e alluded to by modern poets, essayists, and orators. Our readers may thus at the same time be entertained by the most charm

lso called the “Fortunate Fields,” and the “Isles of the Blessed.” We thus see that the Greeks of the early ages knew little

he olive. Byron, in “Childe Harold,” alludes to the birth of Minerva thus : — “Can tyrants but by tyrants conquered be, And

syne, Aglaia, and Thalia. Spenser describes the office of the Graces thus : —     “These three on men all gracious gifts be

en made offerings to their Genius, women to their Juno. A modern poet thus alludes to some of the Roman gods: — “Pomona lov

l of all manner of evils, as in the former statement? The world being thus furnished with inhabitants, the first age was an

urned to its shores, and the rivers to their channels. Then Deucalion thus addressed Pyrrha: “O wife, only surviving woman,

signed to his province, may. The poet Armstrong, himself a physician, thus accounts for it: — “Music exalts each joy, allay

dress his wrong, Attend his passion and approve his song. Like Phœbus thus , acquiring unsought praise, He caught at love and

in his Legendary Ballads, has one on Cephalus and Procris, beginning thus : — “A hunter once in a grove reclined,     To sh

t would have been a less grief to have lost you altogether!” While he thus lamented, Argus, observing, came and drove her aw

ys and Oceanus, the powers of ocean, and in answer to their inquiries thus told the cause of her coming: “Do you ask why I,

ally distant from either goal, when young Actæon, son of King Cadmus, thus addressed the youths who with him were hunting th

ale, and the rest drew water in capacious urns. While the goddess was thus employed in the labors of the toilet, behold Actæ

es the clouds at sunset or at dawn came over the countenance of Diana thus taken by surprise. Surrounded as she was by her n

spection to satisfy himself of the extent of the damage. While he was thus engaged, Venus, who was sitting on Mount Eryx pla

man,     Down to a sunless sea.” In one of Moore’s juvenile poems he thus alludes to the same story, and to the practice of

scorns you scorn her; meet one who is ready to meet you half way, and thus make a due return to both at once.” To these word

time longer the vital heat.   Keats, in Endymion, alludes to Dryope thus : — “She took a lute from which there pulsing cam

return before the moon shall have twice rounded her orb.” When he had thus spoken, he ordered the vessel to be drawn out of

secure the oars, to strengthen the ship, to reef the sail. While they thus do what to each one seems best, the storm increas

r trembling hands towards it, she exclaims, “O dearest husband, is it thus you return to me?” There was built out from the s

Then levelled with the wave ——” Milton in his Hymn to the Nativity, thus alludes to the fable of the Halcyon: — “But peac

This at least I can do to gratify you and force you to praise me; and thus shall I prove that the love of you left me but wi

, nor furious winds scatter your blossoms!” When Vertumnus had spoken thus , he dropped the disguise of an old woman, and sto

tiful and precious productions of nature and art. While her eyes were thus occupied, a voice addressed her, though she saw n

stopped his flight for an instant and said, “O foolish Psyche, is it thus you repay my love? After having disobeyed my moth

holy Ceres, whose temple it was, finding her so religiously employed, thus spoke to her: “O Psyche, truly worthy of our pity

she goes to the top of a high tower to precipitate herself headlong, thus to descend the shortest way to the shades below.

y beauty at all, but an infernal and truly Stygian sleep, which being thus set free from its prison, took possession of her,

e human soul, which is purified by sufferings and misfortunes, and is thus prepared for the enjoyment of true and pure happi

ket, Which means the soul, (though few would think it,) And sparkling thus on brow so white Tells us we’ve Psyche here to-ni

, so only it might gratify Minos. As she sat in the tower, she talked thus with herself: “I know not whether to rejoice or g

re precious than gold to me, that will give me all I wish.” While she thus reasoned night came on, and soon the whole palace

and entered the enemy’s camp. She demanded to be led to the king, and thus addressed him: “I am Scylla, the daughter of Nisu

e island. Scylla was frantic. “Ungrateful man,” she exclaimed, “is it thus you leave me? — me who have given you victory, —

fixed Mine eyes till now, and pined with vain desire, Had not a voice thus warned me: ‘What thou seest, What there thou sees

he feeling of the nymph from whom it sprang.   Hood, in his Flowers, thus alludes to Clytie: — “I will not have the mad Cl

ng it.   In the beginning of the second canto of the same poem, Byron thus alludes to this story: — “The winds are high on

Art,” describing the works of art with which the palace was adorned, thus alludes to Europa: — “—— sweet Europa’s mantle b

ddess was indignant. On the Cynthian mountain top where she dwelt she thus addressed her son and daughter: “My children, I w

nerva, who fixed it in the middle of her Ægis.   Milton in his Comus thus alludes to the Ægis: — “What was that snaky-head

nd blank awe!” Armstrong, the poet of the Art of Preserving Health, thus describes the effect of frost upon the waters: —

beseech you, your name, and the name of your country, and why you are thus bound.” At first she was silent from modesty, and

e all,” said he, “give me but my life.” “Base coward,” said Perseus, “ thus much I will grant you; no weapon shall touch you;

age, slew both Laius and his attendant. The young man was Œdipus, who thus unknowingly became the slayer of his own father.

dove is another confirmation. Pope, in his Ode on St. Cecilia’s Day, thus celebrates the launching of the ship Argo, and th

casion to pay a glowing tribute to Athens, his native city. It begins thus : — “O haggard queen! to Athens dost thou guide  

ng of Alpine scenery, alludes to the story of Atalanta and Hippomenes thus : — “Even here, in this region of wonders, I find

e the stolen ones were concealed, those within began to low, and were thus discovered. Cacus was slain by Hercules. The last

. The flames spread apace and soon invested the whole mass.   Milton thus alludes to the frenzy of Hercules: — “As when Al

he earth so brought to his end. But Jupiter with cheerful countenance thus addressed them: “I am pleased to see your concern

e imaginative in some beautiful stanzas, of which the last two may be thus translated: — “Deep degraded to a coward’s slave

d town.” And in Shelley’s Prometheus Jupiter calls to his cup-bearer thus : — “Pour forth heaven’s wine, Idæan Ganymede, An

g, thinking his son had perished, put an end to his own life. Theseus thus became king of Athens. One of the most celebrated

them, astonished at the sight, and thinking they were gods who could thus cleave the air. They passed Samos and Delos on

Imitating it, he took a piece of iron and notched it on the edge, and thus invented the saw. He put two pieces of iron toget

the spot where they appeared.   Macaulay in his Lays of Ancient Rome thus alludes to the legend: — “So like they were, no

d to join his triumphal march.   Mr.  Longfellow in his Drinking Song thus describes the march of Bacchus: — “Fauns with yo

o record.   Milton in his glowing description of the early creation, thus alludes to Pan as the personification of Nature: 

much as the head has gained by the substitution. The poet Wordsworth thus strongly expresses this sentiment: —            

t it down. When he saw them hesitate he snatched an axe from one, and thus impiously exclaimed: “I care not whether it be a

s story for the subject of one of his shorter poems. He introduces it thus : — “Hear now this fairy legend of old Greece, As

rving Health, under the inspiration of Hygeia, the goddess of health, thus celebrates the Naiads. Pæon is a name both of Apo

and was changed into a fountain. Byron, in Childe Harold, Canto IV., thus alludes to Egeria and her grotto: — “Here didst

as when Zephyrus on Flora breathes, Her hand soft touching, whispered thus : ‘Awake! My fairest, my espoused, my latest found

malthea is also given by some writers to the mother of Bacchus. It is thus used by Milton, P. L., Book IV.: —              

and he resorted for aid to his mother. He stood at the river side and thus addressed her: “O mother, the pride of my life is

eptune, then regaled themselves with the feast, and after that Cyrene thus addressed him: “There is an old prophet named Pro

d addressed the youth in angry accents: “Who are you, bold youth, who thus invade my abode, and what do you want of me?” Ari

words the prophet, fixing on him his gray eyes with a piercing look, thus spoke: “You receive the merited reward of your de

t this destruction to your bees. You have to appease their anger, and thus it must be done: Select four bulls, of perfect fo

demanded to be let out, warning them also. They took his warning, and thus escaped destruction, and rewarded Melampus and he

nt. When Arion and the Dolphin parted, each to his own element, Arion thus poured forth his thanks: “Farewell, thou faithful

ized by the friend in Corinth who had expected him as a guest. “Is it thus I find you restored to me?” he exclaimed. “I who

;” etc., etc. Dr. Young, in the Night Thoughts, alludes to Endymion thus : —               “These thoughts, O night, are t

competition with Juno and Venus for the prize of beauty. It happened thus : At the nuptials of Peleus and Thetis all the god

favor. Paris decided in favor of Venus and gave her the golden apple, thus making the two other goddesses his enemies. Under

r temple.   Tennyson, in his Dream of Fair Women, makes Iphigenia thus describe her feelings at the moment of sacrifice:

y seized him and bore him off, stunned and wounded. While Neptune was thus aiding the Greeks and driving back the Trojans, J

rt broken down, the enemy among the ships preparing to burn them, and thus to cut off all means of return to Greece. While t

would not even hear me through, but slay me while I spoke.” While he thus ruminated. Achilles approached, terrible as Mars,

ther, appeared suddenly at his side. Hector saw him with delight, and thus strengthened stopped his flight and turned to mee

ee from all taint or defilement. While Achilles indulged his wrath in thus disgracing brave Hector, Jupiter in pity summoned

of Priam’s silver locks and beard, he raised him from the earth, and thus spake: “Priam, I know that thou hast reached this

chiefs were appointed to award the prize. It was awarded to Ulysses, thus placing wisdom before valor; whereupon Ajax slew

and spools for the queen’s work.   Dyer, in his poem of the Fleece, thus alludes to this incident: —                     

but no other evidence of the former existence of a great city. Byron thus describes the present appearance of the scene: —

the guise of an elephant, addressing the sorceress in human language, thus : — “I sue not for my happy crown again; I sue no

It was the saddest sight Ulysses had yet seen; to behold his friends thus sacrificed and hear their cries, unable to afford

ury brought the message to her, and found her in her grotto, which is thus described by Homer: — “A garden vine, luxuriant

dreadful leap,     Stern Mentor urged from high to yonder tide; While thus of both bereft the nymph-queen doubly sighed.”

ed away. Neptune was so displeased at the conduct of the Phæacians in thus rescuing Ulysses from his hands that on the retur

VIII. Lord Carlisle, in his Diary in the Turkish and Greek Waters, thus speaks of Corfu, which he considers to be the anc

el. One of them, perched on a neighboring cliff, screamed out, “Is it thus , Trojans, you treat us innocent birds, first slau

company to the opposite shore. But the Sibyl rebuked him for the wish thus to transgress the laws of Pluto; but consoled him

athered from the trees the names and fates of individuals. The leaves thus inscribed were arranged in order within the cave,

, and loaded with gifts and friendly messages. Juno, seeing things go thus prosperously for the Trojans, felt her old animos

ce with wrappers of bark, and poising the weapon in his upraised hand thus addressed Diana: “Goddess of the woods! I consecr

iny brought me hither, an exile from my native land, Arcadia.” Having thus said, he showed him the Tarpeian rock, and the ru

s faithful Achates, and, Pallas soon joining them, the old king spoke thus : — “Illustrious Trojan, it is but little we can d

ne for mortal ears to recognize. Milton, in his Hymn to the Nativity, thus alludes to the music of the spheres: — “Ring out

ave invented the lyre. Our own poet Longfellow, in Verses to a Child, thus relates the story: — “As great Pythagoras of yor

ards eating the whole of it in a single day. The mode of his death is thus related: As he was passing through a forest he sa

o born among     The flowers that on the Nile-stream blush, Sits ever thus , — his only song     To Earth and Heaven, ‘Hush a

l organization, and taught them how to worship the gods. After he had thus made the valley of the Nile a happy country, he a

ump somewhat in the shape of a scarabæus or beetle. As soon as a bull thus marked was found by those sent in search of him,

chasm whence the divine afflatus proceeded. Her inspired words while thus situated were interpreted by the priests. Orac

tion which Homer gives in the first book of the Iliad, in the passage thus translated by Pope: — “He spoke and awful bends

ken most of our stories of Grecian and Roman mythology. A late writer thus characterizes these poems: — “The rich mythology

yment of the banquet to the royal monster. The Roman naturalist Pliny thus describes him: “He does not impel his body, like

f the proclamation of a Constitutional Government at Naples, in 1820, thus uses an allusion to the basilisk: — “What though

me was applied to all orders of magicians and enchanters. Wordsworth thus alludes to the worship of the Persians: —       

ence and a God.” Excursion, Book IV. In Childe Harold, Byron speaks thus of the Persian worship: —     “Not vainly did th

the high places and the peak     Of earth-o’er-gazing mountains, and thus take     A fit and unwalled temple, there to seek

Northern Mythology. The stories which have engaged our attention thus far relate to the mythology of southern regions.

to the forest, which obliged the man also to run after his horse, and thus between one and another the whole night was lost,

elevated spot, in honor of the sun, whose returning beneficence they thus welcomed after the gloom and desolation of winter

heir forefathers were celebrated. These were apparently in verse, and thus constituted part of the poetry as well as the his

is thought to imitate in its sound the galloping of horses. It may be thus translated —  “Then struck the hoofs of the steed

ightful, in glory flew out.” Aristophanes ( Frere’s tr.). The Earth thus created was supposed by the ancients to be a disc

them, and even condescended to share their feasts and games. A people thus favoured could not fail to be happy, and many wer

Isles of the Blest, where mortals who had led virtuous lives, and had thus found favour in the sight of the gods, were trans

s power, he hastened to his wife, determined to devour the child, and thus prevent him from causing further annoyance. Wholl

each of his brothers the privilege of drawing his own share. Neptune thus obtained control over the sea and all the rivers,

e bird slept, Prometheus’ suffering abated, and the liver grew again, thus prolonging the torture, which bade fair to have n

n size, dignity of attitude, or elaborate finish.     “Wise Phidias, thus his skill to prove, Through many a god advanc’d t

d sea proclaimed the advent of a great divinity. The goddess, who had thus joined the inhabitants of Olympus, was destined t

ery first glance Arachne was forced to acknowledge her failure. To be thus outstripped, after all her proud boasts, was humi

n, seized one of his thunderbolts, hurled it at the clever youth, and thus brought to an untimely end his brilliant medical

y, illustrating the sun’s power to dry up marshes and stagnant pools, thus preventing the lurking fiend malaria from making

ed long, before Zephyrus, god of the south wind, passing by, saw them thus occupied. Jealous of Apollo, for he too loved Hya

ravished his ear.” Saxe. No living being had ever before penetrated thus into the Infernal Regions, and Orpheus wandered o

n. Nothing was now left to remind mortals of the sweet singer who had thus perished, except his lute, which the gods placed

were warm would stay out all night with them. On one occasion he had thus seen the Muses dancing round the fountain of Hipp

starvation. The Muses, however, would not suffer their servant to die thus miserably, and they sent some bees with honey, wh

l seemed to prevent his giving any sign of consciousness. Time passed thus . Diana, who could not bear to think of the youth’

oung hunter. Speechless with indignation that a mortal had beheld her thus , she caught some water in her hollow palm, flung

st the mischief-loving god immediately obeyed. An undying passion was thus simultaneously kindled in both young hearts; and,

dulging his caprice for every pretty face he met along his way. It is thus , therefore, that he yielded to the charms of Maia

nd, sweeping his hands over them, produced strains of sweetest music, thus inventing the first lyre.                       

, flew down to earth, brushing the cloud aside in her haste. Jupiter, thus warned of her coming, had but time to change the

ion, which request he could not refuse, but granted most reluctantly, thus adding further confirmation to her jealous fears.

nt; Mercury is the rain, whose advent blots out the stars one by One, thus killing Argus, who else was never known to close

ars prevailed upon Apollo and Diana to use their poisoned arrows, and thus rid the world of these two ugly and useless giant

whose waters had the power to make one forget all unpleasant things, thus preparing the good for a state of endless bliss i

e sole survivor, Lynceus, to avenge his brothers’ death, slew Danaus, thus fulfilling the ominous prophecy; while the gods,

the rock would slip from his grasp and roll to the foot of the hill, thus obliging him to renew all his exertions. “With m

ully, she assumed the face and form of Beroe, Semele’s old nurse, and thus entered the young princess’s apartment quite unsu

the cultivation of the vine and the art of making wine. He travelled thus , it is said, throughout Greece and Asia Minor, an

tendrils with lightning-like velocity around oars, mast, and rigging, thus transforming the vessel into a floating arbour. T

, Metaneira, who had thought it somewhat imprudent to leave the child thus alone with a stranger, now stole noiselessly into

en, in view of port, untied the sack to investigate its contents, and thus set free the angry winds, who stirred up the most

es caught them fast by the neck in each tiny hand and strangled them, thus giving the first proof of the marvellous strength

in the sky as the constellation of Cancer (the Crab). The country was thus freed from its long state of thraldom; but, befor

l Hercules, with his usual strength and skill, caught and bound fast, thus finishing the sixth task. The Steeds of Diomed

about for some safe mode to transport Deianeira across. While he was thus considering, a Centaur by the name of Nessus came

him with her own mirror like shield, the dreadful Ægis.     “Minerva thus to Perseus lent her shield; Secure of conquest, s

objects were clearly reflected on its smooth, mirror like surface. He thus discovered Medusa asleep, raised his sword, and,

d all who tried to pass him to wash his feet. While the traveller was thus engaged, and knelt in the narrow pathway to do hi

ible, save his country from further similar exactions. “While Attica thus groan’d, with ills opprest; His country’s wrongs

t. He had already grown weary of Ariadne’s love; and, when he saw her thus asleep, he basely summoned his companions, embark

o Hades, where they intended to carry off Proserpina. While they were thus engaged, Helen’s twin brothers, Castor and Pollux

ch of Cerberus he delivered Theseus from his unpleasant position, and thus enabled him to return to his own home, where he n

e certain that the rash youth would lose his life in the attempt, and thus cause no more trouble, with much difficulty restr

ying it aside, announced her intention to keep it for ever. Meleager, thus saved from an untimely death by his mother’s pres

servants. They immediately attacked the murderer, who slew them all, thus unconsciously accomplishing the first part of the

sign the throne to Polynices for an equal space of time, each brother thus exercising the royal authority in turn. This arra

.). Ismene, the last of Œdipus’ unfortunate race, died of grief, and thus the prophecy was fully accomplished. The Theban w

aughter, Philonoe, and was afraid he would never see her again. While thus inwardly bewailing the ill-luck which had persist

exquisite story is told of Rhœcus, who saved an oak from falling, and thus preserved the life of the Hamadryad within the tr

the death of his family and the downfall of his native city. Although thus cruelly treated, he had not perished, having been

ed invulnerable. Premising that her son would be a great warrior, and thus exposed to great danger, she plunged him wholly i

plague would never cease until Agamemnon surrendered his captive, and thus disarmed Apollo’s wrath, which had been kindled b

sed to his side meanwhile, and, all in tears, Clung to his hand, and, thus beginning, said: —      ‘Too brave! thy valour ye

arewell embrace, sprang into his chariot and drove away. “Sorrow not thus , beloved one, for me. No living man can send me t

  “Send me at least into the war, And let me lead thy Myrmidons, that thus The Greeks may have some gleam of hope. And give

r should fall by another’s hand, or withdraw from the battlefield and thus escape his vengeance, Achilles would have rushed

stole behind him and shot a poisoned arrow into his vulnerable heel, thus slaying the hero who had caused so many brave war

oast oxen whole, and to indulge in games and revelry. While they were thus employed and entirely off their guard, the neighb

Raphael. Anderson, Photo. Polyphemus once accidentally came upon them thus , ere they were aware of his proximity. For a mome

wretch And his vile crew r’” Homer ( Bryant’s tr.). Ulysses, having thus escaped, sprang to his feet, set his companions f

strangers sheltered by thy roof, Jove and the other gods avenge them thus ! …………………………………………… Cyclops, if any man of mortal

m a leathern bag containing all the contrary winds, which Ulysses was thus at liberty to retain imprisoned until he had safe

uring wood, where he fell asleep on a bed of dry leaves. While he was thus resting, Minerva visited Nausicaa, daughter of Al

                                    “Three full years She practised thus , and by the fraud deceived The Grecian youths.”

ul of the new kingdom he was destined to found. One whole year passed thus ; and the gods, impatient of delay, finally sent M

he midst of the flames, and there stabbed herself. “‘Yet let me die: thus , thus I go Exulting to the shades below. Let the

st of the flames, and there stabbed herself. “‘Yet let me die: thus, thus I go Exulting to the shades below. Let the false

ented by Alecto, soon developed into a bloody war. Hostilities having thus begun, Turnus, with the various Latin chiefs, imm

ds fast,” — a creature who had imprisoned the rain in the clouds, and thus caused great distress. Urged on by unrelenting fa

she returns to her husband and her allegiance. The siege of Troy has thus been interpreted to signify “a repetition of the

nskrit Dahana, or ahana (meaning “the light of daybreak”), and we are thus enabled to understand why the Greeks described he

and Jupiter, 41; lent to Perseus, 211; bears Medusa’s head, 216 Æ-gis′ thus . Murderer of Agamemnon; slain by Orestes, 299 Æg′

ces, 4; causes man’s creation, 14; man’s life given by, 1 5 Er-y-man′ thus . Place where Hercules slew the wild boar, 192 Er

as Centimani, 7 Hup′nos. Same as Somnus, god of sleep, 179 Hy-a-cin′ thus . Youth loved by Apollo and Zephyrus; changed to a

f Mars and Ilia; twin brother of Romulus, 1 1 9, 120, 339 Rhad-a-man′ thus . Son of Jupiter and Europa; judge in Hades, 32, 1

; took part in Argonautic expedition, and drove away Harpies, 186 Ze′ thus . Twin brother of Amphion; son of Jupiter and Anti

, their merit ; for to nothing else can it be justly ascribed. I have thus the satisfaction of thinking that I shall be inst

o get some one to write a cheaper and better work on the subject, and thus punish cupidity while respecting the rights of pr

efused the present work, they enabled me to give it to the world, and thus lay the foundation of a moderate independence ; a

za. The original seems to have been Sidney's Arcadia, which commences thus  : — «It was in the time that the earth begins to

or partial ignorance of the Deity, their belief in many gods may have thus commenced. They saw around them various changes b

Strife, Prayers, which are strictly speaking such. When a people had thus formed for themselves a System of gods so like to

the garb of symbol, mythe, and allegory ; and the legends which they thus devised form no inconsiderable portion of the var

nged into the lake and dashed through the side of the mountain Sactá, thus forming the passage through which the waters flow

sea ; and when the metaphor came to be understood literally, persons thus spoken of may have been looked upon as children o

ed them with all the embellishments a lively fancy could bestow ; and thus at a period long anterior to that at which her hi

we may call it, of the gods together, began to be employed63. It was thus that the wine-god Dionysos was made one with the

nflicts withe the supporters of the ancient religion. While Euhemerus thus fixed on an imaginary island in the Eastern ocean

ously dwelt dispersedly, into towns, and taught them agriculture, and thus reformed their manners. He gradually reduced unde

his sway the greater part of the world. By study of the heavens, and thus learning to foretell the celestial phænomena, he

of the human soul. The Fathers of the Church laid hold on the weapons thus presented to them, to defend the new and attack t

t the legends of the temples and the traditions of the people. He has thus preserved a number of mythic narratives unnoticed

pal authorities for the contents of the following pages. We have been thus succinct on the present occasion, as it is our in

ge, they write for the people, who still retain old prejudices. It is thus that in the poets of the Augustan age we shall fi

ne Tartaros. The length of the diameter of the hollow sphere is given thus by Hesiod94. It would take, he says, nine days fo

indar113 appears to reduce the number of these happy isles to one. We thus see that the Greeks of the early ages knew little

d encompassed the middle of it like a rim. The armillary sphere would thus give us an idea of the Homeric world. The portion

he Milesian colonies on the shores of the Euxine, and the intercourse thus opened with the interior of Asia, led to the supp

…expanse of liquid, pure, Transparent, elemental air. Creation being thus completed, the Universe consisted of Heaven, Hell

sisted of Heaven, Hell, Chaos, and the World with its contents. It is thus that the most imaginative of modern poets, as we

and other luminaries and light-beings ; and the material world being thus completed, Kronos and Rhea give birth to the gods

the gods, and Iapetos becomes the father of men154. Their task being thus completed, and the earth replenished with its fit

atin poets ever allude to the cup. The park and gardens of Helios are thus richly described by Claudian211 : Thus having sa

ragrant herbs351. When offended, they usually remitted their wrath if thus appeased352. The Homeric gods have all different

tenances were formed of various metals. That of Hera, for example, is thus described364 : Then Hebe quickly to the chariot

the supreme power was freely conferred on him by his brothers, and he thus became the acknowledged head of the Olympian gods

e fled the love of the god, but that he came riding on a dolphin, and thus won her affection ; and for his service he placed

ment of the rude natives), the knowledge of the horse and of Poseidôn thus came together, and they were therefore associated

ermes, the conductor of souls482, was familiar to the Egyptians ; and thus they appropriated all the mythic ideas of Greece.

, as also were the images, and the whole was set on fire, and a flame thus raised which was visible to a great distance531.

iera, and directs his men the Cyclopes to execute the order584. It is thus that mythology changes with modes of life. Hephæs

ythian Apollo, the manner of his first getting possession of Pytho is thus related. When Apollo resolved to choose the site

ymn sung to him on the cessation of a plague, or after a victory, was thus named. The name Phœbos-Apollo is generally regard

have also sung the huntress-goddess : one of them in his hymn to her thus describes her occupations672 : Along the shady h

Deathless far The best in counsel and in numerous deeds. Callimachus thus relates the early history of the goddess673. Arte

of her nymphs with mud, so that he was unable to distinguish her, and thus was foiled. Finally she was converted into the co

enger to her father to treat of the marriage and the dower. But while thus speaking, the artful goddess filled the heart of

f the attributes of Hera, (who was also identified with Astarte), and thus becoming the patroness of marriage762. It was pro

to be perfectly fitted for an enduring union with the divinity. It is thus explained by the Christian mythologist Fulgentius

find them in intimate union in the mythic system of Attica. Homer800 thus describes Pallas-Athene arraying herself in the a

terpretation of Pallas Athenæe appears to be ‘Athenian Maid,’ and she thus forms a parallel to the ‘Eleusinian Maid’ (Κόρα),

rish mind and artful disposition838.’ One of the last of the Homerids thus sang the story of the birth and first exploits of

ends or treasure-trove were ascribed to him862. The rural deity, when thus become active, sly, and eloquent, was well adapte

various forms enabled her father to sell her over and over again, and thus obtain the means of living after all his property

the mares of Oncos ; but the seagod assumed the form of a horse, and thus accomplished his wishes. The produce of their uni

celebrated steed Areiôn ; and from the anger of the goddess at being thus abused she was named Erinnys899. It was also a pa

general to the system of philosophy which he had embraced923. It was thus that Porphyrius conceived the Hierophant to repre

ed as connected in some way with the water the poet would hardly have thus represented them, as the humour would not have be

f Oceanos. It is evidently the Rainbow (ἴρις) that is meant, which is thus personified in the usual theogonic manner. There

nstruct mankind in the culture of the vine and other useful arts. And thus the knowledge of the vine came to Greece, from a

e would visit her as he was wont to visit Hera. An unwary promise was thus drawn from the god before he knew what he was req

s Abaris, Aristeas, Onomacritus of Locris, and Epimenides, our author thus proceeds : “Meantime Egypt, the parent of superst

Dorians afterwards came and settled to the south of that river ; and thus the coast of Asia was occupied to a considerable

ters, whom Herodotus found there two centuries afterwards1162. We may thus see at once how in a space of two hundred years,

stinction. So late as the days of the Ptolemies, Theocritus1174 could thus allude to the treatment which he sometimes there

treams1202. The connexion between Silenos and Dionysos and the Naïdes thus becomes easy of explanation, all being deities re

he fount from which he was wont to drink, intoxicated him, and he was thus captured1205. Midas put various questions to him

he memory of many agreeable hours, we certainly feel a partiality, we thus expressed ourselves on the subject of the Nymphs.

offered to them. In another part of the poem1233 their sacred cave is thus described : But at the harbour’s head a long-lea

s, and there Men enter not, but ‘tis the Immortals’ path. Yet though thus exalted in rank, the Homeric Nymphs frequently ‘b

eir associate-tree. In the Argonautics of Apollonius Rhodius, Phineus thus explains to the heroes the cause of the poverty o

them green hair, and turning their lower parts into those of a fish ; thus giving them a form exactly corresponding with the

it also ; immediately on his doing so he followed their example, and thus became a sea-god. It was also said1272 that he ob

the eye as they were handing it from the one to the other, and having thus blinded the guards was enabled to come on the Gor

, that it in no point accords with the description in the poem. It is thus that the Thunder, Lightning, and Flame of the The

ars of his companions with wax, and had himself tied to the mast, and thus was the only person who heard the song of the Sir

with noxious juices the water in which Scylla was wont to bathe, and thus transformed her into a monster1399. According to

the West-sea, far remote from all the other isles and coasts ; and he thus brought his hero into all parts of that sea, and

s the question man naturally asks himself. Has the world ever gone on thus decaying and renewing ? — and he carries back his

parts of the flesh as elsewhere1465 ; the latter mythe may be perhaps thus explained. The first men lived in a state of blis

acles coming thither opened a passage for the Eagle into the sea, and thus freed the captive monarch1470. The name of Promet

ena to make images of clay, on which he caused the winds to blow, and thus gave them life1473. A third said that Prometheus

he secretly applied his ferula to the wheel of the Sun’s chariot and thus stole some of the fire, which he then applied to

some of the fire, which he then applied to the breast of his man and thus animated him. Zeus, to punish Prometheus, bound h

clapped down the lid just in time to prevent the escape of Hope, who thus remained with man, his chief support and comfort.

of one period was not unfrequently the god of a preceding one, and he thus became a god once more in the eyes of posterity.

to the mythology of Thessaly, others to that of the Peloponnese, and thus seem to indicate a close connexion in the mythic

she effected this change in Iasôn himself1546, and Æschylus that she thus renewed the Hyades, the nurses of Dionysos, and t

he committed the charge of it to Bunos, and went to Colchis. It would thus appear that the whole mythe of Æetes and Medeia i

s watched, and seeing the child panting in the fire cried out. Thetis thus frustrated in her design left her babe, and retur

have been a Centauress, married to the prince of the Lapiths1602, and thus accounts for the Centaurs having been at the wedd

nine occupations, and passed her days in hunting the wild beasts, and thus protecting the cattle of her father. One day as s

n, and having by her a son named Aristæos. The mythe of Actæôn may be thus explained. On the summit of Pelion stood a temple

. One account1657 said that Artemis threw a stag's-hide over him, and thus caused the error of his dogs, and this might refe

y her four children, Leucôn, Erythroe, Schœneus, and Ptoös1660. It is thus that we find this important mythe related by Apol

s is also said to have fallen by the arrows of Apollo. This legend is thus noticed in the Odyssey1672 : As when Pandareos’

ith wine for him ; but when he perceived the heir-looms of his family thus set before him, he raised his hands and prayed th

od, observing two serpents similarly engaged, he killed the male, and thus returned to his pristine state. On some occasion

the heads were cut off, effectually checked their growth1742. Having thus got rid of the mortal heads, Heracles cut off the

eek colonists of the places which are made the scene of them. We have thus given a sketch of the theory of this most able my

tural treachery, tied her by the feet to the stern of his vessel, and thus dragged her along till she was drowned1828. Anoth

s1868. Autolycos forthwith cultivated the acquaintance of one who had thus proved himself too able for him ; and Sisyphos, i

violated his daughter Anticleia (who afterwards married Laertes), and thus was the real father of Odysseus1869. Homer calls

nd that apparently under a beneficent point of view. Müller therefore thus explains the mythe1958. The parched land of Argos

fection as to be able to restore life to the dead. He is said to have thus recalled from the nether-world Capaneus and Lycur

t. The herdsman, missing his dog and goat, went in search of them. He thus discovered the babe, and on approaching to take i

took him she was to kill him, if not he was to win her hand. Many had thus run and perished, and their heads were fixed roun

by him the art of reading futurity in the entrails of victims, and he thus became an excellent soothsayer2029. Meanwhile his

h to be the son of Thyestes put him to death, and the curse of Pelops thus began to be accomplished2079. Another legend thus

the curse of Pelops thus began to be accomplished2079. Another legend thus accounts for the enmity between the brothers. Her

from west to east. This miracle Zeus performed in his favour, and he thus obtained the kingdom and drove Thyestes into exil

pin in his heel, and let the ichôr run out from his only vein, and he thus died2099. The bull which Poseidôn had sent out of

nse of others, seem to have joined her with their Theseus, and it was thus perhaps that she became the daughter of Minôs. Th

ists the characters of the Minoïc family suffered severely. Though we thus see in the Cretan cycle only personifications of

stellations as they appear in the sky, and beyond all doubt they were thus named long before they were converted into a hunt

s it, (for twelve days, says Pindar) launched it on lake Tritonis and thus entered the Mediterranean. It being afterwards pr

ce, have been regarded as those of Trojan and Achæan chiefs2242 ; and thus the war may have finally acquired the magnitude a

he people of the far-off Alybe are named Odios and Epistrophos. It is thus that significant names are given to the Centaurs,

ary writers, and becomes as true as that of any other people. We have thus seen that the heroes, like the gods, of Greece we

ife” — “of a fish.” The deity smiled, and said that his weapons might thus be averted, and promised a sign at sun-rise the f

Ceres. Ceres was the goddess who presided over corn and tillage, thus corresponding with the Grecian Demeter. Her templ

that it was the Cyclopes and Hundred-handed alone whom Uranos treated thus . Völcker (Myth. der Jap. 283.) says the Titans we

. 413. The Greek ζ is frequently d in the corresponding Latin term ; thus ῥίζα, radix, ὄζω, odor. See Müller, Proleg. 289.

end is only to be found in Ovid (Met. xi. 153. seq.). 648. Herodotus thus justly names him. See below, chap. xvi. Silenos.

arrows as tipt with flowers. The arrows of Cama, the Hindoo Eros, are thus pointed. 777. Paus. i. 30. 1. Plut. Amat. 20. 7

r on its hinges, as his statue was placed at the door. 862. What was thus found was called ἕρμαιον. When Lucian’s Timôn com

. 1095. Sch. Aristoph. Birds, 873. Lys. 388. Wasps, 9. 1096. It was thus that there was a great resemblance observed betwe

s a plain. Slade is frequently employed in the Poly-Olbion of Drayton thus  : Through the slades where beauteous Severn plays

ope gave name to the city afterwards called Neapolis (Naples). Milton thus alludes to these names of the Sirens : By Thetis

re nearly the saine. 1525. Pind. Ol. ii. 2, 3. Herodotus (iii. 122.) thus distinguishes between Minôs and Polycrates. 1526

s νησαία. 1858. The daughter of the governor of the castle of Abydos thus betrayed it to the Turks. In the Shâh-Nâmeh, Meli

singly told by Ovid (Met. vii. 517. seq.), who says that the isle was thus replenished after a pestilence. It is indebted fo

everything relating to Ægina, see Müller's Æginetica. 2118. Hecatæus thus named the Aoös in Illyria. Strabo, vii. 5. 2119.

ribed at length by Theocritus, Idyll. xxii. 2157. Others said he was thus punished for having revealed the will of Zeus to

above, p. 487. 2230. Od. iii. 276. seq. 2231. Od. iv. 81. seq. We thus see that Menelaos visited all the eastern as Odys

r Fictions’ (p. 164.) we should have said, “The circumstance of a son thus slain by his father, etc.” for the subject of the

some other as picturesque a form, win her he sought for his own: and thus , every class of society, from the patrician to th

005 The stars were the first recipients of the homage of mankind; and thus Heaven is the most ancient of the Gods. As the wo

hard, and light with heavy mix’d.     But God, or Nature, while they thus contend, To these intestine discords put an end:

ed monarch fell beneath his son’s parricidal hand; and from the blood thus shed sprang the Giants and the Furies, rendering

dered by the Egyptians to both animals and vegetables. ‌ Typhon, who thus , by his mere appearance, seemed to turn the tide

who thus, by his mere appearance, seemed to turn the tide of war, is thus described: ———— “Typhon, whose hands Of strength

e preyed upon his entrails, which grew as fast as they were devoured, thus subjecting him to a never dying torture. ———— “A

thin thy labyrinthine veins, Crawling like agony.     Pro. Why use me thus now, Yet am I king over my self’s rule, The tortu

d the gods Pandora call, Because a tribute she received from all; And thus ’twas Jove’s command the sex began A lovely misch

led Juno, the virtuous wife. A statue of Juno recently discovered, is thus described: — “The countenance expresses a stern

p she strives, Hell’s grizzly monarch at the shades arrives; Sees her thus sporting on the flowery green, And loves the bloo

ng on the brink, Stooped at the fresh repast, prepared to drink: Then thus , being hindered by the rabble race, In accents mi

e spring of Hippocrene to gush from the ground. While the courser was thus occupied, Apollo mounted his back, placed the Mus

r, in process of time, were translated into heaven. When Bacchus, for thus was he ‌named, had grown out of their guidance, S

ves surveyed, And seemed to weep, and as he wept he said, ‘And do you thus my easy faith beguile? Thus, do you bear me to my

rings. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img075 A marriage thus assorted, however, was not likely to prove a happ

   In utter misery down. “And what the sorrow, then I asked.     Can thus the warrior move, To scorn his meed of victory?  

h disregard the complaint of Mars against his favourite daughter, and thus upbraided him: “‘To me, perfidious! this lamenti

s. But then to think upon the hearts that grieve. For those who peril thus their lives in war, The misery that sweeps along

upon his head he wore, And then began her pity to implore. But ere he thus began, she took her flight, So swift she was alre

 I pursued a maiden and clasped a reed; Gods and men were all deluded thus ,     It breaks in our bosom and then we bleed: Al

ome crone he seems, A staff supplying the defect of limbs: Admittance thus he gains; admires the store Of fairest fruit; the

Peleon with great pomp, at which all the deities attended. “Proteus thus to virgin Thetis said, ‘Fair goddess of the waves

, the present, and the future shows;‌ So Neptune pleased who Proteus thus inspired, And with such wages to his service hire

and oaths to make her soon his bride, She wept a flood of tears, and thus replied. ‘I see my error, yet to ruin move, Nor o

tal flood: Your father’s life and health are in your hand, And can ye thus , like idle gazers stand? Unless you are of common

s. They nought avail me. Theseus. Greece will not suffer thee to die thus rashly. Hercules. Now hear me whilst my argument

or now his bridal charge employed his cares. The strong limbed Nessus thus officious cried, For he the shallows of the strea

a mirror to reflect the object he sought to destroy. Keeping his eyes thus fixed upon them, he approached, Minerva supportin

crowned the deep ascent: His bones a solid, rocky hardness gained: He thus immensely grown (as fate ordained), The stars, th

oy, was, however, quickly interrupted: for Phineus, dissatisfied with thus losing his promised bride, entered the palace wit

nvict of sin he turn’d his eyes aside; With suppliant mien to Perseus thus he prays, ‘Hence with the head, as far as winds a

quoit which he had thrown in the air: this proved to be Acresius, who thus met the fate the oracle had decreed, and to avoid

for Androgeos dead. The flower of Athens were compelled to bleed, For thus the cruel oracle decreed, Till Theseus; to preser

u doubt me father?     The. Perfidious wretch! can’st stand before me thus ? Monster too long escaped Jove’s fearful thunder,

raight path of her duty.     The. And dost thou think that thou canst thus deceive me? Away, away, no more pollute my court;

ert thou not called my son, thy time were short.’” Racine. Banished thus from the court of his father, the only consolatio

sérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img210 The condition being thus broken, he saw her, but at the same moment she wa

and Thebes Thou will’st it!’ While to heaven his eyes he raised, And thus exclaimed, his sword he onward thrust: The hoveri

of the ‌infamy of her mother, and the cause of her father’s death, is thus beautifully described: — “Iphigenia. Father! I n

id. Aga. Ye Gods who govern here! do human pangs Reach the pure soul thus far below? do tears Spring in these meadows? Iph

Admire it in the sceptre and the sword. What then can make you speak thus rapidly And briefly? in your step thus hesitate?

. What then can make you speak thus rapidly And briefly? in your step thus hesitate? Are you afraid to meet among the good I

ear, Taunting sad Charon for his slow advance. Iphigenia! Iphig. Why thus turn away? Calling me with such fondness! I am he

d wandering in my fondness?                 We are shades!! Groan not thus deeply; blight not thus the season Of full orbed

ss?                 We are shades!! Groan not thus deeply; blight not thus the season Of full orbed gladness! Shades we are

them disdained the gems, and seized a sword! — It was Achilles! — who thus betrayed his manly inclinations. Insérer image an

and angry eyes. ‘Then is it vain in Jove himself to trust? And is it thus the Gods assist the just? When crimes provoke us,

k, that moment all Her yet surviving heroes seemed to fall. Patroclus thus , so many chiefs o’erthrown, So many lives effused

d out, and Telegonus not knowing him, ran him through with his lance, thus fulfilling the prophecy of the soothsayer. Æne

aping wound, Then her warm lips to the cold face applied — ‘And is it thus , ah! thus we meet,’ she cried My Pyramus, whence

d, Then her warm lips to the cold face applied — ‘And is it thus, ah! thus we meet,’ she cried My Pyramus, whence sprang thy

smissing the body guards who usually attended upon the Roman Emperor, thus showing he had no distrust of his subjects. His g

moment and the dread eclipse was ended, But, at the thought of nature thus suspended,     The sweat on Seeva’s forehead stoo

to keep the commandments. Those persons to whom God revealed himself thus were all of one nation; they were the Hebrews, an

nd. Terror is one of Jove’s principal attributes. Homer describes him thus : He whose all-conscious eyes the world behold, T

pressed his unalterable will. Jupiter, in Homer, answers a petitioner thus : Depart in peace, secure thy prayer is sped, Wit

e Roman poet, represents Jove’s power over nature, with great efiect, thus ; Great Jove himself, whom dreadful darkness shro

on earth, and detested in heaven. In the Iliad, Jupiter addresses him thus : Of all the gods that tread the spangled skies,

the middle of a single perforation through which they looked. Virgil thus describes the Cyclops at their work Amid the Hes

ighted on the dazzled field. Botanic Garden. The Egis was not often thus employed, — it was only used to affright the bad.

of houses,) being in fear that the goddess would fall into contempt, thus admonished the Ephesians: “Not alone at Ephesus,

brutes. Milton, the British poet describes the effect of their music thus :                     Circe and the sirens three,

which makes its appearance immediately upon the abatement of storms; thus they were ignorantly presumed to be the cause of

he poet Virgil describes the descent of the hero Eneas into hell, and thus it appears to him. Now to the left Eneas darts h

he government of his kingdom. When Eurystheus heard that Hercules was thus exalted, he commanded him to appear at Mycenæ and

were separated by a space of eighteen miles. The promontory of Africa thus produced, was Mount Abyla; that of Spain, where G

man. Rude and ignorant people, when they first behold a man and horse thus coupled, imagine them to be one being. From a mis

aws, and then assisted him in taming the bulls, etc. The fleece being thus obtained, Jason, as he had promised, took Medea f

e water-side to look at the Argo, a beam fell on his head, and he was thus killed. Who was Jason? From what place did Jason

eard the riddle, he instantly perceived its meaning, and explained it thus : — Man, in the morning of life, walks upon his ha

ain from looking at her till she should be come to upper air. Orpheus thus satisfied, proceeded to the region of day, and Eu

lace, and sacrificed accordingly. The mythologists explain this story thus : they say Diana had compassion upon the innocent

city, and admitted the Greek troops, who were concealed without; and thus Troy was taken, after a siege of ten years. Anoth

among them; and, in despite of his habiliment, chose the armour, and thus discovered his sex. Achilles then felt himself in

ccasion forms the principal subject of Homer’s Iliad, which commences thus , in Pope’s translation: Achilles’ wrath, to Gre

erer owed, And ill he pays the promise of a god, If yon proud monarch thus thy son defies, Obscures my glory and resumes my

f, but Hecuba detained him in the temple of Jupiter. While Hecuba was thus endeavouring to save her aged husband, their son

ra was murdered by those who accomplished the death of Agamemnon, and thus ended the race of the Dardan kings. So horrible a

reign of Patala, or the infernal regions; the king of serpents. He is thus described in the Bhagavat, a sacred Hindu poem. H

n. Temples, in honour of the sun, now exist in India. One of these is thus described: “The walls were of red marble, intersp

at Salsette, and in the small isle of Elephanta near Bombay, which is thus denominated from the figure of a large elephant a

trine, and the Persian worship, has been described by an English poet thus : ––––––––––––––––– Robed in purest white The Mag

 it required human sacrifices, and they were accounted happy who were thus offered to the gods. The Mexicans, like the Greek

olemnly observed by the Romans. Tacitus describes the ceremony nearly thus : “Upon the 2lst of July, being a clear day, the

the criminal would not be suffered to escape from his asylum, and was thus famished to death. Besides the protection afforde

upon the hearth, and by his looks express his forlorn condition; and thus appeal to the pity of the family which surrounded

not characterized by a marked difference of expression.” The figures thus exhibited give a most correct notion of the fashi

were Christ should be born, they answered, in Bethlehem of Judea, for thus it was written by the prophet . It appears from a

that time; and they did not hold God in suitable reverence when they thus used dishonestly and lightly to call upon him. Al

eir hands and feet in, when they went to do service in the sanctuary; thus to intimate, by outward purity, that “clean heart

heard. Suddenly the music ceased, and a voice from some unseen person thus addressed her: “Fear not, beautiful Psyche, I am

that attitude the afflicted Psyche related her history, and concluded thus : “Gracious goddess! I perceive in the precincts o

ry, unhappy Psyche, to reject thy prayer. I know that Venus is wrong, thus to afflict thee; but she is my daughter-in-law. I

hinder them. The people, who lived in the country about Athens, were thus forced to remove to the town for safety, and even

on return to you, if it be the will of the gods.” While Philomela was thus urging the consent of her father, she tenderly pr

Acteon, as usual, desired to know the meaning of it, which her mother thus explained. Mother. The grove consecrated to Dian

where we are safe, but we can almost always think before we act, and thus may prevent bad consequences of our own conduct.

us; he disposes us to these extravagances. They were intoxicated, and thus they excused their folly. Agave and her sisters d

bitterly for the undeserved death of Pentheus. One of the Greek poets thus describes his lamentation for him: “Dearest of m

beard; no more Embrace thy mother’s father, nor thy voice Address me thus : ‘Who wrings thy heart With rude offence? Inform

e man who loved Danæ, paid, or bribed, the keepers of her prison, and thus went to see her. Money buys every thing in this w

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

he conducted to the king. Atlas received him graciously, and Perseus thus announced himself: “You see before you, great kin

ned every one to stone, in the attitude in which he stood. ——— Having thus baffled his foes, Perseus proposed to Andromeda t

ended, it struck the king of Argos, and killed him instantly. Perseus thus unwittingly accomplished the oracle, which was ut

hich had first accosted her in her return from her paternal home, and thus stopped, she listened with trembling to her divin

n, save the eye of the mighty eagle could not meet undazzled. Phæton, thus encouraged, approached the throne, and knelt befo

swered the god, “I am grieved that thou shouldst permit thyself to be thus disturbed by this young man’s suspicions of thy m

ed as lovely young girls, having light embroidered robes. They appear thus in Guido’s Aurora. Prints of Aurora, attended by

ing osiers near the banks, observed her, and approaching, one of them thus coarsely accosted her: ‘Why come you hither, woma

een included in the body of the text. The scope of selection has been thus confined for three reasons: first, the regard for

itself is an influence, to us also, of spiritual good, — and becomes thus in reality, not in imagination, to us also, a spi

e earth, and whose going forth was to the ends of heaven.” Regarding thus the religious condition of the savage, we may com

l meaning, read into it, is the work of men of a later generation who thus attempted to make reasonable the divine and heroi

most of our stories of Grecian and Roman mythology. These poems have thus been characterized: — “The rich mythology of Gre

osyne, Aglaia, and Thalia. Spenser describes the office of the Graces thus : — These three on men all gracious gifts bestow

rite; the last of whom gave her hand to Neptune, brother of Jove, and thus united the Older and the Younger dynasties of the

t in vain, was hidden under this disguise, mourned over her. While he thus lamented, Argus, observing, drove her away, and t

nicia, son of the god Neptune. The story of Jupiter’s love for her is thus told by the idyllic poet, Moschus: — To Europa,

transported by the sorrowful Jove, has been represented as recounting thus the story of her doom: — “What were the garden-b

ven yet hast thou learnt how far better than thou I claim to be, that thus thou matchest thy might with mine. Thus, shalt th

ompleted. The goddess was indignant. On the Cynthian mountain top she thus addressed her son and daughter: “My children, I w

down the scath Whence all nine fell, rais’d it, and stood erect, And thus bespake the goddess enthroned on high: ‘Thou hear

ran through Admetos’ frame: “Why does she stand and front me, silent thus ?” Herakles solemnly replied, “Not yet Is it allow

ursued a maiden, and clasp’d a reed: Gods and men, we are all deluded thus ! It breaks in our bosom and then we bleed: All we

on, grandson of Cadmus whose kindred fell under the curse of Mars, is thus narrated. One day, having repaired to a valley en

d the rest drew water in capacious urns. While the huntress-queen was thus employed in the labors of the toilet, Actæon, the

es the clouds at sunset or at dawn came over the countenance of Diana thus taken by surprise. Surrounded as she was by her n

finally, her love was discovered, Jupiter gave Endymion, who had been thus honored, a choice between death in any manner tha

of prey.173 Keats, whose Endymion journeys on a mission under sea, thus describes a meeting of the goddess and her lover:

” she would say, “courage against the courageous is not safe.” Having thus , on one occasion, warned him, she mounted her cha

ide, and stretched him dying upon the plain. The rest of the story is thus recounted: — Fig. 51. Celestial Venus. [Wall p

erbold, didst thou follow the chase, and being so fair, why wert thou thus overhardy to fight with beasts?” So Cypris bewail

yielded her the palm of beauty over Pallas and Juno, if a mortal were thus to usurp her honors. Wherefore she called Cupid,

tiful and precious productions of nature and art. While her eyes were thus occupied, the voice of an invisible being address

pened as she rose: Thence flew Love’s arrow with the golden head; And thus Leander was enamoured. Stone-still he stood, and

ht? He kneel’d; but unto her devoutly prayed: Chaste Hero to herself thus softly said, ‘Were I the saint he worships, I wou

have embrac’d her, But from his spreading arms away she cast her, And thus bespake him: ‘Gentle youth, forbear To touch the

self into the, sea and perished. A picture of the drowning Leander is thus described by Keats 186: — Come hither all sweet

er silver voice rang clear, Filling his soul with great felicity, And thus she spoke, “Wilt thou not come to me, O dear comp

spection to satisfy himself of the extent of the damage. While he was thus engaged, Venus, who was sitting on Mount Eryx pla

en’d manes, And beat the twilight into flakes of fire. “Lo! ever thus thou growest beautiful In silence, then before

d twenty centuries later. A ragged cap was on his head: But — hidden thus — there was no doubting That, all with crispy loc

ho; Echo loved A gamesome Satyr; he, by her unmoved, Loved only Lyde; thus through Echo, Pan, Lyde and Satyr, Love his circl

ther than a nymph, Lotis, who, escaping from a base pursuer, had been thus transformed. Dryope would have hastened from the

with baskets. [Ant. d’Hercul.: Thompson’s Horace.] When Vertumnus had thus spoken, he dropped his disguise, and stood before

itting on the crest of the tall cliff, and looking to the deep, ’twas thus he would sing: — “Oh, milk-white Galatea, why cas

wife Antea looked with too great favor on the young warrior, schemed thus to destroy him. Fig. 80. Bellerophon and Pegas

f martial youth. Meleager saw, and with chivalric reverence, somewhat thus addressed her: — “For thy name’s sake and awe to

nad in stone unmoving stonily gazes — Heart o’erwhelmed with woe— ah, thus , while thus she is gazing, — Down from her yellow

unmoving stonily gazes — Heart o’erwhelmed with woe— ah, thus, while thus she is gazing, — Down from her yellow hair slips,

, Thee, — what wolfish Scylla, or Syrtis, or vasty Charybdis, Thee, — thus thankful for life, dear gift of living, I gave th

s. Œdipus, consumed with rage, slew both Laïus and the attendant; and thus unknowingly fulfilled both oracles. Shortly after

en he heard their bitter cry, forthwith Folding his arms around them, thus he spake: “My children, on this day ye cease to h

other son, Amphilochus. The descendants (Epigoni) of the former Seven thus renewed the war against Thebes. They levelled the

bias the judge in her own favor. Paris decided in favor of the last, thus making the two other goddesses his enemies. Under

ana made her priestess of her temple.348 Iphigenia is represented as thus describing her feelings at the moment of sacrific

fighting before the Ships. [Gem: Roscher 12: 1921.] While Neptune was thus aiding the Greeks and driving back the Trojans, J

rt broken down, the enemy among the ships preparing to burn them, and thus to cut off all means of return to Greece. While t

e. He would not hear me through, but slay me while I spoke.” While he thus ruminated, Achilles approached, terrible as Mars,

ther, appeared suddenly at his side. Hector saw him with delight, and thus strengthened, stopped his flight and, turning to

bread on the charity of strangers. After Achilles and the Greeks had thus taken their revenge on the slayer of Patroclus th

t free from taint or defilement. While Achilles indulged his wrath in thus disgracing Hector, Jupiter in pity summoned Theti

were appointed to award the prize. It was awarded to Ulysses. Wisdom thus was rated above valor; wherefore Ajax slew himsel

ncts of the bestial breed; But O Unmerciful! O Pitiless! Leave us not thus with sick men’s hearts to bleed! — To waste long

ed away. Neptune was so displeased at the conduct of the Phæacians in thus rescuing Ulysses from his hands, that, on the ret

el. One of them, perched on a neighboring cliff, screamed out, “Is it thus , Trojans, ye treat us innocent birds, first slaug

company to the opposite shore. But the Sibyl rebuked him for the wish thus to transgress the laws of Pluto; but consoled him

athered from the trees the names and fates of individuals. The leaves thus inscribed were arranged in order within the cave,

, and loaded with gifts and friendly messages. Juno, seeing things go thus prosperously for the Trojans, felt her old animos

e with wrappers of bark, and poising the weapon in his upraised hand, thus addressed Diana: “Goddess of the woods! I consecr

ny brought me hither, an exile from my native land, Arcadia.” Having thus said, he showed him the Tarpeian rock, and the ru

s faithful Achates, and, Pallas soon joining them, the old king spoke thus : — “Illustrious Trojan, it is but little we can

e mare into the forest, obliging the man also to run after his horse, thus , therefore, between one and another the whole nig

w re-covered seats, the happier day.” He spake; and the fleet Hermod thus replied: — “Brother, what seats are these, what h

n her, as he had promised, from his abiding-place among the dead. And thus had the words of her sorrow an end. Her sons slew

chasm whence the divine afflatus proceeded. Her inspired words while thus situated were interpreted by the priests. Other f

dress his wrong, Attend his passion and approve his song. Like Phœbus thus , acquiring unsought praise, He caught at love and

e human soul, which is purified by sufferings and misfortunes, and is thus prepared for the enjoyment of true and pure happi

ve. — The name Amalthea is given also to the mother of Bacchus. It is thus used by Milton, P. L. Bk. 4: — “That Nyseian isl

. Morris, in the Epic of Hades. Troy: Byron, in his Bride of Abydos, thus describes the appearance of the deserted scene wh

Bk. 8. Lord Carlisle, in his Diary in the Turkish and Greek Waters, thus speaks of Corfu, which he considers to be the anc

and, 100-102, 189; Com. § 63. Æ′gis, 56; the Gorgon’s head, 231. Ægis′ thus , 281, 310; Com. § 165 (2) genealogy, § 170. Æ′gon

osure, the, Com. § 60. Cyn′thia (Diana), 64, 142, 150; Com. § 39. Cyn′ thus , Mount, in Delos, Com. §§ 39, 77- Cyp′rian, the,

name, with its temple of Venus, were sacred, 263; Com. § 40- Er-yman′ thus , Mount, 143; Erymanth. Boar, 235; Com. §§ 88, 139

m. §§ 185, 186. Huns, the, 392. Hy-acin′thia, Com. §§ 38, 74. Hy-acin′ thus , 120; Com. §§ 74, 133-137 Hy′a-des, the, daughter

or Frost giants; see Hrim-thursar. Re′mus, 365. Rerir, 392. Rhad-aman′ thus , 81, 83, 84; son of Europa, 97, 234, 255, 349. Rh

eks, 74. World-egg, 37. Worms, 401-403. X Xanten, 400, 401. Xan′ thus , river, 118, 124; Com. §§ 71,75. Xu′thus, son of

X Xanten, 400, 401. Xan′thus, river, 118, 124; Com. §§ 71,75. Xu′ thus , son of Hellen, 49; genealogy, Com. §§ 95, 132 (2

72; and Hyacinthus, 121; Zephyr and Psyche, 154. Ze′tes, 73, 245. Ze′ thus , 102; Com. § 64. Zeus; see Jupiter. Zeux′is, Gre

, by tracing the names of objects of worship to their root-forms, and thus showing their meaning and revealing the thought t

called the “Fortunate Fields,” and the “Isles of the Blessed.” We thus see that the Greeks of the early ages knew little

ng those divinities which had the greatest affinity to their own; and thus they formed a religious belief which naturally bo

id that his children might one day rise up against his authority, and thus verify the prediction of his father, Uranus. In o

uments, bound with cords of wool. There was a legend that Chronos was thus bound by Zeus to prevent irregularity in the move

ion of their spending one day in Olympus and the next in Hades*. They thus led a life divided between mortality and immortal

hea is that productive power which causes vegetation to spring forth, thus sustaining men and animals; Demeter, by presiding

s and shepherds, and brought into subjection to law and morality. She thus becomes that “bountiful daughter of Heaven” who,

he abode of the celestial gods. Poseidon, seeing his special function thus interfered with, sent Pegasus to check the boldne

hrough which they rushed with their flocks, believing that they could thus purify themselves from their sins. Manes*.

or himself or his family, it partook of the nature of his occupation; thus a shepherd brought sheep; a vine-grower, grapes.

skin, while he enveloped the bones in the fair white fat. The animal thus divided was placed before Zeus that he might choo

g the spectators, and caused his death. The old man was Acrisius, and thus Perseus unintentionally fulfilled the prediction.

h the firebrands he seared the throats as Heracles cut off the heads, thus preventing the growth of others. Heracles buried

r it a heavy stone. He then dipped his arrows in her poisonous blood, thus rendering wounds inflicted by them incurable. 3.

d the course of the rivers Alpheus and Peneus through the stalls, and thus carried off the filth. When Augeas learned that H

admiration at his audacity that he lent the hero his golden boat, and thus Heracles crossed over safely to the island of Ery

d. The short ones he took to the long bed, and pulled them to fit it; thus he left his victims to expire. Theseus slew him.

rs. Ægeus, jealous of his success, laid an ambush for him, and he was thus treacherously murdered. To avenge the death of hi

the beauty of the golden fruit, repeatedly stopped to secure it, and thus Hippomenes won the race and carried off his prize

of a fish. Imitating it, he notched a piece of iron on the edge, and thus invented the saw. He also invented a pair of comp

oring states, who all gallantly responded to their call for help, and thus ample preparations were made to receive the enemy

ut not finding them on the backs of the animals he let them pass, and thus they escaped. The Grreeks now hastened aboard the

distinct and separate divinities. Natural objects and principles were thus deified — the soil, the sky, the east, the west,

th, and fertilizing rain, so named from a root denoting moisture, and thus corresponds to the Jupiter Pluvius of the Latins.

elevated spot, in honor of the sun, whose returning beneficence they thus welcomed after the gloom and desolation of winter

indeed the four winds, which keep the four corners of the earth.” We thus see that Wabun, the East, was distinguished from

the goodness of your heart will throw a veil over the weakness which thus betrays my youthful ardour into a public avowal o

, which cannot fail to show how Mythology is mingled with poetry: and thus I have attempted to demonstrate the importance of

t in the robe of fiction many historical facts recorded in Scripture; thus enveloping the history of the creation, and other

fabulous history? Can the whole of the Grecian and Roman mythology be thus accounted for?     What were the natural conseque

ythe, and in the other a serpent with its tail to its mouth; designed thus emblematically to represent time and eternity. So

 Jupiter’s throwing his father down into the infernal regions, may be thus accounted for: — Among the Greeks, countries in t

from the light; Then stood about the dying lover’s head, And said, ‘I thus devote thee to the dead: This off’ring to th’ inf

aws.” Virgil. “Ceres with the blood of swine we beset alone, Which thus requite the mischief they have done.” Ovid. “T

res, Inviting plenty to their crowded floors, Thus in the spring, and thus in summer’s heat, Before the sickles touch the ri

at he was appeased, they put a lyre in his hand. Obs. 2. — The poets thus give an origin to the cypress, a doleful and leaf

, and flayed him alive. The origin of this fable may be accounted for thus : before the invention of the lyre, the flute was

ter, that he would come and see her in all his glory and majesty, and thus prove that he was a god and not a man. Having swo

lee. Obs. 3. — The fable of Minerva’s disputing with Neptune, may be thus explained: Cecrops, having introduced an Egyptian

starte with that of Venus, gave rise to the fable of Adonis, which is thus explained. That young prince reigned over a part

d out with great violence, and blew him back many a weary league, and thus greatly protracted his voyage home. The Winds are

m. This allegorically represents the swiftness of the winds. Virgil thus beautifully describes Jun o ’ s visit to Æ olus

rtain. Earth was usually represented in the form of a globe. Milton thus beautifully illustrates the subject : “Silence

d with silver hairs, Enters with tott’ring step the silent grove, And thus attempts to warm her heart to love.” Obs. 1. — 

he plains, And shook the sounding reeds, they taught the swains; And, thus the pipe was fram’d, and tuneful reed: And while

s, the son of Gordius, and king of Phrygia, with asses’ ears, will be thus accounted for: better to watch over the secret af

ced, and had a magnificent, but a sad and melancholy aspect. Virgil thus desc ribes the descent of his hero Æ neas into th

on was, to be accounted the son of Jupiter and Europa. In order to be thus considered, he promised to Neptune the first obje

refinement and genius in bestowing uncommon lustre on his memory, and thus exalted him to the rank of a demi-god. Questions.

he worship of the gods and a respect for the Supreme Being. Plutarch thus relates the story: his brother Typhon raised a re

orm men and animals, after which he formed the stars and planets, and thus finished the production of all things. Chronos o

perceived a swarm of bees flying towards a den. He followed them, and thus discovered the oracle. Trophonius, says Pausanias

all Grecian families pretended to be descended from the Hellens; and thus , this name, peculiar to a single family, became t

poets,) granted the same honour to those whose praises they sung; and thus multiplied the descendants of Odin, or of the sup

od was already with the giants. It is likely that the ambitious Odin thus confounded and mixed up divers opinions, in order

nowledging no other subaltern divinity than their own courage. Having thus enumerated the names and attributes of the princi

ation in which they employed fruits and honey. This plant having been thus collected, possessed, they believed, every virtue

existence of the world; others animate it; others again harmonise it, thus composed of different natures; and, lastly, other

es to make the Theban wall.” Horace. “New walls to Thebes, Amphion thus began.” William King. “Such strains I sing as

uto that Proserpine had partaken of food in the infernal regions, and thus prevented her return to earth. Asca′nius [Ascani

came the wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta, but eloped with Paris, and thus caused the Trojan War. After the death of Paris s

er, see Erisichthon. Hunting, see Diana. Huntsmen, see Pan. Hyacin′ thus [Hyacinthus] was a boy greatly loved by Apollo; b

e name. Quoit, see Hyacinthus. R Race, see Atalanta. Radaman′ thus [Radamanthus], see Rhadamanthus. Rage, see Furie

oduction, see Priapus. Rest, see Quies. Revenge, see Ate. Rhadaman′ thus [Rhadamanthus], a son of Jupiter and Europa, was

stopped with wax, and had himself tied to the mast of his ship. They thus sailed past in safety; but the Sirens, thinking t

ing, two at noon, and three in the evening.” Œdipus solved the riddle thus : Man is the animal; for, when an infant he crawls

ecker, see Picus. Woods, see Dryads. World, see Chaos. X Xan′ thus [Xanthus], the name of the wonderful horse of Ach

[Zetes], with his brother Calais, drove the Harpies from Thrace. Ze′ thus [Zethus], twin brother of Amphion. He was the son

the seas, and the glittering steel rested harmless in the mine. Ovid thus describes the days of innocence: “The Golden Age

e had seen her eat some seeds of pomegranate. The hopes of Ceres were thus destroyed, but Proserpine was so indignant at the

res, Inviting plenty to their crowded floors. Thus in the spring, and thus in summer’s heat, Before the sickles touch the ri

tail of a dragon. Ques. What was intended by this fable? Ans. Poets thus described a volcano in Lycia, on the summit of wh

to the flames. Some of his friends possessed copies, and the poem was thus preserved. If the Metamorphoses had been destroye

f death, that any one should bestow on him the rites of sepulture. He thus carried his vengeance beyond the grave, as, accor

rpse, which she covered with earth, making the usual libations. While thus engaged, Antigone was seized and brought before C

that the Persians were purposely misled by their Egyptian guides, and thus perished in the desert. Alexander the Great visit

o show what importance was attached to such a victory, when we see it thus classed as an event of equal importance with the

ain means of establishing a great reputation in a little time. It was thus that Herodotus read his history to assembled Gree

he one to whom his speech had been addressed. The wretched murderers, thus betrayed by their own guilty fears, confessed the

divinity to certain plants and roots. Juvenal, in one of his Satires, thus ridicules their superstition: Who has not heard

e worship of men, under the names of different heathen divinities, he thus describes Moloch amid the host of Satan: “First,

rpents, etc., and sent diseases, earthquakes and storms. The Persians thus believed in two independent principles, one of go

jects, the articles which he was accustomed to use, etc. The children thus examined have sometimes answered in so extraordin

formed, and the city of Cuzco was founded in the valley. The monarchy thus formed, was governed by the Incas, who claimed de

for the purpose of breaking the shell, and he was killed by the blow, thus verifying a prophecy that his death would come fr

mpus, where the gods of heaven lived. He was not the only one who was thus seen. All of the gods and goddesses showed themse

uld sometimes hear her voice calling, “Proserpina.” Many weeks passed thus , but at last, when the goddess was near to despai

rm, and Minerva, the wise goddess, to make the woman intelligent, and thus each of the gods, in turn, gave her something, so

through. And sweet was the duty,    And hallowed the hour, Which saw thus young Beauty    Embellish’d by Power. Thomas Mo

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

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

of the Greeks was held and a priest was called to tell why Apollo was thus angry at the Grecian host. The priest feared to s

Alack!    Troy-town must fall.” A bird amid the ocean storm    Might thus upraise its piping note, Warning of reefs. Amid t

ughter of Ceres, 15; wife of Pluto, who carried her off by force, 17, thus incurring the wrath of Ceres, 24. In the end, Plu

o Spain. Jupiter followed them thither, gave them another defeat, and thus terminated the war, after it had lasted ten years

r having, by his great skill in physic, prevented men from dying, and thus depopulated the infernal regions. For this, Apoll

cumference contains A hundred armies on a hundred plains. The Goddess thus th’ imperial car ascends; Shook by her arm the mi

urrounding the lake Acherusa, near Memphis. But before the corpse was thus wafted over the river, a tribunal of forty judges

reign of Patala, or the infernal regions; the king of serpents. He is thus described in the Bhagavat, a sacred Hindû poem. H

at Salsette, and in the small isle of Elephanta near Bombay, which is thus denominated from the figure of a large elephant a

His statues represent him as a child. The allegory of Horus has been thus explained: — The Khamsin wind makes great ravages

Mithras labours unceasingly to reclaim and purify these spirits, and thus to capacitate them for their primitive felicity.

nting, innocent persons were frequently immolated. The poet Lucan has thus described a druidical grove: “Not far away, for

ay cheer our fainting spirits, in the awful hour of dissolution; that thus we may not have received the grace of God in vain

use Cupid made of these curious arrows of his. When Apollo met Cupid thus armed, he began to taunt him. “What have you to d

one, that he fastened some of the hollow reeds together with wax, and thus made a musical pipe, which he named Syrinx, in me

on the plain among her dead, and gazed about her in silent grief. And thus she sat, day after day, and never moved nor spoke

e, with a heavy heart, he dug a grave and buried Icarus. While he was thus engaged, he heard a strange cry overhead, and loo