Mercury threw her down into, a river, and changed her into a turtle (which her name signifies) that she might keep eternal silence. […] Angerona was worshipped, that anguish of mind might be removed. […] The living threw him a cake, strongly impregnated with soporific drugs, that they might gain access to the eternal prison. […] It is reported that Ægyptus, brother of Danaus, wished his fifty sons to marry the Danaides, fearing his brother would prove too powerful for him by the alliances which he might form from the marriages which his daughters might otherwise contract. […] People implored Thought, that they might have nothing but good thoughts.

Fe′bris [Febris] (fever), one of the evil deities, was worshiped that she might not do harm. […] A Roman divinity, invoked by the husbandman that the harvest might be plentiful. […] A king of Phrygia, who begged of Bacchus the special gift that everything that he touched might be turned into gold. […] A skilful singer, who presumed to challenge the Muses to sing, upon condition that if he did not sing best they might inflict any penalty they pleased. […] A water-nymph, or sylph, who, according to fable, might receive a human soul by marrying a mortal.