{"collection":"myth-cosmogony","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_74485/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_74485","id":"gutenberg_74485","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74485","summary":null,"tags":["Mythology -- Dictionaries"],"text":"A HANDY\n                        DICTIONARY OF MYTHOLOGY\n\n\n\n\n THE FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS\n\n SERIES OF BOOKS.\n\n Price 1s. cloth; 1s. 6d. half-bound in leather, red edges.\n\n\n 1. _FAMILIAR LATIN QUOTATIONS & PROVERBS._\n\n 2. _FAMILIAR FRENCH QUOTATIONS & PROVERBS._\n\n 3. _FAMILIAR ENGLISH QUOTATIONS._\n\n 4. _A HANDY CLASSICAL DICTIONARY._\n\n 5. _BIBLE TRUTHS WITH SHAKSPEARIAN PARALLELS._ By J. B. SELKIRK.\n\n 6. _A HANDY BOOK OF SYNONYMS, CONTAINING ABOUT 33,000 ENGLISH WORDS._\n\n 7. _THE SECRETARY\u2019S ASSISTANT AND CORRESPONDENT\u2019S GUIDE._ Thirteenth\n Edition.\n\n 8. _TOURIST\u2019S FRENCH PRONOUNCING HANDBOOK._\n\n 9. _REASONS WHY WE BELIEVE THE BIBLE._ By the Rev. JAMES COPLAND, M.A.\n\n 10. _TALES FROM SHAKSPEARE._ By CHARLES LAMB.\n\n 11. _A DICTIONARY OF DAILY BLUNDERS._\n\n 12. _RASSELAS._ By Dr. JOHNSON.\n\n 13. _ELIZABETH, OR THE EXILES OF SIBERIA._\n\n 14. _REJECTED ADDRESSES._\n\n 15. _A DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH PROVERBS._\n\n 16. _PLUTARCH\u2019S LIVES OF ILLUSTRIOUS MEN._\n\n 17. _DE QUINCEY\u2019S OPIUM-EATER._\n\n 18. _THE STORY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT._ By the Rev. A. CARTER, M.A.\n\n 19. _A DICTIONARY OF MYTHOLOGY._\n\n\n TRIPLICATE VOLUMES,\n\n Coloured edges, 3s. each.\n\n 1. _HANDBOOK FOR WRITERS AND READERS._\n\n 2. _REFERENCE HANDBOOK OF QUOTATIONS, English, French, and Latin._\n\n 3. _LAMB\u2019S TALES FROM SHAKSPEARE, RASSELAS, AND ELIZABETH._\n\n 4. _A REFERENCE HANDBOOK FOR BIBLE AND GENERAL READERS._\n\n\n\n\n                                A HANDY\n\n                              DICTIONARY\n\n                                  OF\n\n                               MYTHOLOGY\n\n                         FOR EVERYDAY READERS\n\n\n                           BY THE AUTHOR OF\n\n                   \u2018A DICTIONARY OF DAILY BLUNDERS\u2019\n                  \u2018A DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH PROVERBS\u2019\n                      \u2018A HANDY BOOK OF SYNONYMS\u2019\n                               ETC. ETC.\n\n\n                        LONDON: WHITTAKER & CO.\n\n\n               _Printed by_ R. & R. CLARK, _Edinburgh_.\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\nPREFACE.\n\n\nThis _Handy Dictionary of Mythology_ is intended to supply the everyday\nreader with concise accounts of the gods and goddesses of the ancients\nin an accessible form.\n\nBesides confronting us at every turn in the museums and picture\ngalleries, these deities and heroes are constantly mentioned by poets\nand portrayed by painters and sculptors, and they are used for the\npurpose of illustration in the literature of the day. Nothing is more\ncommon than to find the comic newspapers resorting to Mythology for\nsubjects for their pictures; and quite recently _Punch_ has given us\nsome delightful cartoons by Tenniel, which, apart from the admirable\ndrawing, are intensely amusing to people who know enough of Mythology\nto see the drift of the artist. For example, there is a cartoon\nrepresenting \u00c6acus, Minos, and Rhadamanthus sitting in judgment on the\nunlucky electioneering bribers, and underneath is the word \u201cNemesis.\u201d\nAgain, there was a capital cartoon representing the \u201cJudgment of\nParis,\u201d in which the Duke of Richmond, Earl Cairns, and Lord Salisbury\nfigure as Juno, Minerva, and Venus. This had reference to the selection\nof a Conservative Leader for the House of Lords, and was very popular.\nIn order fully to enjoy similar works, and to appreciate the allusions,\nit is necessary that we should be able to find out readily something\nabout these mythological beings. But to ascertain this \u201csomething\u201d we\ndo not want to waste time in wading through such a number of volumes\nas the compiler has used in making this Dictionary, even if it were\npossible to get access to them.\n\nIt has been a matter of astonishment to him to find how many different\nversions there are of the same fable, and to see how often various\nwriters attribute the same actions to different gods or heroes. In\nfact, it has frequently been a difficult task to decide which version\nshould be adopted,--which authority accepted. It may therefore be\ndesirable to state that where doubts have arisen, either the various\nversions are given, or else Lempriere\u2019s _Classical Dictionary_ has been\nreferred to, to decide the questions. Besides Lempriere, the following\nworks, with many others of less authority, have been consulted in\ncompiling this Dictionary:--\n\n POETICAL HISTORIES. \u201cWritten originally in French by the learned\n Jesuit, P. GALTRUCHIUS.\u201d Translated into English by MARIUS D\u2019ASSIGNY,\n B.D. Second edition, 1672.\n\n THE PANTHEON. Representing the fabulous histories of the Heathen Gods\n in a plain and familiar method. By ANDREW TOOKE, A.M. 1713.\n\n A NEW PANTHEON; or, Fabulous History of Heathen Gods, Heroes, and\n Goddesses. By SAMUEL BOYSE, A.M. 1753.\n\n MYTHOLOGICAL, ETYMOLOGICAL, AND HISTORICAL DICTIONARY. By W. HOWELL,\n B.D. 1793.\n\n ROWDEN\u2019S PAGAN DEITIES. 1820.\n\nNow, supposing that all these books were accessible to the general\nreader, it would still be in many instances impossible for him, without\nconsiderable labour, to find therein much of the information contained\nin this Dictionary, for some of the best of them have no index, but\nthis book is an index to them all.\n\nThe proper pronunciation of the names being important, the accent is\nalways marked; and the illustrative quotations from the poets have\nbeen specially selected with the intention of assisting the reader in\nfinding out the number of syllables in a name, and by this means fixing\nthe pronunciation.\n\nIt will be seen that the compiler has not confined himself to Greek and\nRoman Mythology, but has included the more important of the Egyptian,\nScandinavian, and Hindoo deities, references to which often occur in\nmodern literature.\n\nThe limited space at command has made it necessary to be as concise\nas possible, but every name connected with Mythology, of any note at\nall, has, it is hoped, been included, and care has been taken to avoid\nrepetitions as much as possible. Where two or three names occur in\nconnection with one fable, the tale is told once, and reference is made\nto it under the name of the other deities concerned therein.\n\nThere are a few names inserted which, though not strictly mythological,\nare mentioned because it frequently happens that in the history of\nancient heroes there is something fabulous in the tales told concerning\nthem.\n\nAs to some of the gods and heroes, the _Handy Classical Dictionary_\nand _Plutarch\u2019s Lives_ (part of this Series of Handy Books) may be\nconsulted with advantage for fuller information; and it is hoped that\nthe popularity of those two books will be at least equalled by the\n_Dictionary of Mythology_.\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\nA HANDY\n\nDICTIONARY OF MYTHOLOGY.\n\n\nA\u2032BAS, a son of Meganira, was turned into a newt, or water-lizard, for\nderiding the ceremonies of the Sacrifice.\n\n\nABSY\u2032RTUS, brother of Medea.\n\n\nACHELO\u2032US was a son of Oceanus and Terra. He had the power of assuming\nall shapes, and in a conflict with Hercules he turned himself into a\nserpent, and then into a bull, but he was finally defeated, and he then\nturned himself into a river, which has since been called Achelous.\n\n\nACH\u2032ERON. One of the rivers of the infernal regions to which the\nspirits of the dead resorted, and waited there till Charon the ferryman\ntook them over.\n\n          \u201cInfernal rivers that disgorge\n  Into the burning lake their baleful streams.\n  ... Sad Acheron, of sorrow black and deep.\u201d\n\n  MILTON.\n\n\nACHIL\u2032LES was the most valiant of the Greek heroes in the Trojan War.\nHe was the son of Peleus, King of Thessaly. His mother, Thetis,\nplunged him, when an infant, into the Stygian pool, which made him\ninvulnerable wherever the waters had washed him; but the heel by which\nhe was held was not wetted, and that part remained vulnerable. He was\nshot with an arrow in the heel by Paris, at the siege of Troy, and died\nof his wound.\n\n\nACIDA\u2032LIA, a name given to Venus from a fountain in B\u0153otia.\n\n\nA\u2032CIS. A Sicilian shepherd, loved by the nymph Galatea. One of the\nCyclops who was jealous of him crushed him by hurling a rock on him.\nGalatea turned his blood into a river--the Acis at the foot of Mount\nEtna.\n\n\nACT\u00c6\u2032ON was the son of Arist\u00e6us, a famous huntsman. He intruded himself\non Diana while she was bathing, and was changed by her into a deer, in\nwhich form he was hunted by his own dogs and torn in pieces.\n\n\nA\u2032DES, see Hades.\n\n\nADO\u2032NIS, the beautiful attendant of Venus, who held her train. He was\nkilled by a boar, and turned by Venus into an anemone.\n\n  \u201cEven as the sun with purple-coloured face\n  Had ta\u2019en his last leave of the weeping morn,\n  Rose-cheeked Adonis hied him to the chase;\n  Hunting he loved, but love he laughed to scorn.\u201d\n\n  SHAKESPEARE.\n\n\nADRAST\u00c6\u2032A, another name of Nemesis, one of the goddesses of justice.\n\n\nADSCRIPTI\u2032TII DII were the gods of the second grade.\n\n\nADVERSITY, see Echidna.\n\n\n\u00c6\u2032ACUS, one of the judges of hell, with Minos and Rhadamanthus. See\nEacus.\n\n\n\u00c6CAS\u2032TOR, an oath used only by women, referring to the Temple of Castor.\n\n\n\u00c6D\u2032EPOL, an oath used by both men and women, referring to the Temple of\nPollux.\n\n\n\u00c6GE\u2032ON, a giant with fifty heads and one hundred hands, who was\nimprisoned by Jupiter under Mount Etna. See Briareus.\n\n\n\u00c6\u2032GIS, the shield of Jupiter, so called because it was made of goat\nskin.\n\n  \u201cWhere was thine \u00c6gis Pallas that appall\u2019d?\u201d\n\n  BYRON.\n\n  \u201cTremendous, Gorgon frowned upon its field,\n  And circling terrors filled the expressive shield.\u201d\n\n  \u201cFull on the crest the Gorgon\u2019s head they place,\n  With eyes that roll in death, and with distorted face.\u201d\n\n  POPE.\n\n\n\u00c6\u2032GLE. The fairest of the Naiads.\n\n\nAEL\u2032LO, the name of one of the Harpies.\n\n\n\u00c6NE\u2032AS was the son of Anchises and Venus. He was one of the few great\ncaptains who escaped the destruction of Troy. He behaved with great\nvalour during the siege, encountering Diomed, and even Achilles\nhimself. When the Grecians had set the city on fire \u00c6neas took his aged\nfather, Anchises, on his shoulders, whilst his son, Ascanius, and his\nwife, Creusa, clung to his garments. He saved them all from the flames.\nAfter wandering about during several years, encountering numerous\ndifficulties, he at length arrived in Italy, where he was hospitably\nreceived by Latinus, king of the Latins. After the death of Latinus\n\u00c6neas became king.\n\n  \u201cHis back, or rather burthen, showed\n  As if it stoop\u00ebd with its load;\n  For as \u00c6neas bore his sire\n  Upon his shoulders through the fire,\n  Our knight did bear no less a pack\n  Of his own buttocks on his back.\u201d\n\n  BUTLER.\n\n\n\u00c6O\u2032LUS was the god of the winds. Jupiter was his reputed father, and\nhis mother is said to have been a daughter of Hippotus. \u00c6olus is\nrepresented as having the power of holding the winds confined in a\ncavern, and occasionally giving them liberty to blow over the world.\nSo much command was he supposed to have over them that when Ulysses\nvisited him on his return from Troy he gave him, tied up in a bag,\nall the winds that could prevent his voyage from being prosperous.\nThe companions of Ulysses, fancying that the bag contained treasure,\ncut it open just as they came in sight of Ithaca, the port they were\nmaking for, and the contrary winds rushing out drove back the ship many\nleagues. The residence of \u00c6olus was at Strongyle, now called Strombolo.\n\n          \u201c\u00c6olus from his airy throne\n  With power imperial curbs the struggling winds,\n  And sounding tempests in dark prisons binds.\u201d\n\n  DRYDEN.\n\n\n\u00c6SCULA\u2032PIUS, the god of physic, was a son of Apollo. He was physician\nto the Argonauts in their famous expedition to Colchis. He became so\nnoted for his cures that Pluto became jealous of him, and he requested\nJupiter to kill him with a thunderbolt. To revenge his son\u2019s death\nApollo slew the Cyclops who had forged the thunderbolt. By his\nmarriage with Epione he had two sons, Machaon and Podalirus, both\nfamous physicians, and four daughters, of whom Hygeia, the goddess of\nhealth, is the most renowned. Many temples were erected in honour of\n\u00c6sculapius, and votive tablets were hung therein by people who had been\nhealed by him; but his most famous shrine was at Epidaurus, where,\nevery five years, games were held in his honour. This god is variously\nrepresented, but the most famous statue shows him seated on a throne\nof gold and ivory. His head is crowned with rays, and he wears a long\nbeard. A knotty stick is in one hand, and a staff entwined with a\nserpent is in the other, while a dog lies at his feet.\n\n  \u201cThou that dost \u00c6sculapius deride,\n  And o\u2019er his gallipots in triumph ride.\u201d\n\n  FENTON.\n\n\n\u00c6\u2032SON was father of Jason, and was restored to youth by Medea.\n\n\n\u00c6\u2032TA, a king of Colchis, was father of Medea.\n\n\nAGAMEM\u2032NON was the son of Plisthenes and brother of Menelaus. He was\nking of the Argives. His brother\u2019s wife was the famous Helen, daughter\nof Tyndarus, king of Sparta; and when she eloped with Paris, Agamemnon\nwas appointed leader of the Greeks in their expedition against Troy.\n\n\nAGANIP\u2032PIDES, a name of the Muses, derived from the fountain of\nAganippe.\n\n\nAGINE\u2032US, see Apollo.\n\n\nAGLA\u2032IA was one of the Three Graces.\n\n\nAG\u2032NI. The Hindoo god of lightning.\n\n\nA\u2032JAX was one of the bravest of the Greek warriors in the Trojan war.\nHis father was Telamon, and his mother Erib\u0153a. Some writers say that he\nwas killed by Ulysses; others aver that he was slain by Paris; while\nothers again assert that he went mad after being defeated by Ulysses,\nand killed himself. Another Ajax, son of Oileus, also took a prominent\npart in the Trojan War.\n\n\nALCES\u2032TIS, wife of Admetus, who, to save her husband\u2019s life, died in\nhis stead, and was restored to life by Hercules.\n\n\nALCI\u2032DES, one of the names of Hercules.\n\n\nALCME\u2032NA, the mother of Hercules, was daughter of Electrion, a king of\nArgos.\n\n\nALEC\u2032TO was one of the Furies. She is depicted as having serpents\ninstead of hair on her head, and was supposed to breed pestilence\nwherever she went.\n\n\nALEC\u2032TRYON, a servant of Mars, who was changed by him into a cock\nbecause he did not warn his master of the rising of the sun.\n\n\nAL\u2032FADUR, in Scandinavian Mythology the Supreme Being--Father of all.\n\n\nAL\u2032MA MAMMO\u2032SA, a name of Ceres.\n\n\nALPHE\u2032US, a river god. See Arethusa.\n\n\nALTAR. A structure on which a sacrifice was offered. The earliest\naltars were merely heaps of earth or turf or rough unhewn stone; but\nas the mode of sacrificing became more ceremonious grander altars were\nbuilt. Some were of marble and brass, ornamented with carvings and\nbas-reliefs, and the corners with models of the heads of animals. They\nvaried in height from two feet to four, and some were built solid;\nothers were made hollow to retain the blood of the victims. Some were\nprovided with a kind of dish, into which frankincense was thrown to\noverpower the smell of burning fat. This probably was the origin of the\ncustom of burning incense at the altar.\n\n\nAMAL\u2019TH\u00c6\u2019A the goat which nourished Jupiter.\n\n\nAM\u2019AZONS were a nation of women-soldiers who lived in Scythia. Hercules\ntotally defeated them, and gave Hippolyte, their queen, to Theseus for\na wife. The race seems to have been exterminated after this battle.\n\n\nAMBARVA\u2019LIA were festivals in honour of Ceres, instituted by Roman\nhusbandmen to purge their fields. At the spring festival the head\nof each family led an animal, usually a pig or ram, decked with oak\nboughs, round his grounds, and offered milk and new wine. After harvest\nthere was another festival, at which Ceres was presented with the\nfirst-fruits of the season. See Ceres.\n\n\nAMBER, see Heliades.\n\n\nAMBRO\u2019SIA were Bacchanalian festivals.\n\n\nAMI\u2019CA, a name of Venus.\n\n\nAMPHI\u2019ON was the son of Jupiter and Antiope. He was greatly skilled\nin music; and it is said that, at the sound of his lute, the stones\narranged themselves so regularly as to make the walls of the city of\nThebes.\n\n  \u201cAmphion, too, as story goes, could call\n  Obedient stones to make the Theban wall.\u201d\n\n  HORACE.\n\n  \u201cNew walls to Thebes, Amphion thus began.\u201d\n\n  WILLIAM KING.\n\n  \u201cSuch strains I sing as once Amphion played,\n  When list\u2019ning flocks the powerful call obeyed.\u201d\n\n  ELPHINSTON.\n\n\nAMPHITRI\u2032TE (or Salatia), the wife of Neptune, was a daughter of\nOceanus and Terra. She was the mother of Triton, a sea god.\n\n  \u201cHis weary chariot sought the bowers\n  Of Amphitrite and her tending nymphs.\u201d\n\n  THOMSON.\n\n\nAMY\u2032CUS was king of Babrycia. He was a son of Neptune, and was killed\nby Pollux.\n\n\nANC\u00c6\u2032US. A son of Neptune, who left a cup of wine to hunt a wild boar\nwhich killed him, and the wine was untasted. This was the origin of the\nproverb--\u201cThere\u2019s many a slip \u2019twixt cup and lip.\u201d\n\n\nANCIL\u2032IA, the twelve sacred shields. The first Ancile was supposed to\nhave fallen from heaven in answer to the prayer of Numa Pompilius. It\nwas kept with the greatest care, as it was prophesied that the fate\nof the Roman people would depend upon its preservation. An order of\npriesthood was established to take care of the Ancilia, and on 1st\nMarch each year the shields were carried in procession, and in the\nevening there was a great feast called C\u0153na Saliaris.\n\n\nANDROM\u2032EDA, the daughter of Cepheus, king of the Ethiopians, was wife\nof Perseus, by whom she was rescued when she was chained to a rock and\nwas about to be devoured by a sea-monster.\n\n\nANEM\u2032ONE. Venus changed Adonis into this flower.\n\n\nANGERO\u2032NIA, otherwise Volupia, was the goddess who had the power of\ndispelling anguish of mind.\n\n\nANNA PEREN\u2032NA, one of the rural divinities.\n\n\nANT\u00c6\u2032US, a giant who was vanquished by Hercules. Each time that\nHercules threw him the giant gained fresh strength from touching the\nearth, so Hercules lifted him off the ground and squeezed him to death.\n\n\nAN\u2032TEROS, one of the two Cupids, sons of Venus.\n\n\nANTIC\u2032LEA, the mother of Ulysses.\n\n\nANTI\u2032OPE was wife of Lycus, King of Thebes. Jupiter, disguised as a\nsatyr, led her astray and corrupted her.\n\n\nANU\u2032BIS (or Herman\u2032ubis). \u201cA god half a dog, a dog half a man.\u201d Called\n_Barker_ by Virgil and other poets.\n\n\nAON\u2032IDES, a name of the Muses, from the country Aonia.\n\n\nAPH\u2032RODI\u2032TE, a Greek name of Venus.\n\n\nAPIS, a name given to Jupiter by the inhabitants of the Lower Nile.\nAlso the miraculous ox, worshipped in Egypt.\n\n\nA\u2032PIS, King of Argivia. Afterwards called Serapis, the greatest god of\nthe Egyptians.\n\n\nAPOL\u2032LO. This famous god, sometime King of Arcadia, was the son of\nJupiter and Latona. He was known by several names, but principally\nby the following:--Sol (the sun); Cynthius, from the mountain called\nCynthus in the Isle of Delos, and this same island being his native\nplace obtained for him the name of Delius; Delphinius, from his\noccasionally assuming the shape of a dolphin. His name of Delphicus\nwas derived from his connection with the splendid Temple at Delphi,\nwhere he uttered the famous oracles. Some writers record that this\noracle became dumb when Jesus Christ was born. Other common names of\nApollo were Didym\u00e6us, Nomius, P\u00e6an, and Ph\u0153bus. The Greeks called him\nAgineus because the streets were under his guardianship, and he was\ncalled Pythius from having killed the serpent Python. Apollo is usually\nrepresented as a handsome young man without beard, crowned with laurel,\nand having in one hand a bow, and in the other a lyre. The favourite\nresidence of Apollo was on Mount Parnassus, a mountain of Phocis, in\nGreece, where he presided over the Muses. Apollo was the accredited\nfather of several children, but the two most renowned were \u00c6sculapius\nand Ph\u00e6ton.\n\n  \u201cApollo there with aim so clever,\n  Stretches his leaden bow for ever.\u201d\n\n  LLOYD, 1750.\n\n  \u201cWilt thou have music? Hark! Apollo plays,\n  And twenty cag\u00ebd nightingales do sing.\u201d\n\n  SHAKESPEARE.\n\n\nAPOTHE\u2032OSIS. The consecration of a god. The ceremony of deification.\n\n\nAPPLE, see Atalanta.\n\n\nARACH\u2032NE, a Lybian Princess, who challenged Minerva to a spinning\ncontest, but Minerva struck her on the head with a spindle, and turned\nher into a spider.\n\n      \u201c... So her disembowelled web,\n  Arachne, in a hall or kitchen spreads,\n  Obvious to vagrant flies.\u201d\n\n  JOHN PHILLIPS.\n\n\nARCA\u2032DIA, a delightful country in the centre of Peloponnessus, a\nfavourite place of the gods. Apollo was reputed to have been King of\nArcadia.\n\n\nAR\u2032CAS, a son of Calistro, was turned into a he-bear; and afterwards\ninto the constellation called Ursa Minor.\n\n\nARCHER, see Chiron.\n\n\nAREOP\u2032AGI\u2032T\u00c6, the judges who sat at the Areopagus.\n\n\nAREOP\u2032AGUS, the hill at Athens where Mars was tried for murder before\ntwelve of the gods.\n\n\nA\u2032RES. The same as Mars, the god of war.\n\n\nARETHU\u2032SA was one of the nymphs of Diana. She fled from Alpheus, a\nriver god, and was enabled to escape by being turned by Diana into a\nrivulet which ran underground. She was as virtuous as she was beautiful.\n\n\nAR\u2032GONAUTS. This name was given to the fifty heroes who sailed to\nColchis in the ship Argo under the command of Jason, to fetch the\nGolden Fleece.\n\n\nAR\u2032GUS was a god who had a hundred eyes which slept and watched by\nturns. He was charged by Juno to watch Io, but, being slain by Mercury,\nwas changed by Juno into a peacock.\n\n\nARIAD\u2032NE, daughter of Minos, King of Crete. After enabling Theseus to\nget out of the Labyrinth by means of a clew of thread, she fled with\nhim to Naxos, where he ungratefully deserted her; but Bacchus wooed her\nand married her, and the crown of seven stars which he gave her was\nturned into a constellation.\n\n\nARI\u2032ON was a famous lyric poet of Methymna, in the Island of Lesbos,\nwhere he gained great riches by his art. There is a pretty fable which\nhas made the name of Arion famous. Once when travelling from Lesbos\nhis companions robbed him, and proposed to throw him into the sea. He\nentreated the seamen to let him play upon his harp before they threw\nhim overboard, and he played so sweetly that the dolphins flocked\nround the vessel. He then threw himself into the sea, and one of the\ndolphins took him up and carried him to Taenarus, near Corinth. For\nthis act the dolphin was raised to heaven as a constellation.\n\n\nARIST\u00c6\u2032US, son of Apollo and Cyrene, was the god of trees; he also\ntaught mankind the use of honey, and how to get oil from olives. He was\na celebrated hunter. His most famous son was Act\u00e6on.\n\n\nARMA\u2032TA, one of the names of Venus, given to her by Spartan women.\n\n\nAR\u2032TEMIS. This was the Grecian name of Diana, and the festivals at\nDelphi were called Artemesia.\n\n\nARTS and SCIENCES, see Muses.\n\n\nARUS\u2032PICES, sacrificial priests.\n\n\nASCAL\u2032APHUS was changed into an owl, the harbinger of misfortune, by\nCeres, because he informed Pluto that Proserpine had partaken of food\nin the infernal regions, and thus prevented her return to earth.\n\n\nASCA\u2032NIUS, the son of \u00c6neas.\n\n\nASCOL\u2032IA, Bacchanalian feasts, from a Greek word meaning a leather\nbottle. The bottles were used in the games to jump on.\n\n\nASO\u2032PUS. A son of Jupiter, who was killed by one of his father\u2019s\nthunderbolts.\n\n\nASSABI\u2032NUS, the Ethiopian name of Jupiter.\n\n\nASSES-EARS, see Midas.\n\n\nASTAR\u2032TE, one of the Eastern names of Venus.\n\n\nASTE\u2032RIA, daughter of C\u00e6us, was carried away by Jupiter, who assumed\nthe shape of an eagle.\n\n\nASTRE\u2032A, mother of Nemesis, was the goddess of justice; she returned to\nheaven when the earth became corrupt.\n\n      \u201c... Chaste Astrea fled,\n  And sought protection in her native sky.\u201d\n\n  JOHN HUGHES.\n\n\nATALAN\u2032TA was daughter of C\u00e6neus. The oracle told her that marriage\nwould be fatal to her, but, being very beautiful, she had many suitors.\nShe was a very swift runner, and, to get rid of her admirers, she\npromised to marry any one of them who should outstrip her in a race,\nbut that all who were defeated should be slain. Hippomenes, however,\nwith the aid of Venus, was successful. That goddess gave him three\ngolden apples, one of which he dropped whenever Atalanta caught up to\nhim in the race. She stopped to pick them up, and he was victorious and\nmarried her. They were both afterwards turned into lions by Cybele, for\nprofaning her temple.\n\n\nA\u2032TE. The goddess of revenge, also called the goddess of discord and\nall evil. She was banished from heaven by her father Jupiter.\n\n  \u201cWith Ate by his side come hot from hell.\u201d\n\n  SHAKESPEARE.\n\n\nATHE\u2032NA, a name obtained by Minerva as the tutelary goddess of Athens.\n\n\nATLAS, was King of Mauritania, now Morocco, in Africa. He was also a\ngreat astronomer. He is depicted with the globe on his back, his name\nsignifying great toil or labour. For his inhospitality to Perseus that\nking changed him into the mountain which bears his name of Atlas.\nA chain of mountains in Africa is called after him, and so is the\nAtlantic Ocean. He had seven daughters by his wife Pleione, they were\ncalled by one common name, Pleiades; and by his wife \u00c6thra he had seven\nmore, who were, in the same manner, called Hyades. Both the Pleiades\nand the Hyades are celestial constellations.\n\n\nAT\u2032REUS, the type of fraternal hatred. His dislike of his brother\nThyestes went to the extent of killing and roasting his nephews, and\ninviting their father to a feast, which Thyestes thought was a sign\nof reconciliation, but he was the victim of his brother\u2019s detestable\ncruelty.\n\n  \u201cMedea must not draw her murdering knife,\n  Nor Atreus there his horrid feast prepare.\u201d\n\n  LORD ROSCOMMON.\n\n\nAT\u2032ROPOS, one of the three sisters called _The Fates_, who held the\nshears ready to cut the thread of life.\n\n\nA\u2032TYS, son of Cr\u0153sus, was born dumb, but when in a fight he saw a\nsoldier about to kill the king, he gained speech, and cried out, \u201cSave\nthe king!\u201d and the string that held his tongue was broken.\n\n\nA\u2032TYS was a youth beloved by Aurora, and was slain by her father, but,\naccording to Ovid, was afterwards turned into a pine-tree.\n\n\nAUG\u2032\u00c6AS, a king of Elis, the owner of the stable which Hercules\ncleansed after three thousand oxen had been kept in it for thirty\nyears. It was cleansed by turning the river Alpheus through it. Aug\u00e6as\npromised to give Hercules a tenth part of his cattle for his trouble,\nbut, for neglecting to keep his promise, Hercules shot him.\n\n\nAU\u2032GURY. This was a means adopted by the Romans of forming a judgment\nof futurity by the flight of birds, and the officiating priest was\ncalled an augur.\n\n\nAURO\u2032RA, the goddess of the morning,\n\n  \u201cWhose rosy fingers ope the gates of day.\u201d\n\nShe was daughter of Sol, the sun, and was the mother of the stars\nand winds. She is represented as riding in a splendid golden chariot\ndrawn by white horses. The goddess loved Tithonus, and begged the gods\nto grant him immortality, but forgot to ask at the same time that he\nshould not get old and decrepit. See Tithonus.\n\n  \u201c... So soon as the all-cheering sun\n  Should, in the farthest east, begin to draw\n  The shady curtains of Aurora\u2019s bed.\u201d\n\n  SHAKESPEARE.\n\n\nAUS\u2032TER, the south wind, a son of Jupiter.\n\n\nAVER\u2032NUS, a poisonous lake, referred to by poets as being at the\nentrance of the infernal regions, but it was really a lake in Campania\nin Italy.\n\n\nAVERRUN\u2032CUS DEUS, a Roman god, who could divert people from evil doing.\n\n\nAXE, see D\u00e6dalus.\n\n\n\n\nBA\u2032AL, a god of the Ph\u0153nicians.\n\n\nBA\u2032AL-PE\u2032OR, a Moabitish god, associated with licentiousness and\nobscenity. The modern name is Belphegor.\n\n\nBABES, see Rumina Dea.\n\n\nBAC\u2032CHANTES. The priestesses of Bacchus.\n\n\nBAC\u2032CHUS, the god of wine, was the son of Jupiter and Semele. He is\nsaid to have married Ariadne, daughter of Minos, King of Crete, after\nshe was deserted by Theseus. The most distinguished of his children is\nHymen, the god of marriage. Bacchus is sometimes referred to under the\nnames of Dionysius, Biformis, Bris\u0153us, Iacchus, Len\u00e6us, Lyceus, Liber,\nand Liber Pater, the symbol of liberty. The god of wine is usually\nrepresented as crowned with vine and ivy leaves. In his left hand is a\nthyrsus, a kind of javelin, having a fir cone for the head, and being\nencircled with ivy or vine. His chariot is drawn by lions, tigers, or\npanthers.\n\n  \u201cJolly Bacchus, god of pleasure,\n  Charmed the world with drink and dances.\u201d\n\n  T. PARNELL, 1700.\n\n\nBA\u2032LIOS. A famous horse given by Neptune to Peleus as a wedding\npresent, and was afterwards given to Achilles.\n\n\nBARKER, see Anubis.\n\n\nBASSAR\u2032IDES. The priestesses of Bacchus were sometimes so called.\n\n\nBATTLE, see Valhalla.\n\n\nBEAR, see Calistro.\n\n\nBEAUTY, see Venus.\n\n\nBEES, see Mellona.\n\n\nBELISA\u2032MA, a goddess of the Gauls. The name means the Queen of Heaven.\n\n\nBELLER\u2032OPHON, a hero who destroyed a monster called the Chim\u00e6ra.\n\n\nBELLO\u2032NA, the goddess of war, and wife of Mars. The 24th March was\ncalled Bellona\u2019s Day, when her votaries cut themselves with knives and\ndrank the blood of the sacrifice.\n\n  \u201cIn Dir\u00e6\u2019s and in Discord\u2019s steps Bellona treads,\n  And shakes her iron rod above their heads.\u201d\n\n\nBELPHE\u2032GOR, see Baal-Peor.\n\n\nBE\u2032LUS. The Chaldean name of the sun.\n\n\nBERECYN\u2032THIA, a name of Cybele, from a mountain where she was\nworshipped.\n\n\nBI\u2032FORMIS, a name of Bacchus, because he was accounted both bearded and\nbeardless.\n\n\nBIRDS, see Augury.\n\n\nBIRTHS, see Lucina and Levana.\n\n\nBLACKSMITH, see Brontes and Vulcan.\n\n\nBLIND, see Thanyris.\n\n\nBLUE EYES, see Glaukopis.\n\n\nBO\u2032NA DE\u2032A. \u201cThe bountiful goddess,\u201d whose festival was celebrated by\nthe Romans with much magnificence. See Ceres.\n\n\nBO\u2032NUS EVEN\u2032TUS. The god of good success, a rural divinity.\n\n\nBO\u2032REAS, the north wind, son of Astr\u00e6us and Aurora.\n\n    \u201c... I snatched her from the rigid north,\n  Her native bed, on which bleak Boreas blew,\n  And bore her nearer to the sun....\u201d\n\n  YOUNG, 1710.\n\n\nBOUNDARIES, see Terminus.\n\n\nBOXING, see Pollux.\n\n\nBRAH\u2032MA. The great Indian deity, represented with four heads looking to\nthe four quarters of the globe.\n\n\nBRI\u2032AREUS, see \u00c6geon.\n\n\nBRIS\u2032\u00c6US. A name of Bacchus, referring to the use of grapes and honey.\n\n\nBRONT\u2032ES, one of the Cyclops. He is the personification of a\nblacksmith.\n\n\nBUBO\u2032NA, goddess of herdsmen, one of the rural divinities.\n\n\nBUD\u2032DAH. A pagan deity, the Vishnu of the Hindoos.\n\n\nBYB\u2032LIS. A niece of Sol, mentioned by Ovid. She shed so many tears for\nunrequited love that she was turned into a fountain.\n\n  \u201cThus the Ph\u0153beian Byblis, spent in tears,\n  Becomes a living fountain, which yet bears\n  Her name.\u201d\n\n  OVID.\n\n\n\n\nCAB\u2032IRI. The mysterious rites connected with the worship of these\ndeities were so obscene that most writers refer to them as secrets\nwhich it was unlawful to reveal.\n\n\nCAC\u2032OD\u00c6\u2032MON. Greek name of an evil spirit.\n\n\nCA\u2032CUS, a three-headed monster and robber.\n\n\nCAD\u2032MUS, one of the earliest of the Greek demigods. He was the reputed\ninventor of letters, and his alphabet consisted of sixteen letters.\nIt was Cadmus who slew the B\u0153otian dragon, and sowed its teeth in the\nground, from each of which sprang up an armed man.\n\n\nCADU\u2032CEUS. The rod carried by Mercury. It has two winged serpents\nentwined round the top end. It was supposed to possess the power of\nproducing sleep, and Milton refers to it in _Paradise Lost_ as the\n\u201copiate rod.\u201d\n\n\nCALIS\u2032TRO, an Arcadian nymph, who was turned into a she-bear by\nJupiter. In that form she was hunted by her son Arcas, who would have\nkilled her had not Jupiter turned him into a he-bear. The nymph and her\nson form the constellations known as the Great Bear and Little Bear.\n\n\nCALLI\u2032OPE. The Muse who presided over epic poetry and rhetoric. She is\ngenerally depicted using a stylus and wax tablets, the ancient writing\nmaterials.\n\n\nCAL\u2032PE. One of the pillars of Hercules.\n\n\nCALYP\u2032SO was queen of the island of Ogygia, on which Ulysses was\nwrecked, and where he was persuaded to remain seven years.\n\n\nCA\u2032MA. The Indian god of love and marriage.\n\n\nCAMIL\u2032LUS, a name of Mercury, from his office of minister to the gods.\n\n\nCAN\u2032ACHE. The name of one of Act\u00e6on\u2019s hounds.\n\n\nCANO\u2032BA. The Indian Apollo.\n\n\nCANO\u2032PUS. The Egyptian god of water, the conqueror of fire.\n\n\nCAP\u2032IS or CAP\u2032ULA. A peculiar cup with ears, used in drinking the\nhealth of the deities.\n\n\nCAPITOLI\u2032NUS. A name of Jupiter, from the Capitoline hill, on the top\nof which a temple was built and dedicated to him.\n\n\nCAP\u2032RI\u2032PEDES. Pan, the Egipans, the Satyrs, and Fauns, were so called\nfrom having goats\u2019 feet.\n\n\nCAPROTI\u2032NA. A name of Juno.\n\n\nCASSAN\u2032DRA, a daughter of Priam and Hecuba, who was granted by Apollo\nthe power of seeing into futurity, but having offended that god he\nprevented people from believing her predictions.\n\n\nCASSIOPE\u2032IA. The Ethiopian queen who set her beauty in comparison with\nthat of the Nereides, who thereupon chained her to a rock and left her\nto be devoured by a sea-monster, but she was delivered by Perseus.\n\n\nCASTA\u2032LIA. One of the fountains in Mount Parnassus, sacred to the Muses.\n\n\nCASTA\u2032LI\u2032DES, a name of the Muses, from the fountain Castalia or\nCastalius.\n\n\nCAS\u2032TOR, son of Jupiter and Leda, twin brother of Pollux, noted for his\nskill in horsemanship. He went with Jason in quest of the Golden Fleece.\n\n\nCAU\u2032THER, in Mohammedan mythology, is the lake of paradise, whose\nwaters are as sweet as honey, as cold as snow, and as clear as crystal;\nand any believer who tastes thereof is said to thirst no more.\n\n\nCEL\u2032ENO was one of the Harpies, progenitor of Zephyrus, the west wind.\n\n\nCEN\u2032TAUR. A huntsman who had the fore-part like a man, and the\nremainder of the body like a horse. The Centauri lived in Thessaly.\n\n\nCEP\u2032HALUS was married to Procris, whom he accidentally slew by shooting\nher, while she was secretly watching him, he thinking she was a wild\nbeast. Cephalus was the type of constancy.\n\n\nCERAU\u2032NIUS. A Greek name of Jupiter, meaning The Fulminator, from his\nthunderbolts.\n\n\nCER\u2032BERUS. Pluto\u2019s famous three-headed dog, which guarded the gate of\nthe infernal regions, preventing the living from entering, and the\ninhabitants from going out.\n\n  \u201cThree-headed Cerberus, by fate\n  Posted at Plato\u2019s iron gate;\n  Low crouching rolls his haggard eyes,\n  Ecstatic, and foregoes his prize.\u201d\n\n\nCEREMONIES, see Themis.\n\n\nCE\u2032RES, daughter of Saturn, the goddess of agriculture, and of the\nfruits of earth. She taught Triptolemus how to grow corn, and sent him\nto teach the inhabitants of the earth. She was known by the names of\nMagna Dea, Bona Dea, Alma Mammosa, and Thesmorphonis. Ceres was the\nmother of Prosperine. See Ambarvalia.\n\n  \u201cTo Ceres bland, her annual rites be paid\n  On the green turf beneath the fragrant shade.--\n  ... Let all the hinds bend low at Ceres\u2019 shrine,\n  Mix honey sweet for her with milk and mellow wine,\n  Thrice lead the victim the new fruits around,\n  On Ceres call, and choral hymns resound.\u201d\n\n  \u201cCeres was she who first our furrows ploughed,\n  Who gave sweet fruits and every good allowed.\u201d\n\n  POPE.\n\n\nCES\u2032TUS, the girdle of Venus, which excited irresistible affection.\n\n\nCHA\u2032OS allegorically represented the confused mass of matter supposed\nto have existed before the creation of the world, and out of which the\nworld was formed.\n\n                  \u201c... Behold the throne\n  Of Chaos, and his dark pavilion spread\n  Wide on the wasteful deep; with him enthroned\n  Sat sable-vested Night, eldest of all things,\n  The consort of his reign.\u201d\n\n  MILTON.\n\n\nCHAR\u2032ON was the son of Nox and Erebus. He was the ferryman who conveyed\nthe spirits of the dead, in a boat, over the rivers Acheron and Styx to\nthe Elysian Fields. \u201cCharon\u2019s toll\u201d was a coin put into the hands of\nthe dead with which to pay the grim ferryman.\n\n  \u201cFrom the dark mansions of the dead,\n  Where Charon with his lazy boat\n  Ferries o\u2019er Lethe\u2019s sedgy moat.\u201d\n\n\nCHARYB\u2032DIS. A dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily. Personified,\nit was supposed to have been a woman who plundered travellers, but was\nat last killed by Hercules. Scylla and Charybdis are generally spoken\nof together to represent alternative dangers.\n\n  \u201cCharybdis barks, and Polyphemus roars.\u201d\n\n  FRANCIS.\n\n\nCHE\u2032MOS. The Moabitish god of war.\n\n\nCHILDREN, see Nundina.\n\n\nCHIM\u00c6\u2032RA. A wild illusion, personified in the monster slain by\nBellerophon. It had the head and breast of a lion, the body of a goat,\nand the tail of a serpent. It used to vomit fire.\n\n        ... \u201cAnd on the craggy top\n  Chimera dwells, with lion\u2019s face and mane,\n  A goat\u2019s rough body and a serpent\u2019s train.\u201d\n\n  POPE.\n\n  \u201cFirst, dire Chimera\u2019s conquest was enjoyned,\n  A mingled monster of no mortal kind.\n  Behind, a dragon\u2019s fiery tail was spread,\n  A goat\u2019s rough body bore a lion\u2019s head,\n  Her pitchy nostrils flaky flames expire,\n  Her gaping throat emits infernal fire.\u201d\n\n  MILTON.\n\n\nCHI\u2032RON, the centaur who taught Achilles hunting, music, and the use of\nmedicinal herbs. Jupiter placed him amongst the stars, where he appears\nas Sagittarius the Archer.\n\n\nCHLO\u2032RIS. The Greek name of Flora, the goddess of flowers.\n\n\nCHOU. An Egyptian god corresponding to the Roman Hercules.\n\n\nCHRO\u2032NOS. Time, the Grecian name of Saturn.\n\n\nCIL\u2032LAROS, see Cyllaros.\n\n\nCIR\u2032CE, daughter of the Sun. The knowledge of poisonous herbs enabled\nher to destroy her husband, the King of the Sarmatians, for which act\nshe was banished. When Ulysses landed at \u00c6cea, where she lived, she\nturned all his followers into swine.\n\n\nCISSE\u2032TA. The name of one of Act\u00e6on\u2019s hounds.\n\n\nCITHER\u2032IDES. A name of the Muses, from Mount Citheron.\n\n\nCLI\u2032O. One of the Muses, daughter of Jupiter and Mnemosyne. She\npresided over history.\n\n\nCLOACI\u2032NA. The Roman goddess of sewers.\n\n\nCLO\u2032THO was one of the Fates. She was present at births, and held\nthe distaff from which was spun the thread of life. See Atropos and\nLachesis.\n\n\nCLOWNS OF LY\u2032CIA, THE, were changed into frogs by Latona, because they\nrefused to allow her to drink at one of their streamlets.\n\n\nCLU\u2032ACI\u2032NA. A name of Venus, given to her at the time of the\nreconciliation of the Romans and the Sabines, which was ratified near a\nstatue of the goddess.\n\n\nCLY\u2032TEMNES\u2032TRA, wife of Agamemnon, slew her husband and married\n\u00c6gisthus. She attempted to kill her son Orestes, but he was delivered\nby his sister Electra, who sent him away to Strophius. He afterwards\nreturned and slew both Clytemnestra and \u00c6gisthus.\n\n\nCLYT\u2032IE. A nymph who got herself changed into a sunflower because her\nlove of Apollo was unrequited. In the form of this flower she is still\nsupposed to be turning towards Sol, a name of Apollo.\n\n\nCNEPH. In Egyptian mythology the creator of the universe.\n\n\nCOCY\u2032TUS, the river of Lamentation. One of the five rivers of the\ninfernal regions.\n\n            \u201cInfernal rivers that disgorge\n  Into the burning lake their baleful streams.\n  ... Cocytus, named of lamentation loud,\n  Heard on the rueful stream.\u201d\n\n  MILTON.\n\n\nC\u0152\u2019CULUS, a violent robber, was a son of Vulcan.\n\n\nC\u0152\u2019LUS, also called Uranus (or Heaven), was the most ancient of the\ngods.\n\n\nC\u0152\u2032NA SALIA\u2032RIS, see Ancilia.\n\n\nCOLLI\u2032NA was one of the rural deities, the goddess of hills.\n\n\nCOMEDY, see Thalia.\n\n\nCO\u2032MUS was the god of revelry. He presided over entertainments and\nfeasts.\n\n\nCON\u2032CORD. The symbol of Concord was two right hands joined, and a\npomegranate.\n\n\nCONCOR\u2032DIA. The goddess of peace. One of the oldest Roman goddesses.\nShe is represented as holding a horn of plenty in one hand, and in the\nother a sceptre, from which fruit is sprouting forth.\n\n\nCONSTANCY, see Cephalus.\n\n\nCONSU\u2032ALIA. Games sacred to Neptune.\n\n\nCON\u2032SUS. A name given to Neptune as being the god of counsel.\n\n\nCOPHE\u2032TUA. A legendary king of Africa, who disliked women, but\nultimately fell in love with a \u201cbeggar-maid,\u201d as mentioned in _Romeo\nand Juliet_.\n\n  \u201c... Cupid, he that shot so trim\n  When King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid.\u201d\n\n  SHAKESPEARE.\n\n\nCO\u2032PIA, the goddess of plenty.\n\n\nCO\u2032RAN. One of Act\u00e6on\u2019s hounds was so named.\n\n\nCORN, see Ceres.\n\n\nCOR\u2032ONIS, was a consort of Apollo and mother of \u00c6sculapius. Another\nCoronis was daughter of a king of Phocis, and was changed by Athena\ninto a crow.\n\n\nCORYBAN\u2032TES were priests of Cybele. They obtained the name because they\nwere in the habit of striking themselves in their dances.\n\n\nCORY\u2032DON. A silly love-sick swain mentioned by Virgil.\n\n\nCORY\u2032THAIX. A name given to Mars, meaning Shaker of the Helmet.\n\n\nCOTYT\u2032TO. The Athenian goddess of immodesty.\n\n  \u201cHail! goddess of nocturnal sport,\n  Dark-veiled Cotytto, to whom the secret flame\n  Of midnight torches burns; mysterious dame.\u201d\n\n  MILTON.\n\n\nCOUNSEL, see Consus.\n\n\nCREDITORS, see Jani.\n\n\nCROW, see Coronis.\n\n\nCULTIVATED LAND, see Sylvester.\n\n\nCUP-BEARER, see Ganymede.\n\n\nCU\u2032PID, the god of love, was the son of Jupiter and Venus. He is\nrepresented as a naked, winged boy, with a bow and arrows, and a torch.\nWhen he grew up to be a man he married Psyche.\n\n  \u201cFor Venus did but boast one only son,\n  And rosy Cupid was that boasted one;\n  He, uncontroll\u2019d, thro\u2019 heaven extends his sway,\n  And gods and goddesses by turns obey.\n\n  EUSDEN, 1713.\n\n\nCUVE\u2032RA. The Indian god of wealth, corresponding to the Greek Plutus.\n\n\nCY\u2032BELE. The mother of the gods, and hence called Magna Mater. She was\nwife of Saturn. She is sometimes referred to under the names of Ceres,\nRhea, Ops, and Vesta. She is represented as riding in a chariot drawn\nby lions. In one hand she holds a sceptre, and in the other a key. On\nher head is a castellated crown, to notify that she was the first to\nprotect castles and walls with towers.\n\n  \u201cNor Cybele with half so kind an eye\n  Surveyed her sons and daughters of the sky.\u201d\n\n  DRYDEN.\n\n  \u201cMight she the wise Latona be,\n  Or the towered Cybele,\n  Mother of a hundred gods,\n  Juno dares not give her odds.\u201d\n\n  MILTON.\n\n\nCY\u2032CLOPS or CY\u2032CLOPES were the gigantic, one-eyed workmen of Vulcan,\nwho made Jove\u2019s thunderbolts. Hesiod gives their names as Arges,\nBrontes, and Steropes.\n\n  \u201cMeantime, the Cyclop raging with his wound,\n  Spreads his wide arms, and searches round and round.\u201d\n\n  POPE.\n\n\nCYG\u2032NUS, the bosom friend of Pha\u00ebton. He died of grief on the death of\nhis friend, and was turned into a swan.\n\n\nCYLL\u2032AROS, one of Castor\u2019s horses. The colour is mentioned as being\ncoal-black, with white legs and tail. See Cillaros.\n\n\nCYL\u2032LO. The name of one of Act\u00e6on\u2019s hounds, which was lame.\n\n\nCYLLOP\u2032OTES. A name given to one of Act\u00e6on\u2019s hounds which limped.\n\n\nCYN\u2032OSURE. One of the nurses of Jupiter, turned by the god into a\nconspicuous constellation.\n\n  \u201cTowers and battlements it sees\n  Bosomed high in tufted trees,\n  Where perhaps some beauty lies,\n  The Cynosure of neighbouring eyes.\u201d\n\n  MILTON.\n\n\nCYPARIS\u2032SUS. A boy of whom Apollo was very fond; and when he died\nhe was changed, at Apollo\u2019s intercession, into a cypress tree, the\nbranches of which typify mourning.\n\n\nCY\u2032PRESS, see Cyparissus.\n\n\nCY\u2032PRIA. A name of Venus, because she was worshipped in the island of\nCyprus.\n\nCYTH\u2032ERA. A name of Venus, from the island to which she was wafted in\nthe shell.\n\n\n\n\nDACTY\u2032LI were priests of Cybele. They were given the name, because,\nlike the fingers, they were ten in number.\n\n\nD\u00c6D\u2032ALUS was a great architect and sculptor. He invented the wedge,\nthe axe, the level, and the gimlet, and was the first to use sails.\nD\u00e6dalus also constructed the famous labyrinth for Minos, King of Crete.\nSee Icarus.\n\n  \u201cNow D\u00e6dalus, behold, by fate assigned,\n  A task proportioned to thy mighty mind.\u201d\n\n  POPE.\n\n\nDA\u2032GON. A god of the Philistines, half man half fish, like the mermaid.\nMilton describes him as \u201cUpward man and downward fish.\u201d\n\n\nDA\u2032HAK. The Persian devil.\n\n\nDAI\u2032TYAS. In Hindoo mythology the devils or evil gods.\n\n\nDAN\u2032\u00c6 was a daughter of Acrisius and Eurydice. She had a son by\nJupiter, who was drifted out to sea in a boat, but was saved by\nPolydectes and educated.\n\n\nDANA\u2032IDES, see Danaus.\n\n\nDANA\u2032US, King of Argos, was the father of fifty daughters, who, all but\none, at the command of their father, slew their husbands directly after\nmarriage. For this crime they were condemned to the task of for ever\ntrying to draw water with vessels without any bottoms. See Hypermnestra.\n\n\nDANCING, see Terpsichore.\n\n\nDANGERS, see Scylla.\n\n\nDAPH\u2032NE. The goddess of the earth. Apollo courted her, but she fled\nfrom him, and was, at her own request, turned into a laurel tree.\n\n    \u201c... As Daphne was\n  Root-bound, that fled Apollo.\u201d\n\n  MILTON.\n\n\nDAR\u2032DANUS, a son of Jupiter, who built the city of Dardania, and by\nsome writers was accounted the founder of Troy.\n\n\nDEAD-TOLL, see Charon.\n\n\nDEATH, see Nox.\n\n\nDECEIVER, THE, see Apaturia.\n\n\nDEIANI\u2032RA, daughter of \u0152neus, was wife of Hercules. See Hercules.\n\n\nDE\u2032LOS, a name of Apollo, from the island in which he was born.\n\n\nDEL\u2032PHI. A town on Mount Parnassus, famous for its oracle, and for a\ntemple of Apollo. See Delphos.\n\n\nDEL\u2032PHICUS. A name of Apollo, from Delphi.\n\n\nDEL\u2032PHOS, the place where the temple was built from which the oracle of\nApollo was given.\n\n\nDE\u2032MARUS. The Ph\u0153nician name of Jupiter.\n\n\nDE\u2032MOGOR\u2032GON was the tyrant genius of the soil or earth, the life and\nsupport of plants. He was depicted as an old man covered with moss, and\nwas said to live underground. He is sometimes called the king of the\nelves and fays.\n\n  \u201cWhich wast begot in Demogorgon\u2019s hall\n  And saw\u2019st the secrets of the world unmade.\u201d\n\n  SPENCER.\n\n\nDEUCHA\u2032LION, one of the demigods, son of Prometheus and Pyrra. He and\nhis wife, by making a ship, survived the deluge which Jupiter sent on\nthe earth, circa 1503 B.C.\n\n\nDEVIL, see Dahak, Daityas, and Obambou.\n\n\nDI\u2032ANA, goddess of hunting and of chastity. She was the sister of\nApollo, and daughter of Jupiter and Latona. She was known amongst the\nGreeks as Diana or Ph\u0153be, and was honoured as a triform goddess. As\na celestial divinity she was called Luna; as a terrestrial Diana or\nDictynna; and in the infernal regions Hecate.\n\n\nDICTYN\u2032NA, a Greek name of Diana as a terrestrial goddess.\n\n\nDI\u2032DO. A daughter of Belus, King of Tyre. It was this princess who\nbought a piece of land in Africa as large as could be encompassed by a\nbullock\u2019s hide, and when the purchase was completed, cut the hide into\nstrips, and so secured a large tract of land. Here she built Carthage;\nand Virgil tells that when \u00c6neas was shipwrecked on the neighbouring\ncoast, she received him with every kindness, and at last fell in love\nwith him. But \u00c6neas did not reciprocate her affections, and this so\ngrieved her that she stabbed herself. A tale is told in _Faceti\u00e6\nCantabrigienses_ of Professor Porson, who being one of a set party, the\nconversation turned on the subject of punning, when Porson observing\nthat he could pun on any subject, a person present defied him to do so\non the Latin gerunds, _di_, _do_, _dum_, which, however, he immediately\ndid in the following admirable couplet:--\n\n  \u201cWhen Dido found \u00c6neas would not come,\n  She mourned in silence, and was _Dido dumb_.\u201d\n\n\nDI\u2032ES PA\u2032TER, or Father of the Day, a name of Jupiter.\n\n\nDII SELEC\u2032TI composed the second class of gods. They were C\u0153lus,\nSaturn, Genius, Oreus, Sol, Bacchus, Terra, and Luna.\n\n\nDIN\u2032DYME\u2032NE. A name of Cybele, from a mountain where she was worshipped.\n\n  \u201cNor Dindymene, nor her priest possest,\n  Can with their sounding cymbals shake the breast\n  Like furious anger.\u201d\n\n  FRANCIS.\n\n\nDIOME\u2032DES, the cruel tyrant of Thrace, who fed his mares on the flesh\nof his guests, was overcome by Hercules, and was given to the same\nhorses as food.\n\n\nDIO\u2032NE. A poetic name of Venus.\n\n\nDIONY\u2032SIA were festivals in honour of Bacchus.\n\n\nDIONY\u2032SIUS. A name of Bacchus, either from his father Jupiter (Dios),\nor from his nurses, the nymphs called Nyse\u00e6.\n\n\nDI\u2032OS, a name of Jupiter.\n\n\nDIOS\u2032CURI. Castor and Pollux, the sons of Jupiter.\n\n\nDI\u2032R\u00c6N. A name of the Furies.\n\n\nDIS. A name of Pluto, god of hell, signifying riches.\n\n                  \u201c... That fair field\n  Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers,\n  Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis\n  Was gathered.\u201d\n\n  MILTON.\n\n\nDISCORD, see Ate.\n\n\nDISCOR\u2032DIA, sister of Nemesis, the Furies, and Death, was driven from\nheaven for having sown discord amongst the gods.\n\n\nDISEASES, see Pandora.\n\n\nDISTAFF, see Pallas.\n\n\nDODO\u2032NA was a celebrated oracle of Jupiter.\n\n  \u201cO where, Dodona, is thine aged grove,\n  Prophetic fount, and oracle divine?\u201d\n\n  BYRON.\n\n\nDODON\u00c6\u2032US. A name of Jupiter, from the city of Dodona.\n\n\nDOG, see Lares.\n\n\nDOLA\u2032BRA. The knife used by the priests to cut up the sacrifices.\n\n\nDOL\u2032PHIN, see Arion.\n\n\nDOOR\u2032GA. A Hindoo goddess.\n\n\nDO\u2032RIS was daughter of Oceanus, and sister of Nereus, two of the marine\ndeities. From these two sisters sprang the several tribes of water\nnymphs.\n\n\nDO\u2032TO. One of the Nereids or sea nymphs.\n\n\nDRA\u2032CO. One of Act\u00e6on\u2019s hounds.\n\n\nDRAGON, seven-headed, see Geryon.\n\n\nDREAMS, see Morpheus.\n\n\nDRY\u2032ADS were rural deities, the nymphs of the forests, to whom their\nvotaries offered oil, milk, and honey.\n\n  \u201cFlushed with resistless charms he fired to love\n  Each nymph and little Dryad of the grove.\u201d\n\n  TICKNELL.\n\n\nDUMB\u2032NESS, see Atys.\n\n\nDWEUR\u2032GAR. Scandinavian god of the Echo--a pigmy.\n\n\n\n\nE\u2032ACUS, son of Jupiter and Egina, one of the judges of the infernal\nregions, who was appointed to judge the Europeans. See \u00c6acus.\n\n\nEARTH, see Ant\u00e6as.\n\n\nEB\u2032LIS, the Mohammedan evil genius.\n\n\nECHID\u2032NA. A woman having a serpent\u2019s tail. She was the reputed mother\nof Chimera, and also of the many-headed dog Orthos, of the three\nhundred headed dragon, of the Hesperides, of the Colchian dragon, of\nthe Sphinx, of Cerberus, of Scylla, of the Gorgons, of the Lern\u00e6an\nHydra, of the vulture that gnawed away the liver of Prometheus, and\nalso of the Nemean lion; in fact, the mother of all adversity and\ntribulation.\n\n\nECHNO\u2032BAS, one of Act\u00e6on\u2019s hounds.\n\n\nECH\u2032O was a nymph who fell in love with Narcissus. But when he\nlanguished and died she pined away from grief and died also, preserving\nnothing but her voice, which repeats every sound that reaches her.\nAnother fable makes Echo a daughter of Air and Tellus. She was partly\ndeprived of speech by Juno, being allowed only to reply to questions.\n\n  \u201cSweet Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv\u2019st unseen\n    Within thy airy shell.\n   .      .      .      .      .      .      .\n  Sweet queen of parley, daughter of the sphere,\n  So may\u2019st thou be translated to the skies,\n  And give resounding grace to all heaven\u2019s harmonies.\u201d\n\n  MILTON.\n\n  \u201cOft by Echo\u2019s tedious tales misled.\u201d\n\n  OVID.\n\n\nEGEON. A giant sea-god, who assisted the Titans against Jupiter.\n\n\nEGE\u2032RIA. A nymph who is said to have suggested to Numa all his wise\nlaws. She became his wife, and at his death was so disconsolate, and\nshed so many tears, that Diana changed her into a fountain.\n\n\nE\u2032GIL. The Vulcan of northern mythology.\n\n\nEGIP\u2032ANS were rural deities who inhabited the forests and mountains,\nthe upper half of the body being like that of a man, and the lower half\nlike a goat.\n\n\nE\u2032GIS was the shield of Minerva. It obtained its name because it was\ncovered with the skin of the goat Amalth\u00e6a, which nourished Jupiter.\nSee \u00c6gis.\n\n\nELEUSIN\u2032IAN MYSTERIES. Religious rites in honour of Ceres, performed at\nEleusis in Attica.\n\n\nELYS\u2032IUM, or the ELYSIAN FIELDS. The temporary abode of the just in the\ninfernal regions.\n\n\nEMPYRE\u2032AN, THE. The fifth heaven, the seat of the heathen deity.\n\n\nENDYM\u2032ION. A shepherd, who acquired from Jupiter the faculty of being\nalways young. One of the lovers of Diana.\n\n\nENTERTAINMENTS, see Comus.\n\n\nENVY, see Furies.\n\n\nENYO was the Grecian name of Bellona, the goddess of war and cruelty.\n\n\nE\u2032OLUS, see \u00c6olus.\n\n\nE\u2032OS. The Grecian name of Aurora.\n\n\nE\u2032OUS. One of the four horses which drew the chariot of Sol, the sun.\nThe word is Greek, and means red.\n\n\nEPH\u2032IAL\u2032TES. A giant who lost his right eye in an encounter with\nHercules, and the left eye was destroyed by Apollo.\n\n\nER\u2032ATO. One of the Muses, the patroness of light poetry; she presided\nover the triumphs and complaints of lovers, and is generally\nrepresented as crowned with roses and myrtle, and holding a lyre in\nher hand.\n\n\nER\u2032EBUS, son of Chaos, one of the gods of Hades, sometimes alluded to\nas representing the infernal regions.\n\n\nERGA\u2032TIS. A name given to Minerva. It means the work-woman, and was\ngiven to the goddess because she was credited with having invented\nspinning and weaving.\n\n\nERIC\u2032THEUS, fourth King of Athens, was the son of Vulcan.\n\n\nERIN\u2032NYS. A Greek name of the Furies. It means Disturber of the Mind.\n\n\nERISICH\u2032THON was punished with perpetual hunger because he defiled the\ngroves of Ceres, and cut down one of the sacred oaks.\n\n\nER\u2032OS. The Greek god of love.\n\n\nEROS\u2032TRATUS. The rascal who burnt the temple of Diana at Ephesus,\nthereby hoping to make his name immortal.\n\n\nERYC\u2032INA. A name of Venus, from Mount Eryx in Sicily.\n\n\nERYTHRE\u2032OS. The Grecian name of one of the horses of Sol\u2019s chariot.\n\n\nESCULA\u2032PIUS, see \u00c6sculapius.\n\n\nE\u2032TA, see \u00c6ta.\n\n\nE\u2032THON, one of the horses who drew the chariot of Sol--the sun. The\nword is Greek, and signifies hot.\n\n\nET\u2032NA. A volcanic mountain, beneath which, according to Virgil, there\nis buried the giant Typhon, who breathes forth devouring flames.\n\n\nEU\u2032DROMOS. The name of one of Act\u00e6on\u2019s hounds.\n\n\nEU\u2032LALON, one of the names of Apollo.\n\n\nEUMEN\u2032IDES, a name of the Furies, meaning mild, and referring to the\ntime when they were approved by Minerva.\n\n\nEUPHRO\u2032SYNE, one of the three Graces, see Graces.\n\n  \u201cCome thou goddess fair and free,\n  In heaven ycleped Euphrosyne.\u201d\n\n  MILTON.\n\n\nEU\u2032RUS. The east wind. A son of \u00c6olus.\n\n\nEURY\u2032ALE was one of the Gorgons, daughter of Phorcus and Ceto.\n\n\nEURYD\u2032ICE, wife of Orpheus, who was killed by a serpent on her wedding\nnight.\n\n  \u201cNor yet the golden verge of day begun,\n      When Orpheus (her unhappy lord),\n      Eurydice to life restored,\n  At once beheld, and lost, and was undone.\u201d\n\n  F. LEWIS.\n\n\nEURYTH\u2032ION. A seven-headed dragon. See Geryon.\n\n\nEU\u2032TERPE, one of the Muses, the patroness of instrumental music. The\nword means agreeable.\n\n\nEU\u2032VYHE, an expression meaning \u201cWell done, son.\u201d Jupiter so frequently\naddressed his son Bacchus by those words that the phrase at last became\none of his names.\n\n\nEVENING STAR, see Hesperus.\n\n\nEVIL, see Cacod\u00e6mon.\n\n\nEVILS, see Pandora.\n\n\nEYE, see Cyclops and Glaukopis.\n\n\n\n\nFAME was a poetical deity, represented as having wings and blowing a\ntrumpet. A temple was dedicated to her by the Romans.\n\n\nFATE, see Nereus.\n\n\nFATES, or PARC\u00c6, were the three daughters of Necessity. Their names\nwere Clotho, who held the distaff; Lachesis, who turned the spindle;\nand Atropos, who cut the thread with the fatal shears.\n\n\nFAUN. A rural divinity, half man and half goat. They were very similar\nto the Satyrs. The Fauns attended the god Pan, and the Satyrs attended\nBacchus.\n\n\nFAVO\u2032NIUS. The wind favourable to vegetation, that is, Zephyr--the west\nwind.\n\n      \u201c... Time will run\n  On smoother, till Favonius re-inspire\n  The frozen earth, and clothe in fresh attire\n  The lily and the rose, that neither sowed nor spun.\u201d\n\n  MILTON.\n\n\nFAYS.\n\n  \u201cThe yellow-skirted Fays\n  Fly after the night-steeds,\n  Leaving their moon-loved maze.\u201d\n\n  MILTON.\n\n\nFEASTS, see Comus.\n\n\nFE\u2032BRIS (fever), one of the evil deities, was worshipped that she might\nnot do harm.\n\n\nFEB\u2032RUUS. A name of Plato, from the part of the funeral rites which\nconsisted of purifications.\n\n\nFERO\u2032NIA, the Roman goddess of orchards, was patroness of enfranchised\nslaves. Some authors think Feronia is the same as Juno.\n\n\nFERTILITY, see Lupercus.\n\n\nFESTIVALS, see Thalia.\n\n\nFIDELITY, see Iolaus.\n\n\nFI\u2032DES, the goddess of faith and honesty, had a temple in the Capitol\nof Rome.\n\n\nFINE ARTS, see Minerva.\n\n\nFIRE, see Salamander, Vesta, and Vulcan.\n\n\nFIRE INSURANCE, see Canopus.\n\n\nFISHERMAN, see Glaucus.\n\n\nFLATH\u2032-IN\u2032NIS, in Celtic mythology, is Paradise.\n\n\nFLEECE, GOLDEN, see Golden Fleece, Argonauts, and Jason.\n\n\nFLIES, see Muscarius.\n\n\nFLOCKS, see Pales.\n\n\nFLO\u2032RA, goddess of flowers and gardens, was wife of Zephyrus. She\nenjoyed perpetual youth. Her Grecian name was Chloris.\n\n\nFLORA\u2032LIA were licentious games instituted in honour of the goddess\nFlora.\n\n\nFLOWERS, see Flora, Chloris, Hortensis, and Zephyrus.\n\n\nFLUTE, see Marsyas.\n\n\nFORTU\u2032NA, the goddess of fortune, had a temple erected to her by\nServius Tullius. She was supposed to be able to bestow riches or\npoverty on mankind, and was esteemed one of the most potent of the\nancient goddesses. She is usually represented as standing on a wheel,\nwith a bandage over her eyes, and holding a cornucopia.\n\n\nFRAUD, one of the evil deities, was represented as a goddess with a\nhuman face and a serpent\u2019s body, and in the end of her tail was a\nscorpion\u2019s sting. She lived in the river Cocytus, and nothing but her\nhead was ever seen.\n\n\nFREY\u2032R. The Scandinavian god of fertility and peace. The patron god of\nSweden and Iceland.\n\n\nFREY\u2032JA. The Scandinavian Venus. The goddess of love.\n\n\nFRI\u2032GA. The Saxon goddess of earthly enjoyments. The name Friday is\nderived from her. In Scandinavian mythology she is the goddess of\nmarriage.\n\n\nFRO. The Scandinavian god of tempests and winds.\n\n\nFROGS, see Clowns of Lycia.\n\n\nFRUITS, see Ceres and Pomona.\n\n\nFUNERALS, see Libitina and Manes.\n\n\nFURIES, THE, were the three daughters of Acheron and Nox. They were the\npunishers of evildoers. Their names were Tisiphone, Meg\u00e6ra, and Alecto,\nand were supposed to personify rage, slaughter, and envy.\n\n\nFUTURITY, see Cassandra.\n\n\n\n\nGA\u2032BRIEL, in Jewish mythology is the prince of fire and thunder, and\nthe angel of death to the favoured people of God.\n\n\nGALAT\u00c6\u2032A. A sea nymph. Polyphemus, one of the Cyclops, loved her, but\nshe disdained his attentions and became the lover of Acis, a Sicilian\nshepherd.\n\n\nGALLAN\u2032TES, madmen, from Galli (which see).\n\n\nGAL\u2032LI were priests of Cybele who used to cut their arms with knives\nwhen they sacrificed, and acted so like madmen that demented people got\nthe name of Gallantes.\n\n\nGAN\u2032ESA. The Indian Mercury. The god of wisdom and prudence.\n\n\nGANGA. One of the three Indian river goddesses.\n\n\nGANYMEDE, a beautiful Phrygian youth, son of Tros, King of Troy. He\nsucceeded Hebe in the office of cup-bearer to Jupiter. He is generally\nrepresented sitting on the back of a flying eagle.\n\n\nGARDENS, see Pomona.\n\n\nGATES, see Janus.\n\n\nGAUTA\u2032MA. The chief deity of Burmah.\n\n\nGENII were domestic divinities. Every man was supposed to have two of\nthese genii accompanying him; one brought him happiness, the other\nmisery.\n\n\nGEN\u2032ITOR. A Lycian name of Jupiter.\n\n\nGEOMETRY, see Mercury.\n\n\nGE\u2032RYON was a triple-bodied monster who lived at Gades, where his\nnumerous flocks were guarded by Orthos, a two-headed dog, and by\nEurythion, a seven-headed dragon. These guardians were destroyed by\nHercules, and the cattle taken away.\n\n\nGIMLET, see D\u00e6dalus.\n\n\nGIRDLE, see Cestus.\n\n\nGLAU\u2032CUS was a fisherman who became a sea-god through eating a\nsea-weed, which he thought invigorated the fishes and might strengthen\nhim.\n\n\nGLAUKO\u2032PIS. A name given to Minerva, because she had blue eyes.\n\n\nGNO\u2032MES, a name given by Plato to the invisible deities who were\nsupposed to inhabit the earth.\n\n\nGNOS\u2032SIS, a name given to Ariadne, from the city of Gnossus in Crete.\n\n\nGOAT, see Iphigenia, Mendes, and Venus.\n\n\nGOAT\u2019S FEET, see Capripedes.\n\n\nGOLDEN APPLE, see Atalanta.\n\n\nGOLDEN FLEECE, THE, was a ram\u2019s hide, sometimes described as white,\nand at other times as purple and golden. It was given to Phryxus, who\ncarried it to Colchis, where King \u00c6ta entertained Phryxus, and the\nhide was hung up in the grove of Mars. Jason and forty-nine companions\nfetched back the golden fleece. See Argonauts.\n\n\nGOPY\u2032A. Indian mythological nymphs.\n\n\nGOR\u2032GONS, THE, were three sisters, named Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa.\nThey petrified every one they looked at. Instead of hair their heads\nwere covered with vipers. Perseus conquered them, and cut off the head\nof Medusa, which was placed on the shield of Minerva, and all who fixed\ntheir eyes thereon were turned into stone.\n\n\nGRACES, THE, were the attendants of Venus. Their names were, Aglaia,\nso called from her beauty and goodness; Thalia, from her perpetual\nfreshness; and Euphrosyne, from her cheerfulness. They are generally\ndepicted as three cheerful maidens with hands joined, and either nude\nor only wearing transparent robes,--the idea being that kindnesses,\nas personified by the Graces, should be done with sincerity and\ncandour, and without disguise. They were supposed to teach the duties\nof gratitude and friendship, and they promoted love and harmony among\nmankind.\n\n\nGRACES (fourth), see Pasithea.\n\n\nGRAD\u2032IVUS. A name given to Mars by the Romans. It meant the warrior who\ndefended the city against all external enemies.\n\n\nGRA\u2032GUS. The name by which Jupiter was worshipped in Lycia.\n\n\nGRANARIES, see Tutelina.\n\n\nGRAP\u2032SIOS. A Lycian name of Jupiter.\n\n\nGRASSHOPPER, see Tithonus.\n\n\nGRIEF, see Niobe.\n\n\n\n\nHA\u2032DA. The Babylonian Juno.\n\n\nHA\u2032DES. The Greek name of Pluto, the god of hell, the word signifying\nhidden, dark, and gloomy; the infernal regions; sometimes written,\n_Ades_.\n\n\nHAILSTORMS, see Nuriel.\n\n\nHALCY\u2032ONE, one of the Pleiades, was a daughter of Atlas and Pelione.\n\n\nHALCY\u2032ONS were sea-birds, supposed to be the Greek king-fishers. They\nmade their nests on the waves, and during the period of incubation the\nsea was always calm. Hence the modern term Halcyon Days.\n\n\nHAMADRY\u2032ADES were wood-nymphs, who presided over trees.\n\n\nHAPPINESS, see Genii.\n\n\nHAROE\u2032RIS. The Egyptian god, whose eyes are the sun and moon.\n\n\nHAR\u2032PIES were animals with the heads and breasts of women, the bodies\nof birds, and the claws of lions. Their names were Aello, Ocypete, and\nCeleno. They were loathsome creatures, living in filth, and poisoning\neverything they came in contact with.\n\n  \u201cSuch fiends to scourge mankind, so fierce, so fell,\n  Heaven never summoned from the depth of hell.\n  A virgin face, with wings and hook\u00ebd claws,\n  Death in their eyes, and famine in their jaws,\n  While proof to steel their hides and plumes remain\n  We strike the impenetrable fiends in vain.\u201d\n\n\nHARPI\u2032KRUTI. The Egyptian name of the god Harpocrates.\n\n\nHARPOC\u2032RATES, son of Isis, was the god of silence and meditation. He is\nusually represented as a young man, holding a finger of one hand to his\nlips, while in the other hand he holds a cornucopia.\n\n\nHARVEST, see Segesta.\n\n\nHAWK, see Nysus.\n\n\nHA\u2032ZIS. The Syrian war-god.\n\n\nHEALTH, see Hygeia and Salus.\n\n\nHEA\u2032VEN, QUEEN OF, see Belisama. God of, see C\u0153lus.\n\n\nHE\u2032BE was the goddess of youth. She was cup-bearer to Jupiter and the\ngods, until she had an awkward fall at a festival, and so displeased\nJupiter that she was deprived of her office, and Ganymede was\nappointed in her stead.\n\n              \u201cWreathed smiles,\n  Such as hung on Hebe\u2019s cheek,\n  And love to live in dimples sleek.\u201d\n\n  MILTON.\n\n  \u201cBright Hebe waits; by Hebe ever young\n  The whirling wheels are to the chariot hung.\u201d\n\n  POPE.\n\n\nHEC\u2032ATE. There were two goddesses known by this name, but the one\ngenerally referred to in modern literature is Hecate, or Prosperine,\nthe name by which Diana was known in the infernal regions. In heaven\nher name was Luna, and her terrestrial name was Diana.\n\n\nHEC\u2032UBA. The mother of Paris, was allotted to Ulysses after the\ndestruction of Troy, and was afterwards changed into a hound.\n\n  \u201cWhat\u2019s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba?\u201d\n\n  SHAKESPEARE.\n\n\nHEIFER, see Ino.\n\n\nHEL\u2032ENA when a child was so beautiful that Theseus and Perithous stole\nher, but she was restored by Castor and Pollux. She became the wife\nof Menelaus, king of Sparta, but eloped with Paris, and thus caused\nthe Trojan War. After the death of Paris she married Deiphobus, his\nbrother, and then betrayed him to Menelaus. She was strangled by order\nof Polyxo, king of Rhodes.\n\n\nHE\u2032LIADES were the daughters of Sol, and the sisters of Phaeton, at\nwhose death they were so sad that they stood mourning till they became\nmetamorphosed into poplar trees, and their tears were turned into\namber.\n\n\nHEL\u2032ICON. A mountain in B\u0153otia sacred to the Muses, from which place\nthe fountain Hippocrene flowed.\n\n  \u201cYet still the doating rhymer dreams,\n  And sings of Helicon\u2019s bright streams;\n  But Helicon for all his clatter\n  Yields only uninspiring water.\u201d\n\n  BROOM, 1720.\n\n\nHELICO\u2032NIDES. A name of the Muses, from Mount Helicon.\n\n\nHELIOP\u2032OLIS, in Elysium, was the city of the sun.\n\n\nHE\u2032LIOS. The Grecian sun-god, who went home every evening in a golden\nboat which had wings.\n\n\nHEL\u2032IOTROPE. Clytie was turned into this flower by Apollo. See Clytie.\n\n\nHEL\u2032LE was drowned in the sea, into which she fell from off the back\nof the golden ram, on which she and Phryxus were escaping from the\noppression of their stepmother Ino. The episode gave the name of the\nHellespont to the part of the sea where Helle was drowned, and it is\nnow called the Dardanelles.\n\n\nHELLESPONTIA\u2032CUS. A title of Priapus.\n\n\nHEMPH\u2032TA. The Egyptian god Jupiter.\n\n\nHEPH\u00c6S\u2032TOS. The Greek Vulcan.\n\n\nHE\u2032RA. The Greek name of Juno.\n\n\nHER\u2032ACLES, is the same as Hercules.\n\n\nHER\u2032CULES was the son of Jupiter and Alcmena. The goddess Juno hated\nhim from his birth, and sent two serpents to kill him, but though only\neight months old he strangled the snakes. As he got older he was set\nby his master Eurystheus what were thought to be twelve impossible\ntasks, which have long been known as the \u201cTwelve Labours of Hercules.\u201d\nThey were:--\n\n _First_, To slay the Nemean Lion.\n\n _Second_, To destroy the Hydra which infested the marshes of Lerna.\n\n _Third_, To bring to Eurystheus the Arcadian Stag with the golden\n horns and brazen hoofs.\n\n _Fourth_, To bring to his master the Boar of Erymanthus.\n\n _Fifth_, To cleanse the stable of King Augeas, in which 3000 oxen had\n been kept for thirty years, but had never been cleaned out.\n\n _Sixth_, To destroy the Stymphalides, terrible carnivorous birds.\n\n _Seventh_, To capture the Bull which was desolating Crete.\n\n _Eighth_, To capture the mares of Diomedes, which breathed fire from\n their nostrils, and ate human flesh.\n\n _Ninth_, To procure the girdle of Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons.\n\n _Tenth_, To bring to Eurystheus the flesh-eating oxen of Geryon, the\n monster king of Gades.\n\n _Eleventh_, To bring away some of the golden apples from the garden of\n the Hesperides.\n\n _Twelfth_, To bring up from Hades the three-headed dog, Cerberus.\n\nAll these tasks he successfully accomplished, and, besides, he assisted\nthe gods in their wars with the giants. Several other wonderful feats\nare mentioned under other headings, as Ant\u00e6us, Cacus, etc. His death\nwas brought about through his endeavours to preserve Deianira from the\nattacks of Nessus, the centaur, whom he killed. The centaur, before\nhe expired, gave his mystic tunic to Deianira, who in turn gave it to\nHercules, and he put it on, but his doing so brought on an illness of\nwhich he could not be cured. In a fit of desperation he cast himself\ninto a funeral pile on Mount \u00c6ta; but Jupiter had him taken to heaven\nin a four-horse chariot, and only the mortal part of Hercules was\nconsumed.\n\n  \u201cLet Hercules himself do what he may,\n  The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.\u201d\n\n  SHAKESPEARE.\n\n\nHERDSMEN, see Bubona.\n\n\nHER\u2032M\u00c6 were statues of Hermes (Mercury), which were set up in Athens\nfor boundaries, and as direction marks for travellers.\n\n\nHER\u2032MANU\u2032BIS, see Anubis.\n\n\nHERMATHE\u2032NAE were statues of Mercury and Minerva placed together.\n\n\nHER\u2032MES. A Greek name of the god Mercury.\n\n  \u201cHermes obeys. With golden pinions binds\n  His flying feet, and mounts the western winds.\u201d\n\n  VIRGIL.\n\n\nHERMI\u2032ONE, daughter of Mars and Venus, who was turned into a serpent,\nand allowed to live in the Elysian fields. There was another Hermione,\ndaughter of Menelaus; she was betrothed to Orestes, but was carried\naway by Pyrrhus, the son of Achilles.\n\n\nHE\u2032RO. A priestess of Venus, with whom Leander was so enamoured that he\nswam across the Hellespont every night to visit her, but at last was\ndrowned; when Hero threw herself into the sea and was drowned also.\n\n\nHEROES, see Valhalla.\n\n\nHESPER\u2032IDES. Three daughters of Hesperus, King of Italy. They kept in\ntheir garden the golden apples which Juno gave Jupiter on their wedding\nday. See Hercules.\n\n\nHES\u2032PERUS, brother of Atlas, was changed into the evening star.\n\n  \u201cTo the ocean now I fly,\n  And those happy climes that lie\n  Where day never shuts his eye,\n  Upon the broad fields of the sky;\n  There I suck the liquid air,\n  All amidst the gardens fair\n  Of Hesperus and his daughters three,\n  That sing about the golden tree.\u201d\n\n  MILTON.\n\n\nHES\u2032TIA. The Greek name of Vesta.\n\n\nHIEROGLY\u2032PHICS, see Mercury.\n\n\nHIGHWAYS, see Janus.\n\n\nHIL\u2032DUR. The Scandinavian Mars.\n\n\nHIP\u2032PIA. A name of Minerva.\n\n\nHIP\u2032PIUS. A name of Neptune.\n\n\nHIPPOCAM\u2032PUS. The name of Neptune\u2019s favourite horse.\n\n\nHIPPOCRE\u2032NIDES, a name of the Muses, from the fountain of Hippocrene\n(the horse fountain), which was formed by a kick of the winged horse\nPegasus.\n\n\nHIPPOLY\u2032TE, queen of the Amazons, daughter of Mars. Her father gave her\na famous girdle, which Hercules was required to procure (see Hercules).\nShe was conquered by Hercules, and given by him in marriage to Theseus.\n\n\nHIPPOLY\u2032TUS was son of Theseus and Hippolyte; he was killed by a fall\nfrom a chariot, but was raised to life again by Diana, or, as some say,\nby \u00c6sculapius.\n\n\nHIPPO\u2032NA was a rural divinity, the goddess of horses.\n\n\nHISTORY, see Clio and Saga.\n\n\nHONEY, see Arist\u00e6us and Dryads.\n\n\nHOPE, see Pandora.\n\n\nHO\u2032R\u00c6 were the daughters of Sol and Chronis.\n\n\nHORSE, see Cyllaros.\n\n\nHORSE RACES, see Neptune.\n\n\nHORSES, see Hippona.\n\n\nHORTEN\u2032SIS, a name of Venus, because she looked after plants and\nflowers in gardens.\n\n\nHO\u2032RUS. A name of Sol, the Egyptian day god.\n\n\nHOSTIL\u2032INA. A rural divinity; goddess of growing corn.\n\n\nHUNGER, see Erisichthon.\n\n\nHUNTING, see Diana.\n\n\nHUNTSMEN, see Pan.\n\n\nHYACIN\u2032THUS was a boy greatly loved by Apollo; but he was accidentally\nslain by him with a quoit. Apollo caused to spring from his blood the\nflower Hyacinth.\n\n\nHY\u2032ADES were seven daughters of Atlas and \u00c6thra, and they form a\nconstellation which, when it rises with the sun, threatens rain.\n\n\nHY\u2032DRA. A famous monster serpent, which had many heads. It was slain by\nHercules. See Hercules.\n\n\nHYGE\u2032IA, the goddess of health, was a daughter of \u00c6sculapius and\nEpione. She was represented as a young woman feeding a serpent, which\nis twined round her arm.\n\n\nHY\u2032LAS. A beautiful boy beloved by Hercules. The nymphs were jealous of\nhim, and spirited him away while he was drawing water for Hercules.\n\n\nHY\u2032MEN, the Grecian god of marriage, was either the son of Bacchus\nand Venus, or, as some say, of Apollo and one of the Muses. He was\nrepresented as a handsome youth, holding in his hand a burning torch.\n\n  \u201cSome few there are of sordid mould\n  Who barter youth and bloom for gold:\n  But Hymen, gen\u2019rous, just, and kind,\n  Abhors the mercenary mind;\n  Such rebels groan beneath his rod,\n  For Hymen\u2019s a vindictive god.\u201d\n\n  Dr. COTTON, 1736.\n\n\nHYMN, see P\u00e6an.\n\n\nHYPE\u2032RION. Son of C\u0153lus and Terra. The model of manly beauty,\nsynonymous with Apollo. The personification of the sun.\n\n  \u201cSo excellent a king; that was to this\n  Hyperion to a satyr.\u201d\n\n  SHAKESPEARE.\n\n\nHYPERMNES\u2032TRA. One of the fifty daughters of Danaus, who were\ncollectively called the Danaides. She was the one who refused to kill\nher husband on the wedding night. See Danaus.\n\n\n\n\nIAC\u2032CHUS. A name of Bacchus.\n\n\nIAP\u2032ETOS. The father of Atlas. See Japetus.\n\n\nIB\u2032LEES. The Arabian Satan.\n\n\nIC\u2032ARUS, son of D\u00e6dalus, who with his father made themselves wings\nwith which to fly from Crete. They were fixed to the shoulders by wax.\nIcarus flew too near the sun, and the heat melting the wax, caused the\nwings to drop off, and he fell into the sea and was drowned.\n\n\nICHNOBA\u2032TE. One of Act\u00e6on\u2019s hounds; it means tracker.\n\n\nID\u00c6\u2032A. A name of Cybele, from Mount Ida, where she was worshipped.\n\n\nID\u00c6\u2032AN MOTHER. Cybele was sometimes so called.\n\n\nIDA\u2032LIA. A name of Venus, from Mount Idalus.\n\n\nIMPERA\u2032TOR was a name of Jupiter, given to him at Pr\u00e6neste.\n\n\nI\u2032NACHUS was one of the earliest of the demigods or heroes.\n\n\nINCENDIARY, see Erostratus.\n\n\nINCENSE, see Venus.\n\n\nIN\u2032CUBUS. A Roman name of Pan, meaning The Nightmare. See Innus.\n\n\nINDIG\u2032ETES were deified mortals, gods of the fourth order. They were\npeculiar to some district.\n\n\nIN\u2032DRA. The Hindoo Jupiter; his wife was Indrant, who presides over the\nwinds and thunder.\n\n\nINFANTS, see Natio.\n\n\nIN\u2032NUS. A name of Pan, the same as Incubus.\n\n\nI\u2032NO, second wife of Athamas, King of Thebes, father of Phryxus and\nHelle. Ino had two children, who could not ascend the throne while\nPhryxus and Helle were alive. Ino therefore persecuted them to such\na degree that they determined to escape. They did so on a ram, whose\nhide became the Golden Fleece (see Phryxus and Helle). Ino destroyed\nherself, and was changed by Neptune into a sea-goddess.\n\n\nINO\u2032A were festivals in memory of Ino.\n\n\nINSTRUMENTAL MUSIC, see Euterpe.\n\n\nI\u2032O was a daughter of Inachus, and a priestess of Juno at Argus.\nJupiter courted her, and was detected by Juno, when the god turned\nIo into a beautiful heifer. Juno demanded the beast of Jupiter, and\nset the hundred-eyed Argus to watch her. Jupiter persuaded Mercury to\ndestroy Argus, and Io was set at liberty, and restored to human shape.\nJuno continued her persecutions, and Io had to wander from place to\nplace till she came to Egypt, where she became wife of King Osiris, and\nwon such good opinions from the Egyptians that after her death she was\nworshipped as the goddess Isis.\n\n\nIOLA\u2032US, son of Iphicles, assisted Hercules in conquering the Hydra, by\nburning with hot irons the place where the heads were cut off; and for\nhis assistance he was restored to youth by Hebe. Lovers used to go to\nhis monument at Phosis and ratify their vows of fidelity.\n\n\nIO\u2032THUN. Celtic mythological monsters, or giants.\n\n\nIPH\u2032ICLUS was twin brother of Hercules, and father of Iolaus.\n\n\nIPHIGENI\u2032A was a daughter of Agamemnon. He made a vow to Diana, which\ninvolved the sacrifice of Iphigenia, but just at the critical moment\nshe was carried to heaven, and a beautiful goat was found on the altar\nin her place.\n\n\nI\u2032RIS, daughter of Thaumas and Electra, was the attendant of Juno, and\none of the messengers of the gods. Her duty was to cut the thread which\ndetained expiring souls. She is the personification of the rainbow.\n\n\nIRON, see Vulcan.\n\n\nI\u2032SIS, wife of Osiris, see Io.\n\n\nI\u2032TYS was killed by his mother Progne when six years old, and given to\nhis father Tereus as food. The gods were so enraged at this that they\nturned Itys into a pheasant, Progne into a swallow, and Tereus into an\nowl.\n\n\nIXI\u2032ON was son of Phlegyas, King of the Lapith\u00e6. For attempting to\nproduce thunder, Jupiter cast him into hell, and had him bound to a\nwheel, surrounded with serpents, which is for ever turning over a river\nof fire.\n\n  \u201cThe powers of vengeance, while they hear,\n  Touched with compassion, drop a tear;\n  Ixion\u2019s rapid wheel is bound,\n  Fixed in attention to the sound.\u201d\n\n  F. LEWIS.\n\n  \u201cOr, as Ixion fix\u2019d, the wretch shall feel\n  The giddy motion of the whirling wheel.\u201d\n\n  POPE.\n\n\n\n\nJ\u2032ANI was a place in Rome where there were three statues of Janus, and\nit was a meeting-place for usurers and creditors.\n\n\nJA\u2032NITOR. A title of Janus, from the gates before the doors of private\nhouses being called Janu\u00e6.\n\n\nJA\u2032NUS. A king of Italy, said to have been the son of C\u0153lus, others\nsay of Apollo; he sheltered Saturn when he was driven from heaven by\nJupiter. Janus presided over highways, gates, and locks, and is usually\nrepresented with two faces. A brazen temple was erected to him in Rome,\nwhich was always open in time of war, and closed during peace.\n\n  \u201cOld Janus, if you please,\n  Grave two-faced father.\u201d\n\n  \u201cIn two-faced Janus we this moral find,--\n  While we look forward, we should glance behind.\u201d\n\n  COLMAN.\n\n\nJAP\u2032ETUS, son of C\u0153lus and Terra, husband of Clymene. He was looked\nupon by the Greeks as the father of mankind. See Iapetos.\n\n\nJA\u2032SON was son of \u00c6son, king of Iolcos; he was brought up by the\ncentaur Chiron. His uncle \u00c6ta sent him to fetch the Golden Fleece from\nColchis (see Argonauts). He went in the ship Argo with forty-nine\ncompanions, the flower of Greek youth. With the help of Juno they got\nsafe to Colchis, but the King \u00c6tes promised to restore the Golden\nFleece only on condition that the Argonauts performed certain services.\nJason was to tame the wild fiery bulls, and to make them plough the\nfield of Mars; to sow in the ground the teeth of a serpent, from which\nwould spring armed men who would fight against him who ploughed the\nfield of Mars; to kill the fiery dragon which guarded the tree on which\nthe Golden Fleece was hung. The fate of Jason and the rest of the\nArgonauts seemed certain; but Medea, the king\u2019s daughter, fell in love\nwith Jason, and with the help of charms which she gave him he overcame\nall the difficulties which the king had put in his way. He took away\nthe Golden Fleece and Medea also. The king sent his son Absyrtus to\novertake the fugitives, but Medea killed him, and strewed his limbs in\nhis father\u2019s path, so that he might be delayed in collecting them, and\nthis enabled Jason and Medea to escape. After a time Jason got tired of\nMedea, and married Glauce, which cruelty Medea revenged by killing her\nchildren before their father\u2019s eyes. Jason was accidentally killed by a\nbeam of the ship Argo falling on him.\n\n\nJOCAS\u2032TA (otherwise Epicasta), wife of Laius, King of Thebes, who in\nafter life married her own son, \u0152dipus, not knowing who he was, and, on\ndiscovering the fatal mistake, hanged herself.\n\n\nJOVE. A very general name of Jupiter.\n\n  \u201cFrom the great father of the gods above\n  My muse begins, for all is full of Jove.\u201d\n\n  VIRGIL.\n\n\nJUDGES IN HELL, THE, were Rhadamanthus for Asiatics; \u00c6acus for\nEuropeans; Minos was the presiding judge. See Triptolemus.\n\n\nJUGATIN\u2032US was one of the nuptial deities.\n\n\nJU\u2032NO was the daughter of Saturn and Ops, _alias_ Cybele. She was\nmarried to Jupiter, and became queen of all the gods and goddesses,\nand mistress of heaven and earth. Juno was the mother of Mars, Vulcan,\nHebe, and Lucina. She prompted the gods to conspire against Jupiter,\nbut the attempt was frustrated, and Apollo and Neptune were banished\nfrom heaven by Jupiter. Juno is the goddess of marriage, and the\nprotectress of married women; and she had special regard for virtuous\nwomen. In the competition for the celebrated Golden Apple, which Juno,\nVenus, and Minerva each claimed as the fairest amongst the goddesses,\nJuno was much displeased when Paris gave the apple to Venus. The\ngoddess is generally represented riding in a chariot drawn by peacocks,\nwith a diadem on her head, and a sceptre in her hand.\n\n\nJU\u2032PITER, son of Saturn and Cybele (or Ops), was born on Mount Ida, in\nCrete, and nourished by the goat Amalth\u00e6a. When quite young Jupiter\nrescued his father from the Titans; and afterwards, with the help of\nHercules, defeated the giants, the sons of earth, when they made war\nagainst heaven. Jupiter was worshipped with great solemnity under\nvarious names by most of the heathen nations. The Africans called him\nAmmon; the Babylonians, Belus; and the Egyptians, Osiris (see Jove). He\nwas represented as a majestic personage seated on a throne, holding in\nhis hands a sceptre and a thunderbolt; at his feet stood a spread eagle.\n\n  \u201cBy Jupiter, this shall not be revoked.\u201d\n\n  SHAKESPEARE.\n\n\nJUSTICE, see Astrea, Nemesis.\n\n\n\n\nKALI. A Hindoo goddess, after whom Calcutta is named.\n\n\nKA\u2032LOC. One of the chief of the Mexican gods.\n\n\nKAM\u2032A. The Hindoo god of love.\n\n\nKEB\u2032LA. The point of the compass which worshippers look to during their\ninvocations. Thus the Sol or Sun worshippers turn to the east, where\nthe sun rises, and the Mohammedans turn towards Mecca.\n\n\nKE\u2032DERLI, in Mohammedan mythology, is a god corresponding to the\nEnglish St. George, and is still invoked by the Turks when they go to\nwar.\n\n\nKI\u2032UN. The Egyptian Venus.\n\n\nKNEPH. An Egyptian god, having a ram\u2019s head and a man\u2019s body.\n\n\nKRISH\u2032NA. An Indian god, the revenger of wrongs; also called the Indian\nApollo.\n\n\nKRO\u2032DO. The Saxon Saturn.\n\n\nKU\u2032MA\u2032RA. The war-god of the Hindoos.\n\n\nKU\u2032VERA. The Hindoo god of riches.\n\n\n\n\nLA\u2032BE. The Arabian Circe, who had unlimited power of metamorphosis.\n\n\nLA\u2032BOUR, see Atlas, Hercules.\n\n\nLABYRINTH, see Theseus.\n\n\nLACH\u2032ESIS. One of the three Fates or Parc\u00e6. She spun the thread of life.\n\n\nLACIN\u2032IA. A name of Juno.\n\n\nLACTURA. One of the goddesses of growing corn.\n\n\nLA\u2032DON. The dragon which guarded the apples in the garden of the\nHesperides. Also the name of one of Act\u00e6on\u2019s hounds. Also the river to\nwhich Syrinx fled when pursued by Pan, where she was changed into a\nreed, and where Pan made his first pipe.\n\n\nL\u00c6\u2032LAPS. One of Diana\u2019s hunting dogs, which, while pursuing a wild\nboar, was petrified. Also the name of one of Act\u00e6on\u2019s hounds.\n\n\nLAKS\u2032MI. Hindoo goddess of wealth and pleasure. One of the husbands of\nVishnu.\n\n\nLAMENTATION, see Cocytus.\n\n\nLAM\u2032IA. An evil deity amongst the Greeks and Romans, and the great\ndread of their children, whom she had the credit of constantly enticing\naway and destroying.\n\n\nLAMP, see Lares and Penates.\n\n\nLAM\u2032POS. One of Aurora\u2019s chariot horses, the other being Ph\u00e6ton.\n\n\nLAOC\u2032OON. One of the priests of Apollo, who was, with his two sons,\ncrushed to death by serpents, because he opposed the admission of the\nwooden horse to Troy.\n\n\nLAOM\u2032EDON, son of Ilus, a Trojan king. He was famous for having, with\nthe assistance of Apollo and Neptune, built the walls of Troy.\n\n\nLAP\u2032IS. The oath stone. The Romans used to swear by Jupiter Lapis.\n\n\nLAP\u2032ITHUS, son of Apollo. His numerous children were called Lapith\u00e6,\nand they are notorious for their fight with the centaurs at the nuptial\nfeast of Perithous and Hippodamia.\n\n\nLA\u2032RES and PEN\u2032ATES were sons of Mercury and Lara, or, as other\nmythologists say, of Jupiter and Lamida. They belonged to the lower\norder of Roman gods, and presided over homes and families. Their\nstatues were generally fixed within the doors of houses, or near the\nhearths. Lamps were sacred to them, as symbols of vigilance, and the\ndog was their sacrifice.\n\nLARK, see Scylla and Nysus.\n\nLATO\u2032NA, daughter of C\u0153us and Ph\u0153bus, mother of Apollo and Diana. Being\nadmired so much by Jupiter, Juno was jealous, and Latona was the object\nof the goddess\u2019s constant persecution.\n\nLAUGHTER, see Momus and Venus.\n\nLAU\u2032REL, see Daphne.\n\nLAVER\u2032NA. The goddess of thieves.\n\nLAW, see Menu.\n\nLAWGIVER, see Nomius.\n\nLAWS, see Themis.\n\nLEAN\u2032DER, see Hero.\n\nLEATHER BOTTLE, see Ascolia.\n\nLE\u2032DA was the mother of Castor and Pollux, their father being Jupiter,\nin the shape of a swan. After her death she received the name of\nNemesis.\n\nLEM\u2032NIUS. One of the names of Vulcan.\n\nLEM\u2032URES. The spectres of departed souls. Milton, in his \u201cOde to the\nNativity,\u201d says--\n\n  \u201cLemures moan with midnight plaint.\u201d\n\nThey are sometimes referred to as the Manes of the dead.\n\nLEN\u00c6\u2032US. One of the names of Bacchus.\n\nLER\u2032NA. The lake near Argos where Hercules conquered the Hydra.\n\nLE\u2032THE. One of the rivers of the infernal regions, of which the\nsouls of the departed are obliged to drink to produce oblivion or\nforgetfulness of everything they did or knew while alive on the earth.\n\n              \u201cA slow and silent stream,\n  Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls\n  Her watery labyrinth, whereof who drinks\n  Forthwith his former state and being forgets,\n  Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.\u201d\n\n  MILTON.\n\nLEUCOTH\u2032EA. The name of Ino after she was transformed into a sea-nymph.\n\nLEVA\u2032NA. The deity who presided over new-born infants.\n\nLEVEL, THE, see D\u00e6dalus.\n\nLIAK\u2032URA. Mount Parnassus.\n\nLIBERAL ARTS, see Minerva.\n\nLIB\u2032ER PAT\u2032ER. A name of Bacchus.\n\nLIBERTY, see Bacchus.\n\nLIB\u2032ISSA. Queen of fays and fairies.\n\nLIBITI\u2032NA. The chief of the funeral deities.\n\nLICENTIOUSNESS, see Belphegor.\n\nLIGE\u2032A. A Greek syren or sea-nymph.\n\nLIGHTNING, see Agni.\n\nLI\u2032LITH. A Jewish myth who is a great enemy to new-born children. She\nwas said to have been Adam\u2019s first wife, but, refusing to submit to\nhim, was turned from Paradise and made a spectre.\n\nLI\u2032NA. The goddess of the art of weaving.\n\nLIN\u2032DOR. A lover in the shape of a shepherd, like Corydon; a love-sick\nswain.\n\nLION, see Atalanta, Chim\u00e6ra.\n\nLIVER, see Tityus and Prometheus.\n\nLOCKS, see Janus.\n\nLO\u2032FEN. The Scandinavian god who guards friendship.\n\nLOF\u2032UA. The Scandinavian goddess who reconciles lovers.\n\nLOKE. The Scandinavian Satan, the god of strife, the spirit of evil.\n\nLO\u2032TIS. A daughter of Neptune, who fled from Priapus, and only escaped\nfrom him by being transformed into a lotus-plant.\n\nLO\u2032TUS-PLANT, see Lotis.\n\nLOVE, see Cupid, Eros, Venus.\n\nLU\u2032CIAN. The impersonation of folly, changed into an ass.\n\nLU\u2032CIFER. The morning star.\n\nLUCI\u2032NA. The goddess who presides at the birth of children. She was a\ndaughter of Jupiter and Juno.\n\n  \u201cLucina, hail! So named from thine own grove,\n  Or from the light thou giv\u2019st us from above.\u201d\n\n  OVID.\n\nLUD. In ancient British mythology the king of the Britons.\n\nLU\u2032NA. The name of Diana as a celestial divinity. See Diana and Hecate.\n\nLU\u2032PERCUS, or Pan. The Roman god of fertility; his festival day was\n15th February, and the festivals were called Lupercalia.\n\n\nLYCAON\u2032IAN FOOD. Execrable viands, such as were supplied to Jupiter\nby Lycaon. To test the divine knowledge of the god he served up human\nflesh, which Jove discovered, and punished Lycaon by turning him into a\nwolf.\n\n\nLYCIAN CLOWNS were turned into frogs by Latona or Ceres.\n\n\nLYMNI\u2032ADES. Nymphs who resided in marshes.\n\n\nLYN\u2032CEUS. One of the Argonauts. The personification of sharpsightedness.\n\n\nLYRE. This musical instrument is constantly associated with the doings\nof the ancient deities. Amphion built the walls of Thebes by the music\nof his lyre. Arion charmed the dolphins in a similar way. Hercules\nbroke the head of Linus, his music master, with the lyre he was\nlearning to use; and Orpheus charmed the most savage beasts, and even\nthe Harpies and gods of the infernal regions, with the enchanting music\nof the lyre. See Mercury.\n\n\n\n\nM\u00c6N\u2032ADES. Priestesses of Bacchus.\n\n\nMAGICIANS, see Telchines.\n\n\nMAG\u2032NA DE\u2019A, a name of Ceres.\n\n\nMAGPIES, see Pierides.\n\n\nMA\u2032HA\u2032SOOR. The Hindoo god of evil.\n\n\nMA\u2032IA. The mother of the Grecian Mercury.\n\n\nMAM\u2032MON. The money-god.\n\n\nMA\u2032NES. The souls of the departed. The god of funerals and tombs.\n\n  \u201cAll have their Manes, and their Manes bear.\n  The few who\u2019re cleansed to those abodes repair,\n  And breathe in ample fields the soft Elysian air.\u201d\n\n\nMANURING LAND, see Picumnus.\n\n\nMARCH 24, Bellona\u2019s Day. See Bellona.\n\n\nMARI\u2032NA. A name of Venus, meaning sea-foam, from her having been formed\nfrom the froth of the sea. See Aphrodite.\n\n\nMARRIAGE, see Cama, Hymen, Juno, Jugatinus.\n\n\nMARS, the god of war, was the son of Jupiter and Juno. Venus was his\nfavourite goddess, and amongst their children were Cupid, Anteros, and\nHarmonia. In the Trojan War Mars took the part of the Trojans, but was\ndefeated by Diomedes.\n\n\nMARSHES, see Lymniades.\n\n\nMAR\u2032SYAS. The name of the piper who challenged Apollo to a musical\ncontest, and, being defeated, was flayed to death by the god. He was\nthe supposed inventor of the flute.\n\n\nMA\u2032RUT. The Hindoo god of tempestuous winds.\n\n\nMATU\u2032RA. One of the rural deities who protected the growing corn at\ntime of ripening.\n\n\nMAX\u2032IMUS. One of the appellations of Jupiter, being the greatest of the\ngods.\n\n\nMEASURES and WEIGHTS, see Mercury.\n\n\nMEDE\u2032A. Wife of Jason, chief of the Argonauts. See Jason.\n\n  \u201cNow to Med\u00e6a\u2019s dragons fix my reins.\u201d\n\n  F. LEWIS.\n\n  \u201cLet not Medea draw her murdering knife,\n  And spill her children\u2019s blood upon the stage.\u201d\n\n  LORD ROSCOMMON.\n\n\nMEDICINE, see Apollo.\n\n\nMEDITATION, see Harpocrates.\n\n\nMEDU\u2032SA. One of the Gorgons. Minerva changed her beautiful hair into\nserpents. She was conquered by Perseus, who cut off her head, and\nplaced it on Minerva\u2019s shield. Every one who looked at the head was\nturned into stone.\n\n Ulysses, in the Odyssey, says he wished to see more of the inhabitants\n of Hades, but was afraid, as he says--\n\n  \u201cLest Gorgon, rising from the infernal lakes,\n  With horrors armed, and curls of hissing snakes,\n  Should fix me, stiffened at the monstrous sight,\n  A stony image in eternal night.\u201d\n\n  POPE.\n\n  \u201cMedusa with Gorgonian terror guards\n  The ford.\u201d\n\n  MILTON.\n\n  \u201cRemove that horrid monster, and take hence\n  Medusa\u2019s petrifying countenance.\u201d\n\n  ADDISON.\n\n\nMEG\u2032\u00c6RA. One of the three Furies.\n\n\nMEG\u2032ALE. A Greek name of Juno, meaning great.\n\n\nMELICER\u2032TA, see Pal\u00e6mon.\n\n\nMELLO\u2032NA. One of the rural divinities, the goddess of bees.\n\n\nMELPOM\u2032ENE. One of the Muses, the goddess of tragedy.\n\n\nMEMORY, see Mnemosyne.\n\n\nMEN\u2032DES. An Egyptian god like Pan. He was worshipped in the form of a\ngoat.\n\n\nMENELA\u2032US. A Spartan king. The elopement of his wife Helen with Paris\nwas the origin of the siege of Troy. See Helena.\n\n\nME\u2032NU. The Hindoo god of law. See Satyavrata.\n\n\nMERCHANTS, see Mercury.\n\n\nMER\u2032CURY, the son of Jupiter and Maia, was the messenger of the gods,\nand the conductor of the souls of the dead to Hades. He was the\nsupposed inventor of weights and measures, and presided over orators\nand merchants. Mercury was accounted a most cunning thief, for he\nstole the bow and quiver of Apollo, the girdle of Venus, the trident\nof Neptune, the tools of Vulcan, and the sword of Mars, and he was\ntherefore called the god of thieves. He is the supposed inventor of\nthe lyre, which he exchanged with Apollo for the Caduceus. There was\nalso an Egyptian Mercury, under the name of Thot, who is credited with\nhaving taught the Egyptians geometry and hieroglyphics.\n\n  \u201cAnd there, without the power to fly,\n  Stands fix\u2019d a tip-toe Mercury.\u201d\n\n  LLOYD, 1750.\n\n  \u201cThen fiery expedition be my wing,\n  Jove\u2019s Mercury, and herald for a king.\u201d\n\n  \u201cBe Mercury, set feathers to thy heels\n  And fly, like thought, from them to me again.\u201d\n\n  SHAKESPEARE.\n\n\nME\u2032RU. The abode of the Hindoo god Vishnu. It is at the top of a\nmountain 80,000 leagues high. The Olympus of the Indians.\n\n\nMI\u2032DAS. A king of Phrygia, who begged of Bacchus the special gift that\neverything that he touched might be turned into gold. The request was\ngranted, and as soon as he touched his food it also was turned to\ngold, and for fear of being starved he was compelled to ask the god to\nwithdraw the power he had bestowed upon him. He was told to bathe in\nthe river Pactolus. He did so, and the sands which he stood on were\ngolden for ever after. It was this same king who, being appointed to be\njudge in a musical contest between Apollo and Pan, gave the Satyr the\npalm; whereupon Apollo, to show his contempt, bestowed on him a pair of\nasses\u2019 ears. This gave rise to the term \u201cMidas-eared,\u201d as a synonym for\nill-judged, or indiscriminate.\n\n  \u201cHe dug a hole, and in it whispering said,\n  What monstrous ears sprout from King Midas\u2019 head.\u201d\n\n  OVID.\n\n\nMI\u2032LO, a celebrated Cretan athlete, who is said to have felled an ox\nwith his fist, and to have eaten the beast in one day. His statue is\noften seen with one hand in the rift of a tree trunk, out of which he\nis vainly trying to withdraw it. The fable is, that when he got an old\nman he attempted to split an oak tree, but having lost his youthful\nvigour, the tree closed on his hand and he was held a prisoner till the\nwolves came and devoured him.\n\n\nMIMALLO\u2032NES. The \u201cwild women\u201d who accompanied Bacchus, so called\nbecause they mimicked his actions.\n\n\nMI\u2032MIR. In Scandinavian mythology the god of wisdom.\n\n\nMIND, see Erinnys.\n\n\nMINER\u2032VA, the goddess of wisdom, war, and the liberal arts, is said to\nhave sprung from the head of Jupiter fully armed for battle. She was a\ngreat benefactress of mankind, and patroness of the fine arts. She was\nthe tutelar deity of the city of Athens. She is also known by the names\nof Pallas, Parthenos, Tritonia, and Glaukopis. She was very generally\nworshipped by the ancients, and her temple at Athens, the Parthenon,\nstill remains. She is represented in statues and pictures as wearing\na golden helmet encircled with an olive branch, and a breastplate. In\nher right hand she carries a lance, and by her side is the famous \u00c6gis\nor shield, covered with the skin of Amalth\u00e6a, the goat which nourished\nJupiter; and for the boss of the shield is the head of Medusa. An owl,\nthe emblem of meditation, is on the left; and a cock, the emblem of\ncourage, on the right. The Elgin Marbles in the British Museum were\nbrought from the Parthenon, her temple at Athens.\n\n\nMI\u2032NOS. The principal of the three judges of hell, before whom the\nspirits of the departed appeared and heard their doom.\n\n\nMI\u2032NOTAUR. The monster, half man, half bull, which Theseus slew.\n\n\nMIRTH, see Momus.\n\n\nMISERY, see Genii.\n\n\nMITH\u2032RA. A Persian divinity, the ruler of the universe, corresponding\nwith the Roman Sol.\n\n\nMNEMOS\u2032YNE. Mother of the Muses and goddess of memory. Jupiter courted\nthe goddess in the guise of a shepherd.\n\n\nMOAK\u2032IBAT. The recording angel of the Mohammedans.\n\n\nMO\u2032LOCH. A god of the Ph\u0153nicians to whom human victims, principally\nchildren, were sacrificed. Moloch is figurative of the influence which\nimpels us to sacrifice that which we ought to cherish most dearly.\n\n  \u201cFirst Moloch, horrid king, besmeared with blood\n  Of human sacrifice, and parents\u2019 tears,\n  Though for the noise of drums and timbrels loud,\n  Their children\u2019s cries unheard, that poured through fire\n  To this grim idol.\u201d\n\n  MILTON.\n\n\nMO\u2032MUS. The god of sarcasm. The god who blamed Jove for not having\nmade a window in man\u2019s breast, so that his thoughts could be seen. His\nbitter jests occasioned his being driven from heaven in disgrace. He\nis represented as holding an image of Folly in one hand, and raising a\nmask from his face with the other. He is also described as the god of\nmirth or laughter.\n\n\nMONE\u2032TA. A name given to Juno by those writers who considered her the\ngoddess of money.\n\n\nMONEY, see Moneta.\n\n\nMONEY-GOD, see Mammon.\n\n\nMOON. The moon was, by the ancients, called _Hecate_ before and after\nsetting; _Astarte_ when in crescent form; _Diana_ when in full. See\nLuna.\n\n  \u201cSoon as the evening shades prevail\n  The moon takes up her wondrous tale,\n  And nightly to the list\u2019ning earth\n  Repeats the story of her birth.\u201d\n\n  ADDISON.\n\n\nMOR\u2032PHEUS. The god of sleep and dreams, the minister of Somnus.\n\n  \u201cMorpheus, the humble god that dwells\n  In cottages and smoky cells;\n  Hates gilded roofs and beds of down,\n  And though he fears no prince\u2019s frown,\n  Flies from the circle of a crown.\u201d\n\n  Sir JOHN DENMAN.\n\n\nMORS. Death, a daughter of Nox.\n\n\nMOUNTAIN, see Atlas, Nymph.\n\n\nMUL\u2032CIBER. A name of Vulcan, sometimes spelled Mulcifer. See Vulcan.\n\n\nMUN\u2032IN. The Scandinavian god of memory, represented by the raven that\nwas perched on Odin\u2019s shoulder.\n\n\nMUSCA\u2032RIUS. A name given to Jupiter because he kept off the flies from\nthe sacrifices.\n\n\nMU\u2032SES, THE, were nine daughters of Jupiter and Mnemosyne. They\npresided over the arts and sciences, music and poetry. Their names\nwere, Calliope, Clio, Erato, Thalia, Melpomene, Terpsichore, Euterpe,\nPolyhymnia, and Urania. They principally resided in Mount Parnassus,\nat Helicon.\n\n  \u201cBe thou the tenth Muse, ten times more in worth,\n  Than those old nine which rhymers advocate.\u201d\n\n  SHAKESPEARE.\n\n\nMUSIC, see Apollo, Muses.\n\n\nMY\u2032THRAS. The Egyptian name of Apollo.\n\n\n\n\nNAI\u2032ADS, THE, were beautiful nymphs of human form who presided over\nsprings, fountains, and wells. They resided in the meadows by the sides\nof rivers. Virgil mentions \u00c6gle as being the fairest of them.\n\n\nNAN\u2032DI. The Hindoo goddess of joy.\n\n\nNAR\u2032AE. The name of the infernal regions amongst the Hindoos.\n\n\nNA\u2032RA\u2032YAN. The mover of the waters. The Hindoo god of tides.\n\n\nNARCIS\u2032SUS, son of Cephisus and the Naiad Liriope, was a beautiful\nyouth, who was so pleased with the reflection of himself which he\nsaw in the placid water of a fountain that he could not help loving\nit, imagining that it must be some beautiful nymph. His fruitless\nendeavours to possess himself of the supposed nymph drove him to\ndespair, and he killed himself. There sprang from his blood a flower,\nwhich was named after him, Narcissus.\n\n  \u201cNarcissus so himself forsook,\n  And died to kiss his shadow in the brook.\u201d\n\n  \u201cHadst thou Narcissus in thy face, to me\n  Thou would\u2019st appear most ugly.\u201d\n\n  SHAKESPEARE.\n\n\nNASTR\u2032OND. The Scandinavian place of eternal punishment, corresponding\nwith Hades.\n\n\nNA\u2032TIO. A Roman goddess who took care of young infants.\n\n\nNEM\u00c6\u2032AN LION, see Hercules.\n\n\nNEM\u2032ESIS, the goddess of vengeance or justice, was one of the infernal\ndeities. Her mother was Nox. She was supposed to be constantly\ntravelling about the earth in search of wickedness, which she punished\nwith the greatest severity. She is referred to by some writers under\nthe name of Adrast\u00e6a. The Romans always sacrificed to this goddess\nbefore they went to war, because they wished to signify that they never\ntook up arms but in the cause of justice.\n\n  \u201cForbear, said Nemesis, my loss to moan,\n  The fainting trembling hand was mine alone.\u201d\n\n  Dr. J. WHARTON.\n\n\nNEPHA\u2032LIA. Grecian festivals in honour of Mnemosyne, the mother of the\nMuses.\n\n\nNEP\u2032TUNE, god of the sea, was a son of Saturn and Cybele, and brother\nof Jupiter and Pluto. He quarrelled with Jupiter because he did not\nconsider that the dominion of the sea was equal to Jupiter\u2019s empire of\nheaven and earth; and he was banished from the celestial regions, after\nhaving conspired with Pluto to dethrone Jupiter. Neptune was married\nto Amphitrite, daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, by whom he had a son\nnamed Triton. He was also father of Polyphemus (one of the Cyclopes),\nPhoreus, and Proteus. Neptune is represented as being seated in a shell\nchariot, drawn by dolphins or sea-horses, and surrounded by Tritons\nand sea-nymphs. He holds in his hand a trident, with which he rules\nthe waves. Though a marine deity, he was reputed to have presided over\nhorse-training and horse-races; but he is principally known as the god\nof the ocean; and the two functions of the god are portrayed in the\nsea-horses with which his chariot is drawn, the fore-half of the animal\nbeing a horse, and the hind-half a dolphin. Ships were also under his\nprotection, and whenever he appeared on the ocean there was a dead calm.\n\n\nNERE\u2032IDES, THE, were aquatic nymphs. They were daughters of Nereus and\nDoris, and fifty in number. They are generally represented as beautiful\ngirls riding on dolphins, and carrying tridents in the right hand.\n\n\nNERE\u2032US. A sea deity, husband of Doris. He had the gift of prophecy,\nand foretold fates; but he had also the power of assuming various\nshapes, which enabled him to escape from the importunities of those who\nwere anxious to consult him.\n\n\nNES\u2032SUS. The name of the Centaur which was destroyed by Hercules for\ninsulting Dejanira.\n\n\nNES\u2032TOR. A grandson of Neptune, his father being Neleus, and his mother\nChloris. Homer makes him one of the greatest of the Greek heroes. He\nwas present at the famous battle between the Lapith\u00e6 and the Centaurs,\nand took a leading part in the Trojan war.\n\n                  \u201c... Here\u2019s Nestor\n  Instructed by the antiquary times,\n  He must, he is, he cannot but be wise.\u201d\n\n  SHAKESPEARE.\n\n\nNICEPH\u2032ORUS. A name of Jupiter, meaning the bearer of victory.\n\n\nNID\u2032HOGG. In Scandinavian mythology the dragon who dwells in Nastrond.\n\n\nNIF\u2032LHEIM. The Scandinavian hell. It was supposed to consist of nine\nvast regions of ice beneath the North Pole, where darkness reigns\neternally. See Nastrond.\n\n\nNIGHT, see Nox.\n\n\nNIGHTINGALE, see Philomela.\n\n\nNIGHTMARE, see Incubus.\n\n\nNINE, THE, see Muses.\n\n\nNI\u2032OBE was a daughter of Tantalus, and is the personification of grief.\nBy her husband Amphion she had seven sons and seven daughters. By the\norders of Latona the father and sons were killed by Apollo, and the\ndaughters (except Chloris) by Diana. Niobe, being overwhelmed with\ngrief, escaped further trouble by being turned into a marble statue.\n\n\nNO\u2032MIUS. A lawgiver; one of the names of Apollo. This title was also\ngiven to Mercury for the part he took in inventing beneficent laws.\n\n\nNORNS. Three Scandinavian goddesses, who wove the woof of human destiny.\n\n\nNO\u2032TUS. Another name for Auster, the south wind.\n\n\nNOX was the daughter of Chaos, and sister of Erebus and Mors. She\npersonified night, and was the mother of Nemesis and the Fates.\n\n\nNUN\u2032DINA. The goddess who took charge of children when they were nine\ndays old--the day on which the Romans named their children.\n\n\nNUPTIA\u2032LIS. A title of Juno. When the goddess was invoked under this\nname, the gall of the victim was taken out and thrown behind the altar,\nsignifying that there should be no gall (bitterness) or anger between\nmarried people.\n\n\nNU\u2032RIEL. In Hebrew mythology the god of hailstorms.\n\n\nNYCTE\u2032LIUS. A name given to Bacchus, because his festivals were\ncelebrated by torchlight.\n\n\nNYM\u2032PHS. This was a general name for a class of inferior female deities\nwho were attendants of the gods. Some of them presided over springs,\nfountains, wells, woods, and the sea. They are spoken of as land-nymphs\nor Naiads, and sea-nymphs or Nereides, though the former are associated\nalso with fountains and rivers. The Dryades were forest-nymphs, and the\nHama-dryades were nymphs who lived amongst the oak-trees--the oak being\nalways specially venerated by the ancients. The mountain-nymphs were\ncalled Oreades.\n\n  \u201cWith flower-inwoven tresses torn,\n  The nymphs in twilight shade\n  Of tangled thickets mourn.\u201d\n\n  MILTON.\n\n\nNY\u2032S\u00c6. The names of the nymphs by whom Bacchus was nursed. See\nDionysius.\n\n\nNY\u2032S\u00c6US. A name of Bacchus, because he was worshipped at Nysa.\n\n\nNY\u2032SUS. A king of Megara who was invisible by virtue of a particular\nlock of hair. This lock his daughter Scylla cut off, and so betrayed\nher father to his enemies. She was changed into a lark, and the king\ninto a hawk, and he still pursues his daughter, intending to punish her\nfor her treachery.\n\n\n\n\nOAN\u2032NES. An Eastern god, represented as a monster, half man, half fish.\nHe was said to have taught men the use of letters in the day-time, and\nat night to have retired to the depth of the ocean.\n\n\nOATH, see Lapis.\n\n\nOBAM\u2032BOU. A devil of African mythology.\n\n\nOCEAN, see Neptune.\n\n\nOCEAN\u2032IDES. Sea-nymphs, daughters of Oceanus and Tethys. Their numbers\nare variously estimated by different poets; some saying there were\nas many as 3000, while others say they were as few as sixteen. The\nprincipal of them are mentioned under their respective names, as\nAmphitrite, Doris, Metis, etc.\n\n\nOCE\u2032ANUS, son of C\u0153lus and Terra, and husband of Tethys. Several\nmythological rivers were called his sons, as Alpheus, Peneus, etc.,\nand his daughters were called the Oceanides. Some of the ancients\nworshipped him as the god of the seas, and invariably invoked his\naid when they were about to start on a voyage. He was also thought\nto personify the immense stream which it was supposed surrounded the\nearth, and into which the sun and moon and other heavenly bodies sank\nevery day.\n\n\nOCRID\u2032ION. A king of Rhodes, who was deified after his death.\n\n\nOCY\u2032PETE. One of the Harpies, who infected everything she touched. The\nword means swift of flight.\n\n\nOCY\u2032ROE. A daughter of Chiron, who had the gift of prophecy. She was\nmetamorphosed into a mare.\n\n\nO\u2032DIN. In Scandinavian mythology the god of the universe, and reputed\nfather of all the Scandinavian kings. His wife\u2019s name was Friga, and\nhis two sons were Thor and Balder.\n\n\n\u0152\u2032AGRUS. Father of Orpheus.\n\n\n\u0152\u2032DIPUS. A son of Laius, King of Thebes, best known as the solver of\nthe famous enigma propounded by the Sphinx.\n\n\n\u0152NO\u2032NE. Wife of Paris, a nymph of Mount Ida, who had the gift of\nprophecy.\n\n\nOGYG\u2032IA. An island, the abode of Calypso, in the Mediterranean Sea.\nIt was so beautiful in sylvan scenery that even Mercury (who dwelt on\nOlympus) was charmed with the spot.\n\n\nOINTMENT, see Phaon.\n\n\nOLE\u2032NUS. A daughter of Vulcan, wife of Leth\u00e6a, a woman who thought\nherself more beautiful than the goddesses, and as a punishment she and\nher husband were turned into stone statues.\n\n\nOLIVES, see Arist\u00e6us.\n\n\nOLYM\u2032PIUS. A name of Jupiter, from Olympia, where the god had a\nsplendid temple, which was considered to be one of the seven wonders of\nthe world.\n\n\nOLYM\u2032PUS was the magnificent mountain on the coast of Thessaly, 6000\nfeet high, where the gods were supposed to reside. There were several\nother smaller mountains of the same name.\n\n  \u201cHigh heaven with trembling the dread signal took,\n  And all Olympus to the centre shook.\u201d\n\n  POPE.\n\n\nOLY\u2032RAS. A river near Thermopyl\u00e6, which, it is said, attempted to\nextinguish the funeral pile on which Hercules was consumed.\n\n\nOMOPHA\u2032GIA. A Bacchanalian festival at which some uncooked meats were\nserved.\n\n\nOM\u2032PHALE. The Queen of Lydia, to whom Hercules was sold as a bondsman\nfor three years for the murder of Iphitus. Hercules fell in love with\nher, and led an effeminate life in her society, wearing female apparel,\nwhile Omphale wore the lion\u2019s skin.\n\n\nONA\u2032RUS. A priest of Bacchus, said to have married Ariadne after she\nhad been abandoned by Theseus.\n\n\nONU\u2032VA. The Venus of the ancient Gauls.\n\n\nOPA\u2032LIA. Roman festivals in honour of Ops, held on 14th of the calends\nof January.\n\n\nOPIATE-ROD, see Caduceus.\n\n  \u201cEyes ... more wakeful than to drowse,\n  Charmed with Arcadian pipe--the pastoral reed\n  Of Hermes or his opiate-rod.\u201d\n\n  MILTON.\n\n\nOPS. Mother of the gods, a daughter of C\u0153lus and Terra. She was\nknown by the several names of Bona Dea, Rhea, Cybele, Magna Mater,\nProserpine, Tellus, and Thya; and occasionally she is spoken of as Juno\nand Minerva. She personified labour, and is represented as a comely\nmatron, distributing gifts with her right hand, and holding in her left\nhand a loaf of bread. Her festival was the 14th day of the January\ncalends.\n\n\nORACLES, see Themis.\n\n\nOR\u00c6\u2032A. Certain sacrifices offered to the goddesses of the seasons to\ninvoke fair weather for the ripening of the fruits of the earth.\n\n\nORBO\u2032NA. The goddess of orphans.\n\n\nORCHARDS, see Feronia.\n\n\nO\u2032READS were mountain nymphs, attendants on Diana.\n\n\nORGIES. Drunken revels. The riotous feasts of Bacchus were so\ndesignated.\n\n\nORI\u2032ON. A famous handsome giant, who was blinded by \u0152nopion for a\ngrievous wrong done to Merope, and he was expelled from Chios. The\nsound of the Cyclopes\u2019 hammers led him to the abode of Vulcan, who gave\nhim a guide. He then consulted an oracle, and had his sight restored,\nas Longfellow says, by fixing\n\n  \u201cHis blank eyes upon the sun.\u201d\n\nHe was afterwards slain by Diana and placed amongst the stars, where\nhis constellation is one of the most splendid.\n\n\nORI\u2032THY\u2032IA. A daughter of Erechtheus, whose lover, Boreas, carried her\noff while she was wandering by the river Ilissus. Her children were\nZetes and Calais, two winged warriors who accompanied the Argonauts.\n\n\nOR\u2032MUZD. In Persian mythology the creator of all things.\n\n\nO\u2032ROS. The Egyptian Apollo.\n\n\nORPHANS, see Orbona.\n\n\nOR\u2032PHEUS was son of Apollo and the Muse Calliope. He was married to\nEurydice; but she was stung by a serpent, and died. Orpheus went down\nto Hades to claim her, and played so sweetly with his lute that Pluto\nallowed Eurydice to return to the earth with Orpheus, but on condition\nthat he did not look behind him until he had reached the terrestrial\nregions. Orpheus, however, in his anxiety to see if she were following\nhim, looked round, and Eurydice disappeared from his sight, instantly\nand for ever.\n\n  \u201cOrpheus\u2019 lute was strung with poets\u2019 sinews.\u201d\n\n  SHAKESPEARE.\n\n\nOSI\u2032RIS. The Egyptian god of the sun; he was worshipped under the form\nof an ox.\n\n            \u201c... After these appeared\n  A crew who, under names of old renown,\n  Osiris, Isis, Orus, and their train,\n  With monstrous shapes and sorceries abused\n  Fanatic Egypt and her priests to seek\n  Their wandering gods, disguised in brutish forms\n  Rather than human.\u201d\n\n  MILTON.\n\n\nOS\u2032SA. One of the mountains which the giants piled on the top of\nOlympus to enable them to ascend to heaven and attack the gods.\n\n\nOX, see Apis.\n\n\nOWL, see \u00c6sculapius and Itys.\n\n\n\n\nPACTO\u2032LUS. The river in Lydia where Midas washed himself by order of\nBacchus, and the sands were turned to gold.\n\n\nP\u00c6\u2032AN. A name given to Apollo, from _p\u00e6an_, the hymn which was sung in\nhis honour after he had killed the serpent Python.\n\n  \u201cWith hymns divine the joyous banquet ends,\n  The P\u00e6ans lengthened till the sun descends.\u201d\n\n  POPE.\n\n\nPAL\u00c6\u2032MON, or Melicerta, a sea-god, son of Athamas and Ino.\n\n\nPA\u2032LES. The goddess of shepherds and protectress of flocks; her\nfestivals were called Palilia.\n\n  \u201cPomona loves the orchard,\n    And Liber loves the wine,\n  And Pales loves the straw-built shed,\n    Warm with the breath of kine.\u201d\n\n  MACAULAY.\n\n  \u201cGreat Pales help, the pastoral rites I sing,\n  With humble duty mentioning each thing.\u201d\n\n  POPE.\n\n\nPALLA\u2032DIUM. A famous statue of the goddess Pallas (Minerva). She is\nsitting with a spear in her right hand, and in her left a distaff and\nspindle. Various accounts are given of the origin of it. Some writers\nsay it fell from the skies. It was supposed that the preservation of\nthe statue would be the preservation of Troy; and during the Trojan War\nthe Greeks were greatly encouraged when they became the possessors of\nit.\n\n\nPAL\u2032LAS, or Minerva. The name was given to Minerva when she destroyed\na famous giant named Pallas. See Minerva.\n\n  \u201cApollo, Pallas, Jove, or Mercury,\n  Inspire me that I may this treason find.\u201d\n\n  SHAKESPEARE.\n\n\nPAN. The Arcadian god of shepherds, huntsmen, and country folk, and\nchief of the inferior deities, is usually considered to have been the\nson of Mercury and Penelope. After his birth he was metamorphosed into\nthe mythical form in which we find him depicted, namely, a horned,\nlong-eared man, with the lower half of the body like a goat. He is\ngenerally seen playing a pipe made of reeds of various lengths, which\nhe invented himself, and from which he could produce music which\ncharmed even the gods. These are the Pan-pipes, played by Punch and\nJudy showmen. Pan\u2019s terrific appearance once so frightened the Gauls\nwhen they invaded Greece that they ran away though no one pursued them;\nand the word _panic_ is said to have been derived from this episode.\nThe Fauns, who greatly resembled Pan, were his attendants.\n\n  \u201cPiping on their reeds the shepherds go,\n  Nor fear an ambush, nor suspect a foe.\u201d\n\n  POPE.\n\n\nPANDO\u2032RA, according to Hesiod, was the first mortal female. Vulcan made\nher of clay, and gave her life. Venus gave her beauty; and the art of\ncaptivating was bestowed upon her by the Graces. She was taught singing\nby Apollo, and Mercury taught her oratory. Jupiter gave her a box, the\nfamous \u201cPandora\u2019s Box,\u201d which she was told to give to her husband,\nEpimetheus, brother of Prometheus. As soon as he opened it there\nissued from it numberless diseases and evils which were soon spread\nall over the world, and from that moment they have afflicted the human\nrace. It is said that Hope alone remained in the box.\n\n  \u201cMore lovely than Pandora, whom the gods\n  Endowed with all their gifts.\u201d\n\n  MILTON.\n\n\nPANTHE\u2032ON. The temple of all the gods, built by Agrippa at Rome, in the\nreign of Augustus. It was 144 feet in diameter, and 144 feet high; and\nwas built in the Corinthian style of architecture, mostly of marble;\nwhile its walls were covered with engraved brass and silver. Its\nmagnificence induced Pliny to give it rank amongst the wonders of the\nworld.\n\n\nPA\u2032PHIA, a name of Venus.\n\n\nPAP\u2032REMIS. The Egyptian Mars.\n\n\nPAR\u2032C\u00c6, THE, were goddesses who presided over the destiny of human\nbeings. They were also called the Fates, and were three in number,\nAtropos, Clotho, and Lachesis. See Fates.\n\n\nPAR\u2032IS was son of Priam, king of Troy, and his mother was Hecuba. It\nhad been predicted that he would be the cause of the destruction of\nTroy, and his father therefore ordered him to be strangled as soon as\nhe was born; but the slave who had been entrusted with this mission\ntook the child to Mount Ida, and left it there. Some shepherds,\nhowever, found the infant and took care of him. He lived amongst\nthem till he had grown to man\u2019s estate, and he then married \u0152none,\na nymph of Ida. At the famous nuptial feast of Peleus and Thetis,\nDiscordia, who had not been invited, attended secretly; and when\nall were assembled, she threw amongst the goddesses a golden apple,\non which was inscribed \u201cLet the fairest take it.\u201d This occasioned a\ngreat contention, for each thought herself the fairest. Ultimately,\nthe contestants were reduced to three, Juno, Pallas (Minerva), and\nVenus; but Jove himself could not make these three agree, and it was\ndecided that Paris should be the umpire. He was sent for, and each\nof the goddesses courted his favour by offering all sorts of bribes.\nJuno offered him power, Pallas wisdom, and Venus promised him the most\nbeautiful woman in the world. Paris gave the golden apple to Venus.\nSoon after this episode Priam owned Paris as his son, and sent him to\nGreece to fetch Helen, who was renowned as being the most beautiful\nwoman in the world. She was the wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta; but\nduring his absence Paris carried Helen away to Troy, and this gave rise\nto the celebrated war between the Greeks and the Trojans, which ended\nin the destruction of Troy. Paris was amongst the 676,000 Trojans who\nfell during or after the siege.\n\n\nPARNAS\u2032SIDES, a name common to the Muses, from Mount Parnassus.\n\n\nPARNAS\u2032SUS. The mountain of the Muses in Phocis, and sacred to Apollo\nand Bacchus. Any one who slept on this mountain became a poet. It was\nnamed after one of the sons of Bacchus.\n\n\nPAR\u2032THENON. The temple of Minerva (or Pallas), at Athens. It was\ndestroyed by the Persians, and rebuilt by Pericles.\n\n\nPAR\u2032THENOS was a name of Juno, and also of Minerva. See Pallas.\n\n\nPASIPH\u2032AE was the reputed mother of the Minotaur killed by Theseus. She\nwas said to be the daughter of Sol and Perseis, and her husband was\nMinos, king of Crete.\n\n\nPASITH\u2032EA. Sometimes there are _four_ Graces spoken of; when this is\nso, the name of the fourth is Pasithea.\n\n\nPA\u2032VAN, the Hindoo god of the winds.\n\n\nPEACE, see Concordia.\n\n\nPEACOCK, see Argus.\n\n\nPEG\u2032ASUS. The famous winged horse which was said to have sprung from\nthe blood of Medusa when her head was cut off by Perseus. His abode\nwas on Mount Helicon, where, by striking the ground with his hoof, he\ncaused water to spring forth, which formed the fountain afterwards\ncalled Hippocrene.\n\n  \u201cThy stumbling founder\u2019d jade can trot as high\n  As any other Pegasus can fly.\u201d\n\n  EARL OF DORSET.\n\n  \u201cTo turn and wind a fiery Pegasus,\n  And witch the world with noble horsemanship.\u201d\n\n  SHAKESPEARE.\n\n\nPE\u2032LEUS. A king of Thessaly, who married Thetis, one of the Nereids.\n\n\nPE\u2032LIAS. A son of Neptune and Tyro. He usurped the throne of Cretheus,\nwhich Jason was persuaded to relinquish and take the command of the\nArgonautic expedition. On the return of Jason, Medea, the sorceress,\nundertook to restore Pelias to youth, but required that the body should\nfirst be cut up and put in a caldron of boiling water. When this\nhad been done, Medea refused to fulfil her promise. Pelias had four\ndaughters, who were called the Peliades.\n\n\nPE\u2032LIAS was the name of the spear of Achilles, which was so large that\nnone could wield it but the hero himself.\n\n\nPE\u2032LION. A well-wooded mountain, famous for the wars between the giants\nand the gods, and as the abode of the Centaurs, who were expelled by\nthe Lapith\u00e6.\n\n  \u201cThe gods they challenge, and affect the skies,\n  Heaved on Olympus tottering Ossa stood;\n  On Ossa, Pelion nods with all his wood.\u201d\n\n  POPE.\n\n\nPE\u2032LOPS, son of Tantalus, king of Phrygia. His father killed him, and\nserved him up to be eaten at a feast given to the gods, who, when they\nfound out what the father of Pelops had done, restored the son to life,\nand he afterwards became the husband of Hippodamia.\n\n\nPENA\u2032TES. Roman domestic gods. See Lares.\n\n\nPERPETUAL PUNISHMENT, see Sisyphus.\n\n\nPERSEPH\u2032ONE. The Greek name of Proserpine.\n\n\nPER\u2032SEUS was a son of Jupiter and Dan\u00e6, the daughter of Acrisius. His\nfirst famous exploit was against the Gorgon, Medusa. He was assisted in\nthis enterprise by Pluto, who lent him a helmet which would make him\ninvisible. Pallas lent him her shield, and Mercury supplied him with\nwings. He made a speedy conquest of the Gorgons, and cut off Medusa\u2019s\nhead, with which he flew through the air, and from the blood sprang the\nwinged horse Pegasus. As he flew along he saw Andromeda chained to the\nrock, and a sea-monster ready to devour her. He killed the monster, and\nmarried Andromeda. When he got back, he showed the Gorgon\u2019s head to\nKing Polydectes, and the monarch was immediately turned into stone.\n\n  \u201cNow on D\u00e6dalian waxen pinions stray,\n  Or those which wafted Perseus on his way.\u201d\n\n  F. LEWIS.\n\n\nPERSUASION, goddess of, see Pitho.\n\n\nPHA\u2032ETON. A son of Sol, or, according to most mythologists, of Ph\u0153bus\nand Clymene. Anxious to display his skill in horsemanship, he was\nallowed to drive the chariot of the sun for one day. The horses soon\nfound out the incapacity of the charioteer, became unmanageable, and\noverturned the chariot. There was such great fear of injury to heaven\nand earth, that Jove, to stop the destruction, killed Phaeton with a\nthunderbolt.\n\n  \u201cNow Phaeton, by lofty hopes possessed,\n  The burning seat with youthful vigour pressed.\u201d\n\n  \u201cThe breathless Pha\u00ebton, with flaming hair,\n  Shot from the chariot like a falling star\n  That in a summer\u2019s evening from the top\n  Of heaven drops down, or seems at least to drop.\u201d\n\n  ADDISON.\n\n\nPHA\u2032ON. A boatman, who received from Venus a box of ointment, with\nwhich, when he anointed himself, he grew so beautiful that Sappho\nbecame enamoured of him; but when the ointment had all been used Phaon\nreturned to his former condition, and Sappho, in despair, drowned\nherself.\n\n\nPHEASANT, see Itys.\n\n\nPHILOCT\u2032ETES was son of P\u0153as, and one of the companions of Jason on\nhis Argonautic expedition. He was present at the death of Hercules,\nand received from him the poisoned arrows which had been dipped in the\nblood of the Hydra. These arrows, an oracle declared, were necessary\nto be used in the destruction of Troy, and Philoctetes was persuaded\nby Ulysses to go and assist at the siege. He appears to have used the\nweapons with great dexterity and with wonderful effect, for Paris was\namongst the heroes whom he killed.\n\n\nPHILOME\u2032LA was a daughter of Pandion, King of Athens, who was\ntransformed into a nightingale.\n\n  \u201cForth like a fury Philomela flew,\n  And at his face the head of Itys threw.\u201d\n\n  POPE.\n\n  \u201cAnd thou, melodious Philomel,\n  Again thy plaintive story tell.\u201d\n\n  Sir THOMAS LYTTLETON.\n\n\nPHLEG\u2032ETHON. A river of fire in the infernal regions. It was the\npicture of desolation, for nothing could grow on its parched and\nwithered banks.\n\n      \u201c... Infernal rivers ...\n  ... Fierce Phlegethon,\n  Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage.\u201d\n\n  MILTON.\n\n\nPHLE\u2032GON (earth loving), one of the four chariot horses of Sol.\n\n\nPHLE\u2032GYAS. Son of Mars and father of Ixion and Coronis. For his impiety\nin desecrating and plundering the temple of Apollo at Delphi, he was\nsent to Hades, and there was made to sit with a huge stone suspended\nover his head, ready to be dropped on him at any moment.\n\n\nPH\u0152\u2032BUS. A name of Apollo, signifying light and life.\n\n  \u201cGallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds,\n  Towards Ph\u0153bus\u2019 lodging.\u201d\n\n  SHAKESPEARE.\n\n\nPHOR\u2032CUS. A son of Neptune, father of the Gorgons.\n\n\nPHRYX\u2032US, see Golden Fleece.\n\n\nPICUM\u2032NUS. A rural divinity, who presided over the manuring of lands,\ncalled also Sterentius.\n\n\nPI\u2032CUS. A son of Saturn, father of Faunus, was turned into a woodpecker\nby Circe, whose love he had not requited.\n\n\nPIER\u2032IDES. A name of the Muses, derived from Pieria, a fountain near\nMount Olympus, where they were supposed to have been born. Also, the\ndaughters of Pierus, a king of Macedonia, who settled in B\u0153otia. They\nchallenged the Muses to sing, and were changed into magpies.\n\n\nPILLAR, see Calpe.\n\n\nPILUM\u2032NUS. A rural divinity, which presided over the corn while it was\nbeing ground.\n\n\nPINE-TREE, see Atys.\n\n\nPIRITH\u2032OUS. A son of Ixion and great friend of Theseus, King of Athens.\nThe marriage of Pirithous and Hippodamia became famous for the quarrel\nbetween the drunken Centaurs and the Lapith\u00e6, who, with the help of\nTheseus, Pirithous, and Hercules, attacked and overcame the Centaurs,\nmany of whom were killed, and the rest took to flight.\n\n\nPI\u2032THO, the goddess of Persuasion, daughter of Mercury and Venus. She\nis sometimes referred to under the name of Suada.\n\n\nPLANTS, see Demogorgon.\n\n\nPLEASURE, see Rembha.\n\n\nPLEI\u2032ADES, THE. Seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione. Their names were\nElectra, Alcyone, Cel\u00e6no, Maia, Sterope, Taygete, and Merope. They were\nmade a constellation, but as there are only six stars to be seen, the\nancients believed that one of the sisters, Merope, married a mortal,\nand was ashamed to show herself amongst her sisters, who had all been\nmarried to gods.\n\n                        \u201c... The gray\n  Dawn and the Pleiades before him danced,\n  Shedding sweet influence.\u201d\n\n  MILTON.\n\n\nPLU\u2032TO. King of the infernal regions. He was a son of Saturn and Ops,\nand husband of Proserpine, daughter of Ceres. He is sometimes referred\nto under the name Dis, and he personifies hell. His principal attendant\nwas the three-headed dog Cerberus, and about his throne were the\nEumenides, the Harpies, and the Furies.\n\n  \u201cWith equal foot, rich friend, impartial fate\n  Knocks at the cottage and the palace gate.\n    .     .     .     .     .     .     .\n  Night soon will seize, and you must go below,\n  To story\u2019d ghosts and Pluto\u2019s house below.\u201d\n\n  CREECH.\n\n\nPLU\u2032TUS, the god of riches, was son of Jason and Ceres. He is described\nas being blind and lame; blind because he so often injudiciously\nbestows his riches, and lame because fortunes come so slowly.\n\n\nPLU\u2032VIUS. A name of Jupiter, because he had the rain in his control.\n\n\nPODALIR\u2032IUS. A famous surgeon, a son of \u00c6sculapius, who was very\nserviceable amongst the soldiers in the Trojan war.\n\n\nPOET, see Parnassus.\n\n\nPOETRY, see Apollo, Calliope, The Muses.\n\n\nPOISONOUS HERBS, see Circe.\n\n\nPOISONOUS LAKE, see Avernus.\n\n\nPOLL\u2032EAR. Son of Siva, the Hindoo god of wisdom.\n\n\nPOL\u2032LUX. Twin brother of Castor. Their father was Jupiter and their\nmother Leda. He and his brother form the constellation Gemini. His\nGreek name was Polydeuces. See \u00c6depol.\n\n\nPOLYBO\u2032TES. One of the giants who made war against Jupiter.\n\n\nPOLYDEC\u2032TES was turned into stone when Perseus showed him Medusa\u2019s\nhead. See Perseus.\n\n\nPOLYDEU\u2032CES. The Greek name of Pollux.\n\n\nPOLYHYM\u2032NIA. Daughter of Jupiter and Mnemosyne. One of the Muses who\npresided over singing and rhetoric.\n\n\nPOLYPHE\u2032MUS, one of the most celebrated of the Cyclopes, a son of\nNeptune. He captured Ulysses and twelve of his companions, and it is\nsaid that six of them were eaten. The rest escaped by the ingenuity of\nUlysses, who destroyed the Cyclop\u2019s one eye with a firebrand.\n\n  \u201cCharybdis barks and Polyphemus roars.\u201d\n\n  FRANCIS.\n\n\nPOLYX\u2032ENA. Daughter of Priam, king of Troy. It was by her treachery\nthat Achilles was shot in the heel.\n\n\nPOMO\u2032NA. The Roman goddess of fruits and gardens.\n\n                \u201cSo to the sylvan lodge\n  They came, that like Pomona\u2019s arbour smiled\n  With flowerets decked and fragrant smells.\u201d\n\n  MILTON.\n\n\nPOPLAR-TREE, see Heliades.\n\n\nPORTU\u2032NUS (Pal\u00e6mon), son of Ino, was god of harbours.\n\n\nPOSEI\u2032DON. A name of Neptune.\n\n\nPRAC\u2032RITI. The Hindoo goddess of nature.\n\n\nPREDICTIONS, see Cassandra.\n\n\nPRI\u2032AM. The last king of Troy. See Paris.\n\n\nPRIA\u2032PUS, the guardian of gardens and god of natural reproduction, was\nson of Venus and Bacchus.\n\n  \u201cPriapus could not half describe the grace\n  (Though god of gardens) of this charming place.\u201d\n\n  POPE.\n\n\nPRIS\u2032CA. Another name of Vesta.\n\n\nPRO\u2032CRIS. Daughter of the king of Athens. See Cephalus.\n\n\nPROG\u2032NE, wife of Tereus. See Itys and Tereus.\n\n  \u201cComplaining oft gives respite to our grief,\n  From hence the wretched Progne sought relief.\u201d\n\n  F. LEWIS.\n\n\nPROME\u2032THEUS was son of Japetes and father of Deucalion. He presumed\nto make clay men, and animate them with fire which he had stolen from\nheaven. This so displeased Jupiter that he sent him a box full of\nevils, which Prometheus refused; but his brother Epimetheus, not so\ncautious, opened it, and the evils spread over all the earth. Jupiter\nthen punished Prometheus by commanding Mercury to bind him to Mount\nCaucasus, where a vulture daily preyed upon his liver, which grew\nin the night as much as it had been reduced in the day, so that the\npunishment was a prolonged torture. Hercules at last killed the vulture\nand set Prometheus free.\n\n\nPROPHECY, see Nereus.\n\n\nPROSER\u2032PINE. A daughter of Jupiter and Ceres. Pluto carried her off to\nthe infernal regions and made her his wife. She was known by the names\nof \u201cthe Queen of Hell,\u201d Hecate, Juno Inferna, and Libitina.\n\n  \u201cHe sung, and hell consented\n      To hear the poet\u2019s prayer,\n  Stern Proserpine relented,\n      And gave him back the fair.\u201d\n\n  F. LEWIS.\n\n\nPRO\u2032TEUS. A marine deity, who could foretell events and convert himself\nat will into all sorts of shapes.\n\n  \u201cThe changeful Proteus, whose prophetic mind,\n  The secret cause of Bacchus\u2019 rage divined.\u201d\n\n  _The Lusiad._\n\n  \u201cWhat chain can hold this varying Proteus fast?\u201d\n\n  BUDGELL.\n\n\nPSY\u2032CHE. The wife of Cupid. The name is Greek, signifying the soul or\nspirit.\n\n\nPYGMA\u2032LION. A famous sculptor who had resolved to remain unmarried,\nbut he made such a beautiful statue of a goddess that he begged Venus\nto give it life. His request being granted, Pygmalion married the\nanimated statue.\n\n  \u201cFew, like Pygmalion, doat on lifeless charms,\n  Or care to clasp a statue in their arms.\u201d\n\n\nPY\u2032LADES.\n\n                        \u201cHis wine\n  Was better, Pylades, than thine.\n                ... If you please\n  To chuse me for your Pylades.\u201d\n\n  F. LEWIS.\n\n\nPYLO\u2032TIS. A Greek name of Minerva.\n\n\nPYR\u2032ACMON, one of the chiefs of the Cyclopes.\n\n\nPY\u2032ROIS (luminous). One of the four chariot horses of Sol.\n\n\nPY\u2032THIA. The priestess of Apollo at Delphi, who delivered the answers\nof the oracle. Also the name of the games celebrated in honour of\nApollo\u2019s victory over the Pithon.\n\n\nPY\u2032THON. A famous serpent killed by Apollo. See Septerion.\n\n\n\n\nQUADRA\u2019TUS. A surname given to Mercury, because some of his statues\nwere four-sided.\n\n\nQUAD\u2032RIFRON\u2032TIS. Janus was sometimes depicted with four faces instead\nof the usual two, and he was then called Janus Quadrifrontis.\n\n\nQUI\u2032ES. The Roman goddess of rest; she had a temple just outside the\nCollini gate of Rome.\n\n\nQUIE\u2032TUS. One of the names of Pluto.\n\n\nQUIRI\u2032NUS. A name given to Mars during war time; and Virgil refers to\nJupiter under the same name.\n\n\nQUOIT, see Hyacinthus.\n\n\n\n\nRACE, see Atalanta.\n\n\nRADAMAN\u2032THUS, see Rhadamanthus.\n\n\nRAGE, see Furies.\n\n\nRAINBOW, see Iris.\n\n\nRA\u2032MA. A Hindoo god, who was the terrestrial representative of Vishnu.\n\n\nRAM\u2019S HIDE, see Golden Fleece.\n\n\nREEDS, see Pan and Syrinx.\n\n\nREM\u2032BHA. The Hindoo goddess of pleasure.\n\n\nREPRODUCTION, see Priapus.\n\n\nREST, see Quies.\n\n\nREVENGE, see Ate.\n\n\nRHADAMAN\u2032THUS, a son of Jupiter and Europa, was the judge of the\nAsiatics in the infernal regions.\n\n  \u201cThese are the realms of unrelenting fate:\n  And awful Rhadamanthus rules the state.\n  He hears and judges each committed crime,\n  Inquires into the manner, place, and time;\n  The conscious wretch must all his acts reveal,\n  Loth to confess, unable to conceal;\n  From the first moment of his vital breath,\n  To the last hour of unrepenting death.\u201d\n\n  DRYDEN.\n\n\nRHAMNU\u2032SIA. A name of Nemesis, from Rhamnus, a town in Attica, where\nshe had a temple in which was her statue, made of one stone ten cubits\nhigh.\n\n\nRHE\u2032A. The Greek name of Cybele.\n\n\nRHETORIC, see Calliope, Polyhymnia.\n\n\nRICHES, see Plutus.\n\n\nRIDDLE, see Sphinx.\n\n\nRIM\u2032MON. A Phrygian god of whom Milton says--\n\n  \u201c... Rimmon, whose delightful seat\n  Was fair Damascus, on the fertile banks\n  Of Abana and Pharpar, lucid streams.\u201d\n\n\nRIOT, see Saturnalia.\n\n\nRIVER OF FIRE, see Phlegethon.\n\n\nROADS, see Vialis.\n\n\nROBBER, see Cacus, C\u0153culus.\n\n\nROM\u2032ULUS. The traditional founder of Rome. He was a son of Mars and\nIlia, and twin brother of Remus. The infants were thrown into the\nTiber, but were miraculously saved and suckled by a she-wolf, till they\nwere found by Faustulus, a shepherd, who brought them up. Remus was\nkilled in a quarrel with his brother, and Romulus became the famous\nemperor.\n\n\nRUMI\u2032A DEA. The Roman goddess of babes in arms.\n\n\nRUNCI\u2032A. The goddess of weeding or cleansing the ground.\n\n\n\n\nSACRIFICES were ceremonious offerings made to the gods. To every deity\na distinct victim was allotted, and the greatest care was always taken\nin the selection of them. Anything in any way blemished was considered\nas an insult to the god. At the time of the sacrifice the people\nwere called together by heralds led by a procession of musicians.\nThe priest, clothed in white, was crowned with a wreath made of the\nleaves of the tree which was sacred to the particular god to whom the\nsacrifice was offered. The victim had its horns gilt, and was adorned\nwith a chaplet similar to that of the priest, and was decorated with\nbright-coloured ribbons. The priest then said, \u201cWho is here?\u201d to which\nthe spectators replied, \u201cMany good people.\u201d \u201cBegone all ye who are\nprofane,\u201d said the priest; and he then began a prayer addressed to all\nthe gods. The sacrifice was begun by putting corn, frankincense, flour,\nsalt, cakes, and fruit on the head of the victim. This was called the\nImmolation. The priest then took a cup of wine, tasted it, and handed\nit to the bystanders to taste also; some of it was then poured between\nthe horns of the victim, and a few of the saturated hairs were pulled\noff and put in the fire which was burning on the altar. Then, turning\nto the east, the priest drew with his knife a crooked line along the\nback of the beast from the head to the tail, and told the assistants to\nkill the animal. This was done directly, and the entrails of the victim\ntaken out and carefully examined by the Aruspices to find out what was\nprognosticated. The carcase was then divided, and the thighs, covered\nwith fat, were put in the fire, and the rest of the animal was cut up,\ncooked, and eaten. This feast was celebrated with dancing, music, and\nhymns, in praise of the god in whose honour the sacrifice was made. On\ngreat occasions as many as a hundred bullocks were offered at one time;\nand it is said that Pythagoras made this offering when he found out the\ndemonstration of the forty-seventh proposition of the book of Euclid.\n\n\nSA\u2032GA. The Scandinavian goddess of history.\n\n\nSAGGITA\u2032RIUS, see Chiron.\n\n\nSAILS, see D\u00e6dalus.\n\n\nSAL\u2032AMAN\u2032DERS. The genii who, according to Plato, lived in fire.\n\n  \u201cThe sprites of fiery termagants in flame,\n  Mount up and take a Salamander\u2019s name.\u201d\n\n  POPE.\n\n\nSALA\u2032TIA, see Amphitrite.\n\n\nSAL\u2032II. The priests of Mars who had charge of the sacred shields.\n\n\nSALMO\u2032NEUS. A king of Elis who, for trying to imitate Jupiter\u2019s\nsplendours, was sent by the god straight to the infernal regions.\n\n\nSA\u2032LUS. The Roman god of health.\n\n\nSAP\u2032PHO, a celebrated poetess, a native of Lesbos, who flourished B.C.\n610. Her only connection with the goddesses of the time is that the\nGreeks called her \u201cThe tenth Muse.\u201d\n\n\nSARCASM, see Momus.\n\n\nSA\u2032RON, a sea-god.\n\n\nSAT\u2032URN, King of the Universe, was father of Jupiter, Neptune, and\nPluto. These gods quarrelled amongst themselves as to the division of\ntheir father\u2019s kingdom, which ended in Jupiter having heaven and earth,\nNeptune the sea, and Pluto the infernal regions.\n\n\nSATURNA\u2032LIA. Festivals held in honour of Saturn about the 16th or\n18th of December. Principally famous for the riotous disorder which\ngenerally attended them.\n\n\nSATUR\u2032NIUS. A name given to Jupiter, Neptune, and Pluto, as sons of\nSaturn.\n\n\nSATYA\u2032VRA\u2032TA. The Hindoo god of law. The same as Menu.\n\n\nSAT\u2032YRS were the attendants of Silenus, and were similar in most\nrespects to the fauns who attended Pan. See Silenus.\n\n  \u201cFive satyrs of the woodland sort,\n      .     .      .     .     .     .\n  Their ears prick\u2019d up, their noses short,\n      .      .     .     .     .     .\n  With asses\u2019 hoofs, great goggle eyes,\n  And double chins of monstrous size.\u201d\n\n  YALDEN.\n\n\nSCYL\u2032LA. A beautiful nymph who excited the jealousy of Neptune\u2019s\nwife, Amphitrite, and was changed by the goddess into a frightful\nsea-monster, which had six fearfully ugly heads and necks, and who,\nrising unexpectedly from the deep, used to take off as many as six\nsailors from a vessel, and carry them to the bottom of the sea. An\nalternative danger with Charybdis.\n\n  \u201cThere on the right her dogs foul Scylla hides,\n  Charybdis roaring on the left presides.\u201d\n\n  VIRGIL.\n\n\nSCYL\u2032LA. A daughter of Nysus, who was changed into a lark for cutting\noff a charmed lock of her father\u2019s hair. See Nysus.\n\n\nSEA, see Neptune.\n\n\nSEASONS, see Vertumnus.\n\n\nSEA-WEED, see Glaucus.\n\n\nSEGES\u2032TA. A rural divinity who protected corn during harvest-time.\n\n\nSEM. The Egyptian Hercules.\n\n\nSEM\u2032ELE, the mother of Bacchus, was born in a miraculous manner after\nJupiter had visited her, at her special request, in all his terrible\nsplendour. She was deified after her death, and named Thyone.\n\n\nSEMI-DEI were the demi-gods.\n\n\nSEMO\u2032NES. Roman gods of a class between the \u201cimmortal\u201d and the\n\u201cmortal,\u201d such as the Satyrs and Fauns.\n\n\nSEPTE\u2032RION. A festival held in honour of Apollo, at which the victory\nof that god over the Python was grandly represented.\n\n\nSERA\u2032PIS. The Egyptian Jupiter, and generally considered to be the same\nas Osiris. See Apis.\n\n\nSERPENT. The Greeks and Romans considered the serpent as symbolical of\nguardian spirits, and as such were often engraved on their altars. See\n\u00c6sculapius, Apollo, Chimera, Eurydice, and Medusa.\n\n                      \u201cPleasing was his shape,\n  And lovely; never since of serpent kind,\n  Lovelier; not those that in Illyria changed\n  Hermione and Cadmus, or the god\n  In Epidaurus, nor to which transformed\n  Ammonian Jove, or Capitoline, was seen.\u201d\n\n  MILTON.\n\n\nSESH\u2032ANAG\u2032A. The Egyptian Pluto.\n\n\nSEWERS, see Cloacina.\n\n\nSHARP-SIGHTEDNESS, see Lynceus.\n\n\nSHEPHERDS, see Pan.\n\n\nSHIELDS, see Ancilia.\n\n\nSHIPS, see Neptune.\n\n\nSILENCE, see Harpocrates and Tacita.\n\n\nSILE\u2032NUS. A Bacchanalian demi-god, the chief of the Satyrs. He is\ngenerally represented as a fat, drunken old man, riding on an ass, and\ncrowned with flowers.\n\n  \u201cAnd there two Satyrs on the ground,\n  Stretched at his ease, their sire Silenus found.\u201d\n\n\nSINGING, see Polyhymnia, Thanyris.\n\n\nSI\u2032RENS, THE. Sea nymphs, who by their music allured mariners to\ndestruction. To avoid the snare when nearing their abode, Ulysses had\nthe ears of his companions stopped with wax, and had himself tied to\nthe mast of his ship. They thus sailed past in safety; but the Sirens,\nthinking that their charms had lost their powers, drowned themselves.\n\n\nSIS\u2032YPHUS, son of \u00c6olus and Enaretta. He was condemned to roll a stone\nto the top of a hill in the infernal regions, and as it rolled down\nagain when he reached the summit, his punishment was perpetual.\n\n  \u201cI turned my eye, and as I turned, surveyed\n  A mournful vision! The Sisyphian shade,\n  With many a weary step and many a groan,\n  Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone,\n  The huge round stone, resulting with a bound,\n  Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground.\u201d\n\n  POPE.\n\n  \u201cThy stone, O Sisyphus, stands still,\n  Ixion rests upon his wheel,\n      And the pale spectres dance.\u201d\n\n  F. LEWIS.\n\n\nSI\u2032VA. In Hindoo mythology the \u201cchanger of form.\u201d\n\n\nSLAUGHTER, see Furies.\n\n\nSLAVES, see Feronia.\n\n\nSLEEP, see Caduceus, Morpheus, and Somnus.\n\n\nSLEIP\u2032NER. The eight-legged horse of Odin the chief of the Scandinavian\ngods.\n\n\nSOL. The sun. The worship of the god Sol is the oldest on record, and\nthough he is sometimes referred to as being the same as the god Apollo,\nthere is no doubt he was worshipped by the Egyptians, Persians, and\nother nations long before the Apollo of the Greeks was heard of. See\nSurya.\n\n  \u201cSol through white curtains shot a timorous ray,\n  And oped those eyes that must eclipse the day.\u201d\n\n  POPE.\n\n\nSOM\u2032NUS. The god of sleep, son of Nox (Night). He was one of the\ninfernal deities, and resided in a gloomy cave, void of light and air.\n\n\nSOS\u2032PITA. A name of Juno, as the safeguard of women.\n\n\nSO\u2032TER. A Greek name of Jupiter, meaning deliverer.\n\n\nSOUL, see Psyche.\n\n\nSOUTH WIND, see Auster.\n\n\nSPEAR, see Pelias.\n\n\nSPHINX, THE. A monster having the head and breasts of a woman, the\nbody of a dog, the tail of a serpent, the wings of a bird, the paws of\na lion, and a human voice. She lived in the country near Thebes, and\nproposed to every passer-by the following enigma:--\u201cWhat animal is that\nwhich walks on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the\nevening.\u201d \u0152dipus solved the riddle thus:--Man is the animal; for, when\nan infant he crawls on his hands and feet, in the noontide of life he\nwalks erect, and as the evening of his existence sets in, he supports\nhimself with a stick. When the sphinx found her riddle solved she\ndestroyed herself.\n\n\nSPIDER, see Arachne.\n\n\nSPINDLE, see Pallas.\n\n\nSPINNING, see Arachne, Ergotis.\n\n\nSPRING, see Vertumnus.\n\n\nSTABLE, see Aug\u00e6as.\n\n\nSTARS, see Aurora.\n\n\nSTEREN\u2032TIUS. The Roman god who invented the art of manuring lands. See\nalso Picumnus.\n\n\nSTER\u2032OPES. One of the Cyclopes.\n\n\nSTONE, see Medusa and Phlegyas.\n\n\nSTONE (rolling), see Sisyphus.\n\n\nSTREETS, see Apollo.\n\n\nSTYM\u2032PHALI\u2032DES. The carnivorous birds destroyed in the sixth labour of\nHercules.\n\n\nSTYX. A noted river of hell, which was held in such high esteem by the\ngods that they always swore \u201cBy the Styx,\u201d and such an oath was never\nviolated. See Achilles and Thetis.\n\n  \u201cTo seal his sacred vow by Styx he swore:--\n  The lake with liquid pitch,--the dreary shore.\u201d\n\n  DRYDEN.\n\n            \u201c... Infernal rivers that disgorge\n  Into the burning lake their baleful streams,\n  Abhorr\u00e9d Styx, the flood of deadly hate.\u201d\n\n  MILTON.\n\n\nSUA\u2032DA, the goddess of Persuasion. See Pitho.\n\n\nSUCCESS, see Bonus Eventus.\n\n\nSUN, see Aurora, Belus, Sol, and Surya.\n\n\nSUNFLOWER, see Clytie.\n\n\nSURA\u2032DE\u2032VI. The Hindoo goddess of wine.\n\n\nSUR\u2032GEON, see Podalirius.\n\n\nSU\u2032RY\u2032A. The Hindoo god corresponding to the Roman Sol, the sun.\n\n\nSWALLOW, see Itys.\n\n\nSWAN, see Cygnus and Leda.\n\n\nSWIFTNESS, see Atalanta.\n\n\nSWINE, see Circe.\n\n\nSYLPHS. Genii who, according to Plato, lived in the air.\n\n  \u201cThe light coquettes as Sylphs aloft repair,\n  And sport and flutter in the fields of air.\u201d\n\n  POPE.\n\n\nSYLVES\u2032TER. The name of Mars when he was invoked to protect cultivated\nland from the ravages of war.\n\n\nSYRINX. The name of the nymph who, to escape from the importunities\nof Pan, was by Diana changed into reeds, out of which he made his\ncelebrated pipes, and named them \u201cThe Syrinx.\u201d\n\n\n\n\nTAC\u2032ITA. The goddess of Silence. See Harpocrates.\n\n\nTAN\u2032TALUS. Father of Niobe and Pelops, who, as a punishment for serving\nup his son Pelops as meat at a feast given to the gods, was placed in\na pool of water in the infernal regions; but the waters receded from\nhim whenever he attempted to quench his burning thirst. Hence the word\ntantalising.\n\n Speaking of this god, Homer\u2019s Ulysses says, \u201cI saw the severe\n punishment of Tantalus. In a lake, whose waters approached to his\n lips, he stood burning with thirst, without the power to drink.\n Whenever he inclined his head to the stream, some deity commanded it\n to be dry, and the dark earth appeared at his feet. Around him lofty\n trees spread their fruits to view; the pear, the pomegranate, and the\n apple, the green olive, and the luscious fig quivered before him,\n which, whenever he extended his hand to seize them, were snatched by\n the winds into clouds and obscurity.\u201d\n\n  \u201cThere, Tantalus, along the Stygian bound,\n  Pours out deep groans,--his groans through hell resound.\n  E\u2019en in the circling flood refreshment craves\n  And pines with thirst amidst a sea of waves.\u201d\n\n              \u201c... And of itself the water flies\n  All taste of living wight, as once it fled\n  The lip of Tantalus.\u201d        MILTON.\n\n\nTAR\u2032TARUS. An inner region of hell, to which the gods sent the\nexceptionally depraved.\n\n\nTELCHI\u2032NES. Priests of Cybele, who were famous magicians.\n\n\nTEL\u2032LUS. A name of Cybele, wife of Saturn.\n\n\nTEMPESTS, see Fro.\n\n\nTEMPLE. An edifice erected to the honour of a god or goddess in which\nthe sacrifices were offered.\n\n\nTENTH MUSE. Sappho was so called.\n\n\nTER\u2032EUS was a son of Mars. He married Progne, daughter of the king of\nAthens, but became enamoured of her sister Philomela, who, however,\nresented his attentions, which so enraged him that he cut out her\ntongue. When Progne heard of her husband\u2019s unfaithfulness she took\na terrible revenge (see Itys). Progne was turned into a swallow,\nPhilomela into a nightingale, Itys into a pheasant, and Tereus into a\nhoopoo, a kind of vulture, some say an owl.\n\n\nTERGEMI\u2032NA. A name of Diana, alluding to her triform divinity as\ngoddess of heaven, earth, and hell.\n\n\nTER\u2032MINUS. The Roman god of boundaries.\n\n\nTERPSICH\u2032ORE. One of the nine Muses; she presided over dancing.\n\n\nTERRA. The earth; one of the most ancient of the Grecian goddesses.\n\n\nTHALES\u2032TRIS. A queen of the Amazons.\n\n\nTHALI\u2032A. One of the nine Muses; she presided over festivals and comedy.\n\n\nTHALI\u2032A. One of the Graces.\n\n\nTHAN\u2032YRIS. A skilful singer, who presumed to challenge the Muses to\nsing, upon condition that if he did not sing best they might inflict\nany penalty they pleased. He was, of course, defeated, and the Muses\nmade him blind.\n\n\nTHE\u2032IA. A daughter of C\u0153lus and Terra, wife of Hyperion.\n\n\nTHE\u2032MIS, a daughter of C\u0153lus and Terra, and wife of Jupiter, was the\nRoman goddess of laws, ceremonies, and oracles.\n\n\nTHE\u2032SEUS. One of the most famous of the Greek heroes. He was a son of\n\u00c6geus, King of Athens.\n\n  \u201cBreasts that with sympathising ardour glowed,\n  And holy friendship such as Theseus vowed.\u201d\n\n  BUDGELL.\n\n\nTHESMONPHO\u2032MUS. A name of Ceres.\n\n\nTHE\u2032TIS. A sea-goddess, daughter of Nereus and Doris. Her husband\nwas Peleus, King of Thessaly, and she was the mother of the famous\nAchilles, whom she rendered all but invulnerable by dipping him into\nthe River Styx. See Achilles.\n\n\nTHIEF, see Laverna, Mercury.\n\n\nTHOR. The Scandinavian war god (son of Odin), who had rule over the\naerial regions, and, like Jupiter, hurled thunder against his foes.\n\n\nTHOR\u2019S BELT, is a girdle which doubles his strength whenever the\nwar-god puts it on.\n\n\nTHOTH. The Mercury of the Egyptians.\n\n\nTHREAD OF LIFE, see Fates.\n\n\nTHUNDERBOLTS, see Cyclops.\n\n\nTHUNDERER, THE, Jupiter. See Tonitrualis.\n\n  \u201cO king of gods and men, whose awful hand\n  Disperses thunder on the seas and land,\n  Disposing all with absolute command.\u201d\n\n  VIRGIL.\n\n  \u201cThe eternal thunderer sat enthroned in gold.\u201d\n\n  HOMER.\n\n  \u201cSo when thick clouds enwrap the mountain\u2019s head,\n  O\u2019er heaven\u2019s expanse like one black ceiling spread;\n  Sudden the thunderer, with a flashing ray,\n  Bursts through the darkness and lets down the day.\u201d\n\n  POPE.\n\n\nTHY\u2032A, a name of Ops.\n\n\nTHYA\u2032DES. Priestesses of Bacchus, who ran wild in the hills, wearing\ntiger-skins and carrying torches.\n\n\nTHYR\u2032SUS, a kind of javelin. See Bacchus.\n\n\nTIDES, see Naryanan.\n\n\nTIME (or Saturn). The husband of Virtue and father of Truth.\n\n\nTISIPH\u2032ONE. One of the Furies.\n\n\nTI\u2032TAN. Elder brother of Saturn, who made war against him, and was\nultimately vanquished by Jupiter.\n\n\nTI\u2032TANS were the supporters of Titan in his war against Saturn and\nJupiter.\n\n\nTI\u2032THO\u2032NUS. The husband of Aurora. At the request of his wife the gods\ngranted him immortality, but she forgot at the same time to ask that he\nshould be granted perpetual youth. The consequence was that Tithonus\ngrew old and decrepit, while Aurora remained as fresh as the morning.\nThe gods, however, changed him into a grasshopper, which is supposed to\nmoult as it gets old, and grows young again.\n\n\nTIT\u2032YUS. A son of Jupiter. A giant who was thrown into the innermost\nhell for insulting Diana. He, like Prometheus, has a vulture constantly\nfeeding on his ever-growing liver.\n\n\nTOIL, see Atlas.\n\n\nTOMBS, see Manes.\n\n\nTONGUE, see Tereus.\n\n\nTONITRUA\u2032LIS. The Thunderer; a name of Jupiter.\n\n\nTOWERS, see Cybele.\n\n\nTRAGEDY, see Melpomene.\n\n\nTREES, see Arist\u00e6us.\n\n\nTRIBULATION, see Echidna.\n\n\nTRIFOR\u2032MIS, see Tergemina.\n\n\nTRIPTOL\u2032EMUS. A son of Oceanus and Terra. He was a great favourite of\nthe goddess Ceres, who cured him of a dangerous illness when he was\nyoung, and afterwards taught him agriculture. She gave him her chariot,\nwhich was drawn by dragons, in which he carried seed-corn to all the\ninhabitants of the earth, and communicated the knowledge given to him\nby Ceres. Cicero mentions a Triptolemus as the fourth Judge in hell.\n\n  \u201cTriptolemus, whose useful cares intend\n  The common good.\u201d      POPE.\n\n\nTRITERI\u2032CA. Bacchanalian festivals.\n\n\nTRI\u2032TONS were sons of Triton, a son of Neptune and Amphitrite. They\nwere the trumpeters of the sea-gods, and were depicted as a sort of\nmermen--the upper half of the body being like a man, and the lower half\nlike dolphins.\n\n\nTRI\u2032VIA. A name of Diana.\n\n\nTROPHO\u2032NIUS. One of Jupiter\u2019s most famous oracles.\n\n\nTROY. The classic poets say that the walls of this famous city were\nbuilt by the magic sound of Apollo\u2019s lyre. See Dardanus, Helen,\nHercules, Paris.\n\n\nTRUMPETERS, see Tritons.\n\n\nTRUTH. A daughter of Time, because Truth is discovered in the course of\nTime. Democritus says that Truth lies hidden at the bottom of a well.\n\n\nTUTEL\u2032INA. A rural divinity--the goddess of granaries.\n\n\nTWO FACES, see Janus.\n\n\nTYPH\u0152\u2032US, see Typhon.\n\n\nTY\u2032PHON. A monster with a hundred heads who made war against the gods,\nbut was crushed by Jove\u2019s thunderbolts, and imprisoned under Mount Etna.\n\n  \u201c... Typhon huge, ending in snaky twine.\u201d\n\n  MILTON.\n\n\nTY\u2032PHON. In Egyptian mythology the god who tried to undo all the good\nwork effected by Osiris.\n\n\n\n\nUL\u2032LER. The Scandinavian god who presided over archery and duels.\n\n\nULYS\u2032SES. A noted king of Ithaca, whose exploits in connection with\nthe Trojan war, and his adventures on his return therefrom, are the\nsubject of Homer\u2019s Odyssey. His wife\u2019s name was Penelope, and he was\nso much endeared to her that he feigned madness to get himself excused\nfrom going to the Trojan war; but his artifice was discovered, and he\nwas compelled to go. He was of great help to the Grecians, and forced\nAchilles from his retreat, and obtained the charmed arrows of Hercules\nfrom Philoctetes, and used them against the Trojans. He enabled Paris\nto shoot one of them at the heel of Achilles, and so kill that charmed\nwarrior. During his wanderings on his homeward voyage he was taken\nprisoner by the Cyclopes, and escaped, after blinding Polyphemus, their\nchief. At \u00c6olia he obtained all the winds of heaven, and put them in\na bag; but his companions, thinking that the bags contained treasure\nwhich they could rob him of when they got to Ithaca, cut the bags, and\nlet out the winds, and the ships were immediately blown back to \u00c6olia.\nAfter Circe had turned his companions into swine on an island where he\nand they were shipwrecked, he compelled the goddess to restore them\nto their human shape again. As he passed the islands of the Sirens he\nescaped their allurements by stopping the ears of his companions with\nwax, and fastening himself to the mast of his ship. His wife Penelope\nwas a pattern of constancy; for, though Ulysses was reported to be\ndead, she would not marry any one else, and had the satisfaction of\nfinding her husband return after an absence of about twenty years.\n\n  \u201cTo show what pious wisdom\u2019s power can do,\n  The poet sets Ulysses in our view.\u201d\n\n  FRANCIS.\n\n\nUN\u2032DINE. A water nymph, or sylph.\n\n\nUNKNOWN GOD, AN. With reference to this GOD, nothing can be more\nappropriate than St. Paul\u2019s address to the Athenians, as recorded in\nthe 17th chapter of the Acts of the Apostles:--\n\n \u201c_Ye_ men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too\n superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found\n an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore\n ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. God that made the\n world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and\n earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; neither is worshipped\n with men\u2019s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth\n to all life, and breath, and all things; and hath made of one blood\n all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and\n hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their\n habitation; that they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel\n after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:\n for in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of\n your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring. Forasmuch\n then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the\n Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and\n man\u2019s device. And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now\n commandeth all men every where to repent: because he hath appointed a\n day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by _that_\n man whom he hath ordained; _whereof_ he hath given assurance unto all\n _men_, in that he hath raised him from the dead.\u201d\n\n\nUNX\u2032IA. A name of Juno, relating to her protection of newly-married\npeople.\n\n\nURA\u2032NIA. A daughter of Jupiter and Mnemosyne--one of the Muses who\npresided over astronomy.\n\n\nURA\u2032NUS. The Greek name of C\u0153lus; his descendants are sometimes called\nUranids.\n\n\nUR\u2032GUS. A name of Pluto, signifying the Impeller.\n\n\nUR\u2032SA MA\u2032JOR, see Calistro.\n\n\nUR\u2032SA MI\u2032NOR, see Arcas.\n\n\nUSUR\u2032ERS, see Jani.\n\n\nUT\u2032GORD LO\u2032KI. In Scandinavian mythology the king of the giants.\n\n\n\n\nVAL\u2032HAL\u2032LA. The Scandinavian temple of immortality, inhabited by the\nsouls of heroes slain in battle.\n\n\nVA\u2032LI. The Scandinavian god of archery.\n\n\nVALLEYS, see Vallonia.\n\n\nVALLO\u2032NIA. The goddess of valleys.\n\n\nVARU\u2032NA. The Hindoo Neptune--generally represented as a white man\nriding on a sea-horse, carrying a club in one hand and a rope in the\nother.\n\n\nVE\u2032DIUS. The same as Vejovis.\n\n\nVEJO\u2032VIS. \u201cLittle Jupiter\u201d--a name given to Jupiter when he appeared\nwithout his thunder.\n\n\nVEJU\u2032PITER, see Vejovis.\n\n\nVENGEANCE, see Nemesis.\n\n\nVE\u2032NUS. The goddess of beauty, and mother of love. She is said to have\nsprung from the foam of the sea, and was immediately carried to the\nabode of the gods on Olympus, where they were all charmed with her\nextreme beauty. Vulcan married her, but she permitted the attentions\nof others of the gods, and notably of Mars, their offspring being\nHermione, Cupid, and Anteros. After this she left Olympus and fell in\nlove with Adonis, a beautiful youth, who was killed when hunting a wild\nboar. Venus indirectly caused the Trojan War, for, when the goddess of\ndiscord had thrown amongst the goddesses the golden apple inscribed \u201cTo\nthe fairest,\u201d Paris adjudged the apple to Venus, and she inspired him\nwith love for Helen, wife of Menelaus, King of Sparta. Paris carried\noff Helen to Troy, and the Greeks pursued and besieged the city (see\nHelen, Paris, and Troy). Venus is mentioned by the classic poets under\nthe names of Aphrodite, Cypria, Urania, Astarte, Paphia, Cythera, and\nthe laughter-loving goddess. Her favourite residence was at Cyprus.\nIncense alone was usually offered on her altars, but if there was a\nvictim it was a white goat. Her attendants were Cupids and the Graces.\n\n\nVERTI\u2032COR\u2032DIA. A Roman name of Venus, signifying the power of love to\nchange the hard hearted. The corresponding Greek name was Epistrophia.\n\n\nVERTUM\u2032NUS. God of spring, or, as some mythologists say, of the\nseasons; the husband of Pomona, the goddess of orchards.\n\n\nVES\u2032TA, daughter of Saturn and Cybele, was the goddess of fire. She\nhad under her special care and protection a famous statue of Minerva,\nbefore which the Vestal Virgins kept a fire or lamp constantly burning.\n\n\nVES\u2032TAL VIR\u2032GINS were the priestesses of Vesta, whose chief duty was to\nsee that the sacred fire in the temple of Vesta was not extinguished.\nThey were always selected from the best families, and were under a\nsolemn vow of chastity, and compelled to live perfectly pure lives.\n\n\nVIA\u2032LIS. A name of Mercury, because he presided over the making of\nroads.\n\n\nVIC\u2032TORY. A goddess, the daughter of Styx and Acheron, generally\nrepresented as flying in the air holding out a wreath of laurel. See\nNicephorus.\n\n\nVI\u2032DOR. A Scandinavian god, who could walk on the water and in the air.\nThe god of silence (corresponding with the classic Harpocrates).\n\n\nVIRTUE. A goddess worshipped by most of the ancients under various\nnames. The way to the temple of honour was through the temple of virtue.\n\n\nVIRTUOUS WOMEN, see Juno.\n\n\nVISH\u2032NU. The Preserver, the principal Hindoo goddess.\n\n\nVOLU\u2032PIA, see Angeronia.\n\n\nVUL\u2032CAN, the god of fire, was the son of Jupiter and Juno. He offended\nJupiter, and was by him thrown out of heaven; he was nine days falling,\nand at last dropped into Lemnos with such violence that he broke his\nleg, and was lame for ever after. Vulcan was married to Venus. He is\nsupposed to have formed Pandora out of clay. His servants were the\nCyclops. He was the patron deity of blacksmiths.\n\n  \u201cMen call him Mulciber; and how he fell\n  From heaven, they fabled, thrown by angry Jove,\n  Sheer o\u2019er the crystal battlements.\u201d\n\n  MILTON.\n\n\nVULCA\u2032NIA were Roman festivals in honour of Bacchus, at which the\nvictims were thrown into the fire and burned to death.\n\n\n\n\nWAR, see Bellona, Chemos, Mars.\n\n\nWATER, see Canopus.\n\n\nWATER-NYMPHS, see Doris.\n\n\nWAX TABLETS, see Calliope.\n\n\nWEALTH, see Cuvera.\n\n\nWEAVING, see Ergatos.\n\n\nWEEDING, see Runcina.\n\n\nWEIGHTS and MEASURES, see Mercury.\n\n\nWELL, see Truth.\n\n\nWEST WIND, see Favonius.\n\n\nWINDS, see Aurora, Auster, Boreas, Zephyr.\n\n\nWINE, see Bacchus, Suradevi.\n\n\nWISDOM, see Pollear, Minerva.\n\n\nWO\u2032DEN, the Anglo-Saxon form of the Scandinavian god Odin; Wednesday is\ncalled after him.\n\n\nWOMEN\u2019S SAFEGUARD, see Sospita.\n\n\nWOODPECKER, see Picus.\n\n\nWOODS, see Dryads.\n\n\nWORLD, see Chaos.\n\n\n\n\nXAN\u2032THUS, the name of the wonderful horse of Achilles.\n\n\n\n\nYA\u2032MA. The Hindoo devil, generally represented as a terrible monster of\na green colour, with flaming eyes.\n\n\nYG\u2032DRA\u2032SIL. The famous ash-tree of Scandinavian mythology, under which\nthe gods held daily council.\n\n\nY\u2032MIR. The Scandinavian god, corresponding to Chaos of the classics.\n\n\nYOUTH (perpetual), see Tithonus.\n\n\n\n\nZEPH\u2032YR. The god of flowers, a son of \u00c6olus and Aurora, the west wind.\nSee Favonius.\n\n  \u201cWanton Zephyr, come away.\n   .      .      .      .      .\n  The sun, and Mira\u2019s charming eyes,\n      At thy return more charming grow.\n  With double glory they appear,\n  To warm and grace the infant year.\u201d\n\n  JOHN HUGHES, 1700.\n\n\nZE\u2032TES, with his brother Calais, drove the Harpies from Thrace.\n\n\nZE\u2032THUS, twin brother of Amphion. See Amphion.\n\n\nZEU\u2032S. The Greek name of Jupiter.\n\n\nTHE END.\n\n\n\n\n  Transcriber's Notes:\n\n  Italics are shown thus: _sloping_.\n\n  Variations in spelling and hyphenation are retained.\n\n  Perceived typographical errors have been changed.","title":"A handy dictionary of mythology : $b For everyday readers","tradition":"myth-cosmogony","translated_text":null,"word_count":25484}