and the deity brought that Attic knife from Attika, which long before murdered Itylos, when his mother Prokne (Procne) with heart like a lioness, helped by murderous Philomele, cut with steel the throat of the beloved child of her womb, and served up his own son for cannibal Tereus to...
In Arabic astronomy the twins were seen as peacocks. In Egyptian astrology they were twin goats, or else the two gods, Horus the Elder and Horus the Younger, while classical Greek mythology identified them as the twin brothers, Castor and Pollux, aka The Gemini, from the Latin word for twi...
. . Eros went on killing the beasts, until he was weary of the bowstring and hitting the grim face of a panther or the snout of a bear; then he caught a lioness alive with the allbewitching cestus, and dragged the beast away showed her fettered to his merry mother . . . he ...
Meaning: One who is clear or pure; from the Greek word for moon or moonlight. Selene was an ancient Greek goddess of the moon, a daughter of Gaia and Ouranos. Selene is also a character on “Xena: Warrior Princess”. 100. Sophronia Meaning: One of the Muses; also means a gift to ...
(now, I don't know what they were expecting meeting at a dead dude's house). So Thisbe got there first, and then this lioness dragged up an ox she was eating and Thisbe totally wigged out and booked out. Of course, she also dropped her scarf, which the lioness nuzzled. To make ...
ess- female- goddess, lioness, actress et, ette- small one, group- midget, baronet, sextet, lorgnette fic- making, causing- scientific, specific ful- full of- frightful, careful, helpful fy- make - beautify, fortify, simplify hood- order, condition, quality- manhood, adulthood ic- nature...
[i.e. her accursed weapon], which long before murdered Itylos (Itylus), when his mother Prokne (Procne) with heart like a lioness, helped by murderous Philomele, cut with steel the throat of the beloved child of her womb, and served up his own son for cannibal Tereus to eat. This...
"[Troops of Dionysos wander trhough the Indian wilds :] The people retired into the recesses of the forest, and entered their huts. The rustic Panes housed themselves under shelter in the ravines, for they occupied at evening time the natural caverns of a lioness in the wilds. The Satyro...
. . He has stricken a lioness lately delivered and had left her in the empty lair, but had brought her cubs and was making them show their claws. Yet when he sees his mother on the well-known threshold, away he throws them, catches her up and binds her in his longing arms, already...
A whale of the deep sea leaped about the hills and sought the cave of the earthbedded lioness . . . As the irresistible torrent swelled on and on, every city, every nation was a flood; not one corner was undrenched, not one hill was then bare--not the peak of Ossa, not the top...