his father Faunus, that the destined husband of Lavinia should come from a foreign land. From that union should

d husband of Lavinia should come from a foreign land. From that union should spring a race destined to subdue the world. Our r

in particular, she predicted that before their wanderings ceased they should be pressed by hunger to devour their tables. This

r, whence they saw the lowing herds roaming over the plain where soon should stand the proud and stately Forum. They entered,

They found the chief officers in consultation, deliberating how they should send notice to Æneas of their situation. The offe

he saw the whole band surrounding Euryalus with noisy questions. What should he do! how extricate the youth! or would it be be

ame and offered to build them a residence so well fortified that they should be perfectly safe from the incursions of the Fros

r. But if anything remained unfinished on the first day of summer, he should forfeit the recompense agreed on. On being told t

ve thought himself safe among the gods, — still less, indeed, if Thor should return from the expedition he had then undertaken

hor of so many evil deeds, could have given such counsel, and that he should be put to a cruel death unless he contrived some

et it cost him what it might, he would so manage matters that the man should lose his reward. That night when the man went wit

ions had sought refuge was the thumb. Skrymir then proposed that they should travel in company, and Thor consenting, they sat

r resolved that if he had an opportunity of striking a third blow, it should settle all matters between them. A little before

t children. It consists in merely lifting my cat from the ground; nor should I have dared to mention such a feat to the great

, by my troth, a deed so marvellous, that had I not seen it myself, I should never have believed it. For one end of that horn

e and heaven. Might Hela perchance surrender Balder, if Höder himself should take his place among the shades? “Nay,” replied F

t lamentations were to be heard among the gods. Hela answered that it should now be tried whether Balder was so beloved as he

one of Rodmar’s sons, Otter. Whereupon Rodmar demanded that the gods should fill the Otter-skin with gold, and cover it with

f the Ysselland had declared that she would marry no man save him who should surpass her in athletic contest. This condition S

m was Siegfried. Kriemhild, looking from her window, said, “He surely should rule these realms;” Brunhild answered, “So long a

e Metamorphoses furnished material to the Latin poet. With Theocritus should be read Bion and Moschus, both exquisite masters

re, etc., of the Parsis, by E. W. West, Boston: 1879. In illustration should be read Moore’s Fire-Worshippers in Lalla Rookh.

y Prometheus was to the effect that, in time, Jupiter and his dynasty should be overthrown. Prometheus knew also that he would

sh of lightning, etc. It is quite natural that, in many legends, fire should play an active part in the creation of man. The p

f information to those who invented and perpetuated these stories. It should be borne in mind that the traditions concerning r

in, Though unsuccessful, was not sung in vain. All but the nymph that should redress his wrong, Attend his passion and approve

meter), and referred to institutions of married life. That Proserpine should be under bonds to the underworld because she had

strains of the breezes which accompany sunrise and sunset. The story should be compared with that of Apollo and Daphne, and o

ded with Cephalus, the son of Deion and grandson of Æolus. The former should , strictly, be regarded as the lover of Aurora (Eo

e latter is a descendant, in the fifth generation, of the former, and should be known as Æolus III. (See Genealogical Table I.

the explanations are entertaining and poetic, their very plausibility should suggest caution in accepting them. It is not safe

the name Tauris is given to the land of the Tauri. To be correct one should say, “Iphigenia among the Tauri,” or “Taurians.”

e lyre. § 176. Camilla. — Pope, illustrating the rule that “the sound should be an echo to the sense,” says, — “When Ajax str

ccent; when the penult is short, the antepenult is marked. The reader should , however, bear in mind that a syllable may be lon

e first man and woman; leaving this life they prepared for those that should follow blissful abodes in the other world, of whi

il’s edition, p. 415, l. 32. 236. J. R. Lowell, Rhœcus. The student should read not merely the fragments given here, but the

406. Pronounce Mizh’ia. 407. By rule for English pronunciation this should be Pa’ris, even though the penultimate vowel is s

nd the principals of the academy referred to, consented that the work should be prepared for the press. In carrying out the pl

, Saturn promised his brother Titan, that after his death, the latter should succeed him in his kingdom. To ensure this, Titan

in search of his sister Europa, with the further injunction, that he should never return to his native land without her. The

before his father, went to consult the oracle of Apollo as to what he should do. He was directed by the god to follow a young

r, which he would meet in the fields, and to mark the place where she should lie down to rest. He was to build a city on that

on King Admetus? Ans. He obtained from the Fates, that when Admetus should be about to end his existence, his life might be

him choose any recompense he pleased. Midas demanded that whatever he should touch might be turned into gold. This prayer was

ndly received, and Apollo swore by the Styx to grant him any favor he should ask. Phæton immediately prayed that he might be a

Oceanus [Ocean′us], bidding him to observe, when the shades of night should darken the world, how her rival was exalted. The

d with olive? Ans. Because the olive is the emblem of peace, and war should only be made that a secure peace may follow; also

about its name; and it was resolved that whichever of the two deities should confer the most useful gift on man, might give a

ient. She caused it to be proclaimed that any one who sought her hand should contend with her in running, with the understandi

h her in running, with the understanding that she would marry him who should excel her in the race, but that those who were be

him who should excel her in the race, but that those who were beaten should suffer death. Hard as were these conditions, many

pus, where she made her complaint to Jupiter, and demanded that Pluto should restore her daughter. Jupiter promised to grant h

r daughter. Jupiter promised to grant her request, in case Proserpine should not have tasted food in the infernal regions. Cer

h any certainty. The penalty of death was decreed against any one who should betray the secret, or even witness the ceremonies

ses, promising to choose from among the nine images, those which they should consider the most beautiful. When the statues wer

Sirens attracted no attention. The Fates had decreed that the Sirens should live until some one who passed by, had listened t

heus, the Titan, prophesied that Thetis would give birth to a son who should be greater than his father. Jupiter thereupon des

llo. An answer was given that no remedy could be found until some one should solve the riddle that the Sphinx had proposed, an

give the throne, with the hand of his sister Jocasta, to that man who should solve the riddle. Œdipus, who was then at Thebes,

honor this Virtue in such a manner, that however the patrician ladies should surpass them in power or rank, they might still e

f great danger and difficulty. Hercules was in doubt as to whether he should submit to this injustice, and consulted the oracl

sow his teeth in the ground, and afterwards destroy the soldiers who should spring from them. Jason accepted the conditions,

s immortality with his brother. It was arranged, therefore, that they should live every alternate day. Ques. What Constellati

ds remembered this, and permitted that after a certain time, Hercules should kill the eagle and set him free. Chapter XXIX

to deprive him of life. Acrisius resolved, in consequence, that Danaë should never marry. To guard against the possibility of

means the earth might again be peopled. The oracle directed that they should cast behind them the bones of their Great Mother.

em into halcyons. According to the poets, it was decreed that the sea should remain calm while these birds built their nests u

ntered the chamber of Althea, and foretold that the life of the child should expire with a billet of wood then burning on the

pted the trophies, but the uncles of Meleager, indignant that a woman should bear off the honors of the day, snatched them rud

inos, but all his efforts were vain, as the Fates had decreed that it should not be taken, so long as a purple lock which grew

power of Famine. As the Fates had decreed that this goddess and Ceres should never meet, an Oread was sent to the ice-clad pla

afterwards to listen to the suit of that god, he decreed that no one should attach any credit to her predictions. It was so i

in verdant pastures. Circe had warned the voyagers that these flocks should be held inviolate, however pressing their wants m

Jupiter, however, sent Mercury to Calypso, with the command that she should dismiss Ulysses, and provide him with all that wa

er resist. She promised, therefore, that she would marry that man who should send an arrow from the bow of Ulysses, through tw

de him return to Ithaca; he obeyed, and the goddess contrived that he should arrive on the same day with his father, and meet

ctionate greetings, the two heroes consulted as to what measures they should take for the punishment of the suitors, and the d

ors, and the deliverance of Penelope. It was resolved that Telemachus should proceed to the palace, and mingle with the suitor

to the palace, and mingle with the suitors, as formerly; that Ulysses should also go, but in the disguise of a beggar. Such pe

chiefs who fought against the Greeks. The Fates had decreed that Troy should not be taken as long as Hector lived. The hero kn

Polynices [Polyni′ces]. It was agreed between the brothers that they should reign each a year alternately. Eteocles first asc

erished before the walls, it was proposed that Eteocles and Polynices should decide the war by single combat. The brothers fou

the dogs and vultures, and forbade, under pain of death, that any one should bestow on him the rites of sepulture. He thus car

e love of the young prophetess, and promised to give her whatever she should demand. The sibyl desired that she might live as

middle of the second century, it was not possible that the Christians should have added anything to them. There are also passa

ted that those who entered the cave of Trophonius never smiled and we should judge, from the accounts given by ancient writers

nt hope of recovery. They were obliged to sleep in the temple, and we should judge, from the accounts given by ancient writers

ry belonged to the owner of the horse or chariot, although he himself should not have been present at the games. The Greek his

e fee to two oboli, and obtained a decree that even this trifling sum should be furnished by the magistrates to the poorer cla

’s power neglected lies, Where to her dogs aspiring temples rise! And should you leeks or onions eat, no time Would expiate th

nts in the life of our Saviour, that it is impossible the coincidence should be accidental. It is supposed this book was writt

possible that a sage so eager in the pursuit of religious knowledge, should have failed to learn something of the ancient pro

ower of Confucius, etc., upon which politeness requires that each one should speak slightingly of his own religion, and praise

ina, on the subject of religion, how does it happen that Christianity should be so severely persecuted? Ans. This arises part

aries are, of course, foreigners, and it is natural that the emperors should imagine them to be working in the interest of the

n the dismal regions of Jotunheim. The artful Loki proposed that Thor should array himself in the garments of Freya, and accom

the machinations of evil spirits. To possess the proper efficacy, it should be gathered in February or March, on the sixth da

h and rebuild the roof of their rustic temple. If any of their number should let fall the least part of the sacred material, h

eart, and watched carefully to obtain an omen, according as the blood should flow more or less rapidly. This ceremony was repe

instructed them in the arts of civilized life. It is singular that he should have been described with every characteristic of

hat any surplus, beyond what was actually required for their support, should be distributed among the poor. This, and other be

, and were directed to take up their abode wherever the sacred emblem should sink into the earth of its own accord. This prodi

d Invincible, secure; who soon, with hand Of strength o’ercoming him, should cast him forth From glory, and himself th’ immort

ng Jupiter from imminent death: it was also necessary that his father should remain unconscious of his existence. To ensure th

nguished so long, stipulating that in exchange for their freedom they should supply him with thunderbolts, —-weapons which onl

ometheus knew they would never willingly share it with man, and that, should any one obtain it by stealth, they would never fo

peerless creature; and the gods, after due consideration, decreed she should be called Pandora. They then bade Mercury take he

a silent waste.” Ovid ( Dryden’s tr.). As they talked upon how they should repeople the desolate earth, they came to the shr

mn occasion that the immortal conclave of the gods declared that Juno should be henceforth honoured as goddess of marriage.  

er rash boast. Minerva gently advised her to be more modest, lest she should incur the wrath of the gods by her presumptuous w

mely end his brilliant medical career. “Then Jove, incensed that man should rise From darkness to the upper skies, The leech

ich had previously been appointed for the good king’s death, some one should be found willing to die in his stead. This divine

then changed his lifeless clay into a cypress tree, which he declared should henceforth be used to shade the graves of those w

favourite tree, and that prizes awarded to poets, musicians, &c… should consist of a wreath of its glossy foliage.      

atthew Arnold. According to a previous arrangement — that the victor should have the privilege of flaying his opponent alive 

ician. Apollo and Midas The mournful termination of this affair should have served as a warning to all rash mortals. Suc

ndition was imposed before he was allowed to depart; that is, that he should leave the Infernal Regions without turning once t

, terrified by the power of his music, and in dread lest their hearts should be moved, quickly laid hands upon him, and hurled

ook the goatherd and fastened him in a great chest, intending that he should die of starvation. The Muses, however, would not

orship Apollo. “I marvel not, O sun! that unto thee In adoration man should bow the knee,     And pour his prayers of mingled

and gave orders that all the statues representing them in her kingdom should be torn down from their pedestals and destroyed.

, as he drew near and addressed them, turned and fled. Afraid lest he should never see them again were he now to lose sight of

who consented to their union on condition that his future son-in-law should win his bride by some heroic deed. Now, as Orion

omplements of curtesie: They teach us how to each degree and kynde We should our selves demeane, to low, to hie, To friends, t

f gods was slighted, and, to punish her for her pride, he decreed she should marry Vulcan, god of the forge, the most ill-favo

nterviews they enjoyed. Yet, fearful lest some of the gods passing by should discover them together, Mars always placed his at

ore the sun rose, as the lovers were particularly anxious that Apollo should not witness their parting caresses. All prospered

, nor could he resist her pleading: so he finally decreed that Adonis should be restored to her longing arms. But Pluto, whose

her parents would never consent to their union Then, afraid lest one should notice that she was talking to a stranger, she ba

t still, when evening came, she lighted her torch to serve as beacon, should he risk all to keep his word. The wind blew so fi

er, so hideous that he dare not brave the broad light of day, lest he should make her loathe him, and further added that, if s

mus. Her parents, hearing she had broken her vows, commanded that she should suffer the prescribed punishment of being buried

he prescribed punishment of being buried alive, and that the children should be exposed to the teeth and claws of the wild bea

principal temples. Then, in constant dread lest some of their enemies should succeed in stealing it, they caused eleven other

parate portion of the universe, he decreed that Neptune, or Poseidon, should govern all the waters upon the face of the earth,

en named Theophane, and fearful lest some one of her numerous suitors should find favour in her eyes before he had time to urg

lare that the quarrel could be settled by Marpessa only, and that she should freely choose the suitor she preferred as husband

d him and tried to overtake their beloved mistress. Afraid lest Ceres should come and force him to relinquish hi: new-won trea

, she paid no heed to their distress, and vowed that nothing on earth should grow, with her permission, as long as her daughte

isit the upper world once more. “Arise, and set the maiden free; Why should the world such sorrow dree By reason of Persephon

the charge, and Jupiter decreed that for every seed she had eaten she should spend one month of every year in her husband’s gl

ons they therefore carried it out of Rome and down the Tiber, lest it should fall into the enemy’s hands. The Vestals continue

y for her husband’s safe return. But, alas! the gods had decreed they should never meet again on earth; and, even while Halcyo

cially to view with some composure his corpse, which they had decided should be washed ashore, sent a Dream to visit her. Afte

oth bodies into birds, since known as Halcyon birds, and decreed they should ever live on the waters. These birds were said to

ng of the island. The god had sent the animal with directions that he should be offered up in sacrifice; but Minos, charmed wi

Diomedes had decreed that all strangers who ventured into his kingdom should be seized, and, when sufficiently fat, executed,

he had found him, there to remain until some more compassionate hero should come and set him free. “There Atlas, son of grea

hollow, and was so well pleased with the effect, that she decreed it should henceforth be one of her attributes. The fight, o

ing news, than he flew into a great rage, vowed that mother and child should perish, and despatched he guards to fetch the unf

is child’s blood, or to witness her execution: so he ordered that she should be placed in an empty cask with her helpless infa

by incurred the wrath of young Perseus, who loudly declared that none should dare force his mother as long as he were there to

nd his back, flew away in great haste, lest the two remaining Gorgons should fall upon him and attempt to avenge their sister’

take the sword and sandals, and come and join him in Athens, where he should be introduced to the people as his son and heir.

ated cautions to his son not to venture too high, lest the sun’s heat should melt the wax which fixed the feathers to the fram

h, and keep the other in his hand as a clue to find the way out again should the sword enable him to kill the dreaded Minotaur

een soon found a place of refuge, but, afraid lest their hiding-place should be discovered and they should all be slain by the

ge, but, afraid lest their hiding-place should be discovered and they should all be slain by the cruel Pelias, they entrusted

e attempt. “With terror struck, lest by young Jason’s hand His crown should be rent from him, Pelias sought By machinations d

a few days old, until they heard that the Fates had decreed the child should live only as long as the brand then smoking and c

ng of marriage, and anxious to keep her freedom, had decreed that she should marry only the suitor who could beat her in a foo

a foot-race. It was decreed, moreover, that every unsuccessful suitor should pay for his defeat by forfeiting his life. At

o, but his priests, receiv’d An oracle, which said, it was decreed He should be slain by his own son.” Sophocles ( Francklin’

somewhat ambiguously, and merely warned him that fate had decreed he should kill his father, marry his mother, and cause grea

the face of the earth, and never see city or parents again. “Lest I should e’er fulfil the dire prediction, Instant I fled f

erers had been found and punished.             “The plague, he said, should cease, When those who murder’d Laius were discove

ly decided upon, whereby it was decreed that Eteocles, the elder son, should reign one year, and at the end of that period res

s quarrel, the conflicting armies finally decreed that the difference should be settled by a duel between the inimical brother

e place where the catastrophe had occurred, added to his fear lest he should incur judicial punishment for his involuntary cri

n, and inquired how it happened that such a very charming young woman should remain so long unmarried. Then, having received a

render his power to one greater than he. Thetis’ hand he then decreed should be given in marriage to Peleus, King of Phthia, w

ven, next appeared in royal robes and insignia, and whispered that he should have great wealth and unlimited power were he to

sted twice a single hair.” Cowper. Then, trembling lest her efforts should prove vain, she gently drew near the youth, and s

y husband she selected, proposed that all the candidates for her hand should take a solemn oath, binding themselves to respect

ts of the favoured suitor, and help him regain possession of his wife should any one venture to kidnap her.                  

e libations, and with solemn vows Bind their firm faith that him, who should obtain The virgin for his bride, they all would a

ulnerable part of his body. With many tears Thetis vowed that her son should never leave her to encounter such a fate, and ent

his departure.      “I wrote, I seal’d A letter to my wife, that she should send Her daughter, to Achilles as a bride Affianc

ed to send Achilles to Agamemnon to apprise him of their wish that he should set Chryseis free, —  a wish which he immediately

er of his army, stepping forward, proposed that the prolonged quarrel should be definitely settled by a single combat between

nt at this interference on Venus’ part, the gods decreed that the war should be renewed; and Minerva, assuming the form of a T

ered Hector, great in war: ‘All this I bear in mind, dear wife; but I should stand Ashamed before the men and long-robed dames

tr.). The Armour of Achilles Then, in sudden dread lest Hector should fall by another’s hand, or withdraw from the batt

reathlessly made known her errand, and the god promised that the arms should be ready within the given time, and immediately s

“‘Leave we the dead, my son, since it hath pleased The gods that he should fall; and now receive This sumptuous armour, forg

nd the best modes of applying them, had once told him to send for her should he ever be wounded. He therefore sent for Œnone;

, Neptune’s priest, implored them to leave the horse alone, lest they should bring untold evil upon their heads.         “‘Wr

all Art Gallery. Then, mortally afraid lest Orestes, Agamemnon’s son, should avenge his father’s death, Ægisthus prepared to s

kely to find it, and had therefore no fear lest their means of escape should be cut off. Polyphemus and Galatea Polyphem

ed down upon them; then, seizing a huge rock, he vowed his rival Acis should not live to enjoy the love which was denied him,

fig-tree, Ulysses, clad in armour, stood on the prow to attack Scylla should she attempt to seize one of his crew. The sound o

rned them to avoid it, lest by slaying any of the sacred animals they should incur divine wrath. The men, however, worn out wi

to appease his hot anger, immediately promised that all the offenders should perish. “‘Still shine, O Sun! among the deathles

t to punish the insolent suitors. They finally agreed that Telemachus should return to the palace and make no mention of his f

f his father’s return, while Ulysses, still in the guise of a beggar, should enter his home and claim the usual hospitality. A

im remember that the immortal gods had long ago decreed that the city should fall, and that Helen was merely the pretext used

s grandson’s head, which sign he interpreted as an omen that his race should endure. He no longer resisted; and, as he was too

ten her hatred of the Trojan race, and afraid lest her enemy’s course should now prove too smooth, she sent Alecto, the Fury,

ious about his fate. Seeing this, and fearful lest their interference should still further endanger the hero whom he favoured,

lscian maiden, fell at last, breathing a fervent entreaty that Turnus should hasten to the succour of his despairing people, i

ll indeed interpret all that I can, but I cannot interpret all that I should like.” —  Grimm. In attempting an analysis of

in, winds, fire, &c. To make their process of reasoning plain, it should be explained that as French, Spanish, and Italian

quel, for it seemed but poetic justice that the author of such crimes should receive signal punishment. As the Eumenides, or E

n writing it, two points were kept constantly in mind: first, that it should present the stories essentially according to the

nt the stories essentially according to the traditions; next, that it should have some of the spirit of the old Greek and Lati

for the crops of rye and barley and seeing that they ripened as they should . Gruff old Pluto tried to comfort the goddess-chi

ff old Pluto tried to comfort the goddess-child. He told her that she should be his bride and queen; that she should have all

s-child. He told her that she should be his bride and queen; that she should have all the underworld bow down before her, and

e should have all the underworld bow down before her, and that no one should treat her unkindly, since he loved her. He told h

the grain unripened shake.    Arise, and set the maiden free;    Why should the world such sorrow dree    By reason of Persep

fair face, Persephone! Demeter sighs, but sure'tis well    The wife should love her destiny: They part, and yet, as legends

ld happy. It must be good.” Then she would think that even though she should raise the lid just a little — just enough to look

o raise up the cover, with eyes eager to look in as soon as the crack should be wide enough. Suddenly it opened and something

bout magic maidens. But where were the gardens of the Hesperides? How should he get to them? These were the questions which pu

or Alcestis’ hand; and had been told that he might, but that Alcestis should become the wife of none save him who should come

might, but that Alcestis should become the wife of none save him who should come to claim her in a chariot drawn by a lion an

e midst of their sorrow, when Alcestis was on the verge of death, who should come to the palace but Hercules? He was on his wa

t. “Ho, fellow!” he cried out, “why this solemn, moody look? Servants should receive their master’s guests with beaming, cheer

what he had done, rebuking Admetus because of his treatment. “Friends should share griefs with friends, not hide them,” he sai

e wore slowly on, but sunset was as far distant as ever. When the day should have been ending, the chariot of the sun was care

in her suffering she called to Jupiter: — “If it be your will that I should die, destroy me with your thunderbolts, O Jupiter

that I should die, destroy me with your thunderbolts, O Jupiter! Why should I be thus tormented? If this be not your will, ro

o Perseus went out and walked along the seashore, considering what he should do, but discovering no way to accomplish his wish

was gone, and King Polydectes was glad at heart to think that now he should have his way. He sent a messenger to Danaë and co

ne tooth among them, and they spent their time quarreling as to which should use the eye and which the tooth. When Perseus cam

but he left soldiers at the door of the temple to seize Danaë if she should come out. All that day the queenly woman remained

gic arts she recognized Theseus, she resolved to destroy him, lest he should make her power less. One day she said to the king

day she said to the king: — “Is it well, O Ægeus, that your people should thus love this wise and beautiful stranger? Truly

way out. There the Minotaur wanders, lost in the maze; and though you should meet and slay him, you would starve in the confus

d Jupiter for aid, and Jupiter took a great oath that she and her son should be avenged; and when he nodded his head, the heav

o cries of lamentation, and they stood near him, lest in his grief he should do himself harm. Far away, at the bottom of the o

wrong, O Achilles, for the goddess of strife clouded my eyes, that I should not see; but now let there be peace between us fo

s had promised that as long as it remained within the walls, the city should not be taken. But one dark night in the tenth yea

vy so that you might not be able to take it into the city, for if you should drag it within your walls, Troy would never fall.

the distant future all — The fiery doom that lay in wait    When Troy should fall. He wooed her with his wondrous song.    Th

the rowers’ benches and set sail in haste, lest any of the other men should taste the magic plant. After that, the fleet sail

s men carried a goat-skin of rich wine, to be used as a gift if there should be need. There was no one in the cave when they e

t if I do, who will take the huge rock from the mouth of the cave? We should all die miserably.” That whole night Ulysses and

watch over the hero, and now she shed a mist over him, so that no one should see him or do him harm. When Ulysses awoke, he di

But at dawn next day, as Ulysses awoke in the swineherd’s house, who should come in but Telemachus himself. The suitors had m

tly on, shaking his head, but curbing his wrath until the proper time should come. Meantime, Queen Penelope had heard of the w

received prophetic power, but refusing his love, he decreed that she should not be believed, 208,213. Cas΄tor. Son of Leda;

the shepherds there, 71; fairest of men; was called upon to judge who should have the golden apple intended “for I the fairest

ained a complete victory over their enemies, settled by lot that Zeus should reign in Heaven, Aïdes in the Lower World, and Po

t Zeus should reign in Heaven, Aïdes in the Lower World, and Poseidon should have command over the Sea. The supremacy of Zeus

as Metis*, a daughter of Oceanus. Zeus devoured her, fearing that she should beget a son, who would deprive him of the empire

ed the worthy pair to name any wish they particularly desired, and it should be granted. They accordingly begged that they mig

decided that the one who presented mankind with the most useful gift, should have the privilege of naming the city. Poseidon s

name of Neptune as god of counsel. His altar was underground. Counsel should generally be given privately, therefore Consus wa

ndicate to the Erinnys* (Furies) the precise torture which the wicked should undergo for their crimes. They had sanctuaries in

were equal, declared that then, and in all future time, the criminal should have the benefit of the doubt. The Furies were at

ss, but Athene succeeded in pacifying them by promising that a shrine should be erected to them on the hill of the Areopagus.

t fell at the feet of the king, a voice was heard declaring that Rome should endure as long as this shield was preserved. In o

law of the Celestials that whoever saw one of them without permission should never look upon another object, Tiresias was stru

e, Athene bestowed upon him the gift of prophecy, and decreed that he should live through seven generations. The Roman Minerva

Father Zeus to restore his life. Zeus at length consented that Adonis should spend one-half of the year in the world of shadow

is head with the leaves, and declared that, in memory of his love, it should henceforth remain ever green and be held sacred t

ern monarch of Erebus, and Eurydice was restored on condition that he should not look back upon her until they reached the upp

ondition that when his last hour approached some member of his family should be willing to die in his place. When the fatal ti

. His comment upon the man made by Prometheus was, that the new being should have had a window in his breast, that his thought

and while, in an account of the invention of musical instruments, one should probably be told that the wind whistling through

uties of men. It was decided that Prometheus, as the advocate of man, should slay an ox and divide it into two parts, and that

an, should slay an ox and divide it into two parts, and that the gods should select one portion which in all future sacrifices

hat the gods should select one portion which in all future sacrifices should be set apart for them. In order to secure for man

for her, to follow a cow as his guide, and to build a city where she should lie down. On leaving the temple he passed through

ission pierced the heels of the child, in order to recognize it if it should ever reappear. The infant was found by Phorbas*,

a proclamation that the kingdom, and the hand of his sister, Jocasta, should be awarded to him who should succeed in solving t

om, and the hand of his sister, Jocasta, should be awarded to him who should succeed in solving the riddle. Tempted by such a

n agreed, that if he ever differed in opinion with the king, his wife should decide the question. Polynices offered her the co

e leaving his home, he extorted a promise from his son Alcmæon* that, should he perish, he would avenge his death on Eriphyle.

on the throne. Alcmæon consulted the oracle of Apollo, to know how he should punish his mother for her cupidity to his father

ounced to the gods that on that day would be born one of his race who should rule over all his neighbors. Hera hated Alcmena,

s told that he must serve Eurystheus by performing twelve tasks which should be imposed by him, after which he would be made i

day the stables in which there were three thousand oxen, provided he should receive in return a tenth part of the herds. Auge

uction among men and cattle. While the hero stood deliberating how he should get within reach of the birds, Athene brought him

uch him. Aides consented to his taking Cerberus, on condition that he should master him without using any weapons. Heracles se

us*, who had promised his daughter, Iole*, in marriage to the man who should vanquish himself and his sons in shooting with th

rival was the river-god Achelous, and it was agreed that their claims should be decided by single combat. Achelous trusted to

his sword and sandals under a rock, and told Æthra that, if her child should be a son, not to send him to Athens until he had

Theseus. Theseus resolved to perform some service for the state which should gain for him the hearts of the people. The Marath

suitors she proposed a race, promising to be the prize of the one who should outrun her, but those who were vanquished were to

safety. The rocks then became immovable, for it had been decreed they should if any vessel passed through in safety. The Ca

the voyage. It was decided that Jason, with a few chosen companions, should proceed to the royal palace, leaving the remainde

elinquish the Golden Fleece if Jason would perform the tasks which he should set for him. The first was to harness to a plough

ne had given to Æetes; and, finally, to overcome the armed crop which should spring up. Jason was in great perplexity when he

ted by the oracle to follow a spotted cow, and build a town where she should lie down. He followed the cow until she came to t

prove the ruin of his country; and the soothsayer recommended that he should be exposed on the mountain, to perish. This was a

d never ceased to regret her loss, and it was now proposed that Paris should take the command of an expedition to demand the r

ir landing. But great hesitation prevailed among the troops as to who should be the first to set foot on the enemy’s soil, it

ended goddess, hoping to appease her anger. The Trojans urged that it should be taken into the city without delay. In vain did

f the cave to feel of all as they went out, that Odysseus and his men should not escape with them. But the subtlety of the her

the ears of his men with wax, after having given directions that they should bind him firmly to the mast, and on no account to

er and son took counsel together, and it was arranged that Telemachus should proceed to the palace and mingle with the suitors

to the palace and mingle with the suitors as formerly; that Odysseus should go as a beggar, and he charged his son not to dis

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

Hesperia (Italy), they would not be able to found a city till famine should have forced them to eat the tables off which they

les fought, a bride to be won, and a Trojan state founded, from which should rise the Roman power to be in time the sovereign

ins, whom Odin sent to every battle-field to make choice of those who should be slain. When they rode forth mounted upon war s

d rode on to the house of Giuki, the Niflung*, who determined that he should marry his daughter Gudrun, and that Brynhild shou

etermined that he should marry his daughter Gudrun, and that Brynhild should become the wife of his son Gunnar. But Gunnar cou

e lakes, and to have built the cataracts in the rivers, so that there should be fish preserves and beaver dams.” Schoolcraft

ir tables when it was intended that the conversation which took place should be secret, and it was this custom that, undoubted

companying him in the chase, not perhaps without a holy fear lest she should become visible to him, and the fate of Acteon sho

ly fear lest she should become visible to him, and the fate of Acteon should prove to be his.‌ The lover, as he sought the pr

d from the beginning, and industriously veiled in this manner… No one should be moved, if he sometimes finds any addition for

for the sake of history, or by way of embellishment; or if chronology should happen to be confounded, or if part of one fable

if chronology should happen to be confounded, or if part of one fable should be transferred to another, and a new allegory int

gan to fear lest the offspring, which rose to such gigantic strength, should dethrone him; and by his power he threw them down

; but with the condition that whatever children might be born to him, should be destroyed. Saturn, faithful to his promise, sw

ngrateful to his deliverer, for Destiny having prophesied that Saturn should be dethroned by his son, the God attacked Jupiter

nd multiply their strength by night and day! ’Twas Jove’s decree they should in silence rove, For who is able to contend with

retired to the Isle of Samos, announcing, at the same time, that she should return no more to the court of the King of Heaven

statue as Queen of Olympus, placed it in his chariot, and declared it should be the future wife of the ruler of the Gods. This

e of Destiny, she would not be able to quit her place of concealment, should she have partaken of any nourishment while there;

This was sufficient; and the utmost Ceres could obtain, was that she should pass six months of the year with her mother and s

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

hey poured upon him, he added to this gift, the restriction, that she should never believe her own prophecies. After this he a

d the challenge, and it was mutually agreed, that he who was defeated should be flayed alive. The Muses were appointed umpires

her troth, (And secret sure is every woman’s oath,) The royal malady should rest unknown, Both for her husband’s honour and h

ast died. It was always required that those who consulted this oracle should make presents to Apollo, and from thence arose th

acrifice, The poet wept at her so piteous fate, Wept that such beauty should be desolate: So in fine wrath some golden sounds

succeeded, notwithstanding the Ephesians having decreed that his name should never be mentioned. In one of the temples where D

herefore banished him from his court, and menaced him with his wrath, should he return. The Goddess conveyed him to the isle o

he, was too delightful and too pure, not to meet with something which should realize the after thought of the poet, that “the

erself with the means of procuring a light, and a dagger to stab him, should he prove the monstrous being they averred. The ne

y sweet enforcement and remembrance dear, And pardon that thy secrets should be sung,     Even into thine own soft-couched ear

da, threw the flute away, and denounced a melancholy death to him who should find it. Marsyas was the unfortunate being, and i

for the desecration of that sanctuary, where only worship and incense should have been offered. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-

of Phrygia, he obtained from him the choice of whatever recompense he should name. Midas demanded the power of turning all tha

ss, and the oracles declared from this, that the extent of the Empire should never be lessened. Hebe was the daughter of

n elm in amorous foldings twine, “If that fair elm,” he cried, “alone should stand, No grapes would glow with gold, and tempt

d glow with gold, and tempt the hand; Or if that vine without her elm should grow, ’Twould creep a poor neglected shrub below.

, had, at last its effect, in preparing Pomona for Vertumnus, when he should assume his natural shape. “The story oft Vertumn

away On panting wings through the inclement skies,         Lest owls should prey         Undazzled at noon-day, And tear with

knew the fates, nor cared to raise up one, Whose fame and greatness, should eclipse his own. On happy Peleus he bestowed her

was necessary to secure him, lest by taking some unnatural shape, he should elude their vigilance. Insérer image anonyme_heat

slew the victor in his pride,     ’Tis meet the brave on battle field should die, His name is echoed thro’ the nations wide,  

itated Vulcan, by observing that if he wished to make man perfect, he should have placed a window at his heart; and when he fo

ities Of father, son, and brother, first were known, Far be it that I should write thee sin or blame, Or think thee unbefittin

entrance of their temples, to intimate that the mysteries of religion should never be revealed to the people. “There is a lak

ers, and, as he had been warned by the oracle, to beware of a man who should appear at Iolchos with one foot bare, and the oth

nishment, and was one which would produce a crown of glory to him who should inflict it; adding, that if Jason, were to undert

d slain Phryxus, provided the invaders consented to the conditions he should propose, and which were as follows: Jason was to

med men would spring up, whose rage would be directed against him who should be daring enough to plough the field; and as a co

a massacre, they engaged the poet Euripides to write a tragedy which should tend to clear them of the murder, and throw the c

es Within my cradle. When my age advanced To youth’s fresh bloom, why should I say what toils I then sustained? What lions — w

Allow no converse. Should I go to Argos? How, since I fly my country, should I seek Refuge in other states, malignant eyes Wou

ld me more, With whom in better days I have been happy. Why therefore should I live? What blessing were it To gain a useless a

nira, who had been promised by her father in marriage to that one who should prove the strongest of all his competitors. The m

right set free, If thou no reverence owe my fame and me, Yet kindred should thy lawless lust deny, Think not perfidious wretc

red towards Danae, and the intentions which he harboured towards her, should meet with the resentment of her son. The monarch,

of his way, and made a sumptuous banquet, decreeing that all who came should present him with a beautiful horse. To this feast

an oracle declared, That the dark womb of time concealed a day, Which should , disclosed, the gloomy gold betray: ‌All should

ncealed a day, Which should, disclosed, the gloomy gold betray: ‌All should at once be ravished from his eyes, And Jove’s own

d shall you claim his merit? Had you thought Her charms so great, you should have bravely sought, That blessing on the rocks w

e expedition; and before his departure, he promised his father, if he should be successful, to hoist a white sail on his retur

turned to Athens, he found that Mnestheus had usurped the crown which should have fallen upon his children. In vain did Theseu

Hip. Peace, thou! adultress! peace, thou, shameless one, Away, lest I should change a husband’s love, Into a husband’s hate.  

it not on thee, this awful crime!’” Racine. Fearful lest Hippolytus should betray her, when she found he would not return he

de to this monarch he obtained a promise from the Fates, that Admetus should never die if another person would lay down his li

ur bold, Imperative, and arrogant: from far He waved his hand, that I should quit the path. Most narrow was the place, and sca

re to touch me? Methinks there’s not a hand that grasps thy hell, But should run up like flax, all blazing fire. Stand from th

come the great source of prosperity to the country in which his bones should be laid. He sent therefore to Theseus, king of th

arrangement was made between them, by which it was agreed, that they should exercise the kingly authority for one year altern

bes, he told his son Alcmeon to slay his mother, if news of his death should reach him; and when Alcmeon heard that his father

, offered to finish the battle by a single combat, on which the crown should depend. ——————— “From the flying troops Eteocles

amia, the daughter of the king, that monarch having declared that she should only wed the man who would run on foot as fast as

ay it at once, and let me be unblest; But, O my faultless father! why should you? And shun so my embraces?                 Am

cepts of his tutor, Chiron, the centaur. But it was necessary that he should be discovered; and that he should be animated wit

ntaur. But it was necessary that he should be discovered; and that he should be animated with higher thoughts and more exalted

intrepid foes. It was necessary likewise that Rhesus, King of Thrace, should be prevented from allowing his horses to drink of

he Trojans the last and only consolation of thinking that the remains should be given to the aged Priam. He had the cruelty to

destroy it. The most superstitious demanded on the contrary, that it should be conducted to the city, and offered to Minerva.

ve for her husband, with such a full and prophetic assurance that she should once more see him, that all their efforts to infl

and disturbed, as Tyresias, the soothsayer, had informed him that he should be killed by one of his sons. To prevent this mis

rch of Olympus to reward her powerful services, decreed that the Gods should swear by her, and that those who violated the oat

t the Gods should swear by her, and that those who violated the oath, should be exiled ten years from the celestial court, and

d’s face Shone like a star — ’Twas strange that she, a high sea-nymph should leave, Her watery palaces, and coral caves, Her h

ere he could enjoy her society, and pointed out the spot to which he should look at night for a torch to guide his way. ‌ “

nd the body of Balder from the ‌dark goddess Hel, who replied that he should be returned if all created beings would shed a te

to the negroes, represent the evil spirits; and the number of victims should be five and twenty: unlike most other lands, who

nces are too eager for blood, they are allowed to ransom their lives, should it be in their power. The negroes of Senegal ador

knowledge. Should it chance to come under the eye of any of them, and should he happen to find his ideas anywhere adopted with

ps insuperable impediments to its general adoption in schools ; but I should hope that it will continue to be used in the Univ

There is no good reason for this last usage, and I think Greek names should be so written as that they might be at once trans

d to the original Greek characters. For this purpose the long e and o should be marked as they are in the Index, and if we wer

e the right of the stronger, according to the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who

the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can. A literary work, whether the creat

blic. Supposing (a most improbable event) that the study of mythology should ever become general, the public would have no rig

y extension of the term of those copyrights which they have purchased should go to them also, and not to the author. Theirs in

end, Mr. Brooke, was equally liberal with respect to the plates ; and should mythology ever become popular by means of this wo

, or legends of their adventures, and of their dealings with mankind, should gradually arise ; and as they passed from hand to

ng to halt and give battle at the spot where the line he made of them should terminate. These instances may suffice to show th

. Rules for the Interpretation of Mythes. The following rules should be attended to in mythological inquiries. 1. To c

eligions of Greece and India. 2. In like manner the mythes themselves should be considered separately, and detached from the s

connexion, not unfrequently without fully understanding them49. 3. We should pay particular attention to the genealogies which

meaning of a mythe, or even of a whole cycle50. Great caution however should be used in the application of this rule, or it ma

ent of all sorts of monsters and lusus naturæ. 5. Finally, though we should never pronounce a mythe which we have not examine

a mythe which we have not examined to be devoid of signification, we should not too confidently assert that every mythe must

inciple it will only serve to damp ardour and check inquiry. The rule should be, — this mythe most probably has a meaning, but

t the punishment due to vice. The reason is not so apparent why Night should be the parent of Mockery. Hesiod places the abode

ary sea’, with which he would be content. The gods then swore that it should be the undisturbed possession of the Sun-god, and

ated. It is now, however, hardly possible to rectify the error, if it should be such. Έκάτη. Hecate. In the Theogony29

to our literature, and were we to remain unacquainted with it till we should open the volumes of Homer, what a new world would

cing the religion of Greece from abroad is so notorious, that few, we should suppose, would lay any stress on his testimony in

he Thracians and Scythians, renowned in all ages for their horses437, should have first received these animals from the coast

the sea-god was forced to yield, in the latter Zeus decided that they should hold the dominion in common. In like manner Posei

fact surprising, that men who had such a dreary prospect before them should not have been more attached to life, and more ave

existed — had all visited Egypt483. But enough of such mendacity : we should not have noticed it, were it not that the fashion

ually ascribed to this goddess608, also accord with Night ; and if it should appear that the children of Leto were Sun and Moo

if possible to prevent his birth. Determined therefore that no place should receive the travailing goddess, she took her own

says, that as he had met them in the form of a porpoise (δελὶν) they should worship him as Apollo Delphinios, whence the plac

δελὶν) they should worship him as Apollo Delphinios, whence the place should also derive its name617. They now disembark : the

ree (δάϕνη, laurus). The god embraced its trunk, and declared that it should be ever afterwards his favourite tree623. Of this

a summer-tone of the god. The nightingales sing to him, as the birds should sing in Aleæus ; the swallows and cicadas also si

a nymph Arge, who when pursuing a buck cried out to him, «Though you should follow the course of the Sun I will overtake you,

sport both males and females with mortals. But Zeus resolved that she should no longer be exempt from the common lot. Accordin

al, all his veneration vanishes, and he declares that not even Apollo should prevent his taking advantage of the favourable mo

h him ; and the matter being referred to Zeus, he decreed that Adonis should have one third of the year to himself, be another

hy those nations whose heaven was mildest, and their winter shortest, should so bitterly bewail the regular changes of the sea

, that in that case the mournful and the joyful parts of the festival should have been held at different times of the year, an

Moved by the tears of his bride, he however consents that her sisters should come to the palace. The obedient zephyr conveys t

empts made to develope its secret and real nature. All, therefore, we should ever hope to arrive at is a view of the general s

ving a large quantity of gold, and drove him out of the house till he should have given it. Pallas-Athene incensed at her unha

discussed in its proper place ; here we will only observe, that if it should appear to be as old as the age of Homer, there ca

onfess that we are not satisfied with any of these explanations ; and should the derivation from the story of Io not be approv

. We offer this hypothetis, however, only as a conjecture, perhaps we should say as a mere sport of imagination ; for we are i

r arms.’ She tells who she is, and directs that the people of Eleusis should raise an altar and temple to her without the town

ld save her from spending onethird of the year with her husband ; she should however pass the other two with her and the gods 

y coincidence, that the Noms, the Destinies of Scandinavian theology, should also be spinsters, and three in number1007. Κῆ

he took her by the hair and flung her to earth, with an oath that she should never return to Olympos. The Theogony of Hesiod c

rew that he was a god, and exhorted them to set him on shore, lest he should cause a tempest to come on. But the captain rebuk

oubtedly one of the most ancient deities, is noticed in the Ilias, it should not excite any great surprise to find the poet to

thenian laws, which direct that those who have committed manslaughter should be brought before the King of the Sacred Affairs,

e the King of the Sacred Affairs, and being absolved by the judgement should be solemnly purified, — of which laws Dracôn is s

gia : the oracle, on being consulted, directed that the body of Attis should be buried, and divine honours be paid to Cybele.

ly to avoid the society of every other woman, and told him that a bee should be her messenger. One time the bee happened to co

d the artifice, she declared by way of punishment, that in future she should have but little use of her tongue ; and immediate

imself and three of his companions in them ; and when Proteus at noon should come up out of the sea and go to sleep amidst his

n a dolphin. The Isthmian games were celebrated in his honour1276. We should suppose it hardly necessary to remind the reader,

the hero of the Odyssey fears to remain in Erebos lest ‘Persephoneia should send out the Gorgeian head of the dire monster’12

cupy our attention. Its poet is in our eyes a Grecian Ariosto, and we should as soon hope to discover the true position of the

, be shown in it. If the little islet of Ortygia in front of Syracuse should be thought of, we reply, that it in no point acco

aphians visited it for the sake of trade. It is almost impossible, we should think, not to recognise in Ortygia and Syria two

for arbitrator, and he decided that, as Jupiter had given it life, he should have the body, but that as Care had formed it she

it life, he should have the body, but that as Care had formed it she should possess it while it lived, and that it should be

Care had formed it she should possess it while it lived, and that it should be called Man (Homo), because it was made of eart

y by vulgar female curiosity. It seems very strange that the ancients should have taken so little notice of this mythe. There

ong anterior to Homer and Hesiod, who make no mention of it ; neither should we perhaps be too forward to maintain that a trad

s abundant instances prove, remarkably fleeting and unstable ; and we should perhaps come nearest to the truth if we were to s

by local situation and other accidental circumstances1519, and which should cause no greater surprise than the diversity of d

tes that, when the day appointed for the life of Admetos to terminate should come, he might defer it if any one would die in h

e would do, if he had the power, had it been predicted to him that he should be slain by one of his citizens. Iasôn replied, t

he most distinguished citizens, clad in black, with their hair shorn, should go to this temple, and singing mournful hymns off

e, and calculated to strike with awe the minds of the hearers, for we should always remember that these ancient mythes were ar

ayed him as a compensation to turn her into a man, and grant that she should be invulnerable1592. The god assented, and in the

e to the hunt, proposing the hide of the boar as the prize of whoever should slay him. Of the Ætolians there were Meleagros an

me, and declared that when the billet which was burning on the hearth should be consumed the babe would die. Althæa on hearing

her, but to follow a cow as his guide, and to build a city where she should lie down. On leaving the temple he went through P

y the oracle that if they made Cadmos and Harmonia their leaders they should be successful. They obeyed the god, and his predi

st incredible, that a seafaring commercial people like the Phœnicians should have selected as the site of their very earliest

character. It is also strange that the descendents of these colonists should have so entirely put off the Phœnician character

d him with nectar and ambrosia, and render him immortal ; and that he should be called Zeus, and holy Apollo, Agreus (Hunter),

i, on being consulted, directed that whatever was remaining of Actæôn should be hidden in the earth, and a brazen figure of th

Athamas, being obliged to leave Bœotia, inquired of the god where he should settle. He was told to establish himself in the p

should settle. He was told to establish himself in the place where he should be entertained by the wild beasts. Having wandere

f Athamas the oracle directed that the eldest person of his posterity should abstain from entering the Prytaneion or senate-ho

stain from entering the Prytaneion or senate-house, or if found there should be offered as a sacrifice. Many of those in this

ed the oracle. The god directed him to shun his native country, or he should be the slayer of his father and the sharer of his

proclamation the throne and the hand of his sister Iocasta to whoever should solve the riddle of the Sphinx. Œdipûs, who was t

to whom, though dead, Persephoneia has granted reason, that he alone should have sense while others flit about mere shades169

by Thestios. He then went to Delphi, and inquired of the god where he should settle. The Pythia then first named him Heracles1

retending incredulity, exacted from him an oath that what he had said should be accomplished. Zeus, unsuspicious of guile, swo

begged of him to reserve it till the thirtieth day, saying that if he should then return victorious he might offer it to Zeus

the Arcadian town Stymphalos. While Heracles was deliberating how he should scare them, Athena brought him from Hephæstos bra

d been sent up by Poseidôn when Minôs had vowed to sacrifice whatever should appear from the sea. Struck with the beauty and s

lia1768, had declared that he would give his daughter Iola to him who should overcome himself and his sons in shooting with th

sister to Heracles ; but Eurytos and his other sons refused, lest he should destroy her children, if she had any, as he had d

pe the daughter of Cepheus, and told her, that if when a hostile army should approach she would show it three times from the w

emptation. It was also necessary for the perfection of virtue that it should encounter continued opposition ; and Grecian myth

in its stead. But again, it does not seem likely that an Argive hero should be the object of persecution to the Argive goddes

ian Chronicle, b. c. 1582. It may therefore seem strange that Cecrops should apparently have been utterly unknown to Homer and

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

the same should be the case with the dramatists ; and that Herodotus should speak of the Athena of Saïs and of the Attic Cecr

htheus, Erichthonios and Erysichthôn distinguished themselves1794. We should think it hardly necessary to inform the reader th

e event ; and received for answer, that victory would fall to him who should sacrifice one of his daughters. Erechtheus offere

ows that she could not have belonged to the original mythe. It is, we should think, quite evident that Oreithyia was not the d

said, to make him fit it, till the life left him. But if the stranger should be tall, he assigned him the short bedstead, and

ned to disconcert their plan. They feared that if this young stranger should be received as a son by the old king, he might fi

was married to Ægeus, fearing the loss of her influence when Theseus should have been acknowledged by his father, resolved to

ereignty, and entrust the administration of justice to a court, which should sit constantly at Athens, and exercise jurisdicti

that Poseidôn had promised him the accomplishment of whatever wish he should first form, cursed and implored destruction on hi

ated. From what has been said above respecting Cadmos, the reader, we should hope, will be prepared to regard the tale of an E

eus being manifestly one of great antiquity and peculiar to Argos, we should feel rather disposed to see the Argive goddess in

is a frequent epithet of Artemis in the Attic drama, little doubt, we should think, will remain of the identity of Artemis and

g her to marry, she consented, but only on condition that her suitors should run a race with her in the following manner. She

ox ; and dividing it into four parts, said that one half of the prey should fall to him who had first eaten his share, and th

g princes, her father declared that he would give her only to him who should bring him from Thessaly the cows of his mother Ty

dertook the adventure. Melampûs, previously declaring that he knew he should be caught and confined for a year but then get th

th her, he proclaimed that he would give his daughter only to him who should conquer him in the chariot-race. The race was fro

eans of obtaining the lovely daughter of Œnomaos, declaring that even should he fail in the attempt, he regarded fame beyond i

er, but it does not confirm it ; and it seems very strange that Homer should never have alluded to the Asiatic origin of the A

is added, he pronounced a curse on them that they and their posterity should perish by means of one another. They retired to M

me of Atreus ; and the oracle had responded, that to remove it Atreus should bring back his brother. He went to Thesprotia in

also come to consult the god on the nature of the vengeance which he should seek to take on his brother. They seized and brou

). An oracle, however, held out hopes of its ceasing, when a stranger should arrive in the country bearing with him an unknown

e way of the Greeks, knowing that it would prove injurious to whoever should find it. Eurypylos opening it saw the statue, and

was directed to take up his abode, and dedicate the coffer, where he should find people sacrificing after a strange fashion.

im a bull from the bottom of the sea, promising to sacrifice whatever should appear. Poseidôn sent the bull, and Minôs receive

was weeping, Aphrodite came and consoled her by an assurance that she should be the bride of Dionysos. The god appeared, enjoy

n which, on the advice of Hypsipyle's nurse, it was decided that they should invite them to land, and take this occasion of ha

nd put an end to the conflict. An oracle had told this prince that he should marry his two daughters to a lion and a bear, and

thsayer, and he knew by his art that it was fated that Adrastos alone should survive the war : he therefore declined taking pa

on his marriage Amphiaraos had agreed, that whenever he and Adrastos should differ in opinion, the decision should be left to

that whenever he and Adrastos should differ in opinion, the decision should be left to Eriphyle. Polyneices therefore gave he

back, and many were slain. Both hosts now resolved that the brothers should decide their quarrel in single combat. They fough

racle, gave him a spotted cow, and told him to build a city where she should lie down. Ilos followed the cow till she came to

t to variation and addition, and were we to give all these details we should extend our narrative to a disproportionate length

es in Greece, because they shut up within walls the gods, to whom all should be free and open, and whose house and temple this

should be free and open, and whose house and temple this whole world should be.” In the ‘Council of the Gods’ of the old sati

ar the slightest allusion to this strange genealogy anywhere else. We should perhaps read Eurynome for Euonyme, and then Krono

entur ibidem. It seems hardly credible that so remarkable a festival should be unnoticed by all the extant Greek writers ; an

xxxvi. 421.) calls Dionysos θαλασσοϕόνος. Græfe however queries if it should not be θαλασσονόμος. Could that strange poet have

e. Il’indman, son of Horseman. 1355. It seems strange that Völcker should have left this circumstance so entirely out of vi

able of ἄπϵιρος is short, that of ἤπϵιρος is long. On this however we should lay no stress. 1430. Od. xix. 271. seq. 1431.

r (Tril. 71. note) seems to have reason for thinking that this legend should be assigned to that poetess. It is remarkable tha

Greece, too absurd to deserve refutation. But these ingenious writers should have known that no practice is more common, and t

to steal her away and convey her to the Isles of the Blest, where she should espouse Rhadamanthys. Hermes obeyed, and placed a

the story of Soohrâb in the ‘Tales and Popular Fictions’ (p. 164.) we should have said, “The circumstance of a son thus slain

. King Pluto knew that he must hasten away with his prize, lest Ceres should discover her loss; and, to keep out of her path,

the neglected earth. So all the people cried aloud to Jupiter that he should bring Proserpine back to her mother, for they wer

any day when you walk in the woods or go through a tunnel. In fact, I should not wonder if most of you have already tried givi

he country feeling very proud of himself. As he was going along, whom should he meet but the little god Cupid, armed with his

em from that day on, became the sign of honor and triumph. If now you should ever hear the phrase “crowned with laurel,” you w

the gods spoke to human beings. If any one was in doubt as to what he should do in time of trouble, or wanted to know somethin

time. If you or 1 had fifty sharp eyes watching us day and night, we should find it hard to do anything they did not see. Nev

ter than Latona; for if all my wealth and power were taken from me, I should still have my children, seven times the number of

ould still have my children, seven times the number of hers. And even should fortune take one half of them from me, still woul

altar, women of Thebes, and cast away your wreaths. Me, and me only, should you worship, for I am greater than Latona.” At th

h! what would the world be to us     If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us     Worse than the dar

n marriage to a great river god. The king was undecided as to what he should do; but at length it was agreed that Hercules and

hould do; but at length it was agreed that Hercules and the river god should show their strength by wrestling together, and th

should show their strength by wrestling together, and that the victor should marry the king’s daughter. Such a way of settling

the maiden, saying, “Take this, fair bride, and if ever your husband should cease to love you, send him this garment dipped i

orch them.” He kissed his beloved child, and praying that no accident should befall him, gave the signal to start. Slowly, lik

he pitched his tents outside the walls, to wait there until the gates should be opened. Now Minos had taken along an abundant

e, and said, “Surely it is better that seven youths and seven maidens should die each year, than that every one in Athens shou

and seven maidens should die each year, than that every one in Athens should perish.” So all the young boys and girls were cal

ed together in the market place, where they drew lots to decide which should be the victims to the Minotaur. The lots were bal

readful death. You are brave and strong, and your sword is sharp. Why should you not slay the monster and escape to-night with

and to keep tight hold of the other with his left hand. If, then, he should kill the monster, he could easily find his way ou

dious words; Every pleasant sound my dear, When she stirs from sleep, should hear:           Wake her gently, morn!          

Ino that he felt no grief at this answer, but ordered that the oracle should be obeyed. Everything was prepared, and the child

k, the king answered that he had done enough for one day, and that he should rest until the morrow. But in the evening, Medea,

ace, told her his story, and begged for a love potion, a drink, which should make Scylla love him. Now it so happened that Cir

s for a while. Hyacinthus did not think it at all strange that Apollo should like to do these things for him. For love is so w

rts, whose truth was proven,     Like thine, are laid in earth, There should a wreath be woven     To tell the world their wor

also shows that King Midas was sometimes not so wise a monarch as he should have been. You remember reading in another story

yielded his right to his younger brother Saturn, on condition that he should not suffer any of his male children to live. To f

could not deceive the goddess. She imperiously demanded that this cow should be entrusted to her, and Jupiter did not dare to

gaudy peacock’s train.” Ovid. “Then Juno, grieving that she (Dido) should sustain A death so ling’ring, and so full of pain

to admonish those who were entering on the scenes of life, that they should “beware of flattery,” and strive to gain the prai

of her daughter. Ceres complained to Jupiter, who decreed that Pluto should restore Proserpine, if she had eaten nothing in h

gainst surprise.) To console Ceres, Jupiter ordained, that Proserpine should pass six months with her husband Pluto, and six m

hat we form many indiscreet vows, and that if they were all heard, we should eternize our misfortunes and regrets. Obs. 3. — 

consecrated to her; and its leaves, used in the crowning of those who should excel in poetry and in the Pythian games. Obs. 4

hosen as arbiters of this difference. They decided that the deity who should confer the most valuable gift on the city should

d that the deity who should confer the most valuable gift on the city should give his name to it. No sooner had Neptune struck

owledge. The art of spinning indicates that patience and perseverance should be evinced in his works; and the ornaments of tap

d be evinced in his works; and the ornaments of tapestry show that he should endeavour to embellish them. Arachne, a lady of C

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

as holding a distaff and busying herself with it, to express that we should avoid idleness, and exercise ourselves in useful

serpine is said to have brought him back to life on condition that he should remain six months with Venus and six months with

es, she at length declared that whoever would surpass her in running, should be her husband; but that whoever would be beaten

ning, should be her husband; but that whoever would be beaten by her, should be put to death. Accordingly they made their best

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

dancing, holding each other by the hand, in order to teach us that we should , by reciprocal benefits, strengthen those bands w

ts, strengthen those bands which attach us to each other, and that we should be grateful for benefits and affectionate. The Gr

efects of figure may be compensated by the charms of mind and that we should judge no one by his external appearance. They wer

nal appearance. They were said to be sprightly and light, because one should promptly oblige, and bestow a favour with no expe

greedy after riches, asked of him the gift of turning every thing he should touch into gold. His request was granted, but it

ral ceremonies, they began with designating the day on which the body should be interred. The judges were first informed; and

ere present to grace the moment of his birth. Clotho declared that he should excel in feats of valour; Lachesis, that he shoul

o declared that he should excel in feats of valour; Lachesis, that he should be most active; and Atropos, snatching a brand fr

be most active; and Atropos, snatching a brand from the fire, said he should live as long as it continued unconsumed. Althaea,

r to be thus considered, he promised to Neptune the first object that should be brought to him by the sea. At that moment he s

at the Sphinx would kill herself if one of the enigmas she propounded should be explained. She proposed the following riddle:

ng of Thebes by Jocasta. His father was informed by an oracle that he should one day be killed by his son. He therefore ordere

Greeks. Jupiter having declared that a child being about to be born, should have dominion over all his own race, Juno disguis

of them, as soon as a piece of needlework about which she was busied, should be finished; but she took care to unweave, in the

ied him. The same voice exhorted them to be religious, and after they should discover the memoirs which had been deposited at

standing around a fire, one person on a sudden declared that whoever should precipitate himself into the flames, would produc

arts and mechanical powers, are confounded before such works; and we should place accounts of them in the number of fables, i

which was necessary to support it; at the same time announcing, that, should their strength ever be diminished, the work would

the people of Delphi ordered, by an express law, that in future none should be elected to that office but women upwards of fi

f his regard for her, and promised to grant her any request which she should make of him. She desired to live as many years as

s, those who, after having exposed themselves courageously in battle, should die with arms in their hands. As soon as he had b

this religious edifice; cruel punishments were reserved for those who should have despised these three fundamental precepts, t

of worship. But the Scandinavians did not all agree as to the one who should have the preference. The Danes particularly honor

that the limit of the life of a man could be put forward if some one should die for him. When some celebrated warrior or some

at monument of the Icelandic mythology, which we have referred to, we should know but little of the religion of our forefather

nsion composed of nine worlds, and reserved principally for those who should die of sickness or old age. Hela or Death there e

we have related, is sufficient to show how necessary it is that they should be guided by lights superior to those of their re

at Britain, always so attached to the remembrance of their ancestors, should have transmitted from generation to generation, t

was said in a treaty which he made with the Gauls: “If a Carthaginian should do wrong to a Gaul, the cause would be brought to

lant a happiness which might be felt by those to whom particles of it should be distributed. This misletoe was consecrated and

, as the blood flows, or as the wound is opened. 11. Prisoners of war should be immolated on altars, or enclosed in osier bask

the assembly of the states is to be punished with death. 14. Children should be raised up until the age of fourteen out of the

imself, ineffable and unknown. It is necessary, therefore, that there should be certain mighty powers or agencies between the

hings first, middle, and last, it is necessary the governors of these should be twelve. Hence Jupiter, Neptune, and Vulcan, fa

d, and the rival of Hercules in his love for Deianeira. To decide who should have the bride, Hercules and Achelous had recours

to get rid of her admirers, she promised to marry any one of them who should outstrip her in a race, but that all who were def

hem who should outstrip her in a race, but that all who were defeated should be slain. Hippomenes, however, with the aid of Ve

to grant him immortality, but forgot to ask at the same time that he should not get old and decrepit. See Tithonus. “… So so

robes — the idea being that kindnesses, as personified by the Graces, should be done with sincerity and candor, and without di

“In two-faced Janus we this moral find, — While we look forward, we should glance behind.” Colman. Jap′etus [Japetus], so

ctim was taken out and thrown behind the altar, signifying that there should be no gall (bitterness) or anger between married

mself could not make these three agree, and it was decided that Paris should be the umpire. He was sent for, and each of the g

ess, undertook to restore Pelias to youth, but required that the body should first be cut up and put in a caldron of boiling w

anted him immortality, but she forgot at the same time to ask that he should be granted perpetual youth. The consequence was t

times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; that they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him

thology of the Antients, as to render it desirable that young persons should acquire some knowledge of that subject; yet few o

yielded his right to his younger brother Saturn, on condition that he should destroy all his male children. Conformably to thi

caused medals to be struck with two faces, to shew that his dominions should be governed by the joint counsels of himself and

s complained of this act of violence to Jupiter, who decreed that she should go and demand her daughter, and that Pluto should

ho decreed that she should go and demand her daughter, and that Pluto should be compelled to restore her, provided she had nei

tion. Jupiter, to comfort and appease Ceres, ordained that Proserpine should pass only one half of the year in the infernal re

confounded the Sun with Apollo; but ancient monuments prove that they should be distinguished from each other. Under what figu

of light for one day. The Sun having sworn to grant whatever Phaeton should ask, could not refuse. In vain did he give to the

ity, the gods decided that whichsoever produced the most useful gift, should have that privilege. Neptune striking the ground

eclared that the empire of the world was destined for that city which should preserve this shield. Numa Pompilius, second king

narch rears his horrid head Leaps from his throne, lest Neptune’s arm should lay His dark dominions open to the day, And pour

tion; ever providing for the happiness of all creatures. How thankful should we be for these sublime, rational, encouraging, d

owledge, communicated unto us by our Lord Jesus Christ! How earnestly should we desire, how diligently endeavour, that this un

to be? What did Minerva and Neptune produce, when they disputed which should give name to the rising city of Athens? What was