sthetic value, presenting, as they do, a mine of imaginative material whose richness and beauty cannot fail to appeal even to

gton’s translation of the “Æneid,” and to Sir Lewis Morris and others whose works have similarly been placed under contributi

r.). Over this shapeless mass reigned a careless deity called Chaos, whose personal appearance could not be described, as th

is throne with his wife, the dark goddess of Night, named Nyx or Nox, whose black robes, and still blacker countenance, did n

found themselves the parents of twelve gigantic children, the Titans, whose strength was such that their father, Uranus, grea

Typhon, which she sent to attack him. This Typhœus was a giant, from whose trunk one hundred dragon heads arose; flames shot

the open door and windows, and fastened upon the merrymakers without, whose shouts of joy were soon changed into wails of pai

ce entreat for freedom. The sound proceeded from the unfortunate box, whose cover Pandora had dropped again, in the first mom

onsequences, and that, perchance, the box contained some good spirit, whose ministrations might prove beneficial. It was well

sion, had concealed among the evil spirits one kindly creature. Hope, whose mission was to heal the wounds inflicted by her f

ed to submit to his will, and trembled at his all-powerful nod. “He, whose all-conscious eyes the world behold, The eternal

father’s palace to announce her sudden involuntary departure. Agenor, whose favourite she had always been, rent his garments

ory over her rival, Minerva, gave her own name of Athene to the city, whose inhabitants, from that time forth, were taught to

over her shoulder when she sallied forth to give her support to those whose cause was just.                         “Her sho

Arachne, in the meanwhile, was intent upon her swimming bull, against whose broad breast the waves splashed, and upon a half-

“Bright-hair’d Apollo! — thou who ever art A blessing to the world —  whose mighty heart Forever pours out love, and light, a

se mighty heart Forever pours out love, and light, and life; Thou, at whose glance, all things of earth are rife With happine

aves, and drink deep of the light That glitters in thine eye: thou in whose bright And hottest rays the eagle fills his eye

From his exalted position he often cast loving glances down upon men, whose life he had shared for a short time, whose every

ing glances down upon men, whose life he had shared for a short time, whose every privation he had endured; and, in answer to

ng alone in the fields, the bride encountered a youth named Aristæus, whose bold admiration proved so distasteful, that she f

ion Another musician celebrated in mythological annals is Amphion, whose skill was reported to be but little inferior to O

n, straining his eyes to catch the first glimpse of the godly father, whose stately bearing and radiant air his mother had so

in his arsenal, aimed it with special care, and hurled it at Phaeton, whose burned and blackened corpse fell from his lofty s

llo’s favourite attendant was Eos (Aurora), the fair goddess of dawn, whose rose-tipped fingers opened wide the eastern gates

sels, with all their sails spread, to pass in and out of the harbour, whose entrance he guarded for many a year. Chapter

chase. “‘Goddess serene, transcending every star! Queen of the sky, whose beams are seen afar! By night heaven owns thy swa

Bryant’s tr.). With all proverbial speed the tidings reached Niobe, whose heart failed when she heard that her seven sons,

cave, and one of them took pity on him, and led him to the Sun, from whose radiance he borrowed a store of light, — “When,

but this affection was viewed with great displeasure by Apollo, from whose piercing glance nothing that occurred by day coul

t a tender passion for a young man named Adonis, a bold young hunter, whose rash pursuit of dangerous game caused Venus many

ecreed that Adonis should be restored to her longing arms. But Pluto, whose subject he had now become, refused to yield up Ad

the goddess, Leander entered her temple, and saw the young priestess, whose charms far surpassed all descriptions. Venus, as

At last he reached the tower steps, and was lovingly greeted by Hero, whose heart had throbbed with anxiety at the thought of

restless pillow, His head heaves with the heaving billow; That hand, whose motion is not life, Yet feebly seems to menace st

he waves, close by his side. Thus lived and died the faithful lovers, whose attachment has passed into a proverb. “Come hith

ould not tear himself away from the spot haunted by this sweet image, whose sensitive face reflected his every emotion, and w

In those same remote ages of “sweet mythology” there lived a king whose three daughters were world-renowned on account of

bout the beautiful grounds. Ere long she came to an enchanted palace, whose portals opened wide to receive her, while gentle

oken twigs and scattered leaves. Suddenly he remembered that the babe whose birth had been announced early that morning in hi

e moon, restlessly wandering from place to place; Argus, the heavens, whose starry eyes keep ceaseless watch over the moon’s

ceaseless watch over the moon’s every movement; Mercury is the rain, whose advent blots out the stars one by One, thus killi

ars’ principal votaries were therefore the Roman soldiers and youths, whose exercising ground was called, in his honour, the

lopes, Vulcan manufactured Jupiter’s weapons, the dread thunderbolts, whose frightful power none could withstand, and Cupid’s

was Arion, a wonderful winged steed, gifted with the power of speech, whose early education was entrusted to the Nereides. Th

-fleeced ram which bore Phryxus in safety to the Colchian shores, and whose pelt was the goal of the Argonautic expedition Ne

arents of several children, among whom the most celebrated is Triton, whose body was half man and half fish, and who gave his

o survey their kingdom. Neptune had, besides this, many subordinates, whose duty it was to look after various seas, lakes, ri

ver free of charge. There was also in Hades the sacred river Styx, by whose waters the gods swore their most irrevocable of o

he gods swore their most irrevocable of oaths; and the blessed Lethe, whose waters had the power to make one forget all unple

ere seated the three judges of Hades, Minos, Rhadamanthus, and Æacus, whose duty it was to question all newly arrived souls,

Tityus Still farther on was the recumbent form of Tityus, a giant whose body covered nine acres of ground. He had dared o

sacred poets stood, Who sang with all the raptures of a god: Worthies whose lives by useful arts refined; With those who leav

stor, or else that he did not love her as dearly as he loved Juno, in whose presence he seldom appeared except in godlike arr

eautiful plain of Enna. “Sacred Goddess, Mother Earth,     Thou from whose immortal bosom, Gods, and men, and beasts have bi

paused for an instant until he reached the banks of the Cyane River, whose waters, at his approach, began to seethe and roar

erpina’s track, hastened. on until she came to a crystal fountain, by whose side she sat down to rest. Her eyes were heavy wi

t Is the pure joy when kindred spirits meet! Like him, the river god, whose waters flow, With love their only light, through

y, wax, ivory, silver, or gold, according to the wealth of the family whose hearth they graced, and the offerings generally m

s day. Janus is not the only one among the Greek and Latin divinities whose name has been given to a part of the year or week

e east wind; and lastly, Zephyrus, the gentle and lovable south wind, whose mission it was to announce to mortals the return

d tasks, Hercules set out first to find and destroy a monstrous lion, whose den was in the Nemean Forest. Far and wide, throu

had strangled the snakes in his infancy. He then skinned the monster, whose shaggy pelt became his favourite covering. “So f

was the capture of the golden-horned, brazen-footed’ stag of Cerynea, whose fleetness was such that he seemed scarcely to tou

so terrified at the aspect of the triple-headed dog, from the foam of whose dripping jaws the nightshade sprang, that he took

certain period of time. No great deeds were now required of Hercules, whose strength was derided by his new mistress, and who

ever at his side; and after many days they came to the river Evenus, whose usually shallow and peaceful waters were swollen

to dwell in happiness for ever with Hebe, the fair goddess of youth, whose hand was given him in marriage. “Till the god, t

he caught a glimpse of Atlas, his pale face turned up to the heavens, whose weight he had patiently borne for many a long yea

ears passed by, they brought strength, beauty, and wisdom to Theseus, whose fame began to be published abroad. At last Æthra

, son of Vulcan, who stood in the road and attacked with a huge club, whose blows were generally fatal, all who strove to pas

first was with a cruel giant named Sinis, nicknamed The Pine-bender, whose usual practice was to bend some huge pine until i

the Athenians. At the monarch’s side stood his fair daughter Ariadne, whose tender heart was filled with compassion when she

nly arose, dashed over the chariot, and drowned the young charioteer, whose lifeless corpse was finally flung ashore at Phaæd

, and sowed it with the dragon’s teeth. “And how he yoked the bulls, whose breathings fiery glow’d, And with the dragons’ te

gether all the brave men of the country, and instituted a great hunt, whose main object was the capture or death of the obnox

n Œdipus’ mind, and made him resolve to consult the oracle of Delphi, whose words he knew would reveal the exact truth. He th

ky he swooped suddenly and unexpectedly down upon the winged monster, whose fiery breath and great strength were of no avail;

nting, which has frequently been treated by ancient artists, a few of whose most noted works are still extant in various muse

ain, lake, river, grove, and sea was provided with some lesser deity, whose special duty was assigned by the powerful gods of

cients of a mortal who was changed into a Hamadryad. This young girl, whose name was Dryope, was a beautiful young princess,

laucus was worshipped most particularly by the fishermen and boatmen, whose vessels he was supposed to guard from evil, and w

en and boatmen, whose vessels he was supposed to guard from evil, and whose nets were often filled to overflowing through his

ent immediately recognised Eris (Discordia, Ate), goddess of discord, whose snaky locks, sour looks, and violent temper had c

ys, and soon after appeared at the court of Menelaus, King of Sparta, whose young wife, Helen, was the most beautiful woman o

’s tr.). All agreed to this proposal, the oath was taken, and Helen, whose deliberations had come to an end, bestowed her ha

when he was but a babe, she had carried him to the banks of the Styx, whose waters had the magic power of rendering all the p

e at anchor. They now ardently longed for the assistance of Achilles, whose mere presence, in days gone by, had filled the Tr

his encounter, among others Sarpedon, the son of Jupiter and Europa —  whose remains were borne away from the battlefield by t

atagem. They therefore secretly built a colossal wooden horse, within whose hollow sides a number of brave warriors might lie

laced him under the fatherly protection of Strophius, King of Phocis, whose son, Pylades, became his inseparable friend. In f

en days, reached the land of the Lotophagi or Lotus-eaters — a people whose sole food consisted of lotus fruit and blossoms.

ted stem, Laden with flower and fruit, whereof they gave To each, but whose did receive of them, And taste, to him the gushin

e cut off. Polyphemus and Galatea Polyphemus, the ugly giant in whose cave they were waiting, had once seen the charmin

th one blow of his trident he stirred up one of those sudden tempests whose fury nothing can withstand, shattered Ulysses’ ra

u The mighty bow that great Ulysses bore. Whoe’er among you he may be whose hand Shall bend this bow, and send through these

dream by the shade of Sychæus, which bade her fly with his treasures, whose place of concealment she alone knew. Dido obeyed

from the waves. These men spoke to the queen of their renowned chief, whose fame had already reached her ear; and she gladly

met them on every side. Charon quickly ferried them over Acheron, on whose bank they saw the wandering shade of Palinurus, w

s returned to his companions, and led them to the mouth of the Tiber, whose course they followed until they reached Latium, w

nd. A lasting peace was made with Latinus; and the brave Trojan hero, whose woes were now over, was united in marriage with L

nterpretation of myths was once a thing full of vital interest to men whose moral and religious beliefs were deeply concerned

hat the savage considers himself akin to beasts (generally to the one whose image is used as a tribal or family badge or tote

e presented in this work, we find among the myths of the sky, Uranus, whose name, like that of the old Hindoo god Varuna is d

own from his abode into the abyss called Tartarus. Zeus (or Jupiter), whose name is the same as the Hindoo Dyaus Pitar, the g

f the sky, this time under the nocturnal and starry aspect, is Argus, whose many bright eyes never closed all at once, but ke

ast without having ever overtaken the light of dawn (Europa). Apollo, whose name of Helios is pure Greek for “the sun,” had t

are the fleecy clouds, pasturing “in the infinite meadows of heaven,” whose full udders drop down rain and fatness upon the l

see an emblem of “the morning, with its short-lived beauty” Eurydice, whose name, like that of Europa, comes from a Sanskrit

e setting of the sun in blood-tinged clouds. In the story of Phaeton, whose name means “the bright and shining one,” a descri

lso represent night and darkness. In company with Andromeda, Perseus, whose name also signifies “the destroyer,” revisits his

onifications of the clouds), carried off to the far east by the ram —  whose golden fleece was but an emblem of the rays of th

ed his existence, and kills the dread monster of drought, the Sphinx, whose very name means “one who binds fast,” — a creatur

n and to Pegasus (the clouds), born from the mist of the sea, beneath whose hoofs fresh fountains were wont to spring. Beller

of his parents. In this myth, Helen (the beautiful dawn or twilight), whose name corresponds phonetically with the Sanskrit S

ne personification of the dawn, however, stands apart. It is Minerva, whose Greek name, Athene, is derived, like Daphne, from

things,” and more particularly of “the maiden” Cora (or Proserpina), whose loss she grievously mourned; for she had been car

the sea comprise, of course, Oceanus and Neptune (the earth shaker), whose name is connected with such words as “potent” and

whose name is connected with such words as “potent” and “despot,” and whose “green hair circles all the earth.” We are furthe

he embraces, and that he marries the graceful undulating Amphitrite, whose gliding charms appeal to him. Neptune’s palace is

en or white-maned steeds. Nereus, another personification of the sea, whose name is derived from nao (“to flow”), is quite in

y children, the mists, are fully as beautiful as Apollo and Diana, by whose bright darts they are ruthlessly slain. Niobe gri

e Cyclopes (the thunder and lightning), children of Heaven and Earth, whose single blazing eye has been considered an emblem

earth beneath them to tremble. In this group we also find Prometheus, whose name has been traced to the Sanskrit pramantha (o

grim three-headed guardian of the nether world) and Pluto or (Aides), whose name means “the wealth-giver,” or “the unseen,” w

Bel-lo′na. Goddess of war; attendant of Mars, 116 Ber-e-ni′ce. Queen whose hair was changed into a comet, 107, 348 Ber′o-e.

se hair was changed into a comet, 107, 348 Ber′o-e. Nurse of Semele, whose form Juno assumes to arouse Semele’s jealousy, 14

s; draws his mother to the temple, 38 Bœ-o′ti-a. Province in Greece, whose principal city was Thebes, 33. 246 Bo′re-as. Nor

em′i-ni. Same as Dioscuri; Castor and Pollux, 244 Ge-ry′o-nes. Giant whose cattle are taken by Hercules, 196; significance,

shes to slay, 323; significance, 358, 359 Hel′e-nus. King of Epirus, whose slave Andromache became after the death of Hector

Lo′tis. Nymph changed into a lotus blossom, 263 Lo-toph′a-gi. People whose food was the lotus; the Lotus-eaters, 302 Love.

e-an. Sea dividing world in two, 4 Medu′sa. Gorgon slain by Perseus, whose hair was turned into snakes, 210-216; Neptune mar

uries, Eumenides, or Erinnyes, 139 Meg′a-ra. First wife of Hercules, whose three children he burns in his madness, 190; sign

of Somnus, crouching in his cave, 180 Ni′o-be. Daughter of Tantalus, whose children are slain by Apollo and Diana, 73-75, 14

358 Œ-no′pi-on. Father of Merope; blinds Orion, 78 Œ′ta. Mountain on whose summit Hercules builds his funeral pyre, 206 O-g

us. Father of Pylades; shelters Orestes, 299 Stym-pha′lus. Lake upon whose banks Hercules slew the brazenclawed birds, 195

s Hercules slew the brazenclawed birds, 195 Styx. River in Hades, by whose waters the gods swore their most sacred oaths, 30

s. Trojan prince who visited Aurora, 70 Tit′y-us. Giant in Tartarus, whose prostrate body covered nine acres, 145 Tra-chin′

Land where Hercules died, 188 Tri-na′cri-a. Land visited by Ulysses, whose men slay the cattle of the sun, 315 Trip-tol′e-m

und to contain the results of the inquiries of those eminent scholars whose works are so frequently referred to, my obligatio

r has for many years engaged the attention of my friend Mr. St. John, whose enthusiasm for Greece far exceeds mine ; and his

yright. My books, thank Heaven and the liberality of the gentlemen at whose office they are printed, are my own. When the boo

. This perfectly unforced etymology accurately accords with the moon, whose influence on vegetation and growth in general the

o had at the same time a firm belief in the avenging power of Apollo, whose priest Chryses was, would pronounce, with as full

contest at length took place between them on the top of Mount Sactá, whose base was washed by the lake. The devil who lived

ng a cause for traditionary ceremonies and observances, the memory of whose true origin had been lost. The festival of the Hy

e island of Samos stood a temple dedicated to the Gaping Dionysos, of whose origin the following legend was related. A Samian

cycle, of which Cuchullin, Fingal, Gaul, Oscar, and other personages whose names are familiar to the readers of the pseudo-O

ours of Voss47, Buttmann, Müller, Völcker, Welcker and other writers, whose names will appear in the following pages, it has

riests who directed them used, for the credit of the popular religion whose reputation they were solicitous to maintain, to e

was buried, after having made five progresses through the world, all whose kings feared and obeyed him. The object of Euheme

ase of Diodorus of Sicily. It was translated into Latin by Ennius, of whose work some fragments remain75; and the Æneïs of Vi

is they seemed to have Homeric authority ; as the poet calls Oceanos, whose abode was placed in the West, the origin of the g

ral pure and unaltered, as appears from the Metamorphoses of Ovid, of whose legends the Greek originals can,with few exceptio

illery was directed. There is one author of a peculiar character, and whose work is of the most interesting nature, we mean P

dwelling in everlasting bliss and spring beyond the lofty mountains, whose caverns were supposed to send forth the piercing

nation of dwarfs named, from their diminutive stature110, Pygmies, to whose country the cranes used to migrate every winter,

s venture to style him, created a universe for the scene of the poem, whose object (the noblest that can be conceived) was to

hat could be united with him. The Cyclopes, that is the Whirlers,145, whose individual names signify Thunder, Lightning, and

beyond question he took it from a Greek original. Helios, as the god whose eye surveyed all things237, was invoked as a witn

ms to be that from ἂω, to blow, regarding it as the cool morning air, whose gentle breathing precedes the rising of the sun28

d believed to wander by night along the earth, seen only by the dogs, whose baying announced her approach. She was regarded a

dently signifies time 325 : he is the son of Heaven, by the motion of whose luminaries time is measured ; he is married to Rh

ng their mountains. Rhea, they said, came to Mount Parrhasion, amidst whose thickets she brought forth her divine son. She so

are, though their best, which they set before their celestial guests, whose quality was at length revealed by the miracle of

an to assign the oak402, the monarch of trees, to the celestial king, whose ancient oracle moreover was in the oak-woods of D

ποταμὸς)477 was added to those of Homer's trans-Oceanic region478, of whose waters the dead were led to drink previous to the

o him lay stretch’d Argos, with ever-sleepless eyes supplied ; Out of whose purple blood was rising up A bird, whose wings wi

pless eyes supplied ; Out of whose purple blood was rising up A bird, whose wings with many coulours glow’d : Spreading his t

mbrasos, and within its precincts was shown a willow (λύγος), beneath whose shade, according to the temple-legend, the goddes

sought for, and was always found on the sea-shore bound to a willow, whose longest branches were drawn down so as to envelop

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

for beauty might naturally have been made the spouse of the god from whose workshop proceeded so many elegant productions of

aid by Hesiod558 to have been the offspring of Ares and Aphrodite, of whose union with Hephæstos (to whom he gives a differen

her arrows. Marpessa, the daughter of Evenos, was beloved by Apollo, whose suit was favoured by her father. Idas, another lo

s Orpheus630. No parents more suitable could be assigned to the poet, whose strains could move the woods and rocks, than the

is life, changed him into the flower which was named from him, and on whose petals Grecian fancy saw traced aἲ, aἲ, the notes

restore the dead to life, he drew on himself the enmity of Hades, on whose complaint Zeus with his thunder deprived him of l

osen judge ; and all present approved the decision except king Midas, whose ears were, for their obtuseness, lengthened by th

ally exercised much influence in the religious affairs of the colony, whose first seat was the islet of Ortygia. A temple was

ted that a cup (ϕιάλη) which fell into the Alpheios rose in Arethusa, whose pellucid waters also became turbid with the blood

yled Arge as the swift or the bright goddess, and Upis or Opis as her whose eye was over all. In the isle of Delos however we

also confounded with the goddess worshiped on the Tauric Chersonese, whose altars were stained with the blood of such unhapp

She was identified too with the goddess of nature adored at Ephesus, whose symbolical figure, by its multitude of breasts an

must have been identical) she derived her appellation from that town, whose name probably corresponded with its situation on

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

rother and sister, the children of Zeus (that is the deity) and Leto, whose name, by a perfectly unstrained etymology, may be

nd arrows, was naturally held to be the god of archery ; and the sun, whose eye surveys everything, might be looked on as the

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

d was accompanied on her way by all the wild beasts of the mountains, whose breasts the exulting goddess filled with love and

4 for example asks, with some appearance of reason, why those nations whose heaven was mildest, and their winter shortest, sh

orace756 places her in a chariot drawn by swans, and Sappho757 in one whose team were sparrows. In one of the odes ascribed t

s had meanwhile come to console their parents for the loss of Psyche, whose invisible spouse informs her of this event, and w

re her especial favourite, whom she relieved from all his perils, and whose son Telemachos she also took under her protection

t, and resolved to imitate it : she in consequence invented the pipe, whose music was named many-headed (πολυκέϕαλος), on acc

d many-headed (πολυκέϕαλος), on account of the number of the serpents whose lugubrious hissing had given origin to it. Others

thens there was a Sacred Marriage between Athena and Hephæstos812, in whose temple stood a statue of the goddess813 ; she was

than that of her being regarded as the moon, that the nocturnal owl, whose broad full eyes shine so brightly in the dark, wa

ng was a son named Hermaphroditos, from the names of his parents, and whose adventure with the Naïs Salmacis is narrated by O

ds, to whom we also find him officiating as cup-bearer863. As a being whose operations extended into the interior of the eart

d-slayer 874, and be applied to Hermes as the god of husbandry, under whose auspices the land was ploughed up, and the grass

of Persæos, who heard her as she sat in her cave, and by king Helios, whose eye nothing on earth escapes. So long as the godd

es of the five princes, who with her father governed Eleusis, each of whose wives would, she was sure, be most happy to recei

o see her. He gave information to Zeus, who sent the Fates to her, at whose persuasion she remitted her anger, and ceased fro

better than an enemy. Each state had its own favourite deities, under whose especial protection it was held to be, and these

Hierophant, or person who bore the highest office in the mysteries ; whose name would rather seem to be derived from his exh

ed the divine favour921. So the Greek who was initiated at Eleusis, —  whose mysteries, owing to the fame in which Athens stoo

killed by his pupil Heracles. She also had by the same sire Orpheus, whose skill on the lyre was such as to move the very tr

long continued to be an object of veneration. The Gotho-German race ( whose language and religion bear so great an affinity t

Achæans and the Trojans, the gates of heaven, which the Seasons keep, whose charge is to open and close the dense cloud, crea

ets common to goddesses. Εἰλείθυιαι. Ilithyiæ. The Eileithyiæ, whose office it was to preside over the births of manki

of Zeus and Order, for in him they are but the ministers of Zeus, in whose hands are the issues of all things1004. Æschylus1

hings1004. Æschylus1005 makes even Zeus himself subject to the Fates, whose decrees none could escape. The poets styled the F

hey spring from the blood of Uranos when mutilated by his son Kronos, whose own children they are according to Empedocles1018

no, the sister of Semele, with directions to rear it as a girl. Hera, whose revenge was not yet satiated, caused Athamas, the

entertain the highest respect and esteem. “After that most happy age whose image we behold expressed in the poems of Homer h

bolished, increased. But that at the same time the mystic ceremonies, whose first traces appear in the Hesiodic and Cyclic po

o have turned their eyes to the former realms of the Trojan monarchs, whose power had been broken ; and the first colonies we

with respect to anything of thé kind between them and the Phrygians, whose religion we know to have been different1136. It d

ygian deities. Marsyas, as we have seen, was a river-god ; and Attis, whose name occurs frequently in the dynasties of the Ly

eir god,) was probably, like Adonis, a personification of the Sun, of whose union with Earth we have apparently another insta

endis. Cotys or Cotytto was a goddess worshiped by the Thracians, whose kings were frequently named from her. She was app

. Diana Ephesia. The Ephesian Artemis was another Asiatic goddess whose worship was adopted by the Greeks. From their con

them all. Others fabled that Pan was the son of Hermes by Penelope, whose love he gained under the form of a goat, as she w

What are called Panic terrors were ascribed to Pan ; for loud noises, whose cause could not easily be traced, were not unfreq

of the original matter which developed itself into the four elements whose form he took : the lion was æther, the serpent ea

s an original god of the sea, probably only another form of Poseidôn, whose son he is in some accounts1265. Like the marine g

bed’ Enyo (Shaker) 1290. We find them always united with the Gorgons, whose guards they were according to Æschylus1291. This

he coast1305. They must have originally belonged to the Sea (Pontos), whose grandchildren they are, and not to the calm soft-

duced into the mythe of Perseus. As in this mythe Medusa (Mistress) —  whose name is of a nature totally different from theirs

described as a rude lawless race, who neither planted nor sowed, but whose land was so fertile as spontaneously to produce t

of pasturing the oxen at night, on account of the gad-fly (οἶστρος), whose persecution was thereby avoided : but, as Völcker

uld not shoot up to it with a bow. In this den dwells Scylla (Bitch), whose voice sounds like that of a young whelp : she has

irds and fish ; that it is called the excellent isle of the god 1406, whose peculiar property it therefore must have been ; t

ornamental articles (ἀθύρματα) which they offered for sale. The ship whose crew carried off Eumæos continued an entire year

Scythians, and his country was wasted by a river named Eagle (Aϵτòς), whose inundations when he was unable to prevent, his su

r also from transgressing it. But the case was now altered : a woman, whose chief attribute is curiosity, was come into the h

lusion to it in Pindar or the tragedians, excepting Sophocles, one of whose lost satyric dramas was named Pandora or the Hamm

Greece in the ante-Hellenic period. Whether the Achæans1513, the race whose exploits the Homeric poems record, were this Pela

s genuine history ; and hence have arisen many of the mythic persons, whose names indicate them to have been personifications

n personifications of natural objects, or epithets of the divinity in whose mythology they became actors. There is, further,

meantime conveyed him by night to the cave of the Centaur Cheirôn, to whose care they committed him1536. An oracle had told P

osely to the versions of the legend given by the Attic tragedians, in whose hands the hero and heroine have undergone the sam

o and heroine have undergone the same fate with those of other places whose people were politically opposed to the sovereign

well be regarded as a real historical personage. Whether the former, whose name is nearly identical with Iasiôn, Iasios, Ias

empted to do herself by hiding them in the temple of the goddess1556, whose priestess, like Io, she probably was in this myth

a, and was there purified of the murder by Eurytiôn the son of Actôr, whose daughter Polymela he married. Being so unfortunat

and amiable character. Ceÿx is introduced into the mythe of Heracles, whose friend he is said to have been. The Marriage of C

on of Œneus was the consequence. Althæa did not long survive her son, whose death she had caused. After her death Œneus marri

ve the Cadmeians to rank with the Ionians, Thessalians and others, of whose name it is difficult to assign a probable origin.

ty and the Moon, may then be the Sun who goes each day his round, and whose eye searches out all things1675. The mythe of Nio

ythe of Niobe also is capable of a physical sense. This goddess 1676, whose name denotes Youth or Newness 1677, is the daught

earth, ‘the bride of the sun1678’ (Amphiôn), beneath the influence of whose fecundating beams she pours forth vegetation with

pids, retired to the Peloponnese, where he was entertained by Pelops, whose son Chrysippos he instructed in the art of drivin

neia, to consult the soul of the Theban Teiresias, the blind prophet, whose mental powers are perfect ; to whom, though dead,

till night when they arrived at the fountain of Tilphussa. Teiresias, whose period of life was fated to be coextensive with t

portion of his territory to Halmos the son of Sisyphos of Corinth, to whose posterity, on Eteocles’ dying childless, the king

commerce by sea at a period long anterior to history. The Phlegyans, whose name corresponds with their fate, are by Buttmann

arms by Castôr, to play on the lyre by Linos the brother of Orpheus, whose services were however but ill rewarded by the you

volving time, however, beheld fifty of his progeny. He slew the lion, whose hide he ever after wore on his shoulders, and mad

sprotians, and took the city of Ephyra, over which Phylas reigned, by whose daughter Astyoche he became the father of Tlepole

ly about Mount Œta), Ætolia and the Peloponnese ; and as the Dorians, whose princes were supposed to be descended from Heracl

Chapter V. MYTHES OF ATTICA. Κέκροψ. Cecrops. Ogyges, in whose time the Bœotic flood is placed, is said by some

Cranaüs. Cecrops was succeeded by Cranaos, another autochthon, in whose time the flood of Deucaliôn is said to have happe

Athena by his son ; or, according to others, by the goddess herself, whose favourite he had been, and whom in life she had o

ιόνη), to whom for the sake of uniformity another daughter was added, whose name shows that she could not have belonged to th

rting charged Æthra if she bore a son to rear him, and to tell no one whose he was. He moreover placed his sword and shoes un

the soul of a hero, resolved to signalise himself like Heracles, with whose fame all Greece now rang, by destroying the evil-

Theseus we only meet the Ionian deities Poseidôn and Apollo. Theseus, whose name signifies the Orderer or Regulator, can only

derived his second name. He was purified of the bloodshed by Prœtos, whose wife is also called Sthenobœa, and the king of Ly

se of Hellas Proper. The great patriarch of the latter was Deucaliôn, whose posterity were brought into connexion with the Ca

, they in their usual manner inferred that she was their own Io, with whose name hers had a slight similarity. At Memphis the

e the son of the cowgoddess, they formed from him a son for their Io, whose name was the occasion of a new legend of the mode

he city Memphis is very naturally called the daughter of the Nile, on whose banks it stood ; but Libya is preposterously made

ld himself have no male issue, but that his daughter would bear a son whose hand would deprive him of life. Fearing the accom

r son to the altar of Herceian Zeus, where he made her answer on oath whose was her son. She replied that he was the offsprin

ould be his guides. Hermes brought him first to the faircheeked Grææ, whose eye and tooth he stole, and would not restore unt

is confirmed by many circumstances in the beautiful fairy tale under whose form it has been transmitted to us. But still it

reos out of Laconia. They sought refuge with Thestios king of Ætolia, whose daughter Leda Tyndareos married. Heracles afterwa

æ, was the recovery of their sister Helena from the power of Theseus, whose mother Æthra they dragged in return into captivit

y met, they laid themselves in ambush in a hollow tree ; but Lynceus, whose vision could penetrate the trees and the rocks, a

form of Selene ; the Adorner is a very appropriate term for the day, whose light adorns all nature ; and nothing can be more

saly by his brother Deïôn. She was in love with the river Enipeus, to whose waves she often made her moan. Poseidôn saw and l

g the form of the river-god, embraced her at the mouth of the stream, whose bright waves arched over them, concealing the god

o the sea and water. At the head of the genealogy is Æolos (Windman), whose son is Salmoneus, i. e. Halmoneus (Sea-man), by w

olos (Windman), whose son is Salmoneus, i. e. Halmoneus (Sea-man), by whose daughter Poseidôn is the father of Neleus, i. e.

n), by whose daughter Poseidôn is the father of Neleus, i. e. Nereus, whose sons are Nestôr (Flower)2026 and Periclymenos, a

me serpents. His servants finding these animals, killed the old ones, whose bodies Melampûs burned ; but he saved and reared

Prœtides by Melampûs has been already related2031. The Melampods, of whose Eponymus the history is here related, were a soot

he represents the man who is flourishing and abounding in wealth, but whose desires are insatiable. The Homeric picture livel

t Callirrhoe. In Patræ stood a temple of the Calydonian Dionysos, whose statue had been brought thither from Calydôn. The

adopted from the Athenian legends by Thucydides, the introduction to whose admirable work has had too much influence on the

tected Dædalos. He was succeeded in his kingdom by his son Deucaliôn, whose son Idomeneus led the troops of Crete to the war

e legends are mostly the inventions of the Athenians, at the hands of whose dramatists the characters of the Minoïc family su

ne ventures to assign any other cause to it than the goddess Artemis, whose wrath (though Homer rather says the contrary) he

with six arms. The adjacent country was possessed by the Dolionians, whose king was named Cyzicos. Having been hospitably en

caped the Symplegades, they came to the country of the Mariandynians, whose king Lycos received them kindly. Here died Idmôn

en departed. Ere long they came to the isle of the Sirens, charmed by whose entrancing strains they were about to land on tha

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

s away from Achilleus. The injured prince complains to his mother, at whose entreaty Zeus promises to punish the Achæans, by

æstos ; he goes forth to battle, routs the Trojans, and slays Hectôr, whose corpse he binds to his chariot, and drags round t

ior, who slays Eurypylos the son of Telephos, an ally of the Trojans, whose town is now closely beleaguered. By the direction

tar of the goddess. Odysseus killed Astyanax the young son of Hectôr, whose widow Andromache became the prize of Neoptolemos.

en saved by one of his sisters, and sent to Phocis to Strophios, with whose son Pylades he formed a strict friendship. When h

sthos. The Erinnyes of his mother persecuting him, he fled to Delphi, whose god had urged him to commit the deed, and thence

were the Etruscans, the Latins, and the Sabellians. The city of Rome, whose origin is involved in such obscurity, rose on the

e, passed from mouth to mouth, was sung at the festivals of the deity whose acts it recorded, was varied, changed, and modifi

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

what follows ; for he proceeds, “I do not follow the Persian Magi, at whose impulsion Xerxes is said to have burnt the temple

ut up within walls the gods, to whom all should be free and open, and whose house and temple this whole world should be.” In

principal Jupiter was the Capitoline, or the Jupiter Optimus Maximus, whose temple combined with those of Juno and Minerva ad

er of victory and stayer of flight. We also meet with Jupiter Pistor, whose altar was on the Capitol2277. In the usual Roman

ce, thrown back to the mythic times, and associated with the deity in whose honour they performed their dance. See Lobeck, 11

. 2. as being, to use the words of Milton, ……that sober race of men, whose lives Religious titled them the Sons of God. See

ymbols of towns and districts, according to which an animal or plant, whose name sounds like theirs, becomes as it were their

gel Islands, 1822, quoted by Finn Magnusen (Edda Sæmundar, iii. 530), whose own words are, «Cygnorum cantus dulcissimus in Is

e mild whispers use Of shades and wanton winds and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart-star sparely looks, Throw hit

imæus, ap. Sch. Il. ut sup. 1459. Völcker, Myth. der Jap. 51., with whose views Müller agrees. 1460. Ovid, Met. iv. 631. s

the pale Phœbe, hunting in a grove, First saw the boy Endymiôn, from whose eyes She took eternal fire that never dies ; How

et of Artemis. She is the same with the Artemis- Orthia of Sparta, at whose altar the boys were scourged. It was probably thi

ject of the Euryalos of Sophocles was the death of a son of Odysseus, whose birth was somewhat like that of Soohrâb, and who

ing the endeavour to offer a brief and succinct history of those Gods whose adventures have created most interest, and by mea

onal zest to the perusal of the great poets and writers of antiquity, whose works are either founded on these actual adventur

and which makes a solemn temple of the vast universe? These flowers, whose varied and shining beauty you so much admire, are

e in which the Graces for ever play, and in her hand is a smiling boy whose power is universally acknowledged by heaven and e

treasury of the arts! a world, imaginary indeed, but delightful, and whose ideal pleasures are so well fitted to compensate

. In later times he is represented with a scythe. “Unfathomable sea! whose waves are years;     Ocean of Time, whose waters

scythe. “Unfathomable sea! whose waves are years;     Ocean of Time, whose waters of deep woe Are brackish with the salt of

ce, seemed to turn the tide of war, is thus described: ———— “Typhon, whose hands Of strength are fitted to tremendous deeds;

f Enna, in Sicily, and carried with him to his dismal kingdom. Ceres, whose love for her child, almost surpassed even the usu

the Goddess, who was irritable, and prompt to punish. A young child, whose chief crime was having laughed to see her eat wit

image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img032 Apollo. This Deity, whose name still lives with us, as the presiding divini

igued with her journey, she begged a drop of water from the peasants, whose cruel refusal to aid her she punished by changing

n, however, were the sweet sounds of the lyre tuned, to soften Daphne whose affection rested with another, and was insensible

ht to Olympian Jove the Muses forth; Blessed offsprings, happy maids, whose powerful art Can banish cares, and ease the painf

terpe grace; Terpischore, all joyful in the choir, And Erato, to love whose lays inspire; To these Thalia and Polymnia join,

in his delicate form, a dream of love, Shaped by some solitary nymph, whose breast Longed for a deathless lover from above, A

posed to read the future, the eagle who can gaze on the sun, the cock whose cry welcomes his return, and the grasshopper, who

the laws require, To Hecate the vows are first prefer’d; Happy of men whose prayers are kindly heard, Success attends his eve

ed Dian lost her lonely sphere, And her proud name of chaste, for him whose sleep Drank in Elysium on the Latmos steep.” Bul

ts; but after an absence of three years, Bacchus returned to Ariadne, whose truth and sweetness of disposition, were untouche

re fond of paying homage to a divinity who presided over love, and by whose influence alone, mankind existed. In her sacrific

in never fell, though exposed in the open air.     “O queen of love! whose smile all bright     Glads Paphos and the Cyprian

s image. Hero, in pursuit of whom, Leander braved the Hellespont, and whose touching story will be more minutely given hereaf

ent at his rejection. Juno then pressed the suit of her son on Venus, whose power was already established at the celestial co

ine attributes of Venus, the soft eyes of whom filled with tears, and whose downy cheek grew pale, at the idea of the union.

y the power of enchantment, and that the light would reveal a monster whose presence would astonish no less than it would fri

light, when, instead of the fearful being she dreaded, she beheld one whose every limb, and every feature, shone with a radia

lors of her father. She was indeed the only one of all the divinities whose authority, and consequence, were equal to those o

d the ranks of war, Known by thy golden helm, and rushing car, Before whose lance, with sound terrific, fall The massy fortre

fic, fall The massy fortress and embattled wall. “Father of victory! whose mighty powers, And brazen spears, protect Olympus

d, Whom justice honours, and whom tyrants dread. Hail! friend to man! whose cares to youth, impart The arm unwearied, and the

e anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img098 Neptune, ———— “The God whose potent hand Shakes the tumultuous sea, and solid

he streets, finely equipped, and crowned with garlands, as the God in whose honour the festivals were instituted, had produce

esidence being gloomy, and consequently unbearable to those goddesses whose hand he sought in marriage, and who looked for a

e made to him of milk and honey, because he was the God of eloquence, whose powers were sweet and persuasive. Sometimes his s

the pastoral god, they raise the song. “To Pan, with tangled locks, whose footsteps tread Each snow-crowned hill, and mount

ith starry dew, The weeping of those myriad urns of light,     Within whose orbs, the almighty Power             At nature’s

ndignantly hurled at my head, That dissevered my ear, but I felt not, whose fate, Was to meet more distress in his love his h

ild primrose, And daisy, trodden down like modesty, The fox-glove, in whose drooping-bells the bee Makes her sweet music: the

Which tossed in the breeze with a play of light, There were eyes, in whose glistening laughter lay No faint remembrance of d

here is enough of sadness to invite, If only for the rose that died —  whose doom Is beauty’s, — she that with the living bloo

his raven plume,     And chrystal covered shield. Oh, sire of storms, whose savage ear The Lapland drum delights to hear, Whe

ir homage to Oceanus, and worshipped with great solemnity a deity, to whose care they entrusted themselves when going on any

buried, but unsleeping, there;     Thought watches, memory lies, From whose deep urn the tones are poured     Through all ear

s of various sizes, according to the length or shortness of the lives whose destinies they were supposed to contain. “The th

ot as an existing, but as an imaginary being.     “Mysterious power! whose dark and gloomy sway     Extends o’er all creatio

At the moment of death, they delivered up to judgment the person with whose care they had been entrusted; and according to th

ore people ran about calling aloud, Hymen! Hymen! “God of the torch, whose soul-illuming flame Beams brightest radiance o’er

d the expanded surface of the sea; And him that meets him on his way, whose hands He grasps, him gifts he with abundant gold,

is a lake that to the North Of Memphis, stretches grandly forth, Upon whose silent shore the dead     Have a proud city of th

pus, who was brother to Tyndarus. Becoming enamoured of the two women whose nuptials they had met to celebrate, they resolved

as the son of Alcemede, by Æson; the education of the youthful Jason, whose right of succession to the throne of Iolchos had

he should propose, and which were as follows: Jason was to tame bulls whose breath were fierce flames, with feet and horns of

ground the teeth of a serpent, from which armed men would spring up, whose rage would be directed against him who should be

nd wife? Then bid me thence with curses on my head. ‌And to the man, whose former days were passed In happier fortune, mourn

e. “She now resolves to send the fatal vest, Dyed with Lernæan gore, whose power might move His soul anew, and rouse declini

ds on the Isle of Naxos, where he had the meanness to desert Ariadne, whose conduct had been the means of his glorious triump

m with his arrows, and Orpheus loved the nymph Eurydice, the only one whose charms touched the melodious musician; with her h

tries, before his never failing strain; And, from those sacred lips, whose thrilling sound Fierce tigers and insensate rocks

ng one of the constellations. Admetus was the king of Thessaly, whose flocks were tended by Apollo for nine years, when

rone. But high on hills, or airy cliffs, they dwell, Or deep in caves whose entrance leads to hell. Each rules his race, his

is care, Heedless of others, to his own severe.” Homer. Polyphemus, whose one eye expressed a savage ferocity, shut up Ulys

he beautiful being who had won it. In the very temple of the goddess, whose priestess she was, and while warmed with the rite

me insupportable; life was a burthen; song, now that the one had gone whose praise she valued more than all beside, became ne

ventured to call the tenth muse. “Then came a dark browed spirit, on whose head Laurel and withering roses loosely hung: She

ead Laurel and withering roses loosely hung: She held a harp, amongst whose chords her hand Wandered for music — and it came.

and even stamped their money with her image.                 “Thou! whose impassioned face                 The poet loves t

rief, and love forsaken, pining?                 What wert thou, thou whose woe                 The old traditions show, With

, and to inculcate the love of peace, with a reverence for the deity, whose worship by images he forbade, and established a p

fterwards eat it up. This man was one of the disciples of Pythagoras, whose life he had saved, by supporting the whole weight

ction, as regards material things, they admit the existence of a god, whose power was of a double nature, and who could destr

t of the provinces; a council of lamas who ‌assemble in conclave, and whose insignia answer to those of the cardinals of the

erous populations of India recognize a crowd of secondary divinities, whose history approaches in many instances to those of

heir sensual ideas to a considerable extent. Below the Supreme being, whose belief is spread among all nations, are placed th

andinavia is Odin, who was in all probability one of their kings, and whose amours, as numerous as those of Jupiter, are perp

iliar to her as to Odin, with whom she is seated upon his throne, and whose government of the remaining deities she shared. W

used by the struggle which Thor constantly has with a famous serpent, whose vast folds embrace the whole circumference of the

s of the divinities were held beneath the branches of an ancient oak, whose roots spread below over a fountain of water, rema

90 Polynesia. The inhabitants of Polynesia, are, like all those whose faith is primitive and simple, devoted to the wor

lso more extended ideas of the divinity. They worship a supreme deity whose wife is material and corporeal, and of a nature t

es, or legends, relating to the gods, heroes, demons, or other beings whose names have been preserved in popular belief. “The

. Secondly, by proving the identity between gods of different nations whose names, apparently different, have been resolved i

iva,’ he thought of the personified sky and clouds. But the Greek, in whose language these physical meanings were lost, had l

dwelling in everlasting bliss and spring beyond the lofty mountains, whose caverns were supposed to send forth the piercing

n summoned, repaired to the palace of Zeus, as did also those deities whose usual abode was the earth, the waters, or the und

the rainbow) and of the Harpies (storm-winds). Phorcys and Ceto, from whose union the frightful Gorgons* and Grææ* proceeded,

the east, where he recommenced his bright career. Helios, as the god whose eye surveys all things, was invoked as a witness

as believed to wander by night over the earth, seen only by the dogs, whose barking announced her approach. Her statues, whic

heir custom of identifying their deities with those of the Greek gods whose attributes were similar to their own, declared Ch

resented in the celebrated form of the sacred oak, in the rustling of whose branches the deity revealed himself to the faithf

other of Aphrodite* (Venus), while Arcadian Zeus was wedded to Maia*, whose son was Hermes* (Mercury). Persephone* (Proserpin

mphion is always represented with a lyre; Zethus, with a club. Leda*, whose affections Zeus gained under the form of a swan,

a, but throughout the whole of Greece, as kindly, beneficent deities, whose aid might be invoked either in battle or in the d

er) received its name from this story. Io (the wanderer) is the moon, whose apparently irregular course and temporary disappe

ignant that she persecuted not only him, but all the family of Priam, whose dreadful sufferings and misfortunes during the Tr

arried women of Rome. Moneta*, the adviser, was a surname of Juno, in whose temple at Rome money was coined. The Roman consul

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

f Charon*, the ferryman, a grim, unshaven old man. He took only those whose bodies had received funereal4 rites on earth, and

ll the shades were obliged to appear before Minos, the supreme judge, whose tribunal was guarded by the terrible triple-heade

resence of Minos, were conducted to the great judgment-hall of Hades, whose massive walls of solid adamant were surrounded by

em along to the great gate which closed the opening to Tartarus, into whose awful depths they were hurled, to suffer endless

est point, seems to drop down again. “Ixion means the sun at mid-day, whose four-spoked wheel, in the words of Pindar, is see

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

to Homer, was in Thrace, the land of boisterous wintry storms, among whose warlike inhabitants he was held in high esteem, b

other cause than that of her being regarded as the moon that the owl, whose broad, full eyes shine so brightly in the dark, w

deprived Adonis of life is only a symbol of the frosty winter, before whose freezing blast all life in nature decays.” Seem

on of Apollo and the muse Urania. Others assert that he was a mortal, whose married life was so remarkably happy, that hencef

f intercourse between nations; hence he is the god of travelers, over whose safety he presided, and he severely punished thos

district on the eastern declivity of Mount Olympus, in Thessaly, from whose steep and rocky heights a number of sweet ripplin

a god of the light and sun. Janus was believed to begin the new year, whose first month, January, was called for him and dedi

alled Matutinus Pater*. He appears also as the door-keeper of heaven, whose gates he opened in the morning and closed in the

den laden with branches of fruit-trees. Vertumnus*. Vertumnus*, whose name is derived from verto, to change, was the go

Ceto*. Thaumas* typified the wonders of the sea. He and Electra* ( whose name signifies the sparkling light produced by el

gods. In later times the winds were regarded as distinct divinities, whose aspect accorded with the winds with which they we

Knowledge of the future was sought by the Greeks from the oracles, whose predictions were interpreted to the people by pri

ch guarded the spring. Cadmus then went himself, and slew the dragon, whose teeth he sowed in the ground, according to the ad

tinue to rage until the land was purified of the blood of king Laius, whose murderer was living unpunished at Thebes. The kin

oomed to slay his father. He is also the child of the dawn (Jocasta), whose soft, violet hues tint the clouds of early mornin

lfilled the prediction. Feeling unwilling to occupy the throne of one whose death he had caused, he exchanged kingdoms with t

of Poseidon*. “There was a burning mountain in Lycia called Chimæra, whose top was the resort of lions on account of its des

bring him the skin of the Nemean* lion which ravaged the country, and whose skin bade defiance to every weapon. Heracles succ

racles was to cleanse in one day the stables of Augeas, king of Elis, whose wealth in cattle had become proverbial. Heracles

he sixth task of Heracles was to chase away the immense birds of prey whose home was on the shore of Lake Stymphalis, in Arca

ng long and the other short. In the short one he placed the tall men, whose limbs he cut to the size of the bed. The short on

This was the slaying of the Minotaur*, a monster half man, half bull, whose lair was in the wonderful labyrinth constructed b

ect misery. Ulysses and Diomedes were sent to Lemnos for Philoctetes, whose wound was then healed by Machaon*, a son of Æscul

t from Saturn, governed the country. He had a daughter named Lavinia, whose hand had been promised to Turnus*, prince of the

pis* is probably another name. Herodotus* says, “Apis is a young bull whose hair is black, on his forehead a white triangle,

n the Greek Triton and Tritogenia*. The Maruts were the storm-winds, whose name (from mar, to grind) reappears in the Greek

prung Ymir*, the Frost giant, and his progeny, and the cow Audhumbla, whose milk afforded food to the giant. The cow obtained

the fourth day of the week, Wednesday. The wife of Odin was Frigga*, whose name remains in our Friday. She presided over mar

called Alfheim*, and was the domain of Freyr, the god of the sun, in whose light they were always sporting. The Night Elves

a large fire was kindled on some elevated spot, in honor of the sun, whose returning beneficence they thus welcomed after th

nd sacrifice under the tree, they drive thither two milk-white bulls, whose horns are then for the first time bound. The prie

o the romantic turn of mind which has always characterized the Aryan, whose civilization, even in the times before the disper

Infernal. To these may be added the class of Inferior Divinities, of whose residence no determinate ideas were given. How we

th. Those who looked upon him as an animated God, as one of those men whose illustrious actions had procured him divine honou

e, and wind, intermixed with lightning, terror, noise, and wrath. He whose all conscious eyes the world behold, Th’ eternal

, hot, and loving the earth. The first denotes the rising of the Sun, whose rays are then red; the second, the period when he

f Phaeton. Jove call’d to witness every power above, And e’en the God whose son the chariot drove, That what he acts, he is c

alled Egis, from being covered with the skin of the Goat Amalthea, by whose milk Jupiter was nourished; having, as a boss, th

Mount Etna, a temple was dedicated to him, which was guarded by dogs, whose sense of smelling was said to be so exquisite, as

ds the flying God. From far, huge Atlas’ rocky sides he spies, Atlas, whose head supports the starry skies: Beat by the winds

were the Tritons? They were imaginary sea animals, the upper part of whose bodies was supposed to resemble that of man; the

flies, To dark Æolia from the distant skies, Impregnated with storms; whose tyrant binds The blust’ring tempests, and relucta

yx, by which if the Gods swore, their oath was inviolable; and Lethe, whose waters, when tasted, produced forgetfulness of pa

and crush him beneath its weight. The giant Tityus, a son of Jupiter, whose body covers nine acres, was slain by the arrow of

of his labours. He killed, in the forest of Nemea, an enormous lion, whose skin he afterwards wore. He destroyed, in the lak

t, hunted down, after a chace of a year, a hind consecrated to Diana, whose feet were of brass, and whose horns were of gold.

of a year, a hind consecrated to Diana, whose feet were of brass, and whose horns were of gold. He killed or drove away the S

in the fight, Hylæus, Pholus sunk beneath thy feet, And the grim bull whose rage dispeopled Crete. Beneath thy arm Nemea’s li

of prodigious size. Fifth. The walls of Babylon, built by Semiramis, whose circumference was sixty miles, and whose breadth

Babylon, built by Semiramis, whose circumference was sixty miles, and whose breadth was so great, that six chariots could dri

expanded lies, Blue as the over-arching skies. On that ethereal lake whose waters lie, Blue and transpicuous, like another s

Bhaváni, or Parvati, the consort of Seeva, the Goddess of generation, whose rites and emblems are shamefully immoral and inde

f Lanca. He is said to have commanded an intrepid army of monkeys, by whose agility lie raised a bridge of rocks on the sea;

of Vishnu. He is regarded by the Hindûs, as the God of shepherds; of whose nature and actions, their sacred writings give th

û Pantheon, is about half way up the steep side of the mountain, from whose stony bosom, it is excavated. The temple is about

Egyptians with a peculiar reference to the moon, with the changes of whose aspect that animal was supposed to have a certain

ypt, who was slain by the treachery of Typhon his wicked brother; but whose death was avenged by Horus, his son, and Isis his

gyptian mythology as the operation of Typhon. Hence all those animals whose aspect is hideous, and whose disposition is fierc

ation of Typhon. Hence all those animals whose aspect is hideous, and whose disposition is fierce and untameable, were sacred

tians, and, at the same time, corresponded to the Grecian Esculapius, whose rites were borrowed from those of Serāpis; to who

blematic of plenty. The right hand leaned upon the head of a serpent, whose body was coiled round a figure with the heads of

ther Egyptian deities, Thoth had a sacred animal appropriated to him, whose figure was connected with his particular rites. T

xercise, and suitable companions, were provided for him. The man from whose herd the divine animal sprang was regarded as the

elected as the objects of their peculiar adoration, those divinities, whose dominion they supposed to be exercised principall

e extremity of the heavens, a giant in the clothing of an eagle: from whose wings proceed the winds; and Svalin, who holds a

requent flings The tempest from his eagle wings. And that dark power, whose ample shield Before the sun’s bright face is held

wn by those names. Thus, Baal-Peor, who was the idol of the Moabites, whose rites were most detestable and cruel; and who is

nifying the burning king. The chief god of the Philistines was Dagon, whose statue was compounded of the figures of a man and

the Phenicians call Astarte, queen of heaven, with crescent horns: To whose bright image, nightly by the moon, Sidonian virgi

ugh the coast Of Palestine, in Gath and Ascalon. Him followed Rimmon, whose delightful seat Was fair Damascus, on the fertile

ndition did Titan resign his right of primogeniture to Saturn, and at whose desire? What did the Ethiopians call Jupiter? Who

xempted? Where was the Serapeum, what kind of building was it, and by whose order was it destroyed? Of what was Harpocrates t

l, and Infernal. We shall afterwards come to the subordinate gods, of whose residence the ancients had no positive idea. Ques

esee futurity; and to that circumstance the obscurity of the oracles, whose replies could be interpreted in a thousand differ

uch were Hercules, Æsculapius, Castor, Pollux, &c. &c. Heroes whose glorious actions raised them to the rank of immor

m, to which men were never admitted. Her favorite was named Atys, for whose death her mad priests commemorated her sorrow. Th

ive and shout her name.” Darwin’s Botanic Garden —  Canto II. “He, whose all conscious eyes the world behold, Th’ eternal

skies; Hence he’s Elicius call’d.” Ovid. “O! king of gods and men, whose awful hand Disperses thunder on the seas and land

-mother. 2. April, sign of Taurus (a bull.) He represents that animal whose form Jupiter assumed to carry Europa away. 3. May

lion.) He represents the one of the Nemæn forest, killed by Hercules, whose skin served him for a mantle. 6. August, sign of

, vain of his intellectual powers, who considered himself a poet, but whose works could not survive him. Such was his poetic,

often displays the fleetness of a stag, who cannot look at water, and whose disease is often brought on by the bite of a dog.

e god Pan gives a dog to Bacchus to follow him in his travels. Caleb, whose Hebrew name signifies a dog, is the faithful comp

n endeavour to prove that Bacchus is the same as Nimrod, son of Chus, whose name at first was Bacchus, son of Chus; and, by c

the gift of prophecy. She aided Perseus in killing the Gorgon Medusa, whose snaky head she placed in her ægis, or shield, bec

some had the power of rendering her charms irresistible to the person whose affection she desired to win. Sometimes she is ca

rose, the myrtle, and the apple. She was attended by beautiful boys, whose faces exhibited eloquent, but mischievous eyes, a

tory. These two lovers were turned into a lion and lioness by Cybele, whose temple they had profaned, when they were too impa

iadne, and the arms of Achilles; and likewise formed the first woman, whose name was Pandora. Vulcan is called Lemnius, becau

the charms and graces of their fictions. Hence sprang the sea deities whose number surpassed those of heaven and other parts

Tethys, seventy-two nymphs, named Oceanides; Nereus, fifty Nereides, whose names Hesiod mentions. The same poet makes the nu

“Good Neptune’s steeds to rest are set up here, In the Aegean gulph, whose fore parts harness bear, Their hinder parts fish-

e, without it, the earth is dry and produces nothing; and the second, whose name signifies good success, watched to procure g

riest, to make a sacrifice to the good goddess, the mysterious deity, whose name women only knew. This sacrifice, offered for

orses and stables. Bubona presided over the oxen. Seia is the deity whose office it is to preserve the seed whilst buried i

under Brennus when they were about to plunder the city of Delphi, at whose sight they fled, as if an enemy had been at their

no power could demolish. It had five rivers at its entrance. Acheron, whose waters were extremely bitter; Styx, by which the

a gloomy grove defends; And there th’ unnavigable lake extends, O’er whose unhappy waters, void of light, No bird presumes t

the following story: Tantalus was honoured with a visit from the gods whose divinity he wished to try. He killed and quartere

r them. All the gods were shocked at so horrible a repast; but Ceres, whose grief for the recent loss of his daughter Proserp

eir wedding night, which orders they all obeyed, except Hypermnestra, whose husband Lynceus, escaped. She was cited before he

the Carthaginese, penetrated even into their country, and found women whose running equaled in swiftness that of horses, and

ss that of horses, and even the flight of birds. He took two of them, whose bodies were thickly set with horsehair. Their ski

they flourished. Consequently, we begin with the history of Perseus, whose antiquity appears to be the most remote. Chapte

us. He was commanded to bring alive and unhurt to Eurystheus, a hind, whose hoofs were of brass, and horns of gold. This swif

r, and ridiculed him as he sat at her distaff. He had likewise a wife whose name was Dejanira, daughter of Œneus, and sister

d the sea, with his sister Helle, on the back of this ram; (in a ship whose prow was adorned with the figure of that animal;)

s, Orpheus, and Castor and Pollux. Typhis was the pilot; and Lynceus, whose eyes were piercing, discovered rocks. It was styl

en he went to the siege of Troy, she publicly lived with Ægisthus, at whose instigation she killed Agamemnon when he returned

in which bears his name. By his wife Pleione, he had seven daughters, whose names were Alcyone, Merope, Maia, Electra, Tayget

ometimes Atlantides. By his wife Æthras, he had seven more daughters, whose names were Ambrosia, Euloria, Pasithæ, Coronis, P

the clouds; and the poets, confounding that mountain with the prince whose name it bears, painted him as the pillar of the w

thongs, and a staff in the left. Sometimes he has the head of a hawk, whose quick and piercing eye denotes the sun. Other emb

sket of plenty, with his right hand leaning on the head of a serpent, whose body was coiled round a figure with the heads of

uits of lentils and pulse were his offerings. The tree called Persea, whose leaves were like a tongue, and whose fruit like a

ferings. The tree called Persea, whose leaves were like a tongue, and whose fruit like a heart, was sacred to him. Anubis, t

is originally an Egyptian divinity? What was the image of Serapis? By whose order was his temple at Alexandria destroyed? Be

aled knowledge. The Hindoos acknowledge one supreme, uncreated deity, whose essence is above the comprehension of mortals. Wh

the Phœnicians call Astarte, queen of heaven, with crescent horns; To whose bright image, mighty by the moon, Sidonian virgin

ugh the coast Of Palestine, in Gath and Ascalon. Him followed Rimmon, whose delightful seat Was fair Damascus, on the fertile

ded as the only god and master of heaven. Genus engendered other men, whose names were Light, Fire, and Flame. It was they wh

mythologies, enforces the conclusion, that most of the gods were men, whose exploits had rendered them illustrious, and that

mple, carried by the Israelites in the sight of those nations through whose territories they travelled, might have given them

being swallowed up in a crevice. It was replaced by another edifice, whose architects were Agamedes and Trophonius. The flam

nstructed at the foot of an oak, a small chapel in honour of Jupiter, whose priestess she had been at Thebes. Herodotus adds

Greeks embarked on this expedition. 6. The Samian, or Sibyl of Samos, whose prophecies are found in the ancient annals of the

rusted the charge of them to two particular priests, called Duumviri, whose ministry was confined to the charge of this sacre

hth. She prophesied in the days of Solon and Crœsus. 9. The Phrygian, whose abode was at Ancyra, where she delivered her orac

empted to arm against the ambition of Rome, all the barbarian nations whose liberties she threatened. His first efforts appea

into subjection. Odin ruled, it is said, the Ases, a Scythian people, whose country was situated between the Black and the Ca

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

ed Sæmungue, who did not fail of being made the author of the family, whose different branches afterwards reigned long in the

r the confines of Persia; and still more so, that the name of the god whose prophet and priest he became, was, in succeeding

led him, and in which the people gave the name of prodigies to all at whose exploits they were greatly astonished. Chapter

ty. From this supreme divinity emanated a variety of subaltern genii, whose seat and temple was every thing in the visible wo

tes twelve gods and twelve goddesses, who received divine honors, but whose power was subordinate to that of Odin, the oldest

ed even to the ninth world, or to hell. On its branches sat an eagle, whose piercing eye surveyed the whole universe. A squir

By the mixture of ice and heat was produced the cow (Audumbla,) from whose dugs flowed four streams of milk, on which Ymer l

and the manner of expression peculiar to a simple, primitive people, whose vigorous imagination, despising or not familiar w

reasures to construct the temple at Ephesus. The people of the North, whose strength, courage, patience, and perseverance, co

t human vanity will in vain attempt to roll back the current of time; whose longest period will be but an imperceptible point

ce of those supreme pontiffs, that the nation united under one chief, whose magistracy, resembling the Roman dictatorship, wa

s were the Bards, the Saronides, and the Cubages or Vates. The Bards, whose Celtic name means a chanter, celebrated in verse

ul; the most celebrated of which was that of the country of Chartres, whose chief was the sovereign pontiff of Gaul. It was i

communicated their sciences and their doctrines to their candidates, whose novitiate was extremely long. They never wrote do

desses alone ordained and regulated all that related to religion, and whose entrance was interdicted to the men. The Celts an

jealousy. The Celts considered their women as equals, and companions whose esteem and tenderness could not be acquired but b

f priestesses; and the second were the attendants of the priestesses, whose orders they were to execute. The most ordinary re

, dwelling in everlasting bliss and spring beyond the lofty mountains whose caverns were supposed to send forth the piercing

ummoned, repaired to the palace of Jupiter, as did also those deities whose usual abode was the earth, the waters, or the und

and joy. Saturn and Rhea were not the only Titans. There were others, whose names were Oceanus, Hyperion, Iapetus, and Ophion

, Mnemosyne, Eurynome, females. They are spoken of as the elder gods, whose dominion was afterwards transferred to others. Sa

th treated this theme. The following are Byron’s lines: — “Titan! to whose immortal eyes     The sufferings of mortality,   

s often alluded to by the poets. Waller applies it to the case of one whose amatory verses, though they did not soften the he

r’s banner true,     Who feed where Desolation first has fed,     And whose wings rain contagion: how they fled,     When lik

e and Air,     (Like that which barred young Thisbe’s bliss,) Through whose small holes this dangerous pair     May see each

it down; and at last they came to Cephalus to borrow his famous dog, whose name was Lelaps. No sooner was the dog let loose

ed her husband, and noticing the heifer praised its beauty, and asked whose it was, and of what herd. Jupiter, to stop questi

strument on which he played was invented. “There was a certain nymph, whose name was Syrinx, who was much beloved by the saty

fitted as if by the hand of man. A fountain burst out from one side, whose open basin was bounded by a grassy rim. Here the

the smoke of sacrifice and almost buried among the reeds. I inquired whose altar it might be, whether of Faunus or the Naiad

. None but myself may drive the flaming car of day. Not even Jupiter, whose terrible right arm hurls the thunderbolts. The fi

et Is the pure joy when kindred spirits meet! Like him the river god, whose waters flow, With love their only light, through

es grow abundantly before the door of the cave, and other herbs, from whose juices Night collects slumbers, which she scatter

restless pillow, His head heaves with the heaving billow; That hand, whose motion is not life, Yet feebly seems to menace st

in my honors by a mortal girl? In vain then did that royal shepherd, whose judgment was approved by Jove himself, give me th

ing forth clear and crystal waters, and fast by, a magnificent palace whose august front impressed the spectator that it was

uttering these words: “Sovereign lady, all that you see is yours. We whose voices you hear are your servants and shall obey

ink me a monster and cut off my head? But go; return to your sisters, whose advice you seem to think preferable to mine. I in

deavor by her piety to engage them all in her behalf. The holy Ceres, whose temple it was, finding her so religiously employe

ast united to Cupid, and in due time they had a daughter born to them whose name was Pleasure.   The fable of Cupid and Psych

hrough the world, — Love’s worshipper, —     To seek on earth for him whose home was heaven! “In the full city, — by the hau

another so adroitly that the joining deceives the eye. Like the bow, whose long arch tinges the heavens, formed by sunbeams

sician, and at the same time a very prolific and very tasteless poet, whose works are now forgotten, unless when recalled to

these beings make much figure in mythology except Medusa, the Gorgon, whose story we shall next advert to. We mention them ch

nster who had laid waste the country. She was once a beautiful maiden whose hair was her chief glory, but as she dared to vie

ould gladly have rested till morning. It was the realm of King Atlas, whose bulk surpassed that of all other men. He was rich

r rival to dispute his state. But his chief pride was in his gardens, whose fruit was of gold, hanging from golden branches,

it. At that time there arrived at his court a gallant young warrior, whose name was Bellerophon. He brought letters from Prœ

Descend from Heaven, Urania, by that name If rightly thou art called, whose voice divine Following above the Olympian hill I

Young, in his Night Thoughts, speaking of the sceptic, says: — “He whose blind thought futurity denies, Unconscious bears,

till when crossing the strait that divides Europe and Asia, the girl, whose name was Helle, fell from his back into the sea,

part in them. Jason said to Medea, “My spouse, would that your arts, whose power I have seen so mighty for my aid, could do

goddess of the underworld, and to Tellus the goddess of the earth, by whose power plants potent for enchantment are produced.

rds. Atalanta. The innocent cause of so much sorrow was a maiden whose face you might truly say was boyish for a girl, y

n a chariot drawn by lions. She wears a mural crown, that is, a crown whose rim is carved in the form of towers and battlemen

ean stables. Augeas, king of Elis, had a herd of three thousand oxen, whose stalls had not been cleansed for thirty years. He

Antæus, the son of Terra, the Earth, was a mighty giant and wrestler, whose strength was invincible so long as he remained in

he soul of a hero, and eager to signalize himself like Hercules, with whose fame all Greece then rang, by destroying the evil

n Circe’s island fell; (who knows not Circe, The daughter of the Sun? whose charmed cup Whoever tasted lost his upright shape

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

and of heathenism itself. Sylvanus and Faunus were Latin divinities, whose characteristics are so nearly the same as those o

e Greeks peopled all the regions of earth and sea with divinities, to whose agency it attributed those phenomena which our ph

her deities, principally nymphs of fountains. Egeria was one of them, whose fountain and grotto are still shown. It was said

hocles. Penelope. Penelope is another of those mythic heroines whose beauties were rather those of character and condu

dog with snaky hair who guards the entrance. I come to seek my wife, whose opening years the poisonous viper’s fang has brou

et named Proteus, who dwells in the sea and is a favorite of Neptune, whose herd of sea-calves he pastures. We nymphs hold hi

ice met her death, for in flying from you she trod upon a serpent, of whose bite she died. To avenge her death, the nymphs, h

Chapter XXV. Arion — Ibycus — Simonides — Sappho. The poets whose adventures compose this chapter were real persons

poets whose adventures compose this chapter were real persons some of whose works yet remain, and their influence on poets wh

otected them. The child, Perseus, when grown up became a famous hero, whose adventures have been recorded in a previous chapt

c and festal odes, receiving his reward from the munificence of those whose exploits he celebrated. This employment was not d

the pale Phœbe, hunting in a grove, First saw the boy Endymion, from whose eyes She took eternal fire that never dies; How s

chiefs, especially Achilles. This hero was the son of that Thetis at whose marriage the apple of Discord had been thrown amo

he same effect, but all in vain. “How can I,” said he to himself, “by whose command the people went to this day’s contest, wh

g that one day he shall see thy face again. But no comfort cheers me, whose bravest sons, so late the flower of Ilium, all ha

its resistance. One of these allies was Memnon, the Æthiopian prince, whose story we have already told. Another was Penthesil

the chiefs and senators were assembled, pouring libation to Mercury, whose worship followed the evening meal. Just then Mine

s shooting with the bow. Twelve rings were arranged in a line, and he whose arrow was sent through the whole twelve was to ha

not long in uncertainty; he announced himself as the long-lost chief, whose house they had invaded, whose substance they had

nounced himself as the long-lost chief, whose house they had invaded, whose substance they had squandered, whose wife and son

f, whose house they had invaded, whose substance they had squandered, whose wife and son they had persecuted for ten long yea

Polyphemus made his appearance; a terrible monster, shapeless, vast, whose only eye had been put out. 21 He walked with cau

horrible to view. The Furies spread their couches there, and Discord, whose hair was of vipers tied up with a bloody fillet.

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

between mortal weapons and divine. Here, also, is Tityus, the giant, whose form is so immense that as he lies he stretches o

to the circumference of a wheel ceaselessly revolving; and Sisyphus, whose task was to roll a huge stone up to a hill-top, b

of the infant town, where in after times the proud city of Rome grew, whose glory reached the skies. By chance the old king,

ong, seeking for some advantage, observed her pursuing a flying enemy whose splendid armor offered a tempting prize. Intent o

ength assigned to Apollo, and to him alone. A priestess was appointed whose office it was to inhale the hallowed air, and who

Byron alludes to the oracle of Delphi where, speaking of Rousseau, whose writings he conceives did much to bring on the Fr

iding over and governing the different objects of nature. The Greeks, whose imagination was lively, peopled all nature with i

the quiver. The Poets of Mythology. [Homer.] Homer, from whose poems of the Iliad and Odyssey we have taken the

body of men, called Rhapsodists, who recited the poems of others, and whose business it was to commit to memory and rehearse

 B. C. Virgil Virgil, called also by his surname, Maro, from whose poem of the Æneid we have taken the story of Ænea

s from Aldrovandus, a celebrated naturalist of the sixteenth century, whose work on natural history, in thirteen folio volume

their foe.” The Unicorn. Pliny, the Roman naturalist, out of whose account of the unicorn most of the modern unicorn

take     A fit and unwalled temple, there to seek     The Spirit, in whose honor shrines are weak,     Upreared of human han

tive employments. We need say little of the two intermediate classes, whose rank and privileges may be readily inferred from

ation of Vishnu, is said by his followers to have been a mortal sage, whose name was Gautama, called also by the complimentar

sprang Ymir, the Frost giant and his progeny, and the cow Audhumbla, whose milk afforded nourishment and food to the giant.

d one of his men who was sitting at the farther end of the bench, and whose name was Logi, to come forward and try his skill

in. They bound him with chains and suspended a serpent over his head, whose venom falls upon his face drop by drop. His wife

s called Alfheim, and was the domain of Freyr, the god of the sun, in whose light they were always sporting. The black or Nig

a large fire was kindled on some elevated spot, in honor of the sun, whose returning beneficence they thus welcomed after th

nd sacrifice under the tree, they drive thither two milk-white bulls, whose horns are then for the first time bound. The prie

hich the following lines are a part: — “—— midst the eternal cliffs, whose strength defied The crested Roman in his hour of

ient religion that Johnson exclaims, “That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plains o

whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plains of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer amid the ruins of Ion

cui lumen ademptum. —  Virgil . A horrible monster, misshapen, vast, whose only eye had been put out. No. 11. Page 350.

s believed to wander by night along the earth, seen only by the dogs, whose barking told her approach. 12. Alcides, a name o

rely with the clue of tradition, but with a thread of surer knowledge whose surest strand is sympathy. The study has led men

eas; to confess the brotherhood of humanity and the fatherhood of One whose purposes hold good for every race, and through al

s; or, again, they were mighty mountains, piled one above another, in whose cavernous recesses the divining-wand of the storm

t deem themselves superior to nature. They are not conscious of souls whose flight is higher than that of nature. On the cont

e thought of an angel who rejoiced as a strong man to run his course, whose voice, calling to life and to labor, rang round t

whose voice, calling to life and to labor, rang round the earth, and whose going forth was to the ends of heaven.” Regardin

and heroic narratives which they could not otherwise justify, and of whose existence they were ashamed. We find, moreover, i

interpretation. In modern times he has been supported by Lord Bacon, whose “Wisdom of the Ancients” treats myths as “elegant

pon the Theory of Progress. This is best stated by Mr. Andrew Lang 9, whose argument is, when possible, given in his own lang

tion, passion, virtue, foresight, spirituality, and vice. The Greeks, whose imagination was lively, peopled all nature with s

idea of two entirely personal and corporeal gods (Apollo and Athena), whose limbs are clothed in divine flesh, and whose brow

ods (Apollo and Athena), whose limbs are clothed in divine flesh, and whose brows are crowned with divine beauty; yet so real

it ignores Africans, Mongolians, American Indians, and other peoples whose myths resemble the Aryan, but are not traceable t

re skilled in the art of music as well as in that of verse. Orpheus, whose adventures are elsewhere narrated,23 passes in tr

s, Marsyas, and Amphion.26 (3) The Poets of Mythology. — Homer, from whose poems of the Iliad and Odyssey we have taken the

s answered by the statement that there was a professional body of men whose business it was to commit to memory, and rehearse

’s Voyage for the Golden Fleece; and Theocritus of Sicily (270 b.c.), whose rural idylls are at once charmingly natural and r

Poets of Mythology. — Vergil, called also by his surname, Maro, from whose poem of the Æneid we have taken the story of Ænea

From the blood of the mutilated Uranus leaped into being the Furies, whose heads writhe with serpents; the Giants, a novel r

allen Titans. For himself Jupiter retained Earth and the Heaven, into whose broad and sunny regions towered Olympus, the favo

as born to her — Typhon, a monster more awful than his predecessors — whose destiny it was to dispute the sway of the almight

Heaven, took active part, — and Hercules, an earthly son of Jupiter, whose arrows aided in their defeat. It was from the ove

— There is a story which attributes the making of man to Prometheus, whose father Iapetus had, with Cronus, opposed the sove

anity, Prometheus drew down on himself the anger of Olympian Jove, by whose order he was chained to a rock on Mount Caucasus,

f magnanimous endurance, and of resistance to oppression. “Titan! to whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality, Seen i

ven with fiery leaven All the hearts of men forever; “Yet all bards, whose hearts unblighted Honor and believe the presage,

when summoned, repaired to the palace of Jupiter, — even the deities whose usual abode was the earth, the waters, or the und

r apostrophizes the Venus of Melos, that “inner beauty of the world,” whose tranquil smile he finds more fair than “The Medic

nset. (12) Various Other Personifications. — The constellation Orion, whose story will be narrated; Victoria (Nike), the godd

oreans, dwelling in bliss and everlasting spring beyond the mountains whose caverns sent forth the piercing blasts of the nor

nd mother of Jupiter. In Phrygia, Rhea became identified with Cybele, whose worship, as mother of the gods, was, at a later p

manner. Like other gods who dwelt in forests, he was dreaded by those whose occupations caused them to pass through the woods

sorcery and witchcraft, and wandered by night, seen only by the dogs, whose barking told of her approach. (4) Sleep, or Somnu

, with one eye between them which they used in turn. (b) The Gorgons, whose glance was icy death. (c) The Sirens, muses of th

tion. (d) Scylla, also destructive to mariners, a six-headed monster, whose lower limbs were serpents and ever-barking dogs.

h they were later identified with certain Greek gods and goddesses109 whose characteristics and adventures they assumed, had

ighways, and Lares of the sea. To the Penates, to the domestic Lares ( whose images were preserved in a private shrine), and t

joined her husband, noticed the heifer, praised its beauty, and asked whose it was, and of what herd. Jupiter, to stop questi

which he played was invented. “There was a certain nymph,” said he, “ whose name was Syrinx, — much beloved by the satyrs and

on her faithful sons: — … Slowly old Cydippe rose and cried: ‘Hera, whose priestess I have been and am, Virgin and matron,

ied: ‘Hera, whose priestess I have been and am, Virgin and matron, at whose angry eyes Zeus trembles, and the windless plain

tly that the joining deceives the eye. And the effect is like the bow whose long arch tinges the heavens, formed by sunbeams

variance, because thou didst beget that reckless maiden and baleful, whose thought is ever of iniquitous deeds. For all the

Soon after his birth the sun-god spent a year among the Hyperboreans, whose shining land has been already described.140 On hi

yself,” he said, “may drive the flaming car of day. Not even Jupiter, whose terrible right arm hurls the thunderbolts. The fi

ved the muse Calliope, who bore him Orpheus160, and the nymph Cyrene, whose son was Aristæus161. Of his relations with two ot

ctæon. 169 — Diana’s severity toward young Actæon, grandson of Cadmus whose kindred fell under the curse of Mars, is thus nar

Orion. — Orion, the son of Neptune, was a giant and a mighty hunter, whose prowess and manly favor gained for him the rare g

ease, and guards his sheep and lambs from beasts of prey.173 Keats, whose Endymion journeys on a mission under sea, thus de

ntering, she discovered in the midst a fountain, and fast by a palace whose august front showed that it was not the work of m

addressed her: “Sovereign lady, all that thou beholdest is thine. We whose voices thou dost hear are thy servants. Retire, w

t last united to Cupid; and in due season a daughter was born to them whose name was Pleasure. The allegory of Cupid and Psyc

er through the world, — Love’s worshipper, — To seek on earth for him whose home was heaven! In the full city, — by the haun

a. Venus blessed the nuptials, and from the union Paphos was born, by whose name the city, sacred to Venus, is known. § 98. P

en, Œnone, Pasiphaë, Ariadne, Procris, Eriphyle, Laodamia, and others whose stories are elsewhere told.194 8. Mercury.

venged himself, for this enforced rectitude, upon others: upon Venus, whose girdle he purloined; upon Neptune, whose trident

de, upon others: upon Venus, whose girdle he purloined; upon Neptune, whose trident he filched; upon Vulcan, whose tongs he b

le he purloined; upon Neptune, whose trident he filched; upon Vulcan, whose tongs he borrowed; and upon Mars, whose sword he

dent he filched; upon Vulcan, whose tongs he borrowed; and upon Mars, whose sword he stole. The most famous exploit of the Me

[Vase picture: Baumeister.] “Sacred Goddess, Mother Earth, Thou from whose immortal bosom, Gods, and men, and beasts, have b

s, whom Hercules slew, Procrustes, and many another redoubtable being whose fortunes are elsewhere recounted.214 As earth-sh

ill bears the Danaïd’s name. He loved the goddess Ceres also, through whose pastures his rivers strayed; and Arne the shepher

e future husband of his daughter, he had provided himself with horses whose speed was like the cyclone. But Pelops, obtaining

rmur invites to sleep. Poppies grow before the door of the cave, from whose juices Night distils slumbers, which she scatters

f the Greeks peopled the regions of earth and sea with divinities, to whose agency it attributed the phenomena that our philo

the operation of natural law. So Pan, the god of woods and fields,225 whose name seemed to signify all, came to be considered

k, Gazing upon me, tame and sapphire-eyed; For, awed by my pale face, whose light Gleameth thro’ sedge and lilies yellow They

swelled, overpowering the sound of the instruments: — “Happy the man whose heart is pure from guilt and crime! Him we avenge

another authority, into a bird continually the prey of the sea-eagle, whose form her father Nisus had assumed. § 129. Leucoth

le monster who had laid waste the country. She had once been a maiden whose hair was her chief glory; but as she dared to vie

Atlas. — From the body of Medusa sprang the winged horse Pegasus, of whose rider, Bellerophon, we shall presently be informe

d would gladly have rested till morning. Here was the realm of Atlas, whose bulk surpassed that of all other men. He was rich

ocks and herds; but his chief pride was his garden of the Hesperides, whose fruit was of gold, hanging from golden branches,

. Each part increased in mass till the giant became the mountain upon whose shoulders rests heaven with all its stars. Fig

ean stables. Augeas, king of Elis, had a herd of three thousand oxen, whose stalls had not been cleansed for thirty years. He

Cacus. Antæus, the son of Posidon and Gæa, was a giant and wrestler, whose strength was invincible so long as he remained in

nture he was attended by a lad, Hylas, whom he tenderly loved, and on whose account he deserted the expedition in Mysia. § 14

Deucalion. — Athamas, brother of Sisyphus, was descended from Æolus, whose father, Hellen, was the son of Deucalion of Thess

e Quitting the sister’s arms, the infatuate gaze of the mother, — She whose sole delight, whose life, was her desperate daugh

r’s arms, the infatuate gaze of the mother, — She whose sole delight, whose life, was her desperate daughter, — How Ariadne m

the coif, of the floating garment as little, Cares not a moment then, whose care hangs only on Theseus, — Wretched of heart,

, the general of the Grecian army in the Trojan War, and Menelaüs, at whose solicitation the war was undertaken. Of Atreus it

stor and Pollux engaged in a combat with Idas and Lynceus of Messene, whose brides they had attempted to abduct. Castor was s

wards sailed to Greece. Here, he was hospitably received by Menelaüs, whose wife, Helen, as fairest of her sex, was unfortuna

o besought him, but all in vain. “How can I,” said he to himself, “by whose command the people went to this day’s contest whe

g that one day he shall see thy face again. But me no comfort cheers, whose bravest sons, so late the flower of Ilium, all ha

its resistance. One of these allies was Memnon, the Æthiopian prince, whose story has been already told.355 Another was Penth

the chiefs and senators were assembled, pouring libation to Mercury, whose worship followed the evening meal. Just then Mine

f they were owners of both. Penelope was one of those mythic heroines whose beauties were not those of person only, but of ch

s shooting with the bow. Twelve rings were arranged in a line, and he whose arrow was sent through the whole twelve, was to h

not long in uncertainty; he announced himself as the long-lost chief, whose house they had invaded, whose substance they had

nounced himself as the long-lost chief, whose house they had invaded, whose substance they had squandered, whose wife and son

f, whose house they had invaded, whose substance they had squandered, whose wife and son they had persecuted for ten long yea

t all experience is an arch wherethro’ Gleams that untravell’d world, whose margin fades Forever and forever when I move. How

horrible to view. The Furies spread their couches there, and Discord, whose hair was of vipers tied up with a bloody fillet.

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

between mortal weapons and divine. Here, also, is Tityus, the giant, whose form is so immense, that, as he lies, he stretche

to the circumference of a wheel ceaselessly revolving; and Sisyphus, whose task was to roll a huge stone up to a hill top, b

of the infant town where in after times the proud city of Rome grew, whose glory reached the skies. By chance the old king,

ong, seeking for some advantage, observed her pursuing a flying enemy whose splendid armor offered a tempting prize. Intent o

sprang Ymir, the Frost giant and his progeny, and the cow Audhumbla, whose milk afforded nourishment and food to the giant.

hing, have only to taste of to become young again. Tyr, or Ziu, from whose name is derived our Tuesday, is the wrestler amon

d one of his men who was sitting at the farther end of the bench, and whose name was Logi, to come forward and try his skill

in. They bound him with chains and suspended a serpent over his head, whose venom falls upon his face drop by drop. His wife

en. Their country was called Elfheim, and was the domain of Freyr, in whose sunlight they always sported. The black or night

sun-dog when the storm is on the way; A bill he bore on his shoulder, whose mighty ashen beam Burnt bright with the flame of

e burg of heaven uprose for man-folks weal. Now let the man among you whose heart and hand may shift To pluck it from the oak

red by force a hoard of the precious metal, and with it a magic ring, whose touch bred gold. But Andvari cursed the ring and

. The hoard and the ring of Andvari had brought confusion on all into whose hands they fell. § 186. The Lay of the Nibelungs.

with death he struggled as though he scorned to yield E’en to the foe whose weapon strikes down the loftiest head. At last pr

of epic poetry. Arion. — See George Eliot’s poem beginning “ Arion, whose melodic soul Taught the dithyramb to roll.” Oth

ther Greek Poets of Mythology to be noted are Callimachus (260 b.c.), whose Lock of Berenice is reproduced in the elegiacs of

Lock of Berenice is reproduced in the elegiacs of Catullus, and from whose Origins (of sacred rites) Ovid drew much of his i

d rites) Ovid drew much of his information. Also Nicander (150 b.c.), whose Transformations, and Parthenius, whose Metamorpho

ion. Also Nicander (150 b.c.), whose Transformations, and Parthenius, whose Metamorphoses furnished material to the Latin poe

phabet had no letters provided. Each rune was named after some object whose name began with the sound represented. The first

e was published in and after 1605. Corybantes: the priests of Cybele, whose festivals were violent, and whose worship consist

Corybantes: the priests of Cybele, whose festivals were violent, and whose worship consisted of dances and noise suggestive

e assembled immortals; (3) Demeter, Persephone, Dionysus, and Thetis, whose claims are more or less obscured. According to th

pen to students to regard the dolphin as only one of the many animals whose earlier worship is concentrated in Apollo, or to

ength assigned to Apollo, and to him alone. A priestess was appointed whose office it was to inhale the hallowed air, and who

“Phœbus was judge between Jove, Mars and Love, Of those three gods, whose arms the fairest were”; Dekker, The Sun’s Darli

Oak. Byron alludes to the oracle of Delphi when speaking of Rousseau, whose writings he conceives did much to bring on the Fr

n a chariot drawn by lions. She wears a mural crown: that is, a crown whose rim is carved in the form of towers and battlemen

a grammarian and an idyllic poet. He calls himself a pupil of Bion, — whose Lament for Adonis is given in § 93. Both Bion and

e of the deities of Olympus; a daughter of the Titans Cœus and Phœbe, whose names indicate phenomena of radiant light. She be

ick rid Ireland of snakes and toads. Dido, queen of Carthage (§ 174), whose lover, Æneas, sailed away from her. Interpretati

derick Tennyson, Daphne. Waller applies this story to the case of one whose amatory verses, though they did not soften the he

ome, however, consider him to be a personification of sleep, the king whose influence comes over one in the cool caves of Lat

n. Midas is fabled to have been the son of the “great mother” Cybele, whose worship in Phrygia was closely related to that of

pians who lived in the land of gloaming, where east and west met, and whose name signifies “dark splendor.” His birth in this

his sword of light the black cloud of the heavenly vault, the Gorgon, whose aspect is night and death. The Grææ and the Gorgo

Jason, Diason, is another Zeus, of the Ionian race, beloved by Medea, whose name, “the counselling woman,” suggests a goddess

of the starry heavens which are his labyrinth. Others make Pasiphaë, whose name means, “shiner upon all,” the bright heaven;

adopted son, of Pandion II. By Æthra he became father of Theseus, in whose veins flowed, therefore, the blood of Pelops and

id-day nap in the forest; (3) Sigibert, king of the Austrasian Franks whose history recalls more than one event of the Sigurd

Alfieri (1783), and by others; but recently (1857) by Matthew Arnold, whose Merope is at once a masterpiece of classical inve

atin Course in English: 1884-1886. 1. Allen and Greenough, from whose Ovid and Vergil illustrations not assigned to Ros

ims that during the “first period” there was a tribe in Central Asia, whose language consisted of one-syllable words, which c

n idea of the meaning of the word “myth,” which may be termed a story whose origin can never be known with certainty. To most

eyes, see Glaukopis. Bo′na De′a [Bona Dea]. “The bountiful goddess,” whose festival was celebrated by the Romans with much m

Cau′ther [Cauther], in Mohammedan mythology, is the lake of paradise, whose waters are as sweet as honey, as cold as snow, an

trees. Happiness, see Genii. Harœ′ris [Harœris]. The Egyptian god, whose eyes are the sun and moon. Har′pies, The [Harpie

[Heliades], were the daughters of Sol, and the sisters of Phaeton, at whose death they were so sad that they stood mourning t

o such a degree that they determined to escape. They did so on a ram, whose hide became the Golden Fleece (see Phryxus and He

the most splendid. Ori′thy′ia [Orithyia]. A daughter of Erechtheus, whose lover, Boreas, carried her off while she was wand

n of Saturn, father of Faunus, was turned into a woodpecker by Circe, whose love he had not requited. Pier′ides [Pierides].

r husband. Prog′ne [Progne], wife of Tereus. Commonly called Procne, whose sister was Philomela. See Itys and Tereus. “Comp

ater legends, Proteus was a son of Poseidon. “The changeful Proteus, whose prophetic mind, The secret cause of Bacchus’ rage

. Rim′mon [Rimmon]. A Phrygian god of whom Milton says — “… Rimmon, whose delightful seat Was fair Damascus, on the fertile

as celebrated with dancing, music, and hymns, in praise of the god in whose honor the sacrifice was made. On great occasions

’s Ulysses says: “I saw the severe punishment of Tantalus. In a lake, whose waters approached to his lips, he stood burning w

Thunderer, The, Jupiter. See Tonitrualis. “O king of gods and men, whose awful hand Disperses thunder on the seas and land

entions a Triptolemus as the fourth judge of the dead. “Triptolemus, whose useful cares intend The common good.” Pope. Tr

over archery and duels. Ulys′ses [Ulysses]. A noted king of Ithaca, whose exploits in connection with the Trojan war, and h

ng. Ves′tal Vir′gins [Vestal Virgins] were the priestesses of Vesta, whose chief duty was to see that the sacred fire in the

ble,” and the “Supplement” containing a notice of the ancient writers whose names occur in the body of the work, will, it is

the character of religious worship. Hence arose a class of demigods, whose real achievements, transmitted by popular traditi

o repair, when summoned, to the palace of Jupiter. Even those deities whose usual abode was on the earth, in the waters, or i

a frightful voice which threatened him with the vengeance of the god whose grove he had desecrated. Cadmus was at first dism

s. Ques. Who was Janus? Ans. He was an ancient Italian deity, of whose origin very contradictory accounts are given. He

liar about this temple? Ans. The approach to it was guarded by dogs, whose scent was so keen that they could discover whethe

te of Pluto’s palace? Ans. Cerberus [Cer′berus]; a three-headed dog, whose body was clothed with snakes instead of hair.

inual hunger and thirst. He stands up to his lips in a cool fountain, whose waters recede whenever he attempts to drink. Bran

worn around his neck from infancy, to the domestic Lares. The soldier whose term of service had expired dedicated his arms to

perides, or Western Maidens, were three celebrated nymphs, concerning whose parentage ancient writers are not agreed. Hesiod

bable opinion is that there really existed an architect of that name, whose fame was such that all the improvements made in t

fields of Calydon. The boldest hunters feared to attack the monster, whose eyes shone with fire, while its bristles stood er

the billows before him, and he swam safely to land. The Phæacians, on whose shores he had been cast, received him kindly, and

— The Augurs. Ques. Who were the Augurs? Ans. They were priests whose office it was to observe and interpret omens. Thi

y sang of the happiness enjoyed by the pure of heart, of the good man whose dwelling was never darkened by their shadow. Then

vengeance which it was theirs to wreak on the secret murderer, on him whose crime had been vainly hidden from mortal eye. Thu

le, two chapels, and a court for exercise, were assigned to this god, whose food was always served in vessels of gold. It may

z. Ques. Who was Thammuz? Ans. This was another name for Adonis, whose story is of Eastern origin. His death, which we h

in every literary institution. Confucius left one grandson, Tse-tse, whose descendants constitute the only hereditary nobili

, if their conduct corresponded to the maxims of their great teacher, whose morality, though often defective, contains much t

agine them to be working in the interest of the great western nations whose power they so much fear. There are other reasons;

ch sprung the Frost Giant and his progeny; also the cow Audhumbla, by whose milk the giant was nourished. The Frost Giants we

ith chains in a gloomy cavern. A serpent was suspended over his head, whose venom falls upon his face drop by drop. One comfo

s called Alfheim, and was the domain of Freyr, the god of the sun, in whose light they were always sporting. Ques. Were all

the feudal system, and the power of the native princes and chieftains whose glory they sung. Ques. Who were the Druids, prop

l practice of human sacrifice was introduced by the Aztec conquerors, whose wars were often undertaken for no other purpose t

Wishing to take a nearer view, and also to succor some of his friends whose villas lay near the scene of peril, he steered ac

cientiously and with interest upon the philosophy of instruction, and whose theory is the rule of their practice, I commend t

is one of Jove’s principal attributes. Homer describes him thus: He whose all-conscious eyes the world behold, The eternal

himself. They were represented in a chariot drawn by two wild horses, whose names were Flight and Terror. Discord, Clamour

Mount Etna a temple was dedicated to him, which was guarded by dogs, whose sense of smelling was said to be so exquisite, as

e in this mirror that I am no longer young; I will bestow it upon her whose beauty never fades, and whose youth is immortal.

longer young; I will bestow it upon her whose beauty never fades, and whose youth is immortal. Adonis. Adonis was a be

ght poetry, and of the triumphs and complaints of lovers. Polyhymnia, whose name signifies many songs, presides over miscella

ptune. ——— The Tritons were imaginary sea animals, the upper part of whose bodies was supposed to resemble that of man; the

tagnant marsh of Cocytus. In this forlorn region were the river Styx, whose waters were of inky blackness, and Lethe, the str

eneath its weight. Tityus. The giant Tityus, a son of Jupiter, whose body covers nine acres, was slain by the arrow of

e the infernal regions, “the severe punishment of Tantalus. In a lake whose waters approached to his lips, he stood burning w

f, and Calchas, the soothsayer, for their priest. Calchas, the seer, whose comprehensive view, The past, the present, and th

nt him to the care of Strophius, King of Phocis. Strophius had a son, whose name was Pylades, and so much did Orestes and Pyl

e,              The immutable is He. Parvati is the consort of Seva, whose rites and emblems are shamefully immoral and inde

n of Vishnu. He is regarded by the Hindus as the god of shepherds; of whose nature and actions, their sacred writings give th

u Pantheon: is about half way up the steep side of the mountain, from whose stony bosom it is excavated. The temple is about

ip amongst those nations. The chief god of the Philistines was Dagon, whose statue was a figure, of which the upper part rese

he Phœnicians call Astarte, queen of heaven, with crescent horns: To whose bright image, nightly by the moon, Sidonian virgi

ugh the coast Of Palestine, in Gath and Ascalon. Him followed Rimmon, whose delightful seat Was fair Damascus, on the fertile

ralia, the inner apartment of the temple, and inquired for the god in whose honour the fane had been built, one of the pastop

the cuirass, and buckler. Under the Greek priests, was the Neocoros, whose business was to superintend the decoration and cl

e laurel, etc.) Next followed the vestals, attended by boys and girls whose parents were living. These sprinkled pure water o

e. The temples contained a statue, or image of the god or goddess, to whose worship it was consecrated. The interior part was

ad no day of rest, and of instruction. The Hebrews had true prophets, whose predictions were accomplished; the heathens, fals

dictions were accomplished; the heathens, false oracles and diviners, whose lies were only delusions. The heathens had a reli

. The Hebrew high-priests were the descendants of Aaron’s eldest son, whose eldest sons were hereditary high-priests ever aft

ion of D. Appleton and Co. Thanks are due also to the Century Co., in whose publication, St. Nicholas, the poem “Invitation t

nkind to her. Long ago, there lived in Greece a very beautiful woman, whose name was Latona. It is a soft, pretty name, and w

In an ancient city of Greece, there lived a young girl named Arachne, whose parents had once been very poor and humble. Arach

en she stretched out her arms to her father, the god of a river along whose banks she was fleeing. “Oh father,” she cried, “h

e, the bright, happy Eurydice had been brought by the boatman Charon, whose business it was to take the souls of the dead ove

r come back to his home. On an island, in the middle of the ocean, on whose shores the fierce waves beat all day long, there

island home. In an island near Greece, there lived a beautiful woman whose name was Cassiopeia. Long after the time I am tal

loved her. Many thought her even more beautiful than her mother, for whose vanity she was to die. And Cassiopeia herself? Sh

upiter in a kind voice; and thereupon he and his companion, Mercury —  whose name I am sure you have all long since guessed —

a year How a Boy Loved a Stag Once Apollo dearly loved a lad whose name was Cyparissus, and -the youth, in turn, was

ea. The next day he came again to the spot, and as before, the nymph, whose name was Scylla, was walking by the side of the s

another way of winning her. Near his home there lived an enchantress whose name was Circe. He hastened to her palace, told h

ere thou art lying,     Will tears the cold turf steep. When hearts, whose truth was proven,     Like thine, are laid in ear

ountain which overhung the blue sea, there lived one of these Cyclops whose name was Polyphemus. Every day he sat upon the ro

ir amiable sister. Psyche’s elder sisters were married to two princes whose dominions lay hear their father’s kingdom. The pa

my son. You must descend to earth, to the palace of a certain king,” whose name she mentioned, “and there you will see a you

ch she knew that Proserpine took delight. She saw in Enna a fountain, whose waters made a mournful murmuring, where she had n

s it is, you are welcome to part of our supper,” said the poor woman, whose name was Becubo. In Sicily chestnut trees abound;

to the procession, attended by two young women, who were slaves, and whose office it was, one to bear a folded seat, on whic

æ and Perseus. Acrisius, king of Argos, had a beautiful daughter, whose name was Danæ. While Danæ was very young, her fat

, but her eyes met those of Perseus, whom she imagined to be Mercury, whose wings he wore. “Thou art come to my relief, graci

them, as Peneus loved Daphne. The truth probably is, that some person whose lands lay along the rivers, was called the god of

admired her pearly horns and velvet ears, and inquired of Jupiter to whose herd she belonged, and finally ended by begging o

and if in any detail of our rendering we have invented a significance whose existence it would not be easy to warrant as clas

screaming with terror, and there was Hercules squeezing the serpents, whose eyes were still flashing fire. But Hercules soon

y strange adventures. In Libya he fought with the cruel giant Antæus, whose strength was invincible as long as he touched the

falls. But sportive or tender,    Still sought I around That gem with whose splendor    Thou yet shalt be crown’d. “And see,

re all is lost. Save me, who am almost burned to ashes. Save Neptune, whose waters boil with the heat. Save your own kingdom,

ted stem, Laden with flower and fruit, whereof they gave To each, but whose did receive of them, And taste, to him the gushin

ora, who was given him by Jupiter, 49. Erid΄anus. A river in Attica, whose nymphs Hercules consulted, 87. Eumæs΄us. The fai