HEC'ATE, Diana's name in hell. HECTOR, a son of Priam and Hecuba, and the most valiant of all the Trojans.

HEC'UBA, the wife of Priam.

HEGE'SIUS, a philosopher of Cyrene, who described the miseries of life with such a gloomy eloquence, that many of his auditors killed themselves through despair.

HELENA, the wife of Menelaus, the most beautiful woman in the world, who, running away with Paris, occasioned the Trojan war. HEL'ENUS, a son of Priam and Hecuba. HEL'ICON, a famous mountain of Boeotia, dedicated to Apollo and the Muses.

HERA'IA, sacrifices to Juno.

HER'CULES, the son of Jupiter and Alcmena, remarkable for his numerous exploits and dangerous enterprises.

HERIBE'IA, the wife of Astreus.
HER'MÆ, statues of Mercury.
HER'MES, a name of Mercury.

HERMIONE, a daughter of Mars and Venus, married to Cadmus; also a daughter of Menelaus and Helena, married to Pyrrhus.

HE'RO, a beautiful woman of Sestos, in Thrace, priestess of Venus; Leander, of Abydos,|| loved her so tenderly, that he swam over the Hellespont every night to see her; but being at length unfortunately drowned, she threw herself into the sea, through despair.

HEROD'OTUS, a very famous historian of
Halicarnassus.

HEROPH'ILA, the Erythræan sybil.
HERSILIA, the wife of Romulus.

HY'ADES, the seven daughters of Atlas and Ethra; Ambrosia, Eudora, Coronis, Pasithoe, Plexaris, Pytho, and Tvche. They were changed by Jupiter into 7 stars.

HY'BLA, a mountain in Sicily, universally famous for its thyme and bees.

HY'DRA, a serpent, which had seven heads, or as some say, nine, others fifty, killed by Hercules in the lake Lerna.

HYGEIA, the goddess of health.
HYL'LUS, the son of Hercules and Dejanira.
HY'MEN, the god of marriage.

HYPERION, a son of Cœlus and Terra. HYPSIP'YLE, a queen of Lemnos, who was banished for preserving her father when all the other men of the island were murdered by their kindred.

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IAC'CHUS, a name of Bacchus.
IAN'THE, the beautiful wife of Iphis.
IAP'ETUS, a son of Cœlum and Terra.
IAR'BAS, a cruel king of Mauritania.

ICA'RIUS, the son of Oebalus, who, having received from Bacchus a bottle of wine, went into Attica, to show men the use of it; but, making some shepherds drunk, they thought he had given them poison, and therefore threw him into a well.

IC'ARUS, the son of Dædalus, who, flying with his father out of Crete into Sicily, and soaring too high, melted the wax of his wings, and fell into the sea, thence called the Icarian

sea.

I'DA, a mountain near Troy.

IDE'A MATER, a name of Cybele.
IDE'I DACT'YLI, priests of Cybele.
IDA'LIA, a name of Venus.
ID'MON, a famous soothsayer.
IDO'THEA, Jupiter's nurse.

IL'IONE, the eldest daughter of Priam.
ILIS'SUS, a river in Attica.

I'LUS, the son of Tros and Callirrhoe, from whom Troy was called Ilium.

IMPERA"TOR, a name of Jupiter.
IN'ACHIS and I'SES, names of In.
I'NO, daughter of Cadmus and Hermiones,
and wife of Athamas.

INTERCIDO'NA, a goddess of breeding wo

men.

INTERDU'CA, and JU'GA, names of Juno, IN'UUS, and INC'UBUS, names of Pan. I'O, daughter of Inachus, transformed by JuHES PERUS, or VESPER, the evening star.||piter, into a white heifer; but afterwards, HESPERIDES, the daughters of Hesperus resuming her former shape, was worshipped Egle, Arethusa, and Hesperethusa, who had a as a goddess by the Egyptians, under the name garden bearing golden apples, watched by a of Isis. dragon, which Hercules slew, and bore away the fruit.

HE'SUS, a name of Mars among the Gauls. HIP'PIAS, a philosopher of Elis. HIPPOCAM'PI, Neptune's horses. HIPPOCRENE, a fountain at the bottom of mount Helicon, dedicated to Apollo.

IPH'ICLUS, the twin brother of Hercules. IPHIGE'NIA, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, who, standing as a victim ready to be sacrificed to appease the rage of Diana, was, by that goddess transformed into a white hart, carried to Tauris. and made her priestess. I'PHIS, a prince of Cyprus, who hanged himself for love; also a daughter of Lygdas. IPH'ITUS, son of Praxonides, who instituted

HIPPOLYTUS, the son of Theseus and Antiope or Hippolyte, who refused intimacies with his stepmother Phædra. At the request of Di-Olympic games to Hercules. ana, Esculapius restored him to life, after he had been thrown from his chariot, and dragged through the woods till he was torn in pieces. HIPPO'NA, the goddess of horses and stables. HISTORIA, the goddess of history. HORTEN'SIS, a name of Venus. HO'RUS, a title of the sun.

I'RIS, the daughter of Thaumas; she was Juno's favourite companion, and her messenger on affairs of discord, &c.

HOSTILI'NA, a goddess of corn.

I'TYS, the son of Tereus and Progne, murdered and served up by his mother at a banquet before Tereus, in revenge for his having forcibly defloured her sister Philomela.

IXI'ON, the son of Phlegyas, who was fasten

ed in hell to a wheel perpetually turning round,[ for boasting that he had lain with Juno.

JANITOR, and JUNO'NIUS, titles of Janus. JA'NUS, the first king of Italy, son of Apollo and Creusa.

JA'SON, a Thessalian prince, son of Eson, who by Medea's help brought away the golden fleece from Colchis.

JOCAS'TA, the daughter of Creon, who unwittingly married her own son Edipus. JU'NO, the sister and wife of Jupiter. JU'NO INFER'NA, a name of Proserpine. JUNO'NESS, guardian angels of women. JUPITER, a son of Saturn and Ops, the supreme deity of the heathens.

JUPITER SECUN'DUS, a name of Neptune. JUPITER TERTIUS, INFER'NUS, or STY'GIUS, several appellations given to Pluto. JUVEN'TA, a goddess of youths.

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LA'CHESIS, one of the three Fates.
LACINIA, and LUCIL'IA, titles of Juno.
LACTU'RA, or LACTUCINA, a goddess of

corn.

LÆSTRIG'ONES, cannibals of Italy, who | roasted and ate the companions of Ulysses. LA'IUS, a king of Thebes, killed unwittingly by his own son Edipus.

LA'MIÆ, a name of the Gorgons.

LAOC'OON, a son of Priam, and high-priest of Apollo; he and his two sons were killed by serpents for opposing the reception of the wooden horse into Troy.

LA'PIS, or LAPID'EUS, titles of Jupiter. LA'RES, sons of Mercury and Lara, worshipped as household gods.

LATERA'NUS, a household god.
LAVER'NA, a goddess of thieves.
LEAN'DER. See Hero.

LE'DA, daughter of Thestias, and wife of
Tyndarus, seduced by Jupiter in the shape of a

wan.

LEMONI'ADES, nymphs of meadows, &c.
LE'NE, priestesses of Bacchus.

LER'NA, a marsh of Argos, famous for nydra, killed there by Hercules.

MENTOR, the governor of Telemachus. MERCURY, the messenger of the gods, inventor of letters, and god of eloquence, mer chandise, and robbers.

MER'OPE, one of the seven Pleiades.

MI'DAS, a king of Phrygia, who entertaining Bacchus, or, as some say, Silenus, had the power given him of turning whatever he touched into gold.

MI'LO, a wrestler of remarkable strength.
MIMAL'LONES, attendants on Bacchus.
MINERVA, the goddess of wisdom.
MI'NOS, a king of Crete, made, for his extra-
ordinary justice, a judge of hell.

MINOTAUR, a monster, half man, half beast.
MIN'Y Æ, a name of the Argonauts.
MNEMOS'YNE, the goddess of memory.
MO'MUS, the god of raillery, wit, &c.
MONETA, a title of Juno.

MORPHEUS, the god of sleep, dreams, &c.
MORS, the goddess of death.
MUL'CIBER, a title of Vulcan.

MU'SES, nine daughters of Jupiter and Mnemosyne, born on mount Pierius, mistresses of all the sciences, presidents of musicians, and poets, and governesses of the feasts of the gods; Calaliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia, and Urania. MU'TA, the goddess of silence.

LETHE, a river of hell, whose waters caused a total forgetfulness of things past.

LEVA'ÑA, a goddess of new born infants.
LIBITI'NA, the goddess of funerals.
LINUS, son of Apollo and Terpsichore.
LUBEN'TIA, the goddess of pleasure.
LUCIFER, son of Jupiter and Aurora, made
the morning star.

LU'NA, Diana's name in heaven.
LUPERCA'LIA, feasts in honour of Pan.
LUPER CI, priests of Pan.

N

NÆNIA, the goddess of funeral songs. NA'IADES, nymphs of rivers, &c. NARCIS'SUS, a very beautiful youth, who, falling in love with his own shadow in the water, pined away into a daffodil.

NA'TIO, and NUNDI'NA, goddesses of in

LYCA'ON, a king of Arcadia, turned by Ju-fants. piter into a wolf.

M

MA'IA, loved by Jupiter, and by him turned into a star to avoid Juno's rage. MANAGENE TA, a goddess of women in

labour.

MANTU'RA, a goddess of corn.
MANTUR'NA, and ME'NA, nuptial

desses.

NEME'A, a country of Elis, famed for a
terrible lion killed there by Hercules.
NEM'ESIS, the goddess of revenge.
NEPTUNE the god of the sea.
NE'REIDES, sea nymphs.
NE'RIO, the wife of Mars.
NICEPH'ORUS, a title of Jupiter.
NI'NUS, the first king of the Assyrians.

NI'OBE, daughter of Tantalus and wife of
Amphion, who, preferring herself to Latona,
god-had her 14 children killed by Diana and Apollo,
and wept herself into a statue.
NO'MIUS, a name of Apollo.

MARI'NA, MEL'ANIS, MER'ETRIX, MIGONITIS, and MUR'CIA, titles of Venus MARS, the god of war.

NOX, the most ancient of all the deities; she Rwas even reckoned older than Chaos.

PHA'ETON, son of Sol (Apollo) and Cly. mene, who asked the guidance of his father's chariot for one day, as a proof of his divine deOB'SEQUENS, a title of Fortuna. scent; but unable to manage the horses, set the OCCATOR, the god of harrowing. world on fire, and was therefore struck by Ju OCEANUS, an ancient seagod. piter with a thunderbolt into the river Po. OCYP'ETE, one of the three Harpies. PHAL'LICA, feasts of Bacchus. CED'IPUS, son of Laius and Jocasta, and PHILAM'MON, a skilful musician. king of Thebes, who solved the riddle of the PHILOME'LA, daughter of Pandion, king of Sphinx, unwittingly killed his father, married Athens, who was ravished by her brother-inhis mother, and at last ran mad, and tore outlaw, Tereus, and was changed into a nightinhis eyes.

OM'PHALE, a queen of Lydia, with whon
Hercules was so enamoured, that she made him
submit to spinning and other unbecoming offices.
OPER TUS, a name of Pluto.
OPI'GENA, a name of Juno.
OPS, a namie of Cybele.

ORBO'NA, a goddess of grown persons.
ORESTES, the son of Agamemnon.
ORION, a great and mighty hunter.
ORPHEUS, son of Jupiter and Calliope, who
had great skill in music, and was torn in pieces,
by the Mænades, for disliking the company of
women after the death of his wife Eurydice.
ORYTHIA, a queen of the Amazons.
OSIRIS. See Apis.

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PAC"TOLUS, a river of Lydia, with golden| sands and medicinal waters.

PA'AN, and PHŒ'BUS, names of Apollo. PA'LES, the goddess of shepherds. PALIL'IA, feasts in bonour of Pales. PALLA'DIUM, a statue of Minerva, which the Trojans imagined fell from heaven, and that their city could not be taken whilst that remained in it.

PAL'LAS, and PY'LOTIS, names of Mi

nerva.

gale.

PHIN'EAS, son of Agenor, and king of Paphlagonia, who had his eyes torn out by Boreas, but was recompensed with the knowledge of futurity; also a king of Thrace, turned into a stone by Perseus, by the help of Medusa's head. PHLEG'ETHON, a boiling river of hell. PHLE'GON, one of the four horses of Sol. PHLEG'YE, a people of Boeotia, destroyed by Neptune, on account of their piracies and other crimes.

PHOEBAS, the priestess of Apollo.
PHOEBUS, a title of Apollo.

PHOENIX, son of Amyntor, who, being falsely accused of having attempted the honour of one of his father's concubines, was condemned to have his eyes torn out; but was cured by Chiron, and went with Achilles to the siege of Troy.

PICUM'NUS, a rural god.

PILUM'NUS, a god of breeding women.
PIN'DUS, a mountain of Thessaly.
PITHO, a goddess of eloquence.

PLEIADES, the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione; Mala, Electra, Taygete, Asterope, Merope, Halcyone, and Celaeno; they were changed into stars.

PLUTO, the god of hell.
PLUTUS, the god of riches.
POL'LUX. See CASTOR.

POLYD'AMAS, a famous wrestler.
POLYD'IUS, a famous prophet and physi

PAN, the god of shepherds.
PANDO'RA, the first woman made by Vulcian.
can, and endowed with gifts by all the deities;
Jupiter gave her a box containing all manner
of evils, war, famine, &c. with hope at the
bottom.

PAN'OPE, one of the Nereides.
PA'PHIA, a title of Venus.
PARCE, a name of the Fates.

PARIS, or AL'EXANDER, son of Priam and Hecuba, a most beautiful youth, who ran away with Helena, and occasioned the Trojan war.

PARNASSUS, a mountain of Phocis, famous for a temple of Apollo, and being the favourite residence of the Muses.

PAR TUNDA, a muptial goddess.
PASTOPH'ORI, priests of Isis.
PAT'AREUS, a title of Apollo.

PATELINA, a goddess of corn.

PATULA CIUS, a name of Janus.
PATULE'IUS, a name of Jupiter.

POLYHYM'NIA, the muse of rhetoric.
POLYPHE'MUS, a monstrous giant, son of
Neptune, with but one eye in the middle of his
forehead.

POMO'NA, the goddess of fruits and autumn.
POSEIDON, a name of Neptune.
PRÆNESTINA, a name of Fortuna.
PRÆSTES, a title of Jupiter and Minerva.
PRAXIT'ELES, a famous statuary.

PRI'AM, son of Laomedon, and father of Paris, Hector, &c.; he was the last king of Troy. PROG'NE, wife of Tereus, king of Thrace, and sister to Philomela; she was turned into a swallow.

PROMETHEUS, son of Iapetus, who animated a man that he had formed of clay, with fire, which, by the assistance of Minerva, he stole from heaven, and was therefore chained by Jupiter to mount Caucasus, with a vulture conti

PAVEN'TIA, and POLI'NA, goddesses of in-nually preying on his liver.

fants.

PEGASUS, a winged horse belonging to Apollo aud the Muses.

PELLO'NIA, a goddess of grown persons. PENATES, small statues or household gods. PENELOPE, daughter of Icarus, celebrated] for her chastity and fidelity during the long absence of Ulysses.

PER'SEUS, son of Jupiter and Danae, who performed many extraordinary exploits by means of Medusa's head.

PHÆCASIA'M, ancient gods of Greece.

PROPYLE'A, a name of Hecate. PROSERPINĖ, the wife of Pluto. PROTEUS, a seagod, who could transform himself into any shape.

PSY'CHE, the goddess of pleasure. PYL'ADES, the constant friend of Orestes. PYR'AMUS, and THIS'BE, two lovers, of Babylon, who killed themselves with the same sword, and occasioned the turning the berries of the mulberry-tree, under which they died, from white to red.

PYROE'TIS, one of the four horses of the Sun.