ey set up gold and ivory statues of the gods; and there they came, in time of trouble, to ask for help and comfort; and when

him in his work. I am afraid you will not love Juno very much by the time you have read all the stories I am going to tell

sdom and of war. The owl was her favorite bird. She spent much of her time in weaving and embroidering, for she was very fon

uler was King Pluto. He was very lonely in his somber palace; and one time , as you shall hear, he came to earth and stole aw

uched behind the trees, for she did not want them to find her. Many a time her thoughts went back to that day when she had l

his bow and arrows, and started out alone. He had been hunting a long time , when, in following a deer’s track, he came sudde

let the Great Bear or the Little Bear enter his ocean palace. If some time you watch the stars over the ocean, you will see

the Little Bear have never set. ——— The Gladness of Nature Is this a time to be cloudy and sad,     When our mother Nature

e through its waters. To go back another way would mean great loss of time ; so with his scepter he struck the ground thrice.

its young queen. Some people say that Proserpine really is the spring time , and that while she is with us all the earth seem

e she is with us all the earth seems fair and beautiful. But when the time comes for Proserpine to rejoin King Pluto in his

ings, and these frogs were very ugly indeed; besides it was the first time the poet had ever seen such creatures. So he turn

n in pity, as though’ they wished to comfort Latona. It seemed a long time since she had left the land, although it was only

ome as any one could wish for. And here Latona lived for a long, long time . She was very happy, and hoped that Juno would ne

ocks, now leaping into the water with ugly croaks. As for Latona, her time of suffering was almost over. The twin babes for

ring back. Poor Echo! Now she is nothing but a voice, but there was a time when she danced and sang in the green woods with

told such interesting stories that her listeners would forget how the time was passing. Many a time even Juno would come dow

ries that her listeners would forget how the time was passing. Many a time even Juno would come down to earth and listen by

him. But alas! she could not speak. They went on in this way for some time , Narcissus parting the branches in search of his

voice seemed very near. He went on calling and questioning, and each time Echo answered in his own words. She did not dare

y vanished altogether, and nothing but her voice remained. Since that time she lies hidden in the woods, and no one has ever

nhood. The prophet answered, “If he never recognizes himself.” At the time , no one understood the meaning of the words; but

and woe. Walter Scott . The Story of the Laurel Once upon a time there was a great, great flood over all the earth

ocean and the river gods all helped him in his work; till, in a short time , the whole earth was out of sight under a vast se

made for them. They did, indeed, comfort him, and he lived for a long time in this sorrowful quiet. So time passed on, until

comfort him, and he lived for a long time in this sorrowful quiet. So time passed on, until one day, as Orpheus was walking

heart, crossed the dark River of Death into the realm of Hades. This time Charon gladly ferried him across, and the fierce

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

ince decided that he must be dead. You see, it had taken a long, long time to reach the island where Medusa lived; for it wa

the gift, and placed it in the center of her bright shield. From that time on, wherever Minerva was seen in battle, there gl

ere lived a beautiful woman whose name was Cassiopeia. Long after the time I am talking of, she was placed among the stars,

w you Cassiopeia’s Chair, brightly shining in the heavens. But at the time of my story, she still lived on earth, and, as I

e to human beings. If any one was in doubt as to what he should do in time of trouble, or wanted to know something that was

as an old man of whom Andromeda’s parents were very much afraid. Some time before, he had asked for their daughter as his wi

atter how tired he was, he never closed more than half of them at one time . If you or 1 had fifty sharp eyes watching us day

aw all that had passed between father and daughter. He now thought it time to separate them, so he led his charge away to a

r closed more than half his eyes. So they had been sitting for a long time , when at last Argus asked the shepherd where his

d come from, and then Mercury slowly told him the story: “Once upon a time , there lived in a forest a nymph called Syrinx. S

le baby who grew up to be the strongest and most wonderful man of his time . When he was but a few weeks old, Juno, who hated

ttles, and kill fierce monsters, and, in short, risk his life all the time . But he was so brave that he feared nothing, and

imself, at any moment, and take on the form of an animal. So when the time set for the match arrived, both the suitors went

e stream. Now the undercurrent was very strong, and Nessus was a long time in working his way to the opposite shore. Before

k, screaming with all her might. Hercules, who also was having a hard time fighting the strong current, heard the scream, an

d almost forgotten about the poisoned shirt of Nessus. But after some time , Hercules began to grow restless. He was tired of

th Deïanira’s message; and Hercules straightway put it on. In a short time , the deadly poison began its work, and Hercules w

he mortal part of him had been burned away by the fire, and from that time , so the story goes, Hercules became one of the mi

n, with a trembling voice, he said, “Icarus, my boy, watch me all the time , and follow where I lead; for if you go too low t

. For a while Icarus followed where Daedalus led the way. But after a time he began to feel bold; and when his father was no

. In his fright he cried aloud to his father. Daedalus turned just in time to see his son’s head sink below the waves, while

th of his own son was his punishment for that wicked deed. For a long time after that, the place was known as the island of

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

reat fatherly care, and the boy was taught all the arts which at that time were thought fitting for a prince. Every year the

ruelty of the demand, they dared not disobey King Minos. But when the time came for paying the fourth tribute, as this sacri

ce wishes to die alone,” answered the king. “Let him do so.” All this time Ariadne had been looking with blushing cheeks and

where they had expected to die. The Minotaur was dead, and from that time forth, the people of Athens were no longer requir

the king of Crete. How a Wicked City Was Destroyed Once upon a time there was a town in which the people had grown to

e pitcher, she saw that it was still full to the brim, and that every time the strangers emptied it, it refilled itself. Bau

cle. He grieved much at the thought of leaving Halcyone for so long a time , and she tried to make him give up the idea of go

gh her tears, Halcyone pretended to laugh, and would talk only of the time when the ship would return homeward. She stood on

e, and praying that no harm might befall her while he was away. For a time all went well; but on the fifth day, toward eveni

the raging waters. Ceyx alone clung to a spar and escaped death for a time . As he drifted along, now rising on the top of a

ife Halcyone. At last a large, green wave rose before him, and he had time only to cry, in sad farewell, “Halcyone! Halcyone

d had exchanged their last farewell. She had been standing there some time , when she saw, far out at sea, something white to

he Golden Fleece I. The Flight on The Ram’s Back Once upon a time there lived in Greece a king who had a beautiful

ould grow thin and pale, and then she would leave her home for a long time , and come back only when the soft rain clouds wer

she had to travel far away with them. However that was, there came a time when the king began to weary of his wife’s long a

to help in killing the children for the sake of a little gold. In due time , they came back to the king with their false repo

s fleece on a tree in a wood, and set a fierce dragon to guard it. In time Phryxus died and a new king ruled in Colchis; and

lessness, King Aeson brought up his little son like a prince. At that time the wisest person in the world was a centaur name

hrone; and that he must go and reclaim his father’s kingdom. When the time for parting came, Chiron went with Jason to the f

f wood, as you will agree when I tell you that it could speak. Many a time during the long voyage, when Jason was in great d

men. After she left him, he paced up and down the seashore for a long time , thinking about Medea, and the tasks that the mor

e now as gentle as cows, and Jason ploughed the four acres in a short time . 16. “He threw the magic drug into its eyes.”

wed the dragon’s teeth in the soil he had just turned up, and in less time than it takes to tell, a mass of helmets began to

gling in a confused mass, and they fought so fiercely that in a short time the field was strewn with the dead bodies of the

Medea and his companions were anxiously awaiting him. In a very short time , the anchor was lifted, and with their sails flap

or this strange-looking creature, whom she saw that day for the first time ; and she turned away from him, and left him sad a

Scylla love him. Now it so happened that Circe herself had for a long time been in love with Glaucus; so she told him that S

to him far more lovely than any of the living ones. So he passed his time singing at his work, and perfectly happy in livin

er work, for he loved that fair image so dearly that he spent all his time kneeling before it, and marveling at the beauty h

veling at the beauty he had wrought. So the days passed on, until the time of the great festival of Venus was at hand. Venus

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

ild beast had been suddenly startled from its lair. Yet for the first time , the listeners found his music a little rude and

im a wig of such shape that it would hide the ugly things. In a short time , the wig was on his majesty’s head, and he sent a

us (Vatican, Rome). A Giant Who Loved a Sea Nymph Once upon a time there lived on earth a strange race of giants cal

r invoked in battle was powerless to bless the field he cultivated in time of peace; the power of Jupiter was worshipped in

onors paid to the memory of departed heroes assumed, in the course of time , the character of religious worship. Hence arose

on. They shared a tradition, which seems to have been universal, of a time of primeval innocence, when man dwelt in a peacef

nor the merchant’s traffic disturbed the joyous leisure of that happy time ; no ships ploughed the seas, and the glittering s

rged; but, void of care and crime, The soft creation slept away their time .” The Silver Age was far inferior to that of gol

onstant in his temper, and inclines now to this side, now to that, in time of war. Except the story of his attachment to Ven

he glittering fruit, while Hippomenes passed on. A second and a third time did he try the same expedient, and with such succ

but the island of Delos formerly floated in the sea, and was at that time hidden under the waters. Neptune, pitying the for

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

s represented as an old man armed with a scythe, which signifies that time mows down everything in its course; and he holds

he holds in his hands an infant which he is about to devour, because time destroys all that it brings forth. Ques. How did

ar or execute criminals during this festival. Servants might, at this time , say what they pleased to their masters, who coul

y accounts are given. He was supposed to have reigned in Italy in the time of Saturn, and to have associated that god with h

ates of the chief temple, that of Janus Quirinus, were always open in time of war, and closed when the Romans were at peace.

but three times in seven hundred years. They were shut for the first time in the reign of Numa; again, after the first Puni

, after the first Punic war; and Augustus closed the temple the third time when he had given peace to the world. This occurr

of smoke, and how they rose, he was enabled to foretell storms a long time before they happened; hence the ignorant believed

s ran about like madmen, with cries and howlings, making, at the same time , a terrific noise with the clashing of cymbals, t

he tree, flourished and died with it. This belief lingered for a long time amid the German forests, as also the superstition

hidden treasures of the earth. The thunder that happens in the night time is attributed to Pluto, and he is often styled th

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

in modest behavior and purity of life. The two temples were from that time distinguished as Pudicitia Patricia, and Pudiciti

olden color, or, according to fable, with a fleece of pure gold. Some time after, Phryxus and his sister Helle, to escape fr

made. Ques. What else is related of Medea? Ans. She lived for some time happily with Jason, upon whom she conferred an ad

adful tribute, and when the lots were about being cast for the fourth time , he offered himself as one of the victims. Ægeus

d on his liver, which was continually renewed. Prometheus had, at one time , rendered Jupiter a service. The king of the gods

king of the gods remembered this, and permitted that after a certain time , Hercules should kill the eagle and set him free.

ed him in vain of the danger to which he might be exposed. After some time spent in Italy and Sicily, Arion desired to retur

that he might die as became a bard, after having played for the last time upon his lyre, and sung his own death-song. The m

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

t mixture, however, of the Æolic, and other forms. With regard to the time in which Homer lived, there is much difference of

er in Smyrna. He afterwards abandoned this occupation, and spent some time in travelling. He made several voyages in the com

during the siege of Troy. The combined fleet was detained for a long time at Aulis, owing to the wrath of Diana, whom Agame

ate, however pressing their wants might be. They were detained a long time at Thrinakia by contrary winds; and Ulysses bound

y for the deliverance of his wife, the faithful Penelope. When a long time had elapsed after the fall of Troy, and no tiding

s engaged. They agreed to wait, and Penelope deceived them for a long time , plying her needle diligently during the day, and

at night. This device succeeded for three years, at the end of which time the suitors became so importunate that Penelope c

Penelope. Telemachus, the son of Ulysses, had been absent for a long time in search of his father. He had visited the court

his insolence so far as to strike the disguised hero. At length, the time arrived for the contest of skill which was to dec

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

s Orestes? Ans. He was the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. At the time of his father’s assassination, Orestes, then a ch

t he could at best only postpone the ruin of his country for a little time . Not discouraged by this, he performed prodigies

had already embarked, she killed herself in despair. Æneas spent some time in Sicily, where he celebrated funeral games in h

ars when Æneas came to Italy, and six centuries still remained of the time granted by Apollo. She accompanied Æneas on his v

f which, it is said, pointed clearly to the advent of a Redeemer, the time of his coming, and the submission of Rome to the

toninus, appeals confidently to the sibylline prophecies, and at that time , about the middle of the second century, it was n

hich prove that the expectation of a Saviour, and the belief that the time of his advent was approaching, existed even among

eat booty. Sylla also plundered Delphi, and Nero took from it, at one time , no less than five hundred statues of bronze. The

racle is said to have been discovered on the following occasion: In a time of severe drought the Bœotians consulted Apollo a

Apollonius, (July); sometimes in the month Parthenius, (August). The time of their celebration was a period of sacred truce

e celebrations was called an Olympiad, and the Greeks usually counted time in this manner. The Olympiads were reckoned only

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

the most certain means of establishing a great reputation in a little time . It was thus that Herodotus read his history to a

ortunate. This prince believed himself the most excellent poet of the time , and employed professional readers to recite some

cording to the more probable historic account, they originated at the time when the Delphic oracle had already gained some r

derers heard this appeal, to which, however, they paid no heed at the time . The body of Ibycus was found and recognized, and

half a million of dollars. The temple itself resisted the attacks of time ; it was used successively as a Christian church a

laid in a monument in an island near Memphis. Osiris became from that time the tutelar deity of the Egyptians. He was regard

er dogs aspiring temples rise! And should you leeks or onions eat, no time Would expiate the sacrilegious crime. Religious n

nt passages, which are in verse, were probably written soon after his time , when the knowledge of his doctrines was still pr

hat they have sacred fire which has never been extinguished since the time of Zoroaster. All the sacred fires were originall

onsole himself with the hope of being born in a higher caste the next time . Ques. Is there any caste lower than the Sudras?

where he spent six years in prayer and meditation. At the end of this time , he began his career as a religious teacher. He p

Buddhism common in India? Ans. No; after being tolerated for a long time , a fierce and continued persecution was raised ag

hinese custom, for the appointed three years of mourning. During this time , he devoted himself to the study of ancient write

the neighboring countries, preaching wherever he went; he was at one time prime minister of the empire, but his last years

r west as Athens. Be this as it may, it is certain Lao-tze spent some time in Persia and Syria. The Ten Tribes had just been

r state of existence. They maintain, however, that pure spirits, from time to time, assume our human nature voluntarily, in

of existence. They maintain, however, that pure spirits, from time to time , assume our human nature voluntarily, in order to

by oral tradition only? Ans. This must have been the case for a long time ; as the oldest of the Eddas was compiled only in

eventh century. He was educated in France and Germany, and spent some time in Rome before his return to Iceland. He was indu

hammer, his belt of strength, and his iron gloves. The giants at one time obtained his hammer, and he was obliged to use a

bloom of youth. On the approach of the Great Twilight, and the end of time , this fruit was to lose its magic power. Heimd

of his magical power to escape their wrath. He changed himself at one time into a salmon, and hid among the stones of a broo

of the Gods. It was a firm belief of the northern nations, that a time would come when all the visible creation, the god

flames, the sun will become dim, the stars will fall from heaven, and time shall be no more. After this universal destructio

Leinster. Ques. What sacrifices were offered by the Druids? Ans. In time of peace, fruits and cattle; in war, human sacrif

ich has been already mentioned, was the most ancient, dating from the time of the Chaldees, or Babylonians. In Ireland and i

s signal every fire disappeared, and, in an incredibly short space of time , darkness settled on the island. The chiefs and p

Ques. Relate this legend. Ans. According to tradition, there was a time when the ancient races of the continent were plun

ng Latin authors. During the most active period of his life, he found time to devote to literary pursuits. Of the works writ

ons, filled high offices under different emperors, and yet have found time for such a vast amount of composition. While stil

ar, filled the office of procurator in Spain, and we find him, at the time of his death, in command of the fleet which guard

oks. They are addressed to some of the most celebrated persons of the time , and are valuable and interesting for the informa

e homage of his verse. Sophocles . Was the second in order of time of the great tragic poets of Greece. In true dram

y lamented by the Athenians, who seem to forget the calamities of the time in their grief at the loss of so illustrious a ci

s and customs of the nations he had visited. Little was known at that time of the extent and form of earth. Strabo imagined

ts of civilized life than any nation existing on the continent at the time of its discovery. Varro . A Latin writer,

ubject of wonder, how one who read such a number of books, could find time to compose so many volumes; and how he who compos

g gloom. These two divinities wearied of their power in the course of time , and called their son Erebus (Darkness) to their

ed them, and seized the supreme power. Space, illumined for the first time by their radiance, revealed itself in all its unc

Mystical Egg, that in silence and shade Was brooded and hatched; till time came about: And Love, the delightful, in glory fl

the darkness hideous with their incessant clamour for freedom. In due time their number was increased by the three terrible

e, determined to dispose of him in the usual summary manner. For some time Rhea pleaded with him, but at last pretended to y

ishing to submit to the dominion of the other, but at the end of that time the rebellious Titans were obliged to yield. Some

eathed forth fire and flames, in hopes of injuring his conqueror. But time , it is said, somewhat cooled his resentment; and

nent parts in Grecian mythology. The Story of Prometheus At the time of the creation, after covering the newborn Earth

s unseemly, and then, to dispel the frown and pout seen for the first time on the fair face of his beloved, he entreated her

sh air and join in the merry games of their companions. For the first time , also, Pandora refused to comply with his request

d stung them, they began to weep, and, alas! quarrelled for the first time in their lives. Epimetheus reproached his wife in

beneficial. It was well for Pandora that she opened the box a second time , for the gods, with a sudden impulse of compassio

ther were there any laws to restrict men, nor judges to punish.” This time of bliss has justly borne the title of the Golden

ast by Pyrrha became women. Thus the earth was peopled for the second time with a blameless race of men, sent to replace the

men then hastened to a neighbouring spring, but, to Cadmus’ surprise, time passed and still they did not return. Armed with

phalanx. Cadmus, seeing the giants were almost upon him, and that no time was to be lost, quickly threw a stone. The effect

s were known as the Olympian Games; and the Greeks generally reckoned time by Olympiads, that is to say, by the space of tim

generally reckoned time by Olympiads, that is to say, by the space of time between the celebrations. Within the temple at Ol

ven out into the solitudes of the great forests, which were from that time forth to be her home. Jupiter vainly sought his a

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

gave her own name of Athene to the city, whose inhabitants, from that time forth, were taught to honour her as their tutelar

His request was complied with, but only on condition, that, when the time came which had previously been appointed for the

st loving glances down upon men, whose life he had shared for a short time , whose every privation he had endured; and, in an

the society of a youth of mortal birth, named Hyacinthus. To pass the time agreeably, the friends began a game of quoits, bu

had been greatly beloved through life. The Story of Daphne Some time after this episode, Apollo encountered in the for

nto the Infernal Regions to seek his wife, but warned him at the same time that the undertaking was perilous in the extreme.

ilding a huge rampart all around it; for the stones moved in rhythmic time , and, of their own volition, marched into their p

to murder him to obtain possession of them. He was allowed but scant time to prepare for death; but, just as they were abou

bout to toss him overboard, he craved permission to play for the last time . The pirates consented. His clear notes floated o

oasting rather loudly of his divine parentage. His playmates, after a time , wearied of his arrogance, and, to avoid the cons

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

his burdensome presence, she changed him into a grasshopper. At this time the goddess fell in love with Cephalus, the young

ditional charms from the witching hours of the night. “’Twas now the time when Phœbus yields to night, And rising Cynthia s

er heard than answered, and Orion, panting and weary, came up just in time to see seven snow-white pigeons wing their way up

t care. Then, her education being completed, the sea nymphs judged it time to introduce her to the other gods, and, with tha

ribed the sight which had greeted his eyes. The irate husband lost no time , but, seizing a net of linked steel, went in sear

s: Anemones for tears; for blood the rose.” Bion ( Elton’s tr.). As time did not soften Venus’ grief, but, on the contrary

parents to Venus’ service, and, as soon as old enough, spent all her time in the temple, ministering to the goddess, or in

fired with a desire to view the charming young priestess. Just at the time a solemn festival in honour of Venus was to be ce

oss the strait, calling upon the gods to lend him their aid. But this time his prayers were unheard, drowned in the fury of

ting-place, and, as she slowly paced back and forth to while away the time of waiting, she wondered what had happened to del

not forgotten poor Echo’s last passionate prayer, and was biding her time to punish the disdainful Narcissus. One day, afte

out to emerge from her hiding place to reconnoitre. More prudent this time , the youth gradually bent further over the pool;

e more to clasp her in his arms, she vanished as rapidly as the first time . Time and again the same pantomime was enacted, a

as the first time. Time and again the same pantomime was enacted, and time and again the nymph eluded his touch; but the ena

high Olympus had been appointed god of thieves. He therefore lost no time in useless search and conjecture, but strode off

s And highly fam’d for several uses.” Goldsmith. Mercury was in due time appointed messenger of the gods, who, to make him

her’d Mercury appear’d sublime Beyond the tall tree tops; and in less time Than shoots the slanted hail-storm, down he dropt

cloud aside in her haste. Jupiter, thus warned of her coming, had but time to change the maiden beside him into a heifer, er

god pointed to the heifer, and declared he had been whiling away the time by creating it; but the explanation failed to sat

s, who possessed a myriad eyes, only one half of which he closed at a time . “The eyes of Argus, sentinel of Heaven: Those t

l of poppies, Mercury approached Argus, and offered to while away the time by telling him tales. As Mercury was the prince o

as born, to be the first king and the founder of Memphis. “In coming time that hollow of the sea Shall bear the name Ionian

e of the solemn pledge not to listen to a lover’s pleadings until her time of service at the goddess Vesta’s altar was accom

previsions, the babes survived, and, after having been suckled for a time by a she-wolf, were found and adopted by a shephe

n up, journeyed out into the world to seek their fortunes. After some time they came to a beautiful hilly country, where the

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

and sounds, the goddess at first seemed quite contented; but after a time Vulcan’s gloomy abode lost all its attractions: s

ured husband, and went in search of another more congenial mate. Some time after, Vulcan married one of the Graces, who, how

ed a handsome compensation. Apollo, also banished from heaven at that time , volunteered to aid Neptune by playing on his lyr

d nothing more was heard of him for a whole year, at the end of which time he reappeared, and resumed his former depredation

s dishonesty incurred the hatred and contempt of this hero also. Some time after, having finished his time of servitude with

and contempt of this hero also. Some time after, having finished his time of servitude with Eurystheus, Hercules, aided by

of her numerous suitors should find favour in her eyes before he had time to urge his wooing, suddenly changed her into a s

re he forms a well-known constellation. Neptune and Amphitrite in due time became the happy parents of several children, amo

, dost thou sit To blend and interknit Subdued majesty with this glad time . O shell-borne king sublime! We lay our hearts be

ed obolus were obliged to wait one hundred years, at the end of which time Charon reluctantly ferried them over free of char

y he called upon a flock of cranes, which was passing overhead at the time , to bear witness of the foul deed. When his body

ide a few hours before, again cast himself at Bacchus’ feet, and this time implored him to take back the inconvenient gift,

where she could be, and why she did not come bounding to meet her. As time passed, and still Proserpina did not appear, Cere

ondition, however, that she had not touched any food during the whole time of her sojourn in the Infernal Regions. Ceres in

Hades, and could linger on the bright earth only for six months at a time . Mercury was chosen to lead her to and from Hades

and lurking hidden under the cold ground during the remainder of the time . Many beautiful temples were dedicated to Ceres a

o leave it, and even marry, if such were their pleasure. During their time of servitude, they were expected to keep their vo

f pure white linen, with a purple border and a wide purple mantle. In time of war or danger they were answerable for the pre

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

every new year, month, and day was held sacred to Janus, and at that time special sacrifices and prayers were offered up at

h the homely gate of horn were destined to come true in the course of time . “Of dreams, O stranger, some are meaningless An

nd a scythe in his hand. His hollow eyes were fixed upon the sands of time ; and when they had run out, he knew some life was

em closely confined in a great cave, and let them loose only one at a time , to stretch their limbs and take a little exercis

f athletic sports. The years passed by happily and swiftly, until the time came when Hercules’ education was completed, and

ercules felt his great strength begin to fail, and noticed that every time his adversary touched the ground he seemed to ren

ter back to his cave. The twelve appointed labours were finished; the time of bondage was ended; and Hercules, a free man, c

embled gods to serve Omphale, Queen of Lydia, for a certain period of time . No great deeds were now required of Hercules, wh

were awaiting his mighty arm, however; and the gods, at the appointed time , freed him from his bondage to the Lydian queen,

elighted to be able to win his bride and punish his rival at the same time , Hercules challenged Achelous; and now began a wr

but a little. I did wrong: I know it, and repent me. If there come A time when he grows cold — for all the race Of heroes w

only child, Danae, and until then, too, had thought with pride of the time when he would bestow her hand in marriage upon th

nae no longer felt lonely and deserted, for Jupiter spent most of his time with her, pursuing his courtship most diligently,

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

agon car, and fled to Media, whence she never returned. One day, some time after his arrival at Athens, Theseus heard a soun

nd the remainder of his life in peace. Although somewhat aged by this time , Theseus was still anxious to marry, and looked a

f knowledge, strength, and skill passed very quickly; and at last the time came when Chiron made known to him the secret of

ed birds flew rapidly away, uttering discordant cries of terror. Some time during the course of their journey the Argonauts

linded with the sand, the giants attacked one another, and in a short time were exterminated.                           “Th

stolen, his daughter gone, and the Grecian ship far out of sight. No time was lost in useless wailing, but a vessel was hur

astor to return to life on condition that Pollux would spend half his time in Hades. Later on, satisfied that even this sacr

ot cease to curse the fate which drove him away from home. After some time , he came to three cross-roads; and while he stood

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

information about the murder committed so long ago, and after a short time they brought unmistakable proofs which convicted

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

d of that period resign the throne to Polynices for an equal space of time , each brother thus exercising the royal authority

his name or errand, entertained him royally for many days. After some time , Bellerophon suddenly remembered the sealed messa

king aërial flights on his broad back; and Bellerophon knew that from time to time he came, down to earth to drink of the co

ial flights on his broad back; and Bellerophon knew that from time to time he came, down to earth to drink of the cool water

but all his efforts failed to unseat the brave rider, who, biding his time , finally thrust Minerva’s golden bit between his

ully aware of the importance of making a wise choice, Dryope took her time , and finally decided to marry Andræmon, a worthy

nset, but promised to send her messenger, the bee, to him before that time . Filled with pleasure at the thought of his love,

upon him the wrath and hatred of Juno and Minerva, who, biding their time , watched for a suitable opportunity to avenge the

Sparta, whose young wife, Helen, was the most beautiful woman of her time , if we are to believe the testimony of her contem

tion of one heel, by which she held him, and then returned home. Some time after an oracle foretold that Achilles would die

her husband’s shade back to earth, to tarry with her for three hours’ time .           “‘Such grace hath crowned thy prayer,

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

eloved one, for me. No living man can send me to the shades Before my time ; no man of woman born, Coward or brave, can shun

he battlefield, and together they performed many deeds of valour. The time had now come when Jupiter was about to redeem the

d when he heard that his beloved friend, who had left him but a short time before full of life and energy, was now no more.

, and the god promised that the arms should be ready within the given time , and immediately set to work to fashion them. By

ndon the corpse. Achilles then returned to his tent, where for a long time he continued to mourn his friend’s untimely end,

r. He neglected his flocks, shunned his companions, and spent all his time near the seashore, watching for her, and bitterly

ts of new fruit and pots of roses, But with consuming passion. Many a time Would his flocks go home by themselves at eve, Le

stone only partly aside, and allowed the sheep to pass out a few at a time , carefully running his hand over each broad back

tance, raised his voice and taunted Polyphemus, revealing at the same time his identity. “‘Ha! Cyclops! those whom m thy ro

e their preparation for landing early the next morning. For the first time since he had left the Æolian shores, Ulysses now

, and Ulysses sought the king, to beseech his aid once more; but this time the god received him coldly, and bade him depart,

eats and delicate wines.” Homer ( Bryant’s tr.). At the end of that time , Ulysses’ companions began to long for their own

ch laughter. Their cries awoke Ulysses, who came on the scene just in time to save their ball from the waves, and claimed Na

which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek,

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

on the deep finally aroused Neptune, who came to the surface just in time to see all the misfortunes which had overwhelmed

ostly festal garments, and cried to Heaven for assistance in this his time of direst need.     “‘Dread Sire, if Ilium’s lor

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

sure. Æneas and his Tuscan allies arrived on the battle scene just in time to give the necessary support to the almost exhau

hich he called Lavinia in honour of his bride, and which became for a time the capital of Latium. Æneas, as the gods had pre

ridiculous, and the inevitable reaction took place. In the course of time , however, the germ of truth it contained was agai

nterpretation of myths is not only the most accredited at the present time , but also the most poetical. We therefore give a

spect, some of the phrases used to describe it came, in the course of time , to denote vile and fickle actions, and apparentl

ure in depicting ever since. Another personification of the sky, this time under the nocturnal and starry aspect, is Argus,

; and the smiting of Phaeton by the bolt of Zeus is the ending of the time of drought by a sudden storm of thunder.” The st

uses to exist without him. In the story of Tantalus (the sun), who in time of drought offers to Jupiter the flesh of his own

irst, we have again merely a story founded upon an expression used in time of drought, when the sun’s heat, becoming too int

es forced to fight his way), then again plunging for a short space of time into the depths of Tartarus, whence he emerges on

g clouds) that he casts aside his beggar’s garb to linger for a short time beside her ere he vanishes in the west. The great

d, whence she could only emerge at the command of Jupiter. During the time of Ceres’ mourning, the earth remained barren, an

emonstrate the importance of mythological knowledge, and, at the same time , to render the work more valuable and interesting

towing divine honours on such as ranked high in the scale of fame. In time they excelled in civilization and refinement. The

of Cœlus and Terra, and was worshipped by the ancients as the god of time . He was styled the father of the gods. Birthright

with its tail to its mouth; designed thus emblematically to represent time and eternity. Sometimes he appears just ready to

cythe in his hand. Obs. 2. In a moral sence, Saturn is the emblem of time . Time, like an index in the heavens, points out a

m by Numa Pompilius, the doors of which remained constantly opened in time of war, and shut in time of peace. For this reaso

doors of which remained constantly opened in time of war, and shut in time of peace. For this reason he was deemed the god o

her; Patulacius and Clausius, because his temple was open and shut in time of war and peace. He was represented sometimes wi

d that the Corybantes, her priests, took their names from Corybas. In time Cybele was reckoned the mother of the gods. The g

had loved so much, changed him into a pine tree, which was from that time consecrated to her. This fable of Atys and Sangar

s elder brother, and put his father to a violent death. In process of time , Saturn having been dethroned by his son Jupiter

ne was often taken for the moon, and one expressed by this fable, the time at which she appeared to us, and the time at whic

xpressed by this fable, the time at which she appeared to us, and the time at which she disappeared from us. Some explain it

he moment at which the rays are more clear; the third figures noon, a time at which that luminary is in all its splendor; an

d her varying physiognomy cannot be painted, because it changes every time that a new subject inspires her. — See Fig. 17.

lebrated every three years. The Epilenæa were games celebrated in the time of vintage; the art of squeezing the grapes being

emained in their city. The oracle was religiously observed for a long time ; but at last, Ulysses and Diomedes, having gained

nster, called Ægis, which vomitted whirlwinds of flame. In process of time the goddess engraved on it the head of Medusa. A

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

new suit, and hastened with such warm anticipations of happiness, as time and experience imperceptibly fritter away into la

id not find her, he stabbed himself with a sword. Thisbe, in the mean time , recovering from her fright, came forth to the mu

ay, of Juno without a father. He resided in heaven for a considerable time , but having offended Jupiter by relieving his mot

aron’s boat, to be ferried across the Styx. After they had spent some time in the nether world, he led them back to revisit

escape the water it contained, and the Nile was victorious. From that time nothing equalled the respect of the Egyptians for

. Obs. — Historians state, that Proteus was king of Egypt, about the time of the Trojan war, famed for wisdom, foresight, s

hœban swamps. It was buried in the porch of the temple; and from that time , that swamp is called Saronic, instead of Phœban.

emains calm and appears to respect those birds. Mariners give to that time the name of “halcyon days.” This singularity prod

d by her tedious discourses; a circumstance which afforded the nymphs time to quit the company of Jupiter. Echo saw, loved,

ring the Trojan war, held Æolus, king of the Æolian islands, (at that time called the Vulcanian, now called Lipari) on accou

o inferior gods, who presided over houses and families. In process of time , their power was extended to streets, ways, the c

er, and believed it descended to hell. The poets did not agree on the time which souls ought to pass in Elysium. Some fixed

elestial gods, they heaped mountains upon mountains, and, at the same time , darted oaks and burning woods against heaven. So

ut him under Mount Ætna, which sends forth great flames of fire every time he moves his sides. And as Ægeon, when against h

were warlike women, dwelling in Libya, near the lake Tritonis, In the time of Perseus, they were often at war with the Amazo

s and Polynices, and two daughters Ismena and Antigone. In process of time , he found, by clear proof, that he had killed his

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

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

me was at first given to the children of the gods and mortals; but in time it was granted to all celebrated men. The ancient

making libations, to them. It is very difficult to fix precisely the time in which the worship of the heroes began. The anc

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

inted at the sight; or, as some assert, he concealed himself for some time in a brazen vessel. On his way to Erymanthus, he

a with his tunic, stained with his blood, as a memento for love. Some time after, Hercules renewed his acquaintance with Iol

although some assert that Æson died before their return. In a little time Jason abandoned her for Creusa, daughter to Creon

their sisters, it may be observed, that the rooms of palaces, at that time , had the form of an egg. They were born in Laconi

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

. He was ceremoniously conducted to the Nile; and if he had lived the time allowed, they drowned him, embalmed his body, and

the city of the Nile, previous to his entering Memphis, during which time none but women could appear before him. This cere

after him. He was represented as the star of day and the regulator of time . When his father was vanquished by a usurper, Hor

mense marsh, and its vapours long rendered it uninhabitable; but when time and culture had changed that vast tract into the

ced in an elevated place, where he enjoyed perfect happiness for some time . At last, an evil being, called Ahriman, or Arima

enii of different orders and ranks, who presided over the division of time , the succession of the seasons, and the various o

arent of rational beings. After having remained in the egg for a long time , he divided it into two equal parts, from which h

anets, and counted generations and reigns by sares. They also divided time by neres and soses. The sare marked three thousan

ft behind him some writings, in which he taught that there had been a time in which every thing was darkness and water; and

e long. It was no sooner finished, than the earth was overflown. Some time after, seeing the waters abated, he sent out some

t others, which returned with a little mud in their mouths. The third time he sent them out, they returned no more, by which

posed that the blessed lived in the palace of the sun, and that their time was employed in music, dancing, praising the gods

g after. It appears that the Egyptians themselves had none before the time of Moses. This is indicated by his silence concer

makes it one stadium in height, and one stadium on each side. In the time of Herodotus, the only historian among the ancien

n a superb bed, a table of massive gold, and no statues.” Even in the time of Nebuchadnezzar, that temple contained nothing

aken from the temple at Jerusalem. This tower of Belus existed in the time of Xerxes. This Persian monarch, after his unfort

, constructed by Menes, the first king who reigned in Egypt after the time in which the Egyptians pretended that the gods al

usanias proves, that this poet was mistaken, and relates, that a long time before, the same Amazons, defeated at first by He

the Church of All Saints, to whom it has been consecrated, as, in the time of Paganism, is was consecrated to all the gods.

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

n four pillars a temple, which may well astonish you.” It was at that time he conceived the plan of the famous cupola of St.

ola, but that strength which was necessary to support it; at the same time announcing, that, should their strength ever be d

cannot be eternally sustained. If one succeed in deceiving for a long time , some weak and credulous persons, he does not com

emis, Jupiter, and Apollo only, delivered oracles; but, in process of time , almost all the gods, and a great number of heroe

ot reply in the name of Apollo, only during one month in the year. In time , this practice was changed; and the god then spok

, upon this murmur, announced futurity to those who consulted her. In time , more artifice was used in the manner of deliveri

the others were shaken, and sent forth a sound which lasted for some time . It was on this noise that future events were giv

in Greece, but the most celebrated, and it continued the longest. The time at which it was established, is not known, which

his last transmitted her rights to her grandson Apollo; and from that time the oracle of Delphi spoke no more but in the nam

Before his expedition into Asia, Alexander came to Delphi during the time of silence. He begged the Pythia to mount the tri

ry bad verses. But sometimes the Pythia made her answers in verse. In time , however, she was satisfied to speak in prose; an

ust pass some days in a chapel, dedicated to Genius and Fortune. This time is employed in purifying himself. He is not permi

he earth. Soon after he was asked what he had seen, but before he had time to recover from the agitation excited, he was tak

acle in order to assure myself of the truth.” We do not know in what time the oracle of Trophonias was established. Pausani

surprise it. He sent to ask the Pythia what he was doing at the very time that his envoy was consulting her. She immediatel

arisen in regard to their number, their countries, and names, and the time in which they flourished. Varro, the most learned

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

o that a sad and languid old age succeeded her blooming years. In the time of Æneas, she said she had already lived seven hu

lived seven hundred years; after which, her body being wasted away by time , there was nothing remaining of her but her voice

was the Erythræan, who predicted the success of the Trojan war at the time that the Greeks embarked on this expedition. 6. T

reign of the emperors. The Senate having embraced Christianity in the time of Theodosius, veneration for them greatly dimini

ost commonly instituted from religious motives. They were at the same time a kind of spectacle among the Greeks and Romans.

summit, which, it was pretended, reached to the very heavens. At what time the Olympic games were instituted, is a matter of

principal epoch. The people counted by Olympiads only; and since that time , few fables of the Greeks are recorded in history

e, few fables of the Greeks are recorded in history. This division of time , it may be remarked, comes to us from the Greeks

ariot race. The sixteenth Olympiad was then celebrated; and from that time ladies could participate in the games. Before Cyn

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

her son. She was pardoned this infringement of the law; but from that time , masters of exercise were not allowed to appear t

before he was permitted to enter the lists in these games. From that time , all Grecian families pretended to be descended f

e origin of this wonderful man, the country which gave him birth, the time in which he flourished, and various other circums

mitted to their yoke. We may, therefore, conclude, that it was at the time of Odin’s arrival that this religion began to los

polytheism of those nations who treated them as barbarians; and every time they became the stronger party, their first care

cause the earthquakes. He will remain there captive until the end of time , and then be killed by Hiemdal, door-keeper to th

mself of the resemblance it bears to sacred tradition. In the dawn of time , says the poet, there was neither sea, river, nor

state, and to the last destinies of this world. There will come a time , says the Edda, a barbarous age, a sword age, whe

escent of Odin. Valva. “Hard by the eastern gate of hell In ancient time great Valva fell; And there she lies in massive t

ed with a great deal of elact at the commencement of spring; at which time they asked of that god, much fighting and success

ruits of the earth, covered the altars of the gods. But in process of time , animals came to be immolated. To Thor were offer

by some blemish, and especially to all who had lost their courage. In time of war, they chose their human victims among capt

icult, perhaps even impossible, to ascertain how, and at what precise time , the British isles became inhabited. The study of

gs. But human vanity will in vain attempt to roll back the current of time ; whose longest period will be but an imperceptibl

ity which precedes and follows it. Without pretending to indicate the time in which England was first peopled, it is probabl

ho were then masters of the known world. Their government was at that time a mixture of monarchy and aristocracy. The chiefs

mbling the Roman dictatorship, was not to last longer than during the time necessary to terminate wars, and remove dangers.

s between them might have been easily caused by wars, separation, and time . The religion of the Gauls appears to have always

sar introduced new gods into Gaul; and the first temples were at that time built there, whilst the British Druids continued

sacrifices, and applied themselves to the contemplation of nature. In time , the Druids reserved for themselves alone the off

sed their functions separately from men. Their divination had, at one time , rendered them more celebrated than the Druids th

niverse; and the retirement in which they lived, allowed them all the time necessary to inform themselves. It cannot be doub

they taught it long before that philosopher travelled into Gaul. From time immemorial, they were accustomed to bury the dead

ver wrote them. It is even probable that they were composed after the time stated by ancient authority. 1. Their maxims must

wounds. But they were not confined to those kind offices. During the time of convalescence, the charm of their conversation

the Druids and the Gauls, could not have belonged to them, but at the time of their greatest degradation. There existed thre

th century. It appears that their order became extinct, not until the time in which Christianity completely triumphed over t

o be expected of the general reader in a practical age like this. The time even of the young is claimed by so many sciences

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

every door looks two ways. His temples at Rome were numerous. In war time the gates of the principal one were always open.

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

oured. This state of torment might have been brought to an end at any time by Prometheus, if he had been willing to submit t

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

so that the red color mounted through the trunk to the fruit. By this time Thisbe, still trembling with fear, yet wishing no

red eyes in his head, and never went to sleep with more than two at a time , so that he kept watch of Io constantly. He suffe

ame to the bank of the river, where he overtook her, and she had only time to call for help on her friends the water nymphs.

t I have told you the truth. If I speak falsely, let this be the last time I behold his light. But it needs not much labor t

e lest I should fall headlong. Add to all this, the heaven is all the time turning round and carrying the stars with it. I h

to guide them; nor, if he knew, has he the power. Then, for the first time , the Great and Little Bear were scorched with hea

s clouds over the earth, and hurls the forked lightnings. But at that time not a cloud was to be found to interpose for a sc

g the story, and has continued to do so, from that day to this, every time a breeze passes over the place.   The story of Ki

ndented with pools, the resort of fen-birds and cormorants. Once on a time Jupiter, in, human shape, visited this country, a

in the pot to boil with the herbs, setting away the rest for another time . A beechen bowl was filled with warm water, that

that their guests might wash. While all was doing, they beguiled the time with conversation. On the bench designed for the

n in streams; where my foot stood there was a pool. In short, in less time than it takes to tell it I became a fountain. But

release; but a compromise was made, by which she was to pass half the time with her mother, and the rest with her husband Pl

sed to move, and life was extinct; but the branches retained for some time longer the vital heat.   Keats, in Endymion, all

, bubbles rose as in a pool on which raindrops fall, and in an hour’s time there sprang up a flower of bloody hue like that

ot struggle, I will not be separated from thee, unhappy husband. This time , at least, I will keep thee company. In death, if

They mate and have their young ones. For seven placid days, in winter time , Halcyone broods over her nest, which floats upon

and keeps them from disturbing the deep. The sea is given up, for the time , to his grandchildren.   The following lines from

elin, but a pruning-knife. Armed with this, she busied herself at one time to repress the too luxuriant growths, and curtail

than adore me as a god.” This reasoning somewhat quieted Psyche for a time , and while the novelty lasted she felt quite happ

be perpetual.” Thus Psyche became at last united to Cupid, and in due time they had a daughter born to them whose name was P

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

next the shoulders and breasts and limbs of men with weapons, and in time a harvest of armed warriors. Cadmus, alarmed, pre

he gods destroy thee, infamous woman,” he exclaimed; “disgrace of our time ! May neither earth nor sea yield thee a resting-p

she went to hide her blushes in the recesses of the woods. From that time forth she lived in caves and among mountain cliff

in vain endeavored to attract him uttered a prayer that he might some time or other feel what it was to love and meet no ret

tting out from the Sea of Marmora into the Archipelago. Since Byron’s time the feat has been achieved by others; but it yet

nd, if the wits don’t do him wrong, ’Twixt death and epics passed his time ,     Scribbling and killing all day long;        

ung Niobes.” Sir Richard Blackmore was a physician, and at the same time a very prolific and very tasteless poet, whose wo

tations and to embrace the victim. Then spoke Perseus: “There will be time enough for tears; this hour is all we have for re

t part of the heaven near the pole, where every night she is half the time held with her head downward, to give her a lesson

he rights of hospitality. Perseus and his friends maintained for some time the unequal contest; but the numbers of the assai

s, had a hundred arms; others, like Typhon, breathed out fire. At one time they put the gods to such fear that they fled int

at, Diana a cat, Juno a cow, Venus a fish, Mercury a bird. At another time the giants attempted to climb up into heaven, and

o that the king, Iobates, sought for some hero to destroy it. At that time there arrived at his court a gallant young warrio

Athamas and Nephele. They had two children, a boy and a girl. After a time Athamas grew indifferent to his wife, put her awa

is uncle, Pelias pretended to be willing to yield it, but at the same time suggested to the young man the glorious adventure

thought, and forthwith made preparations for the expedition. At that time the only species of navigation known to the Greek

weapons against their producer. Jason accepted the conditions, and a time was set for making the experiment. Previously, ho

of the fire-breathing bulls and the weapons of the armed men. At the time appointed, the people assembled at the grove of M

ht him how to use it, Medea herself, grew pale with fear. Jason for a time kept his assailants at bay with his sword and shi

have tasted     The fountain that runs by Philosophy’s shrine, Their time with the flowers on the margin have wasted,     A

her purpose. Nine nights she employed in her search, and during that time came not within the doors of her palace nor under

daughters of Pelias saw the experiment with delight, and appointed a time for their father to undergo the same operation. B

root, falls prone. But an arrow from Atalanta at length for the first time tastes the monster’s blood. It is a slight wound,

ut in the place of the head knocked off, two new ones grew forth each time . At length with the assistance of his faithful se

roll away the stone and take them from under it. When she thought the time had come, his mother led Theseus to the stone, an

by his father, and declared his successor. The Athenians were at that time in deep affliction, on account of the tribute whi

n from this calamity, or to die in the attempt. Accordingly, when the time of sending off the tribute came, and the youths a

r, and continued five days. They gave rise to the custom of reckoning time and dating events by Olympiads. The first Olympia

nds trembled. He kissed the boy, not knowing that it was for the last time . Then rising on his wings, he flew off, encouragi

g rods and nets and their fisherman’s trade. This I followed for some time , till growing weary of remaining in one place, I

he sacred rites of Bacchus.” Pentheus here exclaimed, “We have wasted time enough on this silly story. Take him away and hav

fleet and obey the rein, and will take you through the air in a short time .” So she gave her the rein, and she drove away an

e delivered the commands of Ceres; and, though she stopped as short a time as possible, and kept her distance as well as she

woman or other person except myself to have been hereabouts for some time .” He was deceived and went his way, thinking his

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

her messenger and let him know when she would admit his society. One time the bee came to Rhœcus when he was playing at dra

my body. My bulk was my protection, and he assailed me in vain. For a time we stopped, then returned to the conflict. We eac

t touching his. Thrice Hercules tried to throw me off, and the fourth time he succeeded, brought me to the ground, and himse

metus revived, and she was rapidly sinking to the grave. Just at this time Hercules arrived at the palace of Admetus, and fo

ar by year. The first year fell to the lot of Eteocles, who, when his time expired, refused to surrender the kingdom to his

f them for her husband. Penelope, however, employed every art to gain time , still hoping for Ulysses’ return. One of her art

n a sieve, and Sisyphus sat on his rock to listen. Then for the first time , it is said, the cheeks of the Furies were wet wi

to embrace one another, they grasped only the air! Dying now a second time , she yet cannot reproach her husband, for how can

lyre was placed by Jupiter among the stars. His shade passed a second time to Tartarus, where he sought out his Eurydice and

o foretell future events, and he became a renowned soothsayer. At one time his enemies took him captive and kept him strictl

ook down upon us. Ye who slay me unoffending, when I am no more, your time of trembling shall come. Ye Nereids, receive your

amidst the laughter which followed the great man’s jest. In a little time he received a message that two young men on horse

rtality; but, forgetting to have youth joined in the gift, after some time she began to discern, to her great mortification,

me, forgot his flocks and his well-stored caverns. Then for the first time he began to take some care of his appearance, and

nd looked like the stream of a river rendered turbid by rains, and in time it became clear. The rock cleaved open, and the w

ry led Protesilaus back to the upper world, and when he died a second time Laodamia died with him. There was a story that th

he extent of the Grecian calamities. He reminded him also how, at the time of departing for Troy, Achilles and himself had b

is friend, and to guide his inexperience. “Now,” said Nestor, “is the time for such influence. If the gods so please, thou m

ards their country. Nine days they sped before the wind, and all that time Ulysses had stood at the helm, without sleep. At

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

pent with toil, breathless and speechless and almost dead. After some time , reviving, he kissed the soil, rejoicing, yet at

in which were a farm and garden belonging to the king. After allowing time for the princess and her companions to reach the

ght meet to the royal abode. Ulysses obeyed the directions and in due time proceeded to the city, on approaching which he me

seated himself in the manner of suppliants, at the hearth side. For a time none spoke. At last an aged statesman, addressing

nd he sang so feelingly the terrors and the exploits of that eventful time that all were delighted, but Ulysses was moved to

The next day Ulysses set sail in the Phæacian vessel, and in a short time arrived safe at Ithaca, his own island. When the

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

and sped the arrow unerring through the rings. Without allowing them time to express their astonishment, he said, “Now for

ir future course, and not till after many adventures and the lapse of time sufficient to carry a modern navigator several ti

ved, was a spot on the coast of Africa opposite Sicily, where at that time a Tyrian colony under Dido, their queen, were lay

mile wide, and very deep, surrounded by high banks, which in Virgil’s time were covered with a gloomy forest. Mephitic vapor

led them high above his reach. The Sibyl now warned Æneas that it was time to turn from these melancholy regions and seek th

ises answered, “They are souls to which bodies are to be given in due time . Meanwhile they dwell on Lethe’s bank, and drink

rown bodies have not the purity of childhood. So in proportion to the time which the union of body and soul has lasted is th

rojan state founded, from which should rise the Roman power, to be in time the sovereign of the world. Æneas and the Sibyl t

ed With all of brave and excellent and fair         That made the old time splendid.” Milton also alludes to the same fabl

three hundred harvests. My body shrinks up as years increase, and in time , I shall be lost to sight, but my voice will rema

and all his tributary fountains to lend their aid. Then for the first time a vessel filled with armed warriors floated on th

-born, which precludes him from the choice. You, equally by birth and time of life, and fame in arms, pointed out by the god

suade me. I am fixed in the resolution to go with you. Let us lose no time .” They called the guard, and committing the watch

Æneas, with his Etrurian allies, arrived on the scene of action in time to rescue his beleaguered camp; and now the two a

mplicity of manners. The first lesson they learned was silence; for a time they were required to be only hearers. “He [Pytha

quitting one abode pass to another. I myself can remember that in the time of the Trojan war I was Euphorbus, the son of Pan

to charm our senses so;) And let your silver chime Move in melodious time ,     And let the base of Heaven’s deep organ blow

, hush!’” Myth of Osiris and Isis. Osiris and Isis were at one time induced to descend to the earth to bestow gifts a

Anubis, the son of Osiris and Nephthys. They sought in vain for some time ; for when the chest, carried by the waves to the

d to him. Sacrifices were made to him, and once every year, about the time when the Nile began to rise, a golden cup was thr

in such a manner that it could be taken out; and by this means, from time to time, purloined the treasure. This amazed Hyri

a manner that it could be taken out; and by this means, from time to time , purloined the treasure. This amazed Hyrieus, for

ange of skin. The worship of Æsculapius was introduced into Rome in a time of great sickness, and an embassy sent to the tem

clairvoyance really called into action. Another question is as to the time when the Pagan oracles ceased to give responses.

istorical fact, under the form of an allegory, but came in process of time to be understood literally. Thus Saturn, who devo

and patriotic legends. The prevailing opinion of the learned, at this time , seems to be that the framework and much of the s

 — “And now I close my work, which not the ire Of Jove, nor tooth of time , nor sword, nor fire Shall bring to nought. Come

red enter the sacred place. The reader will, we apprehend, by this time have had enough of absurdities, but still we can

fore sometimes be carried with the fuel to the fire, and wake up only time enough to put forth all its faculties for its def

igion, or rather the reformer of the religion which preceded him. The time when he lived is doubtful, but it is certain that

that his system became the dominant religion of Western Asia from the time of Cyrus (550 B. C.) to the conquest of Persia by

on incessant war. But this state of things will not last forever. The time will come when the adherents of Ormuzd shall ever

they hold that some few individuals have appeared on this earth from time to time, not under the necessity of terrestrial e

ld that some few individuals have appeared on this earth from time to time , not under the necessity of terrestrial existence

l they cut each other in pieces. This is their pastime; but when meal time comes they recover from their wounds and return t

ne-handed. How Thor Paid the Mountain Giant His Wages Once on a time , when the gods were constructing their abodes and

adlong into Niffleheim. The Recovery of the Hammer. Once upon a time it happened that Thor’s hammer fell into the poss

out three? Shorter hath seemed A month to me oft Than of this longing time the half.” So Frey obtained Gerda, the most beau

ad just then awoke, and that as it was only midnight, there was still time for sleep. He, however, resolved that if he had a

An acorn fell on my head. What! Art thou awake, Thor? Me thinks it is time for us to get up and dress ourselves; but you hav

m not far from the starting place. Then they ran a second and a third time , but Thialfi met with no better success. Utgard-L

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

nted a net to catch the fishes, such as fishermen have used since his time . But Odin found out his hiding-place and the gods

t of the Gods. It was a firm belief of the northern nations that a time would come when all the visible creation, the god

dim, the earth sinks into the ocean, the stars fall from heaven, and time is no more. After this Alfadur (the Almighty) wil

als of history, and a faithful picture of the state of society at the time to which they relate. Iceland. The Eddas an

ry year in black tempests, yet with a wild, gleaming beauty in summer time , towering up there stern and grim in the North Oc

ublic or private, all crimes against person or property, were at this time brought before them for adjudication. With these

rive thither two milk-white bulls, whose horns are then for the first time bound. The priest then, robed in white, ascends t

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

one else might tread.” The Druidical system was at its height at the time of the Roman invasion under Julius Caesar. Agains

shable place in history as the seat of civilization and religion at a time when the darkness of heathenism hung over almost

connected by birth with the princes of the land. Ireland was at that time a land of gospel light, while the western and nor

ich he was the head. To these, as occasion required, others were from time to time added, so that the original number was al

as the head. To these, as occasion required, others were from time to time added, so that the original number was always kep

tis Tempus eget. —  Virgil . Not such aid nor such defenders does the time require. No. 8. Page 331. Incidit in Scyl

19. Pyrrhus’s exclamation, “ Not such aid nor such defenders does the time require,” has become proverbial. See Prov. Exp. p

o fear that the words which they spoke would be misunderstood; but as time went on they scattered, and it came to pass that

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

milk, and honey. Festivals were held at night, by torchlight. At the time of the new moon, the wealthy sent suppers to be p

Hindu, Dyu; Phœnician, Moloch*; Egyptian, Seb. Chronos was the god of time . He married Rhea, a daughter of Uranus and Gæa. T

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

hem was that of Dodona*, where the Pelasgian* Zeus was worshiped at a time prior to the existence of any temple in Greece. M

he Capitol at Rome. This, after being nearly destroyed by fire in the time of Sulla, was restored to more than its pristine

d-eyed Argus* to watch her. When asleep, he closed only two eyes at a time . Hermes*, however, by the command of Zeus, succee

of Priam, King of Troy, who, ignorant of his noble birth, was at that time feeding flocks on Mount Ida. Hermes conducted the

rtunes during the Trojan war were attributed to her influence. At one time Hera, being deeply offended with Zeus, determined

eprived of his dominion over the sea for one year. It was during this time that, in conjunction with Apollo, he built for La

es dark, gloomy, melancholy, and invisible. The term Hades at a later time denoted the unseen world beneath the earth. When

deity as the inexorable god of death was much diminished in course of time , yet Hades, nevertheless, always conveyed to the

led, were driven by Aides into his dominions, where they passed their time in brooding over the vicissitudes of fortune whic

t continued from the eighteenth to the end of the month, during which time presents were carried to the graves of deceased f

revenge for the murder of his father, Agamemnon*, wandered for a long time about the earth in a condition bordering on madne

for and against him were equal, declared that then, and in all future time , the criminal should have the benefit of the doub

rtality of the soul. The grain, which, as it were, remains dead for a time in the dark earth, only to rise one day dressed i

Athene. The sacred olive-tree, which Athene had caused to grow at the time of her contest with Poseidon about naming the cit

burning on the public hearth was never allowed to die out. If at any time it went out, either from neglect or by accident,

her, as she valued his love, not to endeavor to behold him. For some time Psyche was obedient, but in the midst of her happ

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

r of his family should be willing to die in his place. When the fatal time came, Alcestis took his place. But Heracles* (Her

It was originally a mere surname, and does not occur until after the time of Herodotus.” Dwight . Dionysus was the son o

rvius* Tullius erected a temple to her, and made the 24th of June the time for her festival. The Romans honored a deity call

a sanctuary of this kind, closed with doors, which were open only in time of war. Janus is always represented with two face

e of them that they have, to a great extent, withstood the ravages of time . The city of Athens contains numerous remains of

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

Statues. The Greeks had no representations of their gods until the time of Cecrops. The most ancient representations cons

es the victim was laid upon the altar and burned whole; but after the time of Prometheus portions only were sacrificed, the

ever since been tormented by disease and care. She closed the jar in time to prevent the escape of Hope. Another story is t

the eagle that fed on the inconsumable liver of Prometheus.” At the time of the Panathenaic* festival, in the evening, was

orship of Prometheus at Athens. Ages of the World. In course of time temples were raised to the different gods, and pr

us and Pandora, and reigned over the southern part of Thessaly at the time when Zeus resolved to destroy mankind by a flood.

to spend eight years in servitude to Ares. At the expiration of that time , the god of war became reconciled to Cadmus, and

father in the government, agreeing to reign alternately one year at a time . Eteocles, being the elder, first ascended the th

the sacrifice of the king’s daughter, Andromeda. Cepheus, after some time , yielded to the entreaties of his people, and she

ction of the oracle, fled for protection to the king of Larissa. Some time after, Perseus went to Larissa to contend at some

e. He first sent him to kill the Chimæra, a monster which was at that time devastating the country. It had the head of a lio

ant Antæus*, a powerful son of Earth, who received new strength every time he touched the ground. The hero lifted him up in

n for him the hearts of the people. The Marathonian* bull was at this time committing great ravages. Theseus went to Maratho

deliver his country from this shameful tribute. Accordingly, when the time came for sending the youths and maidens, who were

, Meleager, Orpheus; Æsculapius was surgeon, and Tiphys, pilot. For a time all things were favorable, when suddenly a storm

achmg danger. She then advised Jason to accompany her without loss of time to the sacred grove, in order to secure the covet

came king of Troy, and he was succeeded by Priam, who was king at the time of the Trojan War. He was married to Hecuba*, and

the nymph Œnone*,14 whom Rhea had taught prophecy. It was about this time that Paris gave his famous decision in favor of t

len was the daughter of Zeus and Leda, and the loveliest woman of her time . The fame of her beauty drew many kings to the co

experience any difficulty. Ulysses, famed for his wisdom, was at this time living happily at Ithaca with his fair young wife

he siege would last ten years. Iphigenia*. The fleet lay a long time in the harbor waiting for a fair wind. Just as th

er of Agamemnon, would alone appease the incensed goddess. For a long time the unhappy father refused to listen to all argum

ds their own country. Nine days they sailed before the wind, all that time Odysseus had stood at the helm without sleep. At

to quaff the blood of the sacrifice which would restore to them for a time their mental vigor. Remembering the injunction of

other husband, as they believed Odysseus to be dead. In order to gain time , Penelope had promised to make a choice among the

hene now urged Odysseus to make himself known to his son, at the same time she touched him and gave him the appearance of vi

other fugitives they remained until the following summer. During this time they constructed a fleet, in which such of the Tr

Trojan state founded, from which should rise the Roman power to be in time the sovereign of the world. Æneas and the Sibyl t

t formed the earth in the early ages. Chronos, or Saturn, personified time . Rhea, or Ops, personified the productive power o

rain. Offices of the Deities. Chronos, or Saturn, presided over time and the systematic movements of the heavenly bodi

ied — the soil, the sky, the east, the west, even the general idea of time and space. Each month and day had its own god. Th

ast, and was fed with milk for four months. At the expiration of this time the priests repaired, at new moon, with great pom

d to him. Sacrifices were made to him, and once every year, about the time when the Nile began to rise, a golden cup was thr

deities were at first mere epithets of the sun, but came in course of time to denote different gods. Thus the sun was worshi

of Moloch was practised by the Jews with great persistency until the time of the Babylonish captivity. In Assyria, Asshur*

him. His system became the dominant religion of Western Asia from the time of Cyrus* (550 b. c.) to the conquest of Persia b

the adherents of Ormuzd and Ahriman — carry on incessant war. But the time will come when the followers of Ormuzd shall ever

56, the more modern, or prose Edda, is dated 1640; so that for a long time this mythology must have been transmitted by oral

gnarok*, or the Twilight of the Gods, was a phrase used to denote the time when all the visible creation, the gods of Valhal

flames, the sun will become dim, the stars will fall from heaven, and time shall be no more. After this universal destructio

ery year in black tempests, yet with a wild gleaming beauty in summer time , towering up there stern and grim in the North Oc

blic or private, all crimes against persons or property, were at this time brought before them for adjudication. With these

rive thither two milk-white bulls, whose horns are then for the first time bound. The priest, robed in white, ascends the tr

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

and the rainy seasons, and especially the sunset and sunrise. At the time of the discovery of America, the area east of the

the earth is cut off,’ watching in his medicine-lodge, or passing his time fishing in the endless ocean, which, on every sid

ner . Michabo is said to sleep through the winter months; and at the time of the falling leaves, by way of composing himsel

far east, on the borders of the great ocean, whence the sun comes. In time he became the father of mankind, and special guar

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

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

eath of one till the lifetime of another of those holy men, there was time for men to forget the instructions of one, before

he same truth from another, of those inspired persons. At the present time , whatever truth is discovered, is immediately pri

By tradition the knowledge of God was preserved n the world till the time of Moses; then the commandments were engraved on

of stone, and God’s law could be read to the people. Long before this time , all that God had taught the patriarchs concernin

ns of the patriarchs? How is truth certainly preserved at the present time ? What is tradition? When was God’s will first rec

lways to devour his male children; as the Hours and Days, portions of time , cease to be as soon as they exist. But according

s agriculture, and other useful arts, and made them so happy that the time of his reign was called the Golden Age. Saturn is

rvice of Vesta, were chosen between the age of six and ten years. The time of their consecration to the goddess lasted thirt

he was deified. It is probable, that Janus regulated the divisions of time among his subjects, as the first month of the yea

uspended, quarrels were forgotten, mutual presents were made, and the time was spent in mirth and friendly intercourse. This

s day has been much followed by Christian nations even to the present time . The temples of Janus were shut at Rome during th

o the present time. The temples of Janus were shut at Rome during the time of peace; but these occasions were rare. First, i

, B. C. 232; and three times by the emperor Augustus. During the last time our Saviour was born in Judea, then a Roman provi

stence is one in the Vesospi palace at Rome. On a medal struck in the time of the emperor Vitellius, is an impression like t

ift was the most valued by the inhabitants of Cecropia, and from that time they called their city Athenæ. Minerva was rep

rs and conveyed by them to heaven, only signifies that she passed her time happily:             Young Dione, nursed beneath

ht to be quiet, and to do nothing rashly.” — Acts, ch. xix. From this time , however, the phantoms of Paganism faded before t

Proteus. History makes mention of a Proteus King of Egypt, about the time of the Trojan war, who was illustrious for his se

uth; Eurus, the east; and Zephyrus, the west wind. Æolus lived in the time of the Trojan war, and reigned over the Æolian is

heel, which raised up some persons, and threw down others at the same time . Envy and Discord. Envy was personified by

orm twelve most arduous labours, Eurystheus reminding him at the same time that Jupiter had given him the power to command h

l, which had been overflowed, produced fruits and flowers. Before the time of Hercules, the ancients pretended that the Medi

t garment upon him, it would revive his attachment to her. After that time , Hercules, remembering that the father of Iole ha

ich sometimes made him remit his exertions, and indulge himself for a time in repose and amusement. It was said, that Omphal

necessary to understand what is meant by the Amazons. At the present time , by an Amazon, we express the idea of a bold woma

value than a hundred ordinary persons. We know better at the present time . The young persons who were to be sent to Crete w

at he would displace the black sail and put up a white one. About the time that he expected Theseus, Ægeus used to go to a p

their own chiefs and inferior magistrates among themselves. Until the time of Theseus, these petty states were always at war

gulations, and some of them adopted the same institutions. Before the time of Theseus, Athens was a rude place, without any

anished him to the island of Scyros, where he died and was buried. In time , the Athenians forgot the follies of Theseus, and

ions of Theseus produce? What was the state of Athens previous to the time of Theseus, and how did he improve it? Was the co

oses: and she instructed him in all the accomplishments known at that time to the Corinthians. The companions of Œdipus envi

did not care whom he had killed, but went on towards Phocis • At that time a terrible monster, called the Sphinx, ravaged th

echtheus, a king of Athens. Dædalus was the most ingenious man of his time and was the reputed inventor of the wedge, the le

flesh of birds which he killed with his arrows. A soothsayer at that time told the Greeks that Troy never could be taken wi

been done according to the will of the gods. The three friends in due time arrived at Argos, and were all kindly welcomed by

which the ancients considered as the first of duties. At a convenient time , they persuaded him to relate his adventures. Uly

nth. Thales was born at Miletus, in Ionia, about 640 B. C. At that time , the means of knowledge, schools, and colleges, d

e most intelligent of the European Greeks; but all the Greeks at that time looked to Egypt for instruction. Thales, in his

, one of the archons, or chief magistrates of Athens, just before the time of Solon, had established laws, which the Athenia

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

tomed to say, “are most difficult. To keep a secret — to employ one’s time worthily — to bear injuries with patience.” It is

neck; dragging constantly along a heavy weight; remaining for a long time in the most painful positions of body; drowning t

spikes, and may be seen in this state till they expire, being a long time sustained by others infatuated like themselves, w

of Vala, the prophetess. Hard by the eastern gate of Hell In ancient time great Vala fell; And there she lies in massive to

iser, she Held the strange keys of destiny. She knew what chanced ere time began; Ere worlds there were, or gods, or man; No

after him, Horus was considered as the supreme lord and regulator of time ; and therefore, he was represented as the star of

ifferent ranks and various orders, who presided over the divisions of time , the succession of the seasons, and the various o

n worship the things which are made, instead of him who made them. In time they give names to these false gods, add stories

religions. The Romans celebrate the reign of Saturn, and call the time of his government the Golden Age; and they honour

nfine the blessed to the House of the Sun; they supposed that after a time , they might explore the whole universe — sometime

mounted to one hundred and thirty-six thousand. The Spaniards, at the time of the discovery, supposed that the empire of Mex

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

on vanished slowly away before the light of the new truth. About this time , the law against foreign deities had fallen into

how did the Athenians receive the preaching of St. Paul? What at this time was the public opinion in respect to the ancient

hip with expressions of veneration and joy, is common, at the present time , among Christians. The memorable fact, that “grov

” is found in the history of all primitive people. “Trees, in the old time , served for the temples of the gods,” said a Lati

ed the Sibyl, for such she was, her demand, and she left him a second time : still she returned again, having but three books

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

tion of a people, who consented in such a work; who gave to it money, time , and skill; and the sentiments of patriotism, and

as the Parthenon has been described, the spectator, who for the first time approaches it, finds that nothing he has read can

correct notion of the fashions of dress peculiar to the Greeks in the time of Pericles. Among the articles of dress, may be

lled the cothornus, and resembling that sometimes worn at the present time . Some of the horsemen of the Parthenon wore light

metimes taken falsely, and sometimes needlessly by the people of that time ; and they did not hold God in suitable reverence

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

observed by them in their belief, and in their worship, very near the time that Athens was founded, (B. C. 1556,) and at the

very near the time that Athens was founded, (B. C. 1556,) and at the time in which these polished nations of Greece, of Egy

id aside the ceremonies of his country, but has preserved through all time , the piety and virtue, which were the weightier m

ch. Christian churches have followed this example even to the present time . The pope of Rome, and the primate of all England

ttending to the common business of life. This vow was only made for a time . The Nazarite permitted his hair to grow during t

y made for a time. The Nazarite permitted his hair to grow during the time for which the vow was made. The other holy person

The Feast of Tabernacles was kept to preserve the remembrance of the time when the Hebrews wandered in the desert, and rest

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

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

o have been Sidney's Arcadia, which commences thus : — «It was in the time that the earth begins to put on her new appareil

e-vessel : she holds a cloth in her hand. Coin of the Cnidians of the time of Caracalla, taken from the Aphrodite of Praxite

fables in this circumstance, and in that of their having been at one time matters of actual belief. Mythology may therefore

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

al, though probably incorrect inference is, that the waters stood one time at that height. The ancient Arcadians said that A

we can only see that, as we shall presently show, Olympos was in the time of Homer held to be the seat of the gods. It does

 ; for they could not assume several kings and queens reigning at one time . The ancients appear to me to have gotten over th

e aid of fiction and forgery so as to suit their purposes. About this time , also, the system of theocrasy (θεοκραία), or mix

ves ; several occupied themselves in the explication of them. At this time what is named Pragmatism, or the effort to reduce

eat Mother. She succeeded her father in his dominion ; and after some time she married Hyperiôn, one of her brothers, to who

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

as entertained on this subject by the most accomplished Romans of his time . After the conflict had commenced between Heathen

Greeks of the days of which Homer sings, or rather of the poet’s own time , though well acquainted with navigation, do not a

ays for an anvil to fall from Heaven to Earth ; and an equal space of time would be occupied by its fall from Earth to the b

al. These divisions do not seem to have had any peculiar names in the time of Homer. The northern one was afterwards named E

rope96; the southern, at first called Asia alone97, was in process of time divided into Asia and Libya98. The former compris

of Lesser Asia. They do not seem to have navigated the Euxine at this time , though they were doubtless not ignorant of it, a

life is easiest unto men ; no snow, Or wintry storm, or rain, at any time Is there ; but Ocean evermore sends up Shrill-blo

cause thou hast espoused Helena, and art son-in-law of Zeus. In the time of Hesiod112 the Elysian Plain was become the Isl

its greater diameter running east and west130. In like manner in the time of Pindar131 and Æschylus132 the Ocean had increa

thout bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth and height, And time and place are lost. It contained the ‘embryon at

r as driving through Olympos, — the sky according to the views of his time  ; Theocritus179 calls the stars ‘the attendants o

oddess, having forgotten to have youth joined in the gift, began with time to discern old-age creeping over the visage and l

Apollo and Artemis under the new order of things, which succeeded the time of the Titans. The name Phœbe plainly signifies L

were really the same, but which had been separated in the progress of time . In Hecate we seem to have instances of both proc

ns and elsewhere in the market-places and at cross-roads ; and at the time of new moon the wealthy persons used to send supp

s originally merely a philosophical mythe. Kronos evidently signifies time 325 : he is the son of Heaven, by the motion of w

time 325 : he is the son of Heaven, by the motion of whose luminaries time is measured ; he is married to Rhea (ῥέα, flowing

naries time is measured ; he is married to Rhea (ῥέα, flowingly), and time flows ; he devours his own children, and time des

a (ῥέα, flowingly), and time flows ; he devours his own children, and time destroys what it has brought into existence. Perh

he cajoled her when she was pregnant, and swallowed her ; and after a time the goddess Pallas Athene sprang from his head. H

greeable manner, to the following effect400. Zeus and Hermes came one time in the form of men to a town in Phrygia. It was e

ht abridge its period, than the ancient Greeks were472. In process of time , when communication with Egypt and Asia had enlar

It was now divided into two separate regions : Tartaros, which in the time of Homer and Hesiod was thought to lie far beneat

e : it was forged for him by Hephæstos, the later writers say, in the time of the war against the Titans. Pallas Athene, whe

Bœotia did the same ; and this was called the Little Dædala. When the time of the Great Dædala came, there were fourteen ima

designed to form an astronomical cycle, and to serve as a calendar of time , and also to operate as a bond of union among the

e noticed. It is given without any disguise by Euripides535, in whose time the deities of the popular creed were generally r

he ancient Phliasians, Pausanias says597, called Ganymede, but in his time she was named Hebe. Strabo says598 that Hebe was

tyos, the son of Earth or of Zeus and Elara, happened to see Leto one time as she was going to Pytho. Inflamed with love he

birth of Phœbos-Apollo in the isle of Delos as being posterior to the time of these poets. According to the Homeridian hymn

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

ven), served Laomedôn, king of Troy, for a year ; at the end of which time he refused to pay them their wages, and threatene

boreans. Having given laws for a whole year among those men, when the time was come which he had appointed for the Delphic t

ars his bow or lyre. The wonderful Apollo Belvidere shows at the same time the conception which the ancients had of this ben

on earth is assigned as the birth-place of Artemis by Homer, in whose time , as we have more than once observed, that practic

ought in the attributes and epithets of these deities anterior to the time of theocrasy. Apollo and Artemis then are brother

chises, a beautiful youth of the royal house of Troy, who was at that time with the herdsmen feeding oxen among the hills an

h love and desire. Anchises happened to be alone in the cotes at this time , and was amusing his leisure by playing on the ly

ng of this fable is so apparent that it needs not explication. At the time when it was become the mode to exalt the characte

er as if he had been their father ; and after caressing them for some time , he restored them to their native element. His co

oses, and which we will here give in an abridged form. There were one time a king and a queen who had three daughters, of wh

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

xpressly called the moon807 ; on the coins of Attica, anterior to the time of Pericles, there was a moon along with the owl

olicy of making an enemy of one of the consorts of Zeus ; at the same time courtier-like telling her that, if she pleases, s

hile below ; for if she had not, she would be free to spend her whole time with her father and mother ; whereas if but one m

obability the oldest account of this celebrated event. In progress of time it underwent various alterations ; the scene was

d part of the year in the ground, it is probable that by the space of time which Persephone was to spend with the god in the

arance of the ear, during which the corn is away ; and which space of time in some species of grain, barley for instance, is

he late age of the fiction ; for, as we have already observed, in the time of Homer celestial horses were the only draught-c

eks of either sex and of every rank, provided they came at the proper time , had committed no inexpiable offence, had perform

great influence over growth in general996 ; and as moreover a woman’s time was reckoned by moons, it was natural to conceive

Orphie Hymns assign them the rulers of Erebos for parents1020. In the time of the Alexandrians, the Erinnyes, like the Fates

t is probable the mythology of this god gradually underwent after the time of Homer. It has been very justly observed by Lob

ies at the present day, like haymaking and harvest-home in England, a time of merry-making and festivity ; and the festival

, it is not improbable, was not introduced into Greece till after the time when the Æolians colonised the coast of Asia abou

cent extravagance, having been very prevalent among the Greeks at the time when the Ionians were permitted to settle in Egyp

f his birth from the thigh (μηρòς) of Zeus1106. At length, during the time of the Græco-Bactric kingdom, some Greek writers,

maturely expelled from her womb, and sewed it up in his thigh. In due time it came to the birth, and Zeus then naming it Dio

s from the perusal of Homer to that of those writers who lived in the time of the Persian war, he will feel as if removed to

by the perfection of lyric poetry, which commenced a little after the time of Hesiod, and by the origin of philosophy and th

n the regal power had been abolished, increased. But that at the same time the mystic ceremonies, whose first traces appear

t the contagion had secretly insinuated itself into Greece before the time of Pythagoras ? But it is not without reason beli

rhaps a century or two after Homer, and completed a little before the time of Onomacritus1135.” It is needless to remind our

Great Mother were common in Greece, particularly at Athens, in their time . The worship of Cybele was introduced into Rome a

9. The worship of Pan seems to have been confined to Arcadia till the time of the battle of Marathôn, when Pheidippides, the

he Acropolis, and offered him annual sacrifices1170. Long before this time the Grecian and Egyptian systems of religion had

ther gods who were originally single, Pan was multiplied in course of time , and we meet Pans in the plural1185. Pan was call

: But he was paying the penalty laid on His father’s crime ; for one time , cutting trees Alone among the hills, he spurned

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

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

ery other woman, and told him that a bee should be her messenger. One time the bee happened to come to Rhœcos as he was play

y loquacious character, used to keep Hera in chat till the nymphs had time to make their escape. When Hera discovered the ar

th his singing and his music, in which he excelled all the men of his time , being the inventor of the lyre and the shepherd’

ipe, and they often danced to his melody. Pan also loved him, and one time warned him to drive his flocks down into the plai

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

ide of Ocean. Hither, however, they were all removed in the course of time , and even to the Syrtes and Cyrene1306. In short,

less to look for its exact position as for that of Laputa1355. At the time when Odysseus came to it, it must have been lying

er it remained immovable during the month that he spent in it, or the time that elapsed between his departure and return. Th

Æolos, sailed on further for six days and nights, at the end of which time he reached the land of the Læstrygonians ; and th

remity of the Sea, could not have been considerable, as the length of time consumed in the passage thither is not specified.

the mischievous part of the character of the Sirens was in process of time left out, and they were regarded as purely musica

ythe1439. The gods first made the golden race of men, who were in the time when Kronos ruled in heaven. They lived like gods

th its mother, and when they attained to youth they lived but a short time , for they would not abstain from mutual injury, n

picture of the fifth or iron race of men ; a picture often since his time redrawn by moralists and poets in every region of

e will be no defence against evil. Aratus1441 is the next in order of time who mentions the ages of the world. He speaks of

pring, the earth producing everything spontaneously for them : in the time of the second the division of the seasons took pl

, the three last by Zeus, who attained the supremacy of heaven in the time of the second or silver race. Earth covers each r

deification of the golden race are an interpolation, inserted at the time when the intercourse prevailed with Egypt, and Gr

e days however when the true sense of the venerable mythes of the old time was lost, Atlas, the keeper of the pillars that s

ery night as much as it had lost in the day. After a long interval of time , however, he consented to Heracles’ slaying the e

on the back of an ass, and let him trot on before them. It was summer time , and the ass quite overcome by thirst went up to

rror at the sight of these monsters, she clapped down the lid just in time to prevent the escape of Hope, who thus remained

d to the neighbouring lofty mountains, perished in the waves. At that time the mountains of Thessaly were burst, and all Gre

rk for nine days and nights until he reached Mount Parnassos. By this time the rain had ceased, and he got out and sacrifice

epresents others having escaped as well as Deucaliôn, yet at the same time intimates that he and his wife alone had been pre

personification of water1505 ) to be the person who was saved at the time of the deluge which overflowed Greece, but the ac

reece. The Homeric poems exhibit to us the people of Greece at the time of the Trojan war as a race very far removed from

nt so many colonies to the East and the West. It was probably at this time that the word Hellenes came into use ; for the Gr

rd, commencing with the Dorian migration, and being for some space of time mytho-historic or history mingled with fable1522,

mytho-historic or history mingled with fable1522, assumes toward the time of Solôn the lineaments of truth, and becomes rea

nd was laid in the tomb ; but Heracles happening to come just at this time to the house of Admetos, and hearing what had occ

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

eat splendour by his son Acastos, and the most renowned heroes of the time in Greece contended at the games celebrated on th

, as another account has it, when the Argo was falling to pieces with time Medeia persuaded him to sleep under the prow, and

ion, to give a colour of right to the Ætolian conquest of Elis at the time of the Dorian Migration. We may observe that the

leagros as an instance of the impolicy of not yielding readily and in time  : “I remember this event,” says he, “long ago, no

race, which were instituted by the Tyrrhenian Pelasgians, who, at the time of the Dorian migration being driven from Bœotia,

aging bees was ascribed to Aristæos1644. Tradition also said that one time when the isle of Ceos was afflicted by a drought,

us advances of his step-mother or his aunt1662, and again that in the time of dearth he offered himself as a voluntary victi

former devoted himself to the care of cattle ; the latter passed his time in the practice of music, having been presented w

the daughter of Asopos, and Asios made her the wife of Epopeus at the time of her conception1674. It is indeed not improbabl

is offspring. He long abstained from his wife : at length, having one time drunk too much wine on a solemn occasion, his lov

e in such a manner that it could be taken out, and by this means from time to time purloined the treasure. This amazed Hyrie

h a manner that it could be taken out, and by this means from time to time purloined the treasure. This amazed Hyrieus ; for

d that but one of the maidens had enjoyed his embraces1731. Revolving time , however, beheld fifty of his progeny. He slew th

robe by Athena. He himself cut his club in the Nemean wood1735. Some time after his war with the Minyans he fell into madne

he temple of his sire. Heracles engaged him ; and, finding that every time he threw him to the ground he rose with renewed s

o take the golden apples, but to send Atlas for them, and in the mean time to support the heaven in his stead. The hero did

Cteatos, the sons of Molione and Actôr, who excelled all men of that time in strength1773. Heracles happening to fall sick,

attacked his army, and killed several of his men. He retired at that time  ; but in the third Isthmiad afterwards, when the

inks that the Peloponnesian adventures were mostly invented after the time of the Dorian invasion, which they were intended

r V. MYTHES OF ATTICA. Κέκροψ. Cecrops. Ogyges, in whose time the Bœotic flood is placed, is said by some to ha

al, to have had a body composed of those of a man and a snake. In his time the gods began to choose cities for themselves ;

and Phanodemus maintained that Saïs was colonised from Athens. In the time of the Ptolemies it became the fashion to regard

s. Cecrops was succeeded by Cranaos, another autochthon, in whose time the flood of Deucaliôn is said to have happened.

r Procne in marriage, by whom Tereus had a son named Itys. After some time Procne became desirous of seeing her sister, and

iopagos to perpetual banishment. He went to Thebes, which was at that time ravaged by a fox which nothing could overtake, an

year to be devoured by the Minotaur. This hard condition was for some time complied with. At length Theseus, the son of the

take by their tops the pine-trees with which the Isthmus was at that time overgrown, and bend them to the ground ; and henc

m this calamity, or to die in the attempt. Accordingly when the third time of sending off the tribute came, and the youths a

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

ture ; yet it had originated in the midst of arms. Peirithoös had one time made an irruption into the plain of Marathon, and

ow pursue the explanation of the legendary history of Attica from the time of Cecrops. It is not necessary for us, we presum

king of Megara, if the Neleids of Pylos had not come to Attica at the time of the Dorian Migration. We are now to consider I

ver his body. His strength was prodigious : and Arcadia being at that time infested by a wild bull, he attacked and slew him

ide in that island, he proceeded to Argos, where Gelanôr, who at that time ruled over the country, cheerfully resigned the g

arch, and were called Danaans1913. The country of Argos being at this time extremely deficient in pure and wholesome water (

edience, put her into close confinement. Relenting however after some time , he gave his consent to her union with Lynceus, a

Poseidôn was called Nauplios. He attained a great age, and passed his time on the sea lamenting the fate of those who were l

d bring him even the head of the Gorgon. The king said nothing at the time  ; but next day, when the rest brought each his ho

d Pegasos and Chrysaôr the father of Geryoneus, for Medusa was at the time pregnant by Poseidôn. Perseus took up the head, p

ios consented ; but Teutamias, the king of Larissa, happening at that time to celebrate funeral games in honour of his fathe

ior additions. Pallas-Athene having become the guide of heroes at the time when the mythe was extended, she may have been su

h of the Peloponnese, was accompanied by his daughter, who was at the time pregnant by Apollo, but unknown to her father. He

Beside his other sons, and Nyctimos who reigned over Arcadia at the time of Deucaliôn’s flood, Lycaôn had a daughter named

he herdsmen caught both her and him, and brought them to Lycaôn. Some time afterwards she went into the temenos of Zeus Lycæ

woods. He brought it to Leda, who laid it up in a coffer, and in due time Helena was produced from it2001. Hesiod, on the o

into captivity. They took part in all the great undertakings of their time , were at the Calydonian hunt, accompanied Heracle

sun and moon are the parents. The conjunction of these bodies at the time of new-moon is a matter of common observation. Mi

ery remarkable expression when he speaks of the moon as being at this time ‘hid in her vacant interlunar cave.’ Endymiôn is

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

at variance with the atrocities above related. It was probably at the time when the Greeks had become familiar with Asia and

es possess, and that the art of historic criticism was unknown in his time . The Cretan cycle is confined to the Minoïc famil

of gratifying. Dædalos, the celebrated Athenian artist, being at that time in Crete, having fled from home for homicide, und

been the birth-place of Oriôn. As Zeus, Poseidôn, and Hermes were one time , says the legend, taking a ramble on earth, they

lated. As all the legends respecting him are evidently later than the time of Homer, none ventures to assign any other cause

le Orpheus struck his lyre in concert with his voice, their oars kept time to the harmony. The gods looked down from the sky

ne, at length reached the isle of Lemnos, in which there were at that time no men, and Hypsipyle the daughter of Thoas gover

o Colchis, where they shortly after entered the Phasis. Iasôn lost no time in informing king Æetes of the cause of his comin

ed, provided she was yet a maid. His wife Arete hearing this, lost no time in joining the lovers in wedlock ; and the Colchi

the Syrtes on the coast of Libya. After being detained there for some time they proceeded on their homeward voyage and came

not belong to this people were added to the cycle in the progress of time by the poets and by the vanity of those whose pat

e Hyperboreans ‘the Cronian Main and Dead Sea.’ Having rowed for some time through its sluggish waters, they disembarked, an

him Alexandros2202. He was recognised by his parents in the course of time , and he verified his mother's dream2203. Beside h

l owners of the soil. These settlements were probably long before the time of the Dorian Migration ; for we must not give im

so named, as we are told, from the following circumstance2276. In the time of Numa there occurred great thunder-storms and r

number. The former, called the Greater, was celebrated in March, the time when, according to the Tuscan discipline, Minerva

from the effect of the fires which used to be made on it in the night time . The people followed the example, and set up simi

r in the Salian hymns, and we are assured that she was unknown in the time of the kings2314. She seems to have been a deity

nt. 2. Μûθοι. The word μûθοѕ is in Homer equivalent to λόγοѕ. In the time of Pindar it had acquired the signification in wh

may be seen a convincing proof of how firmly the vulgar, even in his time , clung to the old notions. 61. Müller, Proleg. 6

. They go to sleep in their houses in the evening, but after a little time they hear a knocking at the doors, and a voice ca

ification of Delos and Ortygia was, however, certainly later than the time of Pindar, who (Nem. i. 4.) calls them sisters. (

especting the mysteries introduced by him into Greece long before the time of Homer. According to these mystics (Symb. iii.

. See end of this chapter. 1094. Not till a century or two after the time of Homer, in the opinion of Lobeck (Aglaophamus,

tory in a fabulous garb, and then refers them to an early and unknown time .” 1098. Müller, Dor. i. 10. “Ægyptia numina gaud

ii. 152. 153. The historian asserts positively, that previous to this time the Greeks knew nothing certain about Egypt. 115

here she is called Фῖξ. Though this legend is probably older than the time of the first intercourse with Egypt, the Theban m

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

for the apples of the Hesperides is probably a fiction as late as the time of Hesiod, or even later. 1786. ᾽Аλλά ἐ Μοῑῤ ἐδἀ

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

351. seq. 2234. Herod. ii. 113 — 121. The fiction was as old as the time of Stesichorus, who said that Proteus gave Paris

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

his dark face. She kept weeping, and would not be comforted. All this time they were rushing over hills and valleys and acro

, in vain. Of Proserpina she found not another trace. During all this time , she had not once thought of her usual cares. Non

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

fodil.” Jean Ingelow. Prometheus and Epimetheus. From the time when Proserpina was carried off, the world began

. Jupiter, with all his thunderbolts, was not entirely secure at that time . Among the Titans, two were special friends of ma

be ready for it. After that men were more comfortable, but up to this time they knew nothing of the uses of fire and they sh

ll monsters and savage beasts. All mankind seemed then, for the first time , to be free and happy. Even Jupiter and the gods

s among men forever.” Then he turned sadly away, but for a long, long time afterward, the world was for him a very lonely pl

e hall stood the lesser gods and spirits of the world of shadows. The time had come for Orpheus to plead his cause. He struc

eus was said to be the most ignoble ruler in all the world. From this time , he spent his days and nights inventing the harde

sted no one. He sought out one mighty task after another, hoping each time that Hercules would not return alive. First he se

branch with the beautiful apples of gold upon it. Hercules wasted no time in questions. He saw that Atlas had the apples. W

to serve a mortal man for one year to atone for a fault, but now his time upon earth was ended. Thus Apollo departed, leavi

vise you to do, and rid yourself of your sour looks.” “Ah, this is no time nor place for merrymaking,” said the servant, for

f with grief now, and was no longer able to keep silence. “This is no time for merrymaking!” he cried. “It is Alcestis who i

nt where Alcestis was to be buried, then he was gone. He came just in time , for when he reached the place where they had bur

laming lamp, and the rosy goddess of dawn had appeared. It was almost time for the sun-chariot to set out. Helios ordered th

is grew fainter. Soon he was too high to hear anything more. All this time the steeds were pulling hard at the reins. They f

men whispered, as they watched the zigzag course of the chariot. The time wore slowly on, but sunset was as far distant as

er hurls his thunderbolts from the clouds, but in the hot air at this time not a cloud was to be seen. Therefore, the god la

west. Next day there was no light in the world, for Helios spent the time with Clymene, mourning the end of their child. A

invited to the palace of the king, and Perseus among them. At such a time it was the custom for each guest to bring a gift.

They had only one eye and one tooth among them, and they spent their time quarreling as to which should use the eye and whi

Thus the mind of the youth was filled with heroic thoughts. All this time Æthra told him never a word about his father. The

ving. But when he was sixteen years old, Æthra, said to herself, “The time is almost come. The boy is already taller and str

ord,” she said, “and go to Athens to your father, King Ægeus, for the time has come when I must lose you.” Next day Theseus

ause of their grief. “Alas, sir,” said an old man, “it is because the time has now returned when we must send seven of our y

ent the awful tribute, and now lots must be drawn again for the third time .” Didst thou hear the voice of woe,    Cries of

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

n did it clutch Theseus with its hands, but he was stronger, and each time tore himself loose in a flash. It tried to bite h

on the slopes of Mount Ida, in the land of Troy, there lived at this time a fair shepherd youth. He was a son of old King P

us than wealth; and they shall be yours, if you give me the prize. In time of trouble, I shall be by your side and guide you

ad body of their brave companion. Hector retired from the fight for a time , to put on the armor of Achilles: then he returne

the shining head of Achilles. And the hero shouted again, and a third time , his terrible battle cry, and the Trojan host lef

e always the best of my brothers, Deiphobus,” he said, “but from this time I shall honor you more than ever before.” With th

d that he be set free. “Forget the Greeks,” said the king. “From this time be a Trojan.” Sinon, for that was his name, seeme

phobus had gone. Thus, again, the trick was almost revealed. All this time Sinon was walking about the streets, and was prai

re they could utter a sound. Then the gates were opened wide. By this time the Grecian fleet had reached the strand. Up from

hemus, and he cast another rock, larger even than the first, but this time the great mass fell behind the ship and only help

Telemachus was still too young to enforce the respect due her. For a time the queen would not hear of their offers of marri

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

s to put the hall in order and to tell Penelope the news, for by this time all had recognized him. When every sign of the dr

yde c΄tes (pol-y-dec΄teez). King of the island of Seriphus, who for a time cared for Danaë and Perseus, but afterward persec

In a certain country the name of which is forgotten, a very long time ago, reigned a good king and queen who had three

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

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

choose another to do it; and then, after watching her a considerable time , he snatched up the bow and arrows, and flew away

yche was the wife of him who claimed her for his bride. And from this time Psyche was content to receive the unseen bridegro

rsing with Cupid, she said le him, “I have a favour to ask of you. My time is mostly spent in a sad and lonely way; if I cou

The ants instantly began the work allotted to Psyche, and in half the time allowed to her, completed it. Venus, at the time

che, and in half the time allowed to her, completed it. Venus, at the time appointed, came to the granary, and perceived tha

there. Some power unseen directed her to a safe path, and in a short time she obtained the lock of wool, and presented it t

ce, bade her go to his mother and deliver it, telling her at the same time he Would go to Olympus and ask the sire of gods a

he was perhaps some king’s daughter; the most beautiful woman at that time known. Ann. Did the pagans believe in Heaven and

“Once,” replied the naiad, “I was an attendant of Diana, and spent my time in the woods, hunting or sporting among the trees

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

and even there they were not protected from the Attic robbers. At the time to which the following story belongs, Pandion, ki

it to the Hebrews, and they did not associate with the Greeks at that time . Besides, these stories relate to times before th

Ann. Did the Egyptians know more than other people? Mother. At that time they did. Ann. What time was that? Mother. A hu

ow more than other people? Mother. At that time they did. Ann. What time was that? Mother. A hundred years after Joseph,

lyric poets. We frequently call animated poetry lyric, at the present time . A very wise man9 said, the invention of the lyre

f him again. Tiresias was considered the wisest man in Greece at that time . The people of Thebes, and some from distant plac

and, then, that was not so difficult a matter as it would be at this time , in our houses hung with mirrors. The Greeks had

sh himself. The water was smooth and limpid, and in it, for the first time , Narcissus saw his own person reflected in the cl

hey had takes breath, began to fight among themselves; and in a short time , so furious was the combat, only five remained al

ome and work with them, and dwell in the new city of Thebes, which in time came to contain thirty thousand inhabitants. Cadm

ople wise and happy. He first taught letters in Greece, and after his time the Greeks began to read and write. He came into

sons commit the worst of crimes. I am glad that men and women at this time do not worship false gods, and that they have bee

travels, that the modem Italians imitated these rites at the present time . You know that there is a feast of the Christian

se days, to learn what may happen to them; just as the Greeks, a long time ago, went to the oracle. The oracle told Acrisius

father, departed with his bride for Seriphus. Perseus arrived in good time at Seriphus. Polydectes became the persecutor of

make good verses, unless one of the Muses would assist them. At this time , when Minerva went to see them, they were at Moun

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

. What do you mean by antique? Mother. Ancient, or in fashion a long time ago. When we say this gem or statue is from the a

ething left by ancient Greeks or Romans, and preserved to the present time . Ann. What were the Pythian games? Mother. They

e shall be at once the emblem of glory and of immortality!” From that time , the laurel became sacred to Apollo, and garlands

praises Shakspeare. That admiration of so many persons, for so long a time , is his fame; his undying or immortal fame, as so

ls, to show that their genius was known and admired; so when, at this time , we speak of a poet’s laurels, we mean his fame,

ve done without reading them. But, at present, you can afford no more time to fictions; you must read facts. I have a book o

he son of Apollo and Clymene. Epaphus and Phæton passed much of their time together. Young persons are apt to boast of their

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

hetess used to go out into the streets and exhort the Thebans. At the time when the queen of Thebes uttered her contempt for

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

vinities, who measure with their golden beams the regular progress of time ; the moon presides over the silence of night, and

sérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img007 Uranus, however, as time passed, began to fear lest the offspring, which r

nt broken, he assembled an army, marched against Saturn, (who by this time was made aware of the deception, but refused to d

future. From this cause, Janus is represented with a double face. The time which Saturn passed on earth is known as the age

forged, but void of care or crime, The soft creation slept away their time ; The teeming earth, yet guiltless of the plough,

the year. At Rome, in which his temple was placed, it was open in the time of war, and shut during that of peace. Saturn, or

er a beginning nor an end. He slew his father, because, the world and time once created, he could exist no longer; he devour

ce created, he could exist no longer; he devoured his infants because time destroys all, and he threw them from his stomach

because time destroys all, and he threw them from his stomach because time returns with the years and days; and this part of

ge of the operations which nature accomplishes under the influence of time . He did not devour Jupiter, as he represents the

re not virgins, as at the other temples, but widows who were past the time of marriage. It was the employment of the Vestals

nly, the Titans sought to avenge their defeat; and Olympus, from this time , was only troubled by internal dissensions. ——— 

rts of Lybia, under the name of Jupiter Ammon, i. e. — sandy. By this time mankind had owed their creation to the King of th

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

er the birth-pangs of the Roman women, and the priests, to render the time fruitful, struck these grave matrons with a porti

they will leave,         On winds at eve, A solemn echo to the end of time !” Hood. By the invention of Phœbus, medicine be

ealed the effects of her divine intrigue from her mistress for a long time , the latter noticed the alteration in her person

logy: “He was a poet, sure a lover too Who stood on Latmos top, what time there blew Soft breezes from the Myrtle vale belo

ain of Nysa, who, for their care of the son of Jupiter, in process of time , were translated into heaven. When Bacchus, for t

ss of disposition, were untouched by his forgetfulness; and from this time it is pleasing to relate that her wisdom and her

remaining divinities. Mars, betwixt rage and confusion, retired for a time to Thrace, and Venus took refuge in the isle of C

nged Venus to see which could gather the greatest number in the least time . Cupid would have been triumphant, had not Perest

he sacred veil which hung mysterious o’er her woes.” Tighe. ‌For a time the nymph scarcely dared to cast a glance on the

her spiritual divinity, Young Psyche stood the sleeping Eros by, What time she to the couch had, daring, trod; And, by the g

t:         It soweth here with toil and care,         But the harvest time of Love is there.” Southey. Cupid is usually re

dost thou sit, To blend and inter-knit Sudued majesty with this glad time . O shell born king sublime! We lay our hearts bef

I leave this world, oh! allow me to touch once more, and for the last time , the strings of the lyre which has so often cheer

and judges each committed crime, Inquires into the manner, place, and time : The conscious wretch must all his acts reveal, L

ved voice. “Now several ways his young companions gone, And for some time Narcissus left alone, ‘Where are you all?’ at las

in the meads, The blythesome dance the peasant leads, Even, ’mid that time of peace, Beasts of prey their fury cease, The la

talized flesh that I painfully dragged Behind me —” Hood. From this time his existence become a torture to him. Though the

oice of the deep blue sky; From the night bird’s lay thro’ the starry time , ‌In the groves of the soft Hesperian clime, To

  Come away! Where the smooth leaves of the lime Glisten in the honey time ,                      Come away — away!” Hemans.

yrens were three in number, and were companions of Proserpine, at the time of her being carried off; they prayed for wings f

taff in her hand: Lacheses spun out all the events and actions in the time ; and Atropos, the eldest, cut the thread of human

sters of the superior deities, received divine honour for a length of time , and we find altars and statues erected to them.

e shape of an eagle, the God sought refuge in Leda’s arms, who in due time produced two eggs, from one of which came Pollux

, but she, being refused to his entreaties, he became insane a second time , and murdered Iphitus, the only one of the sister

rs of Iole who was willing to assist him in obtaining her. After some time had passed, he was purified from this murder, and

The extraordinary efforts of the enraged Hercules, brought him up in time to let fly a poisoned arrow at the ravisher, whic

tly stared, Mindful of what an oracle declared, That the dark womb of time concealed a day, Which should, disclosed, the glo

tiful Andromeda, exposed to the fury of a sea-monster, which for some time had ravaged the country, and to appease which, th

ted; and exchanged his kingdom for the maritime coast of Argolis. The time of the death of Perseus is unknown, it is univers

of their country. Homer represents a hero as a prince of the ancient time , loved and protected by the Gods: while in Hesiod

Athens, previously to sacrificing it on the altar of Minerva. At this time , the Minotaur was receiving the annual tribute of

en and mutual friendship, and rushed into each others arms: from that time , their affection became proverbial. Theseus was p

er of Phædra, sent Cupid to pierce her with his shafts. ‌ For a long time she struggled with the pangs which raged within h

way, away, no more pollute my court; Wert thou not called my son, thy time were short.’” Racine. Banished thus from the co

ed thus from the court of his father, the only consolation for a long time that Hippolytus possessed, was the consciousness

terable tenderness, Had burdened her full soul. But now, oh! now, Its time was come — and from the spirit’s depths The passi

urage. Me he assailed. I combated his onset, Grasp’d him, and in less time than I relate it; Flung him upon the earth: in va

other Falls with his sword, and all his strength collects. For a long time , intent to ward his blows Stands Polynice. But at

is father, and maintained the war against the King of Troy for a long time , but was at last forced to leave Phrygia and seek

took a fearful vengeance. Having been banished from the city for some time , Thyestes was again recalled, and invited to a su

ly rich. I struck him twice, and twice He groaned, then died. A third time as he lay I gored him with a wound; a grateful pr

hrough the breach which had been made to admit the horse. At the same time the warriors that were hidden within the colossal

ity. Æneas awoke, put on his arms, and ran to the palace of Priam, in time to see, but not to save, the aged monarch, his da

ce of a year. After concluding his eventful history, he remained some time with Alcinous, who gave him a ship, which carried

twentieth year of the absence of Ulysses from his home, during which time his wife had held him in continual remembrance, a

retire into some solitary place, to end his days in peace. About that time , Telegonus, one of his sons by Circe, came to his

and yielding himself to her charms, staid with her for a considerable time in the enjoyment of all that renders life desirab

s placed a round mirror. Ancient writers say, that she was for a long time hidden from the world at the bottom of a well, bu

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

and then disappeared, leaving it under the trysting tree. In a short time Pyramus arrived, but found that she, for whom he

im into a river, on the banks of which, she could still sport at even time , and sing to her beautiful, but lost love. —————

ight of such terror, as but rarely is known to mortals; for the first time Leander had not sought her bower, and an indistin

hair, And wit, that ever charms the fair.” He gave himself up for a time to the pleasure of her society, but man was as fi

long for the Lesbian boy, (Ungrateful he to work her such annoy;) But time hath as in sad requital, given A branch of laurel

owing to which, he retired into the country that he might devote his time more uninterruptedly to study. When, upon the dea

dragon which presided over it had slain them. He arrived but just in time to witness him finishing the meal, which had foll

e. It was composed of seventeen letters, and to these were added some time after, by Palamedes, an additional four, and by S

of the Brahmins; he is considered the intelligence who existed before time , and will continue throughout eternity: he watche

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

egends offer an interest by their singularity, they prove at the same time , that the founders of these various faiths have s

oice of the sower, the song of the reaper, or the gladness of harvest time . Under very important circumstances, it was by no

Sweden, every ninth year. Then they chose from among the captives, in time of war, and amongst the slaves in time of peace,

se from among the captives, in time of war, and amongst the slaves in time of peace, nine persons to be sacrificed. The choi

d the Sun, as the best representation of the Eternal. In Peru, at the time of its discovery by Pizarro, Viracocha was suppos

e Sun, which they regard as a divinity; and which they imagine at one time to have been a human being: they believe he marri

ture wept for Balder, and especially the trees, which were for a long time , inconsolable. —  Madame de Genlis.

rhood of One whose purposes hold good for every race, and through all time . And, so, the knowledge of mythic lore has led me

not quaff Massic and Falernian, they do well to scent the bouquet. In time , a sense of flavor may, perchance, be stimulated,

entrusted to the memory, there would be something to assimilate, and time to assimilate it; there would be less dyspepsia a

arrangement, they should be recited in this order. When there is not time for detailed recitation on the whole book, some o

nations; many are in the memories and mouths of savage races at this time existent. But the stories here narrated are no lo

ars been proposed for one and the same myth could not all, at any one time , have been entertained by the myth-makers. On the

der various forms in literatures and among peoples widely separate in time and place. These are questions of the Origin and

of reasonable myths to baffle our understanding. For, at the present time , not only children and simple-minded men, like sa

an, the clouds threaten, charity suffereth long, the waves are angry, time will tell, and death swallows all things. We look

tes the distinction between our imagination and theirs. They, at some time or other, believed in these personifications. We

ideas, and true poetic conceptions, has forgotten, with the lapse of time , the significance of words, facts, men, and event

dawn. The word for sun was masculine; the word for dawn, feminine. In time the sentence came to mean Apollo the god of the s

th. The stories would at first exist as allegories, but in process of time would come to be understood literally. Thus Cronu

the most part, a legacy from ancestors of civilized races who at the time that they invented the senseless stories were in

him to understand the language of birds and creeping things.22 At one time his enemies seized and imprisoned him. But Melamp

collect and revise the Homeric poems; and it is probable that at that time certain passages of the Iliad and Odyssey, as we

The preservation and further fashioning of myths fell, after Homer’s time , into the hands of the Rhapsodists, who chanted e

red customs and legends that had maintained themselves as late as his time (160 a.d.). Lucian, in his Dialogues of the Gods

of modern scholars was called to this famous German epic. Since that time many theories of the composition of the Nibelunge

and his system became the dominant religion of Western Asia from the time of Cyrus (550 b.c.) to the conquest of Persia by

r annihilation and the creation of a new race. Therefore, once upon a time , when gods and men were in dispute at Sicyon conc

ng it. This state of torment might have been brought to an end at any time by Prometheus, if he had been willing to submit t

one82; but Hesiod says that she arose from the foam of the sea at the time of the wounding of Uranus, and therefore was call

lthough the patron of gamblers and the god of chance, he, at the same time , was the furtherer of lawful industry and of comm

no cold, The dwellers there wax never old, Nor wither with the waning time , But each man keeps that age he had When first he

sented as facing both ways. His temples at Rome were numerous. In war time the gates of the principal ones were always open.

red eyes in his head, and never went to sleep with more than two at a time , so that he kept watch of Io constantly. He suffe

the idyllic poet, Moschus: — To Europa, princess of Asia, once on a time , a sweet dream was sent by Cypris, when the third

ortals is displayed in the story of Baucis and Philemon. — Once on a time , Jupiter, in human shape, visited the land of Phr

that their guests might wash. While all was doing, they beguiled the time with conversation. The old woman with trembling h

stone that lay upon the plain, black, rugged, huge, which men of old time set to be the landmark of a field; this hurled sh

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

next, the shoulders and breasts and limbs of men with weapons, and in time a harvest of armed warriors. Cadmus prepared to e

thon that had infested- the slopes near Delphi, he sang for the first time that song of victory, which, as the Pæan, is stil

e lest I should fall headlong. Add to this that the heaven is all the time turning round and carrying the stars with it. Cou

rses rushed headlong and left the travelled road. Then, for the first time , the Great and Little Bears were scorched with he

y, — do man good again. So to the struggle off strode Herakles. Long time the Thessalians waited and mourned. As for Herakl

espair to such a quietude, He neither raised his face nor spoke, this time , The while his friend surveyed him steadily. That

scade, Captured Death, caught him in that pair of hands. But all the time , Alkestis moved not once Out of the set gaze and

ng the story, and has continued to do so from that day to this, every time a breeze passes over the place. Fig. 45. Apoll

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

, as she thought — but (ah, how Fate mocks!) She has found it by this time a very bad box; Let hunters from me take this saw

sought the trembling maiden. But a cold sweat came over her. In less time than it takes to tell, she had become a fountain.

too, were delighted with music from invisible performers. For a long time , she did not see her husband. He came in the hour

than adore me as a god.” This reasoning somewhat quieted Psyche for a time . But the thought of her parents and of her sister

that the sanguine hue mounted through the trunk to the fruit. By this time , Thisbe, still trembling with fear, yet wishing n

A compromise, however, was effected by which she was to pass half the time with her mother, and the rest with the lord of Ha

eve,207 and Sisyphus sat on his rock to listen.208 Then for the first time , it is said, the cheeks of the Furies were wet wi

by Jupiter among the stars; but the shade of the bard passed a second time to Tartarus, and rejoined Eurydice. The superior

ortality; but forgetting to have youth joined in the gift, after some time she began to discern, to her great mortification,

alace, lived on ambrosial food, and was clad in celestial raiment. In time he lost the power of using his limbs; and then sh

poet has lamented the change. For even if the head did profit, for a time , by the revolt against the divine prerogative of

n thou shouldst have me!” “Have me,” said she; but in vain. From that time forth she lived in caves and among mountain cliff

hunned Echo. One maiden, however, uttered a prayer that he might some time or other feel what it was to love and meet no ret

ds of hunger compelled the father to devour his own limbs; and in due time he finished himself off. § 122. Dryope, the wife

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

, Sylvanus, and innumerable Fauns and Satyrs. Vertumnus, too, she had time and again refused. But he, the deity of gardens a

tions of the Cyclops Polyphemus. Polyphemus in Love. — For the first time in his life the Cyclops began to care for his app

al frenzy; and all things else he held but trifles by the way. Many a time from the green pastures would his ewes stray back

drink the best, milk in the world. And cheese I never lack, in summer time or autumn, nay, nor in the dead of winter, but my

of thee, my love, my sweet apple, and of myself, too, I sing, many a time , deep in the night. And for thee I tend eleven fa

e flowers of winter, so I could not have brought thee them all at one time . “Now, verily, maiden, now and here will I learn

ng the bodies of drowned lovers, a youth beloved of the gods will, in time , appear and help him. This prophecy is fulfilled

Older Heroes may be arranged in respect of their probable sequence in time , and of their grouping according to families of h

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

tes, sought a hero to destroy this Chimæra, as it was called. At that time Bellerophon arrived at his court. The gallant you

d his delivery, according to prophecy, of Prometheus, who, until that time , had remained in chains upon the Caucasian Mounta

eeting, Gives the nectar to her lord.‌”296 Here we take leave for a time of the descendants of Inachus. We shall revert to

as had, by his wife Nephele, two children, Phryxus and Helle. After a time , growing indifferent to his wife, Athamas put her

the thought, forthwith made preparations for the expedition. At that time the only species of navigation known to the Greek

their weapons against their producer, accepted the conditions; and a time was set for the undertaking. The hero, however, w

eir hero. Medea herself grew pale with fear. The hero, himself, for a time , with sword and shield, kept his assailants at ba

Fig. 87. The Calydonian Hunt. [Relief: Baumeister.] But there was no time then for love: on to the hunt they pushed. To the

, of which Pittheus, Æthra’s father, was king. When Æthra thought the time had come, she led Theseus to the stone. He remove

He removed it with ease, and took the sword and shoes. Since, at that time , the roads were infested with robbers, his grandf

were longer than the bed, he lopped off their limbs. In the course of time , Theseus reached Athens; but here new dangers awa

hrone. § 153. Theseus and Ariadne.332— Now the Athenians were at that time in deep affliction, on account of the tribute of

w, more pallid than gold her countenance flashed into whiteness, What time Theseus marched unto death or to glory undying, M

s he suffered, and what ills he did, They in the dark should look, in time to come, On those whom they ought never to have s

ar by year. The first year fell to the lot of Eteocles, who, when his time expired, refused to surrender the kingdom to his

how should I not?), though thy decree Had never spoken. And before my time If I shall die, I reckon this a gain; For whoso l

hyle, influenced by Thersander, the son of Polynices, and bribed this time by the gift of Harmonia’s wedding garment, impell

n chant divine, predestined sooth of the future — Prophecy neither in time , nor yet in eternity, shaken. “Thou that exaltes

n children. A son of this Thyestes, Ægisthus by name, revived, in due time , against Agamemnon the treacherous feud that had

as unfortunately the prize destined for Paris. This fair queen had in time past been sought by numerous suitors; but before

Protesilaüs back to the upper world; and when the hero died a second time Laodamia died with him. It is said that the nymph

he extent of the Grecian calamities. He reminded him also how, at the time of the departure for Troy, Achilles and himself h

his friend, and to guide his inexperience. “Now,” said Nestor “is the time for such guidance. If the gods so please, thou ma

ward their country. Nine days they sped before the wind, and all that time Ulysses had stood at the helm, without sleep. At

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

ent with toil, breathless and speechless, and almost dead. After some time reviving, he kissed the soil, rejoicing, yet at a

in which were a farm and garden belonging to the king. After allowing time for the princess and her companions to reach the

Parthenon.) [Statue: Hirt.] Ulysses obeyed the directions, and in due time proceeded to the city, on approaching which he me

seated himself in the manner of suppliants, at the hearth side. For a time none spoke. At last an aged statesman, addressing

nd he sang so feelingly the terrors and the exploits of that eventful time that all were delighted, but Ulysses was moved to

The next day Ulysses set sail in the Phæacian vessel, and in a short time arrived safe at Ithaca, his own island. When the

one of them for her husband. She, however, employed every art to gain time , still hoping for Ulysses’ return. One of her art

, a faithful servant of his house. Telemachus, his son, had, for some time , been absent in quest of his father, visiting the

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

and sped the arrow unerring through the rings. Without allowing them time to express their astonishment, he said, “Now for

which we are, we are One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek,

r future course, and not till after many adventures, and the lapse of time sufficient to carry a modern navigator several ti

ved, was a spot on the coast of Africa opposite Sicily, where at that time a Tyrian colony under Dido their queen, were layi

mile wide, and very deep, surrounded by high banks, which in Vergil’s time were covered with a gloomy forest. Mephitic vapor

reach. The Elysian Fields. — The Sibyl now warned Æneas that it was time to turn from these melancholy regions and seek th

ises answered, “They are souls to which bodies are to be given in due time . Meanwhile they dwell on Lethe’s bank, and drink

rown bodies have not the purity of childhood. So in proportion to the time which the union of body and soul has lasted, is t

rojan state founded, from which should rise the Roman power, to be in time the sovereign of the world. As Æneas and the Siby

three hundred harvests. My body shrinks up as years increase, and in time , I shall be lost to sight, but my voice will rema

and all his tributary fountains to lend their aid. Then for the first time a vessel filled with armed warriors floated on th

born, which precludes him from the choice. Thou, equally by birth and time of life, and fame in arms, pointed out by the god

uade me. I am fixed in the resolution to go with thee. Let us lose no time .” They called the guard, and committing the watch

— Æneas, with his Etrurian allies, arrived on the scene of action in time to rescue his beleaguered camp; and now the two a

l they cut each other in pieces. This is their pastime; but when meal time comes, they recover from their wounds and return

im headlong into Niflheim. The Recovery of the Hammer. — Once upon a time it happened that Thor’s hammer fell into the poss

ad just then awoke, and that as it was only midnight, there was still time for sleep. He however resolved that if he had an

An acorn fell on my head. What! Art, thou awake, Thor? Methinks it is time for us to get up and dress ourselves; but you hav

m not far from the starting-place. Then they ran a second and a third time , but Thialfi met with no better success. Utgard-L

o near to a great mishap I would not have suffered thee to enter this time . Know then that I have all along deceived thee by

out three? Shorter hath seemed A month to me oft Than of this longing time the half.” So Freyr obtained Gerda, the most bea

nted a net to catch the fishes, such as fishermen have used since his time . But Odin found out his hiding-place and the gods

ht of the Gods. — It was a firm belief of the Northern nations that a time would come when all the visible creation, the god

dim, the earth sinks into the ocean, the stars fall from heaven, and time is no more. After this Alfadur (the Almighty) wil

onversation held between Balder and Hermod, after Hermod has a second time ridden to Hel: — And the fleet-footed Hermod mad

ir offered money for the sword, but Sigmund scorned the offer. But in time Siggeir had his vengeance. Inviting King Volsung

the speech-flood moved. Brynhild, it was, — the Valkyrie, — who long time had lain in that enchanted sleep that Odin, her f

ing the form of King Gunnar, mounted Greyfell and rode for the second time through the flames of Hindfell. Then still wearin

und, and was burned on the funeral pyre beside Sigurd the Volsung. In time Gudrun became the queen of Atli, the Budlung. He,

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

gen, who had been suborned by Brunhild to the baleful deed, bided his time . One day, when heated by running, Gunther, Hagen,

. … … With blood were all bedabbled the flowerets of the field. Some time with death he struggled as though he scorned to y

, is sunk, for precaution’s sake, by Hagen, in the Rhine. Although in time Kriemhild becomes the wife of King Etzel (Atli, A

hought. The secret preserved by Prometheus was to the effect that, in time , Jupiter and his dynasty should be overthrown. Pr

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

s attended With all of brave and excellent and fair That made the old time splendid.” Milton, P. L. 3: 568, “Like those He

d, it would be greater than he. Whereupon Zeus swallowed her; and, in time , from his head, sprang Athene, “the virgin of the

ps, to an ancient theogony of Asia Minor. At any rate she held at one time the rank of lawful wife to Zeus. Preller and, aft

nd, if the wits don’t do him wrong, ‘Twixt death and epics passed his time , Scribbling and killing all day long; Like Phœbus

ange of skin. The worship of Æsculapius was introduced into Rome in a time of great sickness. An embassy sent to the temple

press the hope, innate in the human heart, that somewhere and at some time some god has lived as a man among men and for the

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

placed in a part of the heavens near the pole, where she is half the time held with her head downward, to teach her humilit

om the hoof of Pegasus. This horse belongs to the Muses, and has from time immemorial been ridden by the poets. From the sto

r, and continued five days. They gave rise to the custom of reckoning time and dating events by Olympiads. The first Olympia

umably, a local nature-goddess of Naxos and Crete, who, in process of time , like Medea, sank to the condition of a heroine.

eans killed no animals. Ovid represents Pythagoras saying that in the time of the Trojan War he was Euphorbus, the son of Pa

e Norse myth. It is a poem dealing with the spiritual maladies of the time , of wonderful excellence in parts, but confused a

nd of the Nibelungs is equally vague in the German poem; it is at one time an island, again a mountain, and in one manuscrip

Anu′bis; see Egyptian deities (2). Apel′les: a Greek painter of the time of Alexander the Great; see John Lyly’s Alexander

of Hindoo religion; dealing primarily with elemental powers that, in time , acquired spiritual signification. Vedas: the Sa

reason for his refusal the apprehension lest Hercules might a second time become insane, and in that condition destroy Iole

365. Hecuba’s exclamation, “Not such aid nor such defenders does the time require,” has become proverbial. Non tali auxili

m it passed into Asia Minor, Greece, and the adjacent islands. In the time of Moses, the illustrious Hebrew lawgiver, Idolat

own ideas, they introduced into Greece. These were, in the course of time , diversified and augmented, until they expanded i

ere called Titan and Saturn, which latter was the same as Chronos, or time .1 What is the history of Titan and Saturn, the s

of this barbarous story? The name Chronos, given to Saturn, signifies time ; and, as time sees all things produced, and all t

ous story? The name Chronos, given to Saturn, signifies time; and, as time sees all things produced, and all things perish,

r of doors. Numa Pompilius erected a temple to him, which was open in time of war, and shut during peace. The invention of c

n. At what age were they consecrated to Vesta, and how long did their time of service last? The Roman virgins, destined for

rvice of Vesta, were chosen between the age of six and ten years. The time of their consecration to the goddess lasted thirt

ed as being the moon, and this fable might be intended to express her time of disappearing. Under what figure was Ceres repr

ird, signifies noon, when he is in all his glory; and the fourth, the time of his setting, when he appears to approach the e

his, Apollo was banished from the celestial realms, and forced, for a time , to undergo many trials and difficulties on earth

Proteus. History makes mention of a Proteus, king of Egypt, about the time of the Trojan war, who was illustrious for his se

s, the west wind. What was the true history of Eolus? He lived in the time of the Trojan War, and reigned over the Eolian is

he Old Testament inform us, soon after the Deluge, being known in the time of Abraham. This was naturally accompanied by a b

trine will remain in splendour for five thousand years. In process of time , another Buddha is to appear upon earth; and, aft

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

neck; dragging constantly along a heavy weight; remaining for a long time in the most painful positions of body; drowning t

tant opposition to Typhon, the author of evil; by whom he was, at one time , vanquished and slain, or inclosed in an ark, and

d as being the renovator and preserver of nature, who overcame, for a time , though he could not actually destroy, Typhon; an

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

amus, the huge behemoth, was an apt image of the god of war. From the time of Job, the hippopotamus has been a type of stren

ivided into several governments, each having its own monarch. At that time Egypt had no foreign commerce, but confined her a

stimation. But this comparatively pure religion did not remain a long time uncorrupted; it soon degenerated into Sabism, the

so that the man was the pure and holy soul of the Man-Bull. For some time after the production of this intelligent creature

and the prevalence of evil; and supplicating a deliverer. In the mean time , a universal opposition to the will of the Suprem

ifferent ranks and various orders, who presided over the divisions of time , the succession of the seasons, and the various o

s was one operating cause of the dispersion of mankind. In process of time the Mythology of the Scythians became very debase

of Vala, the prophetess. Hard by the eastern gate of Hell In ancient time , great Vala fell; And there she lies in massive t

iser, she Held the strange keys of destiny, She knew what chanc’d ere time began Ere world there was, or Gods, or man; No mo

ere, at first, only testimonies of civil honour, which, in process of time , was heightened into religious reverence. The Ara

resented? How was the fire on the altar of Vesta renewed, and at what time of the year? On what condition did Titan resign h

ing this festival, which lasted, at first, only one day, but from the time of Julius Cæsar, three, four, and five days succe

ce to laws that know no change. To the Greeks and Romans, there was a time more remote than history gives us any account of,

uiring an opposite significance. Other words, again, in the course of time were utterly lost. “As long as such personified b

on ascribed to them will, as a rule, be natural and appropriate.” The time came, however, when these names were considered s

and animals. If it were in our power mentally to become savages for a time , so as to look upon nature and our surroundings a

ties. Antæ′us [Antæus], a giant who was vanquished by Hercules. Each time that Hercules threw him the giant gained fresh st

eatest god of the Egyptians. Apol′lo [Apollo]. This famous god, some time King of Arcadia, was the son of Jupiter and Laton

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

eamlets. Clu′aci′na [Cluacina]. A name of Venus, given to her at the time of the reconciliation of the Romans and the Sabin

[Eumenides], a name of the Furies, meaning mild, and referring to the time when they were approved by Minerva. Euphro′syne

A brazen temple was erected to him in Rome, which was always open in time of war, and closed during peace. “Old Janus, if

collecting them, and this enabled Jason and Medea to escape. After a time Jason got tired of Medea, and married Glauce, whi

[Matura]. One of the rural deities who protected the growing corn at time of ripening. Max′imus [Maximus]. One of the appe

and judges each committed crime, Inquires into the manner, place, and time ; The conscious wretch must all his acts reveal, L

g in any way blemished was considered as an insult to the god. At the time of the sacrifice the people were called together

On great occasions as many as a hundred bullocks were offered at one time ; and it is said that Pythagoras made this offerin

he seventh century b.c. Her only connection with the goddesses of the time is that the Greeks called her “The tenth Muse.”

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

erdote di quella regione, il quale sacrificava all’idolo di Diana vit time umane, scelte tra i forestieri che vi approdavano