P. 238.—“Ceres.” The Demeter of the Romans, the goddess who presided over grain and the harvest. “Fauns.” The rural divinities of the Romans. They were supposed to have introduced the worship of the gods and agriculture. They are represented as possessed of horns, and having the figure of a goat below the waist. “Courser’s birth.” The reference is to the creation of the horse by Neptune. It is said that Neptune and Minerva (Athene) contested for the honor of naming Attica. The gods decided that it should be the one who should give the most useful gift to man. Neptune struck the ground with his trident and the horse appeared. Athene created the olive tree; the latter received the honor. “Pallas.” A name frequently given to Athene. “Cypress.” The cypress was sacred to Pluto, the god of the lower world. P. 239—“Thule.” The land which in the time of Alexander the Great was believed to be the northernmost part of Europe. “Fasces,” făsˈsēz. An emblem of authority among the Romans. It was an ax tied up in a bundle of rods. “Balance.” The constellation Libra, or the Scales. It lies in the Zodiac between the Virgin and the Scorpion. “Elysium,” e-lĭzˈĭ-um. A dwelling place for the good after death. “Proserpine,” pro-serˈpine. The daughter of Ceres, who was carried off by Pluto, to Hades. Her mother, discovering that Jupiter had given consent to the abduction, withdrew from Olympus, and did not allow the earth to bring forth fruit. Jupiter tried to dissuade her, but failing, sent for Proserpine. She returned, but as she had eaten in the lower world could not remain all the time on earth, but was obliged to spend one-third of the year with Pluto. P. 254.—“Æolus,” æˈo-lus. The god of the winds. “Sarpedon,” sar-peˈdon. A son of Jupiter and a prince of Lycia. He was an ally of the Trojans in the Trojan war, but was slain by Patroclus, the friend of Achilles. “Simois.” One of the prominent rivers in the country of Troy. P. 255.—“Orontes,” o-ronˈtes. A Lycian leader and ally of the Trojans; “Aletes,” a-lēˈ-tes; “Abas,” aˈbas; “Achates,” a-chaˈtes. P. 258.—“Harpalyce,” har-palˈy-ce. A Thracian princess whose mother died in her infancy. She was trained to outdoor exercise and sports, and on the death of her father she turned robber. She lived in the woods and was so fleet that not even horses could overtake her. P. 262.—“Amaracus,” a-marˈa-cus. The sweet marjoram or feverfew. P. 263.—“Acidalian.” Venus was sometimes called _Acidalia_, from a well, Acidalius, in Greece, where she used to bathe with the Graces. P. 264.—“Demodocus.” In Ulysses’s wanderings, after the fall of Troy, he was thrown on the island of Scheria, where the king of the people, the Phæacians, honored him with feasts, at which Demodocus, a minstrel, sang of the fall of Troy. P. 266.—“Danaan,” danˈa-an. Danaus, the name from which this word is derived, was a former king of Argos. P. 270.—“Thessander,” thes-sanˈder.