The owl is not accounted a sagacious bird but his faculty of seeing in darkness, when others cannot see, represents the vigilance of Ascalaphus, who watched Proserpine when he was not himself observed. […] Time has robbed me of my beauty; I only see in this mirror that I am no longer young; I will bestow it upon her whose beauty never fades, and whose youth is immortal. […] Theseus did not immediately declare himself the king’s son, but the people flocked to see the destroyer of the robbers, and treated him as a deliverer and a benefactor. […] As soon as Iphigenia learned that the victims she was appointed to offer were Greeks, she thought of her far off country, and longed to see the strangers, and to converse with them. […] It is easy to see why the Christian religion, which declares all men equal, should not be introduced among such a people.

This prayer was granted, and he was at first overjoyed to see plants, stones and all around him transformed into glittering metal. […] Ulysses took the bow, and the suitors were amazed to see him handle the mighty weapon as if it had been a plaything. […] Nothing would have seemed more out of place to the Greeks, than to see the part of Apollo or Hercules performed by an actor with strongly marked or ordinary features. […] He preached first in Benares, but his doctrines were received with so much favor that he lived to see them spread over all India. […] He assumed, therefore, the form of an old woman, and went to see Frigga.