61 His mother, Thetis, the
daughter
of Nereus and Doris, who was
courted by Neptune and Jupiter.
courted by Neptune and Jupiter.
Iliad - Pope
"
So Proverbs v. 3, "For the lips of a strange woman drop as an
honey-comb. "
59 Salt water was chiefly used in lustrations, from its being supposed
to possess certain fiery particles. Hence, if sea-water could not be
obtained, salt was thrown into the fresh water to be used for the
lustration. Menander, in Clem. Alex. vii. p. 713, hydati perriranai,
embalon alas, phakois.
60 The persons of heralds were held inviolable, and they were at
liberty to travel whither they would without fear of molestation.
Pollux, Onom. viii. p. 159. The office was generally given to old
men, and they were believed to be under the especial protection of
Jove and Mercury.
61 His mother, Thetis, the daughter of Nereus and Doris, who was
courted by Neptune and Jupiter. When, however, it was known that the
son to whom she would give birth must prove greater than his father,
it was determined to wed her to a mortal, and Peleus, with great
difficulty, succeeded in obtaining her hand, as she eluded him by
assuming various forms. Her children were all destroyed by fire
through her attempts to see whether they were immortal, and Achilles
would have shared the same fate had not his father rescued him. She
afterwards rendered him invulnerable by plunging him into the waters
of the Styx, with the exception of that part of the heel by which
she held him. Hygin. Fab. 54
62 Thebe was a city of Mysia, north of Adramyttium.
63 That is, defrauds me of the prize allotted me by their votes.
64 Quintus Calaber goes still further in his account of the service
rendered to Jove by Thetis:
"Nay more, the fetters of Almighty Jove
She loosed"--Dyce's "Calaber," s. 58.
65 --_To Fates averse. _ Of the gloomy destiny reigning throughout the
Homeric poems, and from which even the gods are not exempt, Schlegel
well observes, "This power extends also to the world of gods-- for
the Grecian gods are mere powers of nature--and although immeasurably
higher than mortal man, yet, compared with infinitude, they are on
an equal footing with himself. "--'Lectures on the Drama' v. p. 67.
66 It has been observed that the annual procession of the sacred ship
so often represented on Egyptian monuments, and the return of the
deity from Ethiopia after some days' absence, serves to show the
Ethiopian origin of Thebes, and of the worship of Jupiter Ammon.
So Proverbs v. 3, "For the lips of a strange woman drop as an
honey-comb. "
59 Salt water was chiefly used in lustrations, from its being supposed
to possess certain fiery particles. Hence, if sea-water could not be
obtained, salt was thrown into the fresh water to be used for the
lustration. Menander, in Clem. Alex. vii. p. 713, hydati perriranai,
embalon alas, phakois.
60 The persons of heralds were held inviolable, and they were at
liberty to travel whither they would without fear of molestation.
Pollux, Onom. viii. p. 159. The office was generally given to old
men, and they were believed to be under the especial protection of
Jove and Mercury.
61 His mother, Thetis, the daughter of Nereus and Doris, who was
courted by Neptune and Jupiter. When, however, it was known that the
son to whom she would give birth must prove greater than his father,
it was determined to wed her to a mortal, and Peleus, with great
difficulty, succeeded in obtaining her hand, as she eluded him by
assuming various forms. Her children were all destroyed by fire
through her attempts to see whether they were immortal, and Achilles
would have shared the same fate had not his father rescued him. She
afterwards rendered him invulnerable by plunging him into the waters
of the Styx, with the exception of that part of the heel by which
she held him. Hygin. Fab. 54
62 Thebe was a city of Mysia, north of Adramyttium.
63 That is, defrauds me of the prize allotted me by their votes.
64 Quintus Calaber goes still further in his account of the service
rendered to Jove by Thetis:
"Nay more, the fetters of Almighty Jove
She loosed"--Dyce's "Calaber," s. 58.
65 --_To Fates averse. _ Of the gloomy destiny reigning throughout the
Homeric poems, and from which even the gods are not exempt, Schlegel
well observes, "This power extends also to the world of gods-- for
the Grecian gods are mere powers of nature--and although immeasurably
higher than mortal man, yet, compared with infinitude, they are on
an equal footing with himself. "--'Lectures on the Drama' v. p. 67.
66 It has been observed that the annual procession of the sacred ship
so often represented on Egyptian monuments, and the return of the
deity from Ethiopia after some days' absence, serves to show the
Ethiopian origin of Thebes, and of the worship of Jupiter Ammon.
