eceived by the authors of even the most successful works. I would say then , as the publishers say they would not give more f

ter there was also adored a Triad, — Ceres, Liber, Libera. May we not then suppose, that as the priestly nobles, the patrici

d in producing the effects which he refers to one single mind. Either then the true idea of One God has been resolved by the

nd they named the sun and moon after her hapless children. The Titans then divided the realm of their father among themselve

ought to recover his dominion ; but the new monarch defeated him, and then ruled, the lord of the whole world and the benefa

sought to reduce it to system, which we have already enumerated, were then revived or devised ; and mythology forms at prese

in of the gods worshiped in Greece. Chaos139 (Void Space) was first ; then came into being ‘broad-breasted’ Earth, the gloom

ith herself, to envelope her, and the Mountains and Pontos (Sea). She then bore to Uranos a mighty progeny : the Titans ; si

eleased the Hundred-handed, and called them to their aid. The war was then resumed with renewed vigour, and the Titans were

isoned in Tartaros under the guard of the Hundred-handed. The Kronids then , by the advice of Earth, gave the supreme power t

her surface and support the heaven ; and the barren salt Sea. United then by Love with Uranos, she gives birth to the Titan

yclopes and the Hundred-handed. He casts all these into Tartaros, and then the Titans are born ; who all, except Oceanos158,

haos, and sister of Erebos, to whom she bore Day and Æther168. She is then said to have produced without a sire Fate (Мόρος)

earth199 : it is not easy to determine whether the poet meant that he then passed through Tartaros back to the East during t

naturally led to inquire how his return to the east was effected. If then , as there is reason to suppose, it was the popula

s unyokes the sweating steeds, washes them in the waves of ocean, and then leads them to their stall ; and when they are res

was that the Sun rested himself and his weary steeds in the West, and then returned to the East. We are to recollect that th

ing beneath the ‘hoary sea’, with which he would be content. The gods then swore that it should be the undisturbed possessio

ns used to send suppers to be placed before her, which the poor would then come and eat, saying Hecate had eaten them304. Th

ed like gods, with minds devoid of care, Away from toils and misery : then was not Timid old-age, but aye in feet and hands

uld burst on our sight, — how splendid would Olympos and its dwellers then arise to view ! To present the gods in their Olym

oke, and bound On it the golden traces fair : the steeds Swift-footed then beneath the yoke were led By Hera, eager for the

ght for water to wash the new-born babe, but in vain, for Arcadia was then a land unwatered by streams ; the Ladôn, the Alph

the Neda, from one of the nymphs who assisted at her labour, and who then conveyed the babe to Cnossos in Crete391. The mor

; and after a time the goddess Pallas Athene sprang from his head. He then married Themis, who bore him the Seasons and Fate

ates. The Oceanis Eurynome next produced him the Graces ; Demeter was then by him the mother of Persephone, Mnemosyne of the

eece398. A mere epithet was probably the germ of the mythe ; Zeus was then placed at the head of a genealogy ; and last came

covered the poor bird, as she thought him, with her mantle, and Zeus then resuming his proper form accomplished his wishes.

nt wooden image (βρέτας) of Hera disappeared from the temple ; it was then diligently sought for, and was always found on th

longest branches were drawn down so as to envelope it. The priestess then loosed it ; it was washed ; a kind of cakes were

back to the shore, and made an offering of cakes to appease it. They then departed, and next day the rude ignorant people o

tself, and bound it to a willow to prevent its doing so again. Admeta then loosed it and restored it to its place in the tem

ns, marked which of them took the meat, and on what tree he sat. They then cut down that tree, and made an image from it. It

on a car, and a bridemaid (νυμϕϵύτρια) set beside it. The procession then moved on, each car taking its place by lot, and a

t permit her, saying that Zeus was abiding there with Leto. The nurse then went away, and Hera in consequence of this associ

se be correct. The goddess may have been originally merely Earth, and then , as she separated from the object over which she

god of war. He disposed it in such a manner as to catch the lovers : then feigning a journey, set out as it were for Lemnos

as loath to assent, till Poseidôn pledged himself to see him paid. He then yielded, and released his prisoners. Ares hastene

tched Iris to Olympos, who brought Eileithyia secretly to Delos. Leto then grasped a palm-tree in the soft mead, on the bank

adding that he would thenceforth declare to men the will of Zeus. He then , to the amazement of the assembled goddesses, wal

a floating island was to be his birth-place. At length she met Delos, then called Asteria, which floated among the Cyclades6

Leto when she was going by with her children in her arms ; she stood then on a rock, holding the infant Artemis, and urged

he nymph was faithless. The raven, the favourite bird of the god, and then white as his swans, saw the maiden in the arms of

e, and gave him moreover a team to drive (the team were swans)659. He then sent him to Delphi and the streams of Castalia, t

ound, he directed his swans to fly back from the Hyperboreans. It was then summer, and the very middle of it, when Alcæus le

eth aloud Unto the bowstring’s twang ; the earth itself And fishy sea then shudder : but she still A brave heart bearing goe

Of Delphi, there to arrange the lovely dance Of Muses and of Graces ; then hangs up Her springy bow and arrows, and begins T

untry, supplies her with dogs of an excellent breed. Mount Parrhasios then witnessed the first exploit of the huntress-godde

observes, though deified, still retains his appetite. The Amnisiades then unyoke her stags, and bring to them from Hera’s m

aught her garments and impeded her flight. Leaving Crete, Britomartis then sailed for Ægina in a boat : the boatman attempte

er strength to fail, and saw that her pursuer was close upon her. She then prayed to Artemis for relief, and was immediately

f these deities anterior to the time of theocrasy. Apollo and Artemis then are brother and sister, the children of Zeus (tha

m and gold in her pierced ears, and golden chains about her neck, and then led her to the assembly of the Immortals, every o

o her temple in Cyprus, where the Graces dressed and adorned her, and then in the full consciousness of beauty she proceeded

, where he informed her that she was to be the wife of Anchises ; and then , having instructed her in what she was to do, had

n-nymphs to rear, and will bring to him when in his fifth year. He is then to feign that the child is the offspring of one o

strictly right in me to do so, yet I will show you something new.” He then desired them to inquire of the inhabitants, what

knew not the cause of their being so styled. Jamblichus, who was just then standing at the brink of the fount of Erôs, touch

who had just bathed. All present were in amazement : the philosopher then leading them to the other spring did as he had do

he point of one of his arrows, reproaches her with her curiosity, and then proceeds to the palace of Jupiter to interest him

785, which Pindar786 says Hephæstos opened with a brazen axe ; Athena then sprang forth with a shout which terrified Heaven

which she Herself had wrought, and laboured with her hands. The tunic then of cloud-collecting Zeus She on her put, and clad

orminx or lyre, on which he immediately played with perfect skill. He then laid it up in his cradle, and resumed his journey

s vineyard, whom he straitly charged not to tell what he had seen. He then pursued his way by ‘shady hills, resounding vales

dressed two of them, and even made black-puddings of their blood, and then thriftily spread their skins to dry on a rock. He

he nymph kept her clothes, ornaments, and food, but to no purpose. He then threatens the child that he will fling him into T

ds that the art of Hermes had rooted their feet to the ground. Hermes then begins to play on his lyre, the tones of which so

ss herdsman’s cattle. He first cast the dogs into a deep slumber, and then drove off twelve heifers, a hundred unyoked cows,

d this matter drove on, and concealed his stolen kine in a cavern. He then resolved to make trial of the fidelity of Battos,

causes, sent Envy to fill her bosom with that baleful passion. Unable then to endure the idea of the felicity of her sister,

ploughed up, and the grass or corn cut down. The eyes of Argos might then have originally signified the flowers with which

dess her own seat, which however she declined. Iambe the serving-maid then prepared one for her, where she sat in silence, t

ingenuously confesses the swallowing of the grain of pomegranate, and then relates to her mother the whole story of her abdu

f the people,’ the mode of performing her sacred rites. The goddesses then returned to Olympos. “But come,” cries the Homeri

d not Poseidôn directed Pegasos to strike it with his hoof. The Muses then turned the presumptuous maids into nine different

ssessed him from the shouting of the man. The gods, who live at ease, then hated him, and the son of Kronos made him blind ;

ke their captive to Egypt or elsewhere and sell him for a slave. They then set sail, the wind blew fresh, and they were proc

sea and became dolphins. The pilot alone remained on board ; the god then declared to him who he was, and took him under hi

sewed it up in his thigh. In due time it came to the birth, and Zeus then naming it Dionysos gave it to Hermes to convey to

he mountains. He came as a maiden, and remonstrated, but in vain ; he then assumed the form of various wild beasts ; serpent

finally drove them mad ; they tore to pieces the son of Leucippe, and then went roaming through the mountains, till Hermes t

its resembling a bull’s horn in form was named the Western Horn, and then Amaltheia’s Horn, which last name was afterwards

e with new superstitions, is manifest from the number of jugglers who then roved through Greece, expiating by certain secret

apped him carefully in a hare-skin, and carried him away to Olympos : then taking his seat with Zeus and the other gods, he

lands, led him to their king. Midas entertained him for ten days, and then conducted him to his foster-son, who, in his grat

and at the same time desired him to ask what reward he would. Rhœcos then requested her to permit him to be her lover, and

s of Terambos vanished along with the paths and the trees. The nymphs then changed Terambos himself into the animal called b

nds to account for the statue of Tritôn at Tanagra being headless. He then subjoins, —  “I have seen another Tritôn among th

aos obeys the nymph ; and Proteus drives up and counts his herds, and then lies down to rest. The hero immediately seizes hi

s driven to Egypt, and gave him an image or phantom in her stead, and then restored her to Menelaos1263. The name of this de

the fish which he had caught and thrown on the grass to bite it, and then to jump into the sea, his curiosity excited him t

egarded not the gods, for they were much more powerful than they : he then seized two of the Greeks, and dashing them to the

ster had devoured two more of his victims gave him wine to drink, and then while he was sleeping profoundly, heated the stic

-eaters, which was evidently on that coast. The poet merely says, ‘We then sail on further, and come to the land of the Cycl

ne he was himself on board of, entered. A herald with two others were then sent to the city : they met the daughter of Antip

seized his kingdom ; but governing tyrannically she was expelled, and then fled to a desert isle of the Ocean, or as some sa

Siren to be celebrated, which was at once understood to be Sophocles, then just dead1390. Eventually, however, the artists l

d of the fig-tree, and held by it till they were thrown out again. He then floated along for nine days ; and on the tenth re

ties were new and unworn, each part of nature was a source of bliss ; then suns shone more brightly, plants diffused more fr

ned that the former was gradually extirpated by the latter, which was then destroyed by the gods ; but this was misunderstoo

g the fire in a hollow staff1464, brought it and gave it to man. Zeus then sent Pandora on earth to deceive man to his ruin,

rmed man and the other animals of clay and fire within the earth, and then committed to Prometheus and his brother the task

urpose, unless he could go thither and judge for himself. The goddess then bore him to heaven in her sevenfold shield, and t

wheel of the Sun’s chariot and thus stole some of the fire, which he then applied to the breast of his man and thus animate

rived men, and which Prometheus stole and brought back to earth. Zeus then , the mythe goes on to relate, was incensed at thi

ut that he shut up Hope, and kept the vessel with her in it1493. This then became the current idea, and we see how even so e

and putting provisions into it entered it with his wife Pyrrha. Zeus then poured rain from heaven and inundated the greater

n which are to be placed Cadmos, Cecrops, Perseus, and other heroes ; then follow the times of Heracles and Theseus and the

they were deaf to his prayers. With a generous self-devotion Alcestis then proffered herself as the substitute. She therefor

lf) came, he seized him, and forced him to resign his victim, whom he then restored to her husband. It was also said that He

Hades, Alcestis the Strong-one (ἀλκὴ) was Persephone. Her name would then answer to Strong (ἴφθιμος), one of his epithets,

e were Apollo or the ‘brazen-carred spouse of Aphrodite’ (Ares). Just then Pelias came by in his mule-car ; and the moment h

o demand the kingdom of his fathers which Zeus had given to Æolos. He then went into the house of his father, by whom he was

gods for vengeance, sent a poisoned robe as a gift to the bride, and then killing her own children mounted a chariot drawn

house of Pelias, and deceived his daughters as above related1548. She then made the appointed signal to Iasôn, who landed an

by letters, but in vain, to gratify her passion. Out of revenge, she then sent to inform his wife that he was going to marr

him would have put him to death, but for Cheirôn, who saved him, and then looked for and returned him his sword1561. Shortl

her design left her babe, and returned to her sister-Nereïdes. Peleus then conveyed the infant to Cheirôn, who reared him on

refused to let the experiment be tried on Achilleus. His goddess-wife then deserted him1575. These fictions are evidently po

, and Deïoneus seized his horses and detained them as a pledge. Ixiôn then sent to say that the gifts were ready if he would

uring seven more she feeds her young on the surface of the sea, which then is calm and free from storm, and these are called

was guarded by a serpent, who killed the greater part of them. Cadmos then engaged with and destroyed the serpent : by the d

any others,) merely a personification of the name of the people. Here then we might stop, and leave the Cadmeians to rank wi

e with him, and they ran down and devoured their unhappy master. They then went about whining in quest of him, till they cam

gure of that image be made, and bound with iron to the rock, and that then the evil would cease1658. Ἰνὼ καὶ Ἀθάμας . In

o Nephele (Cloud), by whom he had two children, Phrixos and Helle. He then espoused Ino the daughter of Cadmos, who bore him

e and to bring the finest sheep in the flock for a sacrifice. The ram then spoke with a human voice to Phrixos warning him o

sed the orders, and Themisto unwittingly killed her own children, and then seeing what she had done slew herself1663. We wil

had drawn the anger of the gods on his posterity. It is not unlikely then that this mythe of Athamas took its rise from the

Dirce by the hair to a bull let him drag her till she was dead : they then cast her body into the fount which was named from

people stones ; but on the tenth the gods Celestial buried them : she then of food Thought, being tired out with shedding te

the Searcher. The Twins, the offspring of the Deity and the Moon, may then be the Sun who goes each day his round, and whose

ing-one (Tantalos), and the mother of the Green-one (Chloris). In her then we may view the young, verdant, fruitful earth, ‘

d the stranger, filled with rage, slew both Laïos and his herald, and then pursued his journey. The body of Laïos was found

sta to whoever should solve the riddle of the Sphinx. Œdipûs, who was then at Thebes, hearing this, came forward and answere

mother of the hero also married Rhadamanthys the son of Zeus, who was then living in Ocaleia of Bœotia1734. Heracles was pre

s deed he went into voluntary exile, and was purified by Thestios. He then went to Delphi, and inquired of the god where he

to Delphi, and inquired of the god where he should settle. The Pythia then first named him Heracles1736, for hitherto he had

of him to reserve it till the thirtieth day, saying that if he should then return victorious he might offer it to Zeus the S

e grasped his club and pursued him to his den, which was pervious. He then built up one of the entrances, and going in at th

s. He shot at her with fiery darts till he made her come out ; and he then grasped and held her, while she twined herself ab

ided the hydra, and bit the feet of Heracles. He killed the crab, and then he called upon Iolaos to come to his assistance.

animal was tired with the chase, she took refuge in Mount Artemision, then fled to the river Ladôn, and, as she was about to

ck in his foot, and he died immediately1745. Heracles buried him, and then set out to hunt the boar, and driving him from hi

ies, chased him into a snow-drift, where he caught and bound him, and then took him to Mycenæ. To clear out in one day all t

eracles took Phyleus, the son of Augeas, to witness the agreement. He then broke down a part of the wall of the court, and t

hill, and rattled them : the birds terrified rose in the air, and he then shot them with his arrows1747. His seventh task w

uld. The hero succeeded, and brought and showed him to Eurystheus. He then let him go : and the bull roved over Sparta and A

e had lost. He chose Alcæos and Sthenelos, the sons of Androgeos, and then sailed on to Mysia, where he was hospitably enter

w her, and taking her girdle made sail homewards. He stopped at Troy, then in great distress from the wrath of Poseidôn and

sons of Poseidôn, attempted to carry them off1755. These he slew, and then went on through Tyrrhenia. At Rhegion one of his

challenge, and flinging him three times to the ground killed him. He then drove his cattle along the Ionian Sea. At the ‘re

every year to Zeus. Busiris sacrificed the prophet himself first, and then continued the practice. Heracles on his arrival w

and slew Busiris, his son Amphidamas, and his herald Chalbes1761. He then roamed through Arabia, where he killed Æmathiôn t

gh Arabia, where he killed Æmathiôn the son of Eôs and Tithonos ; and then through the mountains of Libya, which he cleared

d. Atlas threw down the apples, and resumed his burden ; and Heracles then picked them up, and went away1763. He brought the

e brought the apples to Eurystheus, who returned them to him ; and he then gave them to Athena. The goddess carried them bac

d of the blood of the Centaurs. Eumolpos however purified him, and he then saw the mysteries, after which he proceeded to Tæ

uld do the same for Peirithoös, the earth quaked, and he left him. He then rolled off Ascalaphos, the son of Acherôn and Gor

t for the prayers of Persephone would have killed him on the spot. He then asked Pluto to give him Cerberos ; and the god co

being a friend of Eurytos refused to comply with his desire. Heracles then went to Amyclæ, where he was purified by Deïphobo

er Podarkes, Heracles replied that he must first be made a slave, and then she might give something for him and redeem him.

olionids to Cleonæ to offer sacrifice, he waylaid and killed them. He then led an army into Elis, took the city, slew Augeas

have wounded. Hades and Hera as they were aiding the Pylians1775. He then marched to Lacedæmôn, to punish the sons of Hippo

rident, and formed the well of salt water in the Erichtheion ; Athena then came, and making Cecrops witness of her taking po

ment of Diodorus and in Scholia that the Egyptian Cecrops occurs. Few then , we think, will now dissent from the following ju

of Cecrops from Saïs is a historic sophism and no mythe1796.” Cecrops then is purely an ideal being, and the names of his fa

make him drunk, and while in that state he released the goddess. Zeus then desired him to demand a reward ; and Poseidôn, wh

tory to her sister by means of characters woven into a peplos. Procne then sought out and released her sister ; and killing

f her favours. After much hesitation her virtue yielded ; her husband then discovered himself and reproached her. She fled f

and a dog named Lælaps (Whirlwind), which no beast could escape. She then cut her hair short, and attiring herself as a man

s were those he had himself proposed to Procris. He yielded ; Procris then discovered herself and reproached him, but they w

hey were soon reconciled and she gave him the dog and dart. The story then concludes as above related1818. According to anot

t as he was catching it, Zeus turned them both to stone1820. Cephalos then aided Amphitryôn against the Teleboans, and on th

r's precious lock as he slept, and he immediately died : the town was then taken by the Cretans. But Minôs, instead of rewar

ever before attempted such a feat, held down the tree with ease ; and then , to punish Sinis for his previous cruelty, killed

the stranger should be tall, he assigned him the short bedstead, and then cut as much off him as made him of the same lengt

was on the point of sacrificing his son, when he recognised him, and then acknowledged him in the presence of all the peopl

heir admiration of the victory or their terror of the combat. Theseus then sacrificed the bull to Apollo Delphinios1843. The

me to where the Minotaur lay, whom he caught by the hair and slew. He then got on board with his companions, and sailed for

le of Attica, but even strangers and foreigners, to settle at Athens, then nothing but a castle on a rock. By his prudence a

the gods. Theseus fixed his thoughts on Helena the daughter of Leda, then a child of but nine years. The friends planned th

him. When dying he charged his wife to leave his body unburied ; and then complaining to Hades of her unkindness, he obtain

and religion were sensibly impressed on the minds of men. Sisyphos is then the representative of the restless desire of know

nding on the signs of the gods, Bellerophontes slew this monster, and then was ordered to go and fight the Solymians ; and t

s warning of his projects, he found it impossible to succeed. Nothing then remaining but open force, he killed Argos with a

s. She swam through the Ionian Sea, which derived its name from her ; then roamed over the plains of Illyria, ascended Mount

aced an eye in the back of Argos’ neck and deprived him of sleep, and then set him as a guard over Io. Æschylus introduces I

im, as dogs are driven off or killed by the country-people. A gad-fly then persecutes the cow, and she runs wild all through

thirsty, πολυδίψιον), and the word δανὸς signifies dry. We have here then a simple derivation for the name Danaans, namely

rse reared in secrecy until he had attained his fourth year. Acrisios then chanced to hear the voice of the child at his pla

he came unto the Nymphs, who gave him their precious possessions : he then flung the wallet over his shoulder, placed the he

us joyfully consented, and each party swore to the agreement. Perseus then attacked and killed the monster, and delivered An

onbeams poisonous and petrifies the land. The efficacy of her look is then directed against the under-world itself, and rest

rsuades Artemis to kill her with her arrows as a noxious beast ; Zeus then , it is said, took the unborn infant and gave it t

first eaten his share, and the remainder to him who next finished. He then quickly devoured his own and his brother's part,

d over them, concealing the god and the mortal maid. The god declared then who he was, and enjoining secrecy dived into the

eclaring that he knew he should be caught and confined for a year but then get the cattle, set out for Phylace. Everything f

agreed to tell him, on condition of his giving him the cows. The seer then sacrificing an ox to Zeus, divided it, and called

towed on him a golden chariot, and horses of winged speed2062. Pelops then went to Pisa to contend for the fair prize. He br

ey seized and brought him to Atreus, who cast him into prison. Atreus then called Ægisthos, and directed him to put the capt

s mode of destroying them was to make himself red-hot in the fire and then embrace them. When the Argo approached Crete, Med

Polyeidos, by his skill in divination, discovered where he was. Minôs then ordered him to restore him to life ; and on his d

, where Kychres the son of Poseidôn by Salamis the daughter of Asopos then reigned, having slain a serpent which ravaged the

ds to change their form, and Zeus in pity turned them to pigeons, and then made them a constellation in the sky2131. Though

vious than to make Oriôn the son of Poseidôn and Euryale (Wide-sea) ; then again, as the dawn, as it were, takes away the st

rosia bear To father Zeus, but always the smooth rock Takes one away, then to keep up the number The Father adds another. M

e Days, the Nights, and the Fate presiding over their return. Thunder then rolled in the clouds, propitious lightnings flash

the mouth of the bay of Pagasæ. Here they remained for two days, and then rowed along the coast of Magnesia, and, passing t

es from the Lemnian fair ones, and once more handled their oars. They then came to Samothrace, and thence pursued their voya

and shedding many tears buried Cyzicos with solemn magnificence. They then sailed to Mysia, where they left behind them Hera

hter of Boreas and Oreithyia. She died, leaving him two sons ; and he then married Idæa the daughter of Dardanos. Jealous of

, and seized the victuals. Zetes and Calaïs the winged sons of Boreas then drew their swords and pursued them through the ai

d loud was the crash when they met. Even to the birds the passage was then impossible. Phineus directed the heroes to let fl

the pigeon passed through safely with the loss of her tail ; watching then the recession of the rocks, and aided by Hera and

: with her drugs she cast to sleep the serpent which guarded it ; and then taking her little brother Apsyrtos out of his bed

: while Æetes was engaged in collecting them the Argo escaped2162. He then dispatched a number of his subjects in pursuit of

cation to remove the blood-guilt of the death of Apsyrtos. The heroes then departed. Ere long they came to the isle of the S

is, lost no time in joining the lovers in wedlock ; and the Colchians then fearing to return, settled in the island. Sailing

arly geographical ideas was held to flow out of the Ocean, which they then entered and proceeded along it southwards. Hecatæ

ey then entered and proceeded along it southwards. Hecatæus made them then sail down the Nile and so home, but according to

ntains, this course had to be given up ; a geographer named Timagetas then fixed on the Ister, for he supposed this river to

ing to their view, the Argonauts went up the Tanaïs to its head, they then carried their vessel overland to the northern oce

course. They sailed up the Phasis to the point where it divided, and then went down the other branch named the Saranges int

s all the qualities and all the felicity of Hesiod’s Golden Men. They then reached the land of the Kimmerians, which lay on

years. According to some, Polyneices governed for the first year, and then resigned his throne to his brother ; others say t

Harmonia fled to Argos, where Adrastos the son of Talaos son of Bias then reigned. It was night when the Theban exile arriv

n ; Tydeus, an Ætolian2176. The host marched to Nemea, where Lycurgos then reigned. Being in want of water, Hypsipyle, the L

d ill-luck from this event, and called the child Archemoros2177. They then celebrated funeral games in his honour. Adrastos

e combat. They fought, and fell by each other's hands. The battle was then rekindled with fury, and the four sons of Astacos

slew Ægialeus, and fell himself by the spear of Alcmæôn. The Thebans then fled ; and by the advice of Teiresias, they secre

e of Agapenôr : here they met the sons of Alcmæôn, who slew them, and then went to Psophis and killed Phegeus and his wife.

e, which by the direction of Acheloös they consecrated at Delphi, and then went to Epeiros, and founded Acarnania. In the pr

and, where Teucros the son of the river Scamandros and the nymph Idæa then reigned, from whom the people were called Teucria

ad promised the judge the beautiful Helena in marriage2206. Aphrodite then directs him to build a ship, and she desires her

lts with his brother Agamemnôn about an expedition against Ilion ; he then repairs to Nestôr at Pylos, and going through Hel

re was a sparrow's nest with eight young ones, devoured them all, and then the mother herself ; after which Zeus turned him

d war against Troy for nine years, and take it on the tenth2210. They then set sail2211, and reached Teuthrania in Mysia on

n Cycnos the son of Poseidôn, put the enemy to flight. An embassy was then sent, requiring the Trojans to give back Helena a

oughts of giving over the enterprise he prevented their departure. He then took some other towns, killed Troïlos, and captur

corpse he binds to his chariot, and drags round the walls of Troy. He then gives a magnificent funeral to Patroclos, and on

es his senses and falls on and slaughters the cattle in the camp, and then slays himself. Odysseus soon after takes Helenos

aôn kills Alexandros. Menelaos mutilates the corse, which the Trojans then receive and give to the pyre2220. Deïphobos marri

city. He kills some of the Trojans and escapes to the ships. Diomedes then steals the Palladion out of Ilion, and the horse

ismayed by which prodigy Æneias forthwith retired to Mount Ida. Sinôn then , who had gotten into the town by means of a forge

re offered due sacrifices to the immortal gods. A favourable wind was then sent by them, which speedily carried him homeward

at Paris was driven by adverse winds to Egypt, where Proteus, who was then king, learning the truth, kept Helena and dismiss

s, that she was not in their c ity, till they had taken it ; and that then Menelaos sailed to Egypt, where his wife was rest

ty. This may have been at first a simple tradition ; it may have been then expanded in ballads ; the number of warriors have

rs and mothers, and themselves, and their ranks and occupations. They then return with their boats much lighter, and in one

alogy anywhere else. We should perhaps read Eurynome for Euonyme, and then Kronos might take the place of Ophiôn. 320. Geo

), “often first clothes the events of history in a fabulous garb, and then refers them to an early and unknown time.” 1098.

3 ; xxiii. 160. seq. Diodor. iii. 72. The blood-drops of Uranos would then be the rains. 1202. In Latin silanus is a tube o

rtans were produced from the teeth. 1626. Αȋδιον ἐνιαυτόν. “The year then was eight years,” Apollod. Sec above, p. 122. 16

χθὼν earth, softened on account of the aspirates to ̛ Εριχθόνιοs, and then reduced to ̛ Eρεχθεύς. Tzetzes (Lyc. 156. 158.) c

s a poetic adjunct. 2077. The Pelopians, i. e. Illustrious, would be then like the Phlegyans (see p. 347.), the Achæans (p.

ffered by the Taurians (Herod. iv. 103.). The story of Iphigeneia was then invented to account for the similarity. There may

it Europe, and while everything was new and strange to the people who then lived on the earth, men talked of the things whic

and Æther* (the air). In mythology, effects are called children. Gæa then brought forth Uranus* (the heavens), Pontus* (the

and sister of Erebus, to whom she bore Hemera and Æther. She is said then to have produced without a sire Mœræ* (Parcæ*, or

He came to the assistance of Troy, and was slain by Achilles*. Since then Eos has wept without ceasing for her darling son,

her two horses, Lampetus* and Phaethon, to her glorious chariot. She then hastens with cheerfulness to open the gates of he

hy sent suppers to be placed before her statues, which the poor would then come and eat. This was called the “Supper of Heca

n putting all his eyes to sleep with the sound of his magic lyre, and then , taking advantage of his helpless condition, slew

he Greek Hades, and all the Greek ideas with regard to a future state then prevailed with the Romans, who worshiped Aides un

ise torments which awaited him in Tartarus. The wretched sinners were then seized by the Furies, who scourged them with thei

regular laws which protected individual life from arbitrary assaults, then the conception of the Erinnys as compassionate an

Athene. Apollo first purified him before his own altar at Delphi, and then defended him before the court of the Areopagus, w

Athene, when the votes for and against him were equal, declared that then , and in all future time, the criminal should have

to the repentant sinner and to give succor to all good men. They were then represented, more especially in Athens, as earnes

she resolved to make him immortal by anointing him with ambrosia, and then laying him at night in the glow of the fire. The

asion. He destroyed people by making himself red-hot in the fire, and then embracing them. Hephæstus also made the armor of

estes, brought the image of the goddess to Brauron in Attica. She was then known as the Brauronian Artemis. The most celebra

es of his inspired worshipers. The legend says that his education was then completed by Silenus, who is known as his foster-

oster-father. In company with him and the rest of his train, Dionysus then set forth to spread his worship and the cultivati

return to Thebes, he encountered great opposition from Pentheus*, who then governed the country. Agave*, the mother of the k

a leather bag, which was inflated and smeared with oil; the young men then attempted to dance on it. The tiger, lynx, panthe

astened fell off, and a fragrant stream of wine ran through the ship; then suddenly a vine rose to the top-sail, the mast be

slipped while serving them, she was deprived of her office, which was then assigned to Ganymedes*. After the deification of

o Midas*, the king, who entertained him sumptuously for ten days, and then restored him to Dionysus. Pleased with his kindne

and a portion of the meal and water poured upon the animal, which was then killed. If the victim escaped the stroke or becam

g been outwitted, Zeus determined to be revenged first on mankind and then on Prometheus. He ordered Hephæstus to make of cl

e slain by a dragon, sacred to Ares, which guarded the spring. Cadmus then went himself, and slew the dragon, whose teeth he

e oracle that he was doomed to die by the hands of his son, who would then marry his mother. Accordingly, when their infant

prayer was granted. The youths met and slew the sons of Phegeus, and then went to Psophis and killed Phegeus and his wife.

nto the clouds. (Atlas Mountains in northern part of Africa.) Perseus then resumed his travels. In passing Ethiopia, he behe

, the hideous body became transformed into a huge black rock. Perseus then delivered the maiden to her parents. Cassiopea*,

n’s head to Athene, who had it placed in the middle of her shield. He then sent a messenger to his grandfather, informing hi

iving him a bridle, directed him to sacrifice a bull to Poseidon, and then to repair to a certain spring at which the winged

above the reach of the monster, which he slew with his spear. Iobates then sent him on an expedition against the Solymi*, a

he was at enmity. Bellerophon succeeded in vanquishing them, and was then sent to make war upon the Amazons, but, greatly t

ying him, but he bravely defended himself and slew them all. The king then gave him his daughter in marriage, and shared the

st proof of his divine origin by strangling them with his hands. Zeus then acknowledged his son. Finding Hera sleeping, he l

ained by following her. He listened attentively to both speakers, and then , after mature deliberation, he decided to follow

rrified at what he had done, and went to Thestius* to be purified. He then proceeded to Delphi to consult the oracle, and wa

every weapon. Heracles succeeded in strangling it with his hands. He then made himself a suit of armor of the skin, and a n

amazement, in the place of each head he struck off two sprung up. He then ordered his nephew, Iolaus*, to set on fire a nei

eracles buried the immortal head and placed over it a heavy stone. He then dipped his arrows in her poisonous blood, thus re

it fall on his foot and died from the wound. The hero buried him, and then set forth to hunt the boar. With loud shouts, Her

fts on the summit of the mountain, where he caught and bound him, and then carried him to Mycenæ. 5. Cleansing the Stables

s. Augeas, thinking the feat impossible, accepted his offer. Heracles then turned the course of the rivers Alpheus and Peneu

sperate encounter took place in which the giant perished. Heracles is then supposed to have placed the oxen in the boat of H

the oxen in the boat of Helios, in which he recrossed the ocean, and then journeyed on foot through Iberia, Gaul, and Italy

to escape from his grasp, gave him the desired information. Heracles then proceeded to Libya, where he was challenged to a

ro lifted him up in the air and squeezed him to death in bis arms. He then passed into Egypt, where Busiris* was in the habi

Emathion*, son of Eos and Tithonus, for his cruelty to strangers. He then wandered through Arabia, and at last arrived at M

to Thebes, where he gave his wife, Megara, in marriage to Iolaus. He then proceeded to the court of Eurytus*, who had promi

m to Athens until he had become strong enough to raise the stone, and then to allow him to take with him these tokens of his

monster called Sciron*, who compelled travelers to wash his feet, and then kicked them into the sea. Theseus overcame him an

t Cercyon*, who forced all who came that way to wrestle with him, and then killed those whom he vanquished. On the banks of

red to espouse a daughter of Zeus. Theseus fixed his choice on Helen, then but a child, afterwards so celebrated as the caus

rmed her that her son would live only until a certain brand, that was then burning on the fire, was consumed. Althea immedia

ly at the oars and achieved the perilous passage in safety. The rocks then became immovable, for it had been decreed they sh

board the Argo and warned the heroes of their approachmg danger. She then advised Jason to accompany her without loss of ti

the bride; but it was poisoned, and caused the death of Creusa. Medea then murdered her two children, after which she fled t

h and courage in repelling robbers from the flocks, and the shepherds then gave him the name of Alexander (man-aider). He ma

or him the hand of Penelope*. Tyndareus gladly consented, and Ulysses then told him to exact an oath from all the suitors th

, they would all aid in procuring satisfaction. The hand of Helen was then bestowed upon Menelaus. Preparations for the Wa

Achilles betrayed himself by seizing the armor. The young warrior was then induced to accompany the Greeks to Troy. The troo

ediction, leaped on shore, and fell by the hand of Hector. The Greeks then succeeded in effecting a landing, and in the enga

chariot wheels of Achilles three times around the walls of Troy, and then thrown into the dust within the Greek camp. The g

ses and Diomedes were sent to Lemnos for Philoctetes, whose wound was then healed by Machaon*, a son of Æsculapius*. In an e

ling the Palladium, on which the safety of the city depended. Ulysses then devised the celebrated wooden horse and the strat

m the king. The monarch, believing his story, released his bonds, and then begged him to explain the meaning of the wooden h

out his hand he seized two of the Greeks, dashed out their brains and then devoured them with great relish. He then stretche

dashed out their brains and then devoured them with great relish. He then stretched himself on the floor, and soon fell asl

despatched as their companions had been the night before. Polyphemus then moved away the rock from the entrance, drove out

o more of his prisoners and made his evening meal upon them. Odysseus then approached and handed him a bowl of wine, saying,

a silver string, into which he had placed all the contrary winds, and then , having cautioned him on no account to open it, h

received by Circe, who entertained him as she had his companions, and then touched him with her wand, saying, “Hence, seek t

r Tiresias, in the realm of Aides, concerning his future destiny. She then loaded his ship with provisions, and reluctantly

to sea and returned to Ææa, where they spent one day with Circe. They then took a final leave of her, and in a few days appr

aithful dog Argus, though feeble with age, recognized his master, and then expired at his feet. At the palace they found the

tended beggar took the bow, with ease adjusted the cord to its notch, then fitting an arrow to the bow he drew the string, a

ut they were driven by a storm to the Strophades*, islands which were then the abode of the Harpies. They saw herds of cattl

ght the nearest shore, which was the coast of Africa, where Dido* was then building the city of Carthage. Dido received the

rus, but the Sibyl threw him a medicated cake, which he devoured, and then fell asleep. After seeing much that was wonderful

n power to be in time the sovereign of the world. Æneas and the Sibyl then took leave of Anchises and returned to the upper

against the stranger who was to rob him of his promised bride. Alecto then went to the camp of the Trojans, where she saw Iu

lived to that age, the priests drowned him in the sacred cistern, and then buried him in the temple of Serapis*. On the deat

nded by a train of people weeping and beating their breasts in grief; then , having been expensively embalmed and bandaged in

a desert place, where he spent six years in prayer and meditation. He then began his career as a religious teacher. His doct

solved to create man. Aske* and Embla*, the first man and woman, were then formed, the man of an ash-tree and the woman of a

sleep. Sigurd rode through the fire, and at his touch she awoke. They then plighted their troth, and Sigurd rode on to the h

er the tree, they drive thither two milk-white bulls, whose horns are then for the first time bound. The priest, robed in wh

by shooting his arrows into the soil; they became tree trunks, and he then transfixed them with other arrows, which became b

eir assistance. His first act was to dethrone and supplant Chaos; and then , thinking he would be happier with a helpmeet, he

uncement that a son was born to him. The memory of his father’s curse then suddenly returned to his mind. Anxious to avert s

( Elton’s tr.). Ignorant of the deception practised upon him, Cronus then took leave, and the overjoyed mother clasped her

g conqueror joyfully proclaimed his victory. “League all your forces then , ye powers above, Join all, and try th’ omnipoten

e watched it closely, and before long discovered the theft. His anger then burst forth, terrible to behold; and the gods all

, after due consideration, decreed she should be called Pandora. They then bade Mercury take her to Prometheus as a gift fro

d. Mercury, with a sigh, of relief, placed the box in one corner, and then departed, refusing all hospitable offers of rest

surprised and shocked, told her that her curiosity was unseemly, and then , to dispel the frown and pout seen for the first

for a moment to drown all other sounds. Should she open the box? Just then a familiar step outside made her start guiltily.

some upon Pandora, pricking and stinging them most unmercifully. They then flew out through the open door and windows, and f

Pandora’s and Epimetheus’ creamy skin, and relieved their suffering, then quickly flew out of the open window, to perform t

has justly borne the title of the Golden Age, and the people in Italy then throve under the wise rule of good old Saturn, or

s driven, Sought shelter from the inclemency of heaven. Those houses, then , were caves or homely sheds, With twining osiers

shores of a new land, to which he gallantly gave her name, Europe. He then resumed his wonted form, explained at length his

be called Thebes. Parched with thirst after their long walk, the men then hastened to a neighbouring spring, but, to Cadmus

dom, and to put to flight the obscure deity called Dulness, who until then had ruled the world. ‘‘Ere Pallas issu’d from th

fresh herself; but, urged by Juno, some reapers bade her pass on, and then , seeing she paid no heed to their commands, they

ly transformed them into huge green frogs, which creatures have since then showed great preference for muddy pools. Driven o

rely over this mischance, that he pined away and finally died. Apollo then changed his lifeless clay into a cypress tree, wh

her prayer by changing her into a laurel tree. Apollo, coming up just then with outstretched arms, clasped nothing but a rug

youth, Marsyas, to start from his abstraction and look about him. He then perceived the rejected flute sailing gently down

d Them there.” H. H. The Muses bestowed much deserved praise, and then bade Apollo surpass his rival if he could. No sec

eard him play, Even the billows of the sea,     Hung their heads, and then lay by.” Shakespeare. This talent waxed greater

n her, and bit her heel. A short period of agonised suffering ensued; then Eurydice died, and her spirit was conducted down

four fiery steeds which drew the golden-wheeled sun-car. Patiently he then explained to Phaeton the great danger of such an

. The youth, who had listened impatiently to cautions and directions, then sprang into the seat, gathered up the reins, sign

e rose-tipped fingers opened wide the eastern gates of pearl, and who then flashed across the sky to announce her master’s c

intoxicating perfume of the distant flowers. It always seemed to her then as if Nature, so beautiful during the day, borrow

hining orb was made     Heaven to clear, when day did close; Bless us then with wished sight, Goddess excellently bright. L

enus to punish him by making him suffer the pangs of unrequited love; then , melancholy and longing to die, she wandered off

eeping into the pool, became aware first of curly, tumbled locks, and then a pair of beautiful, watchful, anxious eyes. It s

over the sleeping maiden, and let her fail image sink into his heart; then , noiselessly as he had entered, he stole out agai

s with unconcealed pleasure, and soon consented to their union. Cupid then entreated her to make no attempt to discover his

adding further confirmation to her jealous fears. The Queen of Heaven then departed, taking Io with her, and placed her unde

the open air, on a hill near the newly founded city of Athens. It was then customary for such cases to be tried at night, in

d before the judges, simply stated his case, and was acquitted. Since then the hill upon which his trial took place has been

s for the erection of a temple on one of the seven hills, which since then has been known as Mount Quirinal. Yearly festival

hideous serpent came out of his lair in the waves, and devoured her; then he vanished, and nothing more was heard of him fo

th Minerva for the possession of the recently founded city of Athens, then nameless, and entered into the memorable contest

ther people came from all points of the compass, and all parts of the then known world, either to witness or to take part in

which still bears his name. To punish the inhuman Tantalus, the gods then sent him to Tartarus, where he stood up to his ch

of his deadliest thunderbolts, brandished it aloft for a moment, and then hurled it with vindictive force at the arrogant k

yes to catch a parting glimpse of the fair earth she was leaving, and then , with a fond thought of her anxious mother, who,

o listen, if she would hear what had befallen her child. The fountain then went on to tell how she had not always been a mer

, Circling about her waist, and striving how To entice her to a dive! then stealing in Between her luscious lips and eyelids

d in Hades. In despair at this frightful state of affairs, the people then besought Jupiter to pity the sufferings they endu

de, When winter ends, and spring serenely shines, Then fat the lambs, then mellow are the wines, Then sweet are slumbers on

el everywhere, and teach the people how to plough, sow, and reap; and then she instituted the Eleusinia, festivals held in h

e importunities of the spectators, he turned and slew one or two, and then completed his sacrilege. Ceres, incensed by his i

n, and, not obtaining any satisfactory information, departed. Neptune then restored the maiden to her own form, and let her

Each head of a household was wont to choose his own Penates, whom he then invoked as his special patrons. The statues of th

temple gates were closed but thrice in more than seven centuries, and then only for a very short period. Festivals in honour

ne watched the lessening sail until it had quite vanished from sight; then she returned to her palace to pray for her husban

an strand, Ploughs up the waves and scoops the lowest sand. Nor Eurus then , I ween, was left to dwell, Nor showery Notus in

ercules pondered for a while over these two so dissimilar offers, and then , mindful of his tutor’s oft-repeated instructions

d, And gave to Virtue all his mighty mind.” Darwin. Courageously he then trod along the rough and thorny path she pointed

serve Eurystheus, King of Argos, for a twelvemonth. The messenger god then offered to lead him to his appointed taskmaster.

, and strangled him as he had strangled the snakes in his infancy. He then skinned the monster, whose shaggy pelt became his

fast, thus finishing the sixth task. The Steeds of Diomedes He then hastened on to Thrace, where Diomedes, the king,

continued barbarity, Hercules threw him to his own horses, which were then led off to Eurystheus, as a token that the sevent

ippolyte the queen.” Virgil ( Conington’s tr.). The assembled force then attacked Hercules, who met their onslaught single

e animals were soon after delivered into the hands of Eurystheus, who then sent Hercules in search of the Golden Apples of t

n oracle had predicted that he would be killed by his grandson. Until then the king had been very fond of his only child, Da

then the king had been very fond of his only child, Danae, and until then , too, had thought with pride of the time when he

uld fall upon him and attempt to avenge their sister’s death. Perseus then swiftly winged his way over land and sea, careful

ord and sandals in a perfect state of preservation. Sword in hand, he then set out for Athens, — a long and dangerous journe

uld renew the attack, and brought him lifeless to the ground. Theseus then disarmed his fallen foe, and, retaining the club

he had inflicted upon others by making him try each bed in turn, and then , to avoid his continuing these evil practices, pu

a, seated by Ægeus’ side, no sooner saw the young stranger draw near, then she knew him, and foresaw that he had come to dem

y could not leave it. Rather than remain imprisoned for ever, Dædalus then manufactured wings for himself and for his son, a

of Ariadne’s instructions, he fastened his twine to the entrance, and then boldly penetrated into the intricate ways of the

ourable behaviour, implored Neptune to punish the youth, who was even then riding in his chariot close by the shore. In answ

bestow. Jason listened respectfully to his tutor’s last instructions; then , girding on his sword and putting on his sandals,

near which he stationed a dragon to guard it night and day. The bards then went on to relate that the glittering trophy stil

e perilous journey to lands unknown. To speed them on their way, Juno then bargained with Æolus for favourable winds, and fo

near enough to sever his frightful head from his hideous trunk. Jason then tore the coveted fleece from the branch where it

ns, in which she died. Medea, still full of resentment against Jason, then slew her own children, and, mounting her dragon c

the Fates had decreed the child should live only as long as the brand then smoking and crackling on the hearth. The parents

e cast one of the golden apples at her feet. For a moment she paused, then stopped and picked it up ere she resumed the race

combat with the sons of Aphareus was slain. Pollux, who was immortal, then implored Jupiter to allow him to die also, that h

sacrifice was none too great for their fraternal love, he translated then both to the skies, where they form a bright const

from Thebes to Delphi, where he wished to consult the oracle. Œdipus then leisurely pursued his way until he came to the ga

d.” Sophocles ( Francklin’s tr.). Penniless, blind, and on foot, he then left the scene of his awful crimes, accompanied b

he children of these brave captains were old enough to bear arms, and then proposed to them to attack Thebes and avenge thei

eeks and every outward sign of horror, the king read the missive, and then fell into a deep reverie. He did not like to take

forced to surrender his power to one greater than he. Thetis’ hand he then decreed should be given in marriage to Peleus, Ki

ng all the guests. For a moment she stood beside the bountiful board, then threw upon it a golden apple, and, exhaling over

n to the extraordinary likeness Paris bore to her other brothers; and then , breaking out into a prophetic strain, she foreto

o the tide with the exception of one heel, by which she held him, and then returned home. Some time after an oracle foretold

rees grew “until they were high enough to command a view of Troy, and then withered away, while fresh branches sprang from t

settled by a single combat between Paris and Menelaus.      “Hector then stood forth and said: ‘Hearken, ye Trojans and ye

uttered loud cries of triumph. Patroclus, Achilles’ intimate friend, then hastened to the hero’s side to inform him of his

pe. And give The armour from thy shoulders. I will wear Thy mail, and then the Trojans, at the sight, May think I am Achille

ring him a full suit of armour from Vulcan’s own hand. Rapidly Thetis then traversed the wide space which separates the coas

nd Diomedes, who finally succeeded in recovering the body, which they then reverently bore to Achilles’ tent. To console Ach

e glorious armour she had just obtained, helped him to put it on, and then bade him go forth and conquer. “‘Leave we the d

nd the metallic clash of the weapons. Suddenly there came a loud cry, then all was still; and when the dust-cloud had blown

roclus’ funeral pile was laid, and there abandon the corpse. Achilles then returned to his tent, where for a long time he co

rse of Hector at the beaked ships, Refusing its release. Comply thou, then , And take the ransom and restore the dead.” Home

at Troy could never be taken without the poisoned arrows of Hercules, then in the keeping of Philoctetes. This hero had star

ndure his presence on board. Ten long years had already elapsed since then , and although a party of Greeks immediately set o

the poison entered his veins, it caused him grievous suffering. Paris then remembered that his first love Œnone, who knew al

ing that dark body which had lain Of old in her embrace, paused — and then ask’d Falteringly, ‘Who lies on yonder pyre?’ But

h. To the unbounded joy of the long-besieged Trojans, the Greek fleet then sailed away, until the Island of Tenedos hid the

trate, that, being hollow, it might contain an armed band. Ever since then , Laocoon and his sons’ struggle with the serpents

ommitted the crime. Orestes came, slew Ægisthus and Clytæmnestra, and then , terrified at what he had done, took flight, but

ive country more, Nor give his friends the knowledge of his fate. And then my messengers desired to dwell Among the Lotus-ea

Homer ( Bryant’s tr.). Ulysses impatiently watched for their return; then , seeing they did not appear, feared some evil had

men rowed steadily westward until they came to the Island of Sicily, then inhabited by the Cyclopes, a rude race of one-eye

y were aware of his proximity. For a moment he glared down upon them; then , seizing a huge rock, he vowed his rival Acis sho

, and saw the sheep throng into the cave and take their usual places; then behind them came the horrible apparition of Polyp

nt rose, milked his flock, made his cheese, arranged the vessels, and then , without the least warning, again seized and devo

stood beside it with watchful eye, until all his herd had passed out; then , replacing the stone to prevent the escape of his

all in, he replaced the rock, performed his usual evening duties, and then devoured two more of Ulysses crew. When this part

specting its effect. Very soon he sank into a deep drunken sleep; and then the men, at a sign from Ulysses, heated the point

th them down to the seashore, taking the choice animals on board, and then , when his men had rowed some distance, raised his

thine eye.’” Homer ( Bryant’s tr.). With a cry of rage, Polyphemus then ran down to the shore, tore up some huge rocks, w

one to the ships and report what had happened. Sword in hand, Ulysses then set out alone to rescue his comrades; but he had,

r a sound, for he alone could hear the Sirens’ song and live. The men then bound him hand and foot to the mast, returned to

of the men and devoured them. The rest passed on unharmed; but since then , in speaking of conflicting dangers, it has been

and Arete, who bade him welcome, and invited him to join in the games then taking place. He did so, and displayed such stren

ayed such strength and skill that his identity was revealed. Alcinous then promised to send him safely home in a Phæacian ba

rs The suitors all vainly strove to bend the mighty bow, which was then seized by the disguised Ulysses, while the youths

the amazement of all, Ulysses easily performed the required feat; and then , turning his aim towards Antinous, the handsomest

e names: Could Troy be saved by hands of men, This hand had saved her then , e’en then. The gods of her domestic shrines That

uld Troy be saved by hands of men, This hand had saved her then, e’en then . The gods of her domestic shrines That country to

eoptolemus, son of Achilles, who thrust his sword into the youth, and then murdered Priam also. “So Priam’s fortunes closed

himself were fighting and levelling the walls with mighty blows. She then vehemently implored her son to leave this scene o

vanished, and he stood before the queen in all his manly beauty. Dido then led her guests to the banquet-hall, where they re

n it all the objects Æneas had used during his sojourn in her palace; then , having crowned the pile with an effigy of her fa

s of a troop of Volscian horsemen, who cruelly put them to death, and then hurried with the Rutules to lend assistance to Tu

Evander when he saw his son’s corpse brought home for burial: and he then and there registered a solemn vow to avenge Palla

ow of the delusion practised, Turnus raved, and accused the gods, and then eagerly watched for an opportunity to land, and m

is career he again encounters Iole, now the beautiful twilight. It is then that Deianeira (the daylight), jealous of her riv

by means of his irresistible sword, the piercing rays of the sun, and then passes on to encounter the monster of drought, an

until he has acquired strength enough to wield his invincible sword, then journeys onward’ in search of his father, perform

quent career we find him the involuntary cause of his father’s death, then warring against the Centaurs (personification of

rough which the victorious sun is sometimes forced to fight his way), then again plunging for a short space of time into the

ro, although enticed by Anteia (the dawn), virtuously hastening away, then sent against his will to fight the Chimæra (the m

360; Æneas fights, 334 La-ti′nus. King of Latium, 333; welcomes and then wars against Æneas, 334, 335, 337; Æneas makes pe

and noble mortals only, Jupiter soon deprived him of his sight. Since then the blind god’s gifts have been distributed indis

helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation. But if

that which tends to make us happier and better can be called useful, then we claim that epithet for our subject. For Mythol

sle of Cyprus, where she was received and attired by the Seasons, and then led to the assembly of the gods. All were charmed

t that drooping head!” At the name of Thisbe Pyramus opened his eyes, then closed them again. She saw her veil stained with

ed with the novelty and with the sweetness of the music, said, ‘Thus, then , at least, you shall be mine.’ and he took some o

it. She swam through the Ionian sea, which derived its name from her, then roamed over the plains of Illyria, ascended Mount

aw him. First Melampus, a Spartan dog, gave the signal with his bark, then Pamphagus, Dorceus, Lelaps, Theron, Nape, Tigris,

accordingly. They now live in the water, sometimes totally submerged, then raising their heads above the surface or swimming

e consented to become the birthplace of the future deities. Delos was then a floating island; but when Latona arrived there,

is chariot wheel stands midway on the wave. Shake one and it awakens; then apply Its polished lip to your attentive ear, And

e you to ask of us?” Philemon took counsel with Baucis a few moments; then declared to the gods their united wish. “We ask t

e boy unbound his quiver, and selected his sharpest and truest arrow; then straining the bow against his knee, he attached t

ght and falling showers. It was where now stands the city of Eleusis, then the home of an old man named Celeus. He was out i

imbs with her hands, and uttered over him three times a solemn charm, then went and laid him in the ashes. His mother, who h

ad.” When Ceres heard this, she stood for a while like one stupefied; then turned her chariot towards heaven, and hastened t

f to assure himself whether it were living or not, and could not even then believe that it was only ivory. He caressed it, a

th and vital motion     Seemed through the statue form to dart. “And then , in all my ardor sharing,     The silent form exp

th a presentiment of evil. With tears and sobs she said farewell, and then fell senseless to the ground. Ceyx would still ha

seems lifted up to the heavens, to scatter its foam among the clouds; then sinking away to the bottom assumes the color of t

moment, the night seems to add its own darkness to that of the storm; then comes the flash, rending the darkness asunder, an

en, and the triumphant surge curling over looks down upon, the wreck, then falls, and crushes it to fragments. Some of the s

ose, from all the brothers, Morpheus, to perform the command of Iris; then laid his head on his pillow and yielded himself t

, and begged her as she loved her foster-child to favor his suit. And then he tried to win her domestics to his side. Someti

s. Shaking her ambrosial locks with indignation, she exclaimed, “Am I then to be eclipsed in my honors by a mortal girl? In

med, “Am I then to be eclipsed in my honors by a mortal girl? In vain then did that royal shepherd, whose judgment was appro

tain over her lips, though the sight of her almost moved him to pity; then touched her side with the point of his arrow. At

startled with which he opened his eyes and fixed them full upon her; then , without saying one word, he spread his white win

the top, called upon Zephyr to receive her and bear her to his lord; then leaping up, and not being sustained by Zephyr, fe

of Venus, yet I can teach you how best to allay her displeasure. Go, then , and voluntarily surrender yourself to your lady

, and the serene spirit of the flood has lulled them to rest, you may then cross in safety, and you will find the woolly gol

on the most fragrant and delicate productions of the spring. Psyche, then , is the human soul, which is purified by sufferin

wings. Cadmus gave thanks, and stooping down kissed the foreign soil, then lifting his eyes, greeted the surrounding mountai

strils poisoned the air around. Now he twisted himself into a circle, then stretched himself out on the ground like the trun

read the infection. Next the disease attacked the country people, and then the dwellers in the city. At first the cheek was

on the earth, and turned their dying eyes around to take a last look, then closed them in death. “What heart had I left me,

t in his camp, and tell him that we yield ourselves to his mercy. But then , to betray my father! No! rather would I never se

leep. She entered her father’s bedchamber and cut off the fatal lock; then passed out of the city and entered the enemy’s ca

g sound Of waters issued from a cave, and spread Into a liquid plain, then stood unmoved Pure as the expanse of heaven; I th

hideous hook,     Thy nose, thou chance to see; Narcissus’ fate would then be thine, And self-detested thou would’st pine,  

unterrified. She blushed, indeed; a sudden color dyed her cheek, and then she grew pale. But she stood to her resolve, and

nsult. She struck the web with her shuttle and rent it in pieces, she then touched the forehead of Arachne and made her feel

soon the daring mortal fell    The hapless victim of her pride. “O, then beware Arachne’s fate;     Be prudent, Chloe, and

ulder. Irritated by the wound, the monster raised himself in the air, then plunged into the depth; then, like a wild boar su

, the monster raised himself in the air, then plunged into the depth; then , like a wild boar surrounded, by a pack of barkin

ied. At the smell he relaxed his rage, stood for a moment motionless, then shut those great round eyes, that had never been

gods for vengeance, sent a poisoned robe as a gift to the bride, and then killing her own children, and setting fire to the

oretold that the life of the child should last no longer than a brand then burning upon the hearth. Althea seized and quench

ears, while Meleager grew to boyhood, youth, and manhood. It chanced, then , that Œneus, as he offered sacrifices to the gods

fterwards the father of Achilles, Telamon the father of Ajax, Nestor, then a youth, but who in his age bore arms with Achill

er one unsuccessful stroke, drives his spear into the monster’s side, then rushes on and despatches him with repeated blows.

e. He deserves death, but not that I should destroy him. But shall he then live, and triumph, and reign over Calydon, while

, again when I snatched this brand from the flames. O that thou hadst then died! Alas! evil is the conquest; but, brothers,

eager to signalize himself like Hercules, with whose fame all Greece then rang, by destroying the evil-doers and monsters t

to espouse a daughter of Jupiter. Theseus fixed his choice on Helen, then but a child, afterwards so celebrated as the caus

that he united the several tribes by whom the territory of Attica was then possessed into one state, of which Athens was the

running to gather up the feathers which the wind had blown away, and then handling the wax and working it over with his fin

d Beauty which, whether waking or asleep, Shot forth peculiar graces; then with voice, Mild as when Zephyrus on Flora breath

was my protection, and he assailed me in vain. For a time we stopped, then returned to the conflict. We each kept our positi

, alone shared his wanderings and remained with him till he died, and then returned to Thebes. Her brothers, Eteocles and Po

single combat. They fought and fell by each other’s hands. The armies then renewed the fight, and at last the invaders were

e shall have filled her term of life, will rightly be yours. But till then grant her to me, I beseech you. If you deny me I

ssage. Seven days he lingered about the brink, without food or sleep; then bitterly accusing of cruelty the powers of Erebus

But the women raised a scream and drowned the voice of the music, and then the missiles reached him and soon were stained wi

ith the richest dainties. They first poured out libations to Neptune, then regaled themselves with the feast, and after that

themselves along the shore. He sat on the rock and counted his herd; then stretched himself on the floor of the cave and we

lf captured, immediately resorted to his arts, becoming first a fire, then a flood, then a horrible wild beast, in rapid suc

mmediately resorted to his arts, becoming first a fire, then a flood, then a horrible wild beast, in rapid succession. But f

ove, he offered funeral honors to the shades of Orpheus and Eurydice; then returning on the ninth day he examined the bodies

on returning home, we could never more be free from fear.” “Grant me, then ,” said he, “a last request, since nought will ava

sung my death song, and my harp-strings shall have ceased to vibrate, then I will bid farewell to life, and yield uncomplain

er the whole assembly as if in the presence of superhuman beings; and then in solemn march completing the circuit of the the

change their form, and Jupiter in pity turned them into pigeons, and then made them a constellation in the sky. Though thei

elestial raiment. At length he lost the power of using his limbs, and then she shut him up in his chamber, whence his feeble

he goddess, while Scylla dressed her hair, listened to the story, and then replied, “Yet, maiden, your persecutors are of th

ess, “Tell me, dearest,” said she, “the cause of your grief.” Galatea then said, “Acis was the son of Faunus and a Naiad. Hi

w very well till they were high enough to command a view of Troy, and then withered away, while fresh branches sprang from t

Laodamia the story of his fate: — “The wished-for wind was given; I then revolved     The oracle, upon the silent sea; And

dares to die?’     In soul I swept the indignity away: Old frailties then recurred: but lofty thought In act imbodied my de

stance divested himself of his own armor and put on that of Achilles, then returned to the fight. Ajax and Menelaus defended

into the hands of the enemy, could see no suitable messenger. It was then that he exclaimed in those famous lines so often

of armor for Achilles, first a shield adorned with elaborate devices, then a helmet crested with gold, then a corselet and g

ield adorned with elaborate devices, then a helmet crested with gold, then a corselet and greaves of impenetrable temper, al

in the form of Agenor, Priam’s son, encountered Achilles for a while, then turned to fly, and taken the way apart from the c

iend. A pile was erected, and the body burned with due solemnity; and then ensued games of strength and skill, chariot races

ps were withdrawn and lay hid behind a neighboring island. The Greeks then constructed an immense wooden horse, which they g

Minerva, but in fact was filled with armed men. The remaining Greeks then betook themselves to their ships and sailed away,

bundle of firewood, which he threw down before the cavern’s mouth. He then drove into the cave the sheep and goats to be mil

eir companions, feasting on their flesh till no fragment was left. He then moved away the rock from the door, drove out his

the end of the stake into the fire till it was all one burning coal, then poising it exactly above the giant’s only eye, th

down to the shore to their boat. They put them aboard with all haste, then pushed off from the shore, and when at a safe dis

mountain, and rending it from its bed, he lifted it high in the air, then exerting all his force, hurled it in the directio

ng time for the princess and her companions to reach the city, he was then to pursue his way thither, and would be easily gu

ng libation to Mercury, whose worship followed the evening meal. Just then Minerva dissolved the cloud and disclosed him to

d wine were set before him and he ate and refreshed himself. The king then dismissed his guests, notifying them that the nex

on shore, and landed with him the chest containing his presents, and then sailed away. Neptune was so displeased at the con

th the hand of a master. With ease he adjusted the cord to its notch, then fitting an arrow to the bow he drew the string an

Trojans, you treat us innocent birds, first slaughter our cattle and then make war on ourselves?” She then predicted dire s

irds, first slaughter our cattle and then make war on ourselves?” She then predicted dire sufferings to them in their future

e. He called the winds and dismissed them with a severe reprimand. He then soothed the waves, and brushed away the clouds fr

w his sword and would have struck, but the Sibyl restrained him. They then came to the black river Cocytus, where they found

l the Sibyl threw him a medicated cake which he eagerly devoured, and then stretched himself out in his den and fell asleep.

eyes, and he addressed her in the accents of love. “Unhappy Dido! was then the rumor true that you had perished? and was I,

a moment with averted countenance, and eyes fixed on the ground, and then silently passed on, as insensible to his pleading

ensible to his pleadings as a rock. Æneas followed for some distance; then , with a heavy heart, rejoined his companion and r

power, to be in time the sovereign of the world. Æneas and the Sibyl then took leave of Anchises, and returned by some shor

romised land!” he exclaimed, “this is our home, this our country.” He then took measures to find out who were the present in

Amata, and roused her to oppose in every way the new alliance. Alecto then speeded to the city of Turnus, and assuming the f

swelled by rains, seemed to debar a passage. He paused for a moment, then decided what to do. He tied the infant to his lan

dressed Diana: “Goddess of the woods! I consecrate this maid to you;” then hurled the weapon with its burden to the opposite

to Juno, and deprecate her anger. When you have achieved your victory then think of me.” Æneas woke and paid immediate obedi

Having thus said, he showed him the Tarpeian rock, and the rude spot then overgrown with bushes where in after times the Ca

uryalus, all on fire with the love of adventure, replied, “Would you, then , Nisus, refuse to share your enterprise with me?

e, but it recoiled harmless from the shield of Æneas. The Trojan hero then threw his, which penetrated the shield of Turnus,

nd thence to a beast’s again. As wax is stamped with certain figures, then melted, then stamped anew with others, yet is alw

a beast’s again. As wax is stamped with certain figures, then melted, then stamped anew with others, yet is always the same

n the use of them, as well as how to harness the ox to the plough. He then gave men laws, the institution of marriage, a civ

m to the feast which was celebrated in honor of the king’s return. He then caused a box or chest to be brought in, which had

e Nile. When Isis heard of the cruel murder she wept and mourned, and then with her hair shorn, clothed in black and beating

aid of Anubis and the sacred birds, Isis ascertained these facts, and then went to the royal city. There she offered herself

he still survived, the priests drowned him in the sacred cistern and then buried him in the temple of Serapis. On the death

onceives did much to bring on the French revolution, he says, — “For then he was inspired, and from him came,     As from t

he novelty, and gazing with wonder at so beautiful an appearance.” He then gives an account of the bird, not varying materia

between worlds and worlds, with steady wing, Now on the polar winds, then with quick fan Winnows the buxom air; till within

nacle of the highest rocks horn foremost, so as to pitch upon it, and then quietly march off not a whit the worse for its fa

, and laying his head in her lap, fell asleep. The treacherous virgin then gave a signal, and the hunters made in and captur

ormed Midgard, (mid earth,) destined to become the abode of man. Odin then regulated the periods of day and night and the se

an out of an elder, and called the man Aske and the woman Embla. Odin then gave them life and soul, Vili reason and motion,

ed upon them the senses, expressive features, and speech. Midgard was then given them as their residence, and they became th

he gods, especially when Thor should return from an expedition he had then undertaken against the evil demons. As the winter

ow that thou art the god Thor. But what has become of my glove?” Thor then perceived that what they had taken overnight for

ber where his two companions had sought refuge was the thumb. Skrymir then proposed that they should travel in company, and

a place for them to pass the night in under a large oak tree. Skrymir then told them he would lie down to sleep. “But take y

with thee, Thor?” But Thor went away hastily, saying that he had just then awoke, and that as it was only midnight, there wa

performest what thou promisest, and it shall be tried forthwith.” He then ordered one of his men who was sitting at the far

the company therefore adjudged that Loki was vanquished. Utgard-Loki then asked what feat the young man who accompanied Tho

ut if the youth would win the match he must display great agility. He then arose and went with all who were present to a pla

and a third time, but Thialfi met with no better success. Utgard-Loki then asked Thor in what feats he would choose to give

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

his footing, and was finally brought down upon one knee. Utgard-Loki then told them to desist, adding that Thor had now no

great mishap, I would not have suffered thee to enter this time. Know then that I have all along deceived thee by my illusio

ee not where Baldur is, and have, moreover, nothing to throw.” “Come, then ,” said Loki, “do like the rest, and show honor to

, and I will direct thy arm towards the place where he stands.” Hodur then took the mistletoe, and under the guidance of Lok

s. When Baldur fell, the gods were struck speechless with horror, and then they looked at each other, and all were of one mi

’s horse, Sleipnir, which has eight legs and can outrun the wind, was then led forth, on which Hermod mounted and galloped a

s he alone. “But,” she added, “thou hast not death’s hue on thee; why then ridest thou here on the way to Hel?” “I ride to H

who cleared the gate by a tremendous leap without touching it. Hermod then rode on to the palace, where he found his brother

ed, “all things in the world, both living and lifeless, weep for him, then shall he return to life; but if any one thing spe

speak against him or refuse to weep, he shall be kept in Hel.” Hermod then rode back to Asgard and gave an account of all he

First came Odin accompanied by Frigga, the Valkyrior, and his ravens; then Frey in his car drawn by Gullinbursti, the boar;

t being tempered by a single summer. Three other similar winters will then follow, during which war and discord will spread

er the tree, they drive thither two milk-white bulls, whose horns are then for the first time bound. The priest then, robed

hite bulls, whose horns are then for the first time bound. The priest then , robed in white, ascends the tree, and cuts off t

e her churchmen by bigotry Were barred from holy wedlock’s tie. ’Twas then that Aodh, famed afar,     In Iona preached the w

weaving and embroidering, for she was very fond of this pastime. And then there was Mercury, fleet-footed Mercury. He was c

oices of her former friends, as they went hunting over the hills; and then she trembled and crouched behind the trees, for s

id not hear the sound of footsteps until it was too late to hide, and then she turned to see who was coming. In an instant,

uto grasped Proserpine by the arm and carried her to his chariot, and then the horses flew along the ground, leaving Proserp

littering arrows, and slew it, after a fierce battle. The people were then very happy; and you may be sure that they made a

him play,     Even the billows of the sea,     Hung their heads, and then lay by.     In sweet music is such art;     Killi

I heard him wail, “Oh, love, What have I done! what have I done!” And then I saw no more the sun,     And lost were life and

rest.” She thereupon sprinkled a few drops of water in his face, and then something very strange happened. Poor Actaeon had

labies, to keep him from crying at the great waves that every now and then swept over the little boat. She thought that they

shed, Mercury sat silent for a few moments, lost in deep thought, and then said, “My boy, you have undertaken a dangerous ta

s too quick for them. On his winged feet he rose high in the air, and then , from a safe distance, called out, “You shall not

own. With one thrust, he cut off the head of the sleeping Gorgon, and then flew up into the air again, holding the horrid he

he king gazed at it an instant, with the sneer still on his face, and then sat motionless, turned to stone in all his royal

through the air, a crooked sword flashed an instant in the light, and then was buried in the monster’s back. Perseus, flying

was Io, and she went up to her side, and stroked her glossy neck, and then , turning to Jupiter, begged him to give her the c

st Argus asked the shepherd where his musical pipe had come from, and then Mercury slowly told him the story: “Once upon a t

is eyes closed. With his magic wand, he made the slumber sounder, and then cut off the head with its hundred starry eyes. Ju

wed low to their queen. Niobe raised her hand to command silence, and then said, in a haughty tone, “You women of Thebes, wh

and let fly an arrow which pierced the eldest through the heart; and then he shot another and another, until the seven boys

all the people cried out that Hercules was the victor. The river god then appeared in his true shape, and yielded his claim

o the ground, pierced through the heart. Nessus gave one cry of pain; then dipping his shirt in the blood that flowed from h

ying aloud in his torture. The servant stood amazed for a moment, and then hid himself, in terror, behind a rock. Suddenly H

re up great trees and bushes, and built of them his own funeral pile; then , lying down on it, he wrapped his poisoned shirt

king now up into the sky where many birds were flying to and fro, and then down at the sea which was covered with sail boats

le felt that it would be impossible to do what the king demanded, but then they remembered the words of their oracle, and sa

nce gate, and to keep tight hold of the other with his left hand. If, then , he should kill the monster, he could easily find

it shall be granted.” Philemon and Baucis thought but an instant and then answered with one accord, “Let us, we pray you, b

The moon and the stars were hidden in dense blackness, broken now and then by a blinding flash of lightning. The roaring of

sky was cloudless and staring, Nephele would grow thin and pale, and then she would leave her home for a long time, and com

flail of the lashing hail,     And whiten the green plains under; And then again I dissolve it in rain,     And laugh as I p

ter, to be truthful and kind. But at last Jason grew to be a man, and then Chiron told him that he was the son of King Aeson

brave heart, and you shall not regret your kindness to an old woman;” then she vanished. When Jason recovered from his surpr

it hither, for it would add greatly to our wealth and happiness.” And then he told the story of Phryxus and Helle, and of th

to sow some dragon’s teeth and to conquer all the armed men that will then spring up from the earth. And the third is to kil

e the Golden Fleece back with you to Greece.” Thus spake the king and then dismissed Jason. Although Jason would not let the

me magic drugs to make him proof against harm from fire or sword, and then told him just what he must do to overcome the fie

ung, making the forest bright as though the sun were shining upon it; then he hastened back to his ship, where Medea and his

g lifted its head, and gave the boy a last, loving, questioning look, then fell back on the grass — dead. Poor Cyparissus! H

ber of fine fish. He emptied them out upon the grass by his side, and then prepared his net for another throw. But the fish

followed her until she came to a low hill. She climbed to the top and then turned to give a parting look at the sea, which s

bath, he emptied the little flask, which he thought so precious, and then went away with a happy heart. Poor Glaucus! He li

ished his prayer, the little flame on the altar leaped up thrice, and then flickered down again. Among the ancient people, t

of the brooks and the sighing of the wind in the trees, with now and then a strange cry, as though a wild beast had been su

In great excitement the king locked himself in his royal chamber and then sent for the court barber. After making him swear

from any dwelling place. In the center of it he dug a deep hole, and then , putting his mouth close to the ground, he whispe

’s subjects came to hear of this secret that the reeds whispered, and then they knew how Apollo had punished their king for

g about in their mountain caves, fire shot forth from those eyes, and then they looked exactly like volcanoes sending forth

angled locks with a rake, and cut his shaggy beard with a scythe, and then gazed into the clear, still water to see how he l

more pleasing to me than the winter’s sun or the summer’s shade. Why, then , do you fly from me? “If you knew me, you would l

umption, you must do as I command you; you must first see Psyche, and then find some very ugly old man, end make her acquain

afterwards he must appear to her as disagreeable as he truly is, and then she must loathe and hate him, and be very wretche

eature. If it be thy will to grieve her, choose another to do it; and then , after watching her a considerable time, he snatc

uthor of wise counsels — condescend to instruct and direct me.” Cupid then proceeded to relate to the god the commands of Ve

must never see me. We must always meet under cover of the night, and then you must never attempt to look at me. If you shou

ther, in which you may find it more difficult to procure help.” Venus then leading the way from the bam to the open air, com

ature will be exalted to that of the immortals.” The blooming pair then made a vow to love each other eternally, and a be

he rivers and fountains. I have left them all, and chosen thee. Come, then , with me, and be my queen.” “Hear him not,” cried

f persuaded. “I will love you as mortal man can never love you. Come, then , my bride,” he answered, drawing her toward him.

nd Ceres, the goddess of agriculture, has done this.” “Your pleasure, then ,” replied the goddess, “was death and destruction

dear Proserpine. Have you never seen or heard of my child?” Arethusa then told her she had seen the descent of her daughter

e will eat up all that is in the cauldron, and I shall have none; and then what shall I do?” Ceres was very angry with the b

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

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

eas, and what is better still, they afford good examples. Ann. May I then ask you why you ever give me stories of bad men a

re many people as bad when they lived. Ann. But why were they so bad then ? Mother. As I have told you before, because they

much more than two hundred miles, in what is called an air-line; but then the vessels in use were not like ours; and so ill

t she put a smooth stone under it, and made the table stand even, and then she rubbed it all over with mint, which afforded

hand, of their own accord as it were. They looked at each other, and then at the strangers. Their faces were gracious and b

avel, nor ever stopped till they had nearly reached the mountain top; then they turned and looked down upon the valley. It w

nn. (Takes the Bible, looks for the passage, reads it to herself, and then aloud to her mother.) “When,” & c. See page 5

Mercury was one day hovering in the air over the city of Athens, then the happy abode of industrious and peaceable inha

er. I will ask him to bestow my sister immediately upon a mortal, and then she cannot be given to a god. Mercury himself res

rse is once married to a man, he will not break their union. Aglauria then took her way to the garden, which was near the ho

example of idleness and vanity, and of their punishment. Ann’s mother then related to her the following story. Narcissus.

hould decide for them. Tiresias heard what each party had to say, and then he told Juno that she had been wrong, and Jupiter

s would live to be old, if he could be kept from seeing himself; and, then , that was not so difficult a matter as it would b

shippers should have any of it. and it was guarded by a dragon, which then was gone into a neighbouring wood; but just as th

ed Diana, entered the place, they found the intruder. The Greeks were then a rude people; either males or females would kill

p, they tied Acteon’s hands, so that he could not defend himself, and then fastened upon him a stag’s horns and skin, to mak

d with branches of ivy, and twisted about with vine tendrils. The god then rose at once to the stature of a man, and assumed

red the captain, and afterward made him his high priest. The ship was then loosed, and they soon went ashore. Bacchus then c

priest. The ship was then loosed, and they soon went ashore. Bacchus then commenced what are called his conquests, but more

up with the pace of Dictys. Aglauria looked at the strange lady, and then at her husband, as she saw them approach near, bu

Perseus struck her one blow, and severed her head from her body, and then bore it over the deserts of Africa. Every drop of

. With your permission, I will abide in your palace till morning, and then pursue my journey.” Perseus expected a cordial we

you: but tell me how came you to be in this sad condition? Andromeda then related how she was exposed to the sea monster, t

. She concluded by saying, “The monster will come hither at noon, and then ” She could not say more, but burst into tears. Pe

roposal, and Perseus went back to Andromeda. Perseus, with all speed, then flew to Andromeda, and presently the sea was toss

iew the horrible head, and he was instantly changed to stone. Perseus then laid the Medusa down upon some marine plants, and

e Morning Star. When that star is seen at evening, just after sunset, then she is Vesper and Hesperus, in poetry, but we com

e trial ended, and we claimed for our own the district of Emathia. We then admonished those conceited women, never more to e

ought to be mortified.” “Has this spring any peculiar qualities?” she then asked. “Yes,” answered Polyhymnia. “You know that

e. The chariot of day began to decline in the west; Minerva knew that then the gods expected her, and she left the sisters i

rom the continent, perhaps of Africa, to the newly-raised island; and then Neptune restored her to her human shape. There Ap

opped. Some excellent physician might have found a remedy for it; and then the disease was called a serpent, and the healer

and holds the divinities of the woods in mute attention.” ——— Mercury then began a sweet air, and soon perceived that he had

ured, ‘Protect me, and be propitious!’ I repeated the same words, and then inquired rho was the presiding deity of the place

h heat, and parched with thirst, Latona with joy perceived this lake, then pure and transparent, and hastening to the margin

and of accretion acquires a purer spirit and a new and higher form, — then , since truth was never yet conceived of error (

removes us from the sordid world of immediate and selfish needs, and then unrolls a vision of a world where men and things

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

reality, not in imagination, to us also, a spiritual power, — we may then soon over-pass the narrow limit of conception whi

belief would assist him to entertain only the reasonable myths. How, then , did the senseless and cruel stories come into ex

d Hercules were accordingly men who, after death, had been glorified, then deified, then invested with numerous characterist

e accordingly men who, after death, had been glorified, then deified, then invested with numerous characteristics and advent

for all, and has done nothing to help man toward righteousness since then . The theological theory has been advocated by Vos

nd them in their inherited mythologies. The theory of development is, then , that “the savage and senseless element in mythol

would, by this theory, be, for the most part, a “survival.” Instead, then , of deteriorating, the races that invented sensel

understand the first words spoken of them by the children of men. And then , in all the most beautiful and enduring myths, we

nches. The root, in physical existence, sun, or sky, or cloud, or sea then the personal incarnation of that, becoming a trus

he children of Chaos, are wedded, and from them spring Light and Day; then Uranus, the personified Heaven, takes Gæa, the Ea

ight the memorable stone, which was placed in safe keeping at Delphi; then the five brothers and sisters of Jupiter, ardent

entrails; but the bones he garnished with a plausible mass of fat. He then offered Jupiter his choice. The king of Heaven, a

The suffocating sense of woe, Which speaks but in its loneliness, And then is jealous lest the sky Should have a listener, n

words among the nations, The Promethean fire is burning. “Shall it, then , be unavailing, All this toil for human culture?

nsented to become the birthplace of the future deities. This isle was then floating and unstable; but on Latona’s arrival, J

a’s shining orb was made Heaven to clear when day did close: Bless us then with wished sight, Goddess excellently bright. L

with ivy and surmounted by a pine cone. ———— “The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung, Of Bacchus, ever fair, a

louds and darkness — are also sometimes named the Cimmerians, and are then located in the far north, where the sun neither r

d with the novelty, and with the sweetness of the music, said, ‘Thus, then , at least, you shall be mine.’ Taking some of the

sweet to thee, what food shalt thou find from the deep? Nay, art thou then some god, for god-like are these deeds of thine.”

s poisoned by them. Next the disease attacked the country people, and then the dwellers in the city. At first the cheek was

e you to ask of us?” Philemon took counsel with Baucis a few moments, then declared to the gods their common wish. “We ask t

ce. Arachne alone was unterrified. A sudden color dyed her cheek, and then she grew pale; but she stood to her resolve, and

e insult. She struck the web with her shuttle, and rent it in pieces; then , touching the forehead of Arachne, she made her r

yprian first he wounded in close fight, in the wrist of her hand, and then assailed he me, even me, with the might of a god.

ch of her, and not to return without her. Cadmus sought long and far; then , not daring to return unsuccessful, consulted the

still. Cadmus gave thanks, and stooping down kissed the foreign soil, then lifting his eyes, greeted the surrounding mountai

cordingly. They still live in the water, sometimes totally submerged, then raising their heads above the surface or swimming

ing the lily, save that this is purple and that silvery white. Phœbus then , to confer still greater honor, marked the petals

miss the booty, — say, Death comes not to the boltered blood, — why, then , Down go I, to the unsunned dwelling-place Of Kor

moist river-lawns, And the brink of the dewy caves, And all that did then attend and follow Were silent with love, as you n

of Heaven — and the giant wars, And Love, and Death, and Birth, — And then I changed my pipings, — Singing how down the vale

ed: Gods and men, we are all deluded thus! It breaks in our bosom and then we bleed: All wept, as I think both ye now would,

e than it takes to tell, she had become a fountain. Alpheüs attempted then to mingle his stream with hers. But the Cynthian

over her lips, though the sight of her almost moved him to pity; and then he touched her side with the point of his arrow.

sister’s valley. They embraced her, she returned their caresses, and then committed them to the care of her attendant voice

sleep began to frame, And, as to touch her face, his hand did move; O then , indeed, her faint heart swelled for love, And sh

ain, each called upon Zephyr to receive her and bear her to his lord, then , leaping up, failed of the support of Zephyr, fel

arelessly scattered harvest implements that lay there. The holy Ceres then counselled her to submit to Venus, to try humbly

gathered up the sleep from her body and enclosed it again in the box; then waked Psyche with the touch of an arrow. “Again,”

f to assure himself whether it were living or not, and could not even then believe that it was only ivory. The festival of V

air, And let her choose me, as I chose, This fairest of the fair! And then an altar in thy court I’ll offer, decked with gol

n Thisbe that speaks.” At the name of Thisbe Pyramus opened his eyes, then closed them again. She saw her veil stained with

ia the goddess Rhea cured him and taught him her religious rites; and then he set out on a progress through Asia, teaching t

he had robbed the garden of the Hesperides. He ordered his servants, then , to set an excellent meal on the table. But, to h

imbs with her hands, and uttered over him three times a solemn charm, then went and laid him in the ashes. His mother, who h

eister.] When Ceres heard this, she stood a while like one stupefied; then she implored Jupiter to interfere to procure the

d him with their missiles. Like maniacs they tore him limb from limb; then cast his head and lyre into the river Hebrus, dow

esign for a season their respective functions, and to serve Laomedon, then about to build the city of Troy. They aided the k

xpert in counterfeiting forms of men, to perform the command of Iris; then laid his head on his pillow, and yielded himself

e, Jove forbids the winds to blow. Then Halcyon broods over her nest; then the way is safe to seafarers. Æolus confines the

celestial raiment. In time he lost the power of using his limbs; and then she shut him up in his chamber, whence his feeble

lakes of fire. “Lo! ever thus thou growest beautiful In silence, then before thine answer given Departest, and thy te

from a stony field. To her the nymph delivered the commands of Ceres; then returned in haste to Thessaly, for she herself be

screaming hoarsely overhead. But when his body was found, all Greece, then gathered at the festival, demanded vengeance on t

en he finds his arts of no avail, he will obey thy behest.” The nymph then sprinkled her son with nectar, whereupon an unusu

nding himself captured, resorted to his craft, becoming first a fire, then a flood, then a horrible wild beast, in rapid suc

captured, resorted to his craft, becoming first a fire, then a flood, then a horrible wild beast, in rapid succession; nor d

t, he beheld the virgin chained to a rock. Drawing nearer, he pitied, then comforted her, and sought the reason of her disgr

s reward. The parents consented. Perseus embraced his promised bride; then — Loosing his arms from her waist he flew upward

pon the back of the monster, and plunged his sword into its shoulder, then eluded its furious attack by means of his wings.

nt had rendered Danaë’s life intolerable with his attentions. Perseus then restored to their owners the charmed helmet, the

was killed by Hercules and given to the horses to devour. They were, then , delivered to Eurystheus; but, escaping, they roa

has, who had brought him the fatal robe, and hurled him into the sea; then tried to wrench off the garment, but it stuck to

closed behind them, and actually grazed the stern of the vessel. They then rowed along the shore till they arrived at the ea

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

ess that they plighted troth before the altar of Hecate. The princess then furnished her hero with a charm which should aid

a few drops of a preparation, which, again, Medea had supplied. Jason then seized the fleece, and with his friends and his s

Medea, enraged at his ingratitude, called on the gods for vengeance: then , sending a poisoned robe as a gift to the bride,

that the life of the child should last no longer than a certain brand then burning upon the hearth. Althæa seized and quench

while Meleager grew to boyhood, youth, and man’s estate. It chanced, then , that Œneus, offering sacrifices to the gods, omi

12 the father of Achilles, Telamon,313 the father of Ajax, Nestor,314 then a youth, but who in his age bore arms with Achill

87. The Calydonian Hunt. [Relief: Baumeister.] But there was no time then for love: on to the hunt they pushed. To the hunt

at Meleager, who with spear straightening Pierced his cheek through; then Toxeus made for him, Dumb, but his spear shake; v

ad passed Samos and Delos on the left and Lebynthos on the right. But then the boy, exulting in his career, soared upward. T

ks of the coif, of the floating garment as little, Cares not a moment then , whose care hangs only on Theseus, — Wretched of

to edges of upward waves that trembled before her; Uttered, anguished then , one wail, her maddest and saddest, — Catching wi

Ere I call — in the hour supreme, on the faith of Immortals! “Come, then , Righters of Wrong, O vengeful dealers of justice

, — Weening hateful Fate had severed the fortune of Theseus. Theseus, then , as he paced that gloom of the home of his father

ughter of Jupiter. Theseus fixed his choice on Leda’s daughter Helen, then a child, but afterwards famous as the cause of th

s. Hippolytus was killed, but by Æsculapius was restored to life; and then removed by Diana from the power of his deluded fa

lm of his reputed sire, Polybus. It happened, however, that Laïus was then driving to Delphi, accompanied only by one attend

ined him to the last. Both his daughters were, also, with him: — And then he called his girls, and bade them fetch Clear wa

shuddering, at their father’s knees, Falling they wept; nor did they then forbear Smiting their breasts, nor groanings leng

7 Pl. 14. Œdipus and Antigone. Teschendorff. There was sobbing, then silence. Then a voice called him, — and he follow

mbat. They fought, and fell each by the hand of the other. The armies then renewed the fight; and at last the invaders were

arding the soft white balls of the wool resplendent within them. Thus then , parting the strands, these Three with resonant v

y with Menelaüs when Paris becoming their guest made love to her; and then , aided by Venus, persuaded her to elope with him,

hich flourished till they were high enough to command a view of Troy, then withered away, giving place to fresh branches tha

Laodamia the story of his fate: — “The wished-for wind was given; I then revolved The oracle upon the silent sea; And if n

one dares to die?’ In soul I swept the indignity away: Old frailties then recurred: — but lofty thought In act embodied, my

distance, divested himself of his own mail, put on that of Achilles, then returned to the fight. Ajax and Menelaüs defended

of armor for Achilles; first a shield adorned with elaborate devices, then a helmet crested with gold, then a corselet and g

ield adorned with elaborate devices, then a helmet crested with gold, then a corselet and greaves of impenetrable temper, al

form of Agenor, Priam’s son, first encountered the swift-footed hero, then turned in flight, and taken the way apart from th

ships were withdrawn and concealed behind a neighboring island. They then constructed an immense wooden horse, which they g

a; but it was, in fact, filled with armed men. The rest of the Greeks then betook themselves to their ships and sailed away,

Diomede entered the city in disguise to carry off the Palladium. She, then , saw and recognized Ulysses, but kept the secret,

ally divided, Orestes was acquitted by the command of Minerva. He was then purified with plentiful blood of swine. Fig. 1

undle of fire-wood, which he threw down before the cavern’s mouth. He then drove into the cave the sheep and goats to be mil

eir companions, feasting on their flesh till no fragment was left. He then moved away the rock from the door, drove out his

s held the end of the stake in the fire till it was one burning coal, then poising it exactly above the giant’s only eye, th

down to the shore to their boat. They put them aboard with all haste, then pushed off from the shore, and when at a safe dis

e mountain, and rending it from its bed he lifted it high in the air, then exerting all his force, hurled it in the directio

ng time for the princess and her companions to reach the city, he was then to pursue his way thither, and should be easily g

ng libation to Mercury, whose worship followed the evening meal. Just then Minerva dissolved the cloud and disclosed him to

d wine were set before him and he ate and refreshed himself. The king then dismissed his guests, notifying them that the nex

on shore, and landed with him the chest containing his presents, and then sailed away. Neptune was so displeased at the con

th the hand of a master. With ease he adjusted the cord to its notch, then fitting an arrow to the bow he drew the string an

Trojans, ye treat us innocent birds, first slaughter our cattle, and then make war on ourselves?” She then predicted dire s

rds, first slaughter our cattle, and then make war on ourselves?” She then predicted dire sufferings to them in their future

e. He called the winds and dismissed them with a severe reprimand. He then soothed the waves, and brushed away the clouds fr

w his sword and would have struck, but the Sibyl restrained him. They then came to the black river Cocytus, where they found

the Sibyl threw him a medicated cake, which he eagerly devoured, and then stretched himself out in his den and fell asleep.

eyes, and he addressed her in the accents of love. “Unhappy Dido! was then the rumor true that thou hadst perished? and was

a moment with averted countenance, and eyes fixed on the ground, and then silently passed on, as insensible to his pleading

ensible to his pleadings as a rock. Æneas followed for some distance; then , with a heavy heart, rejoined his companion and r

romised land!” he exclaimed, “this is our home, this our country!” He then took measures to find out who were the present in

Amata, and roused her to oppose in every way the new alliance. Alecto then sped to the city of Turnus, and assuming the form

swelled by rains, seemed to debar a passage. He paused for a moment, then decided what to do. He tied the infant to his lan

ressed Diana: “Goddess of the woods! I consecrate this maid to thee;” then hurled the weapon with its burden to the opposite

to Juno, and deprecate her anger. When thou hast achieved thy victory then think of me.” Æneas woke and paid immediate obedi

Having thus said, he showed him the Tarpeian rock, and the rude spot then overgrown with bushes where in after times the Ca

yalus, all on fire with the love of adventure, replied, “Wouldst thou then , Nisus, refuse to share thy enterprise with me? A

e, but it recoiled harmless from the shield of Æneas. The Trojan hero then threw his, which penetrating the shield of Turnus

en Nilfleim and Muspelheim, destined to become the abode of man. Odin then regulated the periods of day and night and the se

piece of alder; and they called the man Ash and the woman Embla. Odin then gave them life and soul, Vili reason and motion,

ed upon them the senses, expressive features, and speech. Midgard was then given them as their residence, and they became th

still less, indeed, if Thor should return from the expedition he had then undertaken against the evil demons. As the winter

ow that thou art the god Thor. But what has become of my glove?” Thor then perceived that what they had taken overnight for

ber where his two companions had sought refuge was the thumb. Skrymir then proposed that they should travel in company, and

a place for them to pass the night in under a large oak tree. Skrymir then told them he would lie down to sleep. “But take y

with thee, Thor?” But Thor went away hastily, saying that he had just then awoke, and that as it was only midnight, there wa

performest what thou promisest, and it shall be tried forthwith.” He then ordered one of his men who was sitting at the far

the company therefore adjudged that Loki was vanquished. Utgard-Loki then asked what feat the young man who accompanied Tho

ut if the youth would win the match he must display great agility. He then arose and went with all who were present to a pla

and a third time, but Thialfi met with no better success. Utgard-Loki then asked Thor in what feats he would choose to give

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

his footing, and was finally brought down upon one knee. Utgard-Loki then told them’ to desist, adding that Thor had now no

great mishap I would not have suffered thee to enter this time. Know then that I have all along deceived thee by my illusio

ee not where Balder is, and have moreover nothing to throw.” “Come, then ,” said Loki, “do like the rest, and show honor to

, and I will direct thy arm toward the place where he stands.” Höder then took the mistletoe, and under the guidance of Lok

o Balder faded in the night away. And Nanna on her bed sank back; but then Frea, the mother of the gods, with stroke Painles

s he alone. “But,” she added, “thou hast not death’s hue on thee; why then ridest thou here on the way to Hel?” “I ride to

ich cleared the gate by a tremendous leap without touching it. Hermod then rode on to the palace, where he found his brother

ed, “all things in the world, both living and lifeless, weep for him, then shall he return to life; but if any one thing spe

peak against him or refuse to weep, he shall be kept in Hel.” Hermod then rode back to Asgard and gave an account of all he

First came Odin accompanied by Frigga, the Valkyries, and his ravens; then Freyr in his car drawn by Gullinbursti, the boar;

to Hel: — And the fleet-footed Hermod made reply: — 392 “Thou hast then all the solace death allows, Esteem and function;

upon the plains of heaven. I mourn thee, that thou canst not help us then .” He spake; but Balder answered him, and said: —

he last, with fruits Self-springing, and a seed of man preserved, Who then shall live in peace, as now in war. But we in hea

, the delights of other days. O Hermod, pray that thou may’st join us then ! Such for the future is my hope; meanwhile, I res

over his son, and drove away that queen, and soon after she died. He then married Hiordis the fair; but before long, doing

, and the hilt of the Wrath he shifts, And draws a girth the tighter; then the gathered reins he lifts, And crieth aloud to

im many wise sayings; and they plighted troth, one to the other, both then and again; and Sigurd gave her the ring of Andvar

ry in vain?” So ended the life of Sigurd. Brynhild grieved a season, then dealt herself a mortal wound, and was burned on t

chips or spills of wood, to fall, as fate determined, on a cloth, and then be read by the interpreters… The association of t

much to bring on the French revolution: Childe Harold 3: 81, — “For then he was inspired, and from him came, As from the P

d arrows, His mother’s doves, and teeme of sparrows; Looses them too; then , downe he throwes The corrall of his lippe, the r

s cheek (but none knows how) With these, the crystal of his brow, And then the dimple of his chin; All these did my Campaspe

n borne across the heaven by the lord of the pure ether. Europa would then be the broad-spreading flush of dawn, seen first

ame implies, the “healer.” Later, the name was applied to Æsculapius, then to any god who might repair or avert evil of any

e Dawn. There is first the appearance of the dawn in the eastern sky, then the rising of the sun as if hurrying after his br

stern sky, then the rising of the sun as if hurrying after his bride, then the gradual fading away of the bright dawn at the

ward rising moon delights to gaze. His fifty children by Selene would then be the fifty months of the Olympiad, or Greek per

on the most fragrant and delicate productions of the spring. Psyche, then , is the human soul, which is purified by sufferin

Eurydice as the twilight, first, of evening which is slain by night, then , of morning which is dissipated by sunrise. Cox f

e dawn. The concealment of Procris in the forest and her death would, then , signify the paling of the moon before the approa

us in his ocean-bed, and his transformation into a grasshopper, would then typify the presumable weariness and weakness of t

y condition of the soil of Argos. The fifty daughters of Danaüs would then be the nymphs of the many springs which in season

ng Sun would next overcome the Gray-women, forms of the gloaming, and then slay with his sword of light the black cloud of t

If Medea be another personification of morning and evening twilight, then her dragons are rays of sunlight that precede her

9). Odin or Woden was first the god of the heaven, or heaven itself, then husband of earth, god of war and of wisdom, lord

vowel is followed by x or by two consonants (not a mute with l or r), then the vowel is joined with the succeeding consonant

Worshipped through all Egypt, and associated with other gods who are then manifestations of his various attributes. He is t

tain attributes of the sun; adopted by a sect as its special god, and then annexed by the Brahmans as a manifestation of the

men, Thine were hearts that could not quail, —    Earth was glorious then ; Thine were souls that dared be free; Power, and

le, and he felt sure that it was very bad, indeed, for the eyes. Just then they passed a great river, and Proserpina listene

said of the danger. He almost made up his mind not to take the gift; then he opened the door. There stood Pandora, more bea

oes who fought to kill monsters and savage beasts. All mankind seemed then , for the first time, to be free and happy. Even J

ame to her senses and let it go. “I must not do it,” she thought. And then she knelt down beside the box and began to raise

the cover, with her whole weight. That closed it, but it was too late then . When Epimetheus came hack he found her there, kn

ad become a laurel tree. Apollo kissed the flowers, which seemed even then to draw back from his touch. “Though you would no

pheus and Eurydice, the smoke would not rise, but sank to the ground; then the flames began to sputter and go out, nor could

and it seemed to melt into nothing in his. “O Orpheus,” she said; and then , “Goodbye! goodbye!” The last word was only a whi

ood before him in the faint light of the cavern. Orpheus stood dazed; then he would have rushed after her, but the god stood

him play, Even the billows of the sea,         Hung their heads, and then lay by. In sweet music is such art, Killing care

s glare. They came gliding swiftly toward the cradle, and there might then have been an end of both of its little occupants,

air, and so strangled him. Then Hercules wandered through Egypt, and then far northward, until he came to Mount Caucasus. T

le while. He stretched his great, cramped limbs to their full length, then setting out, in a few moments disappeared in the

he went. Sometimes the king and his courtiers heard him stop playing; then he would begin once more. After a while they hear

played, followed a lion and a wild boar, as tame as kittens. Now and then he would pause to stroke them with his hand. When

s moved to anger, it was she that calmed his stormy moods. No wonder, then , that the folk of Thessaly loved her almost to th

ll men must die. No one can foresee it or help it. Let us make merry, then , and put garlands on our brows while we may. So I

moment he stayed to ask the servant where Alcestis was to be buried, then he was gone. He came just in time, for when he re

lash the mighty arms of Hercules were round the black god’s body, and then began such a struggle as was never before seen in

ng upon him with his pestilent breath. Long they wrestled and strove; then , suddenly, with a fierce strain of all his knotte

his knotted muscles, Hercules forced the grim god down upon one knee, then half back upon the ground. “Let me go,” whispered

r, And let her choose me, as I chose    This fairest of the fair! And then an altar in thy court    I’ll offer, decked with

mage. By her grace, accordingly, it was made into a live woman, whom, then , Pygmalion married. Phaëton. As Helios,

e ointment, so that he might better endure the fierce light and heat; then he put upon him the blazing crown which the sun’s

t grew wilder. Once the chariot was carried far away among the stars, then the steeds rushed down within the circle of the m

and.” “Are you so willing?” answered the treacherous king. “Bring me, then , the head of the Gorgon Medusa. That would be a g

you until he is able to lift the stone and get the sword and sandals, then send him to Athens to me.” “But, Ægeus,” said Æth

as cobweb. “As you go in, unwind this,” she said. “The way back will then be easy. Come now, for you must act quickly.” So

d in due form asked for Helen. They promised to depart in peace, even then , if she were given up. Helen longed to return to

r retired from the fight for a time, to put on the armor of Achilles: then he returned and did wondrous deeds, so that the G

ny drew swords and died. Where’er I came    I brought calamity.” And then continuing with a downward brow:    “I would the

n, and that might have been an occasion to end the struggle, but even then the Trojans would not give up Helen. They had no

would never fall. This horse would be a new Palladium for you.” Just then a wondrous thing happened. Across the ocean came

rence. Ropes were brought and tied to the wooden monster. Wheels were then fastened to its feet, and it was soon rolling and

d, and were glad to stretch their limbs and to breathe the fresh air; then they went quietly along the silent street until t

” “Nay, sweet Cassandra,” spake the god,    “Troy-town must fall.” O then she stood up fair and brave    And answered “Deat

glorious light was spent, Cassandra’s shade they would invoke.    Ah, then they felt the high intent: Revered the spirit tha

u a gift in return.” Ulysses poured out another bowl of the wine, and then another. “Cyclops, “he said, “my name is Noman.”

l I finish this robe which I am weaving for Laertes,” said Penelope; “ then I will choose.” But she did not believe that Ulys

d some lard with which he rubbed the bow, to make it limber, but even then he could not bend it, nor could any of the other

nst Troy, 178, which, after ten years, they destroyed, 211. Helen was then taken back to Sparta, 211. He΄lios. The god of t

. Si΄rens. Nymphs who, with their songs, enticed mariners ashore and then slew them. 230, 233. Spar΄ta. Kingdom of Greece,

that he wooed Venus in the form of a mortal: or, in the tremor which then as now pervaded the lover’s bosom, he might fear

d related as what were before believed and received, and not as tales then first invented and communicated; besides, as they

eate the light of day, he repelled all the dark and thick clouds, and then formed the zodiac, glittering with stars above hi

ng thro’ the pores of oak.” Ovid. From the gaieties and fêtes which then took place arose the name of Saturnalia, or fêtes

heap mountain on mountain in order to scale the walls of Heaven; they then threw fragments of rocks and burning trees agains

btained refuge under various forms: from the different disguises they then assumed, may be traced the worship rendered by th

es driven, Sought shelter from the inclemency of heaven. Those houses then were caves or homely sheds, With twining osiers f

rame a creature exquisitely fair; To temper well the clay with water, then To add the vigour and the voice of men; To let he

was to teach the fair The wiles of love, and to improve her air; And then in awful majesty to shed A thousand graceful char

passions of love, jealousy, and vengeance. ——— “Hard steel succeeded then : And stubborn as the metal were the men. Truth, m

threw themselves into the sea, and Bacchus turned them into Dolphins, then seizing the helm steered the ship towards Naxos,

dancing through the pleasant valley,     To scare thee, melancholy! O then , o then, thou wast a simple name! And I forgot th

through the pleasant valley,     To scare thee, melancholy! O then, o then , thou wast a simple name! And I forgot thee as th

her small forehead fades on both sides into that sweet swelling, and then declension of the bone over the eye, in the mode

can is represented as having been very violent at his rejection. Juno then pressed the suit of her son on Venus, whose power

hus made him intoxicated after he had been expelled from Olympus, and then prevailed on him to return, where he was reconcil

e beings, so seldom met with in the present degenerate days; and even then , so rare was her beauty, that the people of earth

shed limbs concealed. “He half relenting on her beauties gazed, Just then awaking with a sudden start, Her opening eye in h

e power of the God, returned her to earth upon a bank of flowers. She then went through the world in search of her lost love

d they say the earth was ruled,     By but a sleeping child? “I went then forth into the world,     To see what might be th

ss, in hopelessness,     In utter misery down. “And what the sorrow, then I asked.     Can thus the warrior move, To scorn

ry, ’Tis lost in high, triumphal tones of gladness. ‌    Rivers. But then to think upon the hearts that grieve. For those w

nd burns with new desires. A crown of pine upon his head he wore, And then began her pity to implore. But ere he thus began,

wars,     And love, and death, and birth, —                      And then I changed my pipings. ‌Singing how down the vale

d; Gods and men were all deluded thus,     It breaks in our bosom and then we bleed: All wept, as I think both ye now would,

e shade with her child, and would smother Its eye-lids in kisses, and then in its sleep Sang dreams in its ears, of its manh

 for I wept at his wonder, He stroked me, and uttered such kindliness then , That the once love of women, the friendship of m

t her elm should grow, ’Twould creep a poor neglected shrub below. Be then , fair nymph, by these examples led, Nor shun for

ssume his natural shape. “The story oft Vertumnus urged in vain, But then assumed his heavenly form again; Such looks and l

ery distant shape, Till tired, she tries no longer to escape? Thus he then sunk beneath the glassy flood, And broken accents

, And into various shapes her body throws; She went to move her arms, then found them tied, Then with a sigh ‘Some god assis

e place. Soon as the nymph wades in, her nether parts Turn into dogs, then at herself she starts. A ghastly horror in her ey

ly cares opprest, Sinks, softly sinks, into those arms for rest. And then methought death’s hollow voice replied,     ‘Rash

h When man shall feel your sacred power, and love Your tranquil joys; then shall the city stand A huge, void sepulchre, and

. The worship of the Graces appeals to have had birth in Samothracia; then Elis, Perinthia, Delphi, and Rome adopted the thr

and to plough with them, when subdued, a field sacred to Mars. He was then to sow in the ground the teeth of a serpent, from

ruments and herbs could protect him against the coming dangers. “She then retires to Hecate’s shrine, that stood Far in the

truck they stopped Their resolution, and their weapons dropped: Medea then the mortal blow bestows.” The subjects of the de

us. I heard, I saw the ills thou showest me. Hercules. Why hast thou then unveiled me to the Sun? Theseus. Why not? Can mo

my age advanced To youth’s fresh bloom, why should I say what toils I then sustained? What lions — what dire forms Of Triple

to land, And drove them from the inhospitable strand,     To Perseus then : ‘Fly quickly, fly this coast, Nor falsely dare t

if your daughter I from death redeem. Shall she be mine? Shall it not then be thought, A bride, so lovely, was too cheaply b

gaping stood, To eat my child, the fairest of my blood. You lost her then when she seemed past relief, And wish’d, perhaps,

been woman’s fate, to love, To know one summer day of happiness, And then to be most wretched!     Leonarde.               

ok, As the pale priestess trembles to the breath ‌Of unborn oracles! then flushed her cheek, And all the triumph, all the a

noise which had been vented about of the Sphynx, a frightful monster then laying waste the country around Thebes, and devou

d, Oh! dreadful sir, You will not rack an innocent man. ‌ Œd. Speak, then . Phor. Alas! what would you have me say? Œd. Di

I speak most certain death attends me. Œd. Thou shalt not die; speak then , who was it? Speak, While I have sense to underst

be that shone Fatally rich. I struck him twice, and twice He groaned, then died. A third time as he lay I gored him with a w

th face averted, holding (as before) My hand; but yours burns not, as then it burned. This alone shews me we are with the bl

we have borne. I will win back past kindness.                 Tell me then , Tell how my mother fares who loved me so, And gr

raise humility, and most Admire it in the sceptre and the sword. What then can make you speak thus rapidly And briefly? in y

r ever. Iphig. What spake my father to the Gods above? Unworthy am I then to join in prayer? If, on the last, or any day be

rney to the Trojan camp, entered his tent at night and slew him; they then carried off the horses which had been the innocen

art of the wall to make an entrance for the horse into the city; they then celebrated the deliverance of their country with

ughters, and his sons, from falling beneath the edge of the sword. He then sought to rally the Trojans, and make head agains

is recitals; and by giving him intoxicating drink, the monster slept; then , assisted by his companions, he put out his eye.

the walls of the city, under the mulberry tree which grew there, and then to celebrate ‌their union. Thisbe was the first w

ping her veil in her flight. This the lioness smeared with blood, and then disappeared, leaving it under the trysting tree.

utter her laments in such a tone, As might have moved the rocks, and then would call Upon the murdered Acis. He the while R

nd gusts of wind swept o’er the troubled main Like hasty threats, and then were calm again; That night, young Hero by her be

f up for a time to the pleasure of her society, but man was as fickle then as now, and he grew tired, even conceiving a disd

remembered names, ‘Leucadia’s rock,’ At times, and ‘faithless Phaon:’ then the form Passed not, but seemed to melt in air aw

r Cadmus attacked, and by the aid of Minerva overcame the monster, he then sowed the teeth of the dragon in the plain, upon

s a young bullock, four years old, for more than forty yards, that he then killed it with a blow of his fist, and to crown t

templating the panorama of Chaos, which was spread out before him. He then produced seven starry spheres, the Earth, and its

ad among all nations, are placed the embodyings of the principal god: then , (of ‌an order still less important,) are placed

of bystanders, and partly by lot. The wretches upon whom it fell were then treated with such honours by all the assembly; th

fered up animals, they speedily killed them at the foot of the altar; then they opened their entrails, and drew auguries fro

sentence, “You have yet nine days to live!” Intoxicating liquors were then given him, to sustain his courage until the day o

various fantastic ceremonies to deprive themselves of timidity. They then would rush forth to celebrate their rites, during

ted, that some navigators of Phœnicia might have been thrown upon the then unknown shore of America, from which place they d

omise, because, it being so feeble, she did not dread its power. Loke then departed, and, cutting the mistletoe, converted i

Immortals had not altogether departed from the abodes of men. Jupiter then divided the year into seasons, shortened the wint

ook up arms against Saturn himself, whom he overcame and banished. He then shared his power with his two brothers, Neptune a

ipe, that, one by one, the keeper’s hundred eyes were closed. The god then drew his falchion, and cut off the head of Argus

ved, therefore, to refer the matter to the decision of Paris, who was then feeding his sheep on Mount Ida. This prince was t

d to give him for a wife the most beautiful woman in the world. Paris then pronounced Venus the fairest. He was soon after a

nded by a thorn, and some drops of blood fell upon that flower, which then assumed its present crimson hue. Ques. Who were

t his reign was called the Golden Age. The poets tell us that all men then lived on a perfect equality, property was held in

ty years being ended, the Vestals returned to their families. The law then permitted them to marry, but it was considered di

ace, being the last among the Immortals to abandon the earth. Jupiter then changed her into the constellation Virgo, one of

ped by throwing an herb into the cup, which rendered it powerless; he then rushed upon the sorceress with his sword, and for

ter Jocasta, to that man who should solve the riddle. Œdipus, who was then at Thebes, came forward and answered the Sphinx,

e had been expelled, and dedicated it likewise to Pudicitia. Virginia then assembled the plebeian matrons, and exhorted them

brought him the garment, by the foot, and hurled him into the sea. He then fled in his agony to the summit of Mount Œta, whe

lay, he slew him, and found his way out by the thread. The whole band then embarked for Athens. Ques. What became of Ariadn

ra, a fabulous monster which we have already described, and which was then spreading terror through the kingdom of Lycia. Be

retold that the life of the child should expire with a billet of wood then burning on the hearth. Althea immediately seized

leus, afterwards father of Achilles, Telamon, father of Ajax, Nestor, then a youth, and many others of heroic fame. All eyes

en no one, and he proceeded to search for the fugitive elsewhere. She then resumed her own form, and returned to her father,

Achilles betrayed himself by seizing the armor. The young warrior was then obliged to join the expedition. During the siege,

Ulysses was obliged to have these men dragged away by force, and even then , it was necessary to bind them with ropes to the

h steady aim that the arrow sped unerringly through all the rings; he then exclaimed, “Now for another mark!” and aimed a se

and Clytemnestra. At the time of his father’s assassination, Orestes, then a child, was saved by his sister Electra, who sen

with such animosity that both fell, mortally wounded. The battle was then renewed, and the Argives were totally defeated. C

assed by unnumbered ills, But would account it blessedness to die? If then I meet the doom thy laws assign, It nothing griev

e coast of Africa; here they were kindly entertained by Dido, who was then engaged in the erection of her new city of Cartha

laurel that stood before the gate of the temple. The sacred tree was then seen to tremble in every leaf. The Pythia was obl

d at the mouth, and a convulsive trembling seized her whole body. She then spoke prophetic words, which were carefully noted

this oracle? Ans. The votary was first purified by solemn ablutions; then , after offering sacrifice, and drinking of a wate

g care to hold in each hand a certain composition of honey. They were then carried downwards with great force, as by the cur

oclaimed conqueror in the four-horse chariot race. This victory, till then unexampled, was celebrated with all possible sple

drowned by the attendant priests in the sacred cistern; his body was then carefully embalmed, and buried in the temple of S

ttle later, probably, than the Books of Moses. Ques. Had the Hindoos then conquered the country which now bears their name?

eem to have lost even the last traces of natural religion. Ques. Why then do they persevere in his worship? Ans. The honor

he, “all things in the world, both living and lifeless, weep for him, then shall he return; but if any one thing refuse to w

m, then shall he return; but if any one thing refuse to weep for him, then shall he be kept in Hell.” On hearing the result

y without being tempered by a single summer. Three other winters will then follow, during which war and discord will convuls

e island. The chiefs and princes, together with the assembled people, then assisted in silent awe, while the Druids performe

en many years had rolled away, he would revisit their descendants. He then embarked in a skiff made of serpent’s skins, and

f the unknown road which the spirit was about to travel. The body was then burned, and the ashes, carefully collected in a f

ge advanced, until at length he broke his lute, and cast it aside. He then threw from him, one by one, his chaplets of flowe

ch as a coronation, a victory, etc. A child or a beautiful maiden was then selected as the victim; but the cannibal repasts

f mount Parnassus, where they remained till the waters subsided. They then inquired of the oracle of Themis, how the earth w

t brought on mortal race An army of diseases; death began With vigour then , to mend its halting pace, And found a more compe

riot, drawn by peacocks. — See Fig. 8. Fig. 8. Juno. “The goddess then to Argus straight convey’d Her gift, and him the

agons, and bade him travel and communicate his knowledge to those who then fed on acorns and roots. On his return to Athens,

hade; When winter ends and spring serenely shines, Then fat the lamb, then mellow are the wines: Then sweet are slumbers on

globe in her hand, which is sometimes laid on a tripod; a compass is then seen in her hand. — See Fig. 19. Fig. 19. Urani

rship of Minerva, to whom that tree was particularly sacred. The city then took the name of its tutelary divinity. Athens be

sented her in the form of an eagle, a bird always victorious. Now and then she is seen to be carried by a globe, to denote t

t length, referred the decision to Paris, son of Priam, king of Troy, then feeding his flocks upon Mount Ida. Paris adjudged

She is the daughter of Jupiter; except when figured symbolically: she then becomes the source of life and activity throughou

y Ulysses. Vulcan. “Cupid is Vulcan’s son, Venus his wife: No wonder then he goes lame all his life.” “Nor was his name un

aw His undigested foam and mosals raw; We pray, we cast the lots; and then surround The monstrous body, stretch’d along the

ules’ oxen, for which crime Jupiter struck her dead with thunder, and then turned her into a whirlpool. “Sirens were once s

subject : “Silence! ye troubled waves, and thou deep, peace, Said then th’ omnific word. Your discord end; Nor stay’d, b

ign To thee and to the brand. The charm they weave Into his fate, and then the chamber leave: His mother snatch’d it with a

n the morning, on two feet at noon, and three in the evening?” Creon, then king of Thebes, declared that he would give a cro

lternately to reign a year each. Eteocles reigned the first year, and then refused his brother his crown; upon which a war f

ead of Medusa, which turned him into a rock, and broke her chains. He then took her to wife. — See Fig. 70. Fig. 70. Belle

rcumstances by saying, that Pegasus remained one moment on earth, and then directed his flight towards the abode of the gods

Virgil. “———— The Cleonian lion first he kills; With fire and sword then Lerna’s pest he quells; Of the wild boar he clear

enamoured of him, he overcame the bulls, laid the dragon asleep, and then slew it. The teeth of the dragon were sown in the

her charms with an herb, called moly, which Mercury had given him. He then ran into her cave with his sword drawn, in order

r which the inquirers applied their ears to the mouth of the god, and then withdrew, closing their ears, till they had left

as brought to Alexandria from Sinope, by Ptolemy Lagus. His image was then erected in a temple, called the Serapeum. It is r

roken to pieces, and its limbs borne in triumph through the city, and then cast into a fire, kindled in the amphitheatre. Be

uld take a certain drink which Tez-cat-li-po-ca presented to him, and then move to another kingdon, called Tla-pal-la. No so

he touched the stone which was to serve as the first foundation; and then it was bound around with a ribbon. After these ce

oes not commonly, for several ages, deceive a whole people. Were not, then , the power of a king, the curiosity of a rich man

pparent truth the responses of these wonderful institutions? What is, then , that concert, unknown till these came into vogue

ne month in the year. In time, this practice was changed; and the god then spoke only on one particular day of every month.

se words, Alexander exclaimed, that he wished no other oracle; and he then marched to the conquest of the world. Before peop

o wash except in the cold waters of the river Hercine. A sacrifice is then made to Trophonius, to his family, to Jupiter Rex

into which he descends by degrees with small ladders. A second cavern then presents itself, which he enters by lying down on

lding in each hand honey: (which is deemed necessary to be borne:) he then passes his feet into the cave, and is immediately

hat his envoy was consulting her. She immediately replied that he was then having a lamb with a turtle served up. The fact w

d back this reply, which, at first, appeared ridiculous. The governor then unsealed the billet, and showed that he had writt

asked for them three hundred pieces of gold, which were refused. She then cast three of them into the fire, and persisted i

tus in Elis, which was four hundred and forty-two years after. Greece then made their celebration her principal epoch. The p

who gained the prize of the chariot race. The sixteenth Olympiad was then celebrated; and from that time ladies could parti

earthquakes. He will remain there captive until the end of time, and then be killed by Hiemdal, door-keeper to the gods. Th

m the bosom of the waves, adorned with green meadows. The fields will then produce abundant harvests without culture; calami

attle, were there healed by the trumpet’s sounding for the feast; and then the heroes quaffed the oil of Enherium, and the V

t, or from the left to the right; now from the top to the bottom, and then in a circle, or against the course of the sun. We

settled in that portion of the island which is opposite to Gaul. They then extended towards the north, and gradually peopled

gh, and, above all, courageous enough, to resist the Romans, who were then masters of the known world. Their government was

til the eighth century, poetical traditions by this means. It is not, then , to be wondered at, that the inhabitants of Great

versary was obliged to submit, or he was struck with an anathema, and then all sacrifice was interdicted to him; the whole n

th the right hand, which must be covered with a part of the robe; and then made to pass into the left with swiftness, as if

le fell at their feet, and no human being was above their power. How, then , could they delight in filling with terror their

he knowledge of God was preserved n the world till the time of Moses; then the commandments were engraved on tables of stone

emperor Augustus. During the last time our Saviour was born in Judea, then a Roman province. The circumstances of our Lord’s

sit in the temple of Apollo upon a tripod, or three-legged stool, and then they explained her frantic words to those who con

nemies and conquer the world; that is, all the civilized world, which then included the countries round the Mediterranean, a

the car of a Roman conqueror when he appeared in triumph. Victory was then represented as flying, holding a crown, a branch

ild fruits, and the flesh of wild animals taken in hunting — they are then in a barbarous state. When they discover the use

ade: When winter ends and spring serenely shines, Then fat the lambs, then mellow are the wines: Then sweet are slumbers on

during winter, in its seed state, below the surface of the earth, and then rises to the upper air and adorns the fields Mine

d, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.” The citizens of Ephesus then raised a great clamour against Paul, but one of t

ds she holds a globe, which sometimes appears placed on a tripod, and then she grasps a scale, or a pair of compasses. Calli

ith the smoke of sulphur, olive wood, box, laurel, and rosemary. They then made a fire of straw, round which they danced; an

sported them across the river Acheron, to the shore of eternity. They then proceeded to the tribunal of the judges of the de

arry the Princess Iole, but her father Eurytus refused her to him. He then once more lost his reason, and showing some disre

the roots, and erected for himself a funeral pile upon Mount Œta. He then spread his lion’s skin upon his pile, sustained h

ived at the capital of Colchis, and demanded the fleece of Etes. Etes then required of him to tame two ferocious bulls, to t

mniferous draught, which he poured into the dragon’s gaping jaws, and then assisted him in taming the bulls, etc. The fleece

Theseus would not expose himself to the lawless men who infested the then untravelled ways of Greece; nevertheless, Theseus

d, “He will adopt him for his son, and will leave him the kingdom. We then shall be no more than the subjects of this upstar

in hazardous enterprises; in killing robbers and wild beasts; and as then there were no books to read, he felt the want of

each, alternately. Eteocles reigned over Thebes, the first year, and then his brother demanded the throne. Eteocles refused

question, the three disputants were referred to Paris. The goddesses then repaired to Mount Ida, and found Paris. They inst

Egean sea for eight long years, sometimes on the coast of Cyprus, and then along the shores of Phœnicia, till they were driv

s habiliment, chose the armour, and thus discovered his sex. Achilles then felt himself in honour compelled to engage in the

creation of its various inhabitants, giants, gods, men and dwarfs. It then proceeds to a description of the employments of t

nd its limbs borne in triumph through the city by the Christians, and then thrown into a fire kindled in the amphitheatre.

d to Quet-zal-cot, and offered him immortality, (for Quet-zal-cot was then mortal,) if he would drink of a certain beverage

rink of a certain beverage which Shining Mirror presented to him, and then remove himself to another kingdom, called Tla-pal

wedges of gold and silver were first thrown, and the corner-stone was then deposited, amidst the rejoicings of the people.”

istrophe, was sung while the singers returned from west to east; they then stood still around the altar and sung the epode,

nt. Nineteen centuries before Christ, God instructed Abraham, who had then no child, that from him should descend a race who

ham, his posterity was increased to six hundred thousand persons, and then God appointed one of this nation to be instructer

ns. The heathens had a religion which lasted for a few centuries, and then gave place to another and a better; the Hebrews h

n the terminal point, we would still fancy something beyond that, and then some period still more remote would present itsel

hosen people, the Hebrews, they alone being selected from the nations then existing upon the earth to receive the wonderful

d he played so sweetly that the dolphins flocked round the vessel. He then threw himself into the sea, and one of the dolphi

War. After the death of Paris she married Deiphobus, his brother, and then betrayed him to Menelaus. She was afterward tied

ops’ hammers led him to the abode of Vulcan, who gave him a guide. He then consulted an oracle, and had his sight restored,

of him. He lived among them till he had grown to man’s estate, and he then married Œnone, a nymph of Ida. At the famous nupt

cautious, opened it, and the evils spread over all the earth. Jupiter then punished Prometheus by commanding Mercury to bind

metimes depicted with four faces instead of the usual two, and he was then called Janus Quadrifrons. Qui′es [Quies]. The Ro

the priest, and was decorated with bright-colored ribbons. The priest then said, “Who is here?” to which the spectators repl

ood people.” “Begone all ye who are profane,” said the priest; and he then began a prayer addressed to all the gods. The sac

on the head of the victim. This was called the Immolation. The priest then took a cup of wine, tasted it, and handed it to t

ted it, and handed it to the bystanders to taste also; some of it was then poured between the horns of the victim, and a few

y the Haruspices to find out what was prognosticated. The carcase was then divided, and the thighs, covered with fat, were p

of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring. Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to t

her, had the address to save him, and sent him from Arcadia, where he then was, into Crete, to the recesses of Mount Ida. Th

ade; When winter ends and spring serenely shines, Then fat the lambs, then mellow are the wines: Then sweet are slumbers on

ng the earth. The first denotes the rising of the Sun, whose rays are then red; the second, the period when he acquires a br

pon the sacred tripod, a kind of three-legged stool. A fit of phrenzy then seemed to seize her. She was violently convulsed,

nd she holds a globe, which sometimes appears placed on a tripod, and then she grasps a scale, or a pair of compasses. Calli

as the origin of these Ancilia? A shield being found, of a form, till then , unknown, was supposed to have fallen from heaven

the fight, Then tumult rises; Rage and pale Affright, Vary each face; then Discord sounds alarms; Earth echoes and the natio

he took from them some flaming matter, with which he made the sun; he then placed it in the heavens to illumine the earth. F

ith the smoke of sulphur, olive wood, box, laurel, and rosemary. They then made a fire of straw, round which they danced; an

ror are seen first, the souls of infants who expired as soon as born; then those who are put to death unjustly, or who kille

rendered productive by some unusual extent of the annual inundation, then Osīris was said to leave his garland of melilotus

nd its limbs borne in triumph through the city, by the Christians and then thrown into a fire kindled in the amphitheatre. T

ur months, with milk, in a house which fronted the rising sun. He was then conveyed to Memphis, where a delightful abode, am

waters from the face of the earth by a mighty wind. Another bull was then formed, who became the author of all abundance, a

Albordi was the first land that became visible. The sun and the moon then appeared upon its summit; and the latter of these

and with it washed the sacred sword. The right arm of the victim was then cut off, thrown up into the air, and suffered to

reation of its various inhabitants, giants, gods, men, and dwarfs. It then proceeds to a description of the employments of t

ence, and Vali, the god of strength, alone survive. A new system will then be established. Besides those already enumerated,