ddess. Yet she was able to tell the news. Proserpina had been carried off by some one in a black chariot. The nymphs had al

theus and Epimetheus. From the time when Proserpina was carried off , the world began to be less happy than it had bee

suffering Titan. “For all your pains and mine, men are little better off than they were.” “I know it well,” said Prometheu

d, at the sound of his voice, all the sea-creatures shuffled and slid off to the water as fast as they could, leaving Nereu

e touched the earth. That was a hard fight, but Hercules finally came off victorious, for he held Antæus high in the air, a

saw that Atlas had the apples. What he wished now was to get the sky off his shoulders and begin his journey home. He than

arnessed them to the chariot and gave the reins to Admetus, who drove off without the least difficulty. Thus it was that Ad

can help. No man can escape when once that lock of hair has been cut off . Death hearkens not to prayers; he heeds not sacr

should share griefs with friends, not hide them,” he said; and taking off the veil, he showed Alcestis, brave and gracious

e. Looking into his shield, he raised his sword and with one blow cut off her direful head and ended her misery. To wrap th

em, and there he set his tired foot once more upon the earth. He took off his helmet and prepared to lie down to rest. But

de them all fit it. If they were too long to lie in it, he would chop off part of their heads or feet; if they were too sho

d because the bed was much too short, the young hero had first to lop off the giant’s head. Thus the first day passed. The

th its horns. Theseus struck it with his sword, but the sword glanced off harmless from the monster’s thick skull. Then beg

ut to flee. The Minotaur gave a roar of triumph, and for a moment was off its guard. But in that moment Theseus sprang at i

ain home. In a twinkling, Mercury, with his winged shoes and cap, was off . He soon alit on the heights of Ida and found the

, and a third time, his terrible battle cry, and the Trojan host left off their pursuit of the Greeks and returned within t

ight side by side against the Trojans. I would that death had carried off Briseis, my beloved slave, rather than that we ha

as music and dancing, and much eating and drinking. The soldiers took off their armor and rejoiced with the rest, for the w

own, hurried to their boat, drove some of the rams aboard, and pushed off . A little way from the shore Ulysses called out,

the wave it raised carried the boat back to the shore. The men pushed off once more and again Ulysses called to the monster

d him to enter. Again she mixed the magic drink, and Ulysses drank it off . Then she struck him with her wand, and said, “Go

ons for the voyage. Then, drawing the raft down to the sea, he pushed off , and started at last on his way home, for the god

but at night she unraveled all that she had woven. Thus she put them off for three years more. Then her servants betrayed

The suitors had missed him. When he came into the house, Minerva took off the disguise she had put upon Ulysses, and the he

her to her own thoughts for a while. She will know me when I have put off these rags.” They went out, and Minerva took off

w me when I have put off these rags.” They went out, and Minerva took off the disguise that was upon Ulysses, and shed grea

good, 22, 38. En΄na. A valley in Sicily where Proserpina was carried off by Pluto, 15-17, 23. Ep΄aphus. A son of Jupiter;

l΄en. Queen of Sparta; the most beautiful woman in the world; carried off by Paris to Troy, 177. To avenge this, the prince

t dying, to enjoy an immortality of bliss. 101. Ith΄a c a. An island off the west coast of Greece. Home and kingdom of Uly

um. Trojan statue of Minerva which made the city impregnable; carried off by Ulysses and Diomed, 202. Pan. God of woods an

ould have the golden apple intended “for I the fairest,” 172; carried off Helen to Troy, 177, and brought destruction upon

sent from home twenty years and supposed to be dead, 28, 236. She put off the suitors by the stratagem of the robe for Laer

Persephone, 36. Daughter of Ceres, 15; wife of Pluto, who carried her off by force, 17, thus incurring the wrath of Ceres,

he black ship, 158; aided by Ariadne, slew the Minotaur, 165; carried off Ariadne as his wife, 166; lost her, or deserted h

uman destiny, and they were armed with shears, with which they cut it off when they pleased. They were the daughters of The

er curiosity to know what this jar contained; and one day she slipped off the cover and looked in. Forthwith there escaped

th, which till now had been cultivated in common, began to be divided off into possessions. Men were not satisfied with wha

whose name was Lelaps. No sooner was the dog let loose than he darted off , quicker than their eye could follow him. If they

to take the straight road directly between the five circles, but turn off to the left. Keep within the limit of the middle

elt them loose on their backs, dashed headlong, and unrestrained went off into unknown regions of the sky, in among the sta

d her apron with them, when Pluto saw her, loved her, and carried her off . She screamed for help to her mother and companio

n cast into the ground lies there concealed — that is, she is carried off by the god of the underworld. It reappears — that

the water; and while he looked on astonished, they one and all moved off to the water, plunged in, and swam away. He did n

eived blood dropping from the places where her sister had broken them off the stem. The plant was no other than the nymph L

she last saw him, on his departure. “While he lingered here, and cast off his tacklings, he gave me his last kiss.” While s

f whether what they say is true or not. If it is, hesitate not to cut off the monster’s head, and thereby recover your libe

’s commands and made you my wife, will you think me a monster and cut off my head? But go; return to your sisters, whose ad

nd, and attempted to draw out the weapon with his mouth, but broke it off , leaving the iron point rankling in his flesh. Hi

lace was buried in sleep. She entered her father’s bedchamber and cut off the fatal lock; then passed out of the city and e

to throw her arms about his neck. He started back, exclaiming, “Hands off ! I would rather die than you should have me!” “Ha

t. Wool of Tyrian dye is contrasted with that of other colors, shaded off into one another so adroitly that the joining dec

rinkled her with the juices of aconite, and immediately her hair came off , and her nose and ears likewise. Her form shrank

ludes to Europa: — “—— sweet Europa’s mantle blew unclasped     From off her shoulder, backward borne, From one hand droop

Latona with her two only. Away with you from these solemnities, — put off the laurel from your brows, — have done with this

ded by her image reflected in the bright shield which he bore, he cut off her head and gave it to Minerva, who fixed it in

er’s pride of beauty. Before she had done speaking, a sound was heard off upon the water, and the sea-monster appeared, wit

of his wretched life. Pegasus and the Chimæra. When Perseus cut off Medusa’s head, the blood sinking into the earth p

ut his breath began to fail him, his throat was dry, the goal yet far off . At that moment he threw down one of the golden a

Now, goddess,” said he, “prosper your gift!” and threw the last apple off at one side. She looked at it, and hesitated; Ven

turn aside for it. She did so, and was vanquished. The youth carried off his prize. But the lovers were so full of their o

had nine heads, of which the middle one was immortal. Hercules struck off its heads with his club, but in the place of the

uck off its heads with his club, but in the place of the head knocked off , two new ones grew forth each time. At length wit

Amazon, went and persuaded the rest that the strangers were carrying off their queen. They instantly armed and came in gre

d been detained a prisoner there for an unsuccessful attempt to carry off Proserpine. Hercules in a fit of madness killed h

brought him the fatal robe, and hurled him into the sea. He wrenched off the garment, but it stuck to his flesh, and with

an boy, whom Jupiter, in the disguise of an eagle, seized and carried off from the midst of his playfellows on Mount Ida, b

imbs to make them fit it; if they were longer than the bed, he lopped off a portion. Theseus served him as he had served ot

mity, or to die in the attempt. Accordingly, when the time of sending off the tribute came, and the youths and maidens were

em before they had recovered from the attack of Hercules, and carried off their queen Antiope. The Amazons in their turn in

rithous had made an irruption into the plain of Marathon, and carried off the herds of the king of Athens. Theseus went to

ause of the Trojan war, and with the aid of his friend he carried her off . Pirithous aspired to the wife of the monarch of

wing that it was for the last time. Then rising on his wings, he flew off , encouraging him to follow, and looked back from

sun softened the wax which held the feathers together, and they came off . He fluttered with his arms, but no feathers rema

en they were together one day on the top of a high tower, to push him off . But Minerva, who favors ingenuity, saw him falli

, was their sister. When Theseus and his friend Pirithous had carried off Helen from Sparta, the youthful heroes Castor and

approved the deed. “Then Bacchus (for it was indeed he) as if shaking off his drowsiness exclaimed, ‘What are you doing wit

d held aside from the tree, gashed his body with many wounds, and cut off his head. Then from the midst of the oak came a v

n drawn tight, so as to show all her bones. As the Oread saw her afar off (for she did not dare to come near,) she delivere

o Neptune. He heard her prayer, and though her new master was not far off and had his eye upon her a moment before, Neptune

s, he acted out his true character, seized the maiden and carried her off . Their children were Zetes and Calais, winged war

wards me, and I was ashamed, after what I had said, to yield. I threw off my green vesture and presented myself for the str

th my forehead almost touching his. Thrice Hercules tried to throw me off , and the fourth time he succeeded, brought me to

s; and therefore he was said to have vanquished the river-god and cut off his horn. Finally, the lands formerly subject to

ed the infant deity with the milk of the goat Amalthea. Jupiter broke off one of the horns of the goat and gave it to his n

and skill have availed me nothing, and you my mother have not warded off from me the blow of misfortune.” His mother heard

nd was almost deafened with the roar, while he surveyed them hurrying off in various directions to water the face of the ea

“Then here must I die,” said he, “in a strange land, unlamented, cut off by the hand of outlaws, and see none to avenge my

he rose up, and, like a raging bull that cannot stand still, wandered off into the woods. Acis and I thought no more of him

thus describe her feelings at the moment of sacrifice: — “I was cut off from hope in that sad place,     Which yet to nam

hed him on the plain. His followers instantly seized him and bore him off , stunned and wounded. While Neptune was thus aidi

wn, the enemy among the ships preparing to burn them, and thus to cut off all means of return to Greece. While they spoke t

flict raging for his remains. The Greeks at last succeeded in bearing off the body to the ships, closely pursued by Hector

disguise and succeeded in obtaining the Palladium, which they carried off to the Grecian camp. But Troy still held out, and

ticular when Ulysses and Diomed entered the city in disguise to carry off the Palladium. She saw and recognized Ulysses, bu

shore to their boat. They put them aboard with all haste, then pushed off from the shore, and when at a safe distance Ulyss

swamped by the waves. When they had with the utmost difficulty pulled off shore, Ulysses was about to hail the giant again,

ed from a cliff into the sea, and swam to a vessel which lay becalmed off shore. Byron alludes to this leap of Telemachus a

is patron goddess Minerva, who never failed him at a crisis. Breaking off a leafy branch from a tree, he held it before him

in household offices, some employed to grind the corn, others to wind off the purple wool or ply the loom. For the Phæacian

ise, And to approach his master as of old. Ulysses, noting him, wiped off a tear Unmarked.                     * * * Then h

     “Come, my friends, ’Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off , and sitting well in order smite The sounding fur

placed before him the Harpies darted down from the air and carried it off . They were driven away from Phineus by the heroes

of Ulysses’s adventure with Polyphemus, and besought them to take him off with them as he had no means of sustaining his ex

ace of the sun. Some of the ships which had got on the rocks he pried off with his own trident, while Triton and a sea-nymp

t a tree on which grew a golden branch. This branch was to be plucked off and borne as a gift to Proserpine, and if fate wa

ut return to life! Next were situated the regions of sadness, divided off into retired paths, leading through groves of myr

fierce Phlegethon Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage. Far off from these a slow and silent stream, Lethe, the r

sue. Mezentius threw his spear, which striking Æneas’s shield glanced off and hit Anthor. He was a Grecian by birth, who ha

offered herself at the palace as a servant, and being admitted, threw off her disguise and appeared as a goddess, surrounde

count is, that they were not doves, but priestesses, who were carried off from Thebes in Egypt by the Phœnicians, and set u

ound he would be compelled by torture to discover his accomplice, cut off his head. Trophonius himself is said to have been

isle at last. Thus lovely Halcyons dive into the main, Then show far off their shining plumes again.” Ovid . Ovi

t rocks horn foremost, so as to pitch upon it, and then quietly march off not a whit the worse for its fall. But it seems t

the four winds. Under the tree lies Ymir, and when he tries to shake off its weight the earth quakes. Asgard is the name o

ot break his fetters, and that the gods would not release him, he bit off Tyr’s hand, and he has ever since remained one-ha

r to be brought in and laid on the maiden’s lap. Thereupon Thor threw off his disguise, grasped his redoubted weapon, and s

whence one can see over the whole universe, and looking round saw far off in the giant’s kingdom a beautiful maid, at the s

d as a reward. Frey consented and gave him the sword, and Skirnir set off on his journey and obtained the maiden’s promise

cat, and to tell thee the truth, when we saw that one of his paws was off the floor, we were all of us terror-stricken, for

as Loki heard this he went away, and resuming his natural shape, cut off the mistletoe, and repaired to the place where th

me bound. The priest then, robed in white, ascends the tree, and cuts off the mistletoe with a golden sickle. It is caught

rusted her babe to the tender care of the Melian nymphs, who bore him off to a cave on Mount Ida. There a goat, Amalthea, w

us without mercy. To seize the offender in his mighty grasp, bear him off to the Caucasian Mountains, and bind him fast to

After much delay and discussion, the immortals agreed to wash mankind off the face of the earth by a mighty deluge. The win

To swoop down, catch him up in his mighty talons, and bear him safely off to Olympus, was but a moment’s work; and there th

could do as she wished, the bull had risen to his feet, and galloped off towards the sea with his fair burden on his back.

e closely round the bull’s neck to prevent the waves from washing her off her perilous seat, and allowed herself to be carr

nd garments.         “Sweet Europa’s mantle blew unclasp’d,     From off her shoulder backward borne: From one hand droop’

nowy raven, — for such was his hue in those early times, — so he flew off in haste to his master to report the discovery he

       “The god of Physic     Had no antidote; alack! He who took her off so deftly     Couldn’t bring the maiden back!” S

e charms of music failed to make life endurable, and Orpheus wandered off to Olympus, where he so piteously implored Jupite

might marry another wife by the name of Dirce, these youths hastened off to Thebes, where they found the state of affairs

osure, finally caused an eternal sleep to fall upon him, and bore him off to Mount Latmus, where she concealed him in a cav

of unrequited love; then, melancholy and longing to die, she wandered off into the mountains, far from the haunts of her fo

ed him to catch the maiden in his strong yet gentle arms and bear her off to a distant isle. Psyche and Zephyrus. Harr

ure as luxurious a home and as fascinating a lover, they each hurried off in secret to the mountain gorge, cast themselves

g, and therefore promised to be tender and juicy, drove fifty of them off to a secluded spot, taking good care to envelop t

e therefore lost no time in useless search and conjecture, but strode off to Mount Cyllene, where he found Mercury peaceful

. Mercury pretended innocence, until Apollo, exasperated, dragged him off to Olympus, where he was convicted of the theft,

th. Proud of their victory over the God of War, these giants bore him off in triumph, and bound him fast with iron chains s

give an injury; and when Halirrhothius, Neptune’s son, dared to carry off his daughter Alcippe, Mars hotly pursued the abdu

for their king, they were told he had gone, never to return, carried off by the immortal gods, who wished him to share the

Marpessa, for such was the girl’s name, allowed herself to be carried off without protest; and the lovers were blissfully s

sailing by, saw the handsome young sleeper, and noiselessly bore him off to their vessel, intending to sell him as a slave

id of the power which had so soon turned into a curse. Midas hastened off to the river and plunged in its tide, noting that

tion. Whenever her duties permitted, this fair young goddess hastened off to the Island of Sicily, her favourite place of r

his brawny arms ere she could make and attempt to escape, he bore her off to his chariot, in spite of prayers and struggles

the same time prevent further tale-bearing, the king of the gods cut off Lara’s tongue, and, summoning Mercury, bade him l

y, was once forced to part from his beloved wife, Halcyone, to travel off to Delphi to consult the oracle. With many tears

e vessels at sea, break their masts, uproot the trees, tear the roofs off the houses, — in short, to do all the harm they p

allied forth on wild raids. During one of these excursions he carried off Orithyia, who always fled at his approach. But al

hole neighbourhood, this monster committed his depredations, carrying off cattle and sheep, men, women, and children, to de

man and beast Armed with a great sword, Hercules succeeded in cutting off one of the seven heads; but he had no sooner done

s still in current use. The Cretan Bull Hercules next journeyed off to Crete to accomplish his sixth task, the captur

barbarity, Hercules threw him to his own horses, which were then led off to Eurystheus, as a token that the seventh labour

ries, Hercules discovered that these maidens had carried these apples off to Africa, hung them on a tree in their garden, a

of the heavens to be transferred to his shoulders, and Atlas hastened off to fulfil his part of the agreement. Atlas.

eianeira over the river, and as he swam he made up his mind to gallop off with her as soon as he reached the opposite shore

hore, instead of pausing to allow his fair burden to dismount, he set off as fast as he could run. A loud shriek from Deian

tion, which ran like fire through every vein. Vainly he tried to tear off the fatal garment. It clung to his limbs, and the

glorious abode, caught the noble soul in his mighty arms, and bore it off to Olympus, there to dwell in happiness for ever

er, prepared, nevertheless, to fight the rival who was about to carry off his promised bride. Unbidden he came to the marri

rriage feast with a number of armed followers, and was about to carry off Andromeda, when Perseus, bidding his adherents st

s When yet but a very young man, Ægeus, King of Athens, journeyed off to Trœzene, where he fell in love with and marrie

ssigned the short bed, and the superfluous length of limb were lopped off under the self-same pretext. Taking Procrustes qu

uld share their thrones for ever. Aided by Pirithous, Theseus married off Helen, the daughter of Jupiter, and, as he was st

nd offices, he accompanied him to Hades, where they intended to carry off Proserpina. While they were thus engaged, Helen’s

eside her, casting a rueful glance at the torrent, which had wrenched off one of his golden sandals. He was about to part f

beneath her, suddenly lost her hold on the golden fleece, and tumbled off the ram’s back into a portion of the sea since kn

ung there, awaiting a hand bold enough to slay the dragon and bear it off . This tale and his liberal potations greatly exci

odwill and efficacious protection. Next the Speaking Oak bade him cut off one of its own mighty limbs, and carve from it a

blinded himself with one of her ornaments.         “He pluck’d from off the robe she wore A golden buckle that adorn’d he

nature was not one to endure such a slight patiently; and he hastened off to Argos, where he persuaded Adrastus, the king,

ve the blood from his heart. Without a word to his fellows, he rushed off to find his love, and “Quite spent and out of br

d at the sight of this grotesque little divinity, Mercury carried him off to Olympus, where all the gods turned him into ri

aris Instead of lingering by the fair nymph’s side, Paris wandered off to a lonely mountain top, where the three goddess

t of rescuing Hesione, his father’s sister, whom Hercules had carried off , after besieging Troy. He was promptly provided w

for his bride, they all would aid; If any dar’d to seize and bear her off , And drive by force her husband from her bed, All

ew her son would soon be summoned, and to prevent his going, sent him off to the court of Lycomedes, where, under some pret

and gifts to propitiate Minerva and obtain her aid. Then he hastened off in search of his wife Andromache and little son A

ryant’s tr.). With a loud cry of victory, Hector wrenched the armour off the mangled corpse, and quickly withdrew to array

rs of this ignominious treatment, and finally they saw Achilles drive off to the spot where Patroclus’ funeral pile was lai

ulge in games and revelry. While they were thus employed and entirely off their guard, the neighbors and allies of the Cico

t, and had therefore no fear lest their means of escape should be cut off . Polyphemus and Galatea Polyphemus, the ugl

, replacing the stone to prevent the escape of his prisoners, he went off to the distant pasture-ground. During his absence

    “‘Come, my friends, ’Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off , and sitting well in order, smite The sounding fu

hold the Lares and Penates, and, taking him on his back, carried him off , while with one hand he led his little son, and b

m, however; and as soon as she saw them once more afloat, she hurried off to Æolus, and bade him let loose his fiercest chi

the fleet, it reached the Cumæan shore in safety; and Æneas hastened off to the Sibyl’s cave, made known his wish to visit

Story of Camilla When but a babe in arms, Camilla had been carried off by her father, as he fled before the Volscian tro

He slays the Minotaur, the terrible monster of darkness, and carries off the dawn (Ariadne); whom he is, however, forced t

e (the cold and warm air, or personifications of the clouds), carried off to the far east by the ram — whose golden fleece

wilight (Helen) during her husband’s temporary absence, and bears her off to the far east, where, after struggling for a wh

bles Ulysses to reach Ithaca 317 Al-cip′pe. Daughter of Mars carried off by Halirrhothius 117 Alc-me′ne. Wife of Jupiter,

rays Venus to give it life, 98. 99 Gan′y-mede. Trojan prince carried off by Jupiter to act as cup-bearer, 29 Ge. Same as

y Pegasus, 70, 258 Hip-po-da-mi′a. Wife of Pirithous; almost carried off by the Centaurs, 227 Hip-pol′y-te. Queen of the

o war against Troy, 277, 278 Pal-i-xu′rus. Æneas’ pilot; lost at sea off Cape Misenum, 332, 333 Pal-la′di-um. Statue of M

tain near Corinth, where Pegasus drinks, 258 Pi′rates. Bacchus borne off by, 152 Pi-rith′o-us. King of the Lapithæ; frien

, 349 Tel′lus. Same as Gæa; name given to Rhea, 3 Ten′e-dos. Island off the coast of Troy, 297, 298 Terp-sich′o-re. Muse

into the open air, and instantly dropped to the ground. As Cupid flew off , Psyche heard these angry words from his lips: “I

ck of wool from the back of one of those sheep.” Psyche instantly set off , not daring to hope she should ever reach the top

while Christ and his apostles were in the world, and all of them left off worshipping heathen gods and goddesses about thre

ree hundred years after the birth of Christ. Ann. That is, they left off paganism; you told me that was the name of the ol

me?” But Pluto heeded not; nor was Proserpine unwilling to be carried off . He caught her up in his arms, seated her beside

h. Some pretty girls were playing in a meadow, and a rude man carried off one of them. One of this girl’s companions was so

e wise, and by thinking carefully about what one hears. This carrying off of Proserpine is called the Rape of Proserpine, w

ng the pot, when Ceres came into the house and seated herself not far off . Becubo offered Ceres a dish of the polenta, and

life, in the city and its neighbourhood, would go in bands, and carry off whatever they could seize, and they would kill th

cent reward induced the old woman to obey Philomela, and she hastened off to the queen with the embroidery. Progne received

he saw. In a moment Progne recognised her abused sister, and throwing off her disguise, pressed her to her heart. They kiss

“He had seen the taller stranger before. He was the same who carried off his uncle’s daughter, as she was watering the flo

mon of bacon which hung upon the rafter over the chimney, and cutting off a piece, threw it and the coleworts into a pot. I

d her pursuers to spare the goose. They obeyed, and Jupiter, throwing off the sordid garments that concealed his dignity, s

hbouring wood; but just as the followers of Cadmus were about to bear off their vessels of water, the dragon returned, and

head was sculptured upon the prow of his vessel, and that he carried off Europa. Then the attendants said a bull carried h

at he carried off Europa. Then the attendants said a bull carried her off . Arm. Do you suppose a heifer guided Cadmus? Mo

ose days there were many robbers, and the dragons were men that drove off strangers from fountains and gardens. Ann. Your

ul boy was the son of rich parents, and that if they should carry him off ; his father would offer a large sum to have him r

, but they disobeyed him, and, in spite of his remonstrances, carried off the prize. Soon after the ship had put off from t

his remonstrances, carried off the prize. Soon after the ship had put off from the shore, Bacchus awaked, and perceiving th

her sisters did not perceive who it was they had killed, and they cut off his head and fixed it upon the point of a thyrsus

ers looked at her, they were turned to stone. Perseus proposed to cut off the head of Medusa for Polydectes. This would be

hed from his concealment, seized the Medusa’s head, which was not far off , and exposing it in view of his enemies, turned e

r terrible shield on one arm; but this day, at Mount Helicon, she put off her warlike attire, and was dressed in a beautifu

rotect Latona, but Neptune metamorphosed her to a quail, and she flew off from the continent, perhaps of Africa, to the new

story having to run a considerable way, before it can completely work off the marvellous and the incredible. Origin of

ient Arcadians said that Apollo, incensed at Hercules’ having carried off the tripod from Delphi and brought it to Pheneos,

chasms by which the waters ran off11. Others said that Hades carried off the daughter of Demeter through one of these chas

ntain Sactá, thus forming the passage through which the waters flowed off and left the plain dry13. To this head may be ref

to Chaos and the world unborn ; and placing his golden compasses set off the space for the world he was about to create. I

on the margin of the western sea, where the Nereïdes and Seasons take off their harness. In Nonnus209, when the god arrives

orsed’, and Euripides269 describes the ‘white-winged’ Hemera carrying off Tithonos in her golden four-horsed chariot. In an

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

d away by her, ‘that he might be among the gods275.’ She also carried off Cephalos, and had by him a son named Phaëthôn276.

for Tithonos, son of Laomedôn, king of Troy. When she had carried him off , she besought Zeus to bestow on him immortality.

mis, the goddess of chastity. A bull was the form in which he carried off Europa, the sister of Cadmos ; and a flame of fir

ted in ; yet he too had his love-adventures. The tale of his carrying off Persephone (which we shall relate at length in th

e most celebrated in antiquity. He loved, we are told462, and carried off to Erebos the Oceanis Leuce ; and when she died,

burn them on the altar, so Death is here represented as coming to cut off a lock of the hair of Alcestis494. Of this rite,

a had in her hand when, as she was gathering flowers, she was carried off by Zeus, says, Around beneath the curved basket’

of Platæa, she rushed to the car, seized the supposed bride, and tore off her dress. Then discovering the cheat, she became

nother lover, having obtained a winged chariot from Poseidôn, carried off the apparently not reluctant maid. Her father pur

which time he refused to pay them their wages, and threatened to cut off the cars of both, and even to sell the latter for

ges of the seasons, as to feign that the gods themselves were carried off or slain ; and he shrewdly observes, that in that

l, fair and divine, and who gaining the victory over his rival, leads off the soul as his bride.” According to a third expo

ios checked his steeds in their career till the new-born goddess took off her radiant armour. Later authorities assign the

adia. He had scarcely been laid in his cradle, when he got up and set off for Pieria to steal cows from Apollo. As he was g

’s cattle. He first cast the dogs into a deep slumber, and then drove off twelve heifers, a hundred unyoked cows, and a bul

. The most celebrated event in the history of Demeter is the carrying off of her daughter Persephone by Hades, and the sear

s golden chariot rose, and catching the terrified goddess carried her off in it shrieking to her father for aid, unheard an

wn. Demeter told them her name was Dôs, and that she had been carried off by pirates from Crete, but that when they got on

cast into the ground lies there concealed, — that is, she is carried off by the god of the under-world : it reappears, — t

nt Elæon, to which Demeter retired when her daughter had been carried off , clothing herself in deep black. The absence of t

of royal birth. They bound him with cords ; but these instantly fell off him, and the god sat smiling in silence. The pilo

and Tithonos, who were mortal by both father and mother, were carried off , the former by the gods to be the cup-bearer of Z

βυξ), or cockchafer, ‘of which the boys make a plaything, and cutting off the head carry it about ; and the head with the h

hed their persecutor. Others, he adds, said that Tritôn used to carry off the cattle which were driven down to the sea, and

himself down on the shore to sleep ; where as he lay, a Tanagrian cut off his head with an axe. He relates these legends to

r in a ‘soft mead amid the spring-flowers,’ and when her head was cut off by Perseus, the ‘great’ Chrysaôr (Gold-sword) and

lsewhere1365 that Helios had brought Circe in his chariot to her isle off the coast of Tyrrhenia. It is curious to observe

they sprang from the blood which ran from him when his horn was torn off by Heracles1382. Sophocles calls them the daughte

s (ἀθύρματα) which they offered for sale. The ship whose crew carried off Eumæos continued an entire year at Syria, to disp

e of heroes, in former times called Semigods. These also were carried off by war and combat. They fought at Thebes, on acco

theus refused to receive her she went to Epimetheus, who took the lid off the vessel and let out all the evils, but that he

to indicate, that when the passage through which the Peneios carries off the waters that run into the vale of Thessaly, wh

an and Hellenic characters prevailed, the deities like the people put off the rustic character, their attributes changed, a

; he wore the close-fitting Magnesian dress, and a pard-skin to throw off the rain, and his long unshorn locks waved on his

behaved so ill, that the heroes rose and dragging him to the door cut off his ears and nose, which was the occasion of ‘str

e that the descendents of these colonists should have so entirely put off the Phœnician character as to become noted in aft

ten met to try their skill ; and when they failed, the Sphinx carried off and devoured one of their number. At length his s

ound he would be compelled by torture to discover his accomplice, cut off his head1713. Trophonios himself is said to have

alds were going to Thebes when they were met by Heracles, who cutting off their ears and noses, and tying their hands to th

e flaming brands searing the necks of the hydra as the heads were cut off , effectually checked their growth1742. Having thu

eir growth1742. Having thus got rid of the mortal heads, Heracles cut off the immortal one and buried it ; setting a heavy

our. When they bore children, they reared the females alone. They cut off their right breasts, that they might not impede t

Amazon, went and persuaded the rest that the strangers were carrying off their queen. They instantly armed, mounted their

ed to pay the wages agreed on, and dismissed them, threatening to cut off their ears. He even menaced to tie Apollo hand an

tilence, and Poseidôn a flood bearing a huge sea-monster, who carried off all the people to be found in the plain. The orac

of Hades he found Theseus and Peirithoös, who had attempted to carry off Persephone, and had in consequence been fixed on

ame for Peirithoös, the earth quaked, and he left him. He then rolled off Ascalaphos, the son of Acherôn and Gorgyra, the r

might give something for him and redeem him. She took her golden veil off her head, and with it bought him ; and hence he w

urned himself into a bull ; in which form one of his horns was broken off by the victorious hero. The vanquished river-god

c, by the foot, and hurled him into the sea1782. He attempted to tear off the tunic, but it adhered closely to his skin, an

us the son of Ares out of Thrace1804. Having with his assistance come off victorious in the contest, he gave him his daught

fell in love with him, and resolved to give him the victory. She cut off her father's precious lock as he slept, and he im

uld be tall, he assigned him the short bedstead, and then cut as much off him as made him of the same length as his bed. Bu

or to die in the attempt. Accordingly when the third time of sending off the tribute came, and the youths and maidens were

ad one time made an irruption into the plain of Marathon, and carried off the herds of the king of Athens. Theseus, on rece

then a child of but nine years. The friends planned the carrying her off , and they succeeded. Placing her under the care o

e invasion of Attica by Castôr and Polydeukes, to avenge the carrying off of their sister, and an insurrection of the Palla

des a lofty rock, to take a view of the island, he fell or was pushed off by his companion, and lost his life by the fall.

ons, Glaucos, Ornytiôn, Thersandros and Halmos1866. When Zeus carried off Ægina the daughter of Asopos, the river-god in hi

n Parnassos, used to deface the marks of the cattle, which he carried off in such a manner as to render it nearly impossibl

o render it nearly impossible to identify them. Among others he drove off those of Sisyphos, and he defaced the marks as us

and afterwards wore his hide. He moreover killed a satyr, who carried off the cattle of the Arcadians ; and watching an opp

atch the cow ; and Hermes the rural god kills him, as dogs are driven off or killed by the country-people. A gad-fly then p

ut Hypermnestra obeyed the cruel orders of their father ; and cutting off the heads of their husbands, they flung them into

iestesses of the goddess and were punished by her for taking the gold off her robe and converting it to their own use1933.

t is alluded to in the Ilias1949, and in the Theogony1950 the cutting off of Medusa's head is spoken of as a well-known eve

ollowing conjectures may perhaps approach to probability. The cutting off the Gorgon’s head is the main action of the mythe

ops, by whom he had a daughter named Hippothoe, whom Poseidôn carried off to the Echinadian isles. She there bore him a son

ectryôn ; and on his refusal to comply with their demands, they drove off his cows. The sons of Electryôn came to the rescu

hild of Zeus. The beauty of Helena is proverbial. Theseus carried her off while yet a child, and, as we shall see, her frai

s of Leucippos, they became enamoured of the brides, and carried them off . Idas and his brother pursued the ravishers. In t

hareus2007. Another account says that the four heroes joined to drive off the herds of the Arcadians. Idas was appointed to

, as Castôr and his brother were called, made war on Messene. Driving off all the cattle which they met, they laid themselv

nerative power ; but if this knife was gotten, and Iphiclos, scraping off the rust, drank it for ten mornings, he would hav

ory one2059. Poseidôn, smitten with the beauty of Pelops, carried him off in his golden car to Olympos. But when his father

to the river to wash the dirt from her garment. When she had taken it off , Thyestes, covering his head that he might not be

gth ventured to mount on his back. The disguised god immediately made off with his lovely burden, ran along the waves of th

racting the love of Zeus, the amorous monarch of the gods carried her off , and struck with a thunderbolt Asopos when he pur

gain, as the dawn, as it were, takes away the stars, Oriôn is carried off by Eôs ; and as the mild effulgence of the moon d

ell monsters came flying the instant food was set before him, carried off the greater portion of it, and so defiled what th

d escaped so narrowly, that the rocks as they rushed together carried off some of her stern-works. The Symplegades now beca

that shot feathers sharp as arrows from their wings. These they drove off by clattering on their shields ; and while they r

a chief cause of the war, perceiving what the goddess was about, cut off the head of Melanippos, whom Tydeus though wounde

Ilos, Assaracos, and Ganymedes. This last was for his beauty carried off to Olympos by the gods, to be the cup-bearer of Z

daughter of the Scamandros, by whom he had Tithonos (who was carried off by Eôs), Lampôs, Clytios, Hiketaôn, Priamos2197 a

ias at length takes up and carries to the ships, while Odysseus keeps off the Trojans. Thetis comes with her sisters and th

describing the bull into which Zeus changed himself in order to carry off Europa, says, Ἲσά τ ἐπ᾽ ἀλλήλοσι κέρα ἀνέτϵλλϵ κ

ot help thinking that the Greeks of the later times attempted to pass off their Kronia as the origin of the Saturnalia. Sur

manthys sit at the point in the mead (τριόδῳ) where the path branches off to the Isles of the Blest and to Tartaros (see Vi

arer (κανηфόροѕ) in the worship of Athena-Polias when she was carried off . 1825. Apollod. ut supra. 1826. Zetes is easil

Geor. i. 403. 1830. From κείρω, to cut or devour, — from her cutting off her father's lock, says the legend, — from the ra

n of beauty was awarded the apple, and Paris3 soon afterwards carried off Helen, the wife of Menelaus*, King of Sparta. Her

the procession, and seizing the supposed bride, she furiously dragged off her nuptial attire. Her delight on discovering th

ed at her feet and Pluto appeared in a chariot. He seized and carried off the maiden. All this occurred with the knowledge

she always prophesied correctly, no one believed her. Apollo carried off Cyrene* to that part of Libya afterwards named fo

-shell, from which he formed the lyre.12 Arriving in Pieria, he drove off fifty cows, and took them to Arcadia unseen by an

enian* pirates. Mistaking him for the son of a king, they carried him off and placed him on board their ship, in the hope o

he shore, than the cords with which the smiling boy was fastened fell off , and a fragrant stream of wine ran through the sh

ied with the Greek Pan. He is called Lupercus*, or the one that wards off wolves. Silenus*. Silenus*, a son of Pan, w

e of the Centaurs, becoming intoxicated with wine, attempted to carry off the bride. A dreadful conflict arose in which sev

ich he bore, and looking on Medusa as she was reflected in it, he cut off her head with his sword. Placing the trophy in th

air by means of his arrows, he advanced fearlessly and began striking off the heads with his sword. To his amazement, in th

with his sword. To his amazement, in the place of each head he struck off two sprung up. He then ordered his nephew, Iolaus

g wood, and with the firebrands he seared the throats as Heracles cut off the heads, thus preventing the growth of others.

of the rivers Alpheus and Peneus through the stalls, and thus carried off the filth. When Augeas learned that Heracles had

guise of an Amazon, spread a report that Heracles was about to carry off their queen. The Amazons attacked Heracles and hi

thia. He first slew the herdsman and dog, and was proceeding to drive off the cattle, when he was overtaken by Geryon. A de

they had been placed by Aides as a punishment for attempting to carry off Persephone. Heracles succeeded in setting Theseus

nt forms, but, having transformed himself into a bull, Heracles broke off one of his horns, and Achelous declared himself v

r, charmed with the beauty of his fair burden, attempted to carry her off . Heracles heard the screams of his wife, and shot

effect of the hydra’s blood began to appear. He endeavored to tear it off , but the flesh came with it. In his frenzy he sei

that Heracles gave him Antiope*, sister of Hippolyte*. He carried her off to Athens and made her his queen. Their son was H

. Pirithous made an irruption into the plains of Marathon and carried off the herds of the king of Athens. Theseus went to

ause of the Trojan war, and with the aid of his friend he carried her off . Pirithous now requested Theseus to assist him in

in his ambitious scheme of descending to the lower world and carrying off Persephone, the queen of Aides. Theseus would not

ly stopped to secure it, and thus Hippomenes won the race and carried off his prize. But the lovers were so full of their o

es. Dædalus, envious of his nephew’s performances, one day pushed him off the top of a high tower. Athene, who saw him fall

ad three sons, Ilus*, Assaracus*, and Ganymedes. The last was carried off by Zeus to be his cup-bearer. Assaracus was the g

t to death; the women and children, with the rich booty, were carried off , the former being destined to a lot of slavery. A

to found a city till famine should have forced them to eat the tables off which they fed. The adventurers next came to Epir

terally, the story grew up that the sun, offering up a sacrifice, cut off his hand, which was replaced by a golden one. Ma

st time bound. The priest, robed in white, ascends the tree, and cuts off the mistletoe with a golden sickle. It is caught

nts. Seated at the extreme east, ‘at the place where the earth is cut off ,’ watching in his medicine-lodge, or passing his

o tired and discouraged, that she stepped into the boat and pushed it off from the shore. She sat down, her hands folded in

bear the same punishment forever.” In an instant Arachne’s hair fell off , and her face became so small that her body looke

ow may pierce all other things, my arrow can wound you.” Then he flew off in a very bad humor, and tried to think of some w

the king had thought of giving Perseus was nothing less than cutting off Medusa’s head, snakes and all. Since merely looki

he Gorgon would turn Perseus to stone, and he could not very well cut off her head without looking, the king was pretty saf

Medusa’s image in the shield, he darted down. With one thrust, he cut off the head of the sleeping Gorgon, and then flew up

ously, when, suddenly, something black was seen above the water, afar off , and they knew that it was the dreaded creature.

losed. With his magic wand, he made the slumber sounder, and then cut off the head with its hundred starry eyes. Juno griev

ide. In that last fierce struggle, one of the bull’s horns was broken off . The goddess of plenty, or Fortune, as she is som

ercules was racked with strange pains. In his agony, he tried to tear off the fatal shirt, but it stuck fast to his skin. T

use he was so skillful. She changed him into a partridge, and he flew off across the waters. 14. “Minerva, the Goddess of

her father lay sleeping, and quickly cut the lock of purple hair from off his head. She did not even feel ashamed of the wi

she watched the soldiers preparing to go. When at length Minos threw off the last rope, she sprang into the water, and, gr

ith no one to love her, as a punishment for her wickedness in cutting off the lock of purple hair. The Cruel King’s Puni

his sleep, Theseus crept up behind him, and with his sharp sword cut off the monster’s head. Then he started back, careful

very much pleased; for this was just what he wanted, — to send Jason off on a journey so full of danger that there would b

after a few moments, the dragon was fast asleep. Jason thereupon cut off the creature’s head and seized the Golden Fleece

ng on the soft grass, under a tree, and Cyparissus stood a little way off , practicing with his bow and arrow. Just how it h

itting the arrow to the bow, his foot slipped, the sharp steel glided off sidewise, and, with a little hiss, it entered the

ce was. Toward evening Scylla came to the little spring, and throwing off her robe, slipped into the clear water to enjoy i

d seizing one of the huge horns, held it so firmly that it was broken off by the furious efforts of Achelous to free himsel

gained fresh strength from touching the earth, so Hercules lifted him off the ground and squeezed him to death. An′teros [

their heads were covered with vipers. Perseus conquered them, and cut off the head of Medusa, which was placed on the shiel

tie. Hel′le [Helle] was drowned in the sea, into which she fell from off the back of the golden ram, on which she and Phry

near the sun, and the heat melting the wax, caused the wings to drop off , and he fell into the Ægean or Icarian sea and wa

e Hydra, by burning with hot irons the place where the heads were cut off ; and for his assistance he was restored to youth

r beautiful hair into serpents. She was conquered by Perseus, who cut off her head, and placed it on Minerva’s shield. Ever

der. Musca′rius [Muscarius]. A name given to Jupiter because he kept off the flies from the sacrifices. Mu′ses, The [Muse

irtue of a particular lock of hair. This lock his daughter Scylla cut off , and so betrayed her father to his enemies. She w

Orithyia]. A daughter of Erechtheus, whose lover, Boreas, carried her off while she was wandering by the river Ilissus. Her

as said to have sprung from the blood of Medusa when her head was cut off by Perseus. His abode was on Mount Helicon, where

ied him with wings. He made a speedy conquest of the Gorgons, and cut off Medusa’s head, with which he flew through the air

pine [Proserpine]. A daughter of Jupiter and Ceres. Pluto carried her off to the infernal regions and made her his wife. Sh

the horns of the victim, and a few of the saturated hairs were pulled off and put in the fire which was burning on the alta

and necks, and which, rising unexpectedly from the deep, used to take off as many as six sailors from a vessel, and carry t

Scylla]. A daughter of Nysus, who was changed into a lark for cutting off a charmed lock of her father’s hair. See Nysus.

with love for Helen, wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta. Paris carried off Helen to Troy, and the Greeks pursued and besiege

, the historic background against which our present appears. For, cut off from the intellectual and imaginative sources of

poet Vâlmîki. It tells how Sita, the wife of Prince Rama, is carried off to Ceylon by Râvana, king of the demons, and how

g the practice, — when it came to the turn of her sixth child, palmed off on the insatiable Cronus a stone carefully envelo

o another account these were not doves, but priestesses, who, carried off from Thebes by the Phœnicians, set up oracles at

m spring and summer, but also the blessings of the harvest. He warded off the dangers and diseases of summer and autumn; an

jan boy whom Jupiter, in the disguise of an eagle, seized and carried off from the midst of his playfellows on Mount Ida, b

n destiny, and they were provided with shears, with which they cut it off when they pleased‌ 89 According to Hesiod, they w

vors, he acted out his true character, seized the maiden and bore her off . Their children were Zetes and Calais, winged war

. At his pleasure, he visited the realms of day, — as when he carried off Proserpina; occasionally he journeyed to Olympus;

nd lightly still did waft the maiden onward. But when she was now far off from her own country, and neither sea-beat headla

a river-god, attracted the attention of Jupiter, who straightway ran off with her. Now, on the one hand, Sisyphus, king of

b. Wool of Tyrian dye is contrasted with that of other colors, shaded off into one another so adroitly that the joining dec

monster attempted to draw out the weapon with his mouth, but broke it off , leaving the iron point rankling in his flesh. Hi

; not to take the straight road between the five circles, but to turn off to the left; to keep within the limit of the midd

ed, and the reins fell from his hands. The horses, unrestrained, went off into unknown regions of the sky, in among the sta

ren, I should hardly be left as poor as Latona with her two only. Put off the laurel from your brows, — have done with this

o put her in the hands of him My host, that housed me, never drove me off : Though stricken with sore sorrow hid the stroke,

, Let the club go, — for had he not those hands? And so went striding off , on that straight way Leads to Larissa and the su

o joy, More joy and most joy, — do man good again. So to the struggle off strode Herakles. Long time the Thessalians waite

he words at fault! There is no telling how the hero twitched The veil off ; and there stood, with such fixed eyes And such s

d set sail. Then Bacchus (for the youth was indeed he), as if shaking off his drowsiness, asked what the trouble was, and w

s advanced in his narrative, when Pentheus, interrupting, ordered him off to his death. But from this fate the pilot, rende

ng lilies and violets, when Pluto saw her, loved her, and carried her off . She screamed for help to her mother and her comp

her in a chariot race, and that none might fail in that race and come off alive. Since an oracle, too, had warned Œnomaüs t

wn In an ivy crown Tipsily rides; And when in doze His eyelids close, Off he tumbles, and I Can his wine-skin steal, I drin

to throw her arms about his neck. He started back, exclaiming, “Hands off ! I would rather die than thou shouldst have me!”

he Oread stayed the dragons of Ceres that drew her chariot; for, afar off she beheld Famine, forespent with hunger, pulling

e father to devour his own limbs; and in due time he finished himself off . § 122. Dryope, the wife of Andræmon, purposing,

e deep, ’twas thus he would sing: — “Oh, milk-white Galatea, why cast off him that loves thee? More white than is pressed m

guided by her image reflected in the bright shield which he bore, cut off her head, and so ended her miserable existence. T

his melancholy breach of discipline, the youth was rusticated, — sent off to the mountains, where among the herdsmen and th

s half-brother Iphicles and his reputed father Amphitryon in throwing off the yoke of the city of Orchomenus. Then, while i

had nine heads, of which the middle one was immortal. Hercules struck off the heads with his club; but in the place of each

m of an Amazon, persuaded the people that the strangers were carrying off their queen. They instantly armed, and beset the

lion, a ravening lion on the hills, hears the bleating of a fawn afar off , and rushes forth from his lair to seize it, his

ra to Nessus to be carried across. Nessus, however, attempted to make off with her; whereupon Hercules, hearing her cries,

him the fatal robe, and hurled him into the sea; then tried to wrench off the garment, but it stuck to his flesh, and tore

e blaze of the torrid sun softened the waxen fastenings of his wings. Off they came; and down the lad dropped into the sea,

, a pair of compasses. But Dædalus, envious of his nephew, pushed him off a tower, and killed him. Minerva, however, in pit

them till they fitted it; if they were longer than the bed, he lopped off their limbs. In the course of time, Theseus reach

things she sees of a surety, When upspringing from sleep, she shakes off treacherous slumber, Lone beholds herself on a sh

hem before they had recovered from the attack of Hercules, he carried off their queen Antiope; but they in turn, invading t

oüs had made an irruption into the plain of Marathon, and had carried off the herds of the king of Athens, Theseus went to

ause of the Trojan war; and with the aid of his friend he carried her off , only, however, to restore her at very short noti

atrons of voyagers. When Theseus and his friend Pirithoüs had carried off Helen from Sparta, the youthful heroes, Castor an

hus describing her feelings at the moment of sacrifice: — “I was cut off from hope in that sad place, Which yet to name my

hed him on the plain. His followers instantly seized him and bore him off stunned and wounded. 96. Hector fighting befor

wn, the enemy among the ships preparing to burn them, and thus to cut off all means of return to Greece. While they spoke,

t raging for his remains; and the Greeks at last succeeded in bearing off the body to the ships, closely pursued by Hector

isguise, and succeeded in obtaining the Palladium, which they carried off to the Grecian camp. The Wooden Horse. — But Tro

icular when Ulysses and Diomede entered the city in disguise to carry off the Palladium. She, then, saw and recognized Ulys

shore to their boat. They put them aboard with all haste, then pushed off from the shore, and when at a safe distance Ulyss

covered to be not mere peasant girls, but of a higher class. Breaking off a leafy branch from a tree he held it before him

in household offices, some employed to grind the corn, others to wind off the purple wool or ply the loom. For the Phæacian

ise, And to approach his master as of old. Ulysses, noting him, wiped off a tear Unmarked. … Then his destiny released Ol

ices. Come, my friends, ’Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off , and sitting well in order smite The sounding fu

laced before him, the harpies darted down from the air and carried it off . They were driven away from Phineus by the heroes

of Ulysses’ adventure with Polyphemus, and besought them to take him off with them, as he had no means of sustaining his e

ce of the sun. Some of the ships which had got on the rocks, he pried off with his own trident, while Triton and a sea-nymp

t a tree on which grew a golden branch. This branch was to be plucked off and borne as a gift to Proserpine, and if fate wa

ut return to life! Next were situated the regions of sadness, divided off into retired paths, leading through groves of myr

ssue. Mezentius threw his spear, which striking Æneas’ shield glanced off and hit Antores, — a Grecian by birth who had lef

the four winds. Under the tree lies Ymir, and when he tries to shake off its weight the earth quakes. § 178. Odin and his

ot break his fetters, and that the gods would not release him, he bit off Tyr’s hand. Tyr, consequently, has ever since rem

r to be brought in and laid on the maiden’s lap. Thereupon Thor threw off his disguise, grasped his redoubted weapon, and s

cat, and to tell thee the truth, when we saw that one of his paws was off the floor, we were all of us terror-stricken, for

whence one can see over the whole universe, and looking round saw far off in the giant’s kingdom a beautiful maid, at the s

as a reward. Freyr consented and gave him the sword, and Skirnir set off on his journey and obtained the maiden’s promise

as Loki heard this he went away, and resuming his natural shape, cut off the mistletoe, and repaired to the place where th

Women must be instructed,” said Siegfried, the good knight, “To leave off idle talking and rule their tongues aright. Keep

they are all destroyed save Gunther and Hagen. Gunther’s head is cut off at her orders; and she herself, with Siegfried’s

Herodotus says that Europa was a historical princess of Tyre, carried off by Hellenes to Crete. Taurus (the bull) was euhem

bull) was euhemeriscally conceived to be a king of Crete who carried off the Tyrian princess as prize of war. Others said

ister, Europa, the broad-flushing light of Dawn, who has been carried off on a spotless cloud (the Bull). The Sun, of cours

μβροτος, ἀ-βροτός) “immortal,” — here, “food for the immortals.” Turn off to the left: indicating the course of the sun, we

theart of Apollo’s (§ 130). Delphi, in Phocis, and Tenedos, an island off the coast of Asia Minor, near Troy, were celebrat

which, when cast into the ground, lies there concealed, — is carried off by the god of the underworld; when the corn reapp

he infant deity with the milk of the goat Amalthea. Jupiter, breaking off one of the horns of the goat, gave it to his nurs

plies, the heads of the streams (the fifty youths of Argolis) are cut off . The reference to Egyptus and the sons of Egyptus

ed from a cliff into the sea, and swam to a vessel which lay becalmed off shore. Byron alludes to this leap of Telemachus a

s, Com. § 26; reference to, 47. Cor′ythus, Com. § 169. Cos: an island off the coast of Caria. Cot′tus, Com. § 17. Cra′non,

ughter of Apollo; (2) sister of Phœbe, daughter of Leucippus; carried off with her sister by Castor and Pollux; (3) the che

ibutes, 83; or the Roman Orcus, 88, 124; and Æsculapius, 130; carries off Proserpine, 181; 190, 248, 267, 345; Com. §§ 49,1

nd gnome-like rascals, two of whom, while Hercules was sleeping, made off with his weapons; but, caught by him, were strapp

nia. Rembrandt (van Ryn), 1607-1669 (paint.). § 43, Ganymede carried off by Jove’s Eagle (Dresden). Reni, Guido, 1575-164

able adventures of Jupiter was the rape of Europa. Rape means bearing off in haste. Europa was a beautiful virgin, the daug

owly to the shore of the Mediterranean, plunged into the sea and swam off with his lovely burden to Crete. Crete is a Europ

aversion and horror. Perseus, a prince of Argos, was employed to cut off this terrific head. Perseus, in this expedition,

d the mirror to the Gorgon; — while she was gazing at herself, he cut off her head. Perseus afterwards presented the head t

, Pluto was resolved to make her his queen, and had come to carry her off with him. The young virgins saw him, and one of t

lem. Who was Proserpine, and how did she employ herself? Who carried off Proserpine to the infernal regions? What did one

from his birth to his death, and to put an end to his life by cutting off a thread. Stern Clotho weaves the checkered thre

ight enclosure where the flocks and herds are confined, and bear them off , an easy prey, sometimes attacking and destroying

r with a multitude of heads. As soon as one of these heads was struck off , two others immediately sprung up. But Hercules w

of his friend Iolas to despatch the enemy. As fast as Hercules struck off a head, Iolas seared the place with a hot iron, a

ered Hercules as an adversary. Hercules conquered Achelous, and broke off his horn. This horn was picked up by the nymphs,

centaur Nessus. When they reached the shore, Nessus offered to carry off Dejanira, but Hercules aimed at him one of his po

back, and flew away to Colchis through the air. Helle on the way fell off , and was precipitated into the strait, thence cal

ils of a land journey; robbers will surprise you, and you will be cut off by their cruel hands; a sea voyage is safe and sh

d his victims; and, if they were too tall for its length he would cut off their limbs to fit the bed; or, if they were too

their flocks, make comfortable garments, worship the gods, and leave off injuring one another, they would be happy and gro

ece, to seek new adventures. One Peritheus, King of Thessaly, carried off some flocks from Marathon, near Athens, and These

r father’s court to seize her; but Aidoneus suspected them, and drove off Peritheus by means of some furious dogs, and thre

es, they fell a desire to possess them, and laid a plan to carry them off , but Lynceus and Has, perceiving their purpose, a

cknowledged Paris. Some years before this event, Hercules had carried off Hesione, the sister of Priam, and married her to

refuse to receive her. When Helen was young, Theseus had carried her off , but she was recovered, and her numerous admirers

spitality of Menelaus? Who had vowed to punish those who should carry off Helen? Did Menelaus proceed rashly to the punishm

ictims she was appointed to offer were Greeks, she thought of her far off country, and longed to see the strangers, and to

f the caste, degrades a Hindu to a most miserable condition; cuts him off from all society, and causes him to be regarded a

t, when the captive ark Maimed his brute image; head and hands lopped off . Dagon his name; sea monster; upward man, And do

the latter were defeated, and the Philistines seized upon and carried off “the ark of God!” This ark was a chest which cont

ece, amounted to 5,000,000 of dollars. The Roman Emperor Nero carried off at once from Delphi, five hundred statues of bras

e, was attracted by the beauty of the young princess, and carried her off . When her father grieved at her loss, the courtie

r’s hundred eyes were closed. The god then drew his falchion, and cut off the head of Argus with a single blow. Juno was gr

e perceived that she was asleep, Minerva guiding his sword, he struck off her head. Mercury had lent Perseus his wings, and

ed that region. From the blood of Medusa, also, when her head was cut off , sprang the famous winged horse called Pegasus [P

King Priam; and Venus fulfilled her engagement by aiding him to carry off Helen, the beautiful wife of Menelaus [Menela′us]

rifices were offered, and plays were acted, representing the carrying off of the Sabine women. The solemn games in honor of

met to try their skill, and when they had failed, the Sphinx carried off and devoured one of their number. At length Hæmon

mestic gods, and presided over houses, streets and roads. They warded off danger from without, while the Penates watched ov

husband’s house. The Roman boy, on attaining the age of fifteen, put off his childish dress, and consecrated the golden bu

d ravaged the surrounding country. Hercules noticed that where he cut off one of the heads of this serpent, two immediately

o burn the wound with a firebrand, and by this means he at length cut off the last head. Third. He captured the savage wild

as she had been directed. Hercules had plundered Œchalia, and carried off , among other captives, the beautiful Iole [I′ole]

he poison soon began to work, and Hercules endeavored in vain to tear off the tunic, which clung to his flesh and consumed

phies, but the uncles of Meleager, indignant that a woman should bear off the honors of the day, snatched them rudely from

battle. We have already spoken of the part which he took in carrying off the Palladium of Troy. As a reward for his servic

only succeeded in escaping unobserved, but were also enabled to carry off the statue of Diana, which they brought to Argos.

seized these treasures to pay his troops. He is said to have carried off , in gold and silver, a sum equal to ten million d

n entered seven four-horse chariots in the Olympic games, and carried off the first, second and third prizes. The poet Euri

ed in a flying chariot. In another piece, Aurora descends and carries off the dead body of Memnon. Ghosts and infernal deit

darkness and cold. Under the tree lies Ymir, and his efforts to throw off the weight cause earthquakes. The root that exten

seized the weapon, and finding his wonted strength restored, he threw off his disguise, and rushed upon Thrym, whom he slew

punish her vanity, and always ready for mischief, found means to cut off her hair while she slept. The goddess was inconso

ed with solemn rites by the inhabitants of a large island, which lies off the coast of Gaul, in the Northern Ocean. This is

estesses who dwelt on the island of Sena, an almost inaccessible rock off the promontory of Plogoff, on the coast of Britta

honor of the victory at Salamis. In his twenty-fifth year, he carried off the tragic prize from Æschylus. He gained the sam

remembrance of those with which his son loaded him. These were taken off during the festival of the Saturnalia, to shew th

d the earth. What was her history? Pluto, her brother, having carried off her daughter Proserpine, and taken her to the inf

heads: as rising suddenly from the dark abyss of waters, and sweeping off , at one tremendous stoop, six men together, from

sheep. Who was Proserpine? The daughter of Ceres, whom Pluto carried off and married, in the manner which has been already

erpent, which had seven heads; as fast as either one of which was cut off , another instantly sprang up in its place. He bou

en, and the tails of serpents. The head of one of these monsters, cut off by Perseus, was fixed in the formidable shield of

cessarily implied; while the perversely guilty were considered as cut off , and cast away for ever. From these ideas of vari

oss of Caste degrades a Hindû to a most miserable condition; cuts him off from all society, and causes him to be regarded a

of a cat, every inmate of the house in which the event took place cut off his eyebrows; but to celebrate the funeral of a d

it washed the sacred sword. The right arm of the victim was then cut off , thrown up into the air, and suffered to remain o

hed in white garments, ascended the tree, and with a golden hook, cut off the misletoe; which was received into a white sag

orld. The wolf Fenris will devour the sun; another monster will carry off the moon; the stars will vanish from the heavens;

t, when the captive ark Maim’d his brute image; head and hands lopp’d off . Dagon his name; sea monster; upward man, And dow

while gathering flowers in the plains of Enna, in Sicily, was carried off by Pluto, the god of Tartarus. The fountain Areth

o mothers. Some Tyrrhenian pirates, having found him asleep, took him off from the island of Naxos with a view to sell him

arded him with the hand of the fairest woman in the world. He carried off Helen from her husband Menelaus, which outrage ki

but one eye; to explain which, some suppose they wore a mask to keep off the fire with one hole above their eyes through w

They were overcome, and the pupils of Apollo punished them by pulling off their wings, of which they made crowns. The Siren

that none could die; unless the goddess, or Atropos her minister, cut off one of the hairs from the head. She was universal

arth, and became mountains. They were, however, overcome, and all cut off by Jupiter’s thunderbolts, Apollo’s arrows, and t

is bitter jests were admired, they ultimately caused him to be turned off from the celestial court in disgrace. Of the firs

ved the purpose of a looking-glass. By the help of these arms, he cut off the head of Medusa. Perseus mounted Pegasus, and

e Solymi, and was exposed to a variety of dangers; but he always came off victorious. Jobates was so pleased with the brave

os the second. The Amazons were a warlike nation of women. They burnt off their right breast, in order to brandish weapons

en heads, some say fifty, others a hundred, one of which being struck off by the club of the hero, another immediately spra

wound with a red hot iron; in consequence of which, one head was cut off in a moment, and the cautery applied: and by this

ircumstance, so basely violated the rights of hospitality as to carry off Helen, wife to Menelaus, who was reputed to be th

fterwards, Achilles, because he had but one lip, with the other burnt off in the act of licking the ambrosia. Others again

am all that has been, all that shall be, and no mortal has ever taken off my veil.” Their theology had, therefore, two sign

, when the captive ark, Maim’d his brute image; head and hands lopp’d off . Dagon his name; sea-monster; upwards man, And do

, had a great reputation for wisdom. This man having had his head cut off , Odin embalmed it, and knew how to persuade the S

and of animals that had been sacrificed. They were sometimes carried off and buried in honor of Thor, or the sun; and when

ow he dips his hoofs and wets his thighs, Now plunges in, and carries off the prize.” Ovid. At length Juno, unable to bea

he frighted Goddess to her mother cries: But all in vain, for now far off she flies; His urgent flame impatient of delay, S

pt to think from heaven their title springs, Since Jove and Mars left off begetting kings. This Midas knew, and durst commu

l. In vain she called upon her attendants for help, the God bore her off to his dominions, and she became his bride. Insér

e rolling of triumphant wheels,     The harpings in the hall, The far off shout of multitudes,     Are in thy rise and fall

, and were companions of Proserpine, at the time of her being carried off ; they prayed for wings from the Gods, to unite th

whose nuptials they had met to celebrate, they resolved to carry them off . This violence provoked the bridegrooms: a combat

was subdued by pain Œtes wide forests echo with his cries; Now to rip off the deathful robe he tries. Where’er he plucks th

onyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img186 In vain did he attempt to pull it off , he only tore with it masses of flesh. In the mid

, Minerva supporting his courage, and with one blow of his sword, cut off Medusa’s head. The noise of the blow awoke the tw

red the palace with a number of armed men, and attempted to carry her off . In vain did the father and mother of Andromeda i

, and sulphurous flames. He shall be bound and gashed, his skin flead off And burned alive. Phor. O spare my age. Œd. Who

rojan camp, entered his tent at night and slew him; they then carried off the horses which had been the innocent causes of

ld with sad survey, She rent her tresses venerably gray: And cast far off the regal veils away. With piercing shriek his bi

at all their efforts to influence her were vain. In order to put them off more effectually, she undertook to make a piece o

litas, universa Agrigentinorum multitudo impetum fecit. » — (Cic., De Off . ii, 7.) 110. « Aliquot sæculis post, P. Scipio

atus optavit : quo impetrato in maximos luctus incidit. » — (Cic., De Off . i, 10.) Dante applica questa stessa distinzione

nte, plausus excitantur : est enim digna persona oratio. » — Cic., De Off . i, 28.) 122. Il Machiavelli non ha creduto ind

diæ simulatione insaniæ militiam subterfugere voluisse. » — (Cic., De Off ., iii, 26, 97.) 131. « Tydides sed enim scele

nem habet, ut iuxta eam possit veritas manifestari. Ambe. lib. 3. de off . A nibili giovanetti studenti delle belle le

ni. Quella gran dote, per le quale sola, al dir di Cic. lib. 1. de off . vengono i mortali decorati col bel titolo di uom

, v, 85, sqq. Virg. Aen. II, v. 116. Propert. III, el. 7, v. 23. Cic. Off . III, 25. (2). Archaeol. T. I, p. 520. ed. Ramb.