An English school dictionary. To which is added, a list of the principal heathen deities of Greece [&c.]. |
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
Achilles act or art adorn Æneas Apollo assembly Be-ro belonging body censure chief church corrupt cruel Cybele daughter death deceit deity disgrace Divíne dress false figure goddess heaven Hecuba Hercules Hindu horses instrument judge Jupiter killed kind king king of Athens Laomedon light Lycia marriage mean medicine Muse Neptune noise Oceanus peevish person plunder poem praise pret Priam priest relating religion reproach round Scandinavian ship soldiers sorrowful sound stone Tethys Thebes Theseus Thessaly thin thing Thrace Trojan Trojan war Troy turn v. a. to change v. a. to draw v. a. to form v. a. to give v. a. to lay v. a. to lessen v. a. to put v. a. to take vessel violent Vishnu void wife wind wood words worship
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 219 - Gor'dius, a husbandman, but afterwards king of Phrygia, remarkable for tying a knot of cords on which the empire of Asia depended, in so very intricate a manner, that Alexander the Great, unable to unravel it, cut it to pieces.
الصفحة 227 - Clymenc,who asked the guidance of his father's chariot for one day, as a proof of his divine descent ; but unable to manage the horses, set the world on fire, and was therefore struck by Jupiter with a thunderbolt into the river Po.
الصفحة 225 - Mo-ne'ta, a title of Juno Mor'phe-us, the god of sleep, dreams, &c. Mors, the goddess of death Mul'ci-ber, a title of Vulcan Mu'scs, nine daughters of Jupiter and Mnemosyne, mistresses of all the sciences, presidents of musicians and poets, and governesses of the feasts of the gods ; Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia, and Urania Mu'ta, the goddess of silence N N Л2'Ш- A, the goddess of funeral songs Na'ia-des, the nymphs of rivers, &c.
الصفحة 224 - Bacchus, or, as some say, Silenus, had the power given him of turning whatever he touched into gold.
الصفحة 229 - Py'thon, a huge serpent produced from the mud of the deluge, which Apollo killed, and, in memory thereof, instituted the Pythian games...
الصفحة 223 - Laom'edon. A king of Troy, killed by Hercules for denying him his daughter Hesione after he had delivered her from the sea-monster.
الصفحة 228 - This'be, two fond lovers of Babylon, who killed themselves by the same sword, and were the occasion of turning the berries of the mulberry-tree, under which they died, from white to...
الصفحة 209 - Thetis, a goddess of the sea. who, being dipped by his mother in the river Styx, was invulnerable in every part except his right heel, by which she held...
الصفحة 230 - Paphlagonia, who, serving up the limbs of his son Pelops to try the divinity of the gods, was plunged to the chin in a lake of hell, and doomed to everlasting thirst, as a punishment for his barbarity.
الصفحة 212 - Egyptians the art of husbandry. A-pol'lo. The son of Jupiter and Latona, and the god of music, poetry, eloquence, medicine, and the fine arts.