Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore
storms and winds. They sometimes bear the name of _Vulcaniæ_ and _Hephæstides_, and are known now among the moderns under the general appellation of Lipari islands. _Lucan_, bk. 5, li. 609.――_Justin_, bk. 4, ch. 1.
storms and winds. They sometimes bear the name of _Vulcaniæ_ and _Hephæstides_, and are known now among the moderns under the general appellation of Lipari islands. _Lucan_, bk....
2. li. 735, maintains that there were two persons of the name, one thedaughter of Nycteus, and the other of Asopus and mother of Amphion and Zethus. _Pausanias_, bk. 2, ch. 6; bk. 9, ch. 17.――_Ovid_, bk. 6, _Metamorphoses_, li. 110.――_Apollodorus_...
3. li. 824, mentions the Drusi among the illustrious Romans, and that=Dryădes=, nymphs that presided over the woods. Oblations of milk, oil, and honey were offered to them, and sometimes the votaries sacrificed a goat. They were not generally con...
4. li. 87,=Erasistrătus=, a celebrated physician, grandson to the philosopher Aristotle. He discovered by the motion of the pulse the love which Antiochus had conceived for his mother-in-...
5. scene 1, li. 63.=Cnæus Nævius=, a Latin poet in the first Punic war. He was originally in the Roman armies, but afterwards he applied himself to study and wrote comedies, besides a poetical acc...
6. li. 168, as wisely dividing his possessions among his two sons, and=Caius Oppius=, a friend of Julius Cæsar, celebrated for his life of Scipio Africanus, and of Pompey the Great. In the latter he paid not much regard to historical facts, and to...
7. li. 118,After he had heard their several claims and promises, Paris adjudged the prize to Venus, and gave her the golden apple, to which, perhaps, she seemed entitled as the goddess of...
8. scene 1.=Xynoichia=, an anniversary day observed at Athens in honour of Minerva, and in commemoration of the time in which the people of Attica left their country seats, and, by advice...