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Page 12 - Admetus neglected to ofler a sacrifice to Artemis, and when in the evening he entered the bridal chamber, he found there a number of snakes rolled up in a lump. Apollo, however, reconciled Artemis to him, and at the same time induced the Moirae to grant to Admetus deliverance from death, if at the hour of his death his father, mother, or wife would die for him. Alcestis did so, but Kora, or according to others Heracles, brought her back to the upper world.
Page 190 - THE CENTAURS These monsters were represented as men from the head to the loins, while the remainder of the body was that of a horse. The ancients...
Page 284 - Epicurus, however, developed and ennobled this theory in a manner which constitutes the real merit of his philosophy, and which gained for him so many friends and admirers both in antiquity and in modern times. Pleasure with him was not a mere momentary and transitory sensation, but he conceived it as something lasting and imperishable, consisting in pure and noble mental enjoyments, that...
Page 26 - It was begun about the end of the fifth, or the beginning of the sixth century...
Page 254 - Sabines, which he cultivated with his own hands. Once the Samnites sent an embassy to him with costly presents ; they found him sitting at the hearth and roasting turnips. He rejected their presents, telling them that he preferred ruling over those who possessed gold, to possessing it himself. He was censor in 272, and in that year executed public works of great importance.
Page 76 - Apollo had more influence upon the Greeks than any other god. It may safely be asserted, that the Greeks would never have become what they were, without the worship of Apollo : in him the brightest side of the Grecian mind is reflected.
Page 246 - Jupiter fastened it with adamantine chains to the bottom of the sea, that it might be a secure resting-place for his beloved.
Page 325 - GEBMAXÏA, was bounded by the Rhine on the west, by the Vistula and the Carpathian Mountains on the east, by the Danube on the south, and by the German Ocean and the Baltic on the north. It thus included much more than modern Germany on the north and east, but much less in the west and south. The uorth and northeast of Gallia Bélgica were likewise called Gcnnania Prima aud Secunda under the Roman emperors (vid.
Page 183 - ... public the circumstances of a conspiracy, the progress and resources of which he wished first to ascertain. He contented himself with warning his fellow-citizens, in general terms, of the impending danger. But when the insurrection of Manlius was made known, he procured the passage of the celebrated decree, " that the consuls should take care that the republic received no detriment.
Page 373 - He supposed that the four fluids or humors of the body (blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile) were the primary seat of disease...