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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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XII. OF THE HARPIES. J HE next group of figures we meet in the fhadowyrealms are the Harpies, who were three in number,Celeno, Aello, and Ocypete, the daughters of Oce-anus and Ten a. They lived in Thrace, had the facesof virgins, the ears of bears, the bodies of vultures,with human arms and feet, and long claws. Pheneus,king of Arcadia, for revealing the myfteries of Jupi-ter, was fo tormented by them, tha he was ready toperifii for hunger, they devouring whatever was fetbefore him, till the fons of Bortas, who attendedJafon in his expedition to Colchis, delivered the goodold king, and drove thefe monfters to the ifiandscalled Echinades, compelling them to fwear to returnlio more. This fable is of the fame original with the formerone. During the months of April, May, and June,efpecially the two latter, Egypt was greatly fubjedto ftormy winds, which laid wafte their olive grounds,and brought numerous fwarms of grafhoppers and other (i) From Pare, or Paroket, a cloth, curtain, or fail.
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J THE HEATHEN GODS. 51 •thcr troubleiome infeds from the fhores oi the RedSea, which did infinite damage to the country. TheEgyptians therefore gave figures which proclaimedthefe three months, a female face, with the. bodiesand claws of birds, and called them Harop (2), anda name which fufficiently denoted the true ftJife ofthe fymbol. Ail this the Greeks realized, ar.d c.ii-bellifhed in their way. CHAP. XXIII. OF CHARON AND CERBERU£. C_>iHARON, according to Hefiods theogany, wa?the fon of Erebus and Nox, the parents of thegreateft part of the infernal monfters. His poll wasto ferry the fouls of the deceafed over the waters ofAcheron. His fare was never under one half-penny,nor exceeding three, which were put in the mouthof the perfons interred; for as to fuch bodies whowere denied funeral rites, their ghofts were forced towander an hundred years on the banks of the river,Virgils JEneid, VI. 330, before they could be ad-mitted to a paffage. The Hermonicnfes alone claimeda free p

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