f, and the like. The twenty gods of the first order were divided into two classes. The first class formed the council of Ju

by the Corybantes or Curetes. The goat Amalthea suckled him, and the two nymphs Adrastea and Ida, otherwise called the Mel

t was he who gave his name to January. He is usually represented with two faces, that of an old man, looking towards the ye

ed Bifrons by Virgil, and by Ovid, Biceps, because he is painted with two faces; Claviger, or the “club bearer,” because he

and shut in time of war and peace. He was represented sometimes with two faces, and sometimes with four, to express the fo

asure of the year. History informs us that Janus was represented with two faces, because he commanded two different people,

ms us that Janus was represented with two faces, because he commanded two different people, and divided his empire with Sat

empire with Saturn. It also records that that prince had medals with two faces stamped, to announce that the totality of h

ed? How is Cybele represented? Chapter V. Of Vesta. There were two different goddesses of this name. Vesta the elder

s taken for the elements of earth and fire, which is accounted for by two different deities of that name. Vesta’s fire was

watchful keeper made. Argus’ head a hundred eyes possess’d, And only two at once reclin’d to rest: The others watch’d, and

s said of Stata or Statua Mater? Who was the goddess of thieves? What two deities presided over the will? What is said of A

f this rape; of which she informed Ceres, who ran over the world with two flambeaux in her hand in quest of her daughter. C

ision of the year alluded to by the second fable, may be explained in two different ways. Proserpine was often taken for th

Homer, of Saturn. Jupiter abandoned Juno for Latona, who brought him two children, Apollo and Diana. But Juno drove her fr

a great number of breasts. — See Fig. 21. Fig. 21. Diana. She had two temples of high celebrity; one at Ephesus, and th

fable afterwards gave Bacchus the surname of Bimater, or one who has two mothers. Some Tyrrhenian pirates, having found hi

nd of Canaan. Fable represents Bacchus with horns: they allude to the two rays of light which shone on the forehead of Mose

f the law on Mount Sinai. The transposition of one letter renders the two names absolutely similar. Bacchus, armed with his

dom. In the Acropolis, that is, the upper city or citadel, there were two magnificent temples of Minerva; one called the Pa

deceptive, and malicious attributes. The poets at first distinguished two Loves, the one, son of Venus Urania, who presided

hich was refused by reason of a previous misunderstanding between the two families. A partition-wall was made to separate t

attained the goal, he claimed her as the prize of his victory. These two lovers were turned into a lion and lioness by Cyb

aming blood. These eyes beheld, when with his spacious hand He seiz’d two captives of our Grecian band; Stretch’d on his ba

ecians have made up the history of the third out of that of the first two , together with additions of their own. Obs. 2. —

ey returned to life. It also had the power of settling controversies: two implacable enemies, when moved with it, instantly

able enemies, when moved with it, instantly become reconciled. He saw two serpents fighting, and when he laid his wand betw

ts fish-shaped.” “Shaking his trident, urges on his steeds, Who with two feet beat from their brawny breasts The foaming b

metimes called mermen and mermaids. Ulysses and Orpheus were the only two passengers, who escaped their machinations. The f

ons. Who were the Sirens? How are they represented? Who were the only two passengers, that escaped their machinations? What

erefore blew her away, and carried her to Thrace; where he had by her two sons, Calais and Zethes. Boreas, having metamorph

, of whom we have previously spoken. Jupiter and Terra were the first two . The Sun and the Moon which so materially influen

on which so materially influence crops and vegetation were the second two . Ceres, the goddess of corn, and Bacchus, the god

joy and the simplest pleasures always animated the festivals of these two goddesses. The management of rural affairs was en

ird, the fire. Some ancient philosophers advanced, that every man had two Genii allotted to him, a Bonus Genius, or a good

æmons? Did not some ancient philosophers advance, that every man had two Genii? How were the Manes distinguished from the

of ebony on his head, and holds in one hand a bident, or sceptre with two teeth, and in the other, keys. The three-headed d

o trembling flames expos’d the fun’ral brand.” Obs. 1. — There were two kings of Crete by the name of Minos. The first wa

erwhelmed him with grievous complaints. By her he had three sons, and two celebrated daughters, Ariadne and Phedra. He was

His second wife, who was daughter of the Centaur Chiron, brought him two sons, Telamon and Peleus. His first wife was Psam

and Nox for his parents. His palace was a deep and gloomy cavern with two gates, one made of clear ivory, through which fal

ed in swiftness that of horses, and even the flight of birds. He took two of them, whose bodies were thickly set with horse

dle: “What animal is that which walks on four feet in the morning, on two feet at noon, and three in the evening?” Creon, t

young, or in the morning of life; at noon of life, he walks erect on two feet; and in the evening of his days, he supports

hinx, and married Jocasta whom he knew not to be his mother. She bore two sons, Eteocles and Polynices, and two daughters I

not to be his mother. She bore two sons, Eteocles and Polynices, and two daughters Ismena and Antigone. In process of time

the fire; but the flames refused to unite, and they were divided into two parts. Questions. Present a brief view of the Cen

nsulted the pontiffs, who declared, that one temple could not contain two deities so great. He therefore constructed two, c

mple could not contain two deities so great. He therefore constructed two , contiguous to each other, so that one had to pas

ly thought that Numa Pompilius raised her first temple. The figure of two women shaking hands with each other, commonly rep

ed under the form of a blind and almost bald woman, with wings to her two feet. The one is placed on a wheel, which turns s

battles, Fear and Flight mingled in the train of the god of war. The two sons of Medea having been massacred by the Corint

ing medicine. — See Fig. 66. Fig. 66. Æsculapius. By Epione he had two sons, Machon and Podalirius, famous in the Trojan

. He was king of Memphis, and brother to the first Mercury, and lived two centuries before the deluge, which period was mor

was reputed to be the abode of the gods. The poets embellished these two circumstances by saying, that Pegasus remained on

conquest of the Golden Fleece, fought the Centaurs, and exterminated two tyrants of Sicily, notorious for their crimes and

ereby to alter what is natural or unalterable. Theseus met and killed two famous robbers. The first, Sinis, in his haunts,

hen Hercules was a babe but eight months old in his cradle, Juno sent two serpents to destroy him. These he boldly seized b

ster with three bodies and three heads, and was guarded by a dog with two heads, and a dragon with seven. Hercules slew the

. To ease Atlas, he took the heavens upon his shoulders. He separated two mountains, Calpe and Abyla, which were previously

arly art combined, Awed, served, protected, and amazed mankind. First two dread snakes at Juno’s vengeful nod, Climb’d roun

to the latest posterity. Xenophon says, that when Hercules was young, two females once appeared to him — one was Virtue, wh

but to revenge his perfidy, Medea not only murdered in his sight the two children which she had borne him, but also enclos

umed the likeness of a swan, in order to gain her love. Leda produced two eggs, from one of which sprang Pollux and Helena,

letes. Castor excelled in running and the art of taming horses. These two heroes recovered their sister Helena from Theseus

em, because when the Argonauts were tossed about by violent tempests, two lambent flames settled upon the heads of Castor a

resented, after their death, by the sign of Gemini; and as one of the two stars of that sign hides itself under the horizon

to Circe, and had by her one son, Telegonus, or, according to Hesiod, two sons, Agrius and Latinus. He went down into the i

rth, tempered by the waters of the Nile.” The Egyptian Mythology had two senses, one sacred and sublime, the other sensibl

no mortal has ever taken off my veil.” Their theology had, therefore, two significations, one holy and symbolical, the othe

hey thought the moon eternal. Osiris is represented with a mitre and two horns on his head; in his right hand he held a wh

lis; but this is said to have been sacred to Iris. Apis had generally two temples or stables. If he ate from the hand, it w

everal heads and wings, and with his thighs resembling the volumes of two enormous serpents. This tremendous monster was bo

work of creation. In the sixth, man alone was created, consisting of two distinct persons, the man and the man-bull. These

n and evil; and an incessant struggle is to be carried on between the two authors, till the latter shall be destroyed. Orom

After having remained in the egg for a long time, he divided it into two equal parts, from which he made heaven and earth

s are placed upon the eastern gate, each with a man on his trunk; and two figures of horsemen upon the western, in complete

horsemen upon the western, in complete armour, and who, having slain two elephants, sit upon them. In front of this gate s

which is represented as being seated in a splendid chariot, drawn by two antelopes, and holding in his right hand a rabbit

nd that this darkness and water contained monstrous animals, men with two wings, and others with four. Men were seen to hav

mals, men with two wings, and others with four. Men were seen to have two heads, a man’s head and a woman’s; in short, all

ame of Omorca, was the mistress of the universe. Bel divided her into two parts: one of these parts formed heaven, and the

Xixutrus immediately executed these orders, and made a ship which was two stadia wide and five long. It was no sooner finis

ecipitate himself into the flames, would produce light. No sooner had two men thrown themselves headlong into the fire, tha

ended for the temple, her parents consecrated her to some god, and in two months she was carried to the temple, where a sma

lords kept six of those images, the nobles four, and the lower people two . The number of these gods, besides those which we

ks constructed by order of Amasis, is the temple of mere stone, which two thousand pilots and sailors transported from Elep

hat all Asia had concurred, and contributed to the building of it for two hundred and twenty years, and that two other cent

uted to the building of it for two hundred and twenty years, and that two other centuries must be spent in adorning and emb

leece. This temple was four hundred and twenty-five feet in length by two hundred in width. One hundred and twenty-seven co

observed, it did not attain to its completion until after a lapse of two hundred and twenty years. All the kings and peopl

the ground floor up to its covering was sixty eight feet; its length, two hundred and thirty; and its breadth, ninety-five.

mere cheat. Without searching into the depth and profundity of these two opinions, or attempting to decide which is prefer

ople; but soon a great number of credulous consulters appeared. These two doves, says Servius, had been given by Jupiter to

hey durst hot punish them without judgment, and gave for their judges two priestesses and two men. The two priestesses cond

them without judgment, and gave for their judges two priestesses and two men. The two priestesses condemned them, the two

judgment, and gave for their judges two priestesses and two men. The two priestesses condemned them, the two men were of a

two priestesses and two men. The two priestesses condemned them, the two men were of a contrary opinion, and they were abs

After this king had acquired them, he entrusted the charge of them to two particular priests, called Duumviri, whose minist

ks. None ever appealed from their decisions. At first, there were but two judges; but, in order to render more difficult th

of those who obeyed them. Another point of resemblance between these two imposters is the eloquence with which both were e

ulous, and others cruel. It becomes proper, therefore, to distinguish two ages in the religion of this people, and not conf

her mother earth, the mother of the gods. The Phœnicians adored these two principles under the name of Tautes and Astarte.

he incessantly weeps over her absent husband Odrus; (to whom she bore two daughters, Nossa, the model of all beauty and gra

ts. One day as the sons of Bor, or the gods, walked there, they found two floating pieces of wood, out of which they formed

tes the world with his manes. Mundelfari (the mover of the axis,) had two beautiful children, Sool (sun,) and Maan (moon.)

ion of our forefathers. The Iceland mythology expressly distinguishes two different abodes for the happy, and as many for t

er the renewing of all things. In regard to the places of punishment, two were likewise distinguished. One of which, called

e world; and the other, called Nastroud, was to be eternal. The first two future abodes seemed to be intended rather to rew

tly golden ring. Iceland had also its temples. The chronicles mention two that were highly celebrated, situated, the one in

club in the other. Sometimes he was represented in a chariot drawn by two wooden he-goats, with a silver bridle, and his he

t island carried their mysteries with them. In order to reconcile the two authors, says the Abbé Banier, it may be supposed

nsideration, that if they presented themselves at the moment in which two armies were going to combat, or even after they h

and went in procession towards the places where the plant was found, two diviners marching forward singing hymns and canti

kind of white coat of mail. After having received it, they immolated two white bulls. A festival ensued; and when it was o

notwithstanding these distinctions, the Druidesses really formed but two classes. The first was composed of priestesses; a

t theologists called life by the name of Jupiter, to whom they gave a two fold appellation, δια, dia, and ξηνα, xena, signi

nd the vigour of his energies. But they say that the Moon is drawn by two bulls: by two, on account of her increase and dim

of his energies. But they say that the Moon is drawn by two bulls: by two , on account of her increase and diminution; and b

under-world under the care of the same herdsman. This looks very like two different forms of the same legend ; the hero in

s probably to the Athenians what Hermes was to the Arcadians, and the two deities were united in the usual manner. Page 511

e Greeks, by whom Dionysos does not seem to have been united with the two goddesses, as Liber was at Rome. We would propose

1. Hera of Samos, her head veiled and bearing the modius, between two peacocks. Coin of the Samians. G. M. 49. Decamps,

2. The triple Hecate ; one with the crescent on her head, and holding two torches ; the second wearing a Phrygian cap, and

te VIII. 1. Birth of Dionysos : Earth rising, confides the babe to two nymphs of Nysa. Bas-relief in the Villa Albani, M

s. The legends which compose a nation’s mythology may be divided into two classes. The first will contain the true or fabul

may, we think, be arranged under the following heads, which fall into two classes, namely, of things and of names. 1. The

d by the moderns Katavóthra. The plain of the district of Pheneos had two of these passages piercing the surrounding mounta

, one of which gives origin to the river Ladôn. On the rocky faces of two of the hills, which advance into the plain, at a

a place abounding in potter's earth (argilla)21, may be divided into two words (Argi letum), signifying death of Argus ; a

these three classes the last alone is peculiar to modern times : the two former theories were, as we shall presently see,

some time she married Hyperiôn, one of her brothers, to whom she bore two children, endowed with marvellous sense and beaut

he preceding sketch of its history. The Ilias and the Odyssey, as the two great heroic poems which are regarded as the work

ged the pens of critics. It seems to be now generally agreed that the two poems are the productions of different minds, and

arrived at the Alexandrian period. In this the mythes were treated in two different ways. Lycophrôn, Euphoriôn, Apollonius,

c ages, it would seem that the World was a hollow globe, divided into two equal portions by the flat disk of the Earth91. T

the navel of the earth 95. The Sea divided the terrestrial disk into two portions, which we may suppose were regarded as e

banquets106. A passage of the Odyssey107 divides the Æthiopians into two tribes, the one on the eastern, the other on the

, and Sirius, and the planet Venus, which they seem to have viewed as two distinct stars, in its characters of Morning-star

ton the universe previous to the fall of the angels consisted of only two parts, the Heaven of Heavens, or Empyreal Heaven,

urally answered by the tale of a revolution and hostility between the two classes of gods. Imitation is also everywhere to

n they are rested the god drives them round the Ocean to the East. In two other passages of his wild poem210 Nonnus places

robable that, like the other Homeric gods, Helios had originally only two horses ; but Euripides and the succeeding poets21

Eosphoros. Sometimes he is standing with a flambeau in his hand, and two of his horses near him. This god was styled241, 1

45 her steeds are snow-white. Statius246 places her in a car drawn by two horses. Pausanias247 says that one of the figures

Hymn to Selene she is styled260 : 1. White-armed ; 2. Well-tressed, —  two of the usual epithets of the goddesses. Empedocle

ysical beings. We cannot avoid here intimating our suspicion that the two moral beings Themis and Mnemosyne290 were not ori

ounded nave of each ; The seat was hung by gold and silver cords, And two curved sides encompass’d it about. The pole was s

, Hestia, Hera, and Demeter. The four first we shall place here : the two last, as wives of Zeus, will find their more appr

s, the nether-world underwent a total change. It was now divided into two separate regions : Tartaros, which in the time of

o, the herald of the spring, appears as the agent in the loves of the two deities. There was a fount at Nauplia near Argos

of a national festival of Bœotia named the Dædala. Of this there were two kinds, the Small, celebrated every seven, the Gre

signified Master and Mistress 544. It is possible, however, that the two derivations may in a certain sense be correct. Th

rally supposed, an ancient physical mythe, or rather a combination of two such mythes ; for beauty might naturally have bee

life and promote civilization585. The philosophy of this view of the two deities is correct and elegant. The artist-god is

od of poetry and the muse Fair-voice. Cyparissos and Hyacinthos were two beautiful youths, favourites of Apollo ; but that

oying, or rather Wolfish, may signify Lighted, or Lighting. There are two others (λυκοκτόνος and λυκοϵργὴς) which evidently

by others again from ἀέλιος, the sun, with the digamma F between the two first vowels. The strangest etymon of all is that

oddess, changing her form into that of a hind, sprang out between the two brothers, who aiming their darts at the supposed

of Artemis were Loxo, Hecaerge, Arge, and Opis, or Upis. She bore the two first as the sister of Apollo Loxias and Hecaergo

e of Artemis, and the tradition of the place was, that they, who were two Hyperborean maidens, had been the companions of A

sis, and says that it is ἄρι-Θέμις 712. Mythologists are divided into two parties respecting the original nature of Leto an

their account, and making offerings to them evidently as gods of the two great luminaries (Mithras and Mitra in the Persia

donis was annually celebrated at Byblos by the Phœnician women during two days ; the first of which was spent in grief and

hem to inquire of the inhabitants, what were the traditional names of two of the smaller but handsomer of the warm springs.

st, except that his hair was of a bright dark hue, rose to light. The two embraced, and clung round the philosopher as if h

, dissimilar as they may appear in office and character, as they form two remarkable instances of gods altering their chara

to this goddess. When Perseus ; says Pindar802, had slain Medusa, her two remaining sisters bitterly lamented her death. Th

be that which derives it from the three phases of the moon. There are two other interpretations of this name which have had

re fed and stalled the kine, made a fire, killed, cut up, and dressed two of them, and even made black-puddings of their bl

cradle-clothes about him. Zeus however gives it against him, and the two brothers are sent in quest of the missing kine. T

o Pylos, and Hermes drives the cattle out of the cave : Apollo misses two of them ; to his amazement he sees their skins up

s the noted cattle-stealer. The Thessalian maiden Antianeira bore him two sons, ‘rich in corn-fields,’ Echiôn and Eurytos84

gs at his heels. In his hand he bears his caduceus 851 or staff, with two serpents twined about it, and which sometimes has

of the cattle-stealer Autolycos (Very-wolf) by Chione (Snow) ; of the two heroes ‘rich in corn-fields’ ; and of the shepher

ble, to treat of the one without the other : we therefore combine the two deities. Demeter, a daughter of Kronos and Rhea,

hird of the year with her husband ; she should however pass the other two with her and the gods : And when in spring-time,

ddess of the corn is apparent. Beside these epithets Hesiod gives her two others ; 3. Well-garlanded ; and 4. Food-full. Sh

as well as all other Greeks. But when Eleusis was conquered, and the two states coalesced, the Athenians became participat

nstrument was the lyre named Barbiton. Euterpe, over Music ; she held two flutes, and the invention of the tragic chorus wa

of Apollo, and he called them Cephiso, Apollonis, and Borysthenis952, two of which names are evidently derived from those o

he homely maxim ‘honesty is the best policy.’ The Athenians worshiped two Horæ, named Thallo Bloom-giver, and Carpo (Fructi

ns and things. They wove the robe of Aphrodite972 ; the beauty of the two attendants of Nausicaa973 was given them by the C

nown what names he had given them983. The Lacedæmonians worshiped but two , whom they named Cleta (Renowned) and Phaënna (Br

alent to fate. Achilleus says, that his mother gave him the choice of two keres ; — one, to die early at Troy ; the other,

048. ϒπνος. καὶ Θάνατος Somnus et Mors. Sleep and Death. These two deities are called by Hesiod1049 the children of

d arrogance. This is her usual character in the dramatists. At Smyrna two Nemeses were worshiped1058. The goddess adored at

ered Greece, where, after a long struggle with the Apollo-system, the two religions finally coalesced, the Dionysiac castin

ld of battle. Here the former hero, who had just wounded no less than two deities, asks the latter if he is a god, adding,

osed by Perseus, the son of Zeus and Danae ; Zeus however reduced his two sons to amity1111, and Dionysos thence passed ove

n ; and who that reflects on the long and frequent intercourse of the two nations, and the vaniloquence of the one and the

n by Proselenian philosophers, but was commenced perhaps a century or two after Homer, and completed a little before the ti

selves the birth of Apollo, calling a hill near his temple Delos, and two springs Palm and Olive ; they also took to themse

cendants formed the caste of Interpreters, whom Herodotus found there two centuries afterwards1162. We may thus see at once

o centuries afterwards1162. We may thus see at once how in a space of two hundred years, by means of these interpreters, an

e the consequence of encountering the rural deities. The ancients had two modes of representing Pan. The first, according t

man was permitted to be present ; because when Dryope was taken away, two maidens who were present informed the people of i

they were hoary-haired from their birth, whence their name. They were two in number, ‘well-robed’ Pephredo (Horrifier), and

ythologists of the present day may be the true one ; namely, that the two Gorgons and two Grææ are only personifications of

he present day may be the true one ; namely, that the two Gorgons and two Grææ are only personifications of the terrors of

the gods, for they were much more powerful than they : he then seized two of the Greeks, and dashing them to the ground lik

as the mast of a merchant-vessel ; and when the monster had devoured two more of his victims gave him wine to drink, and t

sseus, but the one he was himself on board of, entered. A herald with two others were then sent to the city : they met the

o seized one of them and killed and dressed him for dinner. The other two made their escape, pursued by the Læstrygonians,

and his companions came first to the island of the Sirens. These were two maidens1376 who sat in a mead close to the sea, a

oddess had informed him his course lay. She said1392 he would come to two lofty cliffs opposite each other, between which h

induced both ancients and moderns to acquiesce in the opinion of the two islands being identical. Against this opinion we

ng to the Sun-god, and tenanted only by his flocks and herds, and his two daughters their keepers. He must also have concei

ded, he was carried along, as he swam, by a strong northerly wind for two days and nights, and on the third day he got on s

d not have been Scheria. The firm persuasion of the identity of these two islands seems to have been produced by two passag

n of the identity of these two islands seems to have been produced by two passages of the poem, the one in which Eurymedusa

omes with Artemis and kills them with his gentle darts.’ It contained two towns ; between the inhabitants of which, who wer

st impossible, we should think, not to recognise in Ortygia and Syria two happy isles of the West-sea, apparently sacred to

are spoken of1443. Hesiod makes these races separate creations : the two first, he says, were made by the gods, the three

f gold, exist simultaneously after it, — effeminacy and violence, the two vices into which virtue is most apt to degenerate

ated ; but the latter one, being founded on reality, consists of only two parts. The heroes who correspond to the golden ra

the species of knowledge ascribed to him, and his being the father of two of the celestial constellations, it will be perha

t1482. According to some very ancient mythe the first of mankind were two brothers, Prometheus and Epimetheus, that is, For

e seen that the ancient mythology of Greece contained accounts of the two great events of the Creation and Fall of man. In

h the narrative in Hesiod, and is a very clumsy attempt at connecting two perfectly independent and irreconcilable mythes.

ellên, who was the father of Doros, Æolos, and Xuthos, which last had two sons, Achæos and Iôn. Of these personified races

os, to claim the rights of his family. He bore, says the Theban poet, two spears ; he wore the close-fitting Magnesian dres

οι καὶ Ααπίθαι. Centauri et Lapithæ. The Centaurs and Lapiths are two mythic tribes which are always mentioned together

eus, and was famous for his skill in surgery1597, which he taught the two last heroes. But having been accidentally wounded

is the opinion of Buttmann1599 that the Centaurs and the Lapiths are two purely poetic names, used to designate two opposi

ntaurs and the Lapiths are two purely poetic names, used to designate two opposite races of men ; — the former, the rude ho

y her he had four sons, Toxeus, Thureus, Clymenos, and Meleagros, and two daughters, Gorgo and Deïaneira. Œneus was devoted

of Tydeus coming secretly to Calydôn slew all the sons of Agrios but two , who escaped to the Peloponnese ; and as his gran

Œneus1615. He took the old man with him to the Peloponnese ; but the two surviving sons of Agrios, watching their opportun

apter IV. MYTHES OF BŒOTIA. The mythology of Bœotia consists of two cycles, answering to the natural division of the

ος. Cadmus. Poseidôn, says the legend, was by Libya the father of two sons, Belos and Agenôr ; the former of whom reign

d this shows a connexion between their mythes, that in fact they were two epithets of the same god. The fifty hounds of Act

is said, had been already married to Nephele (Cloud), by whom he had two children, Phrixos and Helle. He then espoused Ino

and Helle. He then espoused Ino the daughter of Cadmos, who bore him two sons, Learchos and Melicertes. Ino feeling the us

rection of Hera and married Nephele, who left him after she had borne two children, on finding that he still kept up an int

umerous progeny she set herself above Leto, who was the mother of but two children ; the latter complained to Apollo and Ar

w Niobe, resolved to kill her eldest son Amaleus in the night. As the two cousins slept together, she directed her own son

-kings devoted to the service of Demeter and Hermes-Cadmos, while the two ‘white-horsed gods’1681 were gallant warriors who

as a Man ; who when an infant creeps on all fours, when a man goes on two feet, and when old uses a staff, a third foot. Th

wingly accomplished the remainder of the oracle. He had by his mother two sons, Eteocles and Polyneices, and two daughters,

e oracle. He had by his mother two sons, Eteocles and Polyneices, and two daughters, Antigone and Ismene. After some years

ods1698. The Melampodia related1699, that Teiresias, happening to see two serpents copulating on Mount Cithærôn, killed the

tate he continued seven years ; at the end of which period, observing two serpents similarly engaged, he killed the male, a

mporary with all the events of the times of Laïos and Œdipûs, and the two Theban wars. At the conclusion of the last he rec

rity, on Eteocles’ dying childless, the kingdom came : for Halmos had two daughters, Chrysogeneia and Chryse ; the former o

nos accordingly following the counsel of the Pythia, married, and had two sons, Trophonios and Agamedes ; though some said

wife of Alœus, who said she had ‘mingled’ with Poseidôn, and she bore two sons Otos and Ephialtes, the tallest whom earth r

r mortal lord. The children were but eight months old, when Hera sent two huge serpents into the chamber to destroy them. A

to save them, but Heracles raised himself up on his feet, caught the two mon- sters by the throat and strangled them1729.

the envy of Hera, and flung his own three children by Megara, and the two of his brother Iphicles, into the fire. As a puni

her heads with his club, but to no purpose, for when one was crushed two sprang up in its stead. A huge crab also aided th

the Parians, and besieged the rest, till they offered to give him any two he wished in the place of the companions he had l

h Libya, and when he came to the verge of Europe and Libya he erected two pillars, one on each side of the strait, as monum

remely hungry, and meeting a man named Theiodamas driving a wain with two oxen, he unyoked one of them, and killed, dressed

eing reconciled to Hera he espoused her daughter Hebe, by whom he had two children named Alexiares (Aider-in-war) and Anice

though one may not be able to effect anything, yet the union of even two may suffice to overcome it. The toils of the hero

the Peloponnese ; the adventures there, he says, may be divided into two classes, the combats with men and those with beas

that, like the Athenian Graces and Seasons, the Cecropides were only two originally1798. There only remains to be explaine

s. Pandiôn married Zeuxippe, the sister of his mother, by whom he had two sons, Erechtheus and Butes, and two daughters, Pr

ter of his mother, by whom he had two sons, Erechtheus and Butes, and two daughters, Procne and Philomela1803. Πρόκνη ,

and killing her own son Itys, served his flesh up to his father. The two sisters fled away ; and Tereus, discovering the t

o Thrace, where she bore him the winged youths Zetes and Calaïs ; and two daughters, Chione and Cleopatra1824. Chione was l

umolpos was grown up, the husband of Benthesicyme gave him one of his two daughters in marriage ; but Eumolpos, attempting

retcher (Προκρούστης), and the Hurtful (Πολυπήμων). This Damastes had two iron bedsteads, one long, the other short. When a

his father1884 ; and he is also the sire of Pegasos1885 ; and in the two combined we have a Poseidôn-Hippios, the rider of

pa, and Belos, who had by another daughter of the Nile named Anchinoe two sons, Danaos and Ægyptos1912. Belos assigned the

k up the head, put it into his wallet, and set out on his return. The two sisters awoke, and pursued the fugitive ; but pro

us ; but by the intervention of Hermes amity was effected between the two sons of Zeus1946. Others say that it was Acrisios

es, as the authors of evil as well as good, were usually viewed under two different aspects, and hence Gorgo was probably t

lling of the Gorgon Medusa1961, and that the exposure in the sea, the two immortal Gorgons, Andromeda, and so forth, were p

se who sailed in the Argo. He had by Lampetia the daughter of the Sun two sons, Machaôn and Podaleirios, and three daughter

Athamas, and therefore a Bœotian. There is no necessity for supposing two of the same name, as has usually been done. They

ear, she is devoted to a single life and the chase, and she kills the two Centaurs as Artemis did Otos and Ephialtes. Her n

Tyndareos, Icarios, Aphareus, and Leucippos. According to others, the two last and Œbalos were the sons of Perieres, and Œb

pear of Idas ; and Polydeukes, aided by the thunder of Zeus, slew the two sons of Aphareus2007. Another account says that t

d his immortality with Castôr2009. The remarkable circumstance of the two brothers living and dying alternately leads at on

e the children of Aphareus or Phareus, that is Shiner (ϕάω) ; and the two daughters of Leucippos, or White-horsed (an epith

ng secrecy dived into the sea. Tyro conceived from the divine embrace two sons, whom when born she exposed. A troop of mare

e married Eidomene the daughter of his brother Pheres, by whom he had two sons, Bias and Melampûs. This last lived in the c

light. The mourning mother left her new-born babe on the ground, and two ‘green-eyed’ serpents came by the direction of th

καὶ Εὕρυτος. Cteatus et Eurytus. In the Ilias2041 Nestôr mentions two Epeian youths, the sons of Poseidôn, whom he call

t view of the mythe, seeing in it only an Eleian popular fable of the two millstones. Hence, he says, they are joined in th

ops five sons, Atreus, Thyestes, Copreus, Alcathoös and Pittheus, and two daughters, Nicippe and Lysidice, who married Sthe

feast was made to celebrate it ; but the revengeful Atreus killed the two sons of Thyestes and served their flesh up to the

deeds of Atreus and Thyestes the subject of a drama. Sophocles wrote two Thyestes, and Euripides one ; and we have probabl

women2111. Æacos married Endeïs the daughter of Cheirôn, who bore him two sons, Telamôn and Peleus. By the Nereïs Psamathe,

ey had reached the mouth of the bay of Pagasæ. Here they remained for two days, and then rowed along the coast of Magnesia,

Cleopatra the daughter of Boreas and Oreithyia. She died, leaving him two sons ; and he then married Idæa the daughter of D

ssfooted bulls. These were the gifts of Hephæstos to Æetes, in number two , and breathing flame from their throats. When he

with Argonautic traditions. When it entered the Pontos the mythe took two different directions, just as the colonies themse

the conflict. An oracle had told this prince that he should marry his two daughters to a lion and a bear, and he now saw it

an War. Zeus was, by Electra the daughter of Atlas, the father of two sons, Iasiôn and Dardanos. The former was loved b

On the death of Teucros, he named the whole country Dardania. He had two sons, Ilos and Erichthonios, the former of whom d

btained six foals of surpassing fleetness, four of which he kept, and two he gave to draw the war-car of his son2195. Ilos

off by Eôs), Lampôs, Clytios, Hiketaôn, Priamos2197 and Hesione, and two other daughters ; by the nymph Calybe he had a so

father, and married Hermione the daughter of Menelaos, by whom he had two sons, Tisamenos and Penthilos, who were driven fr

rit. The brief abstract of their contents given above is derived from two fragments of the Chrestomathy of Proclus, of whic

ratives in prose ascribed to Dictys of Crete, and Dares the Phrygian, two notorious forgeries. Much matter relating to the

divination2250. According to the doctrine of the Etruscans there were two orders of gods, the one superior, veiled and name

festivals of Minerva were named Minervalia or Quinquatrus. They were two in number. The former, called the Greater, was ce

nation, and there was another similar temple at Ardea2322. There were two festivals at Rome named Vinalia, in each of which

v. 6 and 7. It is to be observed that it is not Homer's custom to use two particles of comparison (ὥѕ and ἠΰτϵ) together, a

at.» 249. See Voss, Mythol. Briefe, ii. 7. 8. This able critic makes two most extraordinary mistakes on this subject. He s

y moon ; and Fletcher says, …………………………letting fall apace From those two little heavens upon the ground Showers of more pr

perhaps even four (viii. 185.), those of the gods had never more than two . Il. v. 768 ; viii. 41-45 ; xiii. 23. Od. xxiii.

xi. 442. seq. Any one who reflects on the exalted characters of these two gods in the undoubtedly genuine parts of the poem

mann are Neilo, Tritone, Asopo, Acheloïs, Heptapora, and Rhodia, (the two last from rivers named by Homer, II. xii. 20. and

spicion. 1093. See end of this chapter. 1094. Not till a century or two after the time of Homer, in the opinion of Lobeck

siod, Th. 270. seq. In Ovid also (Met. iv. 773.) their number is only two . 1291. Eratosth. Cat. 22. Hygin. P. A. ii. 12. S

uently alluded to in these pages. The ‘Ælteste Weltkunde’ of Voss has two great defects ; he will localise every place and

ocalise every place and people, and he is resolute in maintaining the two poems to be the produce of one mind, and denies a

(Timæus ap. Sch. Il. xviii. 486.), others Asia, others Libya ; these two last refer to the abodes of Prometheus and Atlas.

n golden helm and snowy raiment between the flaming piles, kindled by two hundred men. Another case is that of the sons of

is plain that the Harpies in this legend, as in the Theogony, are but two in number. Virgil seems to make a flock of them.

of Euripides. 2175. See Od. xi. 326 ; xv. 244. seq. 2176. For the two last some gave Mecisteus and Eteocles son of Iphi

logy, or the study of language, has assisted students of mythology in two ways; first, by tracing the names of objects of w

lar disk of the earth was crossed from west to east, and divided into two equal parts by the Sea as they called the Mediter

their food and hospitality. “Like mankind, the gods were divided into two sexes, — namely, gods and goddesses. They married

expressed by making Night the parent of Day and Æther. Nyx, with her two sons, Thanatos and Hypnos, dwelt in a cave which

ed mantle, she leaves her couch before the break of day and yokes her two horses, Lampetus* and Phaethon, to her glorious c

of the day. When the shades of evening began to enfold the earth, the two milk-white steeds of Selene rose out of the myste

witchcraft and enchantment, and to haunt sepulchres, the point where two roads cross, and lonely spots where murders had b

the head of a woman, or of a dog, or of a horse. 2. As a woman having two faces. 3. As a woman having three bodies, partly

vealed himself to the faithful. Later, near the temple at Dodona were two columns. On one was a brazen vase, on the other t

us gained under the form of a swan, was the mother of four children —  two mortal and two immortal. They were Castor* and Po

the form of a swan, was the mother of four children — two mortal and two immortal. They were Castor* and Pollux*, called D

opa was the mother of Minos*, Rhadamanthus*, and Sarpedon*. The first two became judges in the lower world after death. “E

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

both mother and son to the skies, made them the constellations of the two bears, Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. Hera induced Oc

ys to forbid them from coming into their waters, and consequently the two constellations of the Great and Little Bears move

hemus* was son of Poseidon and Thoosa*. The sea-god was the father of two giant sons called Otus* and Ephialtes*. When only

enians preferred to call her by her mystic name of Cora. She embodied two distinct conceptions. On the one hand, she appear

princes of that name in Rome when it first attracted attention, about two hundred years ago. There is a story that the arti

sons and seven daughters, proudly set herself above Leto, who had but two children. The goddess complained to Apollo and Ar

r of uniting all beings divided by hate, Hermes threw it down between two snakes which were fighting. They curled around th

pear as a wild beast, he was torn to pieces by his own mother and her two sisters. “The worship of Dionysus extended to ev

which were open only in time of war. Janus is always represented with two faces. As doorkeeper of heaven, he carries a key

Manes*. The Manes* were the spirits of the departed, and were of two kinds, the Lares* and Larvæ, or Lemures*. The Lar

of Cecrops, founder of the city. A temple was frequently dedicated to two or more gods, and was always built in the manner

metheus, as the advocate of man, should slay an ox and divide it into two parts, and that the gods should select one portio

e Heroes. Centaurs* and Lapithæ*. Centaurs* and Lapithæ* are two mythic tribes which are always mentioned together

saly. It is the opinion of Buttmann that the Centaurs and Lapithæ are two purely poetic names used to designate two opposit

he Centaurs and Lapithæ are two purely poetic names used to designate two opposite races of men; the former, the rude horse

at animal is it that goes in the morning upon four feet, at noon upon two , and in the evening upon three?” Everyone who was

life creeps upon hands and feet, at the noon-tide of life he walks on two feet, and in the evening, when old age has stolen

t happiness and tranquillity. The children of Œdipus and Jocasta were two sons, Eteocles* and Polynices*, and two daughters

en of Œdipus and Jocasta were two sons, Eteocles* and Polynices*, and two daughters, Antigone* and Ismene*. At last Thebes

rd. Placing the trophy in the magic wallet, he flew away, just as the two immortal sisters were awakened by the hissings of

d the hero to the will of the weak and cowardly Eurystheus, Hera sent two serpents to kill the child ivhen he was about eig

, and while in this condition he killed three of his own children and two of those of his brother Iphicles. When he regaine

his sword. To his amazement, in the place of each head he struck off two sprung up. He then ordered his nephew, Iolaus*, t

* he met the giant Damastes*, called Procrustes* (Stretcher), who had two iron beds, one being long and the other short. In

Athamas*, a king of Bœotia, married Nephele, a cloud nymph. Their two children were Phryxus* and Helle*. He afterwards

e, when they heard a fearful crash. This was caused by the meeting of two immense rocks called the Symplegades*, which floa

sks which he should set for him. The first was to harness to a plough two brazen-footed, fire-breathing bulls which Æetes h

was poisoned, and caused the death of Creusa. Medea then murdered her two children, after which she fled to Athens in her c

ected, from which few names of note were missing. Only in the case of two great heroes did Menelaus experience any difficul

e would listen to his warnings; and when, soon afterwards, he and his two sons were destroyed by two serpents that came up

ngs; and when, soon afterwards, he and his two sons were destroyed by two serpents that came up out of the sea, the Trojans

eus. Polyphemus deigned no reply, but reaching out his hand he seized two of the Greeks, dashed out their brains and then d

d that they would therefore be in hopeless imprisonment. Next morning two more of the Greeks were despatched as their compa

. After milking them and making his arrangements as before, he seized two more of his prisoners and made his evening meal u

t to arise, during which the raft was destroyed. He floated about for two days and nights, but at last the sea goddess, Leu

ranch was to be borne as a gift to Proserpine. Aphrodite (Venus) sent two of her doves to fly before him and show him the w

friends, and the herdsmen were finally driven back, with the loss of two of their number. A long war ensued. At length Tur

e triads often consisted of father, mother, and son; but sometimes of two gods and a king. Osiris*, who, with Isis* and Hor

decorated, and conveyed down the Nile to Memphis, where a temple with two chapels, and a court for exercise, were assigned

reat. “Zoroaster taught the existence of a Supreme Being, who created two other mighty beings, and imparted to them so much

d as the measurer, or thinker. The worshipers of Vishnu and Siva form two sects, each of which proclaims the superiority of

bited this sacrifice about ten years ago. Every year, particularly at two great festivals in March and July, pilgrims flock

e grandeur and sublimity. These mythological records are contained in two collections called the Eddas*. The older is in po

whole world and reported all they had seen and heard. At his feet lay two wolves, Geri* and Freki*, to whom Odin gave all t

re, those within are encompassed by the flames.” The Druids observed two festivals in each year. The Baltane, or “fire of

aration for feasting and sacrifice under the tree, they drive thither two milk-white bulls, whose horns are then for the fi

god. The light appears in the east and disappears in the west. These two cardinal points are represented as twins — the on

ennyson’s “Œnone.” 15. On the banks of the river Nile, in Egypt, are two colossal statues, one of which is said to be the

ular disk of the earth was crossed from west to east and divided into two equal parts by the Sea, as they called the Medite

winged cap and winged shoes. He bore in his hand a rod entwined with two serpents, called the caduceus.2 Mercury is said

dian deity of gates, on which account he is commonly represented with two heads, because every door looks two ways. His tem

t he is commonly represented with two heads, because every door looks two ways. His temples at Rome were numerous. In war t

g, he took his stand on a rock of Parnassus, and drew from his quiver two arrows of different workmanship, one to excite lo

rned more intensely for being covered up. In the wall that parted the two houses there was a crack, caused by some fault in

their breaths would mingle. “Cruel wall,” they said, “why do you keep two lovers apart? But we will not be ungrateful. We o

breast. Her parents ratified her wish, the gods also ratified it. The two bodies were buried in one sepulchre, and the tree

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

ieve me; but look when night darkens the world, and you shall see the two of whom I have so much reason to complain exalted

your waters.” The powers of the ocean assented, and consequently the two constellations of the Great and Little Bear move

of Arcady, Or Tyrian Cynosure.” Diana and Actæon. Thus in two instances we have seen Juno’s severity to her riv

scattered over the surface of heaven. Here the Scorpion extended his two great arms, with his tail and crooked claws stret

d his two great arms, with his tail and crooked claws stretching over two signs of the zodiac. When the boy beheld him, ree

d Hæmus; Ætna, with fires within and without, and Parnassus, with his two peaks, and Rhodope, forced at last to part with h

dispositions. One need not look there for master or for servant; they two were the whole household, master and servant alik

they two were the whole household, master and servant alike. When the two heavenly guests crossed the humble threshold, and

e bark closed over their mouths. The Tyanean shepherd still shows the two trees, standing side by side, made out of the two

erd still shows the two trees, standing side by side, made out of the two good old people.   The story of Baucis and Philem

itated by Swift, in a burlesque style, the actors in the change being two wandering saints, and the house being changed int

you, if you have any regard for your own interest or mine, join these two in one.” The boy unbound his quiver, and selected

ries, and sticks for his fire. His little girl was driving home their two goats, and as she passed the goddess, who appeare

. A certain king and queen had three daughters. The charms of the two elder were more than common, but the beauty of th

riumph.” Cupid prepared to obey the commands of his mother. There are two fountains in Venus’s garden, one of sweet waters,

enus’s garden, one of sweet waters, the other of bitter. Cupid filled two amber vases, one from each fountain, and suspendi

youth, nor plebeian presented himself to demand her in marriage. Her two elder sisters of moderate charms had now long bee

Her two elder sisters of moderate charms had now long been married to two royal princes; but Psyche, in her lonely apartmen

golden ringlets wandering over his snowy neck and crimson cheek, with two dewy wings on his shoulders, whiter than snow, an

been oftener alluded to by the poets than that of Narcissus. Here are two epigrams which treat it in different ways. The fi

tale ran that in the reign of Cecrops, the first king of Athens, the two deities contended for the possession of the city.

ive. The gods gave judgment that the olive was the more useful of the two , and awarded the city to the goddess; and it was

ster Ovid, but improving upon him in the conclusion of the story. The two stanzas which follow tell what was done after the

de? Will you prefer to me this Latona, the Titan’s daughter, with her two children? I have seven times as many. Fortunate i

me of my children, I should hardly be left as poor as Latona with her two only. Away with you from these solemnities, — put

hat animal is that which in the morning goes on four feet, at noon on two , and in the evening upon three?” Œdipus replied,

ived in Thessaly a king and queen named Athamas and Nephele. They had two children, a boy and a girl. After a time Athamas

ed her, and gave her a ram with a golden fleece, on which she set the two children, trusting that the ram would convey them

future course. It seems the entrance of the Euxine Sea was impeded by two small rocky islands, which floated on the surface

sented to give up the golden fleece if Jason would yoke to the plough two fire-breathing bulls with brazen feet, and sow th

any roof, and shunned all intercourse with mortals. She next erected two altars, the one to Hecate, the other to Hebe, the

l mothers, she declared war against Hercules from his birth. She sent two serpents to destroy him as he lay in his cradle,

ff its heads with his club, but in the place of the head knocked off, two new ones grew forth each time. At length with the

ched at length the frontiers of Libya and Europe, where he raised the two mountains of Calpe and Abyla, as monuments of his

is progress, or, according to another account, rent one mountain into two and left half on each side, forming the straits o

two and left half on each side, forming the straits of Gibraltar, the two mountains being called the Pillars of Hercules. T

ical and the imaginative in some beautiful stanzas, of which the last two may be thus translated: — “Deep degraded to a co

thens. This festival differed from the other Grecian games chiefly in two particulars. It was peculiar to the Athenians, an

of iron and notched it on the edge, and thus invented the saw. He put two pieces of iron together, connecting them at one e

wn life as a ransom for him. Jupiter so far consented as to allow the two brothers to enjoy the boon of life alternately, p

utilated body, jumped into the sea. What had been his legs became the two ends of a crescent-shaped tail. The whole crew be

poet, Mrs. E. Barrett Browning, in her poem called The Dead Pan. The two following verses are a specimen: — “By your beau

elf could not approach Famine, for the Fates have ordained that these two goddesses shall never come together, she called a

the west; Notus or Auster, the south; and Eurus, the east. The first two have been chiefly celebrated by the poets, the fo

n. Hercules and myself were of the number, and the rest yielded to us two . He urged in his behalf his descent from Jove and

urvive her, and fell by his own hand.   Antigone forms the subject of two fine tragedies of the Grecian poet Sophocles. Mrs

is, of the poets who have told them. In their present form, the first two are translated from the German, Arion from Schleg

soon was in the middle of the wood. There suddenly, at a narrow pass, two robbers stepped forth and barred his way. He must

wed the great man’s jest. In a little time he received a message that two young men on horseback were waiting without and a

ers of his funeral pile to be turned into birds, which, dividing into two flocks, fought over the pile till they fell into

some memorials of this. On the banks of the river Nile, in Egypt, are two colossal statues, one of which is said to be the

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

besides Hector, were Æneas and Deiphobus, Glaucus and Sarpedon. After two years of preparation the Greek fleet and army ass

Then the rest of the Trojans fled in dismay. Ajax, Menelaus, and the two sons of Nestor performed prodigies of valor. Hect

riend, and Patroclus also descended to complete his victory. Thus the two heroes met face to face. At this decisive moment

st the shield the work of Vulcan. It was formed of five metal plates; two were of brass, two of tin, and one of gold. The s

ork of Vulcan. It was formed of five metal plates; two were of brass, two of tin, and one of gold. The spear pierced two th

es; two were of brass, two of tin, and one of gold. The spear pierced two thicknesses, but was stopped in the third. Achill

ar his shoulder and made no wound. Then Æneas seized a stone, such as two men of modern times could hardly lift, and was ab

s and took out rich garments and cloths, with ten talents in gold and two splendid tripods and a golden cup of matchless wo

nce he introduced Priam into the tent where Achilles sat, attended by two of his warriors. The old king threw himself at th

he evident will of Jove.” So saying he arose, and went forth with his two friends, and unloaded of its charge the litter, l

with his two friends, and unloaded of its charge the litter, leaving two mantles and a robe for the covering of the body,

lower sprang up, called the hyacinth, bearing on its leaves the first two letters of the name of Ajax, Ai, the Greek for “w

which left no room to doubt. There appeared, advancing over the sea, two immense serpents. They came upon the land, and th

e serpents advanced directly to the spot where Laocoon stood with his two sons. They first attacked the children, winding r

sacrifice to the goddess all strangers who fell into their hands. The two friends were seized and carried bound to the temp

gods. Polyphemus deigned no answer, but reaching out his hand seized two of the Greeks, whom he hurled against the side of

therefore be in hopeless imprisonment. Next morning the giant seized two more of the Greeks, and despatched them in the sa

. After milking them and making his arrangements as before, he seized two more of Ulysses’ companions and dashed their brai

Scylla and Charybdis. Ulysses had been warned by Circe of the two monsters Scylla and Charybdis. We have already me

er allurements, and when no other means of escape could be found, the two friends leaped from a cliff into the sea, and swa

s bloomed all the year round, arranged with neatest art. In the midst two fountains poured forth their waters, one flowing

Æneas followed the directions of the Sibyl. His mother, Venus, sent two of her doves to fly before him and show him the w

r friends, and the herdsmen were finally driven back with the loss of two of their number. These things were enough to rous

the army for graces of person and fine qualities, was with him. These two were friends and brothers in arms. Nisus said to

they should send notice to Æneas of their situation. The offer of the two friends was gladly accepted, themselves loaded wi

u shall be made good to her, if you do not return to receive it.” The two friends left the camp and plunged at once into th

early day did not forbid a brave man to slay a sleeping foe, and the two Trojans slew, as they passed, such of the enemy a

ng helmet of Euryalus caught their attention, and Volscens hailed the two , and demanded who and whence they were. They made

e scene of action in time to rescue his beleaguered camp; and now the two armies being nearly equal in strength, the war be

om the dark green thy yellow circles burst.” A war arose between the two cities, and Sybaris was conquered and destroyed.

decorated and conveyed down the Nile to Memphis, where a temple, with two chapels and a court for exercise, was assigned to

ak there are some beautiful mythological allusions. The former of the two following is to the fable of Castor and Pollux; t

ce instinct, Didst burst thine, as theirs the fabled Twins Now stars; two lobes protruding, paired exact; A leaf succeeded

d art. Of the many attempts four have been most celebrated, the first two known to us only by the descriptions of the ancie

princes of that name in Rome when it first attracted attention, about two hundred years ago. An inscription on the base rec

e of nature could no further go; To make a third she joined the other two .” From Cowper’s Table Talk: — « Ages elapsed er

tedious, and they are read with pleasure and even with sympathy. The two great works of Ovid are his Metamorphoses and his

the tail of a boar, a deep, bellowing voice, and a single black horn, two cubits in length, standing out in the middle of i

e only horn of the animal, but a third horn, standing in front of the two others. In fine, though it would be presumptuous

dency. Zoroaster taught the existence of a supreme being, who created two other mighty beings and imparted to them as much

neration than of destruction. The worshippers of Vishnu and Siva form two sects, each of which proclaims the superiority of

act, as a pleasing sacrifice to the idol. Every year, particularly at two great festivals in March and July, pilgrims flock

w them to engage in productive employments. We need say little of the two intermediate classes, whose rank and privileges m

ark, Norway, and Iceland. These mythological records are contained in two collections called the Eddas, of which the oldest

eturn report to him all they have seen and heard. At his feet lie his two wolves, Geri and Freki, to whom Odin gives all th

uccess of his errand, Frey exclaimed: — “Long is one night, Long are two nights, But how shall I hold out three? Shorter h

overnight for a hall was the giant’s glove, and the chamber where his two companions had sought refuge was the thumb. Skrym

rinker will empty that horn at a single draught, though most men make two of it, but the most puny drinker can do it in thr

man historians to this fact, but without success. The Druids observed two festivals in each year. The former took place in

h islands long after the establishment of Christianity. Besides these two great annual festivals, the Druids were in the ha

aration for feasting and sacrifice under the tree, they drive thither two milk-white bulls, whose horns are then for the fi

elf, whom he overcame and banished. He then shared his power with his two brothers, Neptune and Pluto; to Neptune he gave t

adivus [Gradi′vus] when he was raging; therefore the Romans built him two temples, one to Mars Quirinus within the walls, t

seemed hopeless, as Argus had a hundred eyes, of which he closed only two in sleep, while the others watched. Jupiter comma

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

nts of Diana. She was afterwards reconciled to Cephalus, and gave him two presents which she had received from Diana. These

se from the funeral pyre, were changed into birds, which divided into two flocks, and fought together until they fell into

ere is this statue, and for what is it remarkable? Ans. It is one of two colossal figures which are directly opposite the

bs, Shama and Dama. The statue of Memnon is the more northerly of the two , and was formerly celebrated for its vocal powers

d that god with him in the kingdom. He was generally represented with two faces, and was called hence, Janus Bifrons. He ha

tragic mask. Euterpe [Euter′pe] was the patroness of music. She holds two flutes. Erato [Er′ato] inspired those who wrote o

l for their goddess they ran about the streets for the space of about two hours, crying, “Great is Diana of the Ephesians!”

. Did any escape who passed those coasts? Ans. History mentions only two ; Ulysses [Ulys′ses] and Orpheus [Or′pheus]. The f

this: “What animal is that which goes on four feet in the morning, on two at noon, and on three in the evening?” The Theban

ecause when an infant he creeps on all fours; in manhood, he walks on two feet, and when old uses a staff as a third foot.

a of virtue itself was personified as a goddess. The Romans dedicated two temples, one to this divinity, and another, adjoi

ded by Numa Pompilius. The symbols of this goddess were, a white dog, two hands joined, or sometimes two maidens with joine

ols of this goddess were, a white dog, two hands joined, or sometimes two maidens with joined hands. Ques. What were the e

of Hercules, after the death of that hero. Pudicitia, or Modesty, had two temples, much frequented by the Roman matrons. Th

nk, they might still excel in modest behavior and purity of life. The two temples were from that time distinguished as Pudi

Fortune had many splendid temples in Italy. Servius Tullius dedicated two at Rome; one to Bona Fortuna, the other to Fors F

account, and resolved upon his destruction. For this purpose she sent two monstrous serpents to kill him as he was sleeping

cules noticed that where he cut off one of the heads of this serpent, two immediately sprang up. He commanded an attendant

nes. The ancients said that Hercules was contending on this spot with two giants, when, his arrows becoming exhausted, he p

edea’s revenge? Ans. She murdered, in the sight of their father, the two children whom she had borne to Jason, and consume

Ans. Everything relating to this poet is involved in obscurity. The two biographies of him which were formerly attributed

he Cyclades, where he was buried. The fame of Homer is founded on his two great poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey. The first

sed, perhaps, with a few Latin or Etruscan fables. There are, in all, two hundred and fifty of these stories. Ovid was enga

ted to land upon the shores of Ithaca. The Odyssey, the second of the two great poems attributed to Homer, is a history of

of Eumæus. After mutual explanations, and affectionate greetings, the two heroes consulted as to what measures they should

t Mithridates. Ques. Where was the Castalian Fount? Ans. There were two celebrated springs of that name; one on Mount Par

on of the size of the head with the rest of the body, was obviated by two different contrivances. The cothurnus, or buskin,

ic poet, was on his way to the Isthmian games, when he was waylaid by two robbers. The unhappy bard called in vain for aid;

poets contended for the prize of excellence, they generally presented two or three pieces each, so that twelve complete dra

ed to gain the favor of the Athenians, he reduced the entrance fee to two oboli, and obtained a decree that even this trifl

rocodiles forgot their usual ferocity, and became harmless. A temple, two chapels, and a court for exercise, were assigned

tical with the sun. The Hebrews always connected the worship of these two divinities. According to Cicero, Astarte was the

the existence of one supreme Being called “the Eternal,” who created two other mighty beings, and imparted to them a porti

sent diseases, earthquakes and storms. The Persians thus believed in two independent principles, one of good, and one of e

a vast number of followers. His worshippers and those of Vishnu form two distinct sects. Brahma, having finished his work,

heir return report to him all that they have seen. At Odin’s feet lie two wolves, to whom he gives all the meat that is set

a priest in white vestments cut the plant with a golden sickle while two others received it reverently into a white mantle

hirs is not well understood. Where they stand singly, or in groups of two or three, they probably mark a spot rendered memo

e centre. The dolmen is a large flat stone, placed like a table, upon two others which are set upright. Some of these were

nt quarry. At Stonehenge, in England, is a large cromlech arranged in two circles and two ovals. There are in all about one

onehenge, in England, is a large cromlech arranged in two circles and two ovals. There are in all about one hundred and for

Ans. It is supposed that the religion of the Aztecs was derived from two distinct sources. The ancient Toltecs, who preced

en held the most exalted rank, while the inferior class numbered over two hundred. Ques. Who may be considered the chief o

owers were generally placed, besides the dreadful stone of sacrifice, two lofty altars on which burned perpetual fires. So

was so arranged, that the religious processions were obliged to pass two or three times around the pyramid before reaching

Were these sacrifices numerous? Ans. They were introduced only about two hundred years before the Spanish Conquest. They w

parent of mankind, took compassion on their degraded state, and sent two of his children, Manco-Capac, and Mama Oello Huac

ditions of this race, is one of the deluge, which resembles in one or two curious particulars the Mexican legend on the sam

lar, because no communication is believed to have existed between the two countries. Ques. Where were the most celebrated

iny to literary pursuits was uninterrupted. He rose to his studies at two in the morning, and during the entire day, whethe

subject. When Hiero repeated his question on the morrow, he asked for two days. As he continued in this manner, doubling th

ghter of the guests. In a little while, a slave brought him word that two young men on horseback were at the gate, and desi

trabo imagined that the entire habitable portion was included between two meridians, one of which passed through the island

ive hundred volumes, all of which are now lost, with the exception of two treatises; one on agriculture, the other on the L

y.] What is Mythology? Mythology, an expression compounded of the two Greek words, muthos, a fable, and, logos, a disco

e meaning of the word Idolatry? The term Idolatry is derived from the two Greek words, eidolon and latreia, signifying wors

er farther divided, and what were their names? They were divided into two classes; the first was called the Council of Jupi

alled Bifrons. We learn from history, that Janus was represented with two faces, because he governed two different people,

story, that Janus was represented with two faces, because he governed two different people, and because he divided his king

his kingdom with Saturn. He likewise caused medals to be struck with two faces, to shew that his dominions should be gover

ust be reckoned among those gods called Indigetes. Besides his having two faces, he was represented with a wand in his hand

thunderbolt in his hand; by his side, respect and equity; before him, two urns of good and evil, which he distributes at pl

wn by hinds. Where were situated her most celebrated temples? She had two temples famous in history. The first was that of

nvincible against all the attacks of its enemies. Diomed and Ulysses, two of the illustrious Grecian Heroes, contrived to c

re, Came halting forth the sov’reign of the fire: The monarch’s steps two female forms uphold. That mov’d, and breath’d, in

s Virgil. Chap. XVII. Mercury. Who was Mercury? There were two of that name; the Egyptian, and the Grecian Mercu

; and in his hand was the caduceus, a wand, round which were entwined two serpents. The Egyptians gave him a face partly da

e number of these domestic Divinities. Every man was supposed to have two , accompanying him; one, the author of his happine

actions of his life were remarkable? When in his cradle, he strangled two serpents, sent by Juno to destroy him. He deliver

might pass between its legs. A man could not grasp its thumb with his two arms. After having stood fifty years, it was over

employed in building it, during the space of twenty years. The other two are smaller. It is supposed they were intended as

l actions, were ranked among the deities. What is the doctrine of the two principles, the prevalence of which marks the thi

ve that the same being was the author of both; and therefore imagined two deities, nearly equal in power, and both eternal,

hap. III. Paganism. — Buddhism. May not Paganism be classed under two great primeval sects? Though all the various syst

re or less widely from the patriarchal religion, yet the existence of two principal sects, venerating a supreme God, but di

a long series of ages, meditating on himself, at last divided it into two equal parts; and from these halves, formed the he

ineteen cubits thick; having three entrances. At the eastern gate are two very fine figures of elephants, each with a man u

figures of elephants, each with a man upon his trunk. On the west are two surprising figures of horsemen completely armed,

o surprising figures of horsemen completely armed, who, having killed two elephants, are seated upon them. In front of that

constantly burning, a kind of sacred fire, kindled by the friction of two pieces of palass wood, with which they perform th

whom their poets describe as sitting in a splendid chariot, drawn by two antelopes, and holding in the right hand a rabbit

wings on his shoulders; and his thighs terminating in the volumes of two enormous serpents. Having inclosed Osīris in an a

account given of the Egyptian Mercury? Yes. Some writers assert that two sages of the name of Hermes, or Mercury, lived at

mployed in digging a trench in a vineyard, accidentally cut an asp in two , by a blow of his spade, and was so terrified by

eligion appears to have been founded chiefly upon the doctrine of the two principles of good and evil, perpetually at varia

f these, man alone was created; and that he mysteriously consisted of two characters, or persons, distinguished from each o

enters upon the sacerdotal office, lights a fire by rubbing together two pieces of a hard wood named Semi, which he keeps

Polytheism likewise was introduced, and that the struggle between the two systems was one operating cause of the dispersion

r and Ruler. To him was given the name of Teutates, compounded of the two British words Deu-tatt, signifying God the Parent

fice, and the banquet under the oak, they began the ceremony by-tying two white bulls to it by the horns. Then one of the D

or a mound. In their centre was a circular area, inclosed with one or two rows of large stones. This was the temple. Close

rus, and from Beyzla, the daughter of the giant Baldorn. Aided by his two brothers, Vile and Ve, he created man and woman o

. Aided by his two brothers, Vile and Ve, he created man and woman of two clumps of wood, which were floating on the shore

n their hands. Odin takes no nourishment but wine, and distributes to two wolves, named Geri and Freki, the food served up

ew system will then be established. Besides those already enumerated, two more vague and doubtful beings are found in the S

ideration, the Academic Council of the University of California, some two years ago, introduced into its requirements for e

cording to the reason of their existence, we observe that they are of two kinds: explanatory and æsthetic. (1) Explanatory

ted among peoples ignorant of the Hebrew Bible. The theory rests upon two unproved assumptions: one, that all nations have

shape, we shall find ourselves led back generally to one or other of two sources — either to actual historical events, rep

fierce in its descent of tempest — the Greek forms first the idea of two entirely personal and corporeal gods (Apollo and

ges, and never for one instant separated from them, he conceives also two omnipresent spiritual influences, of which one il

… you have to discern these three structural parts — the root and the two branches. The root, in physical existence, sun, o

leted wholes, neglected traditions of the Trojan War and myths of the two wars against Thebes.27 Hesiod is, like Homer, o

een a contemporary of Homer, but concerning the relative dates of the two poets there is no certainty. Hesiod was born in A

Mount Helicon, his manhood in the neighborhood of Corinth, and wrote two great poems, the Works and Days, and the Theogony

matters of mythological import. Of the later poets of mythology, only two need be mentioned here, — Apollonius of Rhodes (1

ey are called the “Tristia,” or Sorrows, and Letters from Pontus. The two great works of Ovid are his “Metamorphoses,” or T

tion from the Icelandic óðr, which means mind, or poetry.39 There are two Icelandic collections called Eddas: Snorri’s and

until the Swiss critic, J. J. Bodmer, published, in 1757, portions of two ancient poems, “The Revenge of Kriemhild” and “Th

they were instigators of hatred and strife. Homer mentions specially two of them, Iapetus and Cronus ; but Hesiod enumerat

rick, attempted to settle the question in favor of man. Dividing into two portions a sacrificial bull; he wrapped all the e

cular shrine was the most ancient in Greece. According to one account two black doves had taken wing from Thebes in Egypt.

he Venus of Melos, and the Venus of the Medici.84 A comparison of the two conceptions is instituted in the following poem.8

the west; Notus or Auster, the south; and Eurus, the east. The first two , chiefly, have been celebrated by the poets, the

lar disk of the earth was crossed from west to east, and divided into two equal parts by the Sea, as they called the Medite

l beside their brother, Death, along the Western Sea. Their abode has two gates, — one of ivory, whence issue false and fla

104 Chapter VIII. The Gods of the Waters.105 § 52. There were two dynasties of the sea. The Older, which flourished

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

your waters.” The powers of the Ocean assented, and consequently the two constellations of the Great and Little Bear move

d, when the flock of truthful dreams fares wandering… Then she beheld two continents at strife for her sake, Asia and the f

the Mænad dances, Jupiter as a satyr, wooed and won her. She bore him two sons, Amphion and Zethus, who, being exposed at b

in long order due, •With cypress promenaded, The shock-head willows, two and two, By rivers gallopaded. Came wet-shot ald

order due, •With cypress promenaded, The shock-head willows, two and two , By rivers gallopaded. Came wet-shot alder from

made it endurable by moderate desires and kind dispositions. When the two guests crossed the humble threshold, and bowed th

e bark closed over their mouths. The Tyanean shepherd still shows the two trees, — an oak and a linden, standing side by si

itated by Swift, in a burlesque style, the actors in the change being two wandering saints, and the house being changed int

aspired to it. In the reign of Cecrops, the first king of Athens, the two deities had contended for the possession of the c

forms scattered over the surface of heaven, — the Scorpion extending two great arms, his tail, and his crooked claws over

ing two great arms, his tail, and his crooked claws over the space of two signs of the zodiac, — when the boy beheld him, r

d Hæmus: Ætna, with fires within and without, and Parnassus, with his two peaks, and Rhodope, forced at last to part with h

n, scoffed at the annual celebration in honor of the goddess and -her two children. Surveying the people of Thebes with hau

es! Will you prefer to me this Latona, the Titan’s daughter, with her two children? I have seven times as many. Were I to l

me of my children, I should hardly be left as poor as Latona with her two only. Put off the laurel from your brows, — have

l herself had done, Risen to the height of her: so, hand in hand, The two might go together, live and die. Beside, when he

nd the nymph Cyrene, whose son was Aristæus161. Of his relations with two other maidens the following myths exist. § 85. Da

g, he took his stand on a rock of Parnassus, and drew from his quiver two arrows of different workmanship, — one to excite

178 — A certain king and queen had three daughters. The charms of the two elder were more than common, but the beauty of th

passion for some low, unworthy being. There were, in Venus’s garden, two fountains, — one of sweet waters, the other of bi

o fountains, — one of sweet waters, the other of bitter. Cupid filled two amber vases, one from each fountain, and suspendi

eforth frowned upon by Venus, derived no benefit from her charms. Her two elder sisters had long been married to princes; b

forest thoughtlessly, And, on the sudden, fainting with surprise, Saw two fair creatures, couched side by side In deepest g

y one breath, too late. Hippomenes had toucht the maple goal With but two fingers, leaning pronely forth. She stood in mute

id take The apple and the hand. “Both I detain,” Said he, “the other two I dedicate To the two Powers that soften virgin h

the hand. “Both I detain,” Said he, “the other two I dedicate To the two Powers that soften virgin hearts, Eros and Aphrod

5 — On Hellespont, guilty of true love’s blood, In view and opposite two cities stood, Sea-borderers, disjoin’d by Neptune

our power to love or hate, For will in us is overrul’d by fate. When two are stript long e’er the course begin, We wish th

at one should lose, the other win; And one especially do we affect Of two gold ingots, like in each respect: The reason no

urned the more intensely that it was covered. In the wall between the two houses there was a crack, caused by some fault in

of our blood.” So saying, she plunged the sword into her breast. The two bodies were buried in one sepulchre, and the tree

ether, he made fire, and sacrificed, as an example for men to follow, two heifers to the twelve gods (himself included). Th

xample. Now, if thou regardest thine own interest or mine, join these two in one.” The boy selected his sharpest and truest

ers of his funeral pile to be turned into birds, which, dividing into two flocks fought over the pile till they fell into t

Dawn is certified even after his death. On the banks of the Nile are two colossal statues, one of which is called Memnon’s

rneying to the musical contest of the Isthmus at Corinth, attacked by two robbers in the Corinthian grove of Neptune. Overc

er and child to be boxed up in a chest and set adrift on the sea. The two unfortunates were, however, rescued at Seriphus b

ry his knife, Perseus sped to the hall of the Gorgons. In silence sat two of the sisters, — But a third woman paced about

ortal mothers, declared war against Hercules from his birth. She sent two serpents to destroy him as he lay in his cradle,

valor. To him, while still a youth, appeared, according to one story, two women at a meeting of the ways, — Pleasure and Du

uck off the heads with his club; but in the place of each despatched, two new ones appeared. At last, with the assistance o

ched at length the frontiers of Libya and Europe, where he raised the two mountains of Abyla and Calpe as monuments of his

Hercules; — or, according to another account, rent one mountain into two , and left half on each side, forming the "Straits

s the son of Deucalion of Thessaly. Athamas had, by his wife Nephele, two children, Phryxus and Helle. After a time, growin

ch. Mercury gave her a ram with a golden fleece, on which she set the two children. Vaulting into the air, the animal took

e on certain conditions: namely, that Jason should yoke to the plough two fire-breathing bulls with brazen feet; and that h

ng that period shunned all intercourse with mortals. Next she erected two altars, the one to Hecate, the other to Hebe, and

oddess Minerva, who brought him up in her temple. His son Pandion had two daughters, Procne and Philomela, of whom he gave

“What animal is it that in the morning goes on four feet, at noon on two , and in the evening upon three?” Œdipus replied,

im go. Jocasta’s brother, Creon, was made regent of the realm for the two sons of Œdipus. But, after Œdipus had grown conte

ife Aërope, granddaughter of Minos II., king of Crete, and by her had two sons, Agamemnon, the general of the Grecian army

vengeance on a brother, Thyestes, by causing him to eat the flesh of two of his own children. A son of this Thyestes, Ægis

bore Castor and Clytemnestra; to Jove she bore Pollux and Helen. The two former were mortal; the two latter, immortal. Cly

a; to Jove she bore Pollux and Helen. The two former were mortal; the two latter, immortal. Clytemnestra was married to Aga

wn life as a ransom for him. Jupiter so far consented as to allow the two brothers to enjoy the boon of life alternately, e

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

hises, Deiphobus, Glaucus, and Sarpedon. Iphigenia in Aulis. — After two years of preparation, the Greek fleet and army as

ish the flames. Then the rest fled in dismay. Ajax, Menelaüs, and the two sons of Nestor performed prodigies of valor. Hect

riend, and Patroclus also descended to complete his victory. Thus the two heroes met face to face. At this decisive moment

l his force against the shield, the work of Vulcan. The spear pierced two plates of the shield, but was stopped in the thir

his shoulder and made no wound. Then Æneas, seizing a stone, such as two men of modern times could hardly lift, was about

s and took out rich garments and cloths, with ten talents in gold and two splendid tripods and a golden cup of matchless wo

ep, he introduced Priam into the tent where Achilles sat, attended by two of his warriors. The aged king threw himself at t

y the manifest will of Jove.” So saying he arose, went forth with his two friends, and unloaded of its charge the litter, l

with his two friends, and unloaded of its charge the litter, leaving two mantles and a robe for the covering of the body.

into the earth a hyacinth sprang up, bearing on its leaves the first two letters of his name, Ai, the Greek interjection o

ed which left no room to doubt. There appeared advancing over the sea two immense serpents. They came upon the land, and th

e serpents advanced directly to the spot where Laocoön stood with his two sons. They first attacked the children, winding r

sacrifice to the goddess all strangers who fell into their hands, the two friends were seized and carried bound to the temp

gods. Polyphemus deigned no answer, but reaching out his hand seized two of the men, whom he hurled against the side of th

therefore be in hopeless imprisonment. Next morning the giant seized two more of the men and despatched them in the same m

. After milking them and making his arrangements as before, he seized two more of Ulysses’ companions, dashed their brains

ame. Scylla and Charybdis. — Ulysses had been warned by Circe of the two monsters Scylla and Charybdis. We have already me

ed. Æneas followed the directions of the Sibyl. His mother Venus sent two of her doves to fly before him and show him the w

r friends, and the herdsmen were finally driven back with the loss of two of their number. These things were enough to rous

the army for graces of person and fine qualities, was with him. These two were friends and brothers in arms. Nisus said to

they should send notice to Æneas of their situation. The offer of the two friends was gladly accepted, themselves loaded wi

all be made good to her, if thou dost not return to receive it.” The two friends left the camp and plunged at once into th

early day did not forbid a brave man to slay a sleeping foe, and the two Trojans slew, as they passed, such of the enemy a

ng helmet of Euryalus caught their attention, and Volscens hailed the two , and demanded who and whence they were. They made

e scene of action in time to rescue his beleaguered camp; and now the two armies being nearly equal in strength, the war be

turn report to him what they have seen and heard. At his feet lie his two wolves, Geri and Freki, to whom Odin gives the me

overnight for a hall was the giant’s glove, and the chamber where his two companions had sought refuge was the thumb. Skrym

rinker will empty that horn at a single draught, though most men make two of it, but the most puny drinker can do it in thr

ccess of his errand, Freyr exclaimed, — “Long is one night, Long are two nights, But how shall I hold out three? Shorter h

n nought avail? Yet, doubtless, when the day of battle comes, And the two hosts are marshall’d, and in heaven The golden-cr

de through the flames drawn up around her hall. After Gunnar had made two unsuccessful attempts, Sigurd, assuming the form

hich he had taken not from a dwarf, as in the Norse version, but from two princes, the sons of King Nibelung. Meanwhile Gun

tin alphabet, which in First English was supplemented by retention of two of the runes, named ‘thorn’ and ‘wen,’ to represe

eukalion; Milton, P. L. 11: 12. Interpretative. — This myth combines two stories of the origin of the Hellenes, or indigen

was in the possession of the princes of that name in Rome when, about two hundred years ago, it first attracted attention.

n variously derived from roots meaning to sit, to stand, to burn. The two former are consistent with the domestic nature of

frieze of the Parthenon. Also noteworthy are the Demeter from Cnidos, two statues of Ceres in the Vatican at Rome, and one

in the Saronic Gulf, between Attica and Argolis. Asopus: the name of two rivers, one in Achaia, one in Bœotia, of which th

us the Elder of Argos lived about 431 b.c., and was a contemporary of two other great sculptors, Phidias and Myron. His gre

in; cf. Semitic Melkarth, and Kedem, the East. But Preller holds that two mythical personages, a Greek Cadmus and a Phœnici

; condemned to the underworld, he lay stretched over nine acres while two vultures devoured his liver (§ 21). Interpretati

nd Ætolia, where Hercules ascended his funeral pile. Ida: the name of two mountains, — one in Crete, where Jupiter was nurt

hat high Intelligence felt itself to be really concerned.” Festivals: two kinds of festivals, the Eleusinia and the Thesmop

see § 167 C. Pylos: it is doubtful what city is intended. There were two such towns in Elis, and one in Messenia. The word

thens. This festival differed from the other Grecian games chiefly in two particulars. It was peculiar to the Athenians, an

llurements. Finally when no other means of escape could be found, the two friends leaped from a cliff into the sea, and swa

etc.) (Corp. Poet. 2: 418). The Norse Religion consists evidently of two distinct strata: the lower, of gods, that are per

obable that in Sigurd and Siegfried we have recollections combined of two or more of these historic characters. Mythologica

en retainers of Attila: for the historic Theodoric was not born until two years after the historic Attila’s death. These hi

ts vowel, whether long or short, is followed by j, x, or z, or by any two consonants except a mute and a liquid: A′-jax, Me

d a liquid: A′-jax, Meg-a-ba-zus, A-dras′-tus. Note (a). — Sometimes two vowels come together without forming a diphthong.

the third last syllable (antepenult): Am-phit′-ry-on. (a) In words of two syllables, it falls on the penult: Cir′-ce. (b) I

syllables, it falls on the penult: Cir′-ce. (b) In words of more than two syllables, it falls on the penult when that sylla

enult: Æ-nē′-as, Her′-cŭ-les. (3) The subordinate accent: (a) If only two syllables precede the principal accent, the subor

on the first syllable of the word: Hip 2-po-crē′ne. (b) If more than two syllables precede the principal accent, the laws

e, A′-treus, Hel′e-nus: Except when its vowel is followed by x or by two consonants (not a mute with l or r), then the vow

el; e.g. Pi-ræ-us: Except when (a) the vowel is followed by x or any two consonants (not a mute with l or r): e.g. Ix-i′-o

e is represented as a mummy or a pigmy. Pakht and Bast: a goddess of two forms, lioness-headed or cat-headed. At Memphis P

nd one of the most important of the Vedic gods; lord of fire, born of two pieces of wood rubbed together; youngest of the d

companion, passing between heaven and earth “like a messenger between two hamlets” (Lat. ignis; cf. Gk. Hephæstus). Vach:

tate of the, 21. ADDENDA Cerco′pes: grotesque and gnome-like rascals, two of whom, while Hercules was sleeping, made off wi

and, Cresphontes, the Heraclid, king of Messenia, had been slain with two of his sons by rebellious nobles, and one Polypho

.). Com. § 41, Mercury and Argus; § 89, Diana and her Nymphs, Actæon ( two pictures, Dresden); § 126, Galatea and Cupids. A

d had him secretly educated. This son was Jupiter. Neptune and Pluto, two other of Saturn’s sons, were saved. When Titan di

dertakings, and the arbiter of peace and war. He was represented with two faces. These two faces indicated the double reign

he arbiter of peace and war. He was represented with two faces. These two faces indicated the double reign of Saturn and Ja

His head wag surrounded with rays and clouds. Beside him were placed two urns, one of good, the other of evil. From these

, and in his hand he held the caduceus. This was a wand entwined with two serpents. The caduceus had a power to induce wake

ddess, fierce as himself. They were represented in a chariot drawn by two wild horses, whose names were Flight and Terror.

nvincible against all the attacks of its enemies. Diomed and Ulysses, two of the Grecian heroes, contrived to convey the Pa

o, the king of the infernal regions, appeared in his chariot drawn by two fine horses, black as ebony. Admiring the beauty

metimes she appears in a chariot of silver, drawn by hinds. Diana had two temples famous in history. The first was that of

verb, when we shunScylla we are lost in Charybdis, signifying, one of two dangers is inevitable. ——— The Halcyones were se

nd disposing his mind and his conduct. Every man was supposed to have two Genii. His evil genius disposed him to wrong cond

ems express the attributes of Justice Public justice decides which of two parties are right. She punishes the guilty, and a

ustice bears, intimates that she weighs, or deliberates upon all that two parties claim for themselves; the sword shows her

exploit which is related of the infant Hercules was the strangling of two serpents while he was in his cradle. Juno, who ha

h a multitude of heads. As soon as one of these heads was struck off, two others immediately sprung up. But Hercules was en

represented by the historian Xenophon, that when Hercules was young, two females once appeared to him, — one was Virtue, w

art combined, Awed, served, protected, and amazed mankind.     First, two dread snakes, at Juno’s vengeful nod, Climbed rou

s, and demanded the fleece of Etes. Etes then required of him to tame two ferocious bulls, to tie them to a plough, and wit

the tribute. It is probable the truth is nothing more, than that the two princes peaceably agreed that this bad custom sho

Laius ordered Œdipus to make way for him to pass. Œdipus refused; the two parties began to fight, and soon Laius and his at

m. The riddle was, “What animal walks on four feet in the morning, on two feet at noon, and upon three in the evening!” Whe

us, in his distress, tore out his own eyes. Œdipus had four children: two sons and two daughters: the sons were Eteocles an

stress, tore out his own eyes. Œdipus had four children: two sons and two daughters: the sons were Eteocles and Polynices,

ath of Œdipus? The Theban Pair. After Œdipus left Thebes, his two sons Eteocles and Polynices, agreed to reign one

f the city. Here they meant to attack the forces of Eteocles, but the two brothers agreed to end the quarrel by single comb

st at Troy, she did not perceive her brothers, she exclaims, that ——“ two are wanting of the numerous train, Whom long my e

ory, that Leucippus, a prince who was uncle to these adventurers, had two daughters, Phœbe and Talaria; these young women w

daughters, Phœbe and Talaria; these young women were to be married to two friends, Lynceus and Has, and Castor and Pollux w

cepting that the latter was not lame, and was much the happier of the two ; Philoctetes was cured of his wound by Machaon, t

amemnon to the sovereignty of Argos and Mycenæ; and, having given his two daughters to the brothers, left his own kingdom o

lished? Orestes and Pylades. Besides Iphigenia, Agamemnon had two children, a son and a daughter; these were Electr

Pylades, set out for the dominions of the barbarian 7 king. When the two friends arrived at Tauros, they were carried befo

ers from her to her friends. Iphigenia did not determine which of the two friends should be spared. Orestes declaring that

Pope’s Homer? Ulysses. Ulysses, King of Ithaca and Dulichium, two little islands near the western coast of Greece,

ee? Who is Indra? Who is Seshanga? Who is Yamen? Does Yamen appear in two forms? Who are Parvati and Carticeya? Who are Ser

nded by a high wall, and has three entrances. At the eastern gate are two very fine figures of elephants, each with a man u

figures of elephants, each with a man upon his trunk. On the west are two surprising figures of horsemen completely armed,

o surprising figures of horsemen completely armed, who, having killed two elephants, are seated upon them. In front of that

whom their poets describe as sitting in a splendid chariot, drawn by two antelopes, and holding in the right hand a rabbit

andinavian nations. The religion of the Scandinavians is contained in two ancient books, the Edda and the Voluspa. Iceland

or Wodin. The Voluspa is a book of prophecy, and consists of between two and three hundred lines. It was supposed to be th

in their hands. Odin took no nourishment but wine, and distributes to two wolves, named Geri and Ferki, the food served up

h or mound. In their centre was a circular area, inclosed with one or two rows of large stones. This was their only temple.

estine, the Israelites; but the hostility which prevailed between the two nations did not prevent the Hebrews from imitatin

lords kept six of these images, the nobles four, and the lower people two . The number of these gods, besides those which ha

e destined girl was born, her parents offered her to some god, and in two months she was carried to the temple, where a sma

f the Parthenon were Callicrates and Ictinus. The Parthenon was about two hundred and eighteen feet in length, and ninety-e

red horses introduced by him into the Panathenaic pomp, there are not two either in the same attitude, or which are not cha

arthenon wore light hats slightly confined by ribands. The Greeks had two external covers for the head, the Petasus, and th

ace to another. See Exodus, ch. xxvi. The Tabernacle was divided into two apartments, the outermost called the holy place,

st bird. He had a winged cap besides, and a magic staff wreathed with two serpents, with which he could do all sorts of thi

rees; and his mind was filled with the story of a beautiful woman and two helpless little children, who had been treated ve

, and went home and wrote his story about the beautiful woman and the two helpless children, and he put something about the

earth. After a while one of the gods, who loved and pitied her, sent two beautiful twin babes to gladden her heart. She ne

she hastened away, for she feared that otherwise Juno might harm her two beautiful babes. So she took a little one in each

hot sand burned her feet, and her lips were parched with thirst. The two babes in her arms sometimes seemed to weigh like

ey were answering him; but no sound could he hear. He smiled, and the two starry eyes in the pool smiled back at him. When

atures, and the strangest thing about them was that instead of having two eyes each, as you and I have, there was but one e

ing that single eye; so that while one of them had the eye, the other two could see nothing at all; and while they were pas

d behind him. The hissing of the snakes on Medusa’s head awakened her two sisters, and they started up to follow Perseus; b

han Latona? I am a queen, and she is but a humble woman. She has only two children, and I have seven times that number, eac

. And it was always joy to her to hear the hymns sung in honor of the two great twins and their mother. She heard the queen

nd richer than you, for I have seven children left, and you have only two .” Now Apollo and Diana, on seeing Niobe’s terribl

ho hated his mother and therefore wished to kill the little boy, sent two huge snakes to strangle him in his cradle. The nu

to the meeting place. The king gave the signal for the start, and the two mighty ones fell upon each other. Very soon every

been an unwilling prisoner. The same evening, he set to work to make two pair of wings. He joined feathers of different le

no accident should befall him, gave the signal to start. Slowly, like two great birds, father and son rose into the air. Th

are their last crust with any one who came to their door. One evening two strangers entered the gates of the city. One was

rious cap, too, and in his left hand he carried a staff wreathed with two snakes. 15. “His feet seemed hardly to touch th

for the strangers’ breakfast. While they were trying to catch it, the two guests appeared in the doorway. “Come,” said the

the hill, the strangers turned. At sight of the elder man’s face, the two simple people trembled, they scarcely knew why. T

ly knew why. Then he spoke. “My good people,” he said, “know that the two strangers whom you have entertained so graciously

pent within it, suddenly they both vanished; and in their stead stood two majestic trees, their branches intertwining as th

, both dying at the same instant, and in their stead flourished these two mighty trees, which stood for centuries in front

k and gold-edged clouds on a summer’s evening. The king and queen had two children, Phryxus a boy, and Helle a girl, and th

is, the Greeks were brought into the palace of the king. The king had two children, a little boy of whom he was very fond,

the king to tell him what the three tasks were. “The first is to yoke two fierce, fire-breathing bulls to the plough, and w

at Jason would be successful. As soon as Jason entered the field, the two bulls came snorting and bellowing toward him. If

them a very fierce look. For these strange beings, instead of having two eyes, as you and I have? had but a single large o

scended to us. Their varying analyses, however, may be separated into two distinct classes or divisions, each of which has

ps who had forged the thunderbolt. By his marriage with Epione he had two sons, Machaon and Podalirus, both famous physicia

rners with models of the heads of animals. They varied in height from two feet to twenty, and some were built solid; others

the ground and squeezed him to death. An′teros [Anteros], one of the two Cupids, sons of Venus. Antic′lea [Anticlea], the

Muses. Apollo was the accredited father of several children, but the two most renowned were Æsculapius and Phaeton. “Wilt

armed man. Cadu′ceus [Caduceus]. The rod carried by Mercury. It has two winged serpents entwined round the top end. It wa

rtainments and feasts. Con′cord [Concord]. The symbol of Concord was two right hands joined, and a pomegranate. Concor′di

ddess. Do′ris [Doris] was daughter of Oceanus, and sister of Nereus, two of the marine deities. From these two sisters spr

Oceanus, and sister of Nereus, two of the marine deities. From these two sisters sprang the several tribes of water nymphs

rmah. Genii were domestic divinities. Every man was supposed to have two of these genii accompanying him; one brought him

heels are to the chariot hung.” Pope. Hec′ate [Hecate]. There were two goddesses known by this name, but the one general

iter and Alcmena. The goddess Juno hated him from his birth, and sent two serpents to kill him, but though only eight month

ked after plants and flowers in gardens. Ho′rus [Horus]. The name of two deities, one Sol, the Egyptian day god; the other

wife of Athamas, King of Thebes, father of Phryxus and Helle. Ino had two children, who could not ascend the throne while P

ided over highways, gates, and locks, and is usually represented with two faces, because he was acquainted with the past an

Laoc′oon [Laocoon]. One of the priests of Apollo, who was, with his two sons, strangled to death by serpents, because he

of the Argonauts. To punish her husband for infidelity, Medea killed two of her children in their father’s presence. She w

e-races; but he is principally known as the god of the ocean; and the two functions of the god are portrayed in the sea hor

her of all the Scandinavian kings. His wife’s name was Friga, and his two sons were Thor and Balder. The Wodin of the early

m Thebes, attended by his daughter Antigone. Œdipus is the subject of two famous tragedies by Sophocles. Œno′ne [Œnone]. W

s wandering by the river Ilissus. Her children were Zetus and Calais, two winged warriors who accompanied the Argonauts. O

s]. Janus was sometimes depicted with four faces instead of the usual two , and he was then called Janus Quadrifrons. Qui′e

nken old man, riding on an ass, and crowned with flowers. “And there two Satyrs on the ground, Stretched at his ease, thei

enigma: “What animal is that which walks on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening.” Œdipus solved

ectly darting down, Fires all beneath, and fries the middle zone: The two beneath the distant poles, complain Of endless wi

the King of Gods seated on a golden throne, at the feet of which are two cups, containing the principle of good and evil.

iter is always represented as superbly arrayed, in a chariot drawn by two peacocks, where she sat with a sceptre in her han

almost surpassed even the usual love of mothers, placed on Mount Etna two torches, and sought her “from morn to noon, from

Tantalus, had the insolence to prefer herself to Latona, who had but two children, while Niobe possessed seven sons and se

as the first to attack him, her example was instantly followed by his two sisters, and his body was torn to pieces. As Bacc

s she told: She lifts the coffer-lids that close his eyes, Where, lo! two lamps, burnt out, in darkness lies.” Shakspere.

eciding in favour of one, to draw on him ‌the enmity of the remaining two , they therefore appointed Paris to the unenviable

enious works and automatical figures which he made, and many speak of two golden statues, which not only seemed animated, b

re, Came halting forth the sovereign of the fire: The monarch’s steps two female forms uphold, That moved and breathed in a

forest thoughtlessly, And, on the sudden, fainting with surprise, Saw two fair creatures, couched side by side,     In deep

was so vexed at the subjects Arachne had chosen, that she struck her two or three times on the forehead. “The bright godd

Admetus. This celebrated instrument was a rod entwined at one end by two serpents. ———————————— “Come take The lyre — be

rom him whom she adored. The Gods heard her prayer, and formed of the two , a being of perfect beauty, preserving the charac

the son of Mercury by Driope, and is usually described as possessing two small horns on his head, his complexion ruddy, hi

flamed by such a sudden fury, that he took Ino for a Lioness, and her two children for whelps. In this fit of madness, he d

— His sinews I knotted;     His tale is told.” South Wind.     “I met two young lovers,     And listed their vows, Where th

lations preceded her as her messengers. Sometimes she is seen holding two children under her arms, one of which is dark lik

ions. Some of the ancient philosophers maintained, that every man had two of these, the one bad, the other good. They had t

a countenance calm and severe, and on his brow a mitre, divided into two equal portions. His finger is placed upon his lip

eagle, the God sought refuge in Leda’s arms, who in due time produced two eggs, from one of which came Pollux and Helena, a

of Leucippus, who was brother to Tyndarus. Becoming enamoured of the two women whose nuptials they had met to celebrate, t

eprived himself of his immortality. His prayers were granted, and the two brothers passed in turn six months in the inferna

hs on earth. This fraternal affection Jupiter rewarded by turning the two brothers into constellations, under the name of G

was followed by one still more revolting to the mind, for Medea slew two of her own children in their father’s presence, a

es in Elysium. It is asserted by some writers, that the murder of the two youngest of Jason’s children, was not committed b

look upon him with pleasure, and before he was nine months old, sent two snakes intending them to devour him. Far from fea

arguments refute All thy monitions. Whilst I yet Hung on the breast, two hideous serpents came, Sent by Juno to destroy me

for as soon as one head was beaten to pieces by the club, immediately two sprang up, and the labour of Hercules would have

besieged Troy, and put the king and his family to the sword. “First, two dread snakes, at Juno’s vengeful nod, Climbed rou

of his sword, cut off Medusa’s head. The noise of the blow awoke the two remaining sisters, who frantic with rage, looked

of Theseus, and when the latter assembled his forces to meet him, the two foes as they gazed on each other, were seized wit

By the assistance of Hercules, however, in his descent into hell, the two heroes were released from their captivity, and wh

presented him with a lyre, to the improvement of which Orpheus added two cords, — and upon which he played with so masterl

hat animal in the morning walks upon four legs, in the afternoon upon two , and in the evening upon three legs.” The answer

s mounted the throne, and married Jocasta, his mother, by whom he had two sons, Polynice and Eteocles, and two daughters, I

asta, his mother, by whom he had two sons, Polynice and Eteocles, and two daughters, Ismene and Antigone. Some years after,

n revenge; and Callirhoe in the extremity of her anguish, devoted her two sons in the presence of their dead father, to rev

er image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img225 Pelops, suspecting his two sons of the crime, banished them from his court.

bittered the interview by recalling all the ancient grievances of the two kingdoms. This unjust conduct gave birth to a ter

this bloody action, in which the Gods themselves had taken part, the two armies engaged in several skirmishes without much

er image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img238a During the sacrifice, two enormous serpents issued from the sea, and attack

ce, two enormous serpents issued from the sea, and attacked Laocoon’s two sons, who stood next to the altar. The father imm

cavern, where he kept his sheep. In the morning Polyphemus came, took two sailors and devoured them; at his repast in the e

k two sailors and devoured them; at his repast in the evening he took two more. Ulysses, horrified at his danger, thought h

h the olive branch of peace, as the reward of bravery. At Rome he had two temples; one founded by Marcellus, at the same ti

e with the one to Virtue. An augur having warned Marcellus that these two divinities would not dwell in the circumference o

would not dwell in the circumference of the same temple, he built the two distinct edifices to which we have alluded; but,

they were sitting together, enjoying the sweets of mutual affection, two travellers, with a melancholy and impoverished ap

, and country now no more, Their little shed, scarce large enough for two , Seems, from the ground, in height and bulk to gr

r image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img254 Pyramus and Thisbe were two young Thebans, who, being greatly enamoured of on

joined. Thou tree, where now one lifeless lump is laid, Ere long o’er two shall cast a friendly shade, Still let our loves

appho sung of yore.” Barry Cornwall. ‌Of all her compositions, but two now remain; which, fragments as they are, shew by

before him. He then produced seven starry spheres, the Earth, and its two luminaries, with seven inferior regions, lit by t

. A temple is elevated in the middle of the waters, and surmounted by two cupolas. Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_

of pilgrims, and a willing contribution is paid to the Brahmins. The two sexes bathe together, while the most rigid of the

er, while the most rigid of the devotees walk to the bath escorted by two Brahmins. “How sweetly Ganga smiles and glides L

pposed to be the creator of the gods, and below him, they believed in two triads; the first was Chuquilla, Catuilla, and In

in their sepulchral excavations. “Evidences also exist in Mexico, of two great branches of hieroglyphical language, both h

mes of divers colours. His face, severe and frightful, is marked with two blue lines. He has two vast wings formed like a b

His face, severe and frightful, is marked with two blue lines. He has two vast wings formed like a bat, and the feet of a g

Preface. The first two books of this Series were devoted to fables and f

nded as a child’s introduction to classical mythology. In writing it, two points were kept constantly in mind: first, that

y faded. The world soon grew dark, but Ceres would not rest. She took two great pine trees, bound them together, and lit th

ce of feet, and his ears were pointed and furry. Besides that, he had two little stubby horns upon his forehead. When he sp

the air more swiftly than any bird. Besides, he has a magic wand with two snakes twisted about it, and with this wand he ca

thunderbolts, was not entirely secure at that time. Among the Titans, two were special friends of man — Prometheus and his

is brother, Epimetheus. Prometheus was the braver and stronger of the two . When he saw men suffer in the winter months, he

red fire,” said Jupiter, “and he must be punished.” Then Jupiter sent two monstrous servants of his, who took Prometheus an

tringing his bow behind the shelter of a neighboring thicket. He took two shining arrows from his quiver, one tipped with g

heus and his bride were fair and tall, and looked as though they were two of the sunny gods of Olympus. At the end of a Gre

they were tucked in, so they were asleep in a moment. Toward midnight two huge snakes came crawling into the nursery. Marve

hoice. One day, as he was walking along a quiet woodland path, he saw two beautiful goddesses sitting beside the way where

efore seen in all the world. Death had to put Alcestis down. Then the two fought for her, Hercules crushing the icy, bloodl

like great tusks. Their hands were of brass, and each had on her back two long, swift wings that shone like gold. These two

ach had on her back two long, swift wings that shone like gold. These two were crouched upon the floor, but the other Gorgo

ft golden wings were tireless and their scent was never deceived. For two days and nights they followed him close. Only on

put an end to its life. Then Perseus flew back to Andromeda, and the two went together to the palace of her father, Cepheu

?” he asked. “Let him dine with us, O King,” said Medea. “If there be two drops of poison in his wine, who can know it?” Th

sdom and courage, and to Venus, the goddess of love, for it was these two who had given Theseus his lovely bride, and had s

om this time I shall honor you more than ever before.” With that, the two advanced toward Achilles, who waited eagerly. Whe

” Just then a wondrous thing happened. Across the ocean came swimming two enormous serpents. When they reached the shore, t

e shore, they went straight to the place where Laocoön stood with his two sons. In a moment they coiled about the sons, and

Cyclops Polyphemus cares for Jupiter?” roared the giant, and seizing two of Ulysses’ companions, he dashed them to the ear

day. At dawn, Polyphemus awoke, milked his flocks, and killed and ate two more of Ulysses’ companions. Then he opened the d

Polyphemus returned with his flocks. For his supper, he again killed two of Ulysses’ men and began to eat them. Then Ulyss

with a good harbor. Here they dropped anchor and rested, and gave up two whole days to grief. On the third day Ulysses sen

Ulysses with their swords, but Telemachus rushed to his aid, and the two held them at bay while Ulysses smote them with th

Son of Alcmena; a hero of wonderful strength. As an infant, strangled two huge snakes, 80; chose the path of virtue, instea

ed the Trojans-to beware of the wooden horse, 204. Devoured (with his two sons) by serpents, 206. Leio΄des (li-o΄deez). Su

, to avoid the more repulsive features of heathen mythology; and when two or more versions of the same myth occur, the pref

ker countenance, did not tend to enliven the surrounding gloom. These two divinities wearied of their power in the course o

how Erebus and Nyx ruled over the chaotic world together, until their two beautiful children, Æther (Light) and Hemera (Day

ir gods, was placed in the exact centre. Their Earth was divided into two equal parts by Pontus (the Sea, — equivalent to o

nd enjoy the life they had received. He therefore called the youngest two sons of Iapetus to his aid, and bade them make a

acrifices on his altars. “Their little shed, scarce large enough for two , Seems, from the ground increased, in height and

r union. Their three sons were Minos, Rhadamanthus, and Sarpedon. The two former were subsequently appointed judges in the

leeting; for Coronis, reasoning that if one lover were so delightful, two would be doubly so, secretly encouraged another s

r.). Æsculapius’ race was not entirely extinct, however, for he left two sons — Machaon and Podalirius, who inherited his

and dashed out of the eastern palace with a flourish. For an hour or two Phaeton bore in mind his father’s principal injun

reams and their melody.” Catullus ( R. C. Jebb’s tr.). Proud of her two children, Apollo and Diana, Latona boasted far an

d aloud to Latona, and taunted her because her offspring numbered but two . Shortly after, Niobe even went so far as to forb

was always deeply interested in young lovers; and when she saw these two , so well matched in beauty and grace, she bade Cu

ely die.                 “God Eros, setting notch to string, Wounded two bosoms with one shaft-shooting, A maiden’s and a

eep at each other, converse, and even, it is said, exchange a kiss or two . Sundry stolen interviews through this crack made

came to his ear. In his excitement he began to gesticulate, whereupon two snowy arms repeated his every gesture; but when,

ng, while enjoying a solitary stroll, Psyche suddenly encountered her two sisters. After rapturous embraces and an incohere

Then, his hiding-place being reached in safety, Mercury coolly killed two of the oxen, which he proceeded to eat. Apollo so

to the decree, produced the remaining oxen, and, in exchange for the two missing, gave Apollo the lyre he had just fashion

conflicting elements. Mercury, anxious to test it, thrust it between two quarrelling snakes, who immediately wound themsel

On one occasion he was obliged to surrender to Otus and Ephialtes, —  two giants, who, though but nine years of age, were a

d Diana to use their poisoned arrows, and thus rid the world of these two ugly and useless giants. Of a fiery disposition,

on in the bosom of the earth. Among these ingenious contrivances were two golden handmaidens gifted with motion, who attend

y to a musical contest at Corinth this poet was attacked and slain by two robbers, and in his extremity he called upon a fl

ith one accord: “’Tis the murderer of Ibycus!” This was true, and the two murderers forthwith confessed, and were shortly a

yed by the importunities of the spectators, he turned and slew one or two , and then completed his sacrilege. Ceres, incense

neration and sacrifices. The Lares, quite unknown to the Greeks, were two in number, the children of Mercury and Lara, a na

r, and by pantomime obtained her consent to their union. She bore him two children, who from her were called Lares, and to

gold.” Virgil ( C. Pitt’s tr.). Janus is generally represented with two faces, turned in opposite directions, because he

ancients with fear and dislike, and no homage was offered him. These two divinities were, however, but of slight importanc

rt in the Argonautic expedition, and drove away the Harpies, — and of two daughters, Cleopatra and Chione. On another occas

roof of the marvellous strength which was to make him famous. “First two dread Snakes at Juno’s vengeful nod Climb’d round

o seek his fortunes. He had not gone very far, however, before he met two beautiful women, who immediately entered into con

n toil and poverty. Silently Hercules pondered for a while over these two so dissimilar offers, and then, mindful of his tu

g it persistently behind his back, flew away in great haste, lest the two remaining Gorgons should fall upon him and attemp

his journey in peace, until he came to the Isthmus of Corinth, where two adventures awaited him. The first was with a crue

ntertainment, deluded travellers into entering his home, where he had two beds of very different dimensions, — one unusuall

had dared to declare war; but when the armies were face to face, the two chiefs, seized with a sudden liking for each othe

a mouthful in peace. Having repeated this tale to his companions, the two sons of Boreas, who were also in the Argo, begged

ion to drive them away. Jason could not refuse their request; and the two youths, with drawn swords, pursued the Harpies to

that, before Jason could obtain the fleece, he must catch and harness two wild, fire-breathing bulls dedicated to Vulcan, a

nauts to redoubled efforts. Little by little the distance between the two vessels grew less; the Colchian rowers were gaini

r take its spoil, which he gallantly bestowed upon Atalanta. Althæa’s two brothers were present at the hunt, and, as they w

ll me, what animal is that Which has four feet at morning bright, Has two at noon, and three at night?” Prior. Œdipus was

ately uneventful years now passed by, and Œdipus became the father of two manly sons, Eteocles and Polynices, and two beaut

ipus became the father of two manly sons, Eteocles and Polynices, and two beautiful daughters, Ismene and Antigone; but pro

r was not, however, entirely ended, for, when both brothers fell, the two armies flew to attack each other; and such was th

d to act as umpires, for the apple could be given to but one, and the two others would be sure to vent their anger and disa

a number of captives taken in a skirmish by the Hellenic troops were two beautiful maidens, Chryseis, daughter of Chryses,

warriors, challenged Patroclus to single combat Needless to say, the two closed in deadly battle, and fought with equal va

tar, with one of his sons on either side to assist him in his office, two huge serpents came out of the sea, coiled themsel

      “Unswerving they Toward Laocoon hold their way; First round his two young sons they wreathe, And grind their limbs wi

this statement, the Cyclops stretched forth his huge hand and grasped two of the sailors, whom he proceeded to devour for d

ssels, and then, without the least warning, again seized and devoured two of the Greeks. His brawny arm next pushed aside t

laced the rock, performed his usual evening duties, and then devoured two more of Ulysses crew. When this part of the eveni

ster of Æetes, and aunt of Medea. Here Ulysses’ crew was divided into two parties, one of which, led by Eurylochus, set out

d here he dug a trench with his sword. The trench finished, he killed two black victims, furnished by Circe, and made their

rit, for he knew he would soon be obliged to steer his course between two dread monsters, Charybdis and Scylla, who lay so

’ aid? In answer to this appeal, Venus, ever mindful of her son, sent two of her snowy doves to lead the way and alight on

enemy would soon overpower them, they despatched Nisus and Euryalus, two of their number, to warn Æneas of their danger, a

ain many warriors, among others Lausus and his aged father Mezentius, two allies of Latinus, who had specially distinguishe

watch over his safety, had taken the place of his chariot driver. The two heroes, having met, instantly closed in deadly fi

sarily produced the strange conglomerate of ancient fable.” As these two last-named schools have either successfully confu

ative mythologists, do not deny that during the moderate allowance of two hundred and fifty thousand years, which they allo

attle of the sun, 315 La-oc′o-on. Trojan priest; crushed to death by two serpents, 297, 298 La-od-a-mi′a. Wife of Protesi

, 145; Pirithous, king of, 226 La′ra. Wife of Mercury; mother of the two Lares, 174 La′res. Two tutelary divinities of an

ere Medea took refuge, 221 Med-i-ter-ra′ne-an. Sea dividing world in two , 4 Medu′sa. Gorgon slain by Perseus, whose hair

ago, reigned a good king and queen who had three daughters. The elder two were pretty, but not amiable, so that they had an

to hurt their amiable sister. Psyche’s elder sisters were married to two princes whose dominions lay hear their father’s k

, “Lead the way, winged messenger of Cupid — I will attend thee.” The two gods, after a speedy flight, alighted on the prom

ferent articles which compose it. Arrange them in different piles. In two days, if thou failest to accomplish this task, th

dropped all their flowers upon the ground, and saw a chariot drawn by two fiery black horses coming towards them. In it was

f Cyane. No sooner had Ceres heard this, than she instantly harnessed two dragons to her car, flew to Olympus, and demanded

to live with his family, while he should stay in Greece. Pandion had two amiable daughters, and Tereus was so well pleased

a long voyage. Mother. It is not a long distance, not much more than two hundred miles, in what is called an air-line; but

, like common mortals, or rather like poor, weary, wayfaring men. The two gods, when night was approaching, looked about th

ried off his uncle’s daughter, as she was watering the flock with her two brothers at the fountain; and he was stronger tha

the fountain; and he was stronger than they, and beat them both.” The two gods were repulsed in similar rude ways from many

ersation. But, without saying a word, she took down from certain pegs two snow-white beechen pails, and pouring into them s

ndry figures, not ungraceful. On each side of the pitcher were placed two wooden bowls, waxed without, and scoured white wi

or their room was dark till the fire blazed. Mother. Glass was known two thousand years ago, but glass windows have not be

a story in the Old Testament, I will tell you one from the New. When two of the apostles were at Lystra, in Asia Minor, ne

gone to torment Herse. Herse had gone to the procession, attended by two young women, who were slaves, and whose office it

the Bacchantes. Among them was Agave, the mother of Pentheus, and his two aunts, Ino and Autonoe. Though Pentheus thought h

Euryale, Medusa these: The last ill-fated, since of mortal date: The two Immortal, and unchanged by years.” Elton’s Hesi

ardens of the Hesperides; the entrance to the gardens was defended by two dragons. The dominion of Atlas extended to that o

monly say the Evening Star, and a beautiful star she is. Ann. One or two questions more and I will have done. What was Min

ted driving the chariot of day over the heavens. His car was drawn by two fiery horses. When the sun set in the sea, the pa

lected his late conversation with Apollo, and drawing from his quiver two arrows, he pointed one with gold, and the other w

fame, or reputation. Shakspeare was a great poet. He lived more than two hundred years ago; but every reader admires and p

asked for one day to guide the chariot of the sun, which was drawn by two coursers of such power and spirit, that no hand,

fspring of Latona command your homage of their mother? — they are but two ! But the progeny of the royal house of Thebes; th