istinguished of your sex, a more suitable patroness, I am actuated by those feelings of respect which your high, literary att

aracter, admonishes me not to soil with fulsome eulogy, the lustre of those talents, of those elegant, colloquial accomplishm

s me not to soil with fulsome eulogy, the lustre of those talents, of those elegant, colloquial accomplishments, and those re

e of those talents, of those elegant, colloquial accomplishments, and those revered virtues which enlighten and enliven the f

hology to the juvenile capacity; especially to free this subject from those licentious and indelicate stories, with which it

that man was to believe himself to be every where observed by some of those deities, for whom he was taught to entertain the

scruple, the gods of the conquered nations, giving the preference to those of Greece. The worship of the gods of Greece and

or cities worshipped the same god under the name of Jupiter, each of those nations or cities pretended to have its particula

gain a complete victory over his enemies, if he would set at liberty those Titans whom his father had shut up in Tartarus, a

laces in the world, and were thence designated by the name of Heaven; those in the west were looked upon as the lowest, and w

oops; Comus, his hotel master. By the Academy of the Muses, was meant those singers or dancers who composed a kind of ambulat

us to noble actions. Her temple stood open at all times, to admonish those who were entering on the scenes of life, that the

winged dragons, and bade him travel and communicate his knowledge to those who then fed on acorns and roots. On his return t

fore their houses laurel branches, in hopes that the gods would spare those who rendered that honour to the nymph Daphne. Apo

rel to be consecrated to her; and its leaves, used in the crowning of those who should excel in poetry and in the Pythian gam

durst not pretend that the sounds of his flute would please more than those of Apollo’s lyre. Judges were chosen. The god bea

ng the Cyclops for forging Jupiter’s thunderbolts, for its dispersing those pestilential vapours which are fatal to mankind.

its tutelary deity. Minerva benefitted mankind with many inventions: those of the fine arts, the use of oil, the art of spin

Each host now joins, and each a god inspires; These Mars incite, and those Minerva fires. Pale Flight around, and dreadful T

e ugliest of the gods, signifies that the empire of beauty extends to those who have not the gift of pleasing. It represents

s unequal unions in which the unequal gifts of nature are balanced by those of fortune. Obs. 3. — The fables and accounts of

f their imaginations as their guide. They consulted their passions or those of kings and great personages whom they wished to

mate that they borrow nothing from art, and have no other charms than those of nature; they are young, because charms fall to

order to teach us that we should, by reciprocal benefits, strengthen those bands which attach us to each other, and that we

Chapter XXIII. Vulcan. Vulcan, the god of fire, and the patron of those who worked in the metallic arts, was the son of J

f their fictions. Hence sprang the sea deities whose number surpassed those of heaven and other parts of the universe. Oceanu

irens seems to pourtray the folly, as well as the danger, of pursuing those specious allurements to pleasure, to sensual deli

to the 28th of December, the sea remains calm and appears to respect those birds. Mariners give to that time the name of “ha

terrestrial, and marine deities, distinguished? What name is given to those nymphs who have empire over the woods? What name

s and gardens, or by some useful invention, their names were given to those unknown divinities, and often the divinity and th

nd the worship paid to them, to the want of their assistance, felt by those who contrived them. Chapter I. Demogorgon . Alle

prosecute business with certainty and facility. Such is the origin of those laws which caused men to mark their property by b

Ferula. His attendants were called Sileni, which name was applied to those who were advanced in years. — See Fig 38. Fig. 

 Æneas introduced the household gods from Phrygia. Jacob carried away those of his father-in-law Laban. In scripture they wer

ages as were calculated to paint the terror and dread they created in those to whom they appeared. Sometimes they were repres

ed it to a second priest who bore a mask with three heads, resembling those of the Cerberus of the poets. The second priest p

ead was carried so high, that they often preserved the bodies of even those to whom, on account of crime or debt, the honours

ere deprived of burial honours. Notwithstanding the thick darkness of those times, it was generally believed, that, after the

ethe, so called from the forgetfulness which its waters produced; for those who drank of it, immediately forgot all past tran

l have their manes, and these manes bare: The few who’er cleansed, to those abodes repair, And breathe in ample fields the so

Where long extended plains of pleasures lay. The verdant fields with those of heav’n may vie, With ether vested, and a purpl

he raptures of a god: Worthies, who life by useful arts refined; With those , who leave a deathless name behind, Friends of th

brother. The wars of the Titans are not unfrequently confounded with those of the giants; but the difference is plain: the T

r heads were covered with vipers, which had the power of transforming those into stones who looked at them. Their hands were

d in the Oriental languages, finds in the names of the three Gorgons, those of three ships, once engaged in commerce on the c

urhood of Thebes, proposing enigmas to the inhabitants, and devouring those who could not solve them; but the Thebans were in

ified virtues, passions, blessings, and evils. We shall speak only of those best known. The Greeks honoured Felicity, under t

ltars to Misericordia or Mercy. The Romans imitated them, and gave to those temples the name of Asylums. Virtue, which alone

ch they could not penetrate, blind and bigoted man proceeded to deify those imaginary or real evils which agitated him, and e

dren. The Oracle ordered them to sacrifice to the manes, irritated by those innocent victims, and to raise at the same time a

surprise, they erected an altar, adorned it with some attributes; and those monuments of caprice were respected, often even a

and those monuments of caprice were respected, often even adored, by those whom chance led near them. It will always be easy

e suppress. The poets and the ancients are vainly fond of alluding to those deities in their works, and of pourtraying their

llo, to avenge the death of his son, slew the Cyclops, who had forged those formidable weapons. Æsculapius was chiefly worshi

offered sacrifices to him under the name of Hercules Olympius; and in those very temples, they celebrated his obsequies, in h

and powerful man had rendered to his fellow creatures. In moralizing those fables, the ancients took Hercules for the streng

ns of sheep, adorned with their wool, were stretched in the bottom of those waters, to catch the grains of gold. Ætes made us

bundle.” Obs. 1. — To explain the fable in reference to the birth of those princes and princesses, Castor and Pollux and the

iege of ten years, reduced the Trojan capital to ashes. The number of those who survived the war, was very small. Agamemnon,

ries. Even the priests themselves were not admitted to a knowledge of those mysteries, until they had passed through the most

that Xixutrus had gone up to heaven, and sat in the rank of gods with those who accompanied him. The same voice exhorted them

ation of Fertilizer of the Earth. His residence was on the summits of those high mountains in which rivers take their rise. P

tes were placed in every house. The kings and great lords kept six of those images, the nobles four, and the lower people two

les four, and the lower people two. The number of these gods, besides those which we have briefly mentioned, was immense. The

Idolatry began in Phœnicia and Egypt soon after the deluge. It is in those countries that we must inquire into the origin of

to all others. This temple, carried by the Israelites in the sight of those nations through whose territories they travelled,

l, containing the lustral water, which the priests employed to purify those who wished to enter the temple. The second was th

oms, were constructed smaller ones, which served as resting places to those who mounted the tower. The most lofty room was al

om which issued some exhalations that caused a kind of drunkenness to those who approached it, gave birth to the oracle of De

till existed in the days of Pausanias, and was infinitely superior to those that preceded it. It was constructed under the di

nt was looked upon as the greatest effort of architecture. He said to those who admired it: “I shall raise upon four pillars

ousy which must spring up among the oracles consulted, and especially those which seemed to be despised, the harshness of som

interpreted this noise; and, upon this murmur, announced futurity to those who consulted her. In time, more artifice was use

. The vapour of the cave acted on all who breathed it; but several of those frantic devotees, having, in the excess of their

called the Altis, in which were placed statues, erected in honour of those who had won the prize in these games. They were a

ed Grecian sculptors. The odes of Pindar which are extant immortalize those who, in his lifetime, had triumphed in the four m

nded from these self-same princes. Thus, Horsa and Hengist, chiefs of those Saxons who subdued Britain in the fifth century,

rom their gods, and especially from the god of war. The historians of those times, (that is to say, the poets,) granted the s

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

ds at an eternal banquet, where he would receive, with great honours, those who, after having exposed themselves courageously

mself upon the Romans was the principle of all his actions. Driven by those enemies of all liberty, from his native country,

ythian considered it a sacred duty to avenge injuries, and especially those of his relatives and country. The grand object of

themselves, as well as the injuries done to their founder and to all those whom she had stripped and trampled under her feet

arried to Mahomet the orders of Heaven, and shows the superstition of those who obeyed them. Another point of resemblance bet

dly seize the spirit of it. Yet, by gathering the traits preserved by those different writers, and by comparing them with the

cemented this religious edifice; cruel punishments were reserved for those who should have despised these three fundamental

minds, that they often displayed their contempt of the polytheism of those nations who treated them as barbarians; and every

same causes have tended to corrupt all religions contrived by men. As those degenerate people began to think that one individ

attention, or better calculated to make his power conspicuous. Hence, those hideous pictures, which, in the Icelandic mytholo

the donor of victory, the reriver of courage in combat, the namer of those who were to be killed. Warriors going to fight vo

ten came into battle to inflame the fury of the combatants, to strike those whom he designed to perish, and to carry away sou

ed pleasure, rest, voluptuousness. Frea shared with Odin the souls of those who were killed in war. The sixth day of the week

where she has the government of nine worlds, which she divides among those who are sent to her. Loke was locked up by the go

a reconciles divided consorts. Vara receives their oath, and punishes those who violate them. Snotra, the goddess of modesty,

to wait upon heroes. Odin also employs them in fights, to choose out those who were doomed to destruction, and to incline th

some of the tenets of the Celtic religion: and, first, we will notice those in the Edda, and in the poem, called Volupsa. It

ly exhaled, until a breath of heat, being sent from the south, melted those vapours, and formed living drops, whence sprang t

s will flow there, in which will be plunged perjurers, assassins, and those who seduce married women. A black winged dragon w

heim, a mansion composed of nine worlds, and reserved principally for those who should die of sickness or old age. Hela or De

rass nor green tree growing,     Vernal shower, nor wintry storm; Nor those horses, bright and glowing,     Dragg’d the Sun’s

morning beam’d with gladness;     Never eve, with dewy robe. Who are those in pride advancing,     Through the barren tract

r men or animals, were immolated. But the most solemn sacrifices were those which were made at Upsal every ninth year. Then,

o receive them. Strangers assembled in crowds. The access was shut to those who had lost their honor by some blemish, and esp

ulated themselves on their destiny. The choice did not always fall on those of vile blood; for the more dear and noble the vi

lack cares and terrors, which make him ferocious and distrustful. All those beings who share his wants, become his ideal enem

pect for justice, nor for the sacred rights of others: and hence too, those impious prejudices, and dark conceptions which ma

ptions which make men imagine sanguinary gods like themselves. Hence, those bloody rites which plunge the blade into the brea

how necessary it is that they should be guided by lights superior to those of their reason. Chapter VI. Researches into t

ce. The more we search into history, the more clearly it appears that those rich and flourishing countries were the native so

of their separation. It is well enough to extend our observations to those ages and early histories which have left some ves

ussia to Cape Finisterre. The same language having been adopted among those nations separated from each other by immense fore

e beginning of their history. The most renowned of all the Celts, are those who inhabited Gaul; and it is to the historians o

rst country which the Celtic Gauls peopled. The relative situation of those countries renders their statement probable; and t

the druids. The people regarded as the infallible organs of divinity, those pontiffs so celebrated by their divination, and t

f living, which was as austere as retired. It was by the influence of those supreme pontiffs, that the nation united under on

tered and almost forgotten in the tumults of camps. Victory favouring those of the chiefs who were called Vergobrets, (a titl

country. Vulgar language appears to him to fall below the dignity of those actions which he wishes to celebrate. He knows th

s and the early historians of their country, the bards descended from those high offices to that of being the flatterers of t

descended from those high offices to that of being the flatterers of those who protected them, or the slanderers of those wh

eing the flatterers of those who protected them, or the slanderers of those whom they looked upon as their enemies. Petty pas

this appears to be a suitable place to drop a remark on the origin of those romances of chivalry, so singular and so extravag

the druids of England above the druids of other countries. They extol those of the college of Chartres, those of the forest o

uids of other countries. They extol those of the college of Chartres, those of the forest of Marseilles, and of the environs

Marseilles, and of the environs of Toulouse; but assert that, when in those colleges, there was proposed a subject which invo

Odin, god of the Scandinavians, whom he calls Loda. Ossian represents those people as invoking their god, around a statue whi

f the Phœnicians; for we have ample proof, that in very remote times, those first navigators of the world, brought their good

uls in passing into England, carried thither their religion; but that those islanders, being more reflecting, and less warlik

s the origin of the profound respect which the Druids of Gaul had for those of England, whom they considered as their superio

and distributors of justice, they passed sentences, and watched over those whom they loaded with that august function. . The

ons.’ Their ideas on divinity were much more, just and spiritual than those of the Greeks and Romans. Tacitus, Maximus Tyrius

mitive wisdom, became addicted to divination and magic, and tolerated those horrible sacrifices in which human victims were i

y thought that divinity loved to inhabit them. The most celebrated of those lakes, was that of Toulouse, into which they cast

joined that of rivers, creeks, fountains, and fire. In the middle of those forests, the Gauls had spaces consecrated to wors

ounded with combustible materials, and consumed by fire. Cesar caused those secret places to be plundered by his troops. Henc

Druids of Gaul. Chartres was, as it were, the metropolis of Gaul; but those three colleges united in acknowledging the superi

f heroes; but they had likewise the right of censuring the actions of those who swerved from the path of duty. The Saronides

ligion, and the subaltern ministers exercised no other functions than those granted by the Druids. The origin of those pontif

ed no other functions than those granted by the Druids. The origin of those pontiffs is lost in the remotest antiquity. Arist

e of respect for the Druids. To them belonged the right of appointing those who were to govern cities. They could raise one o

f appointing those who were to govern cities. They could raise one of those magistrates even to the dignity of vergobret, whi

attaining to a more happy life. They made a great difference between those who died peaceably amidst their relatives and fri

ween those who died peaceably amidst their relatives and friends, and those who lost their life in serving their country. The

ences. They arranged and digested all sorts of knowledge inverse; and those verses were to be committed to memory. These were

at it would infuse into that plant a happiness which might be felt by those to whom particles of it should be distributed. Th

ouls are immortal. 8. Souls pass into other bodies after the death of those which they have animated. 9. If the world perish,

ered to creditors in the other world. 16. There is another world, and those who kill themselves to accompany their friends, w

ce at them is sufficient to enable us to perceive how easy it was for those pontiffs to command opinion, and subjugate the mi

oration to contempt, and from the sentiments of an idolatrous love to those of an inhuman jealousy, or to those of an indiffe

ntiments of an idolatrous love to those of an inhuman jealousy, or to those of an indifference more insulting than jealousy.

he ancient inhabitants of the British isles, carried that respect and those virtuous regards as far as any other nation. Fait

r. In the brilliant times of chivalry, we find that the same views of those morals, and of that same respect for women, still

understood the art of dressing wounds. But they were not confined to those kind offices. During the time of convalescence, t

female companions, who alone could give charms to their solitude; or those children that were to perpetuate their memory; or

great number of their replies; but it makes no particular mention of those of the Druids. We shall close this article by cit

, o katharos, or, a pure intellect. Hence, says Olympiodorus, we call those that are pure and virgins, Κοραι, korai. He adds,

by bulls, because, as these till the ground, so the Moon governs all those parts which surround the earth. “According to thi

the gods some are mundane, but others, supermundane. The mundane are those who fabricate the world; and the supermundane are

e mundane are those who fabricate the world; and the supermundane are those who produce essences, intellects, and souls. Henc

of reason, is the purpose of all the little books I have written. To those who are employed in the education of the young, w

mmunicate himself? What was the religion of the rest of mankind? Were those that believed in the true God numerous? ——— As N

ies passed away from the death of one till the lifetime of another of those holy men, there was time for men to forget the in

tions of one, before they should hear the same truth from another, of those inspired persons. At the present time, whatever t

lius, the second king of Rome, raised an altar to her, and instituted those celebrated priestesses who bore the names of Vest

, or three-legged stool, and then they explained her frantic words to those who consulted the oracle. There scarcely exists i

n of his anvil. The cunning and address of Mercury recommended him to those gods, and Jupiter chose him for his special messe

ris represented as a divine messenger? Had Iris any other office than those of favour to mankind? Hebe and Ganymede.

Minerva, who placed it upon her shield; and so frightful was it, that those who beheld it were turned to stone. With the bri

n olive wreath was bestowed, as a mark of the public approbation upon those that excelled in any of these competitions. At th

was formed. It was composed of different classes of the citizens, and those who appeared in it were selected for their fine a

their hands branches of the olive tree. The old men were followed by those of middle age, clothed in polished armour, and af

gists say, that Isis and Ceres are the same goddess, worshipped under those different names, in different countries in the pa

aise. Pitt ’s Virgil . The worship of Ceres was universal among those who received the religion of Greece. The most sol

, in the particular of secrecy at least. Initiated persons — that is, those who were admitted to be present at the ceremonies

ed the Hierophant, to the mysteries of Eleusis. It was pretended that those \w\\o enjoyed this privilege were under the immed

without it. The temples of Venus were numerous in the heathen world; those of Paphos, Cythera, and Idalia were the most cele

ll which mythology has recorded. There were various tribes of nymphs: those who presided over rivers and waters, were named N

ymphs: those who presided over rivers and waters, were named Naiades; those who resided in marshes, Lymniades. The wood nymph

for the sacrifice. The feasts of Bacchus were sometimes noisy, and those who attended them were often intoxicated. These f

easts were called Bachanalia, Revels, and Orgies. Riotous meetings of those who drink much wine and keep late hours are now o

smoke of volcanoes was driven by the winds, he learnt to distinguish those which blew most violently, and were of longest du

f violent passions and a guilty conscience — the other, which imposed those lesser evils that soften the heart and make us be

es of the Furies? Had the Greeks any notions of God’s government like those expressed in the Scriptures? What were the Furies

, held the fatal shears, ready to cut the thread of life. ——— Besides those which have been enumerated as infernal deities, w

remendous keeper of these gloomy abodes was stationed. He fawned upon those who entered, but tore all who attempted to return

ter world to which they are removed — is the mind lost? All hope that those they love still exist after death; and they hope

the other a region of grief and horror, proper for the punishment of those who had made themselves vile. Notwithstanding the

he raptures of a god: Worthies, who life by useful arts refined; With those , who leave a deathless name behind, Friends of th

nhabitants. These were gratified by the society of each other, and by those occupations that had been agreeable to them durin

s in his hand a bunch of poppies, which he shakes over the eyelids of those whom he would put to sleep. Dreams were the chil

dness, express that she cannot see the bribes or the supplications of those who might dispose her to be partial. Astrea desc

is, the goddess of divine vengeance, or retributive justice, punishes those who are ungrateful to Providence; who neglect the

epining always at the happiness of others, and endeavouring to injure those she hated. Envy was the daughter of Night. Her gi

him. At first, they say the gods assisted him, but after many years, those who hear of his achievements declare that he was

Greeks to buy and sell: to exchange the commodities of their own with those of a distant country. The voyage of Jason was fro

es, who wrote a tragedy called Medea, which is exceedingly admired by those who understand the Greek literature. It is said t

y lives, as a compensation for the single life of his son, because in those days people pretended to think a prince was of mo

raised the walls of the city of Thebes by his lyre, as Apollo raised those of Troy, perhaps persuading the people to raise t

id Paris requite the hospitality of Menelaus? Who had vowed to punish those who should carry off Helen? Did Menelaus proceed

fleet was sailing to Troy, the envenomed wound became so offensive to those about him, that Ulysses persuaded them to land on

ing himself into any shape he chose, and always endeavouring to elude those who asked any thing of him. Eidothea, however clo

ist the supplications of the old man, and gave up the body. By one of those miracles very common among the poets, the disfigu

and lived and died in that barbarous land. Cassandra was murdered by those who accomplished the death of Agamemnon, and thus

ng nations not taught by the revelation of God, and some, alas! among those who have been instructed in the gospel of peace.

of small tracts of land, who exercised a patriarchal government over those who lived upon their domains, and who, like the n

uttering over his head. His character and attributes greatly resemble those of the Grecian Apollo. Deva. See plate, pa

image of Sceva. The principal Hindu temples of more modern date, are those of Juggernaut, Benares, Mattia, Tripetty, and Ser

compelled the people to embrace their religion, and instantly killed those who refused it; and the subjects of other religio

remove from one caste to another. Those of the superior castes regard those of the inferior with the utmost contempt: and con

father; the father of battles; because he adopted as his children all those who died with arms in their hands. Odin took no n

gst the other deities at the immortal banquet, where he would receive those who died with arms in their hands. What was Scan

lace no impure person could enter; and upon its columns were engraven those Runic rhymes which were imagined to have power to

d of war; the goddesses of slaughter. It was their province to select those that were to fall in battle; to bear the invitati

rass nor green tree growing,     Vernal shower, nor wintry storm, Nor those horses, bright and glowing.     Dragged the Sun’s

morning beamed with gladness;     Never eve with dewy robe. Who are those in pride advancing.     Through the barren tract

the universe before the present order was commenced. The lines, Nor those horses, bright and glowing, Dragged the Sun’s ref

mlech or stone of sacrifice. Human victims were frequently offered by those who laboured under disease, or were about to go t

pursuit of military glory as the chief honour of a man; and they held those in contempt who preferred a quiet and peaceable l

peaceable life to one of violence and depredation. They believed that those who fell in war, were conveyed, after death, to H

Heaven, and quaffed nectar from the skulls of their enemies, and that those who had loved the chase upon earth, the shades of

the shades of stags. These northern barbarians also believed that all those who died at home of disease, or old age, were con

shed by her silver crescent, were likewise objects of worship amongst those nations. The chief god of the Philistines was Dag

they give names to these false gods, add stories of virtuous men, to those that have been related of the gods, and call thes

of other nations? Does fabulous history afford any facts analogous to those recorded in sacred history? Does the mythology of

concerning them. The Roman gods were less pure in their actions than those of the Mexicans, but the Mexican worship was not

les four, and the lower people two. The number of these gods, besides those which have been briefly noticed, was very great;

touched the earth with it. His declaration was believed. Who, thought those around him, would dare profane the name of God? T

r inscribed to an unknown God. Upon this, Paul, addressing himself to those about him, said: “Whom ye ignorantly worship, him

ls in order, and to assist at the sacrifices. The Greek priests, like those of the true God, were men of a good constitution,

f the ancient city, that this building is below the common level; and those who visit the church, must descend a flight of st

,) first entered the enclosure with boughs in their hands, taken from those trees which the gods delighted in. (Minerva was s

ple, and when his pursuers overtook him, they would not tear him from those places. Sometimes the criminal would not be suffe

on to criminals? ——— The most celebrated temples of the Greeks were those of Apollo, at Delphi; the Parthenon, in honour of

at of Diana, at Ephesus. The temple of Delphi was chiefly enriched by those who consulted the oracle — the rich, who lived al

of Greece and Rome, of Syria, and of Persia, were worshipped, in all those countries, the ruins of temples may be found, and

ions believed that the gods communicated their will to some men, that those favoured persons might convey that will to the re

strange words; which artful priests explained just as they chose, to those who consulted them. In Greece, besides these, wer

onsulted them. In Greece, besides these, were many other oracles; but those of Dodona and Delphi were the chief. Does it app

offered in sacrifice were often highly ornamented, and the priests on those occasions were richly dressed; the worshippers wo

ough the Greeks and Romans did not worship one God as we do, nor were those they worshipped holy beings, they always confesse

sun and moon, one might everywhere behold the Greeks and barbarians, those in prosperity, as well as those under calamities

ere behold the Greeks and barbarians, those in prosperity, as well as those under calamities and afflictions, prostrating the

riests, and prophets, uttered imprecations upon detested persons; and those who heard the malediction believed that all the e

was the reverse of cursing. It was a supplication that God would make those blessed, prosperous and happy. A memorable exampl

Greeks worshipped the local deities as the protectors and patrons of those who sojourned in their land; and when they were r

pel, when we read of the false and foolish religions of antiquity; of those nations who worshipped they knew not whom, we hav

at the time in which these polished nations of Greece, of Egypt, and those of Italy, and of Syria, were bowing down before i

articulars of the worship of the Jews, which bear some resemblance to those of the Pagan nations: these were considerable in

utions had the Hebrews? Did the ceremonies of Judaism at all resemble those of polytheism? Jewish Priests. The Heb

ersons, holy places demand some attention. From the days of Moses, to those of Solomon, about four hundred years, the Taberna

il, and the birds and beasts offered in the Hebrew sacrifices, and in those of all the nations of antiquity, were required to

t religions are different, but the sentiments are the same, except in those where human sacrifices are permitted; they are th

als. It will also be found to contain the results of the inquiries of those eminent scholars whose works are so frequently re

l in impressing correct ideas in history and politics on the minds of those who will be future legislators, or occupy other i

bsurd to say that the public has a right to be amused, to which right those of individuals must give way. It is very much as

ransfer all his rights to them, and that any extension of the term of those copyrights which they have purchased should go to

he herds of Hades (p. 360) pasturing under the care of Menœtius, near those of Geryoneus in the isle of Erithyia, and (p. 363

st. of Rome, p. 4), many of which are perfectly equivalent. Such were those in us and inus. Libertus and Libertinus were, the

e occurred either among the people itself, as its own adventures, and those of its princes and heroes, and which may therefor

s princes and heroes, and which may therefore be called domestic ; or those of ancient or distant nations, handed down by tra

radually that the mist clears away, and real men and deeds similar to those of later times begin to appear ; and the mythic p

rance so general can only be the result of some law of the mind ; and those who have directed their attention to the language

ntelligence to the efficient cause of natural phænomena, particularly those which are of rare occurrence. The less the mind i

ect or insult. They dwelt in celestial houses, but similar in form to those of man ; and, like man, they stood in daily need

h, sea, and air ; their clothing and arms were usually of the form of those of mortals, but of superior workmanship and mater

of Chryses and the pestilence itself to be actual and real facts, all those who heard of them, and who had at the same time a

f the progress of Grecian mythology ; in this place we will enumerate those which have been most prevalent in modern times. T

navian. The mythologies which offer the widest fields for inquiry are those of ancient Greece, of India, and of Scandinavia.

the sport of the wildest mysticism, and has led to the degradation of those of other countries. The Asiatic Researches, and t

sted long before the system, and were the product of other minds than those which afterwards set them in connexion, not unfre

at country were under the direction of a sacerdotal caste, resembling those of India and Egypt ; but that various circumstanc

mstances concurred to prevent their attaining to the same power as in those countries. In the Homeric poems, however, by far

troduced stories of the wonders of the East and of the West, which in those remote ages they alone visited ; and these storie

ion any of the legends of the different portions of their own race or those of foreign countries. Whatever tales they learned

ents appear to me to have gotten over this difficulty by saying, that those gods had indeed reigned, but that they had been o

day, and are a faithful picture of the mode of thinking prevalent in those distant ages. As knowledge of the earth, of natur

vernments60. A prudent silence therefore became the safest course for those who exceeded their contemporaries in knowledge. T

ew, such is the analogy which runs between the operations of mind and those of matter, that several of the mythes afforded th

aphors of the poets turned to sense, and wings, for example, adorning those deities and mythic personages to whom the poet ha

were incorporated into the Grecian mythic cycle. When the Ptolemies, those munificent patrons of learning, had assembled aro

neral processions. These too have disappeared, excepting a portion of those of Pindar. It is much to be lamented, in a mythol

onally took notice of the mythic legends. Ephorus and Theopompus were those who devoted most attention to them, as their frag

do the Scholia, or notes on the classic writers of Greece, especially those on Homer, Pindar, Apollonius, and Theocritus ; th

eece, especially those on Homer, Pindar, Apollonius, and Theocritus ; those of Tzetzes on Hesiod and Lycophrôn, and the tedio

at the Greeks of the early ages knew little of any real people except those to the east and south of their own country, or ne

ds, was synonymous with Heaven, and that the Thessalian mountain, and those others which bore the same name, were called afte

ed after the original heavenly hill124. A careful survey, however, of those passages in Homer and Hesiod in which Olympos occ

these doors was perhaps felt ; and they were accordingly invented by those who were resolved to leave nothing unexplained. T

wicked men, being to the gods what Erebos was to men, — the abode of those who were driven from the supernal world128. The T

an had increased to the dimensions of a sea, and Herodotus133 derides those who still regarded it as a river. Finally, the ch

gods, i. e. cosmogony and theogony, are in the Grecian system, as in those of some other nations, closely united. The sages

the guise of matrimony and birth (their more cheerful system, unlike those of Asia and Scandinavia, excluding the idea of th

e parent of all the succeeding ones, and it is itself but the echo of those of bards of far higher antiquity than the Ascræan

. The Titan-war, as this critic thinks, had its origin and example in those of Typhôn, the Aloeids, and the Giants against th

d been previously the popular creed) to bestow chariots and horses on those deities who had a long course to perform. We do n

deities who were originally distinct, but it sometimes only re-united those which were really the same, but which had been se

harms of nature and art lose most of their attractions in the eyes of those who are long and intimately acquainted with them.

33; great size being an object of admiration both in men and women in those early and martial ages. Thus when the goddess Ath

le at their pleasure340. Their bodies are also of a finer nature than those of men. It is not blood, but a blood-like fluid n

ugh right and wrong, and are implacable toward their enemies, or even those who have slighted them349. Their power was held t

ir golden shoes : when at home in their houses, they, like the men of those ages, went barefoot. The Titans, as we have seen,

tars to six pairs of deities, but they were not exactly the same with those above enumerated373. In later times it became a c

d in this there lies a moral) was not always a source of happiness to those whom he honoured with it. Io, for example, underw

rk their conduct399. To this notion — which carries our minds back to those happy ages commemorated in the Book of Genesis, ‘

ther of Pelias and Neleus421. Iphimedeia bore him Otos and Ephialtes, those gigantic babes, who in their ninth year attempted

r be a day-labourer to the poorest cultivator on earth than a king in those regions. They have no strength or power of mind o

bunal476. The river of Oblivion (ὁ τῆς λήθης ποταμὸς)477 was added to those of Homer's trans-Oceanic region478, of whose wate

hest and fullest description of the new-modified under-world, and for those who love to trace the progress and change of idea

but the Egyptian name of the Nile ; the Gates of the Sun were merely those of Heliopolis ; and Hermes, the conductor of soul

y supposed to be himself the agent in removing from the realms of day those who were to be his subjects. Pindar speaks of the

deities, which, as we will now proceed to explain, was represented in those places where Hera was principally worshiped. We h

ar from a comparison of this legend with the one just given, and with those which are to follow. At Samos the temple of Hera

at island. The marriage of Zeus and Hera was viewed as the pattern of those of mankind, and the goddess was held to preside o

s we have already hinted, we are inclined to assent to the opinion of those who view in Zeus the heaven, and in Hera the eart

f the telluric powers in the Pelasgian creed, and to think that, like those of Hermes and Pallas-Athene, his character change

s, whose ears were, for their obtuseness, lengthened by the victor to those of an ass647. The Silen648 Marsyas, having found

ancient religion of the place, the worship of Gæa or Themis654, — and those of Delos, of Patara in Lycia, Claros in Ionia, Gr

come from the Hyperboreans. Having given laws for a whole year among those men, when the time was come which he had appointe

ting663 ; 2. Herding, as keeping the flocks and herds of the gods, or those of Admetos ; and by the poets, 3. Silver-bowed ;

health. The sudden deaths of women were ascribed to her darts670, as those of men were to the arrows of her brother, of whom

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

lypso ; but when at a later period the Greeks grew more familiar with those distant regions, zeal for the honour of the poet

he Alexandrine period it was so prevalent, that Callimachus726 blames those who separate these deities from the sun and moon.

uld also boast of her favours. Among mortals, Anchises and Adonis are those whose amours with her are the most famous. The ta

0. The tale of Adonis is evidently an Eastern mythe. His own name and those of his parents refer to that part of the world751

d in. Lobeck754 for example asks, with some appearance of reason, why those nations whose heaven was mildest, and their winte

impostor, convinced by this wonder, henceforth received his words as those of a divinity. The adventures of Erôs are not num

lian youth, neglected the care of his oxen, which pastured along with those of Admetos. Hermes, who in this version of the le

sults of the inquiries of the learned and judicious Lobeck, referring those anxious for fuller information to his valuable wo

excluded their fellow-citizens from their family-sacrifices ; and in those states where ancient statues, aërolites, and such

as to have given origin to a proverb (Ἀττικοὶ τὰ Ἐλευίνια) applied to those who met together in secret for the performance of

ubtedly liable to that imputation. It must always be remembered, that those of Eleusis were public, and celebrated by the sta

is, and Borysthenis952, two of which names are evidently derived from those of rivers ; and the comic poet Epicharmus in his

German race (whose language and religion bear so great an affinity to those of Greece) seem also to have connected music with

ites ; and the ringlets of the beautiful Euphorbos are compared974 to those of these lovely goddesses. Aphrodite975 joins in

bitter displeasure, at the impious violation of our sacred rights by those most bound to respect them.” This perfectly accor

tly accords with the origin of the Erinnyes in the Theogony, and with those passages of the Homeric poems in which they are m

d wrinkled, with squinting eyes. They follow Mischief (Ἂτη), and tend those whom she has injured : but Ate is strong and firm

kind of instinct of propriety, as we may term it, which always guides those poets who sing from inspiration and not from art,

s, accompanied by the sound of drums and party-coloured dresses, like those worn in the Bacchic orgies of Greece and Lesser A

matists, they do not appear to have been narrated in continuity, like those of Heracles, until long after the decline of Grec

ionysos appears with the delicate lineaments of a maiden, rather than those of a young man ; his whole air and gait are effem

s they gradually rose in consideration, their god was associated with those of the nobles ; and that thence he always appeare

he nobles ; and that thence he always appeared of an inferior rank to those with whom he was joined. This critic accounts on

namely, that he was of too low a rank to be an actor of importance in those aristocratie verses, which only told of kings and

altered, that if any one passes from the perusal of Homer to that of those writers who lived in the time of the Persian war,

ll feel as if removed to another region, and seem hardly to recognise those old Achæans, who, happy with the present, careles

mn and what they desire. Hence that anxiety about hidden matters, and those presages of the future, and the various superstit

f Greece we are prevented from clearly discerning by the obscurity of those times, which, being illumined by hardly any liter

-world, and hopes of a more happy life and Elysian abodes promised to those who received the sacred decrees of the gods, and

m. What ! is not the religion of the subterrane deities sanctioned by those Athenian laws, which direct that those who have c

bterrane deities sanctioned by those Athenian laws, which direct that those who have committed manslaughter should be brought

Orphic fable, which is all composed of the same kind of threads with those , was not woven by Proselenian philosophers, but w

ified with the Grecian Demeter, we are to suppose that she was one of those personifications of nature, or of the productive

y perhaps collect, that the Greeks, particularly the Cretans, used in those times to make piratical incursions on Egypt. Hesi

evils. It is best of all for man not to be born…… the second is, for those who are born to die as soon as possible1207.” He

in general. “This god,” says Pausanias1213, “is honoured elsewhere by those who keep sheep and goats, or stocks of bees ; but

and Aphrodite.” In Theocritus1214, the shepherds set his statue with those of the Nymphs at a shady fountain, and a shepherd

. “One of the most interesting species of Nymphs are the Hamadryades, those personifications of the vegetable life of plants1

ves The sun’s fair light. “They possessed power to reward and punish those who prolonged or abridged the existence of their

em. The motions of the rustics were of course awkward and ungraceful, those of the nymphs light and elegant, as became goddes

, by bestowing on them green hair, and turning their lower parts into those of a fish ; thus giving them a form exactly corre

f a fish : they have fish-gills under their ears : their nostrils are those of a man, but their teeth are broader, and like t

ir nostrils are those of a man, but their teeth are broader, and like those of a wild beast : their eyes seem to me azure ; a

: they have, instead of feet, fins under their breast and belly, like those of the porpoise.” Πρωτεύς. Proteus. In the

ing their heads environed with scaly snakes, and with huge teeth like those of swine, brazen hands and golden wings. Their lo

coast, though we believe few who are well versed in the cosmology of those times will assign them that gloomy region ; most

and Eôs (Dawn). The other winds, he says1317, (probably meaning only those which blow from the East,) are the race of Typhoe

s soon hope to discover the true position of the isle of Alcina as of those of Circe and Calypso. The moment he conducts his

ood, the Lotus-plant, to eat. The effect of this plant was such, that those who tasted of it lost all thoughts of home, and w

he passage thither is not specified. The Læstrygonians are another of those huge androphagous races, whom the invention of th

the abode of Circe. This isle may be regarded as the most westerly of those scattered by the poet over the Mediterranean, for

sle of Calypso, lie manifestly between it and Greece. Circe is one of those deities whom Homer calls human-speaking (αὐδήϵσσα

ible not to be struck with the resemblance which many of them bear to those of the Thousand and One Nights. Odysseus and Circ

n a mead close to the sea, and with their melodious voices so charmed those who were sailing by, that they forgot home and ev

ocks and Thrinakia (if this last be Sicily) ; for it is after passing those rocks that Odysseus comes to the latter island, o

hat the poet regarded Thrinakia as an islet of about the same size as those of Circe and Calypso, belonging to the Sun-god, a

the isles and tribes which we have already noticed, — all as ideal as those visited by Sindbad or Gulliver, — a circumstance

-sea, apparently sacred to Apollo and Artemis ; and we must marvel at those ancients and moderns who place them in the Ægæan,

umæos may serve to throw some light on the trade of the Phœnicians in those early ages. Supposing Syria to have lain to the w

presenting our own hypothesis respecting them, we wish not to conceal those of others, or dogmatically demand assent to what

ife may refer to that faded splendour which still adheres to man, and those of his sons express the qualities of the human mi

one which we have given above ; but incongruities little discomposed those ancient bards, and if a mythe contained a moral t

the direction of Zeus he and his wife flung stones behind them ; and those which Deucaliôn cast became men, those thrown by

flung stones behind them ; and those which Deucaliôn cast became men, those thrown by Pyrrha women ; and from this circumstan

d we should perhaps come nearest to the truth if we were to say, that those tribes who appear to have retained a recollection

n was regarded as the great patriarch of Greece, or the progenitor of those races which derived their origin from Thessaly, a

utility, being almost all altars, temples, tombs, or obelisks ; while those of Greece are massive walls and strong treasuries

n of the former inhabitants to emigrate into Bœotia and expel some of those whom they found there1517. But it was the Dorian

onal character of the Greeks of the historie times had their roots in those of the ante-historic and even ante-mythic inhabit

ribute to swell the amount of our mythic array ; to these when we add those noticed in a preceding paragraph, but few will re

icative of beings of a class superior to common men1525 ; and many of those to whom Homer and Hesiod apply the term hero, in

Strong (ἴφθιμος), one of his epithets, and to Awful (ἐπαινὴ), one of those of his queen. Ἰάσων καὶ Μὴδϵια. Iason et Mede

in whose hands the hero and heroine have undergone the same fate with those of other places whose people were politically opp

horror for the violation of the duties of hospitality on the part of those who, having committed homicide, were admitted to

the gift of Ceÿx. The fable of Ceÿx and Halcyone is apparently one of those legends, of which we have seen so many examples,

reat antiquity. In the Ilias1617, when Phœnix joins his entreaties to those of Odysseus to prevail on Achilleus to lay aside

m the sea, and only adapted for agriculture, without mines, or any of those objects of trade which might tempt a people of th

te-house, or if found there should be offered as a sacrifice. Many of those in this situation fled the country, and such as r

oon fell by the arrows of the former, while her daughters perished by those of his sister. Nine days they lay in blood, an

is indeed not improbable that this poet represented these twins, like those of Leda, as being the one immortal the other mort

No names are more completely buried in the depths of mythology than those of the Minyans and Phlegyans. Even to Homer but a

pace of eight years and a month ; but Eurystheus refused to allow for those of killing the hydra and cleansing the stables of

, lest he should destroy her children, if she had any, as he had done those of Megara. Shortly afterwards the oxen of Eurytos

opposed by Cycnos the son of Ares, who was in the habit of plundering those who brought the sacrifices to Pytho. Cycnos fell

in Eubœa), whom he killed, together with his sons ; and having buried those of his own men who had fallen, among whom were Hi

fire, the purest of elements ; his shade or image (ϵἵδωλον)1787, like those of other men, descends to the realms of Hades, wh

, never conducted the heroes through a long series of adventures like those of Heracles. The mythology of this hero is of a v

e, he says, may be divided into two classes, the combats with men and those with beasts. Of the former are the conquest of Py

d ; and, like autochthones in general, to have had a body composed of those of a man and a snake. In his time the gods began

cities, but that Athens was the elder by one thousand years. When in those remote ages the people of the isle Atlantis invad

n consequence of that unhallowed meal in Thrace. The legend is one of those invented to account mythically for the habits and

virtues of the dog and dart he sought to obtain them. The terms were those he had himself proposed to Procris. He yielded ;

e sea, where a huge tortoise always lay ready to devour the bodies of those who were thrown down. Theseus killed Scirôn himse

, where Cercyôn, said to be a son of Hephæstos, reigned. Like many of those whom Heracles encountered, Cercyôn forced all com

her circumstances of the legend may be referred to the imagination of those who took on them to embellish and extend it, and

than the other heroes. Though his adventures are manifestly formed on those of Heracles, whom he is said to have emulated, we

we except the descent to Erebos, they are hardly more wonderful than those of Aristomenes. The poem which recorded them was

s his own name (which perhaps was merely an epithet of Hephæstos) and those of his progenitors show, was a personification of

nder it nearly impossible to identify them. Among others he drove off those of Sisyphos, and he defaced the marks as usual ;

lic peninsula ; and here we meet a mythic cycle totally distinct from those of Hellas Proper. The great patriarch of the latt

ned a great age, and passed his time on the sea lamenting the fate of those who were lost in it. At length he himself met the

ôn, and at Pharæ the temple of his children1974. Asclepios was one of those who sailed in the Argo. He had by Lampetia the da

fore be regarded as unmixed Pelasgian ; and its principal deities are those which seem to have been worshiped by that people,

wer of changing himself into various forms ; and he took successively those of an eagle, a lion, a serpent, an ant, and other

like Sisyphos, a reduplication2056, and his mythe is evidently one of those handed down from the ancient serious Pelasgic tim

tainly post-Homeric, still however is enveloped in obscurity ; for in those times lands were not called after gods any more t

elemnos became in consequence a remedy for love, inducing oblivion on those who bathed in them2090. Chapter XII. MYTHE

ng passages and turnings, from which egress was almost impossible for those who entered it. In this he placed the Minotaur, w

kept watching him. Thus there would be a chase in the sky similar to those on earth, and legends would naturally arise which

able that many of the individual names of the Pleiades and Hyades are those of nymphs who were previously placed in other rel

t’s teeth which Æetes possessed, for Athena had given him one half of those which Cadmos sowed at Thebes. Iasôn was in perple

o the cycle in the progress of time by the poets and by the vanity of those whose patron-heroes they were. It may also have b

nto the town by means of a forged tale, raised torches as a signal to those at Tenedos. They return, the warriors descend fro

ragments only exist of the remaining parts of the Cycle ; to judge by those of the Cypria it must have been a very beautiful

udge by those of the Cypria it must have been a very beautiful poem ; those of the others are too scanty to enable us to form

bly of princes and warriors of an extinct race, have been regarded as those of Trojan and Achæan chiefs2242 ; and thus the wa

onification of the moon. Other names indicate ideal personages also : those of Agamemnôn and Menelaos appear to denote the lo

s of the adverse leaders have no similarity to Grecian ones ; but all those of the Trojans and their allies are if possible m

those of the Trojans and their allies are if possible more Greek than those of some of the Achæan chiefs. Such are Deïphobos,

ghly populous and industriously cultivated region. But all records of those times, if such did ever exist, are lost never to

ived from the Grecian colonies in Italy ; from whom she also obtained those oracles called the Sibylline Books, which are kno

et a few adventures of the old Italian deities framed in imitation of those of Greece, but totally repugnant to the religious

It cannot be determined which of the Roman gods are to be regarded as those of their Latin forefathers ; but it is probable t

ut it is probable that Saturnus, Ops, Janus, Jana, Pales, Pomona, and those deities relating to agriculture (to which the Lat

Latin forefathers. We shall perhaps not err if we regard as Latin all those deities whose Sabine or Etruscan origin does not

twelve gilded statues of Consentian deities2272, which were probably those enumerated in the following lines of Ennius, and

apitoline, or the Jupiter Optimus Maximus, whose temple combined with those of Juno and Minerva adorned the Capitol in Rome,

eleven others made exactly like it by the artist Mamurius, to deceive those who might attempt to steal it, committed them to

mple or chapel of Minerva on the Capitol was under the same roof with those of Jupiter and Juno, to the right of that of the

nd we have here a proof of the identification of the Roman deity with those of other religions, for that Venus was the Phœnic

ced Popery or shown a strong tendency toward it. 45. We would advise those who have studied the writings of Creuzer, Görres,

a, Thessaly, Mysia, Cilicia, Elis, Arcadia ; to which are to be added those of Cyprus, Lesbos, Acarnania and Laconia. (Polyb.

wat’ry moon ; and Fletcher says, …………………………letting fall apace From those two little heavens upon the ground Showers of mor

pon the ground Showers of more price, more orient and more round Than those that hang upon the moon’s pale brow. Faithful S

a day and a night. They still see no one, but they hear the voices of those that receive their passengers, and name their fat

(Il. viii. 80-87 ; xvi. 148-154.), or perhaps even four (viii. 185.), those of the gods had never more than two. Il. v. 768 ;

g. Æn. vi. 540.) ; the former judges the dead from Europe, the latter those from Asia. If any case proves too difficult for t

irgil also seems to allude to it, Geor. i. 378. This is surely one of those legends which are mere sports of fancy. 604. See

out fear to the rays of the sun, but they cover themselves up against those of the moon. 728. ‘Ώς ἡμὶν ἤδε λαμπρὸν ἡλίου

r object is alone the genuine mythology of Hellas, we do not enter on those matters. Sec Lobeck’s Aglaophamus. 1117. See Dem

y of name. 1702. Milton (P. L. iii. 36.) enumerates Teiresias among those “equall’d with him in fate,” whom he would fain b

asteless mode of procedure. 1848. The circumstance of women accusing those who have refused their favours is common to the h

lut. de Fluv. 8.), occur as we may perceive in Grecian mythology, and those of Sir Lanval (Fairy Mythology, i. p. 54.) and of

that the Grecian mythes frequently borrowed from each other. Compare those of Cadmos and Iasôn, of Andromeda and Hesione, of

ethic allegory ; but this was a mistaken view. Single mythes, such as those of Ixiôn and Tantalos, certainly were such. It is

possible to pass it coldly by, or to speak in the language of others those ideas which excite our own imaginations. There wa

r that their statues might be installed in their national temples as ‌ those of demi-gods, and the struggle brought them suffi

p established, which, though imperfect in itself, was satisfactory to those , who, looking beyond the abstract circumstance of

their ideas of the faith of Odin; and the fables of the Hindoos, and those of the American people, must be ascribed to the s

ent work being the endeavour to offer a brief and succinct history of those Gods whose adventures have created most interest,

s of the fancy! pleasing errors of the mind! what objects of pity are those cold and insensible hearts who have never felt yo

have never felt your charms! and what objects of pity and indignation those fierce and savage spirits, who would destroy a wo

ight with me is, that many of these fables seem not to be invented by those who have related them, Homer, Hesiod , and other

od , and other writers; for were they the fictions of that age and of those who delivered them down to us, nothing great and

Day. Espousing his sister Titæa, from their union sprang the Titans, those giants of antiquity who occupy so important a pos

and afterwards, by administering a potion, compelled him to yield up those he had already swallowed. Jupiter, the first whom

riends, A sympathy for all things born to die, With cheerful love for those whom truth attends.” Laman Blanchard. Insérer i

Olympian games in Greece were instituted in honour of this God, from those celebrated at Olympus. The following, perhaps the

Great ruler of the world; these only have To speak and be obeyed; to those are given Assistant days to ripen the design; To

nizer of all, she is of a passive nature. These ideas are allied with those of Hymen, who is called Juno, the virtuous wife.

pen book which the gods alone might consult: and in which are written those events which must inevitably come to pass, and wh

preserving from thunder, and of making dreams an image of reality to those who place it beneath their pillow. ——— “Her feet

pe divine.” Hesiod. ‌The taste and feelings of Apollo responded to those of these noble sisters: they received him in thei

he priestesses who was thrown into such excessive fury, that not only those who consulted the oracle, but also the priests wh

st agonizing situation, and at last died. It was always required that those who consulted this oracle should make presents to

f Apollo, built a temple to him on Mount Palatine. Delian feasts were those which the Athenian, and the other Greek states ce

ed on others, he never went without a dagger, to protect himself from those who might be ambitious of his office, and reckles

is crime. ‌ In another, she had an altar, whereon they immolated all those whom shipwreck had thrown on their inhospitable s

mythology_1842_img054 “Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led! Art thou that huntres

t on thy brows: Yet call thee nothing but the mere, mild moon, Behind those chesnut boughs Casting their dappled shadows at m

s, On whate’er side he turns his honest face, And dances in the wind, those fields are in his grace. To Bacchus, therefore, l

e smile all bright     Glads Paphos and the Cyprian isle,     Forsake those loved retreats awhile, And to the temple bend thy

in his ‌youth in the art of working metals, and was able to cultivate those mechanical abilities which he is represented to p

of Vulcan, which were presented to mortals, are the arms of Achilles, those of Æneas, and the shield of Hercules described by

fable of the winged deity’s love for Psyche, is the most pleasing of those related of him. ‌ The nymph Psyche was one of th

most pleasing of those related of him. ‌ The nymph Psyche was one of those exquisite beings, so seldom met with in the prese

, The rudely frowning scenes, her former joys enhance. “No traces of those joys, alas! remain; A desert solitude alone appea

of all the divinities whose authority, and consequence, were equal to those of Jupiter. “From Jove’s awful head sprang forth

edle, became impressed with a belief that her powers were superior to those of Minerva, goddess of the art. ‌This wounded Min

an’s countenance, with serpent locks, Gazing in death on heaven, from those evil rocks.” Shelley. Some of the statues of Mi

ess. ‌    Rivers. But then to think upon the hearts that grieve. For those who peril thus their lives in war, The misery tha

that is lost too in their country’s shouts The voice of gratitude for those that fell, Drowns every thought in those who live

s The voice of gratitude for those that fell, Drowns every thought in those who live to mourn; The hand of charity for those

wns every thought in those who live to mourn; The hand of charity for those who are left. Fills every heart and dries up ever

these can never pay the wrung in heart: Pride is a poor exchange for those adored: And even a nation with its giant strength

       Give back the true and brave! “Give back the lost and lovely! those for whom The place was kept at board and hearth s

e place of his residence being gloomy, and consequently unbearable to those goddesses whose hand he sought in marriage, and w

d by the river Acheron; Charon conducted over this water the souls of those sent to him by Death, while any to whom the rites

ran shivering through my blood.” While here he saw the ghosts of all those famed in story, who had descended to the infernal

wakening dance, or feast of solemn state, A joy by night or day, for those endowed With art and wisdom, who interrogate! It

danced in chorus round him. He had the gift of prophecy, and informed those who consulted him, of the fate which awaited them

n to blend with them divinities of a secondary class, to preside over those less important affairs, which might be supposed u

r in the beautiful metaphor of the poet, it is necessary to introduce those who are considered to be the most celebrated. And

ruddy, his nose flat, and his legs, thighs, tail and feet hairy, like those of a goat. When he was brought into the world, th

, About that neck that still deludes his hold, He gets no kisses from those cozening lips, His arms grasp nothing, from himse

ay,             The bowl     Sparkled with starry dew, The weeping of those myriad urns of light,     Within whose orbs, the

r, that shone beneath thy tread,     Raising its amorous head To kiss those matchless feet,     And all heaven’s host of eyes

medicine, were equally familiar to him, and his name is blended with those of the principal sages of Greece, whom he instruc

’ershade, They sat; and summoned by the bridegroom, came, To mix with those , the Lapythæan name: ——————— The roofs with joy r

sea, and like the rest of the sea gods, reposed upon the shore, where those resorted who wished to consult him to obtain any

lingering there,     The loved, the kind, the true! Thou callest back those melodies,     Though now all changed and fled, Be

off; they prayed for wings from the Gods, to unite their efforts with those of Ceres.‌ In despair at the uselessness of thei

, they sang songs of the most enchanting and attractive nature, while those who were drawn by their beauty to listen to them,

ies, Whilst happless Scylla, changed to rocks, decrees Destruction to those barks that beat the seas.” Garth. The Harpies w

fatal thread she flings; The Parcæ answer, in the choir agree And all those voices make one harmony.” The worship of the Par

, And fragile Age by worldly cares opprest, Sinks, softly sinks, into those arms for rest. And then methought death’s hollow

e my hand     Upon the earliest buddings of the spring? Had I allowed those sweet buds to expand,     What would the skies of

d,     What would the skies of gloomy autumn bring? Darkness, dismay: those sweet buds, leaf by leaf, Had sadly faded, full o

d of Venus, presided over the enjoyments of the mind, as well as over those of the heart. Thus the orator received from them

instituted in the various cities, offerings to them were mingled with those to Bacchus, Mercury, the Muses, and Apollo. The S

Graces. They were invoked at festivals, and three cups were drunk by those who feasted in honour of Euphrosyne, Aglaia, and

yme_heathen-mythology_1842_img166 Demi-Gods. The demi-gods are those , who, sprung from the union of a mortal with a di

brother Iphiclus shrieked aloud in terror. He was early instructed in those arts in which he afterwards became so famous, for

n madness, in which he killed his own offspring, imagining them to be those of Eurystheus.‌ Hercules. “Hast thou beheld th

ed Callirhoe, one of the Oceanides, sprung with his golden sword from those drops of blood, as well as the winged Pegasus, wh

were when they first beheld it. The friends of Cepheus, however, and those who assisted Perseus, were saved from the same fa

mployed Medusa’s head to turn the wicked Polydectes ‌into stone, with those of his court who were accomplices in his guilt. W

excited the admiration of their kind, and received the respect due to those immortal spirits, who have distinguished themselv

h signal services to the Athenian people.     Leonarde. “’Tis one of those bright fictions that have made The name of Greece

y. What marvel that the earth, the sky, the sea, Were filled with all those fine imaginings That love creates, and that the l

Phæ. Thy father and my husband, what of that? Love knows no ties save those he makes himself, Speak to me — Say that I yet ma

thout a clash;     The stroke was heard by none! His voice was not of those     That swelled the rolling blast, And his steps

t hands, in vain He tries, before his never failing strain; And, from those sacred lips, whose thrilling sound Fierce tigers

Elysium, writhe beneath it. Iphig. Come, I have better diadems than those Of Argos and Mycenai — come away, And I will weav

sed to do. It was the first embrace since my descent I ever aimed at: those who love me live, Save one, who loves me most, an

rt With purity, nor words that more and more Teach what we know, from those we know, and sink Often most deeply where they fa

the Xanthus, an ancient oracle having declared that if they drank of those waters or fed in the Trojan plain, that Troy woul

self with safety to his own person, fearing that he might be slain by those who were suitors to his wife. By the advice of Mi

the magistrates in the manumission of slaves, and the cap was worn by those who were to be soon liberated, while at other tim

owerful services, decreed that the Gods should swear by her, and that those who violated the oath, should be exiled ten years

take of a modest repast. As they sate in kind communion, the forms of those whom they entertained suddenly changed, and they

beautiful. There were sweet birds to count the hours, and roses, Like those on which a blushing cheek reposes, Violets as fre

ncil of lamas who ‌assemble in conclave, and whose insignia answer to those of the cardinals of the Roman church. They admit

f secondary divinities, whose history approaches in many instances to those of the Greek and Roman deities, and if their lege

, essentially metaphysical and philosophical, are less agreeable than those of the people of the West, who indulge their sens

all probability one of their kings, and whose amours, as numerous as those of Jupiter, are perpetuated in a thousand legends

in battle, she sends an inferior goddess to watch over the safety of those whom she favours, while they who fall, are honour

victims, whether men or animals. But the most solemn sacrifices were those which were offered at Upsal, in Sweden, every nin

uguries from them, as among the Romans: but when they sacrificed men, those they pitched on were laid upon a large stone, and

af of which was regarded as sacred, and was filled with the bodies of those who had been sacrificed. Occasionally the blood o

rs were sacrificed. Cortez found in an enormous edifice the skulls of those who had been slain, the number of which amounted

homage is stated by them to be, that the god has uttered a curse upon those who shall attempt to serve him; one thing is cert

2_img290 Polynesia. The inhabitants of Polynesia, are, like all those whose faith is primitive and simple, devoted to t

people. [Conclusion.] Our task is now closed; the religions of those who have gone before us, have been given with as

us in our endeavours, and to render them palatable to our readers; to those who have accompanied us in our wanderings; to tho

o our readers; to those who have accompanied us in our wanderings; to those who have been with us among the elegant reminisce

ke a greater interest, and place a higher value on that faith, and on those truths which are set before them in the word of t

rine and its perfume are gone But there are natural temples still for those Eternal, tho’ dethroned deities, Where from green

as the mythology of Greece and Rome occurs so much more frequently in those books which are most commonly, and most early, us

phy and mythology, travelled and studied in Egypt, where they learned those doctrines, which, having modelled according to th

ed among the Deities of the first class. Janus must be reckoned among those gods called Indigetes. Besides his having two fac

esented? The ancient statues of Saturn wear chains, in remembrance of those with which his son loaded him. These were taken o

cherishes him. Numa Pompilius raised an altar to her, and instituted those celebrated priestesses who bore the name of Vesta

ds the earth. Those who looked upon him as an animated God, as one of those men whose illustrious actions had procured him di

of voluptuousness; which, by this allegory the poets taught, degraded those into brute beasts who became its slaves, although

erected to her honour almost every where; but the most beautiful were those of Paphos, Gnidus, Amathus, Cythera, and Idalia.

ing was said to be so exquisite, as to enable them to discern whether those who came thither were virtuous of vicious, and wh

gian coasts, Invites, or chases, sleep with wond’rous pow’r, And opes those eyes that death had seal’d before. Thus arm’d, on

of the Cyclops; a dreadful giant, who resided in Sicily, and devoured those human beings who were so unfortunate as to fall i

They call us, and with outstretch’d arms implore, In vain they call; those arms are stretch’d no more. In the wide dungeon,

ymphs? Those who presided over rivers and waters, were named Naiades; those who resided in marshes, Lymniades. The wood nymph

smoke of volcanoes was driven by the winds, he learnt to distinguish those which blew most violently, and were of longest du

in order to pass over. Charon4, the aged, surly, boat- man, receives those into his bark who had been honoured with funeral

bark who had been honoured with funeral rites, but rejects inexorably those who have not; and they are condemned to wander fo

re seen first, the souls of infants who expired as soon as born; then those who are put to death unjustly, or who killed them

ly after death. Another, who wore a mask resembling three heads, like those ascribed to Cerberus, ferried it over the Nile, t

ess and tranquillity. Their possessors are represented as employed in those pursuits, and enjoying those gratifications, whic

ossessors are represented as employed in those pursuits, and enjoying those gratifications, which pleased them most, during l

e raptures of a God: Worthies, -who life by useful arts refin’d; With those , who leave a deathless name behind, Friends of th

rent modes, into almost all the systems of Pagan Mythology, Traces of those events are distinguishable in the Buddhic, the Hi

uttering over his head. His character and attributes greatly resemble those of the Grecian Apollo. What are the Avatars? The

l image of Seeva. The principal Hindû temples of more modern date are those of Jaggernaut, Benares, Mattra, Tripetty, and Ser

remove from one Caste to another. Those of the superior Castes regard those of the inferior with the utmost contempt, and con

better knowledge, and sounder philosophy, which they communicated to those who were initiated into the sacred mysteries. It

the genial influence of that river, was the unfruitful Nepthys. When those arid tracts were watered and rendered productive

arded in the Egyptian mythology as the operation of Typhon. Hence all those animals whose aspect is hideous, and whose dispos

aches the sign Leo, he changes the state of the atmosphere, disperses those dangerous tempests, and brings the northern winds

onstant companion and precursor of Osīiris and Isis; the harbinger of those deities, the opener or beginner of all their oper

orresponded to the Grecian Esculapius, whose rites were borrowed from those of Serāpis; to whom, too, the same animals were a

arts of inanimate nature, which actuates and directs the movements of those great masses which raise the idea of prodigious s

he furies. This goddess was supposed to inflict various diseases upon those who incurred her anger; such as madness, and part

f various kinds; Of insects, — the Scarabæus, or Beetle; Of fishes, —  those which bore the names of Oxyrhynchus, Lepidotus, P

oured by them, believing that great honour was conferred upon them by those consecrated creatures, when they condescended to

d wings united. Certain mysteries were called by his name, similar to those of Isis and Ceres; founded chiefly on traditions

at the expense of great labour. Amongst their leading doctrines, were those of the immortality of the soul, and its transmigr

lech, or stone of sacrifice. Human victims were frequently offered by those who laboured under disease, or were about to go t

from the Scythians, and their religion to be a corruption of that of those people. The religion of the ancient Scythians was

rupted this plain system. They associated to the Supreme God, many of those genii, who had been always considered as subordin

and, by degrees, selected as the objects of their peculiar adoration, those divinities, whose dominion they supposed to be ex

nities, whose dominion they supposed to be exercised principally over those things, which they most highly valued. Thus it ha

ather; the father of battles; because he adopts, as his children, all those who die with arms in their hands. Odin takes no n

st the other deities, at the immortal banquet, where he would receive those who died with arms in their hands. What is the hi

lace no impure person could enter; and upon its columns were engraven those Runic rhymes which were imagined to have power to

d of war; the Goddesses of slaughter. It was their province to select those that were to fall in battle; to bear the invitati

rength, alone survive. A new system will then be established. Besides those already enumerated, two more vague and doubtful b

rass nor green tree growing,     Vernal shower, nor wintry storm, Nor those horses, bright and glowing,     Dragg’d the Sun’s

morning beam’d with gladness;     Never eve, with dewy robe. Who are those in pride advancing,     Through the barren tract

, but on their images likewise, which they believed to be animated by those angels. Allat was the idol of the tribe Thakif, a

ariously combined to express various attributes of the idols known by those names. Thus, Baal-Peor, who was the idol of the M

ed by her silver crescent, were likewise, objects of worship, amongst those nations. These our sublime poet Milton notices.

tal blindness. Though the philosophers of antiquity probably regarded those monstrous fictions as conveying lessons of wisdom

ake the common faith, and disturb the public religion. Hence, even in those polished nations, amongst whom the arts and scien

to be as fair as she, Venus was so jealous, that she was offended at those who pretended to equal her. Psyche’s parents were

yonder mountain, and bring me a lock of wool from the back of one of those sheep.” Psyche instantly set off, not daring to h

worshipped nothing but images of wood and stone? Mother. Most likely those gods and goddesses had been men and women, who we

e a cake. Mother. He was a great dog with three heads, who barked at those who went into the infernal regions, or abode of t

than all the daughters of earth, than the blue-haired sea-nymphs, or those that haunt the rivers and fountains. I have left

od-nymphs, my companions. I pity you; for, like you, I am deprived of those I love.” “Do you know me, Arethusa?” asked the wh

n bands, and carry off whatever they could seize, and they would kill those who tried to hinder them. The people, who lived i

all the king’s family, rejoiced in the happy prospects of Progne. In those days, the king of a little city was known by ever

ll her where Philomela was confined. The people of Thrace, as well as those of Greece, celebrated the orgies of Bacchus; and

more especially for Philomela, attended them all the way thither. In those barbarous times, revenge, the returning of evil f

n, and cabbage, and olives, did not satisfy the liberality of Baucis; those removed, she set on a second course. Plums and ap

uria, the eldest daughter of Cecrops, was at home. It was a custom in those days for the eldest daughter of a family to be ma

odness to persuade your sister to favour my suit?” Aglauria replied, “ those who ask favours of me must pay for them. My siste

the sun never entered, and it was stained all over with the bipod of those she had wounded or killed. When Minerva entered t

as much as she can, to disturb the amiable Herse. It is my will that those who wish to injure others shall be miserable them

marry their children? Mother. Because there was little travelling in those days, and when strangers, who were young and hand

when they could not determine for themselves, and make peace between those who quarrelled. Once Jupiter and Juno, who you kn

d dances, but he always refused to partake of their diversions. Among those who admired Narcissus, was a young maiden, named

ort time, so furious was the combat, only five remained alive. One of those who survived was Echion, and he and four others c

ember all the dragons you have read of, guarded wells and gardens. In those days there were many robbers, and the dragons wer

s were then a rude people; either males or females would kill or beat those who offended them. Perhaps, when he was asleep, t

y their subjects, to whom they were very kind. It is not easy to make those unhappy who are amiable, and who love one another

rk gloomy place, where perpetual silence reigned. There the indolent, those who in their lives had been of no service to othe

he ground, and said, “The misery you see here may content you; suffer those who breathe the upper air to enjoy a few comforts

ound and round, and mutter curses, and pray that harm might happen to those she meant to hurt These muttered words were the i

lictions; and they presumed that malignant gods induced men to commit those crimes, and also that they brought evils upon man

nions. He instantly saw, in the ghastly features of the severed head, those of his beloved grandson, and soon convinced Agave

ew up under the protection of Polydectes; he learned all that boys in those days learned: to throw the lance or spear, to sho

handsome, and vigorous; he was fit to be king over a rude people like those of Seriphus, who thought beauty and strength very

ward, as if to implore the gods to take pity on her, but her eyes met those of Perseus, whom she imagined to be Mercury, whos

e cruel; and as they love the good, and abhor the wicked, they assist those who are foil of compassion like themselves. I tru

, the eldest of the Pierides began a song in praise of the giants: of those who once attempted to dethrone our father Jupiter

gods dare to meet them; but, veiling their glorious forms, they took those of sordid animals — of beasts, and birds, and cre

nd we claimed for our own the district of Emathia. We then admonished those conceited women, never more to enter into competi

to Apollo, and garlands of laurel were bestowed at his festivals upon those who excelled in the strife of genius or the strug

had almost lulled Argus to sleep; he next touched, with the caduceus, those of the hundred eyes which remained open, and Argu

w days after our arrival in Lydia, as we were walking through some of those fine meadows which afford abundant pasture to the

eat quantity of rushes, and the surface was covered with abundance of those aquatic plants which float on the bosom of small

the thoughts and is separable from the language itself, and omitting those amplifications which are not suited to the altere

e abridgment from Mallet’s Northern Antiquities. These chapters, with those on Oriental and Egyptian mythology, seemed necess

quently made by public speakers, lecturers, essayists, and poets, and those which occur in polite conversation. We trust our

n. We trust our young readers will find it a source of entertainment; those more advanced a useful companion in their reading

tertainment; those more advanced a useful companion in their reading; those who travel, and visit museums and galleries of ar

ums and galleries of art, an interpreter of paintings and sculptures; those who mingle in cultivated society, a key to allusi

ety, a key to allusions which are occasionally made; and last of all, those in advanced life, pleasure in retracing a path of

every step the associations of the morning of life. The permanency of those associations is beautifully expressed in the well

living men. They belong now not to the department of theology, but to those of literature and taste. There they still hold th

at the Greeks of the early ages knew little of any real people except those to the east and south of their own country, or ne

hrough the air, giving light to gods and men. The stars, also, except those forming the Wain or Bear, and others near them, r

ut all, when summoned, repaired to the palace of Jupiter, as did also those deities whose usual abode was the earth, the wate

ere three goddesses who punished by their secret stings the crimes of those who escaped or defied public justice. The heads o

anging their use. Those thrown by the hand of the man became men, and those by the woman became women. It was a hard race, an

So flew the god and the virgin — he on the wings of love, and she on those of fear. The pursuer is the more rapid, however,

noise environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes and dogs. As when those hinds that were transformed to frogs     Railed a

direction and the Crab in another. Nor will you find it easy to guide those horses, with their breasts full of fire that they

and movable on their roots; in short, to be on the perfect pattern of those of an ass. Mortified enough was King Midas at thi

der bright,     Cheek after cheek, like rosebuds in a wreath;     And those more distant showing from beneath         The oth

I shall suffer not only the real evils which you must encounter, but those also which my fears suggest.” These words weighed

Whether Ceyx felt it, or whether it was only the action of the waves, those who looked on doubted, but the body seemed to rai

my fate! I ask but this: let me be remembered in coming ages, and add those years to my fame which you have reft from my life

m the whole story of her misfortunes, at which, pretending to grieve, those spiteful creatures inwardly rejoiced. “For now,”

g was his shape, And lovely never since of serpent kind Lovelier; not those that in Illyria changed Hermione and Cadmus, nor

emed to shake its limbs and throw down over the ground a multitude of those industrious grain-gathering animals, which appear

they sprang. You have seen these persons; their dispositions resemble those which they had in their former shape. They are a

ter-spirit living in the fountain. He stood gazing with admiration at those bright eyes, those locks curled like the locks of

n the fountain. He stood gazing with admiration at those bright eyes, those locks curled like the locks of Bacchus or Apollo,

omplete armor. She presided over the useful and ornamental arts, both those of men — such as agriculture and navigation — and

al arts, both those of men — such as agriculture and navigation — and those of women, — spinning, weaving, and needle-work. S

folly,” said she, “is this! — to prefer beings whom you never saw to those who stand before your eyes! Why should Latona be

e their name. The Gorgons were monstrous females with huge teeth like those of swine, brazen claws, and snaky hair. None of t

his wings. As he hovered over her he said, “O virgin, undeserving of those chains, but rather of such as bind fond lovers to

who came that way proposing to them a riddle, with the condition that those who could solve it should pass safe, but those wh

ith the condition that those who could solve it should pass safe, but those who failed should be killed. Not one had yet succ

e smell he relaxed his rage, stood for a moment motionless, then shut those great round eyes, that had never been known to sh

es, not worth the trouble it had cost to procure it.   This is one of those mythological tales, says a late writer, in which

adventure: — “From every region of Ægea’s shore The brave assembled; those illustrious twins Castor and Pollux; Orpheus, tun

s of that hero.   The incantations of Medea will remind the reader of those of the witches in Macbeth. The following lines ar

he reader of those of the witches in Macbeth. The following lines are those which seem most strikingly to recall the ancient

fire, its bristles stood like threatening spears, its tusks were like those of Indian elephants. The growing corn was trample

hes on and despatches him with repeated blows. Then rose a shout from those around; they congratulated the conqueror, crowdin

beats her breast, and hastens to change the garments of rejoicing for those of mourning. But when the author of the deed is k

is result, fixing his eyes on the virgin, said, “Why boast of beating those laggards? I offer myself for the contest.” Atalan

inder of the herd past the cave where the stolen ones were concealed, those within began to low, and were thus discovered. Ca

to you, Fear not. He who conquered all else is not to be conquered by those flames which you see blazing on Mount Œta. Only h

erable portion of these sculptures is now in the British Museum among those known as the “Elgin marbles.” Olympic and othe

rly manner. Pan, like other gods who dwelt in forests, was dreaded by those whose occupations caused them to pass through the

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

gions of earth and sea with divinities, to whose agency it attributed those phenomena which our philosophy ascribes to the op

“Earth outgrows the mythic fancies Sung beside her in her youth; And those debonaire romances Sound but dull beside the trut

favored by this nymph with secret interviews, in which she taught him those lessons of wisdom and of law which he imbodied in

the Argonautic expedition, and did good service in an encounter with those monstrous birds the Harpies. Zephyrus was the lov

onsigned her brother’s body to the dogs and vultures, depriving it of those rites which were considered essential to the repo

ver.” Francklin’s Sophocles. Penelope. Penelope is another of those mythic heroines whose beauties were rather those

nelope is another of those mythic heroines whose beauties were rather those of character and conduct than of person. She was

negyric and festal odes, receiving his reward from the munificence of those whose exploits he celebrated. This employment was

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

ellow has a poem on the Occultation of Orion. The following lines are those in which he alludes to the mythic story. We must

of his appearance, and to try to make himself agreeable; he harrowed those coarse locks of his with a comb, and mowed his be

the famous Trojan war, the theme of the greatest poems of antiquity, those of Homer and Virgil. Menelaus called upon his bro

trating and it fell harmless. Then Ajax, seizing a huge stone, one of those that served to prop the ships, hurled it at Hecto

-known armor, struck with terror, looked everywhere for refuge. First those who had got possession of the ship and set it on

my, could see no suitable messenger. It was then that he exclaimed in those famous lines so often quoted, — “Father of heave

riors. The old king threw himself at the feet of Achilles, and kissed those terrible hands which had destroyed so many of his

food, the lotus-plant, to eat. The effect of this food was such that those who partook of it lost all thoughts of home and w

was and whence he came, and (recognizing the clothes which he wore as those which her maidens and herself had made) from whom

s those which her maidens and herself had made) from whom he received those garments. He told them of his residence in Calyps

“Say from what city, from what regions tossed, And what inhabitants those regions boast? So shalt thou quickly reach the re

Anchises, to receive from him a revelation of his future fortunes and those of his race, he asked her assistance to enable hi

She answered, “Those who are taken on board the bark are the souls of those who have received due burial rites; the host of o

them as judge, and examines the deeds of each. The next class was of those who had died by their own hand, hating life and s

off into retired paths, leading through groves of myrtle. Here roamed those who had fallen victims to unrequited love, not fr

chains. Æneas, horror-struck, inquired of his guide what crimes were those whose punishments produced the sounds he heard? T

are to others; the last being the most numerous class. Here also were those who had violated the marriage vow, or fought in a

he great river Po has its origin, and flows out among men. Here dwelt those who fell by wounds received in their country’s ca

ton also alludes to the same fable in P. L., Book III, l. 568. “Like those Hesperian gardens famed of old, Fortunate fields

ur readers will remember that in the conflict with the Harpies one of those half-human birds had threatened the Trojans with

s youth,” he said, “what can I do for you worthy of your praise? Keep those arms in which you glory, and fear not but that yo

virgin warrior, was chiefly conspicuous. Her deeds of valor surpassed those of the bravest warriors, and many Trojans and Etr

s and the cradle of Rome itself.   There is an allusion to Camilla in those well-known lines of Pope, in which, illustrating

xtinct in your bosoms, forbear, I entreat you, to violate the life of those who may haply be your own relatives.”   Shakspe

of a scarabæus or beetle. As soon as a bull thus marked was found by those sent in search of him, he was placed in a buildin

e where answers were supposed to be given by any of the divinities to those who consulted them respecting the future. The wor

ts were sacred to Æsculapius, probably because of a superstition that those animals have a faculty of renewing their youth by

Oracle of Apis. At Memphis the sacred bull Apis gave answer to those who consulted him by the manner in which he recei

re many myths which have arisen from the desire of man to account for those natural phenomena which he cannot understand; and

s born in Mantua in the year 70 B.C. His great poem is ranked next to those of Homer, in the highest class of poetical compos

n it and lived to tell the story?” The worthy sage was not aware that those who went to hunt the basilisk of this sort took w

nnot be taken alive;” and some such excuse may have been necessary in those days for not producing the living animal upon the

ower of plants. But in Ceylon three orders of priests are recognized; those of the highest order are usually men of high birt

ifical court and several other ecclesiastical institutions resembling those of the Roman Catholic church. They found convents

the great hall of Odin, wherein he feasts with his chosen heroes, all those who have fallen bravely in battle, for all who di

contest must come, sends down to every battle-field to make choice of those who shall be slain. The Valkyrior are his messeng

ave her power over nine worlds or regions, into which she distributes those who are sent to her; that is, all who die of sick

wisted twigs and filled with living persons. These being set on fire, those within are encompassed by the flames.” Many attem

at the same time praying that God would render his gift prosperous to those to whom he had given it.” They drink the water in

mmon with the monastic institutions of later times. The name by which those who submitted to the rule were known was that of

g the order certain vows were taken by the members, but they were not those which were usually imposed by monastic orders, fo

ry they seem to have labored diligently to procure for themselves and those dependent on them the comforts of life. Marriage

as exposed to the assaults of the Norwegian and Danish rovers by whom those seas were infested, and by them it was repeatedly

existence on the island of forms of worship and belief different from those of Christianity. These are the circular Cairns wh

—  Ovid . Their faces were not all alike, nor yet unlike, but such as those of sisters ought to be. No. 3. Page 63. M

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

ee that the Greeks of the early ages knew little of any people except those to the east and south of their own country, or ne

through the air, giving light to gods and men. The stars also, except those forming Charles’s Wain, or Bear, rose out of and

They also regarded them as being of much larger size than men, for in those times great size was esteemed a perfection both i

; but all, when summoned, repaired to the palace of Zeus, as did also those deities whose usual abode was the earth, the wate

, known or unknown, they readily adopted, selecting and appropriating those divinities which had the greatest affinity to the

which is far less fertile in fanciful conceits, and deficient in all those fairy-like stories and wonderfully poetic ideas w

eyes, his head surrounded with rays, holding in one hand the reins of those fiery coursers which in all hands save his are un

bs, goats, white rams, and white horses. From the Egyptian name Horus those parts into which the sun divides the day are call

her hand. It was supposed that magicians and enchanters, particularly those of Thessaly, had an uncontrollable power over the

e Romans, according to their custom of identifying their deities with those of the Greek gods whose attributes were similar t

“For the Fairest.” The claims of all others were obliged to yield to those of Hera, Pallas Athene, and Aphrodite, and the de

were usually accompanied by terrible marine monsters, which devoured those whom the floods had spared. It is probable that t

eter*, which had the power of speech, the feet on the right side like those of a man, and the rest of the body like a horse.

omain of Pluto, also Tartarus*, a place of imprisonment. The souls of those who had lived a virtuous life were sent to the El

nce of Hades. Field of Asphodel* was a place where spirits waited for those whose fate had not been decided. In the dominions

aid of Charon*, the ferryman, a grim, unshaven old man. He took only those whose bodies had received funereal4 rites on eart

ve and punish crimes of the wicked, and to torment the consciences of those whose crimes had not been made public. “Erinnys

re they were employed by Aides and Persephone to chastise and torment those shades who, during their earthly career, had comm

g deities who relentlessly pursued and punished murderers, perjurers, those who had failed m duty to their parents, in hospit

s ascribed to her influence. She was regarded as the patroness of all those arts which are connected with agriculture, by mea

e they injure the fruits of the earth. Demeter punished with severity those that incurred her displeasure. Stellio was a yout

later times extended to five days. It was especially observed by all those engaged in intellectual pursuits and artists. As

ed Ægis*. He also made various wonderful things for his favorites, or those of Zeus among men. Among these were the golden do

Euphrosyne*, Aglaia*, and Thalia*. They were believed to preside over those qualities which constitute grace, modesty, uncons

this account his statue was generally placed in the gymnasia between those of Hermes and Heracles, and the Spartans sacrific

, who pardoned the contrite sinner, and who acted as the protector of those who, like Orestes, had committed a crime which re

. The insulted deity caused his ears to grow in length and shape like those of an ass. Midas endeavored to conceal the deform

n shooting), herding (as keeping the flocks and herds of the gods, or those of Admetus), silver-bowed, far-shooter, gold-swor

of travelers, over whose safety he presided, and he severely punished those that refused assistance o the lost or weary wayfa

t with the Muses. The songs of the latter were loyal and true, whilst those of the former were false and deceptive. The Muses

with garlands on every occasion of family rejoicing. The Lemures were those Manes that haunted their former abodes on earth a

l images of them were placed around the hearth, and honors similar to those paid to the Lares were accorded to them. Nereu

es, when consulted, he evaded an answer by a sudden metamorphosis. To those only who held him fast did he appear in his real

putting into it a burning torch taken from the altar), with which all those admitted to take part in the sacrifices were spri

ere of blood. The animals offered to the Olympian deities were white, those to the gods of the lower world were black. When a

morate events of national importance. The most ancient festivals were those held after the ingathering of the harvest, or vin

the origin of the human race differ very widely. The most ancient are those which describe men as having sprung from the eart

eant by the oracle. They therefore flung stones behind their backs, —  those cast by Deucalion became men, and those by Pyrrha

stones behind their backs, — those cast by Deucalion became men, and those by Pyrrha became women. It was a hard race and we

hile in this condition he killed three of his own children and two of those of his brother Iphicles. When he regained his rea

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

eral hunt, and invited to it the most famous heroes of the age. Among those that responded to his call were Jason*, Castor* a

race, promising to be the prize of the one who should outrun her, but those who were vanquished were to be put to death. Notw

libation to mother-earth, the gods of the country, and the shades of those of the heroes that had died on the voyage. It was

some of the lotus plant to eat. The effect of this food was such that those who partook of it lost all thought of home. Odyss

in Greek mythology; but there is no doubt that, like the Greek myths, those of the Egyptians had their foundation in phrases

the priesthood, that they not only identified their own deities with those of Egypt, but fancied that their names, as well a

ptians. As soon as a bull with the marks above described was found by those in search of him, he was placed in a building fac

Oracle of Apis. At Memphis, the sacred bull Apis gave answers to those who consulted him by the manner in which he recei

Iceland. The mythical systems of the tribes of Northern Europe, like those of the Greeks, had their germ in phrases which de

rlike virgins, whom Odin sent to every battle-field to make choice of those who should be slain. When they rode forth mounted

De,” God, and “rouyd,” speaking. It would, therefore, seem to signify those who speak of or for God. The Druids taught the ex

wisted twigs and filled with living persons. These being set on fire, those within are encompassed by the flames.” The Druid

at the same time praying that God will render his gift prosperous to those to whom He has given it. They drink the water in

his messengers, who, in the myth, are called Gijigouai, which means ‘ those who make the day,’ and they light the world. He i

r pupils who have not yet entered, or who, like the greater number of those attending our female academies, are not likely ev

d to contain much that is new and interesting; many articles, such as those on the public games, the theatrical entertainment

s of the different heathen nations resembled, in their exterior form, those offered to the true God by the ancient patriarchs

were obliged to repair, when summoned, to the palace of Jupiter. Even those deities whose usual abode was on the earth, in th

all of whom suffered persecution, either in their own persons, or in those of their children. Cadmus and Hermione were so mu

. The insulted deity caused his ears to grow in length and shape like those of an ass. Midas endeavored to cover the deformit

g that she would marry him who should excel her in the race, but that those who were beaten should suffer death. Hard as were

tched and improbable. Ques. Can you name any works of Vulcan, beside those already mentioned? Ans. Yes, he made for Alcinoü

o be admitted to these rites, because they believed that the souls of those who had not been initiated were left to wallow in

the patroness of music. She holds two flutes. Erato [Er′ato] inspired those who wrote of love. She plays on a nine-stringed l

s of these goddesses, promising to choose from among the nine images, those which they should consider the most beautiful. Wh

queen. Her sons expired by the arrows of Apollo, and her daughters by those of Diana. Amphion killed himself in despair, and

ies? Ans. Yes, a great number; but only a few were well known. Among those we may mention Pomona, the goddess of orchards, a

he magical sweetness of their singing, they allured all who sailed by those coasts; and after they had lulled them into a tra

n the covetous to their destruction. Ques. Did any escape who passed those coasts? Ans. History mentions only two; Ulysses

shore to carry the dead to the other side of the lake. The ghosts of those who had not been buried with funeral rites, were

he Sphinx in Egypt. Ques. Were there any fabulous monsters besides those of Hell? Ans. Yes, many; the Centaurs, who were

The stones thrown by Deucalion assumed human form and became men, and those thrown by Pyrrha were changed into women. Ques.

subdued the ferocity of their subjects. In this manner they softened those who before were hard like stones, so that gentlen

t of that name, whose fame was such that all the improvements made in those early times in architecture and sculpture were at

, while its bristles stood erect like spears, and its tusks resembled those of an Indian elephant. The cornfields and vineyar

himself slain soon after; his ashes were mingled in a golden urn with those of Patroclus, and a tomb was erected to both hero

hree more, and still persisted in demanding the same sum of money for those that were left. This extraordinary conduct astoni

Ans. The places where the heathen divinities were supposed to answer those who consulted them, were called oracles. This wor

it became necessary to appoint a second and a third Pythia to answer those who came to consult the god. The Pythia could not

ly narrow, and there was apparently nothing to aid the descent. Here, those who were courageous enough to advance, lay upon t

heard what they desired to know. It has been frequently asserted that those who entered the cave of Trophonius never smiled a

Syria. This last was believed to impart the knowledge of futurity to those who drank of its waters. The oracle of this fount

id of the Olympic Games, may be applied with some little variation to those solemnized in other places. Ques. By whom were t

e. Ques. Did the theatrical representations of the Greeks resemble those of modern times? Ans. They differed widely, both

est of Persia, by the Arabs, which took place in the seventh century, those who refused to embrace the Koran fled to Hindosta

generally called, has a vast number of followers. His worshippers and those of Vishnu form two distinct sects. Brahma, having

see, therefore, that Buddha had more reasonable and humane ideas than those who composed the Vedas, and that he was probably

of poetry, but he scorned all lighter strains, and was the patron of those only who sung the praises of the gods and the dee

nds the Valkyrior, therefore, to every battle field to make choice of those who shall be slain. When they ride forth on their

De,” God, and “rouyd,” speaking. It would, therefore, seem to signify those who speak of or for God. Ques. Where did Druidis

ng in all controversies. There was no appeal from their sentence, and those who ventured to resist were excommunicated and ou

mystery. They believed that on every feast of the moon, the souls of those who had died during the year, were obliged to rep

temples, and introduced the worship of their own gods, adopting also those of the conquered race. Druidism retired, step by

s reserved for their warriors and heroes. In this class were included those who were offered in sacrifice. These privileged s

powerful hierarchy. Their different functions were exactly regulated; those who were best skilled in music formed the choirs

nd middle classes received their education. These schools, as well as those for boys, directed by the priests, were under the

Ques. Are any of these structures still in existence? Ans. Yes; of those which yet remain, the pyramid of Cholula is the l

ecame more frequent as the Aztec empire extended, until the number of those sacrificed annually throughout the empire is calc

f the Sun — Feast of Raymi — Resemblance of certain Peruvian Rites to those observed by the Ancient Romans — Virgins of the S

heart of the city. The interior of the temple has been described, by those who saw it in its glory, as being literally a min

e been noticed between the religious observances of the Peruvians and those of the ancient Romans? Ans. In the mode of procu

mpled magnificence, and his banquets surpassed, in taste and display, those given by Augustus himself. The later years of Mæc

When the most distinguished poets of Greece wrote verses in honor of those who fell at Marathon, the elegy of Simonides took

led court, the praises of Castor and Pollux were mingled largely with those of his royal patron. A mortal might have been con

pil, and to the taste of readers somewhat more advanced in years than those addressed by the original work or by the edition

common myths of some other nations are briefly stated, no myths save those known to the Greeks, Romans, Norsemen, or Germans

of their publications, have, with the kind consent of the authors of those works, in some instances been adapted by me to su

s of antiquity, the difficulty of the translation may be moderated if those products be reproduced, so far as possible, not i

e emphasized. The Commentary is numbered in sections corresponding to those of the text. The Textual and Interpretative Notes

to-day possessed of attributes and individuality just as efficient as those that endowed the golden handmaids of Vulcan, or t

bjects must be possessed of freedom, personality, and power exceeding those of man. Why, then, should not the savage believe,

surroundings, and the belief in magical powers that he conferred upon those of his tribesmen that were shrewdest and most inf

f old; and it only needs that we look at them with the earnestness of those childish eyes to understand the first words spoke

uate. It is, moreover, not likely that many historical incidents like those related in the Iliad and the Odyssey happened in

tantiated contributions. And until we possess the earliest records of those unrelated nationalities that have similar myths,

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

s born in Mantua in the year 70 b.c. His great poem is ranked next to those of Homer, in that noble class of poetical composi

asian. “All is but a symbol painted Of the Poet, Prophet, Seer; Only those are crowned and sainted Who with grief have been

resemblance to the human form. Those thrown by Deucalion became men; those by Pyrrha, women. It was a hard race that sprang

l was made known at the oracle of Dodona, where answers were given to those who inquired concerning the future. This oracular

opes of Parnassus in Phocis, the Pythian god made known the future to those who consulted him. He was a founder of cities, a

outh, — a pure and just god, requiring clean hands and pure hearts of those that worshipped him. But though a god of life and

y and state the holy flame was religiously cherished. From her altars those of the other gods obtained their fires. No new co

the Argonautic expedition, and did good service in an encounter with those monstrous birds, the Harpies. Zephyrus was the lo

essor, Apollo. The attributes and adventures of Selene were merged in those of the more modern Diana. Eos, or, in Latin nomen

hrough the air, giving light to gods and men. The stars, also, except those forming the Wain or Bear, and others near them, r

terly manner. Like other gods who dwelt in forests, he was dreaded by those whose occupations caused them to pass through the

og, lay on guard, — friendly to the spirits entering, but inimical to those who would depart. The palace itself is dark and g

d by the Fields there flowed the river Lethe, from which the souls of those that were to return to the earth in other bodies

Proserpina. They punished with the frenzies of remorse the crimes of those who had escaped from, or defied, public justice.

ce could curb itself to the smooth Greek, Now and anon swept forth in those deep nights, Thrilling my flesh with awe; mysteri

ove! art thou forever blind?”117 § 63. Ægina. — The extent to which those who were concerned only indirectly in Jupiter’s l

s we have seen,125 presided over the useful and ornamental arts, both those of men — such as agriculture and navigation — and

al arts, both those of men — such as agriculture and navigation — and those of women — spinning, weaving, and needle-work. Sh

irection and the Crab in another. Nor wilt thou find it easy to guide those horses, with their breasts full of fire that they

t was not, however, only by accident, or by the ill-advised action of those whom he loved, that Apollo’s gifts of light and h

e, she said, “What folly to prefer beings whom you have never seen to those who stand before your eyes! Will you prefer to me

d over shoulder cast the lion-shag, Let the club go, — for had he not those hands? And so went striding off, on that straight

the award. Apollo promptly transformed his depraved pair of ears into those of an ass. King Midas tried to hide his misfortun

s wood? Ah! it went to my heart, and the memory still grieves, To see those loved graces all taking their leaves; Those charm

that celebrate the severity of the goddess of the unerring bow toward those who offended her. How she served Agamemnon for sl

ain, Instead of pines shall murmur in the wind: Far, far around shall those dark-clustered trees Fledge the wild-ridged mount

be for the race, he changed his mind, and began to swell with envy of those that seemed likely to win. The virgin darted forw

result, fixed his eyes on the virgin, and said, “Why boast of beating those laggards? I offer myself for the contest.” Atalan

, ‘Were I the saint he worships, I would hear him’; And, as she spake those words, came somewhat near him. He started up; she

ul, indeed, but cold; Ah, touch them with thy flame! Oh, bid her move those lips of rose, Bid float that golden hair, And let

st love-songs. § 100. Venus did not fail to follow with her vengeance those who dishonored her rites or defied her power. The

o’ even now, Close over us, the silver star, thy guide, Shines in those tremulous eyes that fill with tears To hear me?

eet Upon thy glimmering thresholds, when the steam Floats up from those dim fields about the homes Of happy men that ha

“Earth outgrows the mythic fancies Sung beside her in her youth; And those debonair romances Sound but dull beside the truth

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

o communicate with him by means of her messenger, — a bee: — Now, in those days of simpleness and faith, Men did not think t

t poppy with its scarlet petals. Nay, these are summer’s flowers, and those are flowers of winter, so I could not have brough

this ocean-bed.”244 He became guardian of fishes and divers, and of those who go down to the sea in ships. Later, being inf

f Deucalion, gives us the heroes of the Hellenic branch, most notably those descended from Æolus. With these families most of

the son of Hellen.280 His adventures might therefore be recited with those of Jason and other descendants of Æolus in the ne

ants of Æolus in the next chapter, but that they follow so closely on those of Perseus. His father, Glaucus, king of Corinth,

inder of the herd past the cave where the stolen ones were concealed, those within beginning to low, discovered themselves to

ds of Greece. From every region of Ægea’s shore The brave assembled; those illustrious twins Castor and Pollux; Orpheus, tun

med out the latest wrath of all his life.319 Then rose a shout from those around; they glorified the conqueror, — crowded t

, and beats her breast, and hastens to change the garments of joy for those of mourning. But when the author of the deed is k

nconscious of the cause, feels a sudden pang. He burns; he calls upon those whom he loves, Atalanta and his mother. But speed

o came that way, propounded to them a riddle, with the condition that those who could solve it should pass safe, but those wh

ith the condition that those who could solve it should pass safe, but those who failed should be killed. Not one had yet succ

d what ills he did, They in the dark should look, in time to come, On those whom they ought never to have seen, Nor know the

t the aged Creon recognizes the insolence of his narrow judgment. And those that stand beside him say: — Man’s highest bless

notice the three Grecian families that were principally concerned, — those of Peleus, Atreus, and Tyndareus. § 165ª. Peleus

Priam, whom he had loved. “So,” says Catullus , “sang the Fates. For those were the days before piety and righteous action w

he famous Trojan War, — the theme of the greatest poems of antiquity, those of Homer and Vergil. Menelaüs called upon the chi

trating, and it fell harmless. Then Ajax seizing a huge stone, one of those that served to prop the ships, hurled it at Hecto

-known armor, struck with terror, looked everywhere for refuge. First those who had got possession of the ship and set it on

riors. The aged king threw himself at the feet of Achilles and kissed those terrible hands which had destroyed so many of his

food, the lotus-plant, to eat. The effect of this food was such that those who partook of it lost all thought of home and wi

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

ach o’er each, With restless, fierce importuning that yearned Through those brute masks some piteous tale to teach, Yet lacke

was and whence he came, and (recognizing the clothes which he wore as those which her maidens and herself had made) from whom

s those which her maidens and herself had made) from whom he received those garments. He told them of his residence in Calyps

palace and people as if they were owners of both. Penelope was one of those mythic heroines whose beauties were not those of

th. Penelope was one of those mythic heroines whose beauties were not those of person only, but of character and conduct as w

s: all times I have enjoy’d Greatly, have suffer’d greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when Thro

Anchises to receive from him a revelation of his future fortunes and those of his race, he asked her assistance to enable hi

She answered, “Those who are taken on board the bark are the souls of those who have received due burial rites; the host of o

them as judge, and examines the deeds of each. The next class was of those who had died by their own hand, hating life and s

off into retired paths, leading through groves of myrtle. Here roamed those who had fallen victims to unrequited love, not fr

chains. Æneas, horror-struck, inquired of his guide what crimes were those whose punishments produced the sounds he heard? T

are to others; the last being the most numerous class. Here also were those who had violated the marriage vow, or fought in a

he great river Po has its origin, and flows out among men. Here dwelt those who fell by wounds received in their country’s ca

r readers will remember that in the conflict with the Harpies, one of those half-human birds had threatened the Trojans with

s youth,” he said, “what can I do for thee worthy of thy praise? Keep those arms in which thou gloriest, and fear not but tha

virgin warrior, was chiefly conspicuous. Her deeds of valor surpassed those of the bravest warriors, and many Trojans and Etr

ated and eternal. In Valhalla Odin feasts with his chosen heroes, all those who have fallen bravely in battle, for all who di

contest; he therefore sends to every battle-field for the bravest of those who shall be slain. The Valkyries, Choosers of th

gave her power over nine worlds or regions, in which she distributes those who are sent to her; that is, all who die of sick

evil she had wrought of old when she espoused the cause in battle of those whom the Norns had predestined to death. Her migh

e’st thou how proud he stands, How proud he stalks, conspicuous among those warrior bands, As doth the moon far-beaming the g

ry schools, as well as to pupils. The section-numbers correspond with those of the text in the body of the book. The letter C

anslations of Greek Poets. — The best verse translations of Homer are those of Chapman, Pope, the Earl of Derby, and Cowper.

ars in harsh captivity. After his return to Spain he was neglected by those in power. For full twenty years, he struggled for

ere that of Trophonius in Bœotia and that of the Egyptian Apis. Since those who descended into the cave at Lebadea to consult

racle of Trophonius.” At Memphis the sacred bull Apis gave answer to those who consulted him, by the manner in which he rece

conceit beginning “Phœbus was judge between Jove, Mars and Love, Of those three gods, whose arms the fairest were”; Dekke

fair That made the old time splendid.” Milton, P. L. 3: 568, “Like those Hesperian gardens,” etc. See also P. L. 2, passag

cal adventure, and that must have been commonplaces of information to those who invented and perpetuated these stories. It sh

upon his writing certain treatises.” § 73. Textual. — Hyperboreans: those who dwell in the land beyond the North. Pæan, see

ts were sacred to Æsculapius, probably because of a superstition that those animals have a faculty of renewing their youth by

cules, Perseus, etc. No stories are more beautiful or more lofty than those which express the hope, innate in the human heart

finds another allegory of the baleful influence of the dog-days upon those exposed to the heat. Cox’s theory that here we ha

mistress and to earth, all nature again rejoices. The myth is akin to those of Linus, Hyacinthus, and Narcissus. Mannhardt (W

f the Spring represented the restoration of Proserpine to her mother; those of the Autumn the rape of Proserpine. An image of

gons and Medusa. Spenser, Epithalamion, “And stand astonished like to those which read Medusa’s mageful head.” Milton, P. L.

ed a race of diminutive men that correspond fairly in appearance with those mentioned by Homer. Interpretative. — All myths

e the colors and glories, the twilights and the clouds of to-day, for those of to-morrow. (See Roscher, Lex. 530-537.) The ph

erable portion of these sculptures is now in the British Museum among those known as the “Elgin marbles.” We may mention here

t such stories as the Iliad and the Odyssey must result in destroying those elements of unconscious simplicity and romantic v

in Aulis and Among the Tauri; also of Æschylus’ Agamemnon: — such as those by Milman, Anna Swanwick, Plumptre, E. A. Morshea

alder means also lord or king. On the one hand, his attributes recall those of Apollo; on the other hand, his story appeals t

he principal accent, the laws governing the principal accent apply to those preceding syllables: Cas 2-sĭ-o-pē′-a. Note. — I

., (2), above. III. Vowels and Consonants. — (These rules depend upon those of Syllabication): (1) A vowel generally has its

nd illustrative notes of the Commentary. The sections correspond with those of the Text.] A A′bas, 225. Absyr′tus, 246;

ords of myths, 35, 177. 309; studies, Com. § 15. Egyptian divinities: those (1) of Memphis were Phtha, Ra, Shu and Tefnet, Se

t, Seb and Nut, Osiris and Isis, Seth and Nephthys, Horus and Hathor; those (2) of Thebes were Amen (Ammon), Mentu, Atmu, Shu

er Yami: the first man and woman; leaving this life they prepared for those that should follow blissful abodes in the other w

tion and illustration of myths: Commentary, sections corresponding to those of the Text. Mythical musicians and poets, 23, 24

he illustrative notes of the Commentary. The sections correspond with those of the Text.] A Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719.

t land the happiest and brightest nation that the world has known. In those days men did not think of things as we do. The Gr

as he who came in the thundercloud and hurled the lightning down upon those who had done him wrong. The eagle which soared ab

and rubies, and she wore the dark robe of royalty. All the ghosts of those who are dead, and all the monsters and terrible s

s in the underworld think it the best of all seasons, for only during those months do they have their beautiful queen in thei

days men were busy saving stores for the winter which was to come. In those days there lived in the world a race of great cre

, where the gods of heaven dwell, and he knew how it cheers and warms those who have it. He knew also that the fire was sacre

om all parts of the earth. Some were young and some were old; but all those who saw Pandora and came near to the wondrous box

ust for a moment, to see what is inside? What do you suppose can make those strange, sweet sounds we hear in it sometimes?” B

indeed, but cold;    Ah, touch them with thy flame! Oh, bid her move those lips of rose,    Bid float that golden hair, And

   Breaking from his iron chain And unfolding far his pinions,    To those stars he soared again. On the morrow, When the v

lose you.” Next day Theseus was ready to set out. His grandfather and those of the court would have had him go by sea, for th

rm purpose came into his mind. “Choose but six young men,” he said to those who drew the lots, “for I will sail in the black

l maidens were led aboard the ship, and Theseus was of the number. As those on shore saw the black sails fill with wind, and

n named Chryseis, the daughter of a priest of Apollo. All captives in those days were made slaves, and in dividing up the spo

tly, hoping always to see her husband return and take control, for in those days a strong arm was needed at the head of the s

” And when Ulysses began to beg round the table, as was the custom in those days, Antinoüs, in his wrath, seized a heavy stoo

lles” are part of the common language, but their meaning is lost upon those to whom the myths from which they are derived are

premise, and continued their descent, casting stones behind them. All those thrown by Deucalion were immediately changed into

ll those thrown by Deucalion were immediately changed into men, while those cast by Pyrrha became women. Thus the earth was p

flung over her shoulder when she sallied forth to give her support to those whose cause was just.                         “H

as deft with her needle as with her sword. In Greece, there lived in those olden times a maiden by the name of Arachne. Pret

f Apollo’s favourite bird, the snowy raven, — for such was his hue in those early times, — so he flew off in haste to his mas

e, which he declared should henceforth be used to shade the graves of those who had been greatly beloved through life. The

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

ers her worshippers provided. The offerings of young lovers were ever those which found most favour in her sight. “Venus lov

is head, a sceptre and a key in hand, to show how carefully he guards those who enter his domains, and how vain are their hop

ed them roughly, and brandished his oars, while he leisurely selected those he would next ferry across the stream           

rmy stands, And press for passage with extended hands. Now these, now those , the surly boatman bore; The rest he drove to dis

t he drove to distance from the shore.” Virgil ( Dryden’s tr.). All those who could not produce the required obolus were ob

perjury, and some other minor crimes. They secured the punishment of those who had incurred their wrath in various ways, and

raptures of a god: Worthies whose lives by useful arts refined; With those who leave a deathless name behind, Friends of the

htning of the skies, And arm’d with thunder of the smallest size: Not those huge bolts, by which the giants slain, Lay overth

ll exclaimed in mingled wonder and terror at his unwonted presence in those sunlit regions: “’Tis he, ’tis he: he comes to u

dedicated to her; and any mortal rash enough to lay the axe on one of those sacred trees was sure to incur the goddess’s wrat

ich passed through the glittering gates of ivory were delusive, while those which passed through the homely gate of horn were

the carved ivory deceive With promises that never are made good; But those which pass the doors of polished horn, And are be

h fire; And he shall mount amid the stars, and be Acknowledg’d kin to those who envied thee, And sent these den-born shapes t

all the rocks were red with blood and slime, And yet my champion from those horrible jaws And dreadful coils was scathless.”

Dædalus and Icarus This labyrinth was so very intricate, that those who entered could not find their way out; and eve

to quarrel with him, and taunted him with his origin, declaring that those whom he had been accustomed to call parents were

d and punished.             “The plague, he said, should cease, When those who murder’d Laius were discover’d, And paid the

in would look on her, Never would see his crimes or mis’ries more, Or those whom guiltless he could ne’er behold, Or those to

s or mis’ries more, Or those whom guiltless he could ne’er behold, Or those to whom he now must sue for aid.” Sophocles ( Fr

hem to attack Thebes and avenge their fathers’ death. The Epigoni (or those who come after), as these youths are collectively

ody was all covered with goat’s hair, and his feet and ears were also those of a goat. Amused at the sight of this grotesque

sunshine. The lesser divinities of the sea were almost as numerous as those of the land, and included the lovely Oceanides an

; and when Orestes had attained manhood, she bade him come and punish those who had committed the crime. Orestes came, slew Æ

Polyphemus, revealing at the same time his identity. “‘Ha! Cyclops! those whom m thy rocky cave Thou, in thy brutal fury, h

from his clutches. With one blow of his trident he stirred up one of those sudden tempests whose fury nothing can withstand,

where they found Anchises, gravely considering among the unborn souls those who were destined to animate his race and make it

ory. “Anchises showed Æneas, in long line, The illustrious shades of those who were to shine One day the glory of the Italia

n, daylight, night, moon, earth, sea, clouds, fire, wind, and finally those of the underworld and of the demons of drought an

The myths of the sun, from which it is almost impossible to separate those of the dawn, are probably more numerous than any

journeys across the sky. Earth Myths In the earth myths, beside those already mentioned in connection with the sun myth

and all animate and inanimate things into existence, and who rewards those of His children who do His will, and punishes tho

, and who rewards those of His children who do His will, and punishes those who disobey His commands. That will, as interpret

th many different peoples. Since the Greeks and Romans were not among those who received the divine story of creation, they w

“Well done, son.” Jupiter so frequently addressed his son Bacchus by those words that the phrase at last became one of his n

las, was changed into the evening star. “To the ocean now I fly, And those happy climes that lie Where day never shuts his e

ll have their Manes, and their Manes bear. The few who’re cleansed to those abodes repair, And breathe in ample fields the so

god of mirth or laughter. Mone′ta [Moneta]. A name given to Juno by those writers who considered her the goddess of money.

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

various shapes, which enabled him to escape from the importunities of those who were anxious to consult him. Nes′sus [Nessus

ediately turned into stone. “Now on Dædalian waxen pinions stray, Or those which wafted Perseus on his way.” F. Lewis. Pe

was his shape, And lovely; never since of serpent kind, Lovelier; not those that in Illyria changed Hermione and Cadmus, or t

See Surya. “Sol through white curtains shot a timorous ray, And oped those eyes that must eclipse the day.” Pope. Som′nus

r purpose. I have avoided the use of an undue number of proper names, those stumbling-blocks in the pathway of a young reader

day Proserpine had eaten six pomegranate seeds; and for every one of those seeds she was doomed each year to spend a month u

ned for their dead friend. And they prepared the funeral pile, for in those days people used to burn the bodies of the dead.

, and so, after many kind parting words, he started to return through those gloomy passages, Eurydice silently following. The

angered them to have Cassiopeia compare herself with them. People in those days seem to have had very cruel ways of showing

n danger and deeds of valor. And that is how the hero came to perform those wonderful deeds known as the twelve great labors

w named Perdix, a very able young boy, who was anxious to learn to do those things which had made his uncle famous. Daedalus

, and the young people were led into the king’s presence. At sight of those comely boys and fair, trembling maidens, any hear

riadne had directed. It seemed to him that he would never come out of those dark, gloomy passages. Had the thread broken from

has such a beautiful meaning that we can forgive its length. It means those kind feelings of the heart which lead people to g

d only half a person; for, you remember, the centaurs had bodies like those of horses, and heads and shoulders like men’s. Ch

the king told many stories of brave men who had lived long ago. “Ah, those days are past,” he sighed. “Such heroes do not li

ed to play a game of quoits. Quoits was a game of which the people of those days were very fond, — as fond as boys are nowada

clops were raging about in their mountain caves, fire shot forth from those eyes, and then they looked exactly like volcanoes