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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... poet : " Ab Jove principium Musa : Jovis omnia plena . " From the great father of the Gods above My Muse begins : for all is full of Jove . Virg . Ecl . 3 . QUESTIONS FOR EXAMINATION Into how many classes are the gods in the pantheon ...
... poet : " Ab Jove principium Musa : Jovis omnia plena . " From the great father of the Gods above My Muse begins : for all is full of Jove . Virg . Ecl . 3 . QUESTIONS FOR EXAMINATION Into how many classes are the gods in the pantheon ...
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... poets fabulously wrote about the other Jupiters is usual- ly ascribed . He was educated at the place where he was born , ts , upon the mountain Ida in Crete , but it is not agreed by whom he was brought up . Some affirm 25.
... poets fabulously wrote about the other Jupiters is usual- ly ascribed . He was educated at the place where he was born , ts , upon the mountain Ida in Crete , but it is not agreed by whom he was brought up . Some affirm 25.
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... poets . But to return to our fable : Agenor immediately or- dered his son Cadmus to travel , and search every where for his sister Europa ; which he did , but could no where find her . Cadmus dared not return without 28.
... poets . But to return to our fable : Agenor immediately or- dered his son Cadmus to travel , and search every where for his sister Europa ; which he did , but could no where find her . Cadmus dared not return without 28.
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... poet : -O qui res hominumque Deumque Æternis regis imperiis , et fulmine terres . ' Virg . Æn . 1. 229 . O king of gods and men , whose awful hand Disperses thunder on the seas and land ; Dispensing all with absolute command . In Lycia ...
... poet : -O qui res hominumque Deumque Æternis regis imperiis , et fulmine terres . ' Virg . Æn . 1. 229 . O king of gods and men , whose awful hand Disperses thunder on the seas and land ; Dispensing all with absolute command . In Lycia ...
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... poetic raptures ; and the leaves of it put under the pillow , was said to produce true dreams . The hawk has eyes as bright as the sun ; the cock fore- tells his rising ; and the grasshoppers so entirely depend on him , that they owe ...
... poetic raptures ; and the leaves of it put under the pillow , was said to produce true dreams . The hawk has eyes as bright as the sun ; the cock fore- tells his rising ; and the grasshoppers so entirely depend on him , that they owe ...
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Achilles Æneid afterward altar ancient Apollo Bacchus beautiful blood body Bona Dea born breast brought called Carmenta carried cause celebrated celestial Ceres CHAPTER chariot Chimæra Corybantes crown Cybele dæmons daughter death dedicated deities derived described Diana divine dogs earth Egyptians esteemed eyes fable father feet fell fire gave Genii goddess gods golden Greek hand harp head heaven hell hence Hercules Hesiod honour horns horses invented island Janus Juno Jupiter Jupiter's killed king Latins married Mars Meleager Mercury Minerva mother mountain Muses Neptune nymphs oracle Ovid painted Pallas PANTHEON Phrygia Plutarch Pluto poets preside priests Proserpine punishment quæ QUESTIONS FOR EXAMINATION quod Repeat the lines represented river Romans Rome sacred sacrificed sacrifices Saturn sceptre sent serpent signifies sister stone temple Tereus Theseus things thunder Troy Ulysses Venus Vesta Virg Virgil Vulcan whence wife wine women word worshipped
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Page 289 - Extemplo Libyae magnas it Fama per urbes, Fama, malum qua non aliud velocius ullum ; Mobilitate viget, viresque acquirit eundo; 175 Parva metu primo ; mox sese attollit in auras, Ingrediturque solo, et caput inter nubila condit...
Page 28 - 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 220 - The verdant fields with those of heav'n may vie, With ether vested, and a purple sky — The blissful seats of happy souls below : Stars of their own, and their own suns, they know. Their airy limbs in sports they exercise, And. on the green, contend the wrestler's prize. Some, in heroic verse, divinely sing : Others in artful measures lead the ring.
Page 77 - Of sounding brass ; the polish'd axle, steel. Eight brazen spokes in radiant order flame; The circles gold, of uncorrupted frame, Such as the heavens produce : and round the gold Two brazen rings of work divine were roll'd.
Page 265 - Is beaten by the winds — with foggy vapours bound. Snows hide his shoulders: from beneath his chin, The founts of rolling streams their race begin: A beard of ice on his large breast depends.
Page 195 - 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 50 - That high, through fields of air, his flight sustain, O'er the wide earth, and o'er the boundless main...
Page 33 - Patareaque regia servit ; luppiter est genitor; per me, quod eritque fuitque estque, patet ; per me concordant carmina nervis. certa quidem nostra est, nostra tamen una sagitta certior, in vacuo quae vulnera pectore fecit ! 520 inventum medicina meum est, opiferque per orbem dicor, et herbarum subiecta potentia nobis. ei mihi, quod nullis amor est sanabilis herbis nee prosunt domino, quae prosunt omnibus, artes...
Page 38 - I hung thy sacred fane, Or fed the flames with fat of oxen slain ; God of the silver bow ! thy shafts employ, Avenge thy servant, and the Greeks destroy.' Thus Chryses pray'd: — the favouring power attends, And from Olympus