Indeed we very much doubt if this be a real original source of mythes10, and we place it here only because it has been generally so regarded. […] Deceit, Age, Strife, and Woe are figuratively her offspring ; the Hesperides are so because their abode was near hers in the West. […] It was perhaps the number of the months of the year that caused twelve to be fixed on as that of the Titans and the Olympians371 ; or it may have been because twelve was the political number of the Ionian race, for it seems probable that it was only among them, particularly at Athens372, that altars were erected to these twelve gods. […] “The city in which Psyche dwells is the world ; the king and queen are God and matter ; Psyche is the soul ; her sisters are the flesh and the free-will : she is the youngest, because the body is before the mind ; and she is the fairest, because the soul is higher than free-will, more noble than the body. […] At the impulsion of her sisters she put the lamp from under the bushel, that is, revealed the flame of desire which was hidden in her bosom, and loved it when she saw how delightful it was ; and she is said to have burned it by the dripping of the lamp, because all desire burns in proportion as it is loved, and fixes its sinful mark on the flesh.

It would be difficult, indeed, to exaggerate the importance of these old-world stories, with their wonderful admixture of pagan faith and riotous imagination, in correcting the tendency to mere utilitarianism in the education of the young, and there is need to lay stress upon this because of the increased attention now being given to science and modern languages at the expense of the classics. […] Both the Latin and the Greek forms of proper names are given, but the Latin names are usually retained throughout the narrative, because more frequently used in poetry and art. […] In her pride she called aloud to Latona, and taunted her because her offspring numbered but two. […] Janus is generally represented with two faces, turned in opposite directions, because he was acquainted with the past and future as well as with the present, and because he is considered an emblem of the sun, which opens the day at its rising, and closes the day at its setting. […] One very celebrated temple was called Janus Quadrifrons, because it was perfectly square.