BEONA. A goddess of voyages, etc.

Acha'tes. The trusty friend of Eneas. Ach'eron. The son of Sol and Terra, changed by Jupiter into a river of hell. Used also for hell itself.

Achilles. A Greek who signalized himself in the war against Troy. Having been dipped by his mother in the river Styx, he was invulnerable in every part except his right heel, but was at length killed by Paris with an arrow. A'cis. A Sicilian shepherd, killed by Polyphe

mus because he rivaled the latter in the affections of Galatea.

Actæ on. A famous hunter, who, having sur. prised Diana as she was bathing, was turned by her into a stag, and killed by his own dogs. Ado'nis. A beautiful youth beloved by Venus and Proserpine. He was killed by a wild boar. When wounded, Venus sprinkled nectar into his blood, from which flowers sprang up. Ege'us. A king of Athens, giving name to the Ægean sea by drowning himself in it.

'gis. A shield given by Jupiter to Minerva. Also the name of a Gorgon whom Pallas slew. Ene'as. A Trojan prince, son of Anchises and Venus; the hero of Virgil's poem the Æneid. 'olus. The god of the winds.

o'us. One of the four horses of the sun. Escula'pius. The god of medicine, and the son of Apollo. Killed by Jupiter with a thunderbolt for having restored Hippolytus to lie. E'thon. One of the four horses of the sun. Agamem'non. King of Mycenae and Argos,

Androm'ache. Wife of Hector.

Androm'eda. The daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia, who, contesting with Juno and the Nereides for the prize of beauty, was bound to a rock by them and exposed to a sea monster, but was rescued and married by Perseus. Ange'rona. The goddess of silence. Antæ'us. The giant son of Neptune and Terra; squeezed to death by Hercules. Antever'ta. Goddess of women in labor.

Antigone. The daughter of Edipus and Jocasta, famous for her filial piety. An'ubis. An Egyptian god with a dog's head. A'pis. Son of Jupiter and Niobe; called also Serapis and Osiris. Taught the Egyptians to sow corn and plant vines, and worshipped by them in the form of an ox.

Apollo. The son of Jupiter and Latona, and the god of music, poetry, eloquence, medicine

and the fine arts.

Arach'ne. A Lydian princess, turned into a spider for contending with Minerva at spinning. Arethu'sa. One of Diana's nymphs, who was changed into a fountain.

Ar'gus. The son of Aristor; said to have had a hundred eyes; but being killed by Mercury when appointed by Juno to guard Io, she put his eyes on the tail of a peacock. Also an architect, who built the ship Argo. Ariad'ne. The daughter of Minos, who, from love to Theseus, gave him a clew of thread, to guide him out of the Cretan labyrinth; being afterward deserted by him, she was married to Bacchus, and made his priestess.

Bellerophon. The son of Glaucus, king of Ephyra. He underwent numerous hardships for refusing an intimacy with Sthenoboea, wife of Prætus, the king of Argos. With the aid of the horse Pegasus he destroyed the Chimera. Bello'na. Goddess of war; sister of Mars. Bereni'ce. A Grecian lady; the only person of her sex permitted to see the Olympic games. Boli'na. A nymph rendered immortal for her modesty and resistance to Apollo. Bo'reas. The son of Astræus and Aurora;

the name of the north wind.

Bria'reus. A giant who warred against heaven, and was feigned to have had fifty heads and one hundred arms.

Busi'ris.

The son of Neptune; a tyrant of Egypt, and a monstrous giant, who fed his horses with human flesh; was killed by Hercules. Byb'lis. The daughter of Miletus; she wept herself into a fountain through love of her brother Caunus.

Ca'cus. A son of Vulcan and a most notorious robber; slain by Hercules for stealing his oxen. Cad'mus. The son of Agenor, king of Phoenicia; founder of Thebes, and the reputed inventor of sixteen letters of the Greek alphabet. Cadu'ceus. Mercury's golden rod or wand. Calli'ope. One of the Muses, presiding over eloquence and epic poetry.

Calyp'so. One of the Oceanides, who reigned in the island Ogygia, and entertained and became enamored of Ulysses.

Cama'na, or Carna. Goddess of infants.

eral of the Greeks at the siege of Troy.

Aganip'pe. A fountain at the foot of Mount Helicon, daughter of the river Permessus.

Agla'ia. One of the three Graces.

his voyage to Italy, saved his life from the cruelty of the mariners by means of dolphins, which the sweetness of his music brought together.

Atalanta. A princess of Scyros, who consented to marry that one of her suitors who should outrun her, Hippomenes being the successful competitor.

Atlas. One of the Titans, and king of Mauretania; said to have supported the world on his shoulders; he was turned into a mountain by Perseus.

Auro'ra. The goddess of morning.
Autum'nus. The god of fruits.
Bacchan'tes. Priests of Bacchus.

endowed with the gift of prophecy by Apollo. Castal'ides. The Muses, so called from the fountain Castalius, at the foot of Parnassus. Cas'tor. A son of Jupiter and Leda. He and his twin brother Pollux shared immortality alternately, and were formed into the constellation Gemini.

Ce'crops. The first king of Athens, who instituted marriage, altars and sacrifices. Cen'taurs. Children of Ixion, half men and half horses, inhabiting Thessaly, and vanquished by Theseus.

Cerberus. The three-headed dog of Pluto, guarding the gates of hell.

Ce'res. The daughter of Saturn and Cybele, and goddess of agriculture.

Cha'ron. The son of Erebus and Nox, and ferryman of hell, who conducted the souls of the dead over the rivers Styx and Acheron.

the god of wine.

Bap'ta. The goddess of shame.

Jupiter into a very dangerous gulf or whirlpool on the coast of Sicily.

Son of Titan and Terra, and the strongest of the giants; conspired against Jupiter, and attempted to scale heaven. Endym'ion. A shepherd and astronomer of Caria, condemned to a sleep of thirty years. Epe'us. The artist who made the Trojan horse, inventor of the sword and buckler. Er'ato. The Muse of lyric and amorous poetry. Er'eane. A river whose waters inebriated. Er'ebus. The son of Chaos and Nox; an infernal deity. A river of hell, and often used by the

poets for hell itself.

Eumenides.

E'ros. A name of Cupid.

his time.

Cu'pid. Son of Mars and Venus; the god of love.

Cyb'ele. The daughter of Coelus and Terra; wife of Saturn, and mother of the gods. Cy'clops. Vulcan's workmen, giants who had only one eye, in the middle of their foreheads; slain by Apollo in a pique against Jupiter. Dæd'alus. A most ingenious artificer of Athens, who formed the Cretan labyrinth, and invented the auger, axe, glue, plumb-line, saw, and masts and sails for ships.

Da'mon. The friend of Pythias. Dana'ides, or Belides. The fifty daughters of Danaus, king of Argos, all of whom, except Hypermnestra, killed their husbands on the first night of their marriage, and were therefore doomed to draw water out of a deep well, and eternally pour it into a cask full of holes. Daph'ne. A nymph beloved by Apollo; the daughter of the river Peneus; changed into a laurel tree.

Daph'nis. A shepherd of Sicily and son of Mercury; educated by the nymphs, and inspired by the Muses with the love of poetry. Dar'danus. A son of Jupiter and founder of Troy.

Deida'mia. The daughter of Lycomedes, king of Scyros; wife of Achilles, and mother of Pyrrhus.

Deiph'obus. A son of Priam and Hecuba; married Helena after the death of Paris, but betrayed by her to the Greeks. Dejani'ra. Wife of Hercules, who killed herself in despair, because her husband burnt himself to avoid the torment occasioned by the poisoned shirt she had given him to regain his love. Delphi. A city of Phocis, famous for a temple and an oracle of Apollo. Deucalion. The son of Prometheus, and king of Thessaly, who, with his wife Pyrrha, was preserved from the general deluge, and repeopled the world by throwing stones behind them, as directed by the oracle.

Dian'a. Daughter of Jupiter and Latona, and goddess of hunting, chastity and marriage. Di'do. Founder and queen of Carthage; daughter of Belus, and wife of Sichæus. According to Virgil, she entertained Eneas on his voyage to Italy, and burnt herself through despair, because

he left her.

Diome'des. Son of Tydeus, and king of Etolia; gained great reputation at Troy, and, with Ulysses, carried off the Palladium. Dir'ce. Wife of Lycus, king of Thebes; dragged to death by a mad bull. Dry'ades. Nymphs of the woods.

Ech'o. The daughter of Aer, or Air, and Tellus, who pined away for love of Narcissus.

Euphor bus. The son of Panthous; slain by
Menelaus in the Trojan war.
Euphros'yne. One of the three Graces.
Euro'pa. The daughter of Agenor, carried by
Jupiter, in the form of a white bull, into Crete.
Eury'ale. A queen of the Amazons.
Also one
of the three Gorgons
Eury'alus. A Peloponnesian chief in the Tro-
jan war. Also, a Trojan and a friend of Nisus,
for whose loss Eneas was inconsolable.

Euryd'ice. Wife of Orpheus; killed by a ser-
pent on her marriage day.
Euryl'ochus. One of the companions of
Ulysses; the only one who was not changed by
Circe into a hog

Euter'pe.

One of the Muses, presiding over

music. Evad'ne. Daughter of Mars and Thebe; threw herself on the funeral pyre of her husband, Cata

neus.

Goddess of report, etc.

Fab'ula. Goddess of lies.
Fa'ma.
Fates. Powerful goddesses, who presided over
the birth and the life of mankind, were the three

daughters of Nox and Erebus, named Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos. Clotho was supposed to hold the distaff, Lachesis to draw the thread of human life, and Atropos to cut it off.

Fau'na, and Fatu'a. Names of Cybele. Fau'ni. Rural gods, described as having the legs, feet and ears of goats.

Fau'nus. Son of Mercury and Nox, and father

of the Fauni.

pete, with the faces of virgins, the bodies of vultures, and hands armed with claws.

He'be. The daughter of Juno; goddess of youth, and Jupiter's cup-bearer; banished from heaven on account of an unlucky fall. Hec'tor. The son of Priam and Hecuba; the most valiant of the Trojans, and slain by Achilles.

Hec'uba. The wife of Priam, who tore her eyes out for the loss of her children. The wife of Menelaus, Helena, or Hel'en. and the most beautiful woman of her age, who, running away with Paris, occasioned the Trojan

war.

Hel'enus. A son of Priam and Hecuba, spared by the Greeks for his skill in divination. Helle. The daughter of Athamas, who, flying from her stepmother Ino, was drowned in the Pontic Sea, and gave it the name of Hellespont. Her'cules. The son of Jupiter and Alcmena; the most famous hero of antiquity, remarkable for his great strength and numerous exploits. Her'mes. A name of Mercury. Hermi'one. The daughter of Mars and Venus, and wife of Cadmus; was changed into a serpent. Also, a daughter of Menelaus and Helena, married to Pyrrhus.

He'ro. A beautiful woman of Sestos, in Thrace, and priestess of Venus, whom Leander of Abydos loved so tenderly that he swam over the Hellespont every night to see her; but he, at length, being unfortunately drowned, she threw herself, in despair, into the sea. Hesper'ides. Three nymphs, Egle, Arethusa and Hesperethusa, daughters of Hesperus. They had a garden bearing golden apples, watched by a dragon, which Hercules slew, and bore away the fruit.

Hes'perus. The son of Japetus, and brother to Atlas; changed into the evening star. Hippolytus. The son of Theseus and Antiope, or Hippolyte, who was restored to life by Esculapius, at the request of Diana. Hippom'enes. A Grecian prince, who, beating Atalanta in the race by throwing golden apples before her, married her. They were changed by Cybele into lions.

Hyacin'thus. A beautiful boy, beloved by Apollo and Zephyrus. The latter killed him; but Apollo changed the blood that was spilt into a flower called hyacinth.

Hy'ades. Seven daughters of Atlas and Æthra, changed by Jupiter into seven stars.

blind.

Furies. The three daughters of Nox and Acheron, named Alecto, Tisiphone and Megæra, with hair composed of snakes, and armed with whips, chains, etc.

Galate'a. A sea-nymph, daughter of Nereus and Doris, passionately loved by Polyphemus. Gan'ymede. The son of Tros, King of Troy, whom Jupiter, in the form of an eagle, snatched up and made his cup-bearer. Ge'ryon. A monster, having three bodies and three heads, and who fed his oxen with human flesh, and was therefore killed by Hercules. Gor'dius. A husbandman, but afterward king of Phrygia, remarkable for tying a knot of cords, on which the empire of Asia depended, in so in tricate a manner, that Alexander, unable to unravel it, cut it asunder. Gor'gons. The three daughters of Phorcus and Ceta, named Stheno, Euryale and Medusa. Their bodies were covered with impenetrable scales, their hair entwined with serpents; they had only one eye betwixt them, and they could change into stones those whom they looked on. Gra'ces. Three goddesses, Aglaia, Thalia and

Euphrosyne, represented as beautiful, modest virgins, and constant attendants on Venus. Ha'des. A title of Pluto.

after death.

seven, or, according to some, fifty heads, which infested the Lake Lerna. It was killed by Hercules.

Hy'men. Son of Bacchus and Venus, and god of marriage.

Hyp'erion. Son of Coelus and Terra.
Ica'rius. Son of Ebalus; having received from

Bacchus a bottle of wine, he went into Attica to show men the use of it, but was thrown into a well by some shepherds whom he had made drunk and who thought he had given them poison. Ic'arus. The son of Daedalus, who, flying with his father out of Crete into Sicily, and soaring too high, melted the wax of his wings, and fell into the sea, thence called the Icarian sea. Io. The daughter of Inachus, turned by Jupiter into a white heifer, but afterward resumed her former shape; was worshipped after her death by the Egyptians, under the name of Isis. Iphigeni'a. The daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, who, standing ready as a victim to be sacrificed to appease the ire of Diana, was by that goddess transformed into a white hart and made a priestess.

I'ris. The daughter of Thaumas and Electra ;

one of the Oceanides, and messenger and companion of Juno, who turned her into a rainbow. Ixi'on. A king of Thessaly, and father of the Centaurs. He killed his own sister, and was punished by being fastened in hell to a wheel perpetually turning.

Abderite. Democritus, the original laughing philosopher, was born in Abdera, a Thra cian city. From him a scoffer or person given to continual laughing is called an Abderite.

Abraham's Bosom. The rest of the blessed dead.

Abyla and Calpe, the Pillars of Hercules, the exit from the Mediterranean.

Academics. Plato's disciples were so called from the Academy.

Academy.

(Academe.) Plato founded his school in a gymnasium of this name near Athens. 368 B. C.

Academy, The French. A French scientific body limited to forty members.

Acadia. Formerly the name of Nova Scotia.

Adam's Apple. A part of the throat where, it is said, a piece of the forbidden fruit lodged.

Admirable Crichton, The. James Crichton, an accomplished Scotchman of the sixteenth century.

Admiral. The highest rank in the Navy. Æneid. An epic poem by Virgil. Ages. The five ages of the world according to Hesiod, are the Golden, the Silver, the Brazen, the Heroic and the Iron.

Alabama. A Confederate privateer quilt in England. Sunk by the Kearsarge June 19th, 1864.

Aladdin's Window, To Finish. Trying to complete another's work. Aladdin's palace was perfect except one window left for the Sultan to finish, but his treasure failed him.

Albany Regency. Name applied sixty years ago to some Democrats at Albany, N. Y. Albino. A person with white skin and The Portuguese so called

hair and red eyes. the white negroes. Albion. England, so called from the chalky white cliffs.

Aldine Press. Founded by Aldus Manutius at Venice in 1496. Editions of the classics issued from this press were called the Aldine editions. This term is now applied to some elegant editions of English works.

Alexandrian Library. Was founded by Ptolemy Philadelphus. It contained 700,000 volumes, and was burnt 47 B. C.

Alexandrine Age. 323-640, when Alex. andria was the seat of the highest culture. Alhambra. A magnificent palace and a fortress built by the Moors at Granada, in Spain.

All-Hallows. All Saints' day, Nov. 1st. Allah. Arabic name of God.

Almacks. Assembly room in London where the most exclusively aristocratic balls were given.

Almighty Dollar. A phrase first used by Irving in his Creole Village, and which has become quite common. The title of a play.

Alsatia. A quarter in London where criminals take refuge.

Alto-Relievo. Figures in marble or cast. ings projecting one-half or more from the tablet.

Ambrosia. Food of the Gods.

Anachronism. An error in computing

time.

Anacreontics. Poems composed in the manner of Anacreon, a great poet noted for his exact imitation of nature.

Ancien Regime. The French Government previous to the revolution of 1798. Angling, The Father of. Izaak Walton. Annus Mirabilis. (Wonderful year.) A. D. 1666. Noted for the great fire in London, the Plague, and an English victory over the Dutch.

Antoninus, The Wall of. Was built by the Romans in A. D. 140 across Scotland between the Clyde and the Frith of Forth; an

embankment of earth.

Apollo Belvedere. One of the most beautiful and perfect representations of the human form is the statue of Apollo in the Belvedere Gallery of the Vatican Palace at Rome. The road from Rome to Appian Way. Capua. The oldest Roman road.

Apples of Sodom. Beautiful fruit, but full of ashes. Applied figuratively to the disappointment of sin.

Apple, Golden. Prize for beauty disput ed before Paris, between Juno, Pallas and Venus; awarded by him to Venus.

Arabesque. Decoration in Moorish style. Arcadian. A shepherd; a Greek grazing country named Arcadia has furnished this word to the poets.

Argo. The ship in which Jason and his fifty-four compani ns sailed when going to Colches for the Golden Fleece.

Argonauts. The adventurers on the Argo. Argus-eyed. Crafty, watchful. Argus had a hundred eyes; the jealous Juno put him on detective duty over Io.

Armada, The Spanish. A fleet of 130 ships gathered by Philip of Spain for the invasion of England in 1500. Queen Elizabeth was busy preparing for resistance when the news came that a storm had completely wrecked the Armada.

Artesian Well. Boring in the earth until water is reached that will flow spontane ously. Their first use was in Artois, France. Aryans. The stem of the Indo-European peoples.

Astor Library. Founded by John Jacob Astor in New York City.

Athens, The Modern. Boston.

Augustan Age. As the most flourishing period of the Roman literature was during the time of Augustus, that name is given to any age wherein literature is pre-eminent. Auld Reekie. Scotland. Avalon. Glastonbury. Ayreshire Poet, The. Burns. His birthplace was near Ayr in Scotland.

King Arthur's burial-place,