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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... presiding over Infants , 236 240 243 245 PART VI . - OF THE DII INDIGETES AND ADSCRIPTITII , OR THE SEMI - DEI AND HEROES . Hercules , Jason , Theseus , Castor and Pollux , Perseus , Esculap Prometheus , Atlas , Orpheus , and Amphion ...
... presiding over Infants , 236 240 243 245 PART VI . - OF THE DII INDIGETES AND ADSCRIPTITII , OR THE SEMI - DEI AND HEROES . Hercules , Jason , Theseus , Castor and Pollux , Perseus , Esculap Prometheus , Atlas , Orpheus , and Amphion ...
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... preside over the twelve months ; to each of them was allotted a month ; January to Juno , February to Neptune , March to Minerva , April to Venus , May to Apollo , June to Mercury , July to Jupiter , August to Ceres , September to ...
... preside over the twelve months ; to each of them was allotted a month ; January to Juno , February to Neptune , March to Minerva , April to Venus , May to Apollo , June to Mercury , July to Jupiter , August to Ceres , September to ...
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... preside ? Enumerate them . Which others make up the twenty Select gods ? Which is the second class of gods , and why are they so styled What are the gods of the third class , and how are they deno minated ? What are the " Novensiles ...
... preside ? Enumerate them . Which others make up the twenty Select gods ? Which is the second class of gods , and why are they so styled What are the gods of the third class , and how are they deno minated ? What are the " Novensiles ...
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... preside over the Muses . It is said that he taught the arts of foretelling events , and shooting with arrows ; when , therefore , he had benefited man- kind infinitely by these favours , they worshipped him as a god . Hear how ...
... preside over the Muses . It is said that he taught the arts of foretelling events , and shooting with arrows ; when , therefore , he had benefited man- kind infinitely by these favours , they worshipped him as a god . Hear how ...
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... preside over the wine - presses , fairies of fountains , and priestesses . Silenus oftentimes comes after him , sitting on an ass that bends under hiş burden . He is sometimes painted an old man , and some- times a smooth and beardless ...
... preside over the wine - presses , fairies of fountains , and priestesses . Silenus oftentimes comes after him , sitting on an ass that bends under hiş burden . He is sometimes painted an old man , and some- times a smooth and beardless ...
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Achilles Ĉneid afterward altar ancient Apollo Bacchus beautiful blood body Bona Dea born breast brought called Carmenta carried cause celebrated celestial Ceres CHAPTER chariot Chimĉra Corybantes crown Cybele dĉmons 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 quĉ 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