fear, and a virtue. A picture of courage would be a figure of a bold man ; this picture would make a person of a virtue; it

his reign was called the Golden Age. Saturn is represented as an old man , with a scythe in his hand. At Rome, a festival w

er the sacred fire to become extinct, and never to associate with any man . Who was Vesta? Who were the vestals, and what w

en by Jupiter. The true history of Saturn must be, that he was a wise man , who was driven from some little kingdom by a suc

d after, was nothing more than the experience and foresight of a wise man ; nevertheless, ignorant people supposed that he w

sacred to Jove. Jupiter is represented under the figure of a majestic man , with a venerable beard, seated on a throne. In h

o be Olympus, a mountain of Greece; though Dr. Clarke, a very learned man , supposes Olympus to be a name common to high mou

ear to them in his own awful character, but assumed the shape of some man , or animal. One of these ladies, Semele, the daug

rted souls to the world of spirits. Mercury is represented as a young man ; wings were fastened to his sandals and to his ca

ing of metals is a most important circumstance in the civilization of man . By very little thought we instantly perceive tha

artificer in brass and iron.” This Tubalcain might have been the same man whom the Greeks described either as Prometheus, o

ed with the most grievous misfortunes, but that, in every affliction, man is comforted with the hope of relief and of bette

with thy precepts less The sum of human wretchedness, And strengthen man with his own mind. Byron. Prometheus was, doub

deliverer? Is it natural to suppose that a god would persecute a good man ? How does Æschylus represent the sufferings of Pr

ed to be formed of the gross aliments of earth. For not the bread of man their life sustains, Nor wine’s inflaming juice s

t to the ground the very day on which Alexander the Great was born. A man named Erostratus, wishing to make his name immort

ched the gospel there, the word of God grew mightily and prevailed. A man named Demetrius, who made “silver shrines for Dia

he old superstition, appeased them, saying, “ Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not that the city of the Ep

mals, the upper part of whose bodies was supposed to resemble that of man ; the lower part that of the dolphin. The first of

sket of fruit; and near her stood Vertumnus, in the figure of a young man , holding fruit in one hand, and in the other the

piter and Calista. He was represented under the form of a satyr, half man and half goat, holding in his hand the rural pipe

names, and they adored the whole collectively, under a figure of half man and half other animals. To this deity the Greeks

Satyrs, the foster-father of Bacchus. They represented him as an old man with a bald head, a flat nose, large ears, and ev

attachment and watchful care, and he is more the friend and guard of man than any brute animal; therefore he was a proper

y were held so sacred by the Romans, that the expression of driving a man from his Penates, signified that he was expelled

n’s thoughts, governing and disposing his mind and his conduct. Every man was supposed to have two Genii. His evil genius d

, and deposited with the remains of others of the same family. When a man perished at sea, or in an unknown spot, his frien

Lachesis, and Atropos. They were supposed to preside over the life of man , from his birth to his death, and to put an end t

ipped under the form of a serpent, and sometimes under that of an old man , holding a staff encircled by a serpent. Esculapi

ror and despair cannot be expressed. If, in this state of peril, some man of a more powerful body, and a more courageous sp

married Dejanira, a princess of Etolia. Having accidentally killed a man at the court of his father-in-law, Hercules was o

only disguises of eminent services rendered by some good and powerful man to his fellow-creatures. Eurystheus, probably rep

entaurs. The Centaurs were represented to have the head and body of a man , terminated by the body and limbs of a horse. Thi

f Thessaly, who first bestrode the horse, and made him serviceable to man . Rude and ignorant people, when they first behold

erviceable to man. Rude and ignorant people, when they first behold a man and horse thus coupled, imagine them to be one be

cquired all the accomplishments of that rude age. When Jason became a man , he was instructed by an oracle to go back to Iol

eus that his father was King of Athens, but when he was grown to be a man , she thought proper to send him to Ægeus. Æthra o

all these wretches. When Theseus arrived at Athens, Ægeus was an old man , and having no acknowledged son, the Pallantidæ,

said, “An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth;” which means, if a man violently strike out another’s eye or tooth, the

there, learned they were to be devoured by a monster which was half a man and half a beast, that was kept in a curious buil

because they were always injuring each other, and always in fear. No man wishes to cultivate his field if he expects anoth

not expect to be punished. In peaceable and prosperous society, every man must have his own property; every man must take c

e and prosperous society, every man must have his own property; every man must take care of his own, and no man must take w

st have his own property; every man must take care of his own, and no man must take what does not belong to himself; and if

to be done to the criminal or the breakers of laws. The right which a man has to keep his own property separately from othe

e, and deliberate upon what was best for the people to do; and if any man did wrong, he might be complained of; and there s

he gave the infant to her servant, and ordered him to destroy it. The man , not willing to kill him with his own hands, carr

she comforted Œdipus as well as she could. Afterwards the poor young man , in order to learn what he wished to know, went t

riddle, he instantly perceived its meaning, and explained it thus: —  Man , in the morning of life, walks upon his hands and

people about Thebes, Creon, the queen’s brother, proclaimed that the man who would destroy that monster, should marry the

ed. Œdipus loved his people, and forgetting that he had ever killed a man himself, resolved upon discovering the concealed

urderer. He spared no pains, and soon learned that he was himself the man whom he sought. When this fact was proved, Jocast

c. Eurydice was the wife of Orpheus; he loved her dearly: but another man , one Aristæus, loved her also. The Greeks of that

ded from Erechtheus, a king of Athens. Dædalus was the most ingenious man of his time and was the reputed inventor of the w

plishment of the prophecy, ordered a slave to destroy the infant. The man employed in this inhuman service, did not kill th

. There he was found by a shepherd of the neighbourhood, and the poor man , touched with compassion, took home the foundling

t the usurper, Egisthus, feared that Orestes, when he should become a man , would punish his perfidious conduct. To save her

d at length in the Odyssey. According to some opinions, he was a wise man , but he was certainly not very honest; and the wa

the example of the third remained. All viewed with awe the venerable man . Iliad , Book   I. Nestor returned from the wa

greatly brave His life to hazard, and his country save? Lives there a man who singly dares to go. To yonder camp, or seize

his appeal but Diomed. ——————— “Untaught to fear Tydides spoke — The man you seek is here. To yon black camps to bend my d

is son’s body. Achilles could not resist the supplications of the old man , and gave up the body. By one of those miracles v

honoured Eneas as a god, and offered sacrifices to him. To imagine a man to be a god, and to worship him as one, is the ap

man to be a god, and to worship him as one, is the apotheosis of that man . This folly no longer exists in the world; men ar

ure. These laws pretended to punish every offence with death. An idle man , or one who stole a cabbage, or an apple, suffere

en in his mouth. Chilo had a beloved and accomplished son — the young man gained a victory at the Olympic games, and so ove

died 579 B. C. Cleobulus of Lindus, in the island of Rhodes, was a man of eminently good sense. He loved the sciences, a

aged seventy. Periander of Corinth was an able, rather than a wise man . Goodness and benevolence are essential parts of

rade, and defended the maritime state of Corinth. Periander was a bad man ; he is remembered as a skilful politician, not as

orable, and who was his daughter? Was Periander of Corinth a virtuous man ? Religion of the Hindus. A part of the pe

eat to be comprehended by mortals; as the Hebrew scriptures say, “Can man , by searching, find out God, or know the Almighty

the eastern gate are two very fine figures of elephants, each with a man upon his trunk. On the west are two surprising fi

knew what chanced ere time began; Ere worlds there were, or gods, or man ; No mortal tongue has ever said, What hand unknow

ela’s halls. Nature shines in glory beaming;     Elves are born, and man is formed, Every hill with gladness teeming,     

us courage and the pursuit of military glory as the chief honour of a man ; and they held those in contempt who preferred a

Dagon, whose statue was a figure, of which the upper part resembled a man , and the lower extremity a fish. In Syria, beside

mage; head and hands lopped off. Dagon his name; sea monster; upward man , And downward fish; yet had his temple high, Rear

thful companion of Osiris and Isis, represented under the figure of a man with a dog’s head. Serapis was worshipped under

re of the world they inhabit — who gave them every comfort — who made man , and gave him the power to think and feel, and al

un, moon, and ocean, to take care of them, and to make them useful to man ; so that ignorant men worship the things which ar

. The Greeks had a fable that the world had been drowned; that a good man and woman, Deucalion and Pyrrha, survived, and th

nd that their descendants peopled the earth. The Greek Hercules was a man of irresistible strength, and performed wonders l

; the former being esteemed fort fortunate; the latter, unlucky. If a man , commencing a journey, saw a flock of birds flyin

t be innocently persecuted. The altar was often adorned with horns. A man being accused of a crime or having committed one,

was forced to entreat compassion from strangers. Such an unfortunate man would enter a strange house, and without uttering

than in their continued prayers and supplications to the gods; for no man among them who was endued with the smallest prude

ceived him. An oath is a solemn promise made in the name of God. If a man says, I declare in the name of God, (that is, I d

peak the truth at this moment;) such a declaration is an oath. When a man declares he will surely do a certain act, he make

ould make a pretty young girl love the most ill-looking, disagreeable man that can be imagined. Venus one day called to her

mand you; you must first see Psyche, and then find some very ugly old man , end make her acquainted with him. You must make

ngth you must make her so foolish that she will marry this disgusting man , and afterwards he must appear to her as disagree

ove me?” asked Proserpina, half persuaded. “I will love you as mortal man can never love you. Come, then, my bride,” he ans

his, in truth. Some pretty girls were playing in a meadow, and a rude man carried off one of them. One of this girl’s compa

s false, and will not believe what is true, always. I once beard of a man who did not believe that water could be changed t

who did not believe that water could be changed to ice. Ann. But the man might have seen it himself. Mother. No; that man

ice. Ann. But the man might have seen it himself. Mother. No; that man could not have seen it. He lived in a very hot co

t waves, and the olive yields its fruit. The fields you have given to man were once my favourite haunts — and Ceres, the go

ith him. Tereus told him the reason why she staid behind, and the old man was then satisfied. But Pandion wept afresh when

. “I can refuse you nothing, my own Philomela,” answered the fond old man , smiling upon her through his tears. “But, my chi

this guilty proposal, demanded of Tereus to set her at liberty. “Base man ,” she cried, “did not you promise my father to be

and lodging. They knocked at many doors, but were refused at all. One man said, “My friends are with me; I can admit no oth

Mercury knocked at the little door of this poor couple, and the good man of the house instantly opened it. “Allow us, frie

he house instantly opened it. “Allow us, friend,” said Jupiter to the man , “to rest ourselves a while at your hearth.” “You

derful change of objects. “O virtuous pair,” exclaimed the god; “just man , excellent woman, and worthy of each other! Have

e eldest daughter of a family to be married the first, and if a young man desired to take a younger member, he was sometime

auria. He had folded up his wings, and appeared like a handsome young man . “I am come hither, fair lady,” said Mercury addr

Mercury himself respects marriage vows. If Herse is once married to a man , he will not break their union. Aglauria then too

ich serpents were twined. As a stick inflicts blows, and may defend a man , may prevent others from injuring him, or punish

of early rising. Mercury was an industrious deity, and an example to man .” That is the moral of the fable. Ann. I have of

r one. Mother. That gentleman who said Mercury was a good example to man , said also that Narcissus was a striking example

ry, for you may read of him again. Tiresias was considered the wisest man in Greece at that time. The people of Thebes, and

admus. How can you explain the flight of Europa. Mother. I suppose a man came to the sea-coast, where she was amusing hers

ed the fountain were sacred to Diana, and it was not permitted to any man to enter her domain. Diana was a modest female de

scaped unobserved, but Diana saw him, and was greatly incensed that a man should enter her sacred grove. In her displeasure

a bath kept for the use of females only, and it was improper that any man should enter it. Acteon, unluckily, went into it.

The ancients, thought, that there were three sister-deities, who made man wicked and miserable. These they sometimes called

The Orgies. In ancient times, when persons wished to commend a man very much, they would say, he is not the son of a

ed to commend a man very much, they would say, he is not the son of a man , but of a god, as they said that Perseus was the

out with vine tendrils. The god then rose at once to the stature of a man , and assumed an air of authority. Bacchus, after

ancing in the most frantic manner. Sometimes they made processions. A man , dressed to represent Bacchus, was placed in a ca

he goodness of Cadmus and of Pentheus. Cadmus was an affectionate old man , and a generous one, for he had given a kingdom t

ld their orgies; but though he was imprudent, he was otherwise a good man . He detested drunken revels, and he respected age

is right. What do you think of Bacchus? Ann. I presume that he was a man who taught the ignorant to cultivate the grape, a

him, and therefore he shut up the princess in a high tower, where no man could see her, nor visit her. Jupiter loved and p

gold, that he might enter Danæ’s apartment This only means, that some man who loved Danæ, paid, or bribed, the keepers of h

d? The vessel, perhaps, was dashed upon some fatal rock.” “Alas! good man ,” replied Danæ, “you see before you all the vesse

Dana; and her son, did not love Perseus when he had grown up to be a man . Perseus was young, handsome, and vigorous; he wa

e return it; he only uncovered the fatal head, and Atlas stood, not a man , but a rock. An accumulation of earth, says the f

forests grew on its sides. Images of Atlas are made in the form of a man bearing the earth upon his shoulders. ——— Æolus h

ge of the gorgon” Perseus paused, for the sudden entrance of an armed man , followed by a numerous train, drew every body’s

short the matter, by telling Phineus, that Andromeda was his, and no man living should separate them. The friends of Perse

is grandfather no longer its king. His brother, Phætus, a very artful man , had deposed the old king, and taken his place. P

e temple of Minerva, whither no person durst follow to disturb her. A man , or woman, might go to a temple, as a refuge from

n. When she fled from the palace of Polydectes to the temple, the old man heard of it, and afterward conveyed her to his hu

left is sordid garments in the cottage of the rock; and, as he was a man of great benevolence and good sense, when he was

emony, and blessed the youthful pair. His picture is drawn as a young man , dressed in a saffron robe, and he holds in his h

t the wicked, the cruel, and the foolish. Ann. Was there ever such a man as Perseus? Mother. Yes; he was a prince of Pelo

ounded to the melody of her voice, as she sung the gifts of Ceres: to man she gave the plough and the spade, the scythe and

d women to love each other. In that story he was described as a young man , and was unarmed; but in almost all fables, he is

no hand, except that of Apollo, could restrain them. “Audacious young man ,” replied the god; “you know not what you ask. To

them the following adventure of Latona: “In my youth,” began the old man , “my father, being too old and infirm to bear the

, and then inquired rho was the presiding deity of the place. “‘Young man ,’ replied my companion, ‘this altar is dedicated

ater in the world that you must come to drink of this lake? “‘Can any man be so unreasonable and cruel as to deny this refr

tributed to that most prominent cause, passion. The natural desire of man , when destitute of a knowledge of the true God, t

erful, or whatever excellence the eye could discover in the figure of man , was displayed in the statues of their deities. T

sses to have empire over the different parts of the universe; so that man was to believe himself to be every where observed

other gods. Yet some attempted to represent him in the form of an old man , holding between his hands the urn wherein the fo

rth with manure. He is represented under the figure of a decrepit old man , with wings, holding in one hand a scythe, and in

father of agriculture, Saturn is represented in the figure of an old man , holding a scythe in his hand. Obs. 2. In a mora

to January. He is usually represented with two faces, that of an old man , looking towards the year that is past, and that

n old man, looking towards the year that is past, and that of a young man , regarding the year that has just commenced. He a

s the son of Japetus by Clymene, one of the Oceantides. He animated a man whom he had formed of clay, with fire, which, by

r then, to mend its halting pace, And found a more compendious way to man .” Horace. “Thy godlike crime was to be kind, T

ecepts less The sum of human misery than wretchedness, And strengthen man with his own mind.” Byron. Obs. 1. — Prometheu

mildly and comfortably; which gave rise to the saying that he made a man with the aid of the goddess of wisdom. Hence, he

of Pandora and Deucalion, appear evidently, to relate to the Fall of man and the General Deluge. Obs. 4. — The story of P

preside at the nuptial rites. Jugatinus put the yoke of matrimony on man and woman. Domiducus introduced the bride into t

ol and limpid river, Alpheus, the god of the river, in the shape of a man , addressed her. She ran away, but Diana, finding

er drinking at a spring. Her favorite retreat was Sicily, where every man made an annual sacrifice to her. The fountain of

same deity. Apollo is always represented under the figure of a young man , who holds a bow or a harp in his hand, while the

at poetry. This pretended death of Adonis, allegorically represents a man , vain of his intellectual powers, who considered

all his glory and majesty, and thus prove that he was a god and not a man . Having sworn by Styx to comply with whatsoever r

ves. His figure is sometimes that of a young, and sometimes of an old man . Sometimes he has horns; at others, he appears na

s called Biformis, because he was depicted both as a young and an old man , or with, and without, a beard; Brisæus, either b

sh pride. Obs. 5. — The fable of Tiresias shows, that the truly wise man does not care for the common events of life, and

comes out of Jupiter’s head, to show that wisdom was not invented by man , but has a celestial origin. She comes into the w

origin. She comes into the world, completely armed, because the wise man , strengthened by his conscience, and by virtue, k

a black bull, when it was agitated. Oceanus is represented as an old man , with a long flowing beard, sitting on the waves

alm the ocean and abate storms at pleasure. He is represented as half man and half fish, blowing a wreathed sea-shell, whic

ed shell to sound, And at the blast the billows dance around. A hairy man above the breast he shows; A porpoise tail beneat

feeble recollections of sacred tradition were not sufficient to bring man back to a knowledge of the true God. Strength, nu

don of his sins, and the indulgence of his passions and desires. Thus man blindly and madly went on, continually increasing

honoured him as a true god. He was represented in the form of an old man , filthy, covered with moss, pale, and deformed, a

pped by strength, and lands would remain uncultivated; for it enables man to prosecute business with certainty and facility

into whatever forms he chose, but was usually represented as a young man crowned with flowers, covered up to the waist, an

untains, woods, and plains. The upper part of his figure is that of a man , with horns on his head, and a long beard; his lo

re usually found in the train of Bacchus, had their upper part like a man and their lower parts like a shaggy goat. Pan was

erpetual companion of Bacchus, was represented as a fat and jolly old man , with a flat nose, large ears, a bald head, a tai

which thence had the fame of having golden sands. Sylvanus was an old man , small in stature, with the tail and feet of a go

philosopher. Being asked, “What was the best thing that could befall man ,” he deliberately replied, “It is best for all ne

ies in Lydia, caused him to be represented in the figure of a drunken man . The gravest authors say, that the ass given him

he Genii were deities, supposed to preside over the birth and life of man . They are sometimes synonymous with the Lares and

appeared. Sometimes they were represented as a boy, a girl, or an old man , and wearing a crown of the leaves of the plane,

to become dæmons. They are described as being of superior dignity to man , but of a nature inferior to the gods. They exist

d the third, the fire. Some ancient philosophers advanced, that every man had two Genii allotted to him, a Bonus Genius, or

become dæmons? Did not some ancient philosophers advance, that every man had two Genii? How were the Manes distinguished f

rime and rewards virtue, is as ancient as the world itself. The first man received it from God himself, and transmitted it

ial body was reduced to dust or ashes, the soul, or spiritual part of man , ascended to heaven. The Pagans distinguished the

d Briareus Charon, (anger,) the ferryman to Hell, was a decrepit old man , with silvery locks, and along and grisly beard,

night, were personified. Each of these portions, was represented by a man or a woman, according to its masculine or feminin

ents, the causes of which they could not penetrate, blind and bigoted man proceeded to deify those imaginary or real evils

m to be turned off from the celestial court in disgrace. Of the first man that Vulcan had fashioned, Momus said, that he ou

he most essential qualifications of a physician. He appears as an old man , with-a beard, and a crown of laurel, leaning on

heir tombs were seen to change themselves into temples. Every private man had the right of eulogising his ancestors, and ev

t every year, and who delivered them to the Minotaur, a monster, half man and half bull, that was shut up in a Labyrinth in

in Italy, where he changed his name to Viribus, because he had been a man twice. Phædra was so tormented with the gnawings

es, were concealed the eminent services, which some good and powerful man had rendered to his fellow creatures. In moralizi

he smiles and frowns of her lovers, could induce her to marry another man , and violate the vows of fidelity which she gave

yrieus. In order to receive them with distinguished hospitality, this man killed the only ox he had. The gods, admiring his

e intelligence that had created the world; and that there was also in man an intelligence superior to the body, and which w

acred to him. Anubis, the companion of Osiris and Isis, appears as a man with a dog’s head, holding in one hand a caduceus

into six intervals the period of the work of creation. In the sixth, man alone was created, consisting of two distinct per

sixth, man alone was created, consisting of two distinct persons, the man and the man-bull. These were so connected as to f

n and the man-bull. These were so connected as to form one being; the man was the pure and holy soul of the man-bull. The m

a universal opposition to the will of the supreme god, until a second man , to whom was entrusted the duty of producing a un

e name of the second man-bull was Tasehter. He had three bodies, of a man , a horse, and a bull; from each of which he poure

wo figures of elephants are placed upon the eastern gate, each with a man on his trunk; and two figures of horsemen upon th

cruel rites. The Philistines worshipped Dagon, a god compounded of a man and a fish. The Syrians worshipped Baal, Thammuz,

mage; head and hands lopp’d off. Dagon his name; sea-monster; upwards man , And downward fish; yet had his temples high, Rea

head like a man’s, and a lower one like a fish’s, with the feet of a man and the tail of a fish, and the voice and speech

e feet of a man and the tail of a fish, and the voice and speech of a man . He issued out of the Erythrean sea, and appeared

that the fruits of trees were good, and could serve as nourishment to man . Their children, called Genae and Genus, dwelt in

nnes, Omorea, Chronos? What did the Phœnicians say of the creation of man ? Chapter XV. Mexican Mythology. To supply

r of these offerings by calling to our mind the natural inquietude of man , and the restlessness with which he endeavours to

tion to adorn it with his master pieces. Thus, the labours of a great man are often sufficient to give light to the age in

cupola of St. Peter’s at Rome. It is asserted that this extraordinary man — this great painter, architect, and sculptor, ma

people. Were not, then, the power of a king, the curiosity of a rich man , the indiscretion and infidelity of a priest, the

e questions are deemed sufficient to convince the reader, that a wise man may believe in the truth of some oracles, without

en obelisks. In this inclosure appears a cave, cut out by the hand of man , in the form of an oven. Through it there is a na

rd, and the priests proceeded to interpret it. Pausanias adds that a man once entered this den alone, without getting out

was the oracle of Mopsus. The envoy lay down in the temple, and saw a man who said to him: Black. He carried back this repl

er, and conducted herself and her son Pisidorus to Olympia. The young man having been declared victor, his mother leaped ov

rs. These facts cannot be contested; but the origin of this wonderful man , the country which gave him birth, the time in wh

he supreme god of the Scythians, either that he might be considered a man inspired by the gods, or because he was the first

was burnt with great pomp and magnificence. Such was the end of this man , no less extraordinary in his death than in his l

Mimer, who, during his life, had a great reputation for wisdom. This man having had his head cut off, Odin embalmed it, an

chains the mind, checks the imagination, and curbs the passions; and man , obtaining nothing but by vigorous exertion, turn

motive of this worship was the fear of a God, offended by the sins of man , but merciful, and exorable to prayer and repenta

s all that is high and low, great and small. He made heaven, air, and man , who is to live forever; and before heaven and ea

s connected with Earth, in order to produce by her subaltern deities, man , and all other creatures; and upon this belief wa

of them. On the next day appeared a head; and on the third, an entire man , called Bure. His son Bor married Belsta, daughte

ere, they found two floating pieces of wood, out of which they formed man and woman. The elder of the sons gave them soul a

aring, and sight, to which he added beauty and dress. It is from this man , named Askus, (Ash,) and from this woman, named E

reath which produced the great giant Ymer; that sleep, during which a man and a woman were born of his sides; that race of

sides; that race of the sons of the gods; that deluge from which one man alone escaped with his family in a boat; that ren

oat; that renewing of the world which followed the deluge; that first man , that first woman, created by the gods, and who r

f divinity over all creatures, the Celts considered it impossible for man to change the course of things, or to resist the

ey admitted three Fairies or Nornas, who determined all events. Every man had a fairy, who was present at his birth, watche

rous prejudice, namely; they believed that the limit of the life of a man could be put forward if some one should die for h

he Held the strange keys of destiny, Ere world there was, or gods, or man ; No mortal tongue has ever said, What hand unknow

ela’s halls, Nature shines in glory beaming;     Elves are born, and man is form’d; Ev’ry hill with gladness teeming,     

public calamities, that blood appearing too vile, they caused that of man to flow. This barbarous and almost universal usag

when we consider how liable ignorant nations are to fall into error. Man is surrounded with dangers and evils from his bir

rst for revenge, and that eagerness for the destruction of his fellow man , which cannot be quenched whilst he entertains no

ilized nations. The glory of a great nation awakens the genius of the man whom nature has endowed with a glowing imaginatio

s to be perceived, yet they gave warnings by some kind of omen. Every man believed he had his tutelary shade that incessant

ish, it will be by water or by fire. 10. On extraordinary occasions a man must be immolated. One can read futurity accordin

ng disordered and novel in intellect, they represent Saturn as an old man , and slow in his motions. “Again, the ancient the

was, he would sometimes come down from the sky and walk on earth as a man . He wished to see and enjoy things himself. At an

Pan, the god of the animals, came skipping to meet her. He was like a man , but he had hoofs in place of feet, and his ears

ly secure at that time. Among the Titans, two were special friends of man — Prometheus and his brother, Epimetheus. Prometh

grew strong and wise and brave. Now when Hercules came to be a young man , he had to meet a great temptation and make a ver

submit to his service, and he knew that Hercules was not the sort of man to disobey an oracle. However, Eurystheus trusted

mphs could not tell him. They advised him to seek out Nereus, the old man of the sea, for he could surely tell where the ga

mother him almost out. Then Nereus changed back to the form of an old man . He had been handled roughly, but he admired the

as secretly glad that it was in his power to help the hero. “Insolent man ,” he cried out, in seeming rage, “let me go! Seek

t the golden apples; but let me go, I say!” Then Hercules let the old man loose, and in a twinkling the god had disappeared

es were worn and tattered, he was fairer to look upon than any mortal man . He asked for shelter, and begged that he might t

and beauty had vanished. Jupiter had compelled him to serve a mortal man for one year to atone for a fault, but now his ti

day of doom was come, for against Death no mortal means can help. No man can escape when once that lock of hair has been c

rely some one will be found among my friends to die for me — some old man , may be, who has not long to live in any case.” Y

f the palace, and there food and wine were set before him. The strong man even crowned his head with garlands, and made mer

m to give Hercules no hint of what had happened. Very soon the strong man , looking up, noticed how sad the poor servant was

s who is dead.” Thus the whole truth came out. Hercules was a changed man in an instant. One moment he stayed to ask the se

stands blazing with burnished gold and flaming jewels. When the young man came to the palace door, he did not stop, but wen

alue you no less because you come without a gift.” At this, the young man held his head up proudly and said: — “O King, wha

sed King Polydectes the head of the Gorgon Medusa,” replied the young man , and I will not see him again until I have it.” T

n Perseus came near, the one who had the eye cried out: — “Sisters, a man comes! Give me the tooth, that I may bite him.” B

p and moan. “Give us back our eye!” they said. “Give us back our eye, man !” “Listen,” said Perseus. “I will give you the ey

time is almost come. The boy is already taller and stronger than any man in Trœzen.” One day she led Theseus out into the

of the plundering clan    Lies in wait for the life of the wayfaring man :            There, there, and only there,        

and honored him much, but never thought that this strong, fair young man , who had slain so many robbers and giants, was hi

t evening. When the golden goblet of wine was placed before the young man , she smiled upon him, and said: — “Drink, Theseus

rd which the young hero was wearing. “Where got you that sword, young man ?” he cried out. “Speak! Whose is it?” Then Theseu

s amazed and asked the cause of their grief. “Alas, sir,” said an old man , “it is because the time has now returned when we

” “Tell me about it,” said Theseus. “It is a sad story,” said the old man . “Minos, the king of Crete, sent his son to take

son to take part in the games at our great yearly festival. The young man won many prizes and much honor, but some of his j

. With these he feeds the Minotaur, a fierce and evil monster, half a man and half a bull. Twice we have sent the awful tri

hat, sniffing the air and listening. Its huge body was like that of a man , but its skin looked thick and hard like leather.

d it, for it was like a beast, and was yet more like a cruel and evil man . With a terrible bellow it rushed upon him, putti

hand fight. The Minotaur was as powerful as a bull and as clever as a man . Often did it clutch Theseus with its hands, but

ecious gifts and begged the body of his son, and the grief of the old man touched Achilles so that at last he burst into te

s advised that it be pulled to pieces to see what was inside. But one man said, “Let us haul it into the town and keep it a

, “It is because Laocoön threw his spear at the wooden horse, impious man that he was!” After that, there was no more ta

killing you?” “Noman is killing me,” roared the Cyclops. “Well, if no man is killing you, you must be sick. Diseases are se

locks together, three by three. Under the middle ram of each three, a man was tied. When day dawned, the Cyclops called his

rose and became a hurricane; a thunderbolt struck the ship, and every man aboard was drowned, excepting Ulysses. He clung t

for Ulysses is long since dead. Your son, Telemachus, is now almost a man , so long has it been. Consider well, for we all s

Ulysses, and the hero made himself known. With tears of joy the young man flung his arms about his father’s neck. “Son,” sa

down, like a beggar, at the door of the banquet hall. “Bring the aged man in,” said Telemachus. “No; send him away,” said A

Daughters of Nereus; sea-nymphs, 87,168. Ne΄reus (ne΄ruse). “The old man of the sea,” 87; father of Thetis, the mother of

s. Nes΄tor. King of Thrace; cry old, and the wisest of men, 176. No΄ man . The name assumed by Ulysses to deceive the Cyclo

lew, 151. Prome΄theus (pro-me΄thuse). A Titan, and special friend of man , 42; stole fire from heaven, 43, and was punished

y their religious legends their opinions on the origin and destiny of man , their motives for the performance of what they c

aracter, and represents in its history the moral dealings of God with man . Thus, Apollo is, first, physically the sun conte

rshipers as a living spirit with whom men may speak face to face as a man speaks with his friend.” Ruskin . The Greek po

men, for in those times great size was esteemed a perfection both in man and woman, and consequently was supposed to be an

e. He was represented on coins of the Rhodians by the head of a young man crowned with rays. Sacrifices offered to Helios w

here did they receive welcome till they reached the cottage of an old man and his wife, called Philemon* and Baucis*, who e

h had the power of speech, the feet on the right side like those of a man , and the rest of the body like a horse. The favor

rossed only by the aid of Charon*, the ferryman, a grim, unshaven old man . He took only those whose bodies had received fun

in. Either term signifies a share, in the sense of allotting to every man his share. Some mythologists call them the daught

                                              “Of old Called the wild man from waste and wold, And, in his hut thy presence

ul to a brighter and better life, on the condition, of course, that a man had fully pleased the gods, and rendered himself

mastered the mighty element and compelled it to do grand service for man . Volcanoes were believed to be his workshops and

rded the Golden Fleece. He formed for Minos*. King of Crete, a brazen man named Talos*, who compassed the island three time

security against conflagrations. Representations. Mature bearded man , with short garment so arranged as to leave the r

e world, and, secondly, the heavenly light which animates the soul of man . We find Apollo, in later times, completely ident

d not hide the secret from his barber, whom he bound to secrecy. This man found it so painful to keep the secret to himself

he drove off fifty cows, and took them to Arcadia unseen by any but a man named Battus*. Apollo, pursuing, came to the cave

god of wit and ridicule, and was very unpopular. His comment upon the man made by Prometheus was, that the new being should

s of equality, who sees that happiness and misfortune are allotted to man according to merit. Eventually, she was regarded

meat, wine, grapes, wheat-ears, and pigs. He is represented as an old man scattering flowers, and usually bears in his hand

s quiet, placid moods. He was represented as a kindly, benevolent old man , the good spirit of the Ægean Sea, where he and h

and regarding him with a look of affection, or as a somewhat elderly man , with blunt nose, bald head, and hairy body. He g

s were white, those to the gods of the lower world were black. When a man offered a special sacrifice for himself or his fa

ve to vineyards. It was regarded as a contempt of the gods for a rich man to bring a mean offering, but from a poor man the

of the gods for a rich man to bring a mean offering, but from a poor man the smallest oblation was considered acceptable.

frost of winter had disappeared, and so they naturally concluded that man must also have issued from the earth in a similar

and duties of men. It was decided that Prometheus, as the advocate of man , should slay an ox and divide it into two parts,

uture sacrifices should be set apart for them. In order to secure for man the portion suitable to be eaten, Prometheus wrap

introduction of civilization many evils which were before unknown to man came into existence, is expressed in the myth of

e and anxiety, the love of gain, and other evil passions that torment man , are personified in the eagle that fed on the inc

ties in all religious matters, and the doctrine they taught was, that man had been created by the gods, and that there had

oned together. According to the ancient fable, the Centaurs were part man and part horse. The most renowned of the Centaurs

e way towards Thebes. In driving through a narrow pass, he met an old man , and a herald, driving in a chariot, and when he

pted by such a reward, Œdipus came forward and explained the riddle. “ Man , as a child, in the morning of life creeps upon h

e games. As he was throwing the discus, it accidentally struck an old man among the spectators, and caused his death. The o

struck an old man among the spectators, and caused his death. The old man was Acrisius, and thus Perseus unintentionally fu

of Eurytus*, who had promised his daughter, Iole*, in marriage to the man who should vanquish himself and his sons in shoot

h had spoken of the sun as toiling for so poor and weak a creature as man . Every feature of the many legends connected with

ellow-citizens. This was the slaying of the Minotaur*, a monster half man , half bull, whose lair was in the wonderful labyr

ecause he had been warned by the oracle to beware of the one-sandaled man . Pelias disguised his fears, conversed kindly wit

, “O friends, I die, and Noman gives the blow.” They answered, “If no man hurts thee, it is the stroke of Jove, and thou mu

nto a snaky monster by Circe. She had six heads, each of which took a man out of every ship that passed. It was said Charyb

At the suggestion of Athene, who accompanied him under the form of a man named Mentor, Telemachus had gone to the courts o

e moved, he exclaimed that the errand was useless, for that no mortal man could stir it from its place. Then Penelope knew

us, or Vulcan, presided over fire, and compelled it to do service for man . Aphrodite, or Venus, presided over love and beau

er. Pestilence, fever, and all the ills of life were personified, and man was like a bewildered traveler struggling through

ebelled, and became the author of all evil upon earth. Ormuzd created man , and supplied him with all the materials of happi

, and the name is derived from the same root with the words, mind and man ; man being so called as the measurer, or thinker.

the name is derived from the same root with the words, mind and man; man being so called as the measurer, or thinker. The

ruel than that of the followers of Siva. The Hindus believe that if a man lead a pure life, his soul will pass, after death

she was one day licking the salt stones, there appeared the hair of a man ; on the second day the whole head, and on the thi

creation, but seeing that it was uninhabited, they resolved to create man . Aske* and Embla*, the first man and woman, were

uninhabited, they resolved to create man. Aske* and Embla*, the first man and woman, were then formed, the man of an ash-tr

man. Aske* and Embla*, the first man and woman, were then formed, the man of an ash-tree and the woman of an alder. They we

e rocks. Though called the Great Hare, he was always referred to as a man , the mighty father or elder brother of the race.”

fertilized by the sunlight, so that from it sprung organic life, even man himself, who, in so many mythologies, is the ‘ear

ny mythologies, is the ‘earthborn.’ “After the darkness of the night, man first learns his whereabouts by the light kindlin

ent. Wandering through pathless forests, the east became to primitive man the most important of the fixed points in space;

g of the Lyre.” —  Lowell. 13. The Egyptian Sphinx had the head of a man , the body of a lion, and had no wings. 14. Read

obeying the will of the Supreme Being, and communicating that will to man , there arose a number of inferior deities, each e

h seems to have been universal, of a time of primeval innocence, when man dwelt in a peaceful world, ignorant alike of sorr

hus describes the days of innocence: “The Golden Age was first, when man , yet new, No rule but uncorrupted reason knew, An

ul sincere; Needless was written law where none oppressed; The law of man was written in his breast: No suppliant crowds be

en mines, and drew thence gold and iron, potent instruments of ill to man . The same poet says: “Then land-marks limited to

ief birth, and made that mischief bold: And double death did wretched man invade, By steel assaulted, and by gold betrayed.

and father of gods and men. He is generally represented as a majestic man with a beard, sitting on a throne of gold and ivo

rrows. Ques. How is this god generally represented? Ans. As a young man , comely and graceful. He wears a laurel crown ove

l it from his barber, he bound him to silence by great promises. This man , however, found it so painful to keep the secret

w represented — Offices of Mercury — Benefits conferred by Mercury on Man — Why considered the Patron of Thieves — Story of

the month of May. Ques. How is Mercury represented? Ans. As a young man of cheerful countenance, having wings fixed to hi

ed as the god of wine. Ques. How is he represented? Ans. As a young man , crowned with ivy and grape leaves; he sits in a

s. Ques. Who aided the nymphs in their care of Bacchus? Ans. An old man named Silenus. He was considered a demi-god. Que

, they were seized by a sort of madness, and rushing upon the unhappy man , tore him to pieces. The mother of Pentheus, and

at whichever of the two deities should confer the most useful gift on man , might give a name to the city. Neptune struck th

. Ques. How is he represented? Ans. Saturn is represented as an old man armed with a scythe, which signifies that time mo

which guarded his house. To Minos, king of Crete, he gave the brazen man Talus, who passed around the island three times e

he prize of skill; Neptune made a bull, Minerva a house, and Vulcan a man . Momus was called upon to decide their merits, bu

dinary treatment, the infant, in a few days, became a beautiful young man . His mother, Meganira, wondered at this, and reso

ther arts of husbandry. Triptolemus is usually represented as a young man , seated in a splendid chariot drawn by flying ser

and a nymph of Arcadia. Ques. How is Pan represented? Ans. As half man , and half goat, having a human head ornamented wi

were hideous monsters who dwelt in forests, and were, like Pan, half man and half goat. Terminus. Ques. Who was Ter

ters and sculptors were employed in the decorations of the edifice. A man named Erostratus, who was anxious to make himself

ompanion and trumpeter. The upper half of his body was like that of a man , but below the waist he resembled a fish; his tai

nd the remorse which torments the wicked. When the ancients said of a man , that the Furies had taken up their abode with hi

s besides those of Hell? Ans. Yes, many; the Centaurs, who were half man and half horse; also Geryon, who was king of the

e would give the throne, with the hand of his sister Jocasta, to that man who should solve the riddle. Œdipus, who was then

at Thebes, came forward and answered the Sphinx, that the animal was Man , because when an infant he creeps on all fours; i

n which the odious features of this Vice were strikingly portrayed. A man sits in a listening attitude, beckoning Calumny t

was the son of Iapetus and Clymene, one of the Oceanides. He formed a man out of clay, and gave it life by means of fire wh

n derived from some ancient tradition of Eve’s curiosity, the fall of man , and the hope left him amid so many misfortunes.

a statue of brass which was consecrated at Tænarus. It represented a man mounted on a dolphin. Amphion. Ques. Who w

the cutting of timber. By this and other efforts of skill, the young man excited the jealousy of Dædalus, who killed him b

the more he consumed, the more his hunger raged. In vain the unhappy man spent all his substance to obtain relief; he was

Ithaca. While in this island, he was kindly entertained by a wealthy man named Mentor, who related to him the traditionary

no longer resist. She promised, therefore, that she would marry that man who should send an arrow from the bow of Ulysses,

, with affected indifference, that they might as well gratify the old man , bade him try. Ulysses took the bow, and the suit

They sang of the happiness enjoyed by the pure of heart, of the good man whose dwelling was never darkened by their shadow

and what had the cranes to do with him. A cry was raised to seize the man who had spoken, and the one to whom his speech ha

. Ques. Who was Oannes? Ans. He was a god of the Assyrians, half man , half fish, who was said to dwell in the sea, fro

sis? Ans. The transmigration of souls. The Hindoos believe that if a man lead a pure life, his soul will pass, after death

s followers, the writings of Lao-tze prove that he was a true sage, a man of noble and elevated ideas. He has been compared

creation, but seeing that it was uninhabited, they resolved to create man . Aske and Embla, the first man and woman, were th

s uninhabited, they resolved to create man. Aske and Embla, the first man and woman, were therefore formed, the man out of

. Aske and Embla, the first man and woman, were therefore formed, the man out of an ash, and the woman out of an alder. The

. What are the menhirs? Ans. The word is derived from the old Breton man , stone; and hir, long. They are upright blocks of

the fertility of the soil that a single ear of corn was as much as a man could carry. The dyer’s art was not needed, for t

culiar ceremonies were observed. A year before the sacrifice, a young man , distinguished for grace and beauty, was chosen f

The hurry of military expeditions did not prevent this extraordinary man from observing closely the manners and customs of

e art of public speaking, on philosophy and jurisprudence. This great man , who had saved Rome from the plots of Catiline, a

d by excess. He was tormented by constant wakefulness, and this great man , with the resources of the world at his command,

as a historian and a naturalist. It is not easy to understand how one man could have followed so many different avocations,

especial favorite of the gods. The remark of the ancient sage that no man is to be accounted happy before he dies, was veri

efreshing, invigorating, exalting. Beauty and strength — the might of man , and the majesty and sublimity of the misundersto

names which are given to the persons or actors in the fables; and no man can positively deny that this was the sense propo

and gave the golden age.” Virgil. “The Golden age was first; when man yet new, No rule but uncorrupted reason knew, And

ul sincere. Needless was written law, when none oppressed, The law of man was written in his breast; No suppliant crowds be

ot, and sometimes on a throne, under the figure of an old and bearded man , severe in aspect, thin and yet robust, his eyes

round me, girl, touch, touch me not; The power to pardon lieth not in man . Thy hour hath come.     Vestal, (clasping him).

th come.     Vestal, (clasping him). I will not quit thee; Thou art a man with human sympathies; Madness will touch my brai

is, gave her a beautiful box, which she was ordered to present to the man who married her; and by the command of the god, M

s ’twas Jove’s command the sex began A lovely mischief to the soul of man ! Within her hand the nymph a casket bears, Full o

d at the bottom, and that only has the power of easing the labours of man , and rendering his troubles less painful. “But t

e mischief birth, and made the mischief bold, And double did wretched man invade, By steel assaulted, and by gold betrayed.

from the fate of their friends. He is represented as the guardian of man , and dispenser of good and evil. “While we to Jo

greatest son of Saturn, wise disposer Of every good; thy praise what man yet born Has sung? or who that may be born shall

ther! grant us virtue, grant us wealth, For without virtue, wealth to man avails not, And virtue without wealth exerts less

n and Cybele, was goddess of the productions of the earth. She taught man the art of agriculture, and is represented crowne

cover How passion triumphed — pain began — Or in the immortal, or the man ,     The hero, or the lover.     “The disk is hu

s during his empire. This God is represented in the figure of a young man without beard, with curling locks of hair, his br

e oracle to consult its responses. This was to offer it to the wisest man in Greece. They presented it to Thales, who had t

leaves of the vine, and the magpie, because wine makes the tongue of man to chatter like that of the bird. The ivy was con

with a thyrsus in his hand. His figure is that of an effeminate young man , to denote the joys which commonly prevail at fea

enote the joys which commonly prevail at feasts; and sometimes an old man , to teach us that wine taken immoderately, will e

re led, Whom justice honours, and whom tyrants dread. Hail! friend to man ! whose cares to youth, impart The arm unwearied,

re is grand, and his appearance imposing; he wears the look of an old man , his long beard and hair, wet with the vapour of

’er them, ocean! in thy scornful play!                                 Man yields them to decay “Yet more! the billows and

e fifty of them, all children of Nereus, who is represented as an old man with a long flowing beard, and hair of an azure c

nted the Centaur, a monster, of which the superior part was that of a man , and the remainder that of the horse. Insérer ima

es in the other. Vertumnus is represented under the figure of a young man , crowned with various plants, bearing in his left

ith the juice of the vintage, which he yields to gladden the heart of man : while a dog is placed at his feet to denote it a

e’en your unhallowed breath,     May spare the victim fallen low; But man will ask no truce to death,     No bounds to huma

visits from the remainder of the deities. He is represented as an old man , with a long, flowing beard, and sitting upon the

g his sea horn.” Wordsworth. His body above the waist, is that of a man , but below, a dolphin’s, while by some he is show

d Europe. Auster, God of the south wind, appeared generally as an old man with grey hair, a gloomy countenance, a head cove

all heavy showers. Eurus, God of the east, is represented as a young man , flying with great impetuosity, and often appeari

e doth pant; And gloomily pondered     O’er sadness and want. An old man was sighing     O’er angel lips gone, His cherub

st thou, in thy vain impotence of pride Demand the knowledge to frail man denied? Call’st thou me reckless, when I place m

ease the wretched of his woe? Then taunt me not with wanton cruelty, Man knows ’tis written ‘thou must surely die!’ But a

ase God’s sovereign will to scan, Be thou prepared to meet the son of man !’” Clarke. Sleep. Sleep, the accustomed c

o’er the space Of earth, and broad expanse of ocean waves, Placid to man . The other has a heart Of iron; yea, the heart wi

found. Household Deities, There only shall be Happiness on earth When man shall feel your sacred power, and love Your tranq

t intentions. Some of the ancient philosophers maintained, that every man had two of these, the one bad, the other good. Th

y of his ideas; the artist, his perception of the beautiful; the wise man , that spirit of amiability which appreciates the

pirit of amiability which appreciates the charms of ‌virtue; the rich man , a love of beneficence and desire of giving; the

changed each others dresses. He is represented as a young and drunken man , with a garland of flowers upon his head, his fac

ws surer. He irritated Vulcan, by observing that if he wished to make man perfect, he should have placed a window at his he

ist not where to stray. The world was sad; the garden was a wild! And man , the hermit, sighed, — till woman smiled!” Campb

nd oft will fancy rise above the lot Of honest poverty, and dream how man                 Nor rich, nor poor, enjoys       

the others, and, as he had been warned by the oracle, to beware of a man who should appear at Iolchos with one foot bare,

obtain possession of the golden fleece which belonged to the murdered man ; observing, that, the deed merited punishment, an

happy change in body and in mind, In sense and constitution the same man , As when his fortieth active year began.” Ovid.

hast thou then unveiled me to the Sun? Theseus. Why not? Can mortal man pollute the Gods? Hercules. Fly, thou unhappy, m

ons and wife? Then bid me thence with curses on my head. ‌And to the man , whose former days were passed In happier fortune

f the remaining guests could enable them to offer. To a high spirited man this was unbearable, and unable to submit to the

brandishing his brazen pointed lance, ‘Behold,’ he said, ‘an injured man advance,’ Stung with resentment for his ravished

d, As here and there he strove to turn aside, The wonder wrought, the man was petrified, All marble was his frame, his burn

his he was attended by an evil fate, and had the misfortune to kill a man with a quoit which he had thrown in the air: this

eople of Athens as his son, all of whom gladly hailed the illustrious man , who had cleansed them of robbers and pirates, as

  Hip. I scarcely dare believe mine ears, a dream Seems on me, like a man in sleep, A mass of dim confusion gathers round m

his blood he lay transfixed.’” Alfieri. Ignorant of the rank of the man he had killed, he continued his way to Thebes, at

e evening upon three legs.” The answer of Œdipus was “That in infancy man goes upon his hands and feet; in manhood he walks

Phorbas. Hold, hold, Oh! dreadful sir, You will not rack an innocent man . ‌ Œd. Speak, then. Phor. Alas! what would you

eak, then. Phor. Alas! what would you have me say? Œd. Did this old man take from your arms an infant? Phor. He did, and

f the king, that monarch having declared that she should only wed the man who would run on foot as fast as he could proceed

atched your robe away from me, Though going to the council. The blind man Knew his good king was leading him in doors, Befo

s moment a Greek named Sinon was brought before them. This perfidious man said that his brothers in arms, irritated against

ed the council of Venus. He awoke his father Anchises, placed the old man on his shoulders, took the young Ascanius, his so

im to Italy. In vain Dido endeavoured to stop him, she saw in Æneas a man resolved to leave her, and she loaded him with th

.” He gave himself up for a time to the pleasure of her society, but man was as fickle then as now, and he grew tired, eve

o Jobates the father of his queen, entreating him to put to death the man who would have insulted the honour of his daughte

a blow of his fist, and to crown the feat, afterwards eat it up. This man was one of the disciples of Pythagoras, whose lif

urrounded him. ‌ The earth, being yet uninhabited, he made the first man and the first woman wherewith to people it. Brahm

that he might leave to ‌the world on his quitting it, the model of a man . He resided in the centre of the worlds, and all

s side is placed a fantastic kind of bird, a beautiful mixture of the man and of the eagle. The faith of Vishnu is spread o

ss and liberty. He is frequently represented under the form of an old man , armed with a scythe, to imply that he presided o

l of that pure vital heat, which, being diffused through the frame of Man , enlivens and cherishes him. Numa Pompilius raise

erally represented seated on a throne, under the figure of a majestic man , with a venerable beard. In his right-hand, holdi

figures are they represented? Apollo is always represented as a young man , having a bow or lyre in his hand; while the Sun

ogs, the infection first began; And last the vengeful arrows fixed on man . Pope’s Homer’s Iliad. Chap. X. The Muses.

t to the ground the very day on which Alexander the Great was born. A man , named Erostratus, wishing to make his name immor

nd Semele; god of wine. How was he represented? Sometimes, as an aged man with a venerable beard; sometimes, as a young man

metimes, as an aged man with a venerable beard; sometimes, as a young man with horns, a red face, a body bloated, and puffe

presided over the formation of roads. How was he depicted? As a young man with a cheerful countenance, and lively eyes; win

the various tribes of water nymphs. Oceanus was represented as an old man sitting upon the waves, holding a pike, and near

mals, the upper part of whose bodies was supposed to resemble that of man ; the lower part that of the dolphin. The first of

people at large, as a real being. His figure was that of a dirty old man , pale and disfigured, covered with moss, and resi

sket of fruit; and near her, stood Vertumnus in the figure of a young man , holding fruit in one hand, and in the other, the

ury and Penelope. Fie was represented under the form of a satyr, half man and half goat, holding in his hand the rural pipe

der various names, adored the whole collectively, under a figure half man , and half other animals. To this deity the Greeks

e poets say that he was born at Malea. They represented him as an old man with a bald head, a flat nose, large ears, and ev

ere likewise ranked in the number of these domestic Divinities. Every man was supposed to have two, accompanying him; one,

arted spirits, in order to pass over. Charon4, the aged, surly, boat- man , receives those into his bark who had been honour

hiped under the form of a serpent, and sometimes under that of an old man , holding a staff encircled by a serpent. Chap.

d of the Lernean hydra. He was represented as a prodigiously muscular man , clothed in the skin of the Nemean lion, and lean

stealing fire from the chariot of the sun, to animate the figure of a man which he had formed of clay, with exquisite skill

our; so that a large ship, under sail, might pass between its legs. A man could not grasp its thumb with his two arms. Afte

, As full, as perfect in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and b

the eastern gate are two very fine figures of elephants, each with a man upon his trunk. On the west are two surprising fi

themselves enjoin upon some particular occasions, the sacrifice of a man ; which is called Neramedha; or of a bull, which i

as represented under different forms; sometimes under the figure of a man sailing in a ship on the ocean, which was support

ace for exercise, and suitable companions, were provided for him. The man from whose herd the divine animal sprang was rega

f creation into six intervals. It asserts that in the sixth of these, man alone was created; and that he mysteriously consi

of two characters, or persons, distinguished from each other, as the Man , and the Man-Bull; that these were the first of b

and they were combined together, constituting one being; so that the man was the pure and holy soul of the Man-Bull. For s

ays and thirty nights. He is represented as having three bodies, of a man , a horse, and a bull; from each of which he cause

emblem of the God. They sacrificed horses to him, and every hundredth man taken in battle. The priest having poured a libat

the giant Baldorn. Aided by his two brothers, Vile and Ve, he created man and woman of two clumps of wood, which were float

She knew what chanc’d ere time began Ere world there was, or Gods, or man ; No mortal tongue has ever said, What hand unknow

ela’s halls. Nature shines in glory beaming;     Elves are born, and man is form’d Ev’ry hill with gladness teeming,     E

hilistines was Dagon, whose statue was compounded of the figures of a man and a fish; his name signifies the sun worshiped

image; head and hands lopp’d off. Dagon his name; sea monster; upward man , And downward fish; yet had his temple high, Rear

he sides of the temple. The image of Vitzliputzli was the figure of a man , seated on an azure-coloured stool, in an ark or

herds and of the woods. He was a strange creature, half goat and half man . But he was loved by every one, and especially by

y strange way. When Narcissus was born, his mother took him to a wise man who could foretell the future, and asked whether

but when you have read this story, I think you will see what the wise man meant. Narcissus was very fond of hunting, and he

Perseus was no longer a little baby boy, but a brave, fearless, young man . Now the king of the island was a wicked and crue

earless, young man. Now the king of the island was a wicked and cruel man , who for some reason hated Danaë and Perseus, and

oy, I would let you undertake a task that I am saving for the bravest man in my kingdom.” “And do you think me worthy of th

village was invited to be present at the feast. Now there was an old man of whom Andromeda’s parents were very much afraid

nd the parents had been afraid to say no. But the girl hated this old man , and that was another reason why she loved Perseu

erseus, who had saved her not only from the sea serpent, but from the man whom she dreaded quite as much. The wedding day d

artled people saw, standing in the opening, an ugly, scowling, little man , holding a sword, and followed by a band of armed

rmed soldiers. There was silence in the room, until at length the old man spoke: “Perseus, I have come to claim my promised

Perseus had lifted the terrible Gorgon’s head, and instantly the old man was turned to stone, just as he stood. When his f

born a little baby who grew up to be the strongest and most wonderful man of his time. When he was but a few weeks old, Jun

understand how such a wonderful baby might grow up into a remarkable man . Hercules was, in fact, the strongest man of whom

t grow up into a remarkable man. Hercules was, in fact, the strongest man of whom the world has any record. Nowadays, when

o be captured, and many bloody battles to be fought, before the brave man could gain his freedom. But at last all the dange

urse he could cross a stream when it would have been impossible for a man to do so. Hercules accepted the kind offer, and w

on him, and, as he was falling, changed him into a rock resembling a man in form; and the rock still stands far out in the

he Artisan’s Wonderful Wings In ancient Athens there once lived a man named Daedalus, who was highly honored by all the

very far from Greece was the island of Crete, ruled by King Minos, a man who could be a very good friend and a very cruel

When Aegeus, king of the famous old city of Athens, was still a young man , he was one day passing through a village, where

orth to the fight are gone. A place in the ranks awaits you,     Each man has some part to play; The past and the future ar

siege to the city. Now, the king of the city was an old, white-haired man , but, strange to say, hanging right over the midd

trangers entered the gates of the city. One was a tall, noble-looking man with massive head and fine features. His companio

t Juno could no longer bear to hear these prayers for the safety of a man who was already dead. She called her messenger, I

, a boy named Jason. The king, Aeson, was a rather weak, good-natured man ; and one day Jason’s uncle came with a large army

still better, to be truthful and kind. But at last Jason grew to be a man , and then Chiron told him that he was the son of

had carried across, the stately form of Juno, queen of heaven. “Young man ,” said she, “you have a good and brave heart, and

d around and was very much surprised to see that strange figure, half man and half fish. She stepped nearer to the water an

ish. She stepped nearer to the water and said, “Pray, what are you, a man or a sea monster?” Then Glaucus related his whole

the sweetest of all singers, Beautiful and childlike was he, Brave as man is, soft as woman, Pliant as a wand of willow, St

s own terms, the principle of the O. P. riots of our younger days. No man , be it observed, will be the worse statesman, law

E HEROES. CHAP. I. Introduction. Origin and First State of Man , 281. Ages of the World, 282. Iapetos, Atlas, Men

rticles of popular belief, and will comprise the earliest attempts of man to account for the various phænomena of the heave

lytheism, or the belief in a number of beings of a nature superior to man , and who can be of benefit or injury to him, seem

those who have directed their attention to the language and ideas of man , in different stages of culture, will probably co

probable, rather we may say is the truth, both hypotheses are true : man commencing with the knowledge of one God, gradual

scribe their production to some unseen being, similar but superior to man . Thus when the thunder rolled and the lightning f

of courage, wisdom, and love, which involuntarily rise in the soul of man , and the ready eloquence which at times flows fro

cause, would be attributed to the unseen working of superior beings6. Man is incapable of conceiving pure spirit, and he kn

father of gods and men and ruler of heaven. These deities, so like to man in form, were held to exceed him far in power and

sult. They dwelt in celestial houses, but similar in form to those of man  ; and, like man, they stood in daily need of food

in celestial houses, but similar in form to those of man ; and, like man , they stood in daily need of food and repose. Cha

n a people had thus formed for themselves a System of gods so like to man , and yet ruling over the world, it was natural th

ables of heathenism were only a distortion of the revelations made to man by the true God ; and, at the present day, Görres

hænomena, he obtained the reputation of being of a nature superior to man  ; and when he died, his people gave him divine ho

It flowed calmly and equably, unvexed by tempests and unnavigated by man . It was termed bark-flowing, deepflowing, soft-fl

oddess of the dawn was more than once smitten with the love of mortal man . She carried off Oriôn, and kept him in the isle

h the happy gods aye dwell in bliss332. We have observed above, that man loves to bestow his own form upon his gods, as be

m either as signs377 and warnings, or to punish the transgressions of man , especially the perversions of law and justice, o

them. At length they approached a humble cottage where dwelt an aged man , named Philemôn, with Baucis his wife, of equal y

, owes its origin to the simple circumstance of the mortal remains of man being deposited by most nations in the bosom of t

ith reason and speech573. He gave to Minôs, king of Crete, the brazen man Talôs, who each day compassed his island three ti

th the other gods, Zeus himself not excepted. Apollo is the friend of man , he protects his worshipers, and he punishes the

d as to be content with the offender’s becoming a servant to a mortal man for the space of a year. Admetos, king of Pheræ,

ly he infused into her mind the desire of a union of love with mortal man . The object selected was Anchises, a beautiful yo

er affection797. When Pandora was formed by Hephæstos for the ruin of man , she was attired by Pallas-Athene798. By the Home

n has bracelets and ear-rings, but her general air is that of a young man in female attire. Pallas-Athene was called by the

form of a Grecian youth, telling him that he is the son of a wealthy man named Polyctôr (Much-possessing). In the Odyssey

the messenger of Zeus. He still retains his character of a friend to man , and comes unsent to point out to Odysseus the he

and Hecate. This poet also ascribes to him the only act injurious to man with which he is charged, namely, a share in the

trace his cattle. As he passed by Onchestos in Bœotia, he saw an old man engaged in planting his vineyard, whom he straitl

ng Apollo missed his kine : he set out in search of them, met the old man , who informed him of his having seen a child driv

ecause, when the Eretrians attacked the Tanagrians, Hermes as a young man , and armed with a currycomb, led the latter to vi

‘well-garlanded Demeter’ would suffer no increase. The whole race of man ran risk of perishing, the dwellers of Olympos of

n regards of the gods were bent upon him through after-life ; and, as man can never divest himself of the belief of his con

elos or Phobetêr, and Phantasos ; the first of whom takes the form of man to appear in dreams, the second of animals, the t

om terrified, — for great fear possessed him from the shouting of the man . The gods, who live at ease, then hated him, and

and a crow1109. Dionysos next proceeded to Attica, where he taught a man named Icarios the culture of the vine. Icarios ha

ith the delicate lineaments of a maiden, rather than those of a young man  ; his whole air and gait are effeminate ; his lon

n the idea of the god of shepherds, and they portrayed him as a young man hardened by the toils of a country life. Short ho

from pain when one is ignorant of future evils. It is best of all for man not to be born…… the second is, for those who are

gives on this passage the following tale from Charôn of Lampsacus : A man , named Rhœcos, happening to see an oak just ready

they have fish-gills under their ears : their nostrils are those of a man , but their teeth are broader, and like those of a

s the ‘three sisters of the Grææ, winged, serpent-fleeced, hateful to man , whom no one can look on and retain his breath130

e drives in calls, and he Who drives out hears him. There a sleepless man Might double wages earn ; as neatherd one, And on

such a height that its summit is for ever enveloped in clouds, and no man even if he had twenty hands and as many feet coul

f this cliff, she says, is a cave facing the west, but so high that a man in a ship passing under it could not shoot up to

a which swim by, and out of every ship that passes each mouth takes a man . The opposite rock, the goddess informs him, is m

man. The opposite rock, the goddess informs him, is much lower, for a man could shoot over it. A wild fig-tree grows on it,

OES. Chapter I. INTRODUCTION. Origin and First State of Man . The origin of mankind, like that of the eart

culture display their stores. Has it always been so ? is the question man naturally asks himself. Has the world ever gone o

nd itself, has led almost all races to conceive the original state of man to have been one of peace and happiness. At all p

n to have been one of peace and happiness. At all periods of his life man looks back to the gay and careless days of childh

It was easy and it was natural to transfer these ideas to the race of man  ; to suppose them also to have commenced in bliss

us removed them to the ends of the earth, where they dwell, away from man , in the Islands of the Blest, and live in bliss,

ent will be most esteemed, ‘evil-loving Envy’ will accompany wretched man . Shame and Aversion (Nemesis) will wrap themselve

es in their ‘white mantles’ and depart to the gods, leaving misery to man  ; and there will be no defence against evil. Arat

my prospect presented by the delineation of the vices and miseries of man in the last stage of the progression, it was asse

al feeling1445, gives the following view of the mythe of the races of man . This mythe is an oriental one, derived from the

the origin of the human race. The gods are the offspring of Time, and man , say the sacred Scriptures, is ‘born unto misery’

of his wife may refer to that faded splendour which still adheres to man , and those of his sons express the qualities of t

g that pride and haughtiness and extreme reliance on his powers hurry man to death. It is said by later writers that for hi

ever remarkable that in all the legends of this kind it is the god or man Atlas who is turned into or gives name to the mou

o the mountain which still bears his name. Another said that he was a man of Libya devoted to astronomy, and that having as

nd Epimetheus are personified the intellectual vigour and weakness of man . In this mythe however there is great confusion,

theus to have been viewed as a Titan and the creator or instructor of man . In Homer there is no allusion whatever to Promet

eit, selected the bones and fat, and in revenge he withheld fire from man  ; but Prometheus again deceived him, and stealing

nd stealing the fire in a hollow staff1464, brought it and gave it to man . Zeus then sent Pandora on earth to deceive man t

ght it and gave it to man. Zeus then sent Pandora on earth to deceive man to his ruin, and he bound Prometheus with chains

kindness withheld from them. But the inquisitive, inventive genius of man (i. e. Prometheus) introduced fire, and the arts

. Prometheus) introduced fire, and the arts which result from it, and man henceforth became a prey to care and anxiety, the

Prometheus1468. In a word we have here a Grecian mythe of the Fall of man , which we shall presently find carried out in tha

ind1471. A philosophical mythe in Plato1472 says that the gods formed man and the other animals of clay and fire within the

silly Epimetheus had abundantly furnished the inferior animals, while man was left naked and helpless. As the day for their

and with it the artist-skill of Athena and Hephæstos, and gave it to man . He was also regarded as the creator of the human

nd thus gave them life1473. A third said that Prometheus had formed a man of clay, and Athena beholding it offered him her

us stole some of the fire, which he then applied to the breast of his man and thus animated him. Zeus, to punish Prometheus

was crossing a river she observed the marly clay, and began to make a man out of it. Jupiter happening to come by, she aske

it she should possess it while it lived, and that it should be called Man (Homo), because it was made of earth (humus)1475.

s that the snake by casting his skin annually renews his youth, while man is borne down by the weight of the evils of old-a

r contained she raised the lid, and all the evils hitherto unknown to man poured out and spread over the earth. In terror a

id just in time to prevent the escape of Hope, who thus remained with man , his chief support and comfort. This fable of Pan

the scene of the event, and that Hope alone stayed in the dwelling of man . When higher notions of the Deity prevailed, this

eus had inclosed all blessings in a jar, which he set in the abode of man . But, tormented with curiosity, man raised the li

jar, which he set in the abode of man. But, tormented with curiosity, man raised the lid, and all the blessings flew away t

ontained accounts of the two great events of the Creation and Fall of man . In like manner the important event of the Deluge

ted him1536. An oracle had told Pelias to beware of the ‘one-sandaled man ,’ but during many years none such appeared to dis

ing violated her, she prayed him as a compensation to turn her into a man , and grant that she should be invulnerable1592. T

môn, who had married Gorgo the daughter of Œneus1615. He took the old man with him to the Peloponnese ; but the two survivi

nly by his herald Polyphontes, met in a narrow road in Phocis a young man also driving in a chariot. On his refusal to leav

es, hearing this, came forward and answered the Sphinx, that it was a Man  ; who when an infant creeps on all fours, when a

x, that it was a Man ; who when an infant creeps on all fours, when a man goes on two feet, and when old uses a staff, a th

dispute, whether the greater portion of the pleasures of love fall to man or woman. Unable to settle it to their satisfacti

elivered in Thebes, Zeus, in exultation, announced to the gods that a man of his race was that day to see the light, who wo

arrived at Cleonæ, where he was hospitably entertained by a labouring man named Molorchos. His host being desirous to offer

ntry of the Dryopians Heracles became extremely hungry, and meeting a man named Theiodamas driving a wain with two oxen, he

of mind and soul recognised by that age. Such a hero is, therefore, a man  : but these noble qualities in him are of divine

ke autochthones in general, to have had a body composed of those of a man and a snake. In his time the gods began to choose

could escape. She then cut her hair short, and attiring herself as a man came to Thoricos and challenged Cephalos to a mat

land. His first day's journey brought him to Epidauros, where dwelt a man named Periphates, a son of Hephæstos. This feroci

Ægeus, had long seen with jealousy the sceptre in the hands of an old man , and meditated wresting it from his feeble grasp.

s, jealous of the skill, and apprehensive of the rivalry of the young man , cast him down from the Acropolis and killed him.

desire of knowledge, which aspires to attain a height it is denied to man to reach, and exhausted in the effort falls sudde

he Oceanis Melia, by whom he had a son named Phoroneus1890, the first man according to one tradition, while another makes h

The principal river of the place is the parent or origin of the first man Phoroneus, that is, the Rearer or Feeder 1893, th

waves1935. The coffer floated to the little isle of Seriphos, where a man named Dictys drew it out in his nets (δίкτυα) ; a

1975. At Epidaurus Asclepios was represented under the form of an old man with a venerable beard, wrapt in a mantle and lea

he truth of the reports that reached him, disguised himself as a poor man and sought their hospitality. To entertain the st

there was a sacred inclosure or temenos of Zeus, within which neither man nor beast cast a shadow, and any one who entered

Æolos, settled in Elis, where he built a city. He was a bold impious man , who asserted himself to be Zeus, and claimed all

iclos of Phylace detained, and had them guarded by a dog whom neither man nor beast could venture to approach. Bias, relyin

s took him, and he was thrown into prison, where he was attended by a man and a woman. The man served him well, the woman b

s thrown into prison, where he was attended by a man and a woman. The man served him well, the woman badly. Toward the end

Melampûs immediately desired to be removed to some other place ; the man took up the bad at the head, the woman at the foo

n. Like one athirst he seemed, but could not drink ; For when the old man stooped to drink intent The water shrank absorbed

right, And luscious figs and olives green and ripe ; But when the old man would grasp them in his hands, The winds straight

ght tossed them to the shady clouds. Pindar says that if ever mortal man was honoured by the dwellers of Olympos it was Ta

times. The root of Tantalos is probably θάλλω, and he represents the man who is flourishing and abounding in wealth, but w

llowing legend was related respecting it. While Calydôn flourished, a man named Coresos was priest of Dionysos in that coun

extended his dominion over the isles of the Ægæan. Minôs had a brazen man named Talôs given to him by Hephæstos, or to Euro

Minotaur, from his having the head of a bull joined to the body of a man . Minôs, in compliance with an oracle, made Dædalo

ing been brought down from the sky, and not the mortals raised to it. Man loves to trace in natural objects resemblances to

s, for example, the Crown, with its legend of Ariadne ; there is the ‘ Man in the Moon,’ which some said was Cain, others th

there is the ‘Man in the Moon,’ which some said was Cain, others the man who was stoned for gathering sticks on the Sabbat

roceeded on their homeward voyage and came to Crete, where the brazen man , Talôs, prohibited their landing ; but Medeia by

s, who, the Tuscan legend said, had risen up, a babe in form, an aged man in wisdom, from under the soil before the plough

 ; on which Lactantius observes, that “every god who is worshiped by man must in solemn rites and prayers be called Father

ly for the sake of honour but from reason, both because he was before man , and because like a father he gives life, health

ut a head” — “of an onion from my garden” subjoined the king, — “of a man ” — “the topmost hairs” quickly replied Numa ; — “

. 724. Laws, xii. 3. 725. Fr. Phaëthon. 10. 726. Fr. 48. 727. “A man subject to the rays of the moon and the night-dam

eq., and In Eutrop. ii. 490. seq). other accounts of this creation of man . 1475. Hygin. 220. The etymology at the end prov

e. To these Buttmann (Mythol. ii. 232. seq.) joins the German Mannus, Man  ; and supposing this last to be the true meaning

native and emotional faculties in no inappreciable degree. How many a man held by the sorrows of the Labdacidæ or the love

pulse: set the myth in motion; and, as a process refining the mind of man , tended steadily to eliminate from primitive phil

ere the same powers and attributes recognized by subjective vision in man are attributed to the animals by which he is surr

man are attributed to the animals by which he is surrounded; … where man worships beasts, and the phenomena of nature are

ne, a moral sense striving through humanized nature and spiritualized man , through pantheism and monotheism to the Spirit i

emoriam, the Ode to Duty, the Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich, the Hymn of Man , Love is Enough, Prospice, Festus, the Ode of Lif

graces, and of Prometheus, who stole fire from heaven for the use of man ; the myth of the earth-born giants that in the be

rly every child and every savage asks: What is the world, and what is man ? Who made them? What else did the maker do? and w

st be possessed of freedom, personality, and power exceeding those of man . Why, then, should not the savage believe, of bei

p and fear and gratitude, all and more than all that is accredited to man ? Why not confer upon them human and superhuman pa

se with the Greek to the thought of an angel who rejoiced as a strong man to run his course, whose voice, calling to life a

d and revered, deeds and attributes more silly and more shameful than man can conceive of his fellow-man? When, therefore,

assume. According to the Theory of Deterioration, or Human Depravity, man , although he had in the beginning knowledge of co

ely conceptions. According to the Theory of Improvement, or Progress, man , beginning with crude dreams and fancies about ex

evelation in the beginning once for all, and has done nothing to help man toward righteousness since then. The theological

rch depends upon the science of mind — psychology, and the science of man — anthropology. It may be called the Anthropologi

making is to be found in the mental and social condition of primitive man , the confused personality that he extended to his

he voluntary offerings of his hearers. Byron calls him “the blind old man of Scio’s rocky isle”; and a well-known epigram,

he family of the gods, their wars, and their attitude toward primæval man . While Hesiod may have written at a somewhat late

navian runes have been discovered in Sweden, Denmark, and the Isle of Man . The characters are of the stiff and angular form

tures of as recent a date as the fifth century b.c. Zoroaster, a holy man of God, was the founder or the reformer of the Pe

upiter destroying the Giants.[Gem: Baumeister.]   § 22. The Origin of Man was a question which the Greeks did not settle so

metheus, a Creator. — There is a story which attributes the making of man to Prometheus, whose father Iapetus had, with Cro

him and his brother Epimetheus was now committed the office of making man and providing him and all other animals with the

mal than these. Taking some earth and kneading it with water, he made man in the image of the gods. He gave him an upright

ature, so that while other animals turn their faces toward the earth, man gazes on the stars. Then since Epimetheus, always

hariot of the sun, and brought down fire. With fire in his possession man would be able, when necessary, to win her secrets

spears, or helmets. The earth brought forth all things necessary for man , without his labor in ploughing or sowing. Perpet

ithheld the privilege of immortal life. § 25. Prometheus, Champion of Man . — During this age when, as Hesiod says, the al

gods were denied their due, Prometheus stood forth — the champion of man against the Olympians.59 For the son of Cronus ha

, by an ingenious trick, attempted to settle the question in favor of man . Dividing into two portions a sacrificial bull; h

s turn, had recourse to stratagem. He is declared to have planned for man a curse in the shape of woman. How the race had p

looked in. Forthwith there escaped a multitude of plagues for hapless man — gout, rheumatism, and colic for his body; envy,

with thy precepts less The sum of human wretchedness, And strengthen man with his own mind. But, baffled as thou wert from

and his wife Pyrrha, daughter of Epimetheus, found refuge — he a just man and she a faithful worshipper of the gods. Jupite

e Along the landscape goes; Just a soft hint of singing, to beguile A man from all his toil; Some vanished gleam of beckoni

f morning gone, No cool breath anywhere, no shadow nigh Where a weary man might lay him down and die, Lo! thou art there be

nature, and, apparently, forecast the resurrection and immortality of man . Sacred to Ceres and to Proserpine were golden sh

ellers there wax never old, Nor wither with the waning time, But each man keeps that age he had When first he won the fairy

became, by Mother Earth, father of Nereus. This Nereus, a genial old man of the sea, was distinguished for his prophetic g

ertain traditions, a son of Neptune. Like Nereus, he was a little old man of the sea. He possessed the prophetic gift and t

more nearly correspond to our ghosts. The Romans believed that every man had his Genius, and every woman her Juno; that is

upon his syrinx or Pandæan pipes. Argus listened with delight. “Young man ,” said he, “come and take a seat by me on this st

rom the Sun’s chariot wheel — And pity their small hearts that hold a man As if he were a god; or know the god — Or dare to

As if he were a god; or know the god — Or dare to know him —only as a man ! O human love! art thou forever blind?”117 § 63

threshold, and bowed their heads to pass under the low door, the old man placed a seat, on which Baucis, bustling and atte

ents of gold. Then spoke Jupiter in benignant accents: “Excellent old man , and woman worthy of such a husband, speak, tell

aste to thicken white milk, that is liquid but curdleth speedily as a man stirreth, even so swiftly healed he impetuous Mar

aid that, mindful of their origin, they neither avoid the presence of man , nor do they injure any one. But the curse appear

secondly, his victory over darkness and winter; thirdly, his gifts to man , — youth and vigor, the sunshine of spring and th

ing a noble heart and honoring me! Who of Thessalians, more than this man , loves The stranger? Who that now inhabits Greece

tranger? Who that now inhabits Greece? Wherefore he shall not say the man was vile Whom he befriended, — native noble heart

rise, tree-like grow through pain to joy, More joy and most joy, — do man good again. So to the struggle off strode Herakle

e presented himself at the entrance of the cave, the nymphs, seeing a man , screamed and rushed towards the goddess to hide

do we affect Of two gold ingots, like in each respect: The reason no man knows; let it suffice, What we behold is censur’d

It was where now stands the city of Eleusis, near the home of an old man named Celeus. His little girl, pitying the old wo

ars of Ceres, — “why sittest thou here alone upon the rocks?” The old man begged her to come into his cottage. She declined

he Hæmonian city, where he assumed the form of Ceÿx. Pale like a dead man , naked and dripping, he stood before the couch of

ods decay and fall. The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, And

s, and gleaming halls of morn. “Alas! for this gray shadow, once a man — So glorious in his beauty and thy choice, W

ith tears To hear me? Let me go; take back thy gift: Why should a man desire in any way To vary from the kindly race

nce in the birds of the air and the lilies of the field as well as in man . True Christianity is not selfish. His sorrow at

antress of the souls of mortals! So thought I; — but among us trod A man in blue with legal baton; And scoff’d the vagrant

it swelled, overpowering the sound of the instruments: — “Happy the man whose heart is pure from guilt and crime! Him we

it, and suffered metamorphosis into a something new and strange, half man , half fish, and after the fashion of a sea-god. O

s death, the hapless girl was shut in an underground chamber, that no man might love or wed her. But Jupiter, distilling hi

d, and might drive a straight furrow, and come to the true measure of man …. “And Hylas of the yellow hair, with a vessel of

y mournful close. “Till the god, the earthly part forsaken, From the man in flames asunder taken, Drank the heavenly ether

of spring. Seeing that all was ready, Medea cut the throat of the old man , let out his blood, and poured into his mouth and

blows, smote him with their weapons. Starting from his sleep, the old man cried out, “My daughters, would you kill your fat

hy name’s sake and awe toward thy chaste head, O holiest Atalanta! no man dares Praise thee, though fairer than whom all me

em, smitten in twain; but. she Smote not nor heaved up hand; and this man first, Plexippus, crying out, “This for love’s sa

ains fixed, as a constellation, between the kneeling Hercules and the man that holds the serpent. § 155. The Amazons. — As

eet, at noon on two, and in the evening upon three?” Œdipus replied, “ Man , who in childhood creeps on hands and knees, in m

of men; Nor did I deem thy edicts strong enough, That thou, a mortal man , should’st overpass The unwritten laws of God tha

ange. They are not of to-day nor yesterday, But live forever, nor can man assign When first they sprang to being. Not throu

e days when Jupiter and his immortals deigned to consort with zealous man , to enjoy the sweet odor of his burnt-offering, t

, “O friends, I die, and Noman gives the blow.” They answered, “If no man hurts thee it is the stroke of Jove, and thou mus

bed by the alarms of war: for, as they dwelt remote from gain-seeking man , no enemy ever approached their shores, and they

m, and reminding them that the Phæacians had no enemies to fear. This man , she told them, was an unhappy wanderer, whom it

lence. But Telemachus spoke up for him, and merely to gratify the old man , bade him try. Ulysses took the bow, and handled

on who succeeded his father on the throne. Her husband was Sichæus, a man of immense wealth, but Pygmalion, who coveted his

ies, the sun, moon, and stars. Of this seed the inferior gods created man and all other animals, mingling it with various p

the wagons. The laws of war at that early day did not forbid a brave man to slay a sleeping foe, and the two Trojans slew,

arth between Nilfleim and Muspelheim, destined to become the abode of man . Odin then regulated the periods of day and night

as without human beings. They therefore took an ashen spar and made a man out of it; woman they made out of a piece of alde

t of it; woman they made out of a piece of alder; and they called the man Ash and the woman Embla. Odin then gave them life

called Elvidnir. Hunger is her table, Starvation her knife, Delay her man , Slowness her maid, Precipice her threshold, Care

t, let it cost him what it might, he would so manage matters that the man should lose his reward. That night when the man w

nage matters that the man should lose his reward. That night when the man went with Svadilfari for building-stone, a mare s

reat broke loose and ran after the mare into the forest, obliging the man also to run after his horse, thus, therefore, bet

s lost, so that at dawn the work had not made the usual progress. The man , seeing that he must fail of completing his task,

ed Utgard. I have heard you whispering to one another that I am not a man of small dimensions; but if you come to Utgard yo

that Loki was vanquished. Utgard-Loki then asked what feat the young man who accompanied Thor could perform. Thialfi answe

plain where there was good ground for running on, and calling a young man named Hugi, bade him run a match with Thialfi. In

deeply; and I must needs say that thou wilt not be called so mighty a man here as thou art at home if thou showest no great

Thor wrestle with her if h6 will. She has thrown to the ground many a man not less strong than this Thor is.” A toothless

with Elli was also a most astonishing feat, for there was never yet a man , nor ever will be, whom Old Age, for such in fact

more verdant than the last, with fruits Self-springing, and a seed of man preserved, Who then shall live in peace, as now i

loved and prospered exceedingly. Rerir, also, the son of Sigi, was a man of valor and one who got lordship and land unto h

and some men turned about And deemed that in the doorway they heard a man laugh out. Then into the Volsung dwelling a might

y they heard a man laugh out. Then into the Volsung dwelling a mighty man there strode, One-eyed and seeming ancient, yet b

Since first the burg of heaven uprose for man-folks weal. Now let the man among you whose heart and hand may shift To pluck

s death-wound: — For lo, through the hedge of the warshafts a mighty man there came, One-eyed and seeming ancient, but his

Hiordis, after Sigmund’s death, was born Sigurd, like whom was never man for comeliness and valor and great-heartedness an

ut were themselves done to death, by the counsel and aid of a certain man , seeming ancient and one-eyed, — Odin the forefat

or the Brunhild of the Ysselland had declared that she would marry no man save him who should surpass her in athletic conte

Sir Siegfried, as fitted well his state, With the highest honors; no man bore him hate. Young Giselher and Gernot proffere

the Divine Comedy, says Lowell, “It is the real history of a brother man , of a tempted, purified, and at last triumphant h

, in many legends, fire should play an active part in the creation of man . The primitive belief of the Indo-Germanic race w

nic race was that the fire-god, descending to earth, became the first man ; and that, therefore, the spirit of man was compo

ng to earth, became the first man; and that, therefore, the spirit of man was composed of fire. Vulcan is also called by th

associated with hers in the myth: Nycteus, the night-man; Lycus, the man of light. Amphion and Zethus are thought, in like

human heart, that somewhere and at some time some god has lived as a man among men and for the good of men. Such stories a

ree, Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man , Down to a sunless sea.” In one of Moore’s juven

cond lyric of Sappho, beginning “Like to the gods he seems to me, The man that sits, reclined by thee,” has been translated

terest, spiritual as well as philosophical. It was the restoration of Man , not of flowers, the victory over Death, not over

all,” the bright heaven; and Minos (in accordance with his name, the Man , par excellence), the thinker and measurer. A law

is reign, All — save immortal dreams that could beguile The blind old man of Scio’s rocky isle.” On Troy the following ref

mmer — the thunderbolt, the adversary of giants and all oppressors of man . He is dear to man, always connected with earth,

olt, the adversary of giants and all oppressors of man. He is dear to man , always connected with earth, — the husband of Si

ric characters. Mythologically, — Sigurd (of the shining eyes that no man might face unabashed) has been regarded as a refl

ian gods. He is the god of earth and its vegetation; represented as a man with the head of a goose; he corresponds with the

of darkness, combated by Indra. Yama, and his sister Yami: the first man and woman; leaving this life they prepared for th

is the creative energy of the godhead, calm, passionless, remote from man and the world. He is four-headed and four-handed.

Faunus and wife of the Roman Vulcan. In either case called Bona Dea. Man , origin of, Greek, 42, 43. Ma′nes, 89. Manil′ius

ea. Man, origin of, Greek, 42, 43. Ma′nes, 89. Manil′ius, Com. § 12. Man ′tua, 28. Mar′athon, 267. Maratho′nian Bull, 26; C

ecords of, 34-36. Origin of the world: Greek, 37; of the gods, 38; of man , 42, 43; Norse, 366, 367- O-ri′on, 26, 73; myth o

logy, 8, 13-18. Prome′theus, 2, 27, 40; a creator, 42,43; champion of man , 44; chained on Mount Caucasus, 45; his secret, 4

ack the old names; Spirits or gods that used to share this earth With man as with their friend; and at this day ’Tis Jupite

eathens seem to have had some knowledge of the temptation and fall of man , “And fabled how the serpent, whom they called O

e nearly correspond to our word Ghost. The Romans believed that every man had his Genius, and every woman her Juno: that is

rld is a problem naturally fitted to excite the liveliest interest of man , its inhabitant. The ancient pagans, not having t

d four-footed beasts of the land. But a nobler animal was wanted, and Man was made. It is not known whether the Creator mad

ometheus took some of this earth, and kneading it up with water, made man in the image of the gods. He gave him an upright

tans, a gigantic race, who inhabited the earth before the creation of man . To him and his brother Epimetheus was committed

To him and his brother Epimetheus was committed the office of making man , and providing him and all other animals with the

to one, claws to another, a shelly covering to a third, etc. But when man came to be provided for, who was to be superior t

lighted his torch at the chariot of the sun, and brought down fire to man . With this gift man was more than a match for all

the chariot of the sun, and brought down fire to man. With this gift man was more than a match for all other animals. It e

o punish them for their presumption in stealing fire from heaven; and man , for accepting the gift. The first woman was name

r, in which were kept certain noxious articles, for which, in fitting man for his new abode, he had had no occasion. Pandor

looked in. Forthwith there escaped a multitude of plagues for hapless man , — such as gout, rheumatism, and colic for his bo

er story is that Pandora was sent in good faith, by Jupiter, to bless man ; that she was furnished with a box, containing he

spears, or helmets. The earth brought forth all things necessary for man , without his labor in ploughing or sowing. Perpet

his wife Pyrrha, of the race of Prometheus, found refuge — he a just man , and she a faithful worshipper of the gods. Jupit

their name, only changing their use. Those thrown by the hand of the man became men, and those by the woman became women.

h thy precepts less     The sum of human wretchedness, And strengthen man with his own mind.     And, baffled as thou wert

ned with delight, for he had never seen the instrument before. “Young man ,” said he, “come and take a seat by me on this st

ing. She saw him and recognized him as her own son, now grown a young man . She stopped and felt inclined to embrace him. As

rch of its roof with stones as delicately fitted as if by the hand of man . A fountain burst out from one side, whose open b

e presented himself at the entrance of the cave, the nymphs, seeing a man , screamed and rushed towards the goddess to hide

und his old schoolmaster and foster-father, Silenus, missing. The old man had been drinking, and in that state wandered awa

threshold, and bowed their heads to pass under the low door, the old man placed a seat, on which Baucis, bustling and atte

ents of gold. Then spoke Jupiter in benignant accents: “Excellent old man , and woman worthy of such a husband, speak, tell

It was where now stands the city of Eleusis, then the home of an old man named Celeus. He was out in the field, gathering

ears of Ceres, — “why do you sit here alone upon the rocks?” The old man also stopped, though his load was heavy, and begg

ver weep — fell down her cheeks upon her bosom. The compassionate old man and his child wept with her. Then said he, “Come

ree, Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man ,     Down to a sunless sea.” In one of Moore’s j

s, he assumed the form of Ceyx. Under that form, but pale like a dead man , naked, he stood before the couch of the wretched

o vague rumor brings it to your ears. I come in person, a shipwrecked man , to tell you my fate. Arise! give me tears, give

by degrees the waves bore it nearer, and it was plainly the body of a man . Though unknowing of whom, yet, as it was of some

it will have the effect to make you more merciful. “Iphis was a young man of humble parentage, who saw and loved Anaxarete,

oods, but mindful of their origin, they neither avoid the presence of man nor do they ever injure any one.   There is a tra

uld immediately sail from the island. Scylla was frantic. “Ungrateful man ,” she exclaimed, “is it thus you leave me? — me w

lphi, accompanied only by one attendant, met in a narrow road a young man also driving in a chariot. On his refusal to leav

anger, filled with rage, slew both Laius and his attendant. The young man was Œdipus, who thus unknowingly became the slaye

eet, at noon on two, and in the evening upon three?” Œdipus replied, “ Man , who in childhood creeps on hands and knees, in m

rtal life, Or nature there, imposing on her sons, Has written fables; man was made a lie.” Vol. II, p. 12. Pegasus, being

aits are assigned. The Centaurs were admitted to the companionship of man , and at the marriage of Pirithous with Hippodamia

o be willing to yield it, but at the same time suggested to the young man the glorious adventure of going in quest of the G

of spring. Seeing that all was ready, Medea cut the throat of the old man and let out all his blood, and poured into his mo

y mournful close. “Till the god, the earthly part forsaken, From the man in flames asunder taken, Drank the heavenly ether

land. His first day’s journey brought him to Epidaurus, where dwelt a man named Periphetes, a son of Vulcan. This ferocious

the heavens as a constellation, between the kneeling Hercules and the man who holds the serpent.   Spenser alludes to Aria

to the dwelling of Erisichthon, entered the bedchamber of the guilty man , and found him asleep. She enfolded him with her

Juno owes me no enmity nor punishes me with heavy tasks. As for this man , who boasts himself the son of Jove, it is either

        The incense that he loves.” Aristæus, the bee-keeper. Man avails himself of the instincts of the inferior a

worthy of applause though more admired Because a novelty, the work of man , Imperial mistress of the fur-clad Russ, Thy most

e firmament. He had not trusted too much to the ocean — but he had to man . He overheard the seamen exchanging hints with on

ling the judgment, palsying the heart, curdling the blood. “Happy the man who keeps his heart pure from guilt and crime! Hi

hall be avenged! the murderer has informed against himself. Seize the man who uttered that cry and the other to whom he spo

is reign, All — save immortal dreams that could beguile The blind old man of Scio’s rocky isle.” Bride of Abydos. Cha

, “O friends, I die, and Noman gives the blow.” They answered, “If no man hurts thee it is the stroke of Jove, and thou mus

rbed by the alarms of war, for as they dwelt remote from gain-seeking man , no enemy ever approached their shores, and they

m, and reminding them that the Phæacians had no enemies to fear. This man , she told them, was an unhappy wanderer, whom it

stinct with mind; No helm secures their course, no pilot guides; Like man intelligent they plough the tides, Conscious of e

ence. But Telemachus spoke up for him, and, merely to gratify the old man , bade him try. Ulysses took the bow, and handled

n, who succeeded his father on the throne. Her husband was Sichæus, a man of immense wealth, but Pygmalion, who coveted his

ies, the sun, moon, and stars. Of this seed the inferior gods created man and all other animals, mingling it with various p

the wagons. The laws of war at that early day did not forbid a brave man to slay a sleeping foe, and the two Trojans slew,

this body, now that, passing from the body of a beast into that of a man , and thence to a beast’s again. As wax is stamped

ugh all the compass of the notes it ran, The Diapason closing full in Man .” In the centre of the universe (he taught) ther

d also that there are many myths which have arisen from the desire of man to account for those natural phenomena which he c

offerings of his hearers for support. Byron calls him “The blind old man of Scio’s rocky isle,” and a well-known epigram,

nct teaches him to keep out of the way of the tyrant of the creation, man , for if he were to be got at, some wealthy glutto

ds of the saints. Accordingly we find it recorded that a certain holy man , going to a fountain in the desert, suddenly behe

led, and became the author of all evil upon the earth. Ormuzd created man and supplied him with all the materials of happin

one day licking the salt stones there appeared at first the hair of a man , on the second day the whole head, and on the thi

the gods formed Midgard, (mid earth,) destined to become the abode of man . Odin then regulated the periods of day and night

was without human beings. They therefore took an ash tree and made a man out of it, and they made a woman out of an elder,

man out of it, and they made a woman out of an elder, and called the man Aske and the woman Embla. Odin then gave them lif

called Elvidnir. Hunger is her table, Starvation her knife, Delay her man , Slowness her maid, Precipice her threshold, Care

t, let it cost him what it would, he would so manage matters that the man should lose his reward. That very night when the

matters that the man should lose his reward. That very night when the man went with Svadilfari for building stone, a mare s

broke loose and ran after the mare into the forest, which obliged the man also to run after his horse, and thus between one

s lost, so that at dawn the work had not made the usual progress. The man , seeing that he must fail of completing his task,

ed Utgard. I have heard you whispering to one another that I am not a man of small dimensions; but if you come to Utgard yo

that Loki was vanquished. Utgard-Loki then asked what feat the young man who accompanied Thor could perform. Thialfi answe

plain where there was good ground for running on, and calling a young man named Hugi, bade him run a match with Thialfi. In

deeply; and I must needs say that thou wilt not be called so mighty a man here as thou art at home if thou showest no great

Thor wrestle with her if he will. She has thrown to the ground many a man not less strong than this Thor is.” A toothless o

with Elli was also a most astonishing feat, for there was never yet a man , nor ever will be, whom Old Age, for such in fact

to all these remains of ancient religion that Johnson exclaims, “That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not

o all living creatures, and create and endow a superior being, called Man , to rule over all the others. Prometheus’ and Epi

r favours were soon dispensed, and none remained for the endowment of man . Although they had not the remotest idea how to o

otest idea how to overcome this difficulty, they proceeded to fashion man from clay. “Prometheus first transmuted Atoms cu

spirit of life, and Minerva (Pallas) endow it with a soul; whereupon man lived, and moved, and viewed his new domain. Just

ed his new domain. Justly proud of his handiwork, Prometheus observed man and longed to bestow upon him some great power, u

he gods, and Prometheus knew they would never willingly share it with man , and that, should any one obtain it by stealth, t

upon earth once more, he consigned the stolen treasure to the care of man , who immediately adapted it to various purposes,

h thy precepts less     The sum of human wretchedness, And strengthen man with his own mind.” Byron. Epimetheus and Pa

uit in abundance; and beautiful, fragrant flowers bloomed everywhere. Man was content. Extreme cold, hunger, sickness, and

be worshipped. According to another version, Pandora was sent down to man , bearing a vase in which the evil spirits were im

n of the deity who would create the most useful object for the use of man . Raising his trident, Neptune struck the ground,

untimely end his brilliant medical career. “Then Jove, incensed that man should rise From darkness to the upper skies, The

edical skill — and a daughter, Hygeia, who watched over the health of man . Admetus and Alcestis Maddened with grief a

to worship Apollo. “I marvel not, O sun! that unto thee In adoration man should bow the knee,     And pour his prayers of

s bride by some heroic deed. Now, as Orion was anything but a patient man , the delay was very unwelcome indeed, and he made

upon Mars, for she is said to have felt a tender passion for a young man named Adonis, a bold young hunter, whose rash pur

honour of this god, who is generally represented as a short, muscular man , with one leg shorter than the other, a workman’s

o publish far and wide that the king would give a great reward to any man who would dare attack and succeed in slaying the

ildren, among whom the most celebrated is Triton, whose body was half man and half fish, and who gave his name to all his m

d as his queen. Pluto is always represented as a stern, dark, bearded man , with tightly closed lips, a crown on his head, a

his, refused to keep his promise. The father-in-law was an avaricious man , and clamoured so loudly for his money, that Ixio

rom the Sun’s chariot wheel — And pity their small hearts that hold a man As if he were a god; or know the god — Or dare to

s if he were a god; or know the god — Or dare to know him — only as a man ! O human love! art thou for ever blind?” E. R. S

and revelry, and entrusted to the guidance of Silenus, a satyr, half man and half goat, who educated him, and accompanied

oved by the story of Erisichthon. The Story of Erisichthon This man was evidently a freethinker, and, to show his con

ence and cruelty, devised a terrible chastisement for the unfortunate man , and sent Famine to gnaw his vitals, and torment

represented. Eurus, the east wind, was generally depicted “as a young man flying with great impetuosity, and often appearin

Notus, or Auster, the south-west wind, “appeared generally as an old man , with grey hair, a gloomy countenance, a head cov

ra; and put an end to its career of rapacity, for this snake devoured man and beast Armed with a great sword, Hercules succ

rs were finished; the time of bondage was ended; and Hercules, a free man , could wander at his own sweet will, and enjoy th

soon obliged to return into bondage; for in a fit of, anger he slew a man , and was condemned by the assembled gods to serve

his admiration for her, made him submit to occupations unworthy of a man , and, while he was busy spinning, decked herself

him in marriage. “Till the god, the earthly part forsaken, From the man in flames asunder taken,     Drank the heavenly e

g men. He is generally represented in art as a tall, powerfully built man , with a small, bearded head, a lion’s skin carele

: Theseus The Childhood of Theseus When yet but a very young man , Ægeus, King of Athens, journeyed off to Trœzene,

, the other unusually long. If the unfortunate traveller were a short man , ne was put to bed in the long bedstead, and his

son and the Goddess Juno It was early in the spring, and the young man had not gone very far before he came to a stream,

y the recollection of an ancient oracle, warning him to beware of the man who appeared before him wearing but one sandal. P

ere, deliberating which direction to take, a chariot, wherein an aged man was seated, came rapidly toward him. The herald w

onsciously accomplishing the first part of the prophecy; for the aged man was Laius, his father, journeying in disguise fro

nknown band of robbers with the death he had dealt to an arrogant old man , and he therefore composedly inquired what other

iming that the throne and the queen’s hand would be the reward of any man who dared encounter the Sphinx and was fortunate

any manner of means, and soon concluded that the animal could only be man , who in infancy, when too weak to stand, creeps a

tried to induce Bellerophon to elope with her. Too honest to betray a man who had treated him as a friend, the young prince

Pan         To laugh, as he sits by the river, Making a poet out of a man . The true gods sigh for the cost and pain, — For

en Paris reached manhood, he was a very handsome and attractive young man , and he won the love of Œnone, a beautiful nymph,

s, the wily, proposed a plan, and offered to carry it our. “Ulysses, man of many arts, Son of Laertes, reared in Ithaca, T

sending a terrible plague to decimate the enemy’s troops. “The aged man indignantly withdrew; And Phœbus — for the priest

iot and drove away. “Sorrow not thus, beloved one, for me. No living man can send me to the shades Before my time; no man

e, for me. No living man can send me to the shades Before my time; no man of woman born, Coward or brave, can shun his dest

This sumptuous armour, forged by Vulcan’s hand, Beautiful, such as no man ever wore.’” Homer ( Bryant’s tr.). The Deat

ed — and then ask’d Falteringly, ‘Who lies on yonder pyre?’ But every man was mute for reverence. Then moving quickly forwa

t they were seeking. Ulysses, ever wily, replied that his name was No man , that he and his companions were shipwrecked mari

hronged without the cave, clamouring to know who was hurting him. “No man !” replied the Cyclops, howling with pain, “No man

as hurting him. “No man!” replied the Cyclops, howling with pain, “No man !” which answer convinced his would-be helpers tha

rs that he needed no assistance, and made them disperse.     “‘If no man does thee violence, and thou Art quite alone, ref

nd the other gods avenge them thus! …………………………………………… Cyclops, if any man of mortal birth Note thine unseemly blindness, an

he snatches from the deck, and bears Away in each grim mouth a living man .” Homer ( Bryant’s tr.). This self-same Scylla,

ade choice of a second husband; and also that Telemachus, now a young man , indignant and displeased with the suitors’ condu

e dead. Mentor, none other than Minerva in disguise, guided the young man to the courts of Nestor and Menelaus, and finally

and. She brought Ulysses’ bow, and announced that she would marry the man who could bend it and send an arrow through twelv

youths laughed aloud in scorn, until Telemachus bade them let the old man try his strength. To the amazement of all, Ulysse

ese myths became a stumbling-block as civilisation advanced. Cultured man recoiled from much of the grossness which had app

a maker of clay images, “whence it was hyperbolically said he created man out of clay”; and Atlas, an astronomer, who was t

logists, basing their theory on comparative mythology, declare “it is man , it is human thought and human language combined,

ion.” Of course it is difficult, not to say impossible, for civilised man to put himself in the savage’s place, and regard

t fund of mythic lore is supposed to have crystallised; for primitive man , knowing nothing whatever of physical laws, cause

gs, we have been able to read some of the first thoughts of primitive man ; and “the obvious meaning” of many words “did muc

He is forced to labour, against his will at times, for the benefit of man , as, for instance, when he serves Admetus and Lao

r of Andromeda; significance, 355 Cen′taurs. Children of Ixion, half man , half horse; Chiron, 189, 230, 279; Hercules figh

icance, 366 Hy-ge′ia. Daughter of Æsculapius; watched over health of man , 47 Hy′las. Youth loved by Hercules; stolen by t

ia. Goddess of the plains; mother of Mercury, 109; significance, 364 Man . The creation of, 14, 15 Ma′nes. Tutelary divini

ame as Pallas, Athene, goddess of wisdom; daughter of Jupiter, 39-43; man given soul by, 15; flute of, 55; Vulcan wooes, 12

Youth who accompanies Euryalus to summon Æneas back to camp, 335 No′ man . Name assumed by Ulysses to mislead Polyphemus, 3

erophon, 256, 257 Pro-me′theus (Forethought). Son of Iapetus, 14-17; man created by, 14; Olympus visited by, 16; Pandora t

of Rhea, 14; day of, 178 Sa′tyrs. Male divinities of the woods, half man , half goat, 265 Sce′an Gate. Gate which led from

eted by believers, is as various in its application to the conduct of man as are the standards of right and wrong among the

nt of mythic lore. As do the American Indians of to-day, so primitive man , in his crude way, explained the operation of phy

made by the philologists. Anthropology may be defined as the study of man , considered in his entire nature. In explaining m

nature. In explaining mythology, the anthropologists say that “it is man , it is human thought and human language combined,

nubis] (or Herman′ubis [Hermanubis]). “A god half a dog, a dog half a man .” Called Barker by Virgil and other poets. Aon′i

the serpent Python. Apollo is usually represented as a handsome young man without beard, crowned with laurel, and having in

sowed its teeth in the ground, from each of which sprang up an armed man . Cadu′ceus [Caduceus]. The rod carried by Mercur

est wind. Cen′taur [Centaur]. A huntsman who had the forepart like a man , and the remainder of the body like a horse. The

nged boy, with a bow and arrows, and a torch. When he grew up to be a man he married Psyche. “For Venus did but boast one

mighty mind.” Pope. Da′gon [Dagon]. A god of the Philistines, half man half fish, like the mermaid. Milton describes him

half man half fish, like the mermaid. Milton describes him as “Upward man and downward fish.” Da′hak [Dahak]. The Persian

l or earth, the life and support of plants. He was depicted as an old man covered with moss, and was said to live undergrou

orests and mountains, the upper half of the body being like that of a man , and the lower half like a goat. E′gis [Egis] wa

o cut the thread with the fatal shears. Faun. A rural divinity, half man and half goat. They were very similar to the Saty

a). The chief deity of Burmah. Genii were domestic divinities. Every man was supposed to have two of these genii accompany

the god of silence and secrecy. He is usually represented as a young man , holding a finger of one hand to his lips (expres

ly trying to withdraw it. The fable is, that when he got to be an old man he attempted to split an oak tree, but having los

peared and heard their doom. Minotaur [Min′otaur]. The monster, half man , half bull, which Theseus slew. Mirth, see Momus

ical form in which we find him depicted, namely, a horned, long-eared man , with the lower half of the body like a goat. He

hief of the Satyrs. He is generally represented as a fat, drunken old man , riding on an ass, and crowned with flowers. “An

wo at noon, and three in the evening.” Œdipus solved the riddle thus: Man is the animal; for, when an infant he crawls on h

epicted as a sort of mermen — the upper half of the body being like a man , and the lower half like dolphins. Tri′via [Triv

a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assu

ru′na [Varuna]. The Hindoo Neptune — generally represented as a white man riding on a sea-horse, carrying a club in one han

Sonetto A ligero, eloquente, furbo, e astuto Col caduceo in man , col piè veloce, Che vola allor che passa, e rest

i più solenni. Il primo fù detto mistero Eleusino de Eleusi, ove per man del re Celeo ebbe la Dea cortese accoglienze ne’

i omai non può, E a chi lo conservò con fedeltà Eccelsi premii di sua man donò. Questa moetra prudenza, e rarità, Questa i

li statue alla presenza di Essa ? Qual prodigio se quelli rimossi per man di rispetto dalle vicinanze dei suoi altari, ben

vvisando crescere sempre più con suo maggior dolore il gran peso, per man di Vulcano si fè in due parti aprire il capo, per

le dolore della sua fronte percossa da iterati colpi di navicella per man della Dea accigliata ; sichè non potendone più so

monumenti degl’antichi scrittori. In questi fù costume immolarsi per man di Sacerdoti per legge Eunuchi umane vittime, alm

al riferir di Capitolino ebbe a sperimentare le sue finali ruine per man de’Goti crudeli devastatori dell’Asia. Cap. X

Sonetto F iglio a due genitrici almo, e possente, Col tirso in man di foglie coronato Senza provar dolor scherza sov

tto è sventura, Chè il mondo regge con maniere accorte. Colla materna man sparge ogni bene, Di ciò, che vive ella si fà sos

 ; Dà la mano agli oppressi, i forti sprezza. Spada, e bilancia ha in man , con questa prova Scandagliare, e punir dritti so

pregi di Natura, Che porta al crin serto di verde alloro, Versa a una man ricchezze a dismisura, Che fanno della terra ampi

icchezze a dismisura, Che fanno della terra ampio ristoro. Nell’altra man , che spinge all’uom sicura Porta l’olivo con gent

to rëal colla sinistra dà, E talor d’un pastor ne forma un Rè. Con la man destra un’ ancora poi fà Fissare al suol, che mob

a faccia amabile, e divina Spirano di contento aure serene. All’altra man , che verso terra inchina Hà corno eletto, che ogn

Sonetto U om scarmigliato, umil, tremante, oppresso Con una man si stringe un serpe in seno, Tien l’altra un napp

te. Il crin si strappa, e muove il piè veloce, Vibra crudo pugual con man possente ; La precede un lïon tremendo, e atroce,

o D onna di truce volto, e guardo fiero, Che viperco flagello in man si porta, Feroce, alata in portamento altero Che

cherata, Che il suo deforme in ricco ammanto cele, Porta una benda in man , che gli occhi vela Ad ognun, cui favella assai m

rdenti, Stragge, e rüine annunzia in tutte l’ore. Porta un mantice in man , che desta ardore, Ed un flagel per fulminar le g

nque guata, Da gran stuol di formiche accompagnata, Porta la falce in man col braccio teso. Di mille insetti l’aria intorno

varii frutti, Mille augelli al suo piè si tien ridutti, Coll’ uve in man di mille tralci cinto. Alla gioia, e al piacer se

ci cinto. Alla gioia, e al piacer sembra sospinto, Gli affanni da sua man sembran distrutti, Crescon per esso i fiumicelli

a Il mio trono Chi tal nuova Scenderò. Può recar Che verrai, La man franca E i miei rai Vela bianca Ti vedran, Po

Da un arco si scioglie E in terra sen giace Con fischio mortale La man tiene al fianco, Al fianco lo coglie ; E mostra

iglio atroce D’Achille inalza la dorata coppa, E liba al padre. Della man col cenno D’impor silenzio all’ addensata turba M

le preci. L’aureo coltello impugna, e a noi comanda La maestade della man feroce, D’afferrar Polissena; ed essa grida: Achi

a in tempo tale Che prima al re titol di padre desse; Che tolta dalla man de’ suoi più cari Fu condotta all’aitar tutta tre

il sangue Di quel possente che nel sen mi scorre. Verserò senza della man profana Il crudel ministero. Afi’erra il sacro Ac

ita Gli fa nel petto Atreo: si cela il ferro Tutto nel seno, che alla man si giunge. Lo tragge, e sopra i pie mal fermi cro

salse onde fendea . Stupidi due la rimiravan. Giove Soavemente colla man divina La carezzava: al fianco eragli il Nilo, Ch

mezzo stassi Regina Europa alle donzelle, e sola Degna le rose colla man divina Togliere al prato. Fra le Grazie apparve C

racciar il suo nuovo custode; Ma col piede bovin da se lo scaccia. Nò man può ritrovar onde l’annode. Pregar il vuol che d

s’aggira ed erra, Il mesto padre suo grato ed umano Svelle di propria man l’erba di terra, A lei la porge e mostra di lonta

iù d’ognun chiaro vedevi. Una infelice e tetra notte oscura: Solo una man con tuo gran danno e scorno T’ha tolto i lumi, la

ua fessa di nuovo si fende D’altri tre fessi, che fan cinque dita; La man già si disnoda e già s’arrende, E torna più che m

sembianza Tarpea. — Già l’urna che appressava al fonte Dall’immemore man le cade: il biondo Crine desia, la luna incolpa,

ve in sen; già tutta La trascorre con l’occhio e in lei si pasce. Per man la prende, e: Sì, dice, vincesti, Tuo ritorno, so

eniva a conversare. Quando vi sarete entrato, vedrete sopra un muro a man dritta un gran quadro che rappresenta la presa di

rsi: io son degli anni Il padre: io guiderò di Giulio i rostri Con la man trionfale. — In questi accenti Sciolse la voce, e

nte carro Non oserian posarsi, e dell’immenso Olimpo il re, che colla man tremenda Vibra i fulmini suoi, paventa, o figlio,

Afferra i dardi, incontra il mostro, e larga Piasra nel fianco con la man sicura Gli apre. Per rabbia e per dolore il mostr

implora. Su due destrieri più che neve bianchi Ivano, e d’ambo dalla man vibrato Fischiar l’aure facea tremulo dardo, E fe

al tergo del fidato cane. Che si volge al signore e muor latrando. La man di Meleagro ebbe diverso Fato: in terra la prima

oco Posto allora ch’Altea dal grembo scosse L’ infausta prole. Con la man temuta Toccando i fili del fatato stame Disser le

onobbe i segni dell’antica fiamma. La giovinetta non domò col fuso La man sdegnosa, nè all’indocil chioma Impose leggi: sol

ti braccia: un nero vello La inorridisce, e cresce in ugne adunche La man curva, e dei pie gli uffici adempie. Per vasta bo

n assiduo grido Il suo dolore, e verso il cielo inalza, Qual sian, le man ; sente ch’ingrato è Giove Se chiamarlo non può. S

decretata morte Oli preparava il popolar furore. Sacerdote ramingo in man recava La sacra effigie, e i fuggitivi piedi Sul

esce ad un tempo un soffio Moltiforme, pieghevole, che a norma Della man che lo regge o pieno, o parco, Cresce, o s’allent

ole di martel, che cala Con grossi colpi: il docile metallo Cede alla man che lo governa, e ‘1 segna D’orme diverse, e a su

riversano: raccorle Gode scherzoso fanciullesco stormo, Ch’indi alla man di villanelle industri Le trasmette a vicenda, e

e in pianto: Cedon le selve, e la profonda neve Dà loco. Regge con la man sanguigna L’atra Bellona i suoi cavalli, e stanca

glio assiso Sta, per atroce maestà, tremendo. Squallido scettro colla man sostiene, E mesta nube la sublime testa Aspreggia

e ciò che toglie Da genti ignote la fenice eterna: Così tocca sarò da man divina, E saranno i miei fior serto dei numi. — D

ci alpini, Il Tebro di trionfi ancor non cinto. Ma poiché vinta dalla man possente I duri nodi la Trinacria sciolse, E vora

e ghiande Vedi e trarre il pallore i lunghi rami, E dalla piaga della man profana Scorrere il sangue, come allorché cade, V

vunque corse. Tingendo il suolo e imporporando giva) Tosto le bianche man di neve porse Al tuo lieve timballo, o frigia Div

a danzante schiera, E trasognata, furibonda, ansante Col timballo fra man corre primiera Ati fra’ boschi bui; qual ‘ve ‘1 p

in atto terribile e fero. Così torva parlò Cibele, e il giogo di sua man lento. Va la belva orribile ed aspera. S’avvalora

o nostro, e nostro zio, Non men nel cor che nella fronte allegro, Per man ne prese, e ne baciò le guance, Non sapend’ ei ch

e non t’ascondo il vero) E ben tre volte io lo ripresi, ed egli Dalla man feminil tre volte cadde. Ma spinta pur dalle mina

conviensì Coll’arme una donzella? io piiì conformi Ho le braccia e le man , la forza e il core A l’ago, a l’aspo, alla conoc

o esce il precetto Che Tesifone è presta ad eseguirlo. Ella con l’una man la sferza impugna, Nell’altra ha i serpi, ed ambe

docile cera Con la destra scherzosa, onde ritarda La meraviglia della man paterna. Poiché l’ultima man fu posta all’opra, S

erzosa, onde ritarda La meraviglia della man paterna. Poiché l’ultima man fu posta all’opra, Sulle ali doppie il facitor li

del voi le penne ignote Agli omeri: tremò nell’opra ardita La patria man ; fra i ripetuti avvisi Bagnava il pianto la mutat

me orribili, inquiete, Avvezze in cielo a colorir comete. Questa è la man che fabbricò sul Gange I regni a gl’Indi, e su l’

sia con la destra armata Sul formidabil ponte De l’Europa afferrar la man tremante: Ma sul gran dì de le battaglie il giuns

ttuta e confusa L’aifricana virtute, E al Punico feroce Recate di mia man l’atre cicute. Per me Roma avventò le fiamme in g

to uccise. Nè il ferro che de’ Cesari le membra Cominciò a violar per man di Bruto. Teco non tratterò l’alto furore Stermin

orti e figlie Contaminate, e sol piene di mostri E l’isola crudel. La man pietosa Armata, al padre suo disse: Deh: fuggi, F

ia La lingua: alfine della fronte al mezzo Svelle due serpi, e con la man , di morte Apportatrice, lor dà via: percorrono Il

mbedue collo sguardo alla principal figura, cui sembra al gesto della man destra che il giovinetto diriga una dell’acclamaz

luogo Lucina o Illitia dea del Puerperio: essa è simboleggiata colla man destra aperta, gesto relativo alla facilità de’ p

n un cembal bee, quei par che ridano, Qual fa d’un corno e qual della man ciotola, Qual ha preso una ninfa, e qual si rotol

e. L’ardite Ninfe l’asinel suo pavido Punsron col tirso; ed ei con le man tumide A’ crin s’appiglia; e mentre sì l’attizzan

scrive così : « Sisifo altrove smisurato sasso « Fra l’una e l’altra man portava, e doglia « Pungealo inenarrabile. Costui

. Costui « La gran pietra alla cima alta d’un monte, « Urtando con le man , coi piè puntando, « Spingea ; ma giunto in sul c

e folgorare a prova. « Questi su quattro suoi giunti destrieri, « La man di face armato, alteramente « Per la Grecia scorr

itava, « Che imitar non si ponno. E ben fu degno « Ch’ei provasse per man del padre eterno « D’altro fulmine il colpo e d’a

anno di ventre un fedo Profluvio, ond’è la piuma intrisa ed irta ; Le man d’artigli armate, il collo smunto, La faccia per

velle, Parole di dolore, accenti d’ira, Voci alte e fioche, e suon di man con elle, Facevan un tumulto, il qual s’aggira Se

il precetto Che Tesifone (232) è presta ad eseguirlo. Ella con l’una man la sferza impugna, Nell’altra ha serpi ; ed ambe

iuso e folgorare a prova. Questi su quattro suoi giunti destrieri, La man di face armato, alteramente Per la Grecia scorren

i imitava Ch’ imitar non si ponno. E ben fu degno Ch’ ei provasse per man del padre eterno D’altro fulmine il colpo e d’alt

ja assai s’è fatto. Se difendere omai più si potesse, Fôra per questa man difesa ancora. Ma dovendo cader, le sue reliquie

cida Dea Del Ciel, la Verità : fiaccola ardente Lassuso accesa in una man tenea, Nell’altra un specchio in guisa tal lucent

chi, o l’andar grave ; » Ma cade il manto, e appar sotto di quello La man che stringe e cela il reo coltello. La virtù

te, il quale commetteva crudeltà orrende nell’ Attica, soggiacque per man di Teseo allo stesso gastigo di Falaride (408) e

li suoi riguardi,106 Acciocchè l’ uom più oltre non si metta : Da la man destra mi lasciai Sibilia,107 Da l’altra già m’a

do veglio Entrò non visto dà veruno, e tosto, Fattosi innanzi, tra le man si prese Le ginocchia d’Achille, e singhiozzando

ntura che mai altro mortale Non soffri, supplicante alla mia bocca La man premendo che i miei figli uccise. A queste voci i

, Membrando il genitor, proruppe in pianto, E preso il vecchio per la man , scostollo Dolcemente. Piangea questi il perduto

di veleno Le bende, ’l volto asperso, i tristi nodi Disgroppar con le man tentava indarno, E d’orribili strida il ciel feri

al capo Ginngean dei solco, no nom che giva ia volla, Lor ponea nelle man spomanla un nappo Dl dulcissimo bacco ; e quei to

cembal bee ; quegli altri ridano ; « Qual fa d’un corno, e qual della man ciotola ; « Qual move i piedi in danza, e qual si

 L’ardite ninfe l’asinel suo pavido « Pungon col tirso ; ed ei con le man tumide « A’crin s’appiglia, e mentre sì l’aizzano

vesse impero « La domandaro ; ed ella pronta l’alto « Loro additò con man tetto del padre. « Tocco ne aveano il limitare ap

le ciglia, « Una morte temendone vicina, « Sei de’compagni, i più di man gagliardi, « Scilla rapimmi dal naviglio. Io gli

n mezzo, « Non lunge da que’ legni, a cui m’assisi « Di sopra e delle man remi io mi feci. « Ma degli uomini il padre e dei

« Uomini fummo, ed or sem fatti sterpi ; « Ben dovrebb’esser la tua man più pia, « Se state fossim’ anime di serpi. « Com

il gozzo. » (Inf., C. ix, v. 89.) 90. « ……Quegli in fretta « Le man distese, e prese il Duca mio, « Ond’Ercole senti

omesso Messia, i simboli proprii delle sue religiose credenze. E così man mano noi potremmo citare cento altri esempii, i q

simbolico, e questo simbolo da principio ruvido e grossolano, veniva man mano raffinandosi a misura che l’arte metteva una

ebrun — Œuvres — Tome I. Così sul romoroso Telaio del tempo, di mia man contesta È di Dio la visibile Inconsumabil vesta.

do a cerco, Ampio ne fea macello, ed or credea Ambo svenar di propria man gli Atridi, Or l’un duce, ed or l’altro. In cotal

mpia tessea, lucida, fina, Maravigliosa, immortal tela, e quale Della man delle dive useir può solo. Omero — Odissea — Lib

e alle veloci Prore venuto a riscattar la figlia Con molto prezzo. In man le bende avea, E l’auro scettro dell’arciero Apol

qui, che crudelmente anciso. In disonesta e miserabil guisa, Avea le man , gli orecchi, il naso e’l volto. Lacerato, incisc

Anchise, il bellicoso Diomede si spinge, nè l’arresta Il saper che la man d’Apollo il copre. Desioso di porre Enea sotterra

gran possa. Omero. — Iliade — Libro V. — Trad. di V. Monti. prestò man forte ad Ettore, il quale era violentemente attac

disse, adunque Tu de le spoglie d’un mio tanto amico Adorno, oggi di man presumi uscirmi Si che non muoia ? Muori… …………..

ranto, già sente venir meno La forza al piede ; inetta alla fatica La man non regge, e largo inutil rio De l’indomabil mar

ela di dorata benda, E chiese in quel momento Che protendendo ambo le man , proceda De’ sempiterni Dei Al sommo giuramento,

uerra. Alle usate arti mie scaltro ricorsi. Coll’alto suo poter mia man disserra Delle fonti le bocche, e larghi fiumi Ve

suo, e rendersi così padrone assoluto dell’ universo. Te le animose man , non l’orba sorte Forza e virtù, che sempre è tua

la lizza entrambi accinti Presentarsi, e stringendosi a vicenda Colle man forti s’afferrar, siccome Due travi che valente a

egli uomini grandi, caduti in battaglia. …….Gli fa gir legati Con le man dietro, i destinati a morte Per onoranza del fune

Del Nil vicina : ivi al primiero stato Giove ti tornerà, con amorosa Man ti palpando e carezzando ; e il bruno Epafo a lui

 : E il signor nostro assai nell’ arte esperto Dell’ aurigar con ambe man le redini Abbranca e stringe, e forte a sè le lir

Di saturno possente Nel bel volto la nube e nelle ciglia. Per lui le man di Glove. Bella cagion di danno, La fabbricar con

i veleno Le bende, e ’l volto asperso, i tristi nodi Disgroppar colle man tentava indarno, E d’orribili strida il ciel feri

’aggruppa ; Cosi l’antica età narra che spinto Colui nell’ aere dalla man robusta, Già per la tema esangue, e d’ ogni umore

nne : Quei, che mossa a pietà lupa nodrisce, Di far perir d’un zio la man sostenne. Si arresta ; colla coda a quei blandisc

l’ebbe Abbassò l’asta il fiero, e coll’acuto Ferro l’assalse, e della man gentile Gli estremi le sfiorò verso il confine De

na ; « E per farne vendetta, o per celarse, « L’acqua nel viso con le man mi sparse. « Vero dirò (forse e’parrà menzogna),

o da poche leggende ereditate dai progenitori ariani, e diffondendosi man mano con successivi allargamenti e trasformazioni

a, Eleno, augure e vate; ultimo, il più giovane, Troilo, che morì per man d’ Achille. 2. Ma ormai è tempo che narriamo per

nte si oppose a’ Greci e uccise infatti mille uomini, morì infine per man d’ Achille, strozzato colla correggia dell’ elmo,

venne nulla di veramente notevole, se non si ricordi l’ uccisione per man d’ Achille del più giovane dei figli di Priamo, T

copria. Di nivee Bende la fronte annosa avevan riciuta, E trattava la man Topera eterna. Tenean la rocca con la manca, avvo

veder più che la morte. L’ alaccie grandi avean, deformi e brutte; Le man rapaci e l’ ugne incurve e torte; Grande e fetido

ntengonsi i pieni fiumi; scopresi la terra; e ricompariscono i luoghi man mano che decrescon 1’ onde. » 39. Epig.100: « 

der più che la morte. « L’alacce grandi avean, deformi e brutte, « Le man rapaci e l’ugne incurve e torte, « Grande e fetid

crito, vicino alla tomba di Afareo ; ed in esso, Castore fu morto per man di Linceo. Polluce vendicò la morte del fratello,

otuto dar luogo alla favola. Gli auguri dicevano che i corvi veduti a man destra davano fausti augurii ; ed infausti, a sin

’ebbe, Abbassò l’asta il fiero, e coll’acuto Ferro l’assalse, e della man gentile Gli estremi le sfiorò verso il confine De

i campi Della terra infiniti a par col vento. Poi l’aurea verga nelle man recossi, Onde i mortali dolcemente assonna, Quant

nte assonna, Quanti gli piace, e li dissonna ancora, E con quella tra man l’aure fendea. Pindem. Ad imitazione di Omero, V

ene il Dio, L’alme de’ Proci estinti a se chiamava. Tenea la bella in man verga dell’oro, Onde i mortali dolcemente assouna

fosco i taciturni Silenzi, e dalla piva e dalla cetra Tocca da dotta man spargano all’aure Dolci querele e armoniosi piant

ndussero Elena, che dopo la morte di Paride, il quale era educato per man di Pirro, a quello era stata data in isposa. Pirr