Tooke's Pantheon of the Heathen Gods, and Illustrious Heroes: Revised for a Classical Course of Education, and Adapted for the Use of Students of Every Age and of Either Sex |
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... Minerva , 83 91 Venus , Latona , Aurora , PART II - TERRESTRIAL GODS . Saturn , Janus , Vulcan , Eolus , Momus , TERRESTRIAL GODDESSES . Vesta , Cybele , Ceres , The Muses , 99 112 115 · 118 127 132 136 138 139 142 • 150 • 159 · Pan ...
... Minerva , 83 91 Venus , Latona , Aurora , PART II - TERRESTRIAL GODS . Saturn , Janus , Vulcan , Eolus , Momus , TERRESTRIAL GODDESSES . Vesta , Cybele , Ceres , The Muses , 99 112 115 · 118 127 132 136 138 139 142 • 150 • 159 · Pan ...
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... Minerva , Ceres , Diana , Venus , Mars , Mercurius , Neptunus , Jupiter , Vulcanus , Apollo . These twelve gods were believed to preside over the twelve months ; to each of them was allotted a month ; January to Juno , February to ...
... Minerva , Ceres , Diana , Venus , Mars , Mercurius , Neptunus , Jupiter , Vulcanus , Apollo . These twelve gods were believed to preside over the twelve months ; to each of them was allotted a month ; January to Juno , February to ...
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... Minerva or Pallas , Venus , Luna , and Bellona . We will begin with Jupiter , * the father and king of gods and men , whom you see sitting in a throne of ivory and gold , under a rich canopy , with a beard , holding thunder in his right ...
... Minerva or Pallas , Venus , Luna , and Bellona . We will begin with Jupiter , * the father and king of gods and men , whom you see sitting in a throne of ivory and gold , under a rich canopy , with a beard , holding thunder in his right ...
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... Minerva . The third was a Cretan , the son of Saturn , whose tomb is yet extant in the isle of Crete . But Varro reckoned up three hundred Jupiters ; and others mention a much larger number ; for there was hardly any nation that did not ...
... Minerva . The third was a Cretan , the son of Saturn , whose tomb is yet extant in the isle of Crete . But Varro reckoned up three hundred Jupiters ; and others mention a much larger number ; for there was hardly any nation that did not ...
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... Minerva , sowed them in the ground ; and suddenly sprouted up a harvest of armed soldiers , who , quarrelling among themselves , with the same speed that they grew up , mowed one another down , excepting five only , by whom that country ...
... Minerva , sowed them in the ground ; and suddenly sprouted up a harvest of armed soldiers , who , quarrelling among themselves , with the same speed that they grew up , mowed one another down , excepting five only , by whom that country ...
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Page 38 - He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows, Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god : High Heaven with trembling the dread signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook.
Page 83 - At her command rush forth the steeds divine ; Rich with immortal gold their trappings shine. Bright Hebe waits ; by Hebe, ever young, The whirling wheels are to the chariot hung. On the bright axle turns the bidden wheel Of sounding brass; the polish'd axle, steel.
Page 84 - Diti sacrum iussa fero teque isto corpore solvo.' sic ait et dextra crinem secat: omnis et una dilapsus calor atque in ventos vita recessit.
Page 301 - Parva metu primo ; mox sese attollit in auras, Ingrediturque solo, et caput inter nubila condit...
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Page 207 - O'er whose unhappy waters, void of light, No bird presumes to steer his airy flight; Such deadly stenches from the depth arise, And steaming sulphur, that infects the skies.
Page 302 - Produc'd her last of the Titanian birth. Swift is her walk, more swift her winged haste: A monstrous phantom, horrible and vast. As many plumes as raise her lofty flight, So many piercing eyes...
Page 200 - Auletes leads: a hundred sweep With stretching oars at once the glassy deep. Him and his martial train the Triton bears; High on his poop the sea-green god appears: Frowning he seems his crooked shell to sound, And at the blast the billows dance around.
Page 136 - Stretch'd on his back, he dash'd against the stones Their broken bodies, and their crackling bones : With spouting blood the purple pavement swims, While the dire glutton grinds the trembling limbs.
Page 205 - Far on the right, her dogs foul Scylla hides: Charybdis roaring on the left presides, And in her greedy whirlpool sucks the tides; Then spouts them from below: with fury driv'n, The waves mount up and wash the face of heav'n.