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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... turned into a profound respect , till at length they paid him greater honour than men ought to receive , and ranked the man among the number of gods ; while the more prudent were either carried away by the torrent of the vulgar opinion ...
... turned into a profound respect , till at length they paid him greater honour than men ought to receive , and ranked the man among the number of gods ; while the more prudent were either carried away by the torrent of the vulgar opinion ...
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... turned Lycaon into a wolf . Ovid Met . 1 . With respect to his other exploits , some of them are absurd ; others are highly criminal , if taken in a literal sense . But it is supposed by the Abbe Ba- nier and other learned writers on ...
... turned Lycaon into a wolf . Ovid Met . 1 . With respect to his other exploits , some of them are absurd ; others are highly criminal , if taken in a literal sense . But it is supposed by the Abbe Ba- nier and other learned writers on ...
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... turned it into a tree that drops frankincense . " Nectare adorato spargit corpusque locumque , Multaque præquestus , tanges tamen æthera , dixit . Protinus imbutum cœlesti nectare corpus Delicuit , terramque suo madefecit adore ...
... turned it into a tree that drops frankincense . " Nectare adorato spargit corpusque locumque , Multaque præquestus , tanges tamen æthera , dixit . Protinus imbutum cœlesti nectare corpus Delicuit , terramque suo madefecit adore ...
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... turned , by the pity of the gods , into poplars , from that time weeping amber in- stead of tears . This forms a subject of one of the most beautiful passages in Ovid . — Met . 2. - Circe , the most skilful of all sorceresses , poisoned ...
... turned , by the pity of the gods , into poplars , from that time weeping amber in- stead of tears . This forms a subject of one of the most beautiful passages in Ovid . — Met . 2. - Circe , the most skilful of all sorceresses , poisoned ...
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... turned him into a stone called Index . This story Ovid describes in very elegant verse . 1 The ancients used to set up statues where the roads crossed : these statues they called Indices , be- cause with an arm or finger held out they ...
... turned him into a stone called Index . This story Ovid describes in very elegant verse . 1 The ancients used to set up statues where the roads crossed : these statues they called Indices , be- cause with an arm or finger held out they ...
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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.