Can the whole of the Grecian and Roman mythology be thus accounted for?     […]  2. — The poets thus give an origin to the cypress, a doleful and leafless tree. […] The origin of this fable may be accounted for thus: before the invention of the lyre, the flute was the instrument prefered. […] The winds rushed out with great violence, and blew him back many a weary league, and thus greatly protracted his voyage home. […] In order to be thus considered, he promised to Neptune the first object that should be brought to him by the sea.