of wooded hills and green valleys; and the blue sea comes far inland, up the valleys between the hills, and meets the litt

seeds in the field, it was a goddess that made the green stalks come up and be fruitful. The trees of the forest also had

hen the strife was at an end, Pluto, the king of the underworld, came up to see what damage had been done; for he feared t

ens did not see him until he was near. Then one of the nymphs glanced up and gave a great shriek. All turned and saw the f

n, the chariot was beside her. Without drawing rein, Pluto caught her up in his arms, and in a moment they were driving li

, she saw no trace of the lost maiden until, at nightfall, she picked up a rose which had fallen from the hands of the poo

to despair, she came to the fountain of Arethusa. This fountain came up from the very bottom of the earth, and Arethusa,

sa was far down in the earth below. But at the call of Ceres she came up quickly and raised her beautiful face and drippin

earth with his spear, and how the earth had opened and swallowed him up , chariot, black horses, maiden, and all. “And to-

ghty power. At last, she uncovered her face and rose, and went slowly up the path of stars to Olympus, where the gods of h

he trees were putting forth their leaves, and the grass was sprouting up , making the meadows green. “Have I not said that

or them. First he taught them to build houses and barns, and to store up grain for their own use and fodder for their floc

nd men can be ready for it. After that men were more comfortable, but up to this time they knew nothing of the uses of fir

asleep and the hall of Olympus was empty, Prometheus climbed quietly up the star-road to the home of the gods, and slippe

imetheus said no more, but his mind was not changed. Next day he went up the star-road and into the great hall of Olympus,

he thought of what Prometheus had said of the danger. He almost made up his mind not to take the gift; then he opened the

he thought. And then she knelt down beside the box and began to raise up the cover, with eyes eager to look in as soon as

a god fall in love and the leaden ones caused hate. Next, Cupid took up his little bow and saw that the string was unworn

Save me from him I hate. Change my form, or let the earth swallow me up . Quick, for he is here.” Apollo also had seen the

erus with his three terrible heads, across Styx in Charon’s boat, and up the other shore to the foot of the road leading t

When he died, Jupiter put the lyre which had so charmed gods and men up in the northern sky. There it still shines, set w

htened his grip, and laughing as if it were all a great joke, he held up the snakes and dropped them dead to the floor. Al

hero, for I foresee that when he comes to die, Jupiter will take him up to Olympus and make him one of the gods of heaven

s’ heart with sadness, yet he found a deep delight in them. He looked up , and all he said was, “Fair one, what do men call

ods, Virtue. After this, Hercules, by order of the gods, gave himself up to the service of King Eurystheus. Eurystheus was

th a club that he himself had made of a wild olive tree which he tore up by the roots at the foot of the sacred mountain o

ost of them he had to conquer some fierce beast. He had even to bring up for a day the great three-headed dog, Cerberus, f

d can get over the ground much more quickly. If you will hold the sky up for me, I will bring the golden apples in a few m

s and bend over when he pleased. He did not in the least fancy taking up his burden again. “Suppose you let me take the ap

“Very well,” said Hercules, without a moment’s hesitation; “but take up the sky just a moment, while I put this lion’s sk

, without thinking, had taken his old load once more, Hercules picked up the apples and said: — “After all, I think I will

journey easy. Without an adventure he reached the court and delivered up the golden fruit. Eurystheus feared and hated him

to the very end of his life. Then Jupiter, who loves heroes, took him up to Olympus and made him divine, and he became the

cation. Apollo heard him and came. “If some one else will freely give up life for you,” said the god of light and song, “y

cules no hint of what had happened. Very soon the strong man, looking up , noticed how sad the poor servant was, and how si

all day he had to control the fire-breathing horses as he drove them up the hard road to midday and down the steep to sun

ve. The day had begun. In a few moments Phaëton found himself driving up the steep road of heaven. Below him he heard the

free to go whither they would. The people of earth had been gazing up with horror at the scene. Now the sun was near th

ecause you come without a gift.” At this, the young man held his head up proudly and said: — “O King, whatever you may com

hich made him invisible, he went in; but he walked backwards, holding up his shining shield as a mirror. Thus he might see

a second. Then he started for the door, but the other Gorgons sprang up with a shriek. “He has come!” they cried, and spr

Perseus drew from his mantle the terrible head of Medusa and held it up . In a moment Atlas stood immovable — cry and cove

it. Before the monster even saw him, he had plunged his sword into it up to the hilt. Then the fight began. The beast snap

Medusa.” With that he drew the head from under his mantle and held it up before Polydectes’ face; and the king, gazing in

the sandals, that I may know him.” Then Ægeus left, but Æthra brought up the hoy with all a mother’s love. He was taught t

day, as Theseus was walking through the streets of Athens, there came up the harbor a ship, all black, even to the sails;

and she was as gentle as she was beautiful. That night Theseus paced up and down his room for many hours. He was thinking

s in a great and mysterious building called the Labyrinth. It is made up of curving halls and blind ways, of winding stair

ength failed her and she sank fainting to the ground. When she looked up again, Theseus was at her side. He had come out q

had found him and taken care of him, and the little prince had grown up . He was now living, still unknown and unrecognize

ch blue, like the sky. Where she walked, the roses and violets sprang up about her feet and all the birds sang with joy. A

d ship. As they were putting out to sea, the aged sea-god Nereus came up from the deep and chanted a grim warning to Paris

, but Cassandra, the prophet-daughter of the king,, knew it. She rose up among the children of Priam and cried out: — “Fat

Helen. They promised to depart in peace, even then, if she were given up . Helen longed to return to her home, and Priam an

he war in the land of Troy continued year after year. The Greeks drew up their ships upon the beach and lived in them ther

and many a town was taken and burned, but the Trojans would not give up Helen, and the war still went on. Now, Agamemnon

Apollo. All captives in those days were made slaves, and in dividing up the spoils Chryseis had fallen to the lot of Agam

s into the Grecian camp and slew beasts and men. All the camp was lit up with the fires upon which the bodies of the dead

eis, whom he loved. Then Thetis, the goddess mother of Achilles, went up to Olympus and prayed Jupiter for aid, and Jupite

e Greeks further and further back, even to where the ships were drawn up high upon the beach. Then they hurled firebrands,

and, for that day, again the camp was saved. Meanwhile Thetis went up the steep way to Olympus, the home of the gods, a

ngs of the heavens and the earth, of men and of gods. Finally he took up his spear, which no one but he could wield, and s

ccasion to end the struggle, but even then the Trojans would not give up Helen. They had no mind to let her go after all t

d the people, but at that moment Laocoön, the priest of Neptune, came up . “What madness is this?” he cried. “Do you believ

e. But when night came on and the happy city was fast asleep, he went up on the wall where it overlooked the sea. Before l

ta. Her heart was sad for all the grief and death she had caused. But up in the glorious halls of Olympus, Juno, the queen

assandra,” spake the god,    “Troy-town must fall.” O then she stood up fair and brave    And answered “Death I can endur

and with a good harbor. Here they dropped anchor and rested, and gave up two whole days to grief. On the third day Ulysses

. Her servants drove them away, grunting and squealing, and shut them up in sties, where they wallowed in the mire, not co

werful drug. In an instant, the bristles fell from them and they rose up and became once more Ulysses’ men, but younger an

ke him, lifted him out gently and laid him on the sandy beach, piling up the gifts against an olive tree near by. Thus, al

ondition when the Phæacians put the sleeping Ulysses ashore and piled up his gifts under the olive tree near him. Minerva,

ay make your plans in safety, I will disguise you.” She shriveled him up and bowed him down and put a ragged cloak about h

e palace a wanderer who has talked so wisely and well.” Then she went up to her room, and in her sleep she dreamed that Ul

far spent, Penelope carried out a plan which she had formed. She went up into her husband’s armory and got his great bow a

own among the suitors. Then twelve rings, each upon a stake, were set up in a row in the palace floor, and she said, “Whoe

s a minstrel stretches a cord about the peg of a lyre. Then he caught up an arrow, put it to the string, and shot it strai

80; chose the path of virtue, instead of happiness, 83; gave himself up to the service of King Eurystheus, 83, and perfor

Priam of Troy. As an infant, was cast forth to die upon Mt. Ida; grew up , however, among the shepherds there, 71; fairest

and it was so high that its peak seemed to pierce through the clouds, up , up into the sky, till the eye could scarcely fol

it was so high that its peak seemed to pierce through the clouds, up, up into the sky, till the eye could scarcely follow

so that they might not be recognized. The people of Greece, who made up all the stories I am going to tell you, believed

appiness. So they built great temples of marble, and in them they set up gold and ivory statues of the gods; and there the

ask for help and comfort; and when they were happy they came to offer up their thanks to the kind gods. The king of the go

they were. Cupid was always young and rosy and dimpled; he never grew up as the other god children did. Neptune, who was J

ictured them in their palaces of gold and silver and precious stones, up in the land of the clouds and the stars. ——— The

rry for the harm his wife had done to one so good and gentle. To make up as far as he could for Juno’s cruelty, he changed

ht sunlight above and dwell in the land of shades. One day Pluto came up to earth and was driving along in his swift chari

arried something to her feet. Stooping to see what it was, she picked up the girdle which Proserpine had long ago thrown t

r sorrow by the grating of the keel on the shore; and when she looked up , she saw that she had drifted to a little island.

lack, angry-looking cloud spread over the sky; and when Latona looked up toward it, she saw Juno standing before her. With

s, for both her arms were burdened with the children. But she started up again, when the men, in a very rude and unkind to

was almost over. The twin babes for whom she had borne so much, grew up to repay her, as well as children ever can repay

ne, and stepping from behind the tree, ran to meet him. When she came up to him, she tried to throw her arms around his ne

e earth and sky to cover the world. He did not want the waters to dry up until all the people were dead, so he shut fast i

ave just proved it by slaying the terrible monster. Come, Cupid, give up the bow which rightfully belongs to me.” Now, Cup

er heart, and the girl felt a cold shiver run through her. She looked up to see what had happened, and caught a glimpse of

s of suffering, she died. Orpheus’ grief was terrible to see. He took up his beloved lyre, but its charm for him was gone.

leeping for an instant, he sadly returned to the green earth. He went up on a high mountain, and there he lived with only

d have turned aside; but as soon as the women saw his lyre, they came up to him and ordered him, in a rough manner, to pla

one thrust, he cut off the head of the sleeping Gorgon, and then flew up into the air again, holding the horrid head behin

he snakes on Medusa’s head awakened her two sisters, and they started up to follow Perseus; but on account of Pluto’s helm

happen in the future, he would go to one of these oracles, and offer up a sacrifice to the god, in return for which the o

he answer was, “Because of the vanity of Cassiopeia. If she will give up her daughter Andromeda to the serpent, the sea ny

ish your town and all the people to be saved from ruin, you must give up your daughter.” Then Cassiopeia went sadly home a

nd the ugly creature floated lifeless on the water, such a shout went up from the shore that the hills around rang with th

ay, when he had been away from home for many hours, she suddenly made up her mind to go down to earth and see the maiden o

ling the grass at his side. But she knew that it was Io, and she went up to her side, and stroked her glossy neck, and the

atyrs, saw her one day, as she was passing through the grove. He came up to speak to her, but she was frightened at his go

Many hundreds of years ago, there was born a little baby who grew up to be the strongest and most wonderful man of his

ild, and her scream woke the baby, Hercules, from his sleep. Starting up in his cradle, he seized the snakes, one with eac

she saw. You can well understand how such a wonderful baby might grow up into a remarkable man. Hercules was, in fact, the

as standing on the bank, in doubt what to do, a strange creature came up to him and offered to carry Deïanira across. It w

hard time fighting the strong current, heard the scream, and looking up , saw what was happening. He raised his bow to his

t, but it stuck fast to his skin. Then the great hero began to stride up and down the seashore, crying aloud in his tortur

ock. Suddenly Hercules spied him crouching behind the rock; he strode up to him, and before the servant could stammer out

ure, he died as he had lived, like a hero. With his own hands he tore up great trees and bushes, and built of them his own

onged to have one of them for his own. One day Icarus was looking now up into the sky where many birds were flying to and

y dropped from his shoulders. Poor Icarus now had nothing to hold him up in the air, and he began to fall down, down, down

ile he was thus engaged, he heard a strange cry overhead, and looking up , saw a partridge wheeling its flight above him. I

op of this leafy hall, How, one to the other in love they call: “Come up , come up!” they seem to say, “Where the topmost t

s leafy hall, How, one to the other in love they call: “Come up, come up !” they seem to say, “Where the topmost twigs in t

hey seem to say, “Where the topmost twigs in the breezes sway! “Come up ! come up! for the world is fair, Where the merry

to say, “Where the topmost twigs in the breezes sway! “Come up! come up ! for the world is fair, Where the merry leaves da

try their skill in various games. When the prince of Crete had grown up , his father told him he might take part in the fe

people within refused to let him go through the town. So the army put up their tents outside the gates, and prepared to la

abundant supply of food for his army, and besides, when that was used up , he could readily send his soldiers for more. But

soldiers for more. But the people in the besieged city had soon eaten up their store of food, and, as you will understand,

food to that terrible monster, the Minotaur, which Daedalus had shut up in the center of the labyrinth. When the messenge

d kill the monster, he could easily find his way out again by winding up the thread which was fastened to the entrance. Th

ing. Stealthily, for fear of waking him from his sleep, Theseus crept up behind him, and with his sharp sword cut off the

d cut off the monster’s head. Then he started back, carefully winding up the thread as Ariadne had directed. It seemed to

tening, and had he, after all, lost his way? But still he followed it up anxiously, and at last came to the entrance of th

f leaving Halcyone for so long a time, and she tried to make him give up the idea of going so far away. She warned him of

n. But in spite of his poverty and friendlessness, King Aeson brought up his little son like a prince. At that time the wi

dragon’s teeth and to conquer all the armed men that will then spring up from the earth. And the third is to kill the fier

as by making Medea love him so much that she would be willing to give up everything for his sake. And so it really was Jun

come the fierce bulls and the armed men. After she left him, he paced up and down the seashore for a long time, thinking a

ot feel the heat of the flames, thanks to Medea’s magic drug. He went up close to the angry creatures, and seizing them by

a ). Next he sowed the dragon’s teeth in the soil he had just turned up , and in less time than it takes to tell, a mass o

e the field was strewn with the dead bodies of the men who had sprung up from the dragon’s teeth. Of course, the people we

for what had been a mere accident; and at last he induced him to give up the arrow with which he had meant to kill himself

“Why, what wonderful grass that must be!” cried Glaucus, and he took up a handful and began to chew it. As soon as the ju

nd to grant his wish. In her heart she hated Scylla, and she had made up her mind to do something very cruel. She handed G

lves very much. Apollo hurled his disc high into the air, and it shot up through the clouds, and, after a long pause, fell

hat he was as good a player as his friend, hurried forward to pick it up . But the disc had struck the ground with such for

in an instant the lifeless body vanished, and in its stead had sprung up a lovely, purple blossom. It was almost the color

e felt almost as though it were a real woman. The next morning he was up early and again standing before the statue. So it

iden. As he finished his prayer, the little flame on the altar leaped up thrice, and then flickered down again. Among the

the temple of the goddess, at the altar where Pygmalion first offered up his prayer. They led a very happy life; but thoug

the strings of his lyre. When Apollo had finished, all the people ran up to him with cries of praise and thanks, and crown

sses ears.” The barber felt very much better after this, and, rilling up the hole, went home with a lighter heart. Time pa

r says of Venice, “She looks a Sea-Cybele fresh from ocean,” he calls up to the mind of one familiar with our subject, ill

me source of elegant and suggestive illustration. One can hardly take up a number of the Edinburgh or Quarterly Review wit

ed his children.1 Jupiter, however, escaped this fate, and when grown up espoused Metis, (Prudence,) who administered a dr

us, inflicting other penalties on others. Atlas was condemned to bear up the heavens on his shoulders. On the dethronement

ver, slumbered the seeds of things. Earth, sea, ad air were all mixed up together; so the earth was not solid, the sea was

sea, and heaven from both. The fiery part, being the lightest, sprang up , and formed the skies; the air was next in weight

heavier, sank below; and the water took the lowest place, and buoyed up the earth. Here some god — it is not known which 

e heavenly seeds. Prometheus took some of this earth, and kneading it up with water, made man in the image of the gods. He

esorted to his brother Prometheus, who, with the aid of Minerva, went up to heaven, and lighted his torch at the chariot o

abor in ploughing or sowing. Perpetual spring reigned, flowers sprang up without seed, the rivers flowed with milk and win

ischievous iron, and more mischievous gold, were produced. War sprang up , using both as weapons; the guest was not safe in

d to drown it. The north wind, which scatters the clouds, was chained up ; the south was sent out, and soon covered all the

to try.” They veiled their faces, unbound their garments, and picked up stones, and cast them behind them. The stones (wo

ver acres of the plain! Be content with your torch, child, and kindle up your flames, as you call them, where you will, bu

h you my harp and my quiver; and when the great Roman conquerors lead up the triumphal pomp to the Capitol, you shall be w

gns and glances, and the fire burned more intensely for being covered up . In the wall that parted the two houses there was

patiently for the sun to go down beneath the waters and night to rise up from them. Then cautiously Thisbe stole forth, un

, from the rocks, and tear this guilty body with your teeth.” He took up the veil, carried it with him to the appointed tr

antly. He suffered her to feed through the day, and at night tied her up with a vile rope round her neck. She would have s

er former self. The coarse hairs fell from her body, her horns shrank up , her eyes grew narrower, her mouth shorter; hands

he bemoaned her fate, and stood upright as well as she could, lifting up her paws to beg for mercy, and felt that Jove was

his shoulder. While they held their master, the rest of the pack came up and buried their teeth in his flesh. He groaned,

ave the place. Nor was this all. They waded into the pond and stirred up the mud with their feet, so as to make the water

hs have become stretched by constant railing, their necks have shrunk up and disappeared, and their heads are joined to th

twelve signs of the zodiac, six on each side. Clymene’s son advanced up the steep ascent, and entered the halls of his di

horses when fresh in the morning can hardly climb; the middle is high up in the heavens, whence I myself can scarcely, wit

glow, and the Moon preparing to retire, ordered the Hours to harness up the horses. They obeyed, and led forth from the l

sible, have plunged into the water; and the Serpent which lies coiled up round the north pole, torpid and harmless, grew w

ky, in among the stars, hurling the chariot over pathless places, now up in high heaven, now down almost to the earth. The

ng forced so suddenly to the surface, and the Libyan desert was dried up to the condition in which it remains to this day.

rus, and frightened the king of shadows and his queen. The sea shrank up . Where before was water, it became a dry plain; a

came a dry plain; and the mountains that lie beneath the waves lifted up their heads and became islands. The fishes sought

ith head and shoulders bare, screening her face with her hand, looked up to heaven, and with a husky voice called on Jupit

which must fall if they be destroyed. Atlas faints, and scarce holds up his burden. If sea, earth, and heaven perish, we

k, which he plucked from the branch, become gold in his hand. He took up a stone; it changed to gold. He touched a sod; it

in the ground, and stooping down, whispered the story, and covered it up . Before long a thick bed of reeds sprang up in th

the story, and covered it up. Before long a thick bed of reeds sprang up in the meadow, and as soon as it had gained its g

ade king, dedicated his wagon to the deity of the oracle, and tied it up in its place with a fast knot. This was the celeb

to sit down. Then she raked out the coals from the ashes, and kindled up a fire, fed it with leaves and dry bark, and with

She brought out of a corner split sticks and dry branches, broke them up , and placed them under the small kettle. Her husb

p of yonder hill.” They hastened to obey, and, staff in hand, labored up the steep ascent. They had reached to within an a

The chimney to a steeple grown, The jack would not be left alone; But up against the steeple reared, Became a clock, and s

d defeated the Titans and banished them to Tartarus, a new enemy rose up against the gods. They were the giants Typhon, Br

oose, and shake the whole island with earthquakes. Their breath comes up through the mountain, and is what men call the er

essed, but dared not, for fear of Pluto; so she only ventured to take up the girdle which Proserpine had dropped in her fl

cattle died, the plough broke in the furrow, the seed failed to come up ; there was too much sun, there was too much rain;

in. While I sported in the water, I heard an indistinct murmur coming up as out of the depths of the stream: and made hast

ily, and her promise to his infant son Triptolemus. When the boy grew up , she taught him the use of the plough, and how to

rethusa was the same stream, which, after passing under the sea, came up again in Sicily. Hence the story ran that a cup t

While see! among the clouds, their eldest brother,     But just flown up , tells with a smile of bliss, This prank of Pluto

ions of mighty power. Scylla came as usual and plunged into the water up to her waist. What was her horror to perceive a b

; and as an omen of her favor, caused the flame on the altar to shoot up thrice in a fiery point into the air. When he ret

flocks bite and tear my branches. Since I cannot stoop to you, climb up hither and kiss me; and while my lips continue to

climb up hither and kiss me; and while my lips continue to feel, lift up my child that I may kiss him. I can speak no more

at I may kiss him. I can speak no more, for already the bark advances up my neck, and will soon shoot over me. You need no

swan-drawn chariot, had not yet reached Cyprus, when she heard coming up through mid-air the groans of her beloved, and tu

in a pool on which raindrops fall, and in an hour’s time there sprang up a flower of bloody hue like that of the pomegrana

o be blood; but a flower of hue more beautiful than the Tyrian sprang up , resembling the lily, if it were not that this is

s, mingle with the roar of the thunder. The swelling sea seems lifted up to the heavens, to scatter its foam among the clo

orm; then comes the flash, rending the darkness asunder, and lighting up all with a glare. Skill fails, courage sinks, and

d brushed away the dreams that hovered around her, her brightness lit up all the cave. The god, scarce opening his eyes, a

do you fly? let us go together.” Her own voice awakened her. Starting up , she gazed eagerly around, to see if he was still

s the winds and keeps them from disturbing the deep. The sea is given up , for the time, to his grandchildren.   The follow

exactly with an old woman’s kiss. She sat down on a bank, and looked up at the branches laden with fruit which hung over

led upon Zephyr to receive her and bear her to his lord; then leaping up , and not being sustained by Zephyr, fell down the

mistress? Or have you rather come to see your sick husband, yet laid up of the wound given him by his loving wife? You ar

ered Psyche to be led to the storehouse of her temple, where was laid up a great quantity of wheat, barley, millet, vetche

ger to the inextricable heap. While she sat despairing, Cupid stirred up the little ant, a native of the fields, to take c

ned to be left open, flew to the spot where Psyche lay, and gathering up the sleep from her body closed it again in the bo

enus that he won her consent. On this he sent Mercury to bring Psyche up to the heavenly assembly, and when she arrived, h

appear above the surface. Next helmets with their nodding plumes came up , and next the shoulders and breasts and limbs of

ing minute grains in their mouths and following one another in a line up the trunk of the tree. Observing their numbers wi

that she is still ready to reply to any one who calls her, and keeps up her old habit of having the last word. Narcissus’

ed in and out among the threads. The reed with its fine teeth strikes up the woof into its place and compacts the web. Bot

contend with them. These were meant as warnings to her rival to give up the contest before it was too late. Arachne fille

ly her hair came off, and her nose and ears likewise. Her form shrank up , and her head grew smaller yet; her fingers cleav

e the instrument of his death, caused the mother and child to be shut up in a chest and set adrift on the sea. The chest f

ntry, by whom they were treated with kindness. When Perseus was grown up Polydectes sent him to attempt the conquest of Me

ittle, deign to accept a present;” and turning his face away, he held up the Gorgon’s head. Atlas, with all his bulk, was

a fish, Mercury a bird. At another time the giants attempted to climb up into heaven, and for that purpose took up the mou

e giants attempted to climb up into heaven, and for that purpose took up the mountain Ossa and piled it on Pelion. 10 They

to his throne and life if his new-born son should be suffered to grow up . He therefore committed the child to the care of

e herdsman, moved with pity, yet not daring entirely to disobey, tied up the child by the feet and left him hanging to the

on himself the anger of the gods; it is said he even attempted to fly up into heaven on his winged steed, but Jupiter sent

,) foretelling the glory that he was to achieve Æsculapius when grown up became a renowned physician, and even in one inst

the signal of bloody warfare to the puny inhabitants, who had to take up arms to defend their cornfields against the rapac

e hero, awaking, laughed at the little warriors, wrapped some of them up in his lion’s skin, and carried them to Eurystheu

y during the minority of Jason, the son of Æson. When Jason was grown up and came to demand the crown from his uncle, Peli

known his message to the Colchian king, Æetes, who consented to give up the golden fleece if Jason would yoke to the plou

nd from which it was well known that a crop of armed men would spring up , who would turn their weapons against their produ

ooted bulls rushed in, breathing fire from their nostrils that burned up the herbage as they passed. The sound was like th

gon’s teeth and plough them in. And soon the crop of armed men sprang up , and, wonderful to relate! no sooner had they rea

hout a name” she boiled together for her purposed work, stirring them up with a dry olive branch; and behold! the branch w

beauty (yet he is beautiful,) but for his youth. I wish he would give up the race, or if he will be so mad, I hope he may

e golden apples. The virgin was all amazement. She stopped to pick it up . Hippomenes shot ahead. Shouts burst forth from a

rtook him. Again he threw an apple. She stopped again, but again came up with him. The goal was near; one chance only rema

ident, and a spring of three outlets burst forth. Here the Hydra took up his position, and Hercules was sent to destroy hi

ike and held several flourishing cities. It was their custom to bring up only the female children; the boys were either se

bring them to him. But how to send Atlas away from his post, or bear up the heavens while he was gone? Hercules took the

r he always rose with renewed strength from every fall, he lifted him up from the earth and strangled him in the air. Cacu

owned With conquest, felt the envenomed robe, and tore, Through pain, up by the roots Thessalian pines And Lichas from the

a more awful dignity. Jupiter enveloped him in a cloud, and took him up in a four-horse chariot to dwell among the stars.

and carried off from the midst of his playfellows on Mount Ida, bore up to heaven, and installed in the vacant place.  

Athens, and of Æthra, daughter of the king of Trœzen. He was brought up at Trœzen, and when arrived at manhood was to pro

r King Minos, but afterwards lost the favor of the king, and was shut up in a tower. He contrived to make his escape from

rd. Icarus, the boy, stood and looked on, sometimes running to gather up the feathers which the wind had blown away, and t

s arrived safe in Sicily, where he built a temple to Apollo, and hung up his wings, an offering to the god. Dædalus was so

e striking evidences of ingenuity. Walking on the sea shore he picked up the spine of a fish. Imitating it, he took a piec

er by being placed, as the Hyades, among the stars. When Bacchus grew up he discovered the culture of the vine and the mod

sails, with heavy clusters of berries. A vine, laden with grapes, ran up the mast, and along the sides of the vessel. The

his body. Another, endeavoring to pull the oar, felt his hands shrink up and presently to be no longer hands but fins; ano

ecuted without delay.” Acetes was led away by the attendants and shut up fast in prison; but while they were getting ready

enriched with gems, and when she died, he took her crown and threw it up into the sky. As it mounted the gems grew brighte

Sound but dull beside the truth. Phœbus’ chariot course is run! Look up , poets, to the sun!                             P

us she stopped the dragons and found Famine in a stony field, pulling up with teeth and claws the scanty herbage. Her hair

ing to see an oak just ready to fall, ordered his servants to prop it up . The nymph, who had been on the point of perishin

had experienced his bounty and that of his house from their childhood up , were not willing to lay down the scanty remnant

ed the ground, and he, his chariot, and his charioteer were swallowed up . It would not be in place here to detail all the

o which the shores responded a plaintive symphony. The Muses gathered up the fragments of his body and buried them at Libe

er Zethus he was exposed at birth on Mount Cithaeron, where they grew up among the shepherds, not knowing their parentage.

e told his wish to Periander, who besought him like a brother to give up the thought. “Pray stay with me,” he said, “and b

of the seamen making music to entertain the rest: —     “The moon is up ; by Heaven a lovely eve!     Long streams of ligh

he sank to the earth, when hoarse screamed the cranes overhead. “Take up my cause, ye cranes,” he said, “since no voice bu

ntry, who received and protected them. The child, Perseus, when grown up became a famous hero, whose adventures have been

y Œnopion     He sought the blacksmith at his forge,     And climbing up the narrow gorge, Fixed his blank eyes upon the s

At length he lost the power of using his limbs, and then she shut him up in his chamber, whence his feeble voice might at

e, and ships that touched at his island went away in safety. He paced up and down the sea-shore, imprinting huge tracks wi

reproaches of my coldness and cruelty. “When he had finished he rose up , and, like a raging bull that cannot stand still,

he shepherd and seducer of Helen, was his son. Paris had been brought up in obscurity, because there were certain ominous

or, the oldest of the Grecian chiefs, and one to whom they all looked up for counsel. But Troy was no feeble enemy. Priam,

losed himself, and Achilles, perceiving how he had been deluded, gave up the chase. But when the rest had escaped into the

ety for myself against a single foe? But what if I offer him to yield up Helen and all her treasures and ample of our own

self. On the spot where his blood sank into the earth a flower sprang up , called the hyacinth, bearing on its leaves the f

s if for a final departure. The Trojans, seeing the encampment broken up and the fleet gone, concluded the enemy to have a

of Thone In Egypt gave to Jove-born Helena, Is of such power to stir up joy as this, To life so friendly or so cool to th

ject of apprehension, but from whom, if he should be suffered to grow up , there might be danger. Electra, the sister of Or

le Strophius, King of Phocis. In the palace of Strophius Orestes grew up with the king’s son Pylades, and formed with him

messengers of the duty of avenging his father’s death, and when grown up he consulted the oracle of Delphi, which confirme

l to certain destruction, as the rock with which the giant had closed up the door was far beyond their power to remove, an

l. He treated Ulysses hospitably, and at his departure gave him, tied up in a leathern bag, with a silver string, such win

d was changed into a snaky monster by Circe. She dwelt in a cave high up on the cliff, from whence she was accustomed to t

should be compelled to trust himself to the waves, it would buoy him up and enable him by swimming to reach the land.  

his return was no longer to be expected. Meanwhile, her son had grown up , and was able to manage his own affairs. She ther

uccess, and, amidst the laughter and jeers of his companions, gave it up . Another tried it and another; they rubbed the bo

d to turn him out of the hall for his insolence. But Telemachus spoke up for him, and, merely to gratify the old man, bade

mple treasures to the neighboring land of Thrace, to be there brought up , at a distance from the horrors of war. The king

pplied Ulysses with favoring gales, giving him the contrary ones tied up in a bag. Æolus obeyed the goddess and sent forth

announced the approach of the deities. “Now,” said the Sibyl, “summon up your courage, for you will need it.” She descende

pread their couches there, and Discord, whose hair was of vipers tied up with a bloody fillet. Here also were the monsters

e shore where his body had been wafted by the waves should be stirred up by prodigies to give it due burial, and that the

selessly revolving; and Sisyphus, whose task was to roll a huge stone up to a hill-top, but when the steep was well-nigh g

see three hundred springs and three hundred harvests. My body shrinks up as years increase, and in time, I shall be lost t

d animosity revive, summoned Alecto from Erebus, and sent her to stir up discord. The Fury first took possession of the qu

h hunting. She sharpened the scent of the dogs, and led them to rouse up from the thicket a tame stag, the favorite of Sil

the other side. Thenceforth he lived among the shepherds and brought up his daughter in woodland arts. While a child she

severe. There are friends not far distant. Prepare your boats and row up my stream; I will lead you to Evander, the Arcadi

elled by the vigorous strokes of the rowers, the vessels shot rapidly up the stream. About the middle of the day they came

o protects him with arms. The Etruscans demand that he shall be given up to deserved punishment, and would ere now have at

let you go into such danger alone? Not so my brave father brought me up , nor so have I planned for myself when I joined t

roverbial, “He fell, unhappy, by a wound intended for another, looked up at the skies, and dying remembered sweet Argos.”

ly being in the temple of Juno, at Argos, I recognized my shield hung up there among the trophies. All things change, noth

base of Heaven’s deep organ blow; And with your ninefold harmony Make up full concert with the angelic symphony.” Pythago

triking the column with her wand she caused it to split open and give up the sacred coffin. This she seized and returned w

who were carried off from Thebes in Egypt by the Phœnicians, and set up oracles at the Oasis and Dodona. The responses of

Trophonius himself is said to have been shortly afterwards swallowed up by the earth. The oracle of Trophonius was at Leb

lled the illumined groves with ravishment. The mighty hunter, lifting up his eyes Toward the crescent Moon, with grateful

stined to live as long a life as its predecessor. When this has grown up and gained sufficient strength, it lifts its nest

. When he has gained sufficient confidence in his own vigor, he takes up the body of his father and flies with it to the a

rpents. There were several species of this animal. One species burned up whatever they approached; a second were a kind of

kes, behaving like good subjects, and wisely not wishing to be burned up or struck dead, fled the moment they heard the di

ses, as a sovereign remedy against spiders, and that it was also hung up in the temple of Diana, for which reason no swall

, a kind of lizard) was incombustible, and very valuable for wrapping up such articles as were too precious to be intruste

er retires to some hollow tree or other cavity, where it coils itself up and remains in a torpid state till the spring aga

ay therefore sometimes be carried with the fuel to the fire, and wake up only time enough to put forth all its faculties f

munities of Nestorian Christians, which they did find, served to keep up the belief in Europe that such a personage did ex

e, and one layer accumulating over another, the great deep was filled up . Southward from the world of mist was the world o

eaceful death are excluded. The flesh of the boar Schrimnir is served up to them, and is abundant for all. For although th

r errand, their armor sheds a strange flickering light, which flashes up over the northern skies, making what men call the

(Death.) The gods were not ignorant that these monsters were growing up , and that they would one day bring much evil upon

called on Thor, who immediately ran to their assistance, and lifting up his mallet, paid the workman his wages, not with

alarmed by an earthquake which shook the whole edifice. Thor, rising up , called on his companions to seek with him a plac

r once Thor was afraid to use his mallet, and as the giant soon waked up , Thor contented himself with simply asking his na

taking such tremendous strides that they were hard put to it to keep up with him. So they travelled the whole day, and at

ut when Thor tried to open the wallet, he found the giant had tied it up so tight he could not untie a single knot. At las

d it with such violence that it forced its way into the giant’s skull up to the handle. But Skrymir sat up, and stroking h

rced its way into the giant’s skull up to the handle. But Skrymir sat up , and stroking his cheek said, “An acorn fell on m

head. What! Art thou awake, Thor? Me thinks it is time for us to get up and dress ourselves; but you have not now a long

had, notwithstanding all Thor’s efforts, only one of his feet lifted up , seeing which Thor made no further attempt. “This

long deceived thee by my illusions; first in the forest, where I tied up the wallet with iron wire so that thou couldst no

thy draughts. Thou didst perform a feat no less wonderful by lifting up the cat, and to tell thee the truth, when we saw

thout partaking of the sports, on account of his blindness, and going up to him, said, “Why dost thou not also throw somet

coming back to Asgard.33 The Funeral of Baldur. The gods took up the dead body and bore it to the sea shore where

all the followers of Hela, and the Frost giants. Heimdall now stands up and sounds the Giallar horn to assemble the gods

arts fire and flames over the world, and the whole universe is burned up . The sun becomes dim, the earth sinks into the oc

for the purpose of ascertaining future events. The sticks were shaken up , and from the figures that they formed a kind of

nt of classical mythology. “In that strange island, Iceland, — burst up , the geologists say, by fire from the bottom of t

k tempests, yet with a wild, gleaming beauty in summer time, towering up there stern and grim in the North Ocean, with its

sically their thoughts. Much would be lost had Iceland not been burst up from the sea, not been discovered by the Northmen

a large stone, placed in the manner of a table upon other stones set up on end. The Druids had also their high places, wh

from time to time added, so that the original number was always kept up . Their institution was called a monastery and the

—  Virgil . He falls, unhappy, by a wound intended for another; looks up to the skies, and dying remembers sweet Argos.

infernal precipices, where she beholds a thousand-fanged serpent come up and gnaw their guilty hearts; and, at last droppe

other gods and the demi-gods; upwards of forty Hercules were reckoned up ; but as so many gods might disagree among themsel

between his hands the urn wherein the fortunes of mankind are wrapped up . Placed before him was a book in which futurity w

ht of Saturn, caused him to be secretly carried to Crete, and brought up by the Corybantes or Curetes. The goat Amalthea s

id Cybele in a close prison, where they lay till Jupiter, being grown up , fought for them, and restored them to liberty. B

lt on the earth; her keys are emblematical of the treasures she locks up in the earth in winter, and unlocks in summer; he

nnually drawn from sunbeams during the calends of March, and was hung up in nothing but earthen vessels. The direction of

or violated their vows of chastity, they were burnt alive, being shut up in a subterraneous vault with a lamp and some pro

ies, if he would set at liberty those Titans whom his father had shut up in Tartarus, and if he could engage them to fight

s, pine trees, and other inflammable substances at heaven, and heaped up mountain upon mountain to scale it; but Jupiter,

nt with lightning down; One flings a mountain and its river too, Torn up with ‘t; that rains back on him that threw; Some

f the ancient heathens, namely, that a mixture of good and evil fills up the cup of life; and that among its bitterest dre

cause fifty of his eyes remained open, while the other half was given up to sleep, (a perfect image of jealousy.) Yet Merc

d from the office, and Ganymede, a beautiful youth, whom he had taken up to heaven, was appointed in her stead. Soon after

w. The worship of Juno was the most solemn and general of all offered up to pagan divinities. She presided over the finery

worshipped, that anguish of mind might be removed. The Romans offered up prayers to Stata, or Statua Mater, in the Forum,

om her wood pile, birds, called Memnonides. The statue of Memnon, set up in the temple of Serapis at Thebes, in Egypt, is

h must be attributed to the sun, which, while enlightening and drying up the mud, kills venemous reptiles; Actiacus, on ac

tory. — See Fig. 12. Fig. 12. Clio. 2. Thalia had garments tressed up short for a free motion, wore the stock, and held

hat Pyrenus drove from his kingdom all learned and wise men, and shut up public schools. For this he was generally despise

rs into his face, he was transformed into a stag. His own hounds came up , and tore him in pieces. When Diana was worshippe

aves of wine. Moses, by striking a rock with a miraculous rod, opened up a fountain. Obs. 4. — This parallel is too perfe

Sprinkles with clotted gore her flaming hair, And through both armies up and down doth flee; While from her horrid breast

d of Cythera. Her delicate feet touched the earth, and flowers sprung up under her steps. She was received, and educated b

He carried off Helen from her husband Menelaus, which outrage kindled up the flames of war, and finally levelled Troy with

The Naiades received him, and took care of his infancy. Being brought up in the woods, he became passionately fond of hunt

ing the inconveniences incident to a matrimonial life, seriously made up his mind to live single. He made an artificial im

ceeded to do away this ridiculous usage. The nets were no longer kept up ; but the promontory of Leucate remained famous, a

rs it probable that he was the same Tubalcain. The Grecians have made up the history of the third out of that of the first

embracing his queen Amphitrite with his left arm. Sometimes he stands up , and sits down at others, in a chariot made of sh

tune requires their presence. “Good Neptune’s steeds to rest are set up here, In the Aegean gulph, whose fore parts harne

tides; Then spouts them from below: with fury driv’n, The waves mount up , and wash the face of heav’n. But Scylla from her

lgence in dreams of earthly glory, by inviting us to a banquet served up with every thing that is good and desirable, when

here, exhausted with heat and fatigue, he perished. His body was cast up by the sea near the wood sacred to Diana, in the

Sergesta, the daughter of Hippotus. Æolus is represented as shutting up the winds in a vast rocky cavern, and occasionall

was usually represented as a young man crowned with flowers, covered up to the waist, and holding in one hand fruits, and

oured with a peculiar worship. His statue made by Praxiteles, was set up in the capitol. He was marked among the great ter

aves. They carried the prayers of men to the gods, and delivered them up to judgment. Just men, after death, were supposed

thirst and the most griping hunger; and as being placed in the water up to the chin, with a bough bent with delicious fru

wished to try. He killed and quartered his own son Pelops, and served up his limbs as food for them. All the gods were sho

educed (Erope, wife to Atreus, his brother. But on his return, he ate up his children whom he had killed; and when they we

he ate up his children whom he had killed; and when they were served up in dishes, Atreus and Thyestes feasted on them. T

nd brought him home. Peribæa, the queen, being childless, brought him up as her own, and called him Œdipus, because his fe

m, and excited his superstitious fears, and to such chimeras, offered up vows and prayers. The period in which this kind o

surrounded with light, and brought him home. Aesculapius was brought up by Trigona, the wife of the shepherd, and was aft

etamorphosed himself into a shower of gold, while his mother was shut up in a strong tower. “Within a brazen tow’r immur’

th of his grandson, he ordered his daughter and the infant to be shut up in a chest, and cast into the sea. The chest was

love with the lady, and had her son educated. When Perseus was grown up , he obtained from Mercury the adamantine scythe,

hem to the Minotaur, a monster, half man and half bull, that was shut up in a Labyrinth in Crete. Theseus was confined in

ws with more effect. They killed the boys at their birth, and brought up the girls. Hercules, accompanied by Theseus, defe

eir limbs to the branches of trees, which, when bent down, threw them up , and tore their limbs in pieces. The second, Scir

being struck off by the club of the hero, another immediately sprang up again in its place. He ordered Iolas, the son of

gon, and obtained the precious fruit. His twelfth labour was to bring up to the light of the sun, Cerberus, a triple-heade

as Cerberus was in the regions of day, he vomitted, and thence sprang up the poisonous herb wolf’s-bane, Aconitum. Thus He

rth he tears, Piles rock on rock, on mountain, mountain rears; Heaves up huge Abyla on Afric’s sand, Crowns with high Calp

e, which sometimes causes one to neglect his duties, and give himself up to amusement. In short, our readers may exert the

king of Colchis. The fleece was difficult of access; for it was hung up in the grove of Mars, guarded by huge bulls, brea

e dragon were sown in the ground, and an army of men instantly sprang up ; but they were destroyed. He took the fleece, and

bs in the way, in order to keep her father employed in gathering them up . Thus Jason and his companions returned home; and

the worship of the goddess Diana Taurica, human victims were offered up by the Tauri in Taurica Chersonesus (now called C

l. Upon this he leaped into the sea, and one of the dolphins took him up , and carried him safe to Tænarus. As soon as he l

most beautiful woman of the age. The whole of the Grecian states took up arms, to resent the injury which Paris had inflic

nation of the Palladium, they made a wooden horse, in which they shut up armed soldiers. No sooner had they entered the is

ll the winds, that had proved adverse to his voyage, and wrapped them up in a leather bag. His companions, fancying that t

he was slain by Telegonus. Penelope, the daughter of Icarus, is held up as a perfect pattern of virtue and chastity. Notw

mendous monster was born of the evaporation of the earth. Osiris shut up in the primitive egg from which the world was dra

died of his venom. But a being named Gosohoraun, who instantly sprang up from his left arm, drew near the creator, raising

begun by pious Hindoos with an invocation to Ganesa. His image is set up in their streets and roads, and against their tem

mapur, where it receives a just sentence from him. Thence it is to go up to the first heaven, called Swerga, or to go down

ed by the gods with the mountain Mandar, she arose from it, and threw up all that it had swallowed. Varuna is the genius

oabitish, and Syrian mythologies. Idolatry is supposed to have sprung up first in Phœnicia. The worship of the heavenly bo

in vain. A voice was heard, announcing to them that Xixutrus had gone up to heaven, and sat in the rank of gods with those

hich its moral enemies, Doubt, Pride, and the like, flee a way opened up to the blissful regions. Questions. What do you o

the midst of fields, were the sole preparations made for the offering up of sacrifices. Enclosed places, chapels, and temp

bly an imitation of the tabernacle and of the place which was wrapped up in it. What serves to show this, is, that this te

try it self furnished. The height of the temple from the ground floor up to its covering was sixty eight feet; its length,

in imitation, no doubt, of the brazen room in which Acrisius had shut up his daughter Danæ. This temple was destroyed by a

Danæ. This temple was destroyed by an earthquake, it being swallowed up in a crevice. It was replaced by another edifice,

discretion and infidelity of a priest, the jealousy which must spring up among the oracles consulted, and especially those

In fine, unable to resist the god who agitated her, she gave herself up to him, and uttered by intervals some incoherent

ept that the earth being half opened under his feet, he was swallowed up in the gap or crevice, which is now called the di

mediately replied that he was then having a lamb with a turtle served up . The fact was true: Crœsus had imagined this odd

did not acknowledge her laws, when an event occurred that raised her up enemies even in the heart of the Scythian forests

e countries, and so ardently establishing his doctrines, was to raise up enemies against an odious and formidable power. T

marvellous; and that their ardent passions seldom allow them to keep up a just equilibrium. Hence, as soon as they leave

ants. It is likely that the ambitious Odin thus confounded and mixed up divers opinions, in order to consolidate the empi

s, which she divides among those who are sent to her. Loke was locked up by the gods in a cave shut by three sharp stones,

piercing eye surveyed the whole universe. A squirrel (Rotatoskr) ran up and down the oak to make his reports; four stags

of precious water, with which they watered the tree. This water keeps up the beauty of its leaves, and after having refres

g refreshed its branches, it falls back on the ground, where it keeps up the dew with which bees compose their honey. The

s, (Nislheim,) in which flowed the fountain, (Hwergelmer,) swallowing up every thing with twelve rivers (Eliwagar issuing

fire, which, in falling, were congealed into the abyss, and filled it up with scoria and ice. Thus the abyss was heaped up

byss, and filled it up with scoria and ice. Thus the abyss was heaped up , little by little; but there remained within a li

esumptuous conduct, the gods carried away his children, and took them up to the heavens. They were employed in driving the

e phenomena of nature, without exception. All bodies and beings acted up to the influence of subaltern intelligences, who

by his motions the earth will be overflown; the trees will be rooted up ; the rocks will be rent; the wolf Fenris, unchain

santly hover about, and devour the bodies of the unhappy who are shut up therein. Notwithstanding the obscurity which perv

nerally taught that it was offending the gods to pretend to lock them up in an inclosure of walls. In Denmark, in Sweden,

ch was looked upon as most holy. This wood, called Odin’s, was filled up with bodies of men and of animals that had been s

The wandering people of Africa and of America, again, gave themselves up to this guilty folly. But we cease to wonder at i

d moderation which cause the social and kindlier affections to spring up , he is soon surrounded with a thousand black care

e left some vestiges, where the mind can walk without being swallowed up in useless and audacious speculations and imagini

and of redressing grievances, caused the spirit of chivalry to spring up . It produced prodigies of heroism, and great acti

rs of lakes and marshes. People foresaw with what care the bards kept up the opinions which rendered their ministry so con

ngly charming they must have been! They were enough to feast and fill up the most poetic imagination. It is to that cause

er temples nor statues. The Persians adored the fire; the Druids kept up a perpetual fire in their forests. The Persians r

the forests of that country that the greatest sacrifices were offered up , and the great men and generals of the country as

d all whom that plant touched, instantly felt peace and gaiety spring up in their breast. It is also necessary to range am

he states is to be punished with death. 14. Children should be raised up until the age of fourteen out of the presence of

r says of Venice, ‘She looks a Sea-Cybele fresh from Ocean,’ he calls up to the mind of one familiar with our subject illu

Elton’s tr.). The Earth did not exist. Land, sea, and air were mixed up together; so that the earth was not solid, the se

t.                         “When gods began with wrath, And war rose up between their starry brows, Some choosing to cast

yet she persisted in her attempt. She was just on the point of giving up in despair, when suddenly the refractory knot yie

ellous beauty, alone on a neighbouring hill. To swoop down, catch him up in his mighty talons, and bear him safely off to

dlike Ganymede, most beautiful Of men; the gods beheld and caught him up To heaven, so beautiful was he, to pour The wine

very arduous, as the gods caused some of the public buildings to rise up out of the ground, all complete, and ready for us

that she cast aside her disguise and accepted the challenge. Both set up their looms, and began to weave exquisite designs

e rife With happiness; to whom, in early spring, Bright flowers raise up their heads, where’er they cling On the steep mou

vale Are nestled calmly. Thou at whom the pale And weary earth looks up , when winter flees, With patient gaze: thou for w

ttest rays the eagle fills his eye With quenchless fire, and far, far up on high Screams out his joy to thee, by all the n

d to their commands, they sprang into the shallow waters, and stirred up the mud at the bottom until it was quite unpalata

course, nothing but an allegory, illustrating the sun’s power to dry up marshes and stagnant pools, thus preventing the l

nswered her prayer by changing her into a laurel tree. Apollo, coming up just then with outstretched arms, clasped nothing

g, receives     His fragrant lamp, and faint in the twilight hangs it up .” Owen Meredith. The Story of Clytie A fa

me until the brooks, trees, and fountains he had loved so well caught up the longing cry, and repeated it again and again.

    He left a small plantation; Wherever in a lonely grove     He set up his forlorn pipes, The gouty oak began to move,  

ently to cautions and directions, then sprang into the seat, gathered up the reins, signalled to Aurora to fling the gates

again he drove so close to the earth, that all the plants shrivelled up , the fountains and rivers were dried in their mos

scendants to this day. Terrified at what he had done, Phaeton whipped up his steeds, and drove so far away, that all the v

was no sooner heard than answered, and Orion, panting and weary, came up just in time to see seven snow-white pigeons wing

, came up just in time to see seven snow-white pigeons wing their way up into the azure sky. There a second transformation

g but a patient man, the delay was very unwelcome indeed, and he made up his mind to abduct his bride instead of marrying

nded by Œnopion, He sought the blacksmith at his forge, And, climbing up the mountain gorge, Fixed his blank eyes upon the

ce her to the other gods, and, with that purpose in view, carried her up to the surface of the sea, — where Tritons, Ocean

ng arms. But Pluto, whose subject he had now become, refused to yield up Adonis; and after much dispute a compromise was a

his head; but when he had escaped their threatening depths, and rose up on their foamy crests, he could catch a glimpse o

glancing at the foot of the tower, she saw her lover’s corpse heaving up and down on the waves. “As shaken on his restles

eating a retreat into the forest. Shortly after, Pyramus came rushing up , out of breath, and full of loving excuses for Th

lost his heart, for he thought it belonged to some water nymph gazing up at him through the transparent flood. With sudden

ther she too were anxious and sleepless, and saw her gazing longingly up at him. There Narcissus lingered day and night, w

nger enjoy in peace. To achieve this purpose, Psyche painfully toiled up a rugged mountain, and, creeping to the very edge

y promised to respect her mysterious lover’s wishes, and gave herself up entirely to the enjoyment of his company. All nig

upiter hastened down to earth to see Io, and began to stroll with her up and down the river edge. They heeded not the noon

mourned the loss of her faithful Argus most bitterly, and, gathering up his myriad eyes, scattered them over the tail of

ns, whenever any one of the gods attempted to set him free, woke them up , and frustrated all efforts to deliver him. Durin

epherd. Romulus and Remus throve under this man’s kind care, and grew up strong and fearless. When they reached manhood, t

eir youthful activity, and, leaving the mountain where they had grown up , journeyed out into the world to seek their fortu

her in this plight, tugged at the chain with all his might, drew her up , and was about to set her free, when Jupiter retu

, over which he ruled with resistless sway. By one word he could stir up or calm the wildest storm, and cause the billows

eds, declared he loved the maiden too, and would not tamely yield her up to a rival. This was quite equivalent to a challe

a long procession, filled their urns with water, painfully clambered up the steep and slippery bank, and poured their wat

e immortal gods, and on one occasion had even dared to cook and serve up to them his own son Pelops. Most of the gods were

inhuman Tantalus, the gods then sent him to Tartarus, where he stood up to his chin in a stream of pure water, tormented

by Jove’s command Temper’d the bolt and turn’d it to his hand, Work’d up less flame and fury in its make, And quench’d it

fy [to all mortals how fondly he had loved her; he brought her spirit up to heaven, where he raised her to the rank of a d

ars, And see the far-off Earth, a twinkling speck — Dust-mote whirled up from the Sun’s chariot wheel — And pity their sma

solate widower, who took the crown she had so often worn and flung it up into the air. It rose higher and higher, until th

the impetuous god, instead of waiting for an answer to his suit, rose up out of the water and rushed to clasp her in his a

he family altar, for there the father of the family was wont to offer up his daily prayers and sacrifices. “As, according

n fen; My frosts congeal the rivers in their flow;     My fires light up the hearths and hearts of men.” Longfellow. The

o Janus, and at that time special sacrifices and prayers were offered up at his shrines. He also presided over all gates a

that her husband was dead, and that his body was even now being cast up on the smooth, sandy beach by the salt sea waves.

them, let the fiercest of all his children free, with orders to pile up the waves mountain-high, lash them to foam, tear

s they beat; While piercing Boreas, from the Scythian strand, Ploughs up the waves and scoops the lowest sand. Nor Eurus t

estigate its contents, and thus set free the angry winds, who stirred up the most frightful tempest in mythic annals. The

ancients were not content to worship the gods only, but also offered up sacrifices to a few mortals, who, by their heroic

The god had sent the animal with directions that he should be offered up in sacrifice; but Minos, charmed with his unusual

om should be seized, and, when sufficiently fat, executed, and served up in his horses’ mangers. To punish Diomedes for th

damantine chains, and still a prey to the ravenous vulture. To spring up the mountain-side, kill the cruel bird, snap the

hen these little people, therefore, saw Hercules’ mighty form looming up in the dim distance, they called aloud for fear,

reedom was so sweet that he resolved to keep it, and, coolly stepping up to Hercules, announced that he would carry the go

mbent weight; but Hercules, instead of preparing to resume it, picked up the apples, leaving Atlas alone, in the same plig

ll to perform. Hercules was commanded to descend into Hades and bring up the dog Cerberus, securely bound. “But for the l

pretty passenger as Deianeira over the river, and as he swam he made up his mind to gallop off with her as soon as he rea

a gratefully accepted the proffered gift, and promised to treasure it up carefully, although she sincerely hoped she would

ommands and entreaties alike failed to move them: so Hercules climbed up the mountain side alone, tore up the huge oaks by

ed to move them: so Hercules climbed up the mountain side alone, tore up the huge oaks by their roots, flung them one upon

s plans to naught. After much thought, Acrisius decided to lock Danae up in a brazen tower, around which he stationed guar

untainous country, he caught a glimpse of Atlas, his pale face turned up to the heavens, whose weight he had patiently bor

ck to its upright position, and hurled the unfortunate traveller away up into the air, to be dashed to pieces against the

tle by little he forgot the danger and his father’s caution, and rose up higher and higher, until he could bask in the dir

him alone the secret of the child’s birth, and bidding him train him up to avenge their wrongs. Chiron discharged his dut

the opposite bank, and, after depositing his burden there, scrambled up beside her, casting a rueful glance at the torren

n them. Jason knew he was obliged to pass between these rocks or give up the expedition: so, calculating that the speed of

on’s teeth, as Cadmus had done, conquer the giants which would spring up , and, last of all, slay the guardian dragon, or t

s saved from an untimely death by his mother’s presence of mind, grew up a brave and handsome youth, and joined the Argona

ples at her feet. For a moment she paused, then stopped and picked it up ere she resumed the race. The delay, short as it

only in part; for the servant, instead of killing the child, hung it up by its ankles to a tree in a remote place, and le

babe Œdipus (swollen-footed). Years passed by. The young prince grew up in total ignorance of the unfortunate circumstanc

presentment of a terrible monster called the Sphinx, which had taken up its station without the city gates beside the hig

h her husband, Prœtus, treated her with the utmost kindness, she made up her mind to desert him, and tried to induce Belle

r before been ridden by a mortal, and he reared and pranced, and flew up to dizzy heights; but all his efforts failed to u

blessed thee with a love More ripe and bounteous than ever yet Filled up with nectar any mortal heart; But thou didst scor

joyfully received their long-lost son, lovingly compelled him to take up his abode in their palace, and promised to atone

wind would blow until Iphigenia, daughter of Agamemnon, were offered up in sacrifice to appease the everlasting gods. Man

out to end her sufferings, when Diana suddenly appeared, snatched her up in a cloud, and left in her stead a deer, which w

d a new onslaught upon the Trojan forces. But when the army was drawn up in battle array, Hector, the eldest son of Priam,

ion has it that Polyxena was torn from the arms of Hecuba and offered up as a sacrifice upon the tomb of Achilles by his s

en moving quickly forward till the heat Smote on her brow, she lifted up a voice Of shrill command, ‘Who burns upon the py

arriage broke, Thro’ all the clouded years of widowhood, And muffling up her comely head, and crying ‘Husband!’ she leapt

gore and slime his fillets smear, And to the unregardful skies Sends up his agonising cries.” Virgil ( Conington’s tr.).

en behind them came the horrible apparition of Polyphemus, who picked up a huge rock and placed it before the opening of t

r.). With a cry of rage, Polyphemus then ran down to the shore, tore up some huge rocks, which he hurled in the direction

tion, sprang out with a rush and a roar, and in a few moments stirred up a terrible storm, which tore the ships from their

          “Then instantly She touched them with a wand, and shut them up In sties, transformed to swine in head and voice,

uld not, however, deter the sailors from their feast, which they kept up for seven days, ere Ulysses could make them leave

e on the Island of Ogygia, where the fair sea nymph Calypso had taken up her abode. Ulysses and Calypso There he was

to escape from his clutches. With one blow of his trident he stirred up one of those sudden tempests whose fury nothing c

the Libyans regretted their compliance when they saw the ox-hide cut up into thin strips, which enclosed a considerable t

I will send And search the coast from end to end, If haply, wandering up and down, He bide in woodland or in town.’” Virg

prove too smooth, she sent Alecto, the Fury, down upon earth to stir up war and goad Amata to madness. The Fury executed

withdrawn, Æneas made rapid preparations for war, and sailed farther up the Tiber to secure the aid of Evander, king of t

xplain how the many anomalies occur, and how the myths got so tangled up together that now it is almost impossible to dise

e mythologists see in him a personification of the winds, which “tear up trees as they course along, chanting their wild m

in time of drought, when the sun’s heat, becoming too intense, burns up the fruit his fostering rays had produced, and me

own child!” In the same way the stone which Sisyphus painfully forced up a steep ascent, only to see it go rolling down an

has been interpreted to represent the sun, which is no “sooner pushed up to the zenith, than it rolls down to the horizon.

to the end of his course by Antigone ( “the pale light which springs up opposite the sun at his setting”). This story — w

of nature, which, hidden deep underground, occasionally emerge, heave up great masses of rock, and hurl them about with an

ns, stole away the cattle of the sun (the clouds), and, after fanning up a great fire in which he consumed some of the her

s of Bacchus, 157 Ti′ber. River in Italy, 172, 173, 176; Æneas sails up the, 325, 333. 335 Time. Same as Cronus, Saturn,

xclusively as the god of wealth. Abandoned in infancy, he was brought up by Pax, the goddess of peace, who is often repres

do it; and then, after watching her a considerable time, he snatched up the bow and arrows, and flew away unseen.” But no

o every thing around her, Zephyrus and his attendant spirit, took her up , and bore her over the dark blue waters, and laid

fell to the floor — Cupid, waked by the smart and the noise, started up ; and, what should he behold but the blushing and

lay, and the chill air, caused her to shudder all over; and, starting up , she ran she knew not whither, nor did she stop t

nd a noise like distant thunder startled the young girls. They sprang up , dropped all their flowers upon the ground, and s

ed not; nor was Proserpine unwilling to be carried off. He caught her up in his arms, seated her beside him in the chariot

er. Look at that greedy woman, who has just come hither. She will eat up all that is in the cauldron, and I shall have non

is sight, Becubo burst into tears, and reached out her hands to catch up the lizard; but the little animal was become shy,

bmit to her husband’s wishes. She was a dutiful wife, and did not set up her own will against his. She readily consented t

t exactly know how to get rid of Progne, but he thought he would shut up Philomela in a lonely house which belonged to him

smal house within. Its gates were strongly barred. The Bacchantes set up their accustomed shouting, and beat violently upo

on a low stool, in one corner of the room which they entered, sprung up , and extended her bands in speechless supplicatio

nd Philemon. “When the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, T

ersed the blue column that rose from the fuel, and cheerfully lighted up the small apartment, from which every beam of dec

cream, and new-laid eggs, which Baucis roasted carefully, were served up in coarse, clean, earthen dishes. The chief ornam

k, assumed the form of a tree’s trunk, and an encroaching rind closed up their lips, as they uttered the fond words, “Fare

ed the palace of Cecrops, he met the princess Aglauria. He had folded up his wings, and appeared like a handsome young man

e accidentally dropped her veil. One of her maiden stopped to pick it up , but the wind took it, and a beautiful youth, rus

phet, it is a wand; and with it, fables say, the god, or witch, calls up absent or dead persons, and does other wonders, w

is oval and hollow, like a dish cover, only rather flatter. He picked up the shell; a single fibre or thread of the dead a

ce. But Lyriope sent her son to a beautiful island, where, as he grew up , he ran about the woods, and spent the whole day

, and sowed them, when soon after he saw the points of spears pushing up from the surface of the ground; after which helme

a man should enter her sacred grove. In her displeasure, she snatched up some water in the hollow of her hand, and throwin

by one of his own dogs, who did not know him, but at sight of him set up a violent barking. This roused the rest of the pa

e woods, carrying thyrses and burning torches in their hands, running up and down the hills, and traversing the fields and

ver married, she could have no son to kill him, and therefore he shut up the princess in a high tower, where no man could

essed her head, and caused her limbs to tremble, as she tried to keep up with the pace of Dictys. Aglauria looked at the s

t one day or other she should be able to repay them. ——— Perseus grew up under the protection of Polydectes; he learned al

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

elves, after their glorious course from east to west. Perseus wrapped up Medusa’s head in his mantle, and asked to he cond

orm of a man bearing the earth upon his shoulders. ——— Æolus had shut up the winds in their prison, the night was tranquil

s; some were drowned and others starved, and a great sea monster came up and devoured many. Cepheus, in this calamity, res

cities, like their ancestor, Perseus. Ann. And who was he that shut up the winds? Mother. Æolus, the wind god, who had

ut the milky draught for his children, and bids the green herb spring up for his flocks. Her gentle hand led him from cave

rightful monster followed her. Neptune took pity upon her, and raised up an island, afterward called Delos, from the bosom

lo, but still he pursues me. Rather than be his, I would be swallowed up by the cold earth: suffer me to be hidden in her

Mother. That is not known. About three hundred years ago, it was dug up from among some ruins in Antium, near Rome. It wa

. Every day Argus turned Io into the fields, and at night he shut her up securely. One day, as she was grazing on the bank

umber of goats. When he was near the spot in which Argus was, he took up a flute and began to play upon that instrument. A

ke the water unfit to drink, some of them jumped into it, and stirred up the clay at the bottom. Latona, justly provoked a

The present work is of a different character ; its object is to keep up and extend the taste for classic literature, whic

en. In his terror he uttered a prayer to Dionysos and fled to a tree, up which he climbed. The lion came and laid himself

ere naturally endowed with a lively imagination, there gradually grew up in each of these little states a body of tales an

nce. Poets, a race indigenous in the favoured clime of Hellas, caught up the tales, and narrated them with all the embelli

About this time, also, the system of theocrasy (θεοκραία), or mixing up , as we may call it, of the gods together, began t

, separated, at their pleasure ; ideas imported from Egypt were mixed up with the old tales of gods and heroes ; and the f

soon became a favourite subject of learned investigation. Some worked up the mythes into poems ; others arranged them in p

the signal of bloody warfare to the puny inhabitants, who had to take up arms to defend their corn-fields against the rapa

intry storm, or rain, at any time Is there ; but Ocean evermore sends up Shrill-blowing western breezes to refresh The hab

inking into its placid current116. Its course was from south to north up the western side of the earth. It flowed calmly a

riven from the supernal world128. The Titans when conquered were shut up in it, and in the Ilias129 Zeus menaces the gods

wn to it as the place of reward for the good, and Tartaros was raised up to it to form the prison in which the wicked suff

3, and with it the children whom he had devoured. When Zeus was grown up , he and the other children of Kronos made war on

r able to move his limbs, she deemed it the wisest course to shut him up in his chamber, whence his feeble voice was inces

e averter of evil302. Her statues, which were dog-headed303, were set up at Athens and elsewhere in the market-places and

itans (Oceanos, it would appear, excepted) were on this occasion shut up in Tartaros. Homer only names Kronos and Iapetos3

n Hera367 professes that she is going to the end of the earth to make up the quarrel between Oceanos and Tethys ; or on oc

ed, he caused a tree, named from her, λεύκη, white poplar,) to spring up in the Elysian Fields. Another of his loves was t

h ever-sleepless eyes supplied ; Out of whose purple blood was rising up A bird, whose wings with many coulours glow’d : S

his arms Kroniôn seized His spouse. Beneath them bounteous earth sent up Fresh-growing grass : there dewy lotus rose, Croc

tradition of Stymphalos in Arcadia was521, that Hera had been brought up there by Temenos, who raised three temples to her

oly marriage so continually renewed, and of which the memory was kept up in so many places, as that of heaven and earth in

d, his bands and swaddling-clothes no longer retained him : he sprang up , and called to the goddesses to give him a lyre a

obey the helm. When they came to the bay of Crissa a west-wind sprang up , and speedily brought the ship into port ; and th

Apollo made a great cast, and Hyacinthos running too eagerly to take up the discus, it rebounded and struck him in the fa

there to arrange the lovely dance Of Muses and of Graces ; then hangs up Her springy bow and arrows, and begins To lead th

ars the Cretan hunting-shoes (ἐνδρομίδϵς), and has her garment tucked up for speed. On her back she bears a quiver, and in

ning goddess, and the flower called the anemone or wind-flower sprang up from it, which by its caducity expresses the brie

r calamities inflicted by mortals. Thus Ares, she says, was once shut up in a brazen prison by Otos and Ephialtes, where h

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

s from Apollo. As he was going out he met a tortoise, which he caught up and carried back into the cave ; where quick as t

e, on which he immediately played with perfect skill. He then laid it up in his cradle, and resumed his journey. He arrive

oponnese. He there fed and stalled the kine, made a fire, killed, cut up , and dressed two of them, and even made black-pud

fragrant cave of the nymph, and Hermes on seeing him gathers himself up under the clothes, afraid of the god. Apollo take

rd carved on them. They were what is termed ithyphallic, and were set up on the roads and footpaths, and in the fields and

s as the god of husbandry, under whose auspices the land was ploughed up , and the grass or corn cut down. The eyes of Argo

would be made. The goddess bowed her thanks, and the princesses took up their pitchers and went home. As soon as they had

e noise found their infant-brother lying on the ground. They took him up , and kindling a fire prepared to wash him ; but h

people, and the temple was speedily raised. The mourning goddess took up her abode in it, but a dismal year came upon mank

her permission to return to her mother. The goddess instantly sprang up with joy, and heedlessly swallowed a grain of pom

now complies, And instant from the deep-soiled cornfields fruit Sent up  : with leaves and flowers the whole wide earth Wa

atues, probably of the goddesses, — which were kept carefully covered up , and only shown on these solemn occasions. The de

the stars, the sea, and rivers stood motionless, and Helicôn swelled up with delight, so that his summit would have reach

the Seasons unyoke their steeds, fasten them in their stalls, and lay up the chariot. They are also mentioned by Poseidôn9

tering grapes spread over the sail ; and ivy, laden with berries, ran up the mast and sides of the vessel. His shipmates i

alleys of Nysa. He was counted among the Immortals ; and when he grew up , he went through the woody vales crowned with bay

o instruct mankind in agriculture and planting1105. The Greeks caught up the idea, and represented the son of Semele — for

nd represented the son of Semele — for the popular faith did not give up the old legend of his Theban birth — as roaming t

the babe, which was prematurely expelled from her womb, and sewed it up in his thigh. In due time it came to the birth, a

e afterwards made the Hyades, and by whom he was reared. When he grew up he discovered the culture of the vine, and the mo

s, and evermore resounded with the melody of birds1114. After he grew up , Dionysos became a mighty conqueror and a benefac

of Bacis, Pamphôs, Olên, and the Sibyls, appear to have been patched up , and all the avenues of pious frauds thrown open.

terwards reared by shepherdesses, who named her Cybele. When she grew up she displayed great skill in the healing art, and

yptian antiquity knows nothing of tripods. The poet had merely picked up some obscure reports of a rich city, Thebes, an i

ένα) to their national deities. These religious colonies extended far up the country, and we even find the Samians in one

on beholding him fled away in affright. Hermes immediately caught him up , wrapped him carefully in a hare-skin, and carrie

e summit of a lofty rock. A tree of her own name (πίτυς, pine) sprang up where she died, and it became the favourite plant

urses of Dionysos, Pan, and even Zeus himself ; and they also brought up Aristæos and Æneias. They were moreover the atten

n oak just ready to fall to the ground, ordered his slaves to prop it up . The Nymph, who had been on the point of perishin

concealed her in the wood. In her stead they caused a poplar to grow up , and a spring of water to gush out beside it. The

hree of his companions in them ; and when Proteus at noon should come up out of the sea and go to sleep amidst his herds,

m his present distress. Menelaos obeys the nymph ; and Proteus drives up and counts his herds, and then lies down to rest.

him for an entire month, he gave him all the winds but Zephyros tied up in a bag of ox-hide. For nine days and nights the

st, but so high that a man in a ship passing under it could not shoot up to it with a bow. In this den dwells Scylla (Bitc

ankind are born, flourish, and die ; a new generation is ever filling up the vacancies caused by death ; races migrate ; w

first forged arms and fed on the flesh of the labouring ox, she flew up to heaven and became the constellation of Astræa

ing it put the flesh and entrails in the hide, and wrapping the bones up in the inside fat, desired Zeus to take which he

e them. It was summer time, and the ass quite overcome by thirst went up to a fountain to drink ; but a snake forbade all

the moderns that she brought all the evils with her from heaven shut up in a box (πυξίς). We can only account for this by

ok the lid off the vessel and let out all the evils, but that he shut up Hope, and kept the vessel with her in it1493. Thi

tely it has come down to us only in a late form, and apparently mixed up with circumstances borrowed from the narrative in

and by vaunting her art of restoring youth, and proving it by cutting up an old ram, and putting him into a pot whence iss

d took possession of the kingdom, which however he shortly after gave up to Acastos the son of Pelias, who had accompanied

ring of Ixiôn and the cloud was a son named Centauros, who when grown up wandered about the foot of Pelion, where he copul

neus, filled with confidence in his strength and invulnerability, set up his spear in the market and ordered the people to

be would die. Althæa on hearing this snatched the billet, and laid it up carefully in a chest. But now her love for her so

Athena he sowed its teeth, and immediately a crop of armed men sprang up , who slew each other, either quarrelling or throu

t him after she had borne two children, on finding that he still kept up an intercourse with Ino. When the response of the

oted by Apollo and Artemis (other forms of the sun and moon), withers up and destroys her progeny ; she weeps and stiffens

καὶ Ἰοκάστη. Œdipus et Iocasta. The foundling Œdipûs was brought up by Polybos as his heir. Happening to be reproache

Trophonios himself is said to have been shortly afterwards swallowed up by the earth1714. According to Pindar1715, when t

error called to her husband to save them, but Heracles raised himself up on his feet, caught the two mon- sters by the thr

ent, sent him away to where his herds were feeding, and there he grew up to great strength and size. His look was terrible

is club and pursued him to his den, which was pervious. He then built up one of the entrances, and going in at the other,

with his club, but to no purpose, for when one was crushed two sprang up in its stead. A huge crab also aided the hydra, a

in the road leading from Lerna to Eleos. He cut the body of the hydra up into pieces, and dipped his arrows in her gall. E

k in the knee of Cheirôn. Grieved at this unhappy event, Heracles ran up , drew out the arrow, and applied to the wound a r

seventh task was to fetch the Cretan bull. This animal had been sent up by Poseidôn when Minôs had vowed to sacrifice wha

, but Heracles struck him with his club, and killed Eurytiôn who came up to his aid. Menœtios, who kept in the same place

est of the stray one. When he found him, he required Eryx to give him up  ; but he refused, unless he would wrestle with hi

of Poseidôn, reigned. This king, in consequence of an oracle, offered up strangers on the altar of Zeus : for Egypt having

wn the apples, and resumed his burden ; and Heracles then picked them up , and went away1763. He brought the apples to Eury

Caÿster in Mysia, who made her his wife. Telephos having, when grown up , consulted the oracle respecting his parents, cam

chthonios was reared by Athena in her temenos ; and when he was grown up he expelled Amphictyôn, and reigned over Athens.

was grown up he expelled Amphictyôn, and reigned over Athens. He set up the statue of Athena on the Acropolis, and instit

released her sister ; and killing her own son Itys, served his flesh up to his father. The two sisters fled away ; and Te

to him who should sacrifice one of his daughters. Erechtheus offered up his youngest daughter Chthonia ; and her sisters,

ave him to his daughter Benthesicyme to rear. When Eumolpos was grown up , the husband of Benthesicyme gave him one of his

bend it, and when it was bent he would let it go, and the tree flying up the unhappy stranger was dashed to the ground and

ndaries of the Attic territory, in which he included Megaris, and set up a pillar on the Isthmus of Corinth to mark the li

n of a serpent’s teeth, invented a saw, and applied it to the cutting up of timber. Dædalos, jealous of the skill, and app

where he was kindly received by Cocalos king of that island, who took up arms in his defence against Minôs when he pursued

one died. Hades however set Death at liberty, and Sisyphos was given up to him. When dying he charged his wife to leave h

obedience ; and when he came down, Hades set him to roll a huge stone up a hill, a never ending still beginning toil, for

led over the sea. He first landed on the isle of Rhodes, where he set up a statue of the Lindian Athena ; but not willing

xtremely deficient in pure and wholesome water (Poseidôn having dried up the springs)1914, Danaos sent forth his daughters

ghters, Lysippe, Iphinoe, and Iphianassa1927. When these maidens grew up they were seized with insanity, and roamed in mad

iction, he framed a brazen subterranean chamber1934, in which he shut up his daughter and her nurse, in order that she mig

hos, fell in love with Danae ; but her son Perseus, who was now grown up , was an invincible obstacle to the accomplishment

yoneus, for Medusa was at the time pregnant by Poseidôn. Perseus took up the head, put it into his wallet, and set out on

h of them. He thus discovered the babe, and on approaching to take it up he perceived that its body emitted a brilliant li

ese he threw as he ran ; Atalanta went out of the course to pick them up , and Meilaniôn won the race. Atalanta became his

found by a shepherd in the woods. He brought it to Leda, who laid it up in a coffer, and in due time Helena was produced

ell by the spear of Idas ; Polydeukes pursued the slayers, and coming up with them at the tomb of their father Aphareus, w

brother ; and Zeus, on his prayer, gave him his choice of being taken up himself to Olympos, and sharing the honours of Ar

the daughter of Salmoneus was, after the death of her father, brought up in Thessaly by his brother Deïôn. She was in love

naming the one with the mark Pelias, the other Neleus. When they grew up they discovered their mother, and resolved to kil

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

at Phæsane on the banks of the Alpheios in Arcadia. When Euadne grew up , her charms attracted the love of Apollo. The con

And Tantalos I saw great woe enduring, Placed in a lake that reached up to his chin. Like one athirst he seemed, but coul

absorbed, and round his feet The sable earth appeared ; God dried it up . Above his head tall leafy trees displayed Their

brother of Niobe, the young green earth. The legend of his being cut up and eaten raw by Demeter2076 may denote the break

his being cut up and eaten raw by Demeter2076 may denote the breaking up of the ground in order to renew it. Hermes the ru

es, out of revenge, sent Atreus’ son Pleisthenes, whom he had brought up as his own, to murder his father. Atreus taking t

engeful Atreus killed the two sons of Thyestes and served their flesh up to their father ; and while Thyestes was eating h

os. Atreus, hearing he was alive, had him sought for, and brought him up as his own son. Atreus afterwards sent his sons A

oracle at Delphi for relief of his disorder. He was directed to take up his abode, and dedicate the coffer, where he shou

him to life ; and on his declaring his incapacity so to do, shut him up in a chamber with the body of the child. While he

ht forth a son named Æacos, who being weary of solitude, when he grew up , his father to relieve him turned all the ants in

came to light, whom Hyrieus named Uriôn or Oriôn2127. When Oriôn grew up he went to the isle of Chios, where he became ena

father Zeus, but always the smooth rock Takes one away, then to keep up the number The Father adds another. Many of the

ion, Heracles alone refusing to quit the vessel. They gave themselves up to joy and festivity, till on the remonstrances o

eece to some islets beyond the Peloponnese, where their pursuers came up with them, and were about to slay them, when Iris

im, that when he had sown the teeth, a crop of armed men would spring up and prepare to attack him. Among these she desire

ving there, seized on the Argo, and requested Alcinoös to give Medeia up to them. He assented, provided she was yet a maid

owed by Pindar, Hecatæus and Antimachus2168. This was to make them go up the Phasis, which in accordance with the early ge

e Phasis had its source in the mountains, this course had to be given up  ; a geographer named Timagetas then fixed on the

ed directly from the Alps, and he maintained that they must have gone up the Tanaïs ; in this however he had been preceded

the historian Timæus2170. According to their view, the Argonauts went up the Tanaïs to its head, they then carried their v

he pseudo-Orpheus, who assigns them the following course. They sailed up the Phasis to the point where it divided, and the

babe, reared him as his own son, and named him Paris. When Paris grew up he distinguished himself by his strength and cour

dos, a quarrel took place between him and Agamemnôn ; but it was made up , and the Achæan host passed over to the coast of

stored to her father. Agamemnôn expressed his willingness to give her up , but said that some maiden must be given to him i

iolent dispute between him and Achilleus arises ; the assembly breaks up  ; Chryseïs is sent back to her father, and the he

llo. A furious fight arises over his body, which Aias at length takes up and carries to the ships, while Odysseus keeps of

him from the pyre and conveys him to the White Isle. The Achæans heap up his mound, games are celebrated, and Thetis propo

s, with whose son Pylades he formed a strict friendship. When he grew up he and Pylades secretly returned to Mycenæ2226, w

ubterranean dæmon named Tages, who, the Tuscan legend said, had risen up , a babe in form, an aged man in wisdom, from unde

The Romans, previous to their acquaintance with Greece, always looked up to Etruria as their instructress. The patrician c

Xerxes is said to have burnt the temples in Greece, because they shut up within walls the gods, to whom all should be free

air and fell to the ground. Numa having first slain a heifer, took it up and named it Ancile. He regarded it as the pledge

a spear in her hand, a small shield on her arm, and with shoes turned up at the points2292. Another, probably Sabine, titl

lled Vestalia : plates of meat were sent to the Vestals to be offered up  ; the millstones were wreathed with garlands of f

ade on it in the night time. The people followed the example, and set up similar statues in several of the streets2307. St

ed thus. Völcker (Myth. der Jap. 283.) says the Titans were also shut up . 142. See v. 239. 143. It was shown in after ti

ther (θέω), who reduces all strife to peace and order, calls Briareôs up to heaven, and men must now give over their thoug

ocking at the doors, and a voice calling them to their work. They get up and go to the shore, not knowing what the need is

selves without fear to the rays of the sun, but they cover themselves up against those of the moon. 728. ‘Ώς ἡμὶν ἤδε

three That sing about the golden tree, and he places their gardens ‘ up in the broad fields of the sky.’ 1288. Πέρην me

d opening the coffin found the stone, which they took out, and set it up in the grove where her Heroön stood at Thebes. 1

th (Princess), daughter of an Arab chief, delivers him and his castle up to Shâh-pûr, with whom she had fallen in love. 1

g the fruits to perish, and the grass to wither, and the wells to dry up . Sometimes, too, the great all-seeing divinity, i

n, wind, sea, earth, mountains, trees, regarded as persons, are mixed up with men, beasts, stars, and stones on the same l

and other objects. “2. Magical accomplishments, such as power to call up ghosts, or to visit ghosts and the region of the

led the illumined groves with ravishment. The nightly hunter, lifting up his eyes Toward the crescent Moon, with grateful

by the differentiations of race and culture. Such myths might spring up anywhere among untutored men, and anywhere might

literary epic. But what the Æneid lacks of epic simplicity, it makes up in patriotic spirit, in lofty moral and civic ide

n on a golden horn of the third or fourth century a.d., which was dug up in Schleswig a hundred and sixty years ago; anoth

ault of Heaven, durable as brass or iron, where the gods were to take up their abode. Earth brought forth next the mountai

abor in ploughing or sowing. Perpetual spring reigned, flowers sprang up without seed, the rivers flowed with milk and win

s not.” They veiled their faces, unbound their garments, and, picking up stones, cast them behind them. The stones began t

on became men; those by Pyrrha, women. It was a hard race that sprang up , and well adapted to labor. § 30. The Demigods an

but priestesses, who, carried off from Thebes by the Phœnicians, set up oracles at Oasis and Dodona. The responses of the

r 13: 2123.] She was the daughter of Cronus and Rhea, but was brought up by Oceanus and Tethys, in their dwelling in the r

arden of the gods where ambrosial rivers flowed, and where Earth sent up in honor of the rite a tree of life, heavy with a

and carried off from the midst of his playfellows on Mount Ida, bore up to Heaven, and installed in the vacant place.

g Whatever gods may be That no life lives forever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhe

, and a dragon, guarded the golden apples of the tree that had sprung up to grace the wedding of Jove and Juno. The daught

he bull, and the others were about to follow her. But the bull leaped up immediately, now he had gotten her that he desire

th one hand clasped the beast’s great horn, and with the other caught up the purple fold of her garment, lest it might tra

ars, And see the far-off Earth, a twinkling speck — Dust-mote whirled up from the Sun’s chariot wheel — And pity their sma

phion and Zethus, who, being exposed at birth on Mount Cithæron, grew up among the shepherds, not knowing their parentage.

nd sung He left a small plantation; Wherever in a lonely grove He set up his forlorn pipes, The gouty oak began to move, A

The chimney to a steeple grown, The jack would not be left alone; But up against the steeple reared, Became a clock, and s

ed in and out among the threads. The reed with its fine teeth strikes up the woof into its place, and compacts the web. Wo

them. These were meant as warnings from Minerva to her rival to give up the contest before it was too late. But Arachne d

ht-eyed goddess Minerva with her hand seized the spear, and thrust it up over the car, to spend itself in vain. Next Diome

pear above the surface. Next helmets, with their nodding plumes, came up ; next, the shoulders and breasts and limbs of men

if she did not leave the place. They waded into the pond, and stirred up the mud with their feet, so as to make the water

, their mouths distended by constant railing; their necks have shrunk up and disappeared, and their heads are joined to th

o be blood; and a flower of hue more beautiful than the Tyrian sprang up , resembling the lily, save that this is purple an

horses when fresh in the morning can hardly climb; the middle is high up in the heavens, whence I myself can scarcely, wit

glow, and the Moon preparing to retire, ordered the Hours to harness up the horses. They led forth from the lofty stalls

ky, in among the stars, hurling the chariot over pathless places, now up in high heaven, now down almost to the earth. The

the heat so suddenly to the surface; and the Libyan desert was dried up to the condition in which it remains to this day.

rus, and frightened the king of shadows and his queen. The sea shrank up . Even Nereus and his wife Doris, with the Nereïds

ith head and shoulders bare, screening her face with her hand, looked up to heaven, and with husky voice prayed Jupiter if

the king, Psamathe exposed the child on the mountains, where, brought up by shepherds among the lambs, he was in tender yo

foretelling the glory that he should achieve. Æsculapius, when grown up , became a renowned physician; in one instance he

had experienced his bounty and that of his house from their childhood up were not willing to lay down the scanty remnant o

One summons of the whole magnific frame, Each sinew to its service, — up he caught, And over shoulder cast the lion-shag,

n the ground, and, stooping down, whispered the story, and covered it up . But a thick bed of reeds springing up in the mea

ered the story, and covered it up. But a thick bed of reeds springing up in the meadow began whispering the story, and has

it might, from his offers she shrunk, And, Ginevra-like, shut herself up in a trunk; And, though ’twas a step into which h

can flatter or kiss trees? And, for mercy’s sake, how could one keep up a dialogue With a dull wooden thing that will liv

peeding the shark, And the sword-fish dark, Under the ocean foam, And up through the rifts Of the mountain clifts They pas

d on his back, another seized his shoulder; the rest of the pack came up and buried their teeth in his flesh. His friends

ed upon Zephyr to receive her and bear her to his lord, then, leaping up , failed of the support of Zephyr, fell down the p

ered Psyche to be led to the storehouse of the temple, where was laid up a great quantity of wheat, barley, millet, vetche

lent, nor would the work have been accomplished had not Cupid stirred up the ants to take compassion on her. They separate

the last, with trembling hands, undid The clasp, and fearfully raised up the lid; But what was there she saw not, for her

ndow of his chamber, flew to the spot where his beloved lay, gathered up the sleep from her body and enclosed it again in

pt a third; and now she stoopt indeed: Yet, swifter than a wren picks up a grain Of millet, rais’d her head: it was too la

m’; And, as she spake those words, came somewhat near him. He started up ; she blush’d as one asham’d; Wherewith Leander mu

sembled… So they conversed by touch of hands, till Leander, plucking up courage, began to plead with words, with sighs an

his body dips Dead-heavy; arms and shoulders gleam awhile; He’s gone; up bubbles all his amorous breath! § 97. Pygmalion

. Whereupon Venus, as an omen of her favor, caused the flame to shoot up thrice a fiery point into the air. When Pygmalion

ng out of the lofty cavern of Cyllene, he found a tortoise, picked it up , bored the life out of the beast, fitted the shel

controllable roars of laughter. Consequently, the quarrel was patched up : Mercury gave Apollo the new-made lyre; Apollo pr

sails, with heavy clusters of berries. A vine, laden with grapes, ran up the mast and along the sides of the vessel. The s

k, which he plucked from the branch, became gold in his hand. He took up a stone; it changed to gold. He touched a sod, wi

sed, but dared not, for fear of Pluto; so she ventured merely to take up the girdle which Proserpine had dropped in her fl

through all the deep-leaved glade; Then, with weak hands, she knotted up the braid Of her brown hair, and o’er her shoulde

rn and seek the speeded dart, Bounding above the fern, fast following up the hart. But Procris lay among the white wind-f

umeister.] Brushing away the dreams that hovered around her, Iris lit up the cave, and delivered her message to the god, w

. In time he lost the power of using his limbs; and then she shut him up in his chamber, whence his feeble voice might at

inkled feet Upon thy glimmering thresholds, when the steam Floats up from those dim fields about the homes Of happy

Sound but dull beside the truth. Phœbus’ chariot course is run! Look up , poets, to the sun! Pan, Pan is dead.” True eno

angled lunch-house handy, And bade the piper, with a shout, To strike up “Yankee Doodle Dandy!” A newsboy and a peanut gi

h and shout. Silenus grips My ears and strides On my shaggy hips, And up and down In an ivy crown Tipsily rides; And when

ned the body, but it was nowhere to be found. In its place had sprung up a flower, purple within and surrounded with white

riot; for, afar off she beheld Famine, forespent with hunger, pulling up with teeth and claws the scanty herbage from a st

uries. Rhœcus, happening to see an oak just ready to fall, propped it up . The nymph, who had been on the point of perishin

lessed thee with a love, More ripe and bounteous than ever yet Filled up with nectar any mortal heart: But thou didst scor

Like the long surf upon a distant shore, Raking the sea-worn pebbles up and down. The night had gathered round him: o’er

rseus. King Acrisius, in dismay, ordered mother and child to be boxed up in a chest and set adrift on the sea. The two unf

with cruelty. § 135. Perseus and Medusa. 270— When Perseus was grown up , Polydectes sent him to attempt the conquest of t

th out. Whereupon Perseus, finding the giant too strong for him, held up the Gorgon’s head. Atlas, with all his bulk, was

in their intent, attacked the wedding party, and would have broken it up with most admired disorder, but Mid the fabled L

en; and in their hands were many cities. It was their custom to bring up only the female children, whom they hardened by m

or he always rose with renewed strength from every fall, — lifted him up from the earth, and strangled him in the air. Lat

hero, awakening, laughed at the little warriors, wrapped some of them up in his lion’s skin, and carried them to Eurystheu

owned With conquest, felt the envenomed robe, and tore, Through pain, up by the roots Thessalian pines, And Lichas from th

dmetus, the husband of Alcestis.301 When, however, Jason, being grown up , came to demand the crown, his uncle Pelias with

known his message to the Colchian king, Æetes, who consented to give up the golden fleece on certain conditions: namely,

son, although it was well known that a crop of armed men would spring up from the teeth, destined to turn their weapons ag

clove and drove them, smitten in twain; but. she Smote not nor heaved up hand; and this man first, Plexippus, crying out,

indly received by King Cocalus, he built a temple to Apollo, and hung up his wings, an offering to the god. But Minos, hav

e striking evidences of ingenuity. Walking on the seashore, he picked up the spine of a fish, and imitating it in iron, in

thonius327 was a special ward of the goddess Minerva, who brought him up in her temple. His son Pandion had two daughters,

truth. In revenge upon Tereus, the sisters killed Itylus, and served up the child as food to the father; but the gods, in

l away the stone and take what was under. The lad Theseus was brought up at Troezen, of which Pittheus, Æthra’s father, wa

ed the ground, and he, his chariot, and his charioteer were swallowed up . It is unnecessary here to detail all the acts of

e lets light through the branches umbrageous; Squalid the rust creeps up o’er ploughs forgotten of ploughmen. Bright is t

d Nestor, the oldest of the Grecian chiefs, — to whom they all looked up for counsel. But Troy was no feeble enemy. Priam

the contending armies and all other affairs of state, he gave himself up to her and let the battle go as it would. But thi

, seek refuge for myself from a single foe? Or shall I offer to yield up Helen and all her treasures and ample of our own

359 On the spot where his blood sank into the earth a hyacinth sprang up , bearing on its leaves the first two letters of h

s if for a final departure. The Trojans, seeing the encampment broken up and the fleet gone, concluded that the enemy had

of Thone In Egypt gave to Jove-born Helena, Is of such power to stir up joy as this, To life so friendly or so cool to th

ject of apprehension, but from whom, if he should be suffered to grow up , there might be danger. Electra, the sister of Or

e Strophius, king of Phocis. In the palace of Strophius, Orestes grew up with the king’s son Pylades, and formed with him

l to certain destruction, as the rock with which the giant had closed up the door was far beyond their power to remove, an

s. He treated Ulysses hospitably, and at his departure gave him, tied up in a leathern bag with a silver string, such wind

in grief at the escape of Ulysses, drowned herself. Her body was cast up on the Italian shore where now stands the city of

eady met with Scylla in the myth of Glaucus. She dwelt in a cave high up on the cliff, from whence she was accustomed to t

should be compelled to trust himself to the waves, it might buoy him up and enable him to reach the land. § 172. The Land

his return was no longer to be expected. Meanwhile her son had grown up , and was able to manage his own affairs. She ther

uccess, and, amidst the laughter and jeers of his companions, gave it up . Another tried it and another; they rubbed the bo

d to turn him out of the hall for his insolence. But Telemachus spoke up for him, and merely to gratify the old man, bade

mple treasures to the neighboring land of Thrace, to be there brought up , at a distance from the horrors of war. The king

pread their couches there, and Discord, whose hair was of vipers tied up with a bloody fillet. Here also were the monsters

e shore where his body had been wafted by the waves should be stirred up by prodigies to give it due burial, and that the

selessly revolving; and Sisyphus, whose task was to roll a huge stone up to a hill top, but when the steep was well-nigh g

see three hundred springs and three hundred harvests. My body shrinks up as years increase, and in time, I shall be lost t

d animosity revive, summoned Alecto from Erebus, and sent her to stir up discord. The Fury first took possession of the qu

h hunting. She sharpened the scent of the dogs, and led them to rouse up from the thicket a tame stag, the favorite of Sil

the other side. Thenceforth he lived among the shepherds and brought up his daughter in woodland arts. While a child she

rsevere. There are friends not far distant. Prepare thy boats and row up my stream; I will lead thee to Evander the Arcadi

pelled by the vigorous strokes of the rowers, the vessel shot rapidly up the stream. About the middle of the day they came

o protects him with arms. The Etruscans demand that he shall be given up to deserved punishment, and would ere now have at

let thee go into such danger alone? Not so my brave father brought me up , nor so have I planned for myself when I joined t

roverbial, “He fell, unhappy, by a wound intended for another, looked up to the skies, and, dying, remembered sweet Argos.

e, and one layer accumulating over another, the great deep was filled up . Southward from the world of mist was the world o

peaceful death are excluded. The flesh of the boar Serimnir is served up to them, and is abundant for all. For although th

called on Thor, who immediately ran to their assistance, and lifting up his mallet, paid the workman his wages, not with

e alarmed by an earthquake which shook the whole edifice. Thor rising up called on his companions to seek with him a place

r once Thor was afraid to use his mallet, and as the giant soon waked up , Thor contented himself with simply asking his na

taking such tremendous strides that they were hard put to it to keep up with him. So they travelled the whole day, and at

ut when Thor tried to open the wallet, he found the giant had tied it up so tight he could not untie a single knot. At las

d it with such violence that it forced its way into the giant’s skull up to the handle. But Skrymir sat up, and stroking h

rced its way into the giant’s skull up to the handle. But Skrymir sat up , and stroking his cheek said, “An acorn fell on m

head. What! Art, thou awake, Thor? Methinks it is time for us to get up and dress ourselves; but you have not now a long

had, notwithstanding all Thor’s efforts, only one of his feet lifted up , seeing which Thor made no further attempt. “Thi

long deceived thee by my illusions; first in the forest, where I tied up the wallet with iron wire so that thou couldst no

thy draughts. Thou didst perform a feat no less wonderful by lifting up the cat, and to tell thee the truth, when we saw

thout partaking of the sports, on account of his blindness, and going up to him, said, “Why dost thou not also throw somet

ted from returning to Asgard. The Funeral of Balder. — The gods took up the dead body and bore it to the sea-shore where

all the followers of Hela, and the Frost giants. Heimdall now stands up and sounds the Giallar horn to assemble the gods

ynhild would have no one that could not ride through the flames drawn up around her hall. After Gunnar had made two unsucc

the breast of the mighty Sigurd: he heard it and understood, And rose up on the sword of Guttorm, and turned from the coun

ting apart, nurses schemes of vengeance. Her brothers affect to patch up the breach in order that they may obtain the hoar

Egyptian Rooms, British Museum; Miss A. B. Edwards’ A Thousand Miles up the Nile, Lond.: 1876. For the principal diviniti

s origin to the enthusiasm with which the followers of the god lifted up their voices in his praise. Similar names are Iac

takes the child Dionysus (Bacchus) after Semele’s death, and sews him up in his thigh for safe keeping. Preller finds here

, after which new conflicts arise between the clouds that have sprung up from the moistened earth (the harvest of armed me

hon: In many savage myths, a serpent, a frog, or a lizard that drinks up all the waters, is destroyed by some national her

inter by sunlight, it certainly, at a very early period, became mixed up with ancient legal ideas and local traditions. It

winter, or the darkness of night, or a “black storm-cloud which shuts up the waters” ( Cox). It is not impossible that the

rethusa was the same stream, which, after passing under the sea, came up again in Sicily. Hence the story ran that a cup t

that of motion, and explains Hermes as the air in motion that springs up with the dawn, gains rapidly in force, sweeps bef

wn down to the central darkness, and held there in bondage. Following up this view of the subject, the Search of her Mothe

s: in Laconia. For the crime of Tantalus, see § 77. In Hades he stood up to his neck in water which receded when he would

er of Erechtheus. This son, having been removed at birth, was brought up in Apollo’s temple at Delphi, and, in accordance

276; Com. §§ 158-164. Ti′ryns, in Argolis, where Hercules was brought up . Tisiph′o-ne, 84, 348. Ti′tans, 38, 39; war of, 4

m The Fleece, 245, 309. E Edwards, Miss A. B. A Thousand Miles up the Nile, Com. § 15. Eliot, George (Mary Ann Cro

t the terrible being whom they named the snake or dragon was shutting up the waters in a prison-house. When the thunder ro

tion, Eos became disgusted with his infirmities, and at last shut him up in a chamber, where soon little else was left of

ilst the tender plants and flowers, reviving by the morning dew, lift up their heads to welcome her as she passes. The Gre

announced her approach. Her statues, which were dog-headed, were set up at Athens and elsewhere, in the market-places and

an uneasy conscience, was afraid that his children might one day rise up against his authority, and thus verify the predic

Curetes, or priests of Rhea, by beating their shields together, kept up a constant noise, which drowned the cries of the

e wife of Lycus, fled for protection to her sons when they were grown up . They attacked and slew Lycus, and, tying Dirce b

eing extremely jealous changed her into a bear. Her son, when he grew up , meeting her in the woods, was about to kill her,

g, doubted the divinity of Zeus. He invited him to dinner, and served up for him a dish of human flesh, in order to test t

us, determined to separate herself from him, and she accordingly took up her abode in Eubœa. Zeus effected a reconciliatio

e river Phlegethon, the waves of which rolled flames of fire, and lit up , with their lurid glare, these awful realms. In t

ondemned, in consequence of his numerous crimes, to roll a huge stone up a high mountain, which, on reaching the top, alwa

fiercely, killed the fruits which his warmth was ripening, and dried up the streams over which he passed. “The stone of S

adness, owing to the persecution of the Erinnys. They constantly held up a mirror to his horrified gaze, in which he behel

of nature which yearly causes the most luxuriant vegetation to spring up , only, however, to die again in the autumn. In a

pered into it, “King Midas has the ears of an ass.” Some reeds sprung up from the spot, and repeated the words whenever th

breathe as softly as a child in its cradle, and in the next may tear up forests in its rage. The music which he produced

a*, to rear, and was finally educated in Lydia by Rhea. After growing up amidst the solitude of the forest, and strengthen

lands, to whom Zeus gave the command of the winds, which he kept shut up in a deep cave, and which he freed at his pleasur

talian divinity named Mutunus. The statues of Priapus, which were set up in gardens and vineyards, served as scarecrows as

nce, to Demeter a sow was offered, because that animal is apt to root up the seed-corn; to Dionysus, a goat, on account of

olynices killed each other in single combat; Amphiaraus was swallowed up by the earth, and Adrastus owed his life to the s

sts; shoulders, hands, and limbs became huge rocks; and the head grew up into a craggy peak, which reached into the clouds

e that his rider was precipitated to the earth. The winged horse flew up to heaven and became bearer of the thunderbolts.

of Bellerophon with the Chimæra may be a representation of the drying up , by means of the sun’s rays, of the furious mount

form the Galaxy, or Milky Way, on which the gods walk. Heracles grew up in Thebes, and was under the care of the best pre

To his amazement, in the place of each head he struck off two sprung up . He then ordered his nephew, Iolaus*, to set on f

labor of Heracles was to capture the Cretan bull. Poseidon once sent up a bull out of the sea for Minos*, king of Crete,

ed new strength every time he touched the ground. The hero lifted him up in the air and squeezed him to death in bis arms.

r his head. When Atlas resumed his former position, Heracles gathered up the apples and went away. Eurystheus, having seen

m to Athene. 12. Cerberus*. — The twelfth and last task was to bring up Cerberus from the lower world. In this undertakin

striking evidences of ingenuity. Walking on the sea-shore, he picked up the spine of a fish. Imitating it, he notched a p

o Æetes; and, finally, to overcome the armed crop which should spring up . Jason was in great perplexity when he heard thes

him a stone which he was to cast among the warriors that would spring up from the dragon’s teeth, and also a potion for lu

the furrows into which he sowed the dragon’s teeth. Armed men sprung up , but Jason, remembering the instructions of Medea

ss. After this defeat, the invaders, foreseeing a long campaign, drew up their ships on land, erected tents, etc., and for

erwards, he and his two sons were destroyed by two serpents that came up out of the sea, the Trojans regarded this as a pu

a black ram and ewe to the powers of darkness. Crowds of shades rose up from the yawning gulf, eager to quaff the blood o

he slain suitors, incited the people to avenge their death. They took up arms and followed the hero. A conflict ensued, in

olydore was a young prince of Troy, whom Priam had sent to be brought up in Thrace, away from the horrors of war. The king

g. She inspired the dogs with a sudden madness, and led them to rouse up from the thicket a tame stag belonging to Silvia*

the outer world. The Egyptian and the Greek systems of mythology grew up quite independently of each other. After Egypt ha

; and the third — the most popular of all among the people — was made up of forms and forces of Nature. Each town or city

represented as doing battle with Vritra*, the enemy, who, by shutting up the rain, brings drought upon the earth. Vritra

erring to his rays. When the name was taken literally, the story grew up that the sun, offering up a sacrifice, cut off hi

he name was taken literally, the story grew up that the sun, offering up a sacrifice, cut off his hand, which was replaced

e, and one layer accumulating over another, the great deep was filled up . Southward from the world of mist was the world o

ir shields and helmets shed a strange flickering light, which flashed up over the northern skies. This light was called by

s “Heroes and Hero Worship,” “In that strange island Iceland, — burst up , the geologists say, by fire from the bottom of t

ck tempests, yet with a wild gleaming beauty in summer time, towering up there stern and grim in the North Ocean, with its

sically their thoughts. Much would be lost had Iceland not been burst up from the sea, not been discovered by the Northmen

ltar, which was a large stone placed as a table upon other stones set up on end. The Cairns were large stones or piles of

to live; so this mighty hare ordered the beaver to dive and bring him up ever so little a piece of mud. The beaver obeyed,

mud. The beaver obeyed, and remained down long, even so that he came up utterly exhausted, but reported that he had not r

. She, too, remained long — a whole day and night — and they gave her up for lost. But at length she floated to the surfac

and opinions, amidst the self-deceptions and gross abuses which grow up , like stilling weeds with it, in the divers faith

d. Moses was a prophet when he foretold, “The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a prophet from the midst of thy brethre

erra were the parents of Titan and Saturn. Titan, the elder son, gave up to his brother Saturn, his right to reign over th

ing the Saturnalia, business was suspended at Rome, schools were shut up , and unbounded hilarity prevailed. The slaves wer

y, called Hyacinthus, by the blow of a quoit, Apollo caused to spring up from his blood, the flower called after his name.

nto the island of Lemnos, and was lamed by his fall. At Lemnos he set up his forges, but afterwards moved to the volcanic

ssenger of that goddess. Iris was frequently employed by Juno to stir up strife among men. She is commonly represented wit

ed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the

and fertile island of Sicily. In Sicily the young Proserpine was bred up , and her innocent and happy occupation was to wan

ount Cythera, and when she set her feet upon the land, flowers sprung up beneath them. The rosy Hours, who were intrusted

ho would send the mirror they had been accustomed to use, and hang it up in the temple of Venus, as if they had said. Time

and Bacchus; and his image, a most hideous mis-shapen figure, was set up to frighten away birds and thieves. The eastern n

was condemned to the never-ceasing labour of rolling an enormous rock up to the summit of a steep mountain. With many a w

Phrygia, for having savagely murdered his own son, Pelops, and served up his body at a banquet of the gods, was condemned

une, as they called this blind goddess, turning a wheel, which raised up some persons, and threw down others at the same t

ans call her Salus. She had a temple at Rome, and her priests offered up supplications to her for the health of all people

is education was finished under Chiron the Centaur. Hercules was bred up at Thebes, and at the age of eighteen killed a fu

n as one of these heads was struck off, two others immediately sprung up . But Hercules was enabled by the assistance of hi

ured the apples. The twelfth and last labour of Hercules was to bring up to earth the three-headed dog Cerberus, which gua

ules conquered Achelous, and broke off his horn. This horn was picked up by the nymphs, filled with fruits and flowers, an

powerful wrestler, and was assisted by Terra, but Hercules lifted him up from the ground, and strangled him. Hercules wish

himself for death. He gave his bow and arrows to Philoctetes, pulled up trees by the roots, and erected for himself a fun

arth he tears, Piles rock on rock, on mountain mountain rears; Heaves up huge Abyla on Afric’s sand. Crowns with high Calp

Trœzene. The parents of Theseus did not live together, and Æthra bred up her son in the court of her father. The deeds of

ranches of trees, which, having been bent down, suddenly would spring up , and tear the unhappy sufferer in pieces. The sec

Pallantidæ, however, were disappointed and enraged, and did not give up their purpose of killing Theseus; but in this the

ere destined to become slaves; and others, that they were to be eaten up by a frightful monster called the Minotaur. It is

tribute, and comforted the distressed parents who were about to give up their children, by offering to go with them to Cr

he Minotaur, which he killed, and he afterwards induced Minos to give up the exaction of the tribute. It is probable the t

d he return successful, that he would displace the black sail and put up a white one. About the time that he expected Thes

religion: extended his dominions to the territory of Megara, and set up a column to show the boundary of his kingdom. On

honoured his memory. Cimon, about four centuries before Christ, took up the remains of Theseus, had them removed to Athen

lived, denied them all. The suitors, as the princes were called, took up their abode in the palace of Ulysses, slaughtered

Achilles could not resist the supplications of the old man, and gave up the body. By one of those miracles very common am

Romans afterwards believed of Romulus, imagined their king was taken up into heaven. After this, the Latins honoured Enea

begun by pious Hindus, with an invocation of Ganesa. His image is set up in their streets and their high roads: and agains

disturbed by the gods, with the mountain Mandar, and forced to throw up the sacred things, and animals, and the water of

princes of India, may be called the Hindu Pantheon: is about half way up the steep side of the mountain, from whose stony

and distributes to two wolves, named Geri and Ferki, the food served up to him at the celestial banquets. It is probable

s of their adjacent territory, the Syrians. These Syrian nations kept up frequent wars with their neighbours of Palestine,

he belief of a superior power which created mankind, to whom men lift up their thoughts, and to whom, in some form or othe

nd the Tep-it-o-tone, (or little ones;) the same as the Penates, make up the chief objects of the Mexican polytheism. The

ges of Mercury. A child suffered death because it accidentally picked up a golden olive leaf from the wreath of Minerva, a

r office, and presided at the feasts, sacrifices, and prayers offered up at the public worship. The priests expounded the

mans, after their temples became numerous and magnificent, still kept up this ancient custom; and in many parts of the cit

s; and awaking, he felt the presence of his Maker. —  “And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone which he

rning, and took the stone which he had put for his pillow, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.”

ich must have been exerted, in conveying the immense masses of marble up the acclivity of the Acropolis. “In all that rel

of Judea, against his conviction of his innocence, was about to give up the blameless Jesus to his enemies, “he took wate

voyage, previously to their departure, they made a sacrifice, and put up prayers for safety and success; and the sea-farin

the wilderness, and when they were established in Canaan, it was set up in Shiloh, and is thence called the Lord’s House

ty, because the Tabernacle was removed thither by King David, and set up on the holy hill, Mount Zion; and there, on Mount

nframed, Of jarring seeds; and justly Chaos named. No sun was lighted up , the world to view; No moon did yet her blunted h

ding banks for winding rivers makes. Some part in earth are swallowed up ; the most In ample oceans disembogued, are lost:

ne, and afterwards, by administering a potion, compelled him to yield up those he had already swallowed. Jupiter, the firs

er, the first whom the Goddess had saved by her artifice, was brought up secretly in the Isle of Crete, by the Corybantes,

keep Their clenched teeth still clenched, and all their limbs Locked up like veins of metal cramped and screwed: Without

ospitality by the massacre of his guests. He had the cruelty to offer up to Jupiter, in one of the high festivals, the mem

f your wings. But why more hideous than your loathed selves Gather ye up in legions from the deep!     Second Fury. We kne

rden is too much, And is in mercy hidden from our eyes. Earth is made up of so much care and woe, The past, the present, a

ich is heard at the breaking of the string of a harp when it is wound up . This was effected by the rays of the sun when th

ride A far bound galley on its perilous way, Whilst breezy waves toss up their silvery spray — Sometimes I watch thee on f

yal traitor, Who left her gazing on the green expanse, That swallowed up his track; oh! what could mate her Even in the cl

n back, leaning with a kind of delirium upon their necks, and looking up to heaven, whilst they totter and stumble, even i

in his blood, that on the ground lay spilled, A purple flower sprung up , checkered with white; Resembling well his pale c

body dips, Dead — heavy; arms and shoulders gleam awhile: He’s gone —  up bubbles all his amorous breath.” Keats. ‌Venus

lentless rigour, and by the touching nature of the story; he took her up to heaven, restored Cupid to his place, and makin

of wisdom, war, and all the liberal arts, came forth, armed and grown up , from her father’s brain, and was immediately adm

e hand of charity for those who are left. Fills every heart and dries up every fear; The record of a nation’s loud applaus

ll glorious Mars! be thou my god and guide, Be thou the image to fill up my heart, Be thou the spirit leading me to glory,

es have rolled, Above the cities of a world gone by! Sand hath filled up the palaces of old, Sea-weed o’er-grown the halls

whom The place was kept at board and hearth so long; The prayer went up thro’ midnight’s breathless gloom, And the vain y

fied at sight of him, ran away in horror, and his father wrapping him up in the skins of beasts, carried him to Heaven, wh

s join,’ replied the ravished maid.” In vain had the wondering youth up to this moment looked for the frolic companions,

to deform her son in all his limbs; notwithstanding which, as he grew up , his inclinations and habits became so vicious, t

ed the ass to him; and the people naturally indolent, gave themselves up to every impurity during the celebration. When ho

met his eye, he beheld ——— “The realized nymph of the stream, Rising up from the wave, with the bend and the gleam Of a f

with his face of bold wonder, to feel The hair of my side and to lift up my heel, And questioned his face with wide eyes,

‌And I yearned at his cheeks in my love, and down bent And lifted him up in my arms with intent To kiss him — but he cruel

Opening the dusky eyelids of the south, Till shade and silence waken up alone, And morning sings with a warm odorous mout

       Alone, alone,         Upon a mossy stone, She sits and reckons up the dead and gone, With the last leaves for a lov

st, the dangerous flame remove; He knew the fates, nor cared to raise up one, Whose fame and greatness, should eclipse his

Have lent their soul to thee.     “Thou art come from cities lighted up     For the conqueror passing by, Thou art waftin

bservient to their intentions. At the moment of death, they delivered up to judgment the person with whose care they had b

nd drunken man, with a garland of flowers upon his head, his face lit up by the deity of wine, and with a flambeau in his

at the precious metals are in the bowels of the earth. He was brought up by the goddess of peace, and the Greeks spoke of

the ground the teeth of a serpent, from which armed men would spring up , whose rage would be directed against him who sho

As fire, that sleeping under ashes lies, Fresh blown and roused, does up in blazes rise, New kindled by her lover’s sparkl

gh bellowing throats the struggling vapour pressed. Yet Jason marches up without concern, While on the adventurous youth t

air, The meagre paleness from his aspect fled, And in its room sprung up a florid red: Through all his limbs a youthful vi

ch he was to introduce himself to his father’s knowledge when he grew up ; as Theseus attempted to make himself known to hi

f her husband, and from this union was born Hercules, who was brought up at Tirynthus; Juno, however, could not look upon

as one head was beaten to pieces by the club, immediately two sprang up , and the labour of Hercules would have remained u

rth he tears, Piles rock on rock, on mountain, mountain rears; Heaves up huge Abyla in Afric’s sand, Crowns with huge Calp

sband. The extraordinary efforts of the enraged Hercules, brought him up in time to let fly a poisoned arrow at the ravish

, And livid sweats down all his body flow. The cracking nerves, burnt up , are burst in twain, The lurking venom melts his

h, Sigh for young Iole, who, soft as May, And rich as Summer, yielded up her truth; There by Euripus, ever fickle stream,

there is no need For my dispatch; and you, ye merciless powers, Hoard up your thunder stones; keep, keep your bolts For cr

me? Methinks there’s not a hand that grasps thy hell, But should run up like flax, all blazing fire. Stand from this spot

es until he retired to Arcadia, where he married Alphisibaus. To fill up the measure of his crimes, he repudiated her, and

he gods who were visiting him, he murdered his son Pelops, and served up to them his limbs, demanding of them to name what

e he is represented as punished with an insatiable thirst, and placed up to the chin in the midst of a pool of water, that

again recalled, and invited to a sumptuous feast, at which was served up the children born to him by the connexion with hi

d Egisthus, who, himself the fruit of a great crime, had been brought up by Agamemnon, and to him did the spectre of Thyes

in dying had bequeathed to Philoctetes, who, however, would not give up the terrible arms that no mortal dared take from

t he bound With thongs inserted through the double wound; These fixed up high behind the rolling wain, His graceful head w

n many assaults, they constructed an enormous horse of wood, and shut up in it the best and bravest of their soldiers. The

Homer. Polyphemus, whose one eye expressed a savage ferocity, shut up Ulysses and his companions in a cavern, where he

d flowing hair, And wit, that ever charms the fair.” He gave himself up for a time to the pleasure of her society, but ma

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

age a melancholy fate awaited him; for failing in an attempt to pull up a tree by the roots, his hands remained fast pinc

ody ceremony, which was to last nine days, and every day they offered up nine victims, whether men or animals. But the mos

; in this they received the blood of their victim. “When they offered up animals, they speedily killed them at the foot of

ss was supposed to accept it; if not, she refused it, and it was hung up in a sacred place. Near this place was a forest,

while on others, they pay deep reverence to monkeys, who are brought up with care, and covered with honours. Among the na

ternal, tho’ dethroned deities, Where from green altars, flowers send up their incense.” L. E. L. Insérer image anonyme

dess of night. From this union the innumerable myths gradually sprang up and developed, which in their own imaginative tho

at when Ulysses visited him on his return from Troy he gave him, tied up in a bag, all the winds that could prevent his vo

He then threw himself into the sea, and one of the dolphins took him up and carried him to Tænarus, near Corinth. For thi

three golden apples, one of which he dropped whenever Atalanta caught up to him in the race. She stopped to pick them up,

never Atalanta caught up to him in the race. She stopped to pick them up , and he was victorious and married her. They were

dragon, and sowed its teeth in the ground, from each of which sprang up an armed man. Cadu′ceus [Caduceus]. The rod carr

a naked, winged boy, with a bow and arrows, and a torch. When he grew up to be a man he married Psyche. “For Venus did bu

see Lares. Dola′bra [Dolabra]. The knife used by the priests to cut up the sacrifices. Dolphin, see Arion. Door′ga [Do

Colchis, where King Æetes entertained Phryxus, and the hide was hung up in the grove of Mars. Jason and forty-nine compan

e golden apples from the garden of the Hesperides. Twelfth, To bring up from Hades the three-headed dog, Cerberus. All th

ona. Her′mæ [Hermæ] were statues of Hermes [Mercury], which were set up in Athens for boundaries, and as direction marks

tos. Ja′son [Jason], the son of Æson, king of Iolcos; he was brought up by the centaur Chiron. His uncle Æeta sent him to

Jupiter by Lycaon. To test the divine knowledge of the god he served up human flesh, which Jove discovered, and punished

n full. See Luna. “Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up her wondrous tale, And nightly to the list’ning e

they went to war, because they wished to signify that they never took up arms but in the cause of justice. “Forbear, said

store Pelias to youth, but required that the body should first be cut up and put in a caldron of boiling water. When this

n of Tantalus, king of Phrygia. His father killed him, and served him up to be eaten at a feast given to the gods, who, wh

wolf, till they were found by Faustulus, a shepherd, who brought them up . Remus was killed in a quarrel with his brother,

ed with fat, were put in the fire, and the rest of the animal was cut up , cooked, and eaten. This feast was celebrated wit

ato, lived in fire. “The spirits of fiery termagants in flame, Mount up and take a Salamander’s name.” Pope. Sala′tia

ntalus]. Father of Niobe and Pelops, who, as a punishment for serving up his son Pelops as meat at a feast given to the go

d the Titans, and delivered his father and mother. He afterwards took up arms against Saturn himself, whom he overcame and

he result. Where the teeth were planted, armed men immediately sprung up . Cadmus threw a stone among them, upon which they

posts, surmounted by a rude head with a pointed beard. They were set up in the fields, and at all cross roads. The Greeks

here he was found and cared for by some shepherds. After he had grown up , he acquired a great reputation for the prudence

he threw down a golden apple; the princess paused to admire and take up the glittering fruit, while Hippomenes passed on.

nd when she tried to approach they waded into the pool, and, stirring up the mud, defiled the waters so that it became unf

the rule which forbade her to marry, she was buried alive; being shut up in a vault underground, with a lamp, and a little

r left, a key. This last emblem seems to signify that the earth locks up her treasures in the winter season. Cybele is alw

ome, she was the daughter of Jupiter and Themis. When the Titans took up arms against Jupiter, Astræa descended to earth,

he wicked. When the ancients said of a man, that the Furies had taken up their abode with him, they meant that the remembr

ho was slain by Theseus. In hell, he was obliged to roll a huge stone up a steep mountain. When it touched the top it roll

he son of Jupiter. He invited the gods to a feast, at which he served up the flesh of his son Pelops to try their divinity

ty. In hell he is tormented by continual hunger and thirst. He stands up to his lips in a cool fountain, whose waters rece

powerful genii; while captives, and slaves restored to freedom, hung up their fetters, in token of gratitude, by the alta

gled them both. Juno was not discouraged, and when Hercules was grown up , devised new means to destroy him. She persuaded

e he cut off one of the heads of this serpent, two immediately sprang up . He commanded an attendant to burn the wound with

nt was so frightened at the sight of the animal, that he shut himself up in a brazen apartment of his palace. Fourth. He

Œta, where he erected a funeral pyre with forest trees which he tore up by the roots. On this he laid the skin of the Nem

ry could not be freed from this calamity, unless Andromeda were given up to be devoured by the monster. Cepheus consented

s inflicted by an arrow from the bow of Atalanta. Meleager, following up this advantage, despatched the monster with his s

ving at Mount Caucasus, the nymph found her in a stony field, tearing up with teeth and claws the scanty herbage. The pale

ample fortune, his natural inclination prevailed, and he gave himself up to literary pursuits. A career of unexampled pros

rivate station. When he ascended the throne, he had the fountain shut up with stones. Ques. What opinions did the early C

o suffer these occasional inconveniences, rather than shut themselves up in a close and crowded house, and forfeit the sun

the level of the plain below, a semicircular excavation ascended far up on the slope of the hill. Round the concavity, se

ecessary to conceal the stage, the curtain was not dropped, but drawn up from beneath the floor. Ques. Was there anything

their usages and doctrines. After careful preparation, he set himself up as a teacher, and his disciples were soon numbere

ive in the greatest poverty. They are not permitted to marry; to keep up their numbers they buy young children, who may be

ze into ice, which, gradually accumulating, the great deep was filled up . Southward from the world of mist, was the world

ir shields and helmets shed a strange flickering light, which flashes up over the northern skies, and is called by men, “A

or Death. The gods were not ignorant that these monsters were growing up , and would one day bring much evil upon gods and

rn nations by means of sticks of different lengths. These were shaken up , and from the chance figures they formed, the pri

sylum in the island of Iona. Here they maintained a certain influence up to the latter part of the sixth century, when the

The ascent was made, in some cases, by a stairway which led directly up the centre of the western face of the pyramid. Mo

nity, was conducted to the temple. As the melancholy procession wound up the sides of the pyramid, he played upon a musica

titude. They bore with them a golden wedge, and were directed to take up their abode wherever the sacred emblem should sin

e mentioned. She has keys in her hand, to signify her keeping, locked up in her bosom, the seeds of every sort of fruit. H

n their dances; or Curetes, from the island Crete, where they brought up Jupiter; or Dactyli, from the Greek word signifyi

l boy, called Hyacynthus, by the blow of a quoit, he caused to spring up from his blood, the flower called after his name.

es, as a young man with horns, a red face, a body bloated, and puffed up ; but more frequently, as most beautiful and effem

ns. Moses received the Jewish law on Mount Sinai. Bacchus was brought up on Mount Nysa. Bacchus, armed with his thyrsus, d

and Bacchus; and his image, a most hideous mis-shapen figure, was set up to frighten away birds and thieves. The eastern n

is condemned to the never-ceasing labour of rolling an enormous rock up to the summit of a steep mountain. Sisyphus. Wit

Phrygia, for having savagely murdered his own son Pelops, and served up his body at a banquet of the Gods, is condemned t

as fast as either one of which was cut off, another instantly sprang up in its place. He bound the Erymanthian wild boar,

uarded the golden apples in the gardens of the Hesperides. He dragged up to the light of day, Cerberus, the triple-headed

imself to death on a funeral pile, formed of trees, which he had torn up by the roots, when driven to distraction by the a

are adorned with bracelets. The head is exposed; the hair is plaited up together, at the back of it; and the top is surmo

glorious forms, perfectly dispelled the gloom. He, desiring to raise up various creatures by an emanation of his own glor

begun by pious Hindûs, with an invocation of Ganesa. His image is set up in their streets and their high roads; and agains

as churned by the Gods, with the mountain Mandar, and forced to throw up the sacred things, and animals, and the water of

princes of India, may be called the Hindû Pantheon, is about half way up the steep side of the mountain, from whose stony

s was the fertilizing Nile, Typhon was the sterile sea which swallows up the river. Hence, the sea was held in abomination

t, is very salubrious, the southern blast from the desert, that burns up and destroys every thing which has life, was impu

from Egypt into Greece. The statue of the Theban Jupiter was carried up the Nile into Ethiopia, with a splendid processio

he sacred sword. The right arm of the victim was then cut off, thrown up into the air, and suffered to remain on the spot

and distributes to two wolves, named Geri and Freki, the food served up to him at the celestial banquets. Considering Odi

as being destined, at the last day, to vanquish the Gods, and to give up the earth to flames. Balder, a son of Odin. He wa

es of Paradise that fell down to the earth with Adam; and being taken up again, or, otherwise preserved at the deluge, was