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Title: The Pantheon, or, Fabulous history of the heathen gods, goddesses, heroes, &c. : explained in a manner entirely new ... adorned with figures from ancient paintings, medals, and gems ... with a dissertation on the theology and mythology of the heathens ...
Year: 1792 (1790s)
Authors: Boyse, Samuel, 1708-1749 Cooke, William, d. 1780
Subjects: Mythology, Classical
Publisher: Dublin : Printed for J. Jones ...
Contributing Library: Duke University Libraries
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ke her fwear by Styx, flie would ufc; him as afriend, otherwife he would kill her. By this means,fae procured the liberty of his companions, and con-tinued a year with Circe, who bore him two cluldren,\\7.. Agrius and Latinus. Circe had a ftpulchre inone of the ifles, called Pharmacufas, near Salamis. Circe was no other than the Egyptian Ifis, whofeHorus, or attending image, every nionth afliimingfome different form, as a human body, with the headof a lion, dog, ferpent, or tortoife, gave rife to thefable of her changing men by her inchantmtnts intothefe animals. Hence the Egyptians gave her thejiame of Circe, which fignifies the iEnigma. Apollo had many other children. iBthufa, thedaughter of Neptune, bore him EUitherus. ByEvadne he had Janus ; by Atria, Miletus, Oaxlus,and Arabus, who gave his name to Arabia ; by Melia,he had Ifmenious and Tosnarus ; by Aglaia, Theftor ;by Manto, Mopfus; by Anathrippe, Chius; byAchalide, he had Delphus, and many others tootedious to enumerate. CHAP.
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Tl^ E HEATHEN GODS. yj CHAP. XXXI. OF THE MUSES, AND PEGASUS, THE GRACES, AND THE SYRENS. 1 H E S E celebrated goddefies, the Mufes, weret-he daughters of Jupiter and Mnemofyne, thoughfeme think them born ofCoeius, Their number atfirft WIS only three or-four (3), but Homer andUefiod have fixed it at nine (4), which it has neverfince exceeded. They v^/ere born on mount Kie-ru€,and educated by the nymph Euphcme. They had many appellaiions common to them all,as Pierides, from the place of their birth ; Heliconi-des, ft-om moant Helicon, in Boeotia ; Pernaffides,fr-om t-he hii4 of Parnafiiis, in Phocie ; Citherides,from mount Cithe-ron, a place they much frequented jAouides. from Aonia ; Hippocranide?, Agannipides,and Caftftlide;, from difiVrent fountains confecratedto them, or to vvhich they were fuppofed to refort. I« general they were the tutelar goddeffijs of allfacred feffcivais and ban^uets, and the patronefies ofall polite and ufeful arts. They fupported virtue indiftrefs, aTui

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