Chapter LV: Act V (5)

POLYNĪCES (_Phoenissae_), son of Oedipus and Jocasta; wronged by his brother Eteocles in the matter of the kingdom of Thebes, he fled to Adrastus, king of Argos, who gave him refuge and made him his son-in-law. To avenge Polynices, Adrastus marched against Thebes with an army headed by seven famous chiefs of Greece, _Phoen._ 58, 320; Oedipus prophesies this fraternal strife and predicts that the brothers will slay each other, _ibid._ 273, 334, 355; remains in exile at the court of Adrastus three years before returning against Thebes to enforce his rights, _ibid._ 370, *502; the hardships of his exile described, _ibid._ *586; appears before the walls of Thebes at the head of an army, _ibid._ 387; the battle pauses while Jocasta appeals to her sons, _ibid._ 434. See ETEOCLES.

POLYXENA, a daughter of Priam and Hecuba, one of the captive Trojan women; the ghost of Achilles, who in life had been enamored of her, and with whom both Priam and Hector had had negotiations touching the maiden, appears to the Greeks and demands that she be now sacrificed on the tomb of Achilles, _Tro._ 170; Calchas ratifies her doom, _ibid._ 360; Helen announces this fate to her, and she receives it with joy, _ibid._ 945; her death described in detail by a messenger, _ibid._ *1117; she is described as gaily leading the Trojan maidens in a dance about the wooden horse, unconscious of the doom so soon to come to her, _Agam._ 641.

POPPAEA (_Octavia_), one of the most beautiful and unscrupulous women of her time; she was first married to Rufus Crispinus, a prefect of pretorian cohorts under Claudius; she abandoned him for Otho, and him, in turn, she left to become the mistress of Nero, and the rival of Nero's wife, Octavia, _Oct._ 125; in order to further her schemes she influenced Nero to murder his mother, _ibid._ 126; demanded the death of Octavia, _ibid._ 131; with child by Nero, _ibid._ 188, 591; her rejection by Nero prophesied, _ibid._ 193; her beauty lauded by Nero, who announced her as his next wife, _ibid._ 544; her wedding with Nero cursed by the ghost of Agrippina, _ibid._ 595; her marriage described, _ibid._ *698; is terrified by strange dream of Agrippina's ghost, and of her former husband, Crispinus, _ibid._ *712.

PRIAM, king of Troy; in his youth, at the first taking of Troy, he was spared by Hercules and allowed to retain the throne, _Tro._ 719; pictured as viewing the contending hosts from the battlements of Troy in company with his little grandson, Astyanax, _ibid._ *1068; sues to Achilles for the dead body of Hector, _ibid._ 315, 324; his city destroyed through the baleful power of love, _Oct._ 817; description of his death at the hands of Pyrrhus, _Tro._ *44; _Agam._ 655; he fell before the altar of Hercean Jove, _Agam._ 448, 792; pathetic contrast of his death with his former greatness, _Tro._ 140.

PROCNE, daughter of Pandion, and wife of Tereus, king of Thrace; she, in revenge for the outrage upon her sister, Philomela, committed by her husband, served to him his own son, Itys, _H. Oet._ 953; _Agam._ 673; _Thy._ 275.

PROCRUSTES, a famous robber of Attica, killed by Theseus, _Hip._ 1170; _Thy._ 1050.

PROETIDES, daughters of Proetus, king of Argolis; they counted themselves more beautiful than Juno, and also refused to worship Bacchus. The god drove them to a madness in which they thought themselves cows, and went wandering through the woods. This act won for him the favor of Juno, _Oed._ 486.

PROMĒTHEUS, a son of Iapetus and Clymene; he gave the gift of fire to mortals, _Med._ 821; for this act he was bound by Jove's command to a crag of Mount Caucasus, where an eagle fed upon his ever-renewed vitals, _H. Fur._ 1206; _Med._ 709; _H. Oet._ 1378.

PROSERPINA, daughter of Ceres and Jupiter; stolen away by Pluto and made his queen in hades, _Med._ 12; _H. Fur._ 1105; sought in vain by her mother over the whole world, _ibid._ 659; Pirithoüs and Theseus attempted to steal her away from the lower world, _Hip._ 95.

PROTEUS, son of Oceanus and Tethys, shepherd and guardian of the sea-calves, _Hip._ 1205.

PYLADES, son of Strophius, king of Phocis, and one of the sisters of Agamemnon; he accompanied his father as charioteer on the occasion of Strophius' visit to Argos just after Agamemnon's murder; they take Orestes away and so save him from death, _Agam._ 940.

PYROMANTĪA, soothsaying by means of fire, practiced by Tiresias in his effort to discover the murderer of Laïus, _Oed._ *307.

PYRRHA, the sister of Deucalion, saved with him from the flood, _Tro._ 1038. See DEUCALION.

PYRRHUS (_Troades_), a son of the young Achilles and Deïdamia, the daughter of Lycomedes, king of Scyros; born on the island of Scyros, _Tro._ 339; quarreled with Ulysses inside the wooden horse, _Agam._ 635; slew old Priam, _Tro._ 44, 310.

PYTHON, a huge serpent or dragon that sprang from the slime of the earth after the flood had subsided; slain by Apollo, _H. Oet._ 93; _Med._ 700.

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RHADAMANTHUS, a son of Jupiter and Europa, and brother of Minos; he was made one of three judges in hades, _H. Fur._ 734.

RHESUS, a king of Thrace who came, late in the Trojan War, to the aid of Priam; there was an oracle that Troy could never be taken if the horses of Rhesus should drink the waters of the Xanthus, and feed upon the grass of the Trojan plain; this oracle was frustrated by Ulysses and Diomedes, _Agam._ 216.

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SATURN, son of Coelus and Terra, who succeeded to his father's kingdom of the heavens and earth; the golden age was said to have been in his reign, _Oct._ 395; had been dethroned by his three sons, Jupiter, Neptune, and Pluto, who divided up his kingdom among themselves; he is conceived of as chained in hades by Pluto, _H. Oet._ 1141; Hercules threatens to unchain him against Jove unless the latter grant him a place in heaven, _H. Fur._ 965.

SCALES (_Libra_), the zodiacal constellation marking the autumnal equinox, _H. Fur._ 842.

SCIRON, a celebrated robber in Attica, who threw his victims over the cliffs into the sea; he was slain by Theseus, _Hip._ 1023, 1225.

SCORPION, one of the zodiacal constellations, _Thy._ 859.

SCYLLA, one of the two shipwrecking monsters in the Sicilian Strait, _H. Fur._ 376; _H. Oet._ 235; _Med._ 350, 407; _Thy._ 579. See CHARYBDIS.

SCYTHIA, a name given by the ancients to a portion of northern Asia of indefinite extent; a description of its nomadic tribes, frozen streams, changing aspect of the country with the changing seasons, _H. Fur._ *533.

SEMELE, a Theban princess, daughter of Cadmus, beloved of Jove by whom she became the mother of Bacchus, _H. Fur._ 16; she was blasted by a thunderbolt while the child, Bacchus, was still unborn, _H. Fur._ 457; _H. Oet._ 1804. See BACCHUS.

SENECA (_Octavia_), introduced into the play in the character of Nero's counselor, _Oct._ 377; he recalls his life in exile in Corsica, and considers it far happier and safer than his present life, _ibid._ 381; he strives in vain to prevent the marriage of Nero and Poppaea, _ibid._ 695.

SERES, a nation of Asia, supposed to be identical with the Chinese; they gather silken threads (spun by the silkworm) from trees, _H. Oet._ 666; _Hip._ 389.

SILĀNUS, L. Junius, praetor in A.D. 49; he was the betrothed husband of Octavia, but put out of the way by court intriguers that Octavia might marry Nero, _Oct._ 145.

SILĒNUS, a demigod, the foster-father and constant attendant of Bacchus, _Oed._ 429.

SINIS, a giant robber of the Isthmus of Corinth, who bent down treetops and, fixing his victims to these, shot them through the air; he was slain by Theseus, _H. Oet._ 1393; _Hip._, 1169, 1223.

SINON, a Greek warrior, who deceived the Trojans as to the character and purpose of the wooden horse, and so procured the downfall of Troy, _Tro._ 39; _Agam._ *626.

SIPYLUS, a mountain in Phrygia, on whose top Niobe, changed to stone, was said to sit and weep eternally over her lost children, _H. Oet._ 185; _Agam._ 394; _H. Fur._ 391. See NIOBE.

SIRENS, mythical maidens dwelling on an island of the ocean, whose beautiful singing lured sailors to destruction, _H. Oet._ 190; they were passed in safety by the Argonauts because Orpheus played sweeter music, _Med._ 355.

SISYPHUS, the son of Aeolus, was said to have been the founder of ancient Corinth, and father of Creon, _Med._ 512, 776; _Oed._ 282; for his disobedience to the gods he was set to rolling a huge stone up a hill in hades, which ever rolled back again and so renewed his toil, _Med._ 746; _Hip._ 1230; _Agam._ 16; _H. Fur._ 751; _Thy._ 6; _Oct._ 622; _H. Oet._ 942, 1010; the stone followed the magical music of Orpheus, _ibid._ 1081.

SMINTHEUS, an epithet of Phoebus Apollo, _Agam._ 176.

SOL, the sun personified as the sun-god, used with the same force as Phoebus, _H. Fur._ 37, 61; _Med._ 29, 210; _Thy._ 637, 776, 789, 822, 990, 1035; _Hip._ 124, 1091; _H. Oet._ 150.

SOMNUS, the god of sleep, brother of death, _H. Fur._ 1069; called the son of Astraea, _ibid._ 1068; characteristics, symbols, and powers described at length, _ibid._ *1065.

SPHINX, a fabulous monster with the face of a woman, the breast, feet, and tail of a lion, and the wings of a bird; sent to harass Thebes, slaying everyone who passed her and who could not answer her riddle, _Oed._ 246; _Phoen._ 120, 131; Oedipus' encounter with her described, _Oed._ *92; slain by Oedipus, _ibid._ 641; seen by Creon among the shapes in hades, called by him the "Ogygian (i. e., Boeotian or Theban) pest," _ibid._ 589; used as type of winged speed, _Phoen._ 422.

STROPHIUS (_Agamemnon_), see PYLADES.

STYMPHALIAN BIRDS, monstrous creatures haunting a pool near the town of Stymphalus in Arcadia; they were killed by Hercules as his sixth labor, _H. Fur._ 244; _Med._ 783; _Agam._ 850; _H. Oet._ 1237, 1890; used as type of winged speed, _Phoen._ 422.

STYX, a river of hades, _H. Fur._ 780; _Oed._ 162; over which spirits must pass into the world of the dead, the river of death; in Seneca, this conception is not confined to the Styx, but is used of that river in common with the Acheron, _H. Fur._ *713; _Hip._ 1180; _Agam._ 608; the Lethe, _Hip._ 148; _H. Oet._ 1161, 1550; and the Phlegethon, _Agam._ *750; it is upon the Styx alone, however, that the gods swear their inviolable oaths, _H. Fur._ 713; _Hip._ 944; _Thy._ 666; _H. Oet._ 1066; from meaning the river of death, it comes to mean death itself, _H. Fur._ 185, 558; in its most frequent use, the river signifies the lower world in general, the land of the dead; so are found Stygian "shades," "homes," "caverns," "ports," "gates," "borders," "torches," "fires," etc., _H. Fur._ 54, 90, 104, 1131; _Tro._ 430; _Med._ 632, 804; _Hip._ 477, 625, 928, 1151; _Oed._ 396, 401, 621; _Agam._ 493; _Thy._ 1007; _H. Oet._ 77, 560, 1014, 1145, 1198, 1203, 1711, 1766, 1870, 1919, 1983; _Oct._ 24, 79, 135, 162, 263, 594; Cerberus is the "Stygian dog" and "Stygian guardian," _Agam._ 13; _Hip._ 223; _H. Oet._ 79, 1245; the "deep embrace of Styx" is the pit which Andromache prays may open up beneath Hector's tomb and hide Astyanax, _Tro._ 520; the boat on which Agrippina was to meet her death is called the Stygian boat, _Oct._ 127.

SYMPLEGADES (the "clashers"), two rocks or crags at the entrance of the Euxine Sea which, according to tradition, clashed together when any object passed between them; escaped by the Argo, _Med._ 341, 456, 610; Hercules prays that he may be crushed to death between these rocks, _H. Fur._ 1210; used as a type of a hard crag, _H. Oet._ 1273, 1380.

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TAENARUS (also written TAENARA), a promontory on the southernmost point of the Peloponnesus, near which was a cave, said to be the entrance to the lower world, _Tro._ 402; _H. Fur._ 587, *663, 813; _Oed._ 171; _Hip._ 1203; _H. Oet._ 1061, 1771.

TAGUS, a river of Spain, celebrated for its golden sands, _H. Fur._ 1325; _Thy._ 354; _H. Oet._ 626.

TANTALUS (_Thyestes_) (1), a king of Lydia, son of Jupiter and the nymph, Pluto, father of Pelops and of Niobe, _H. Fur._ 390; _Oed._ 613; _Med._ 954; _Agam._ 392; _H. Oet._ 198; because of his outrageous sin against the gods (see PELOPS) he was doomed to suffer in hades endless pangs of hunger and thirst, with fruit and water almost within reach of his lips, _H. Fur._ *752; _Hip._ 1232; _Agam._ 19; _Thy._ 1011; _Oct._ 621; his sin described and punishment portrayed in detail, _Thy._ *137; his ghost appears, describes his sufferings in hades, and is incited by a fury to urge on his house to greater crimes, _ibid._ 1; Deianira prays that she may take his punishment upon herself, _H. Oet._ 943; Medea prays that he may come and drink of the waters of Corinth, and that Creon may take his place in hades, _Med._ 745; used as type of outrageous sinner, _Thy._ 242; he forgets his thirst in his grief for the disasters which threaten his house, _Agam._ 769; he forgets his thirst under the influence of Orpheus' music, _H. Oet._ 1075.

TANTALUS (_Thyestes_) (2), one of the sons of Thyestes, great-grandson of Tantalus (1), encourages his father to hope for reconciliation with his brother, Atreus, _Thy._ 421; slain by Atreus, _ibid._ 718.

TARTARUS (also written TARTARA), in its strict sense, that portion of the lower world devoted to the punishment of the wicked, hell, the abode of the furies and of those like Tantalus, Ixion, etc., who are suffering torments, _H. Fur._ 86; _Oed._ 161; _Med._ 742; _Oct._ 965; in the great majority of cases, however, Tartarus is the lower world in general, whence ghosts come back to earth, _Agam._ 2; _Oct._ 593; to which Orpheus went in search of his wife, _Med._ 632; _H. Oet._ 1064; to which Hercules went to bring thence Cerberus, _H. Oet._ 461; _Hip._ 844; where was the palace of Dis, _ibid._ 951; _Agam._ 751; where Cerberus stands guard, _H. Fur._ 649; _H. Oet._ 1770; where are the "Tartarian pools," _Hip._ 1179; and so in general, _H. Fur._ 436, 710, 889, 1225; _Oed._ 869; _Phoen._ 144, 145; _Thy._ 1013, 1071; _H. Oet._ 1126, 1119, 1514, 1705, 1779; _Oct._ 223, 644.

TAURUS, the second zodiacal constellation, the Bull, which poets feign was the bull in the form of which Jupiter bore Europa from Phoenicia to Crete, _H. Fur._ 9, 952; _Thy._ 852.

TELEPHUS, a king of Mysia, wounded by Achilles' spear, and afterward cured by application of the rust scraped from its point, _Tro._ 215.

TEREUS, a king of Thrace, whose barbarous feast upon his own son, Itys, is called the "Thracian crime," _Thy._ 56. See PHILOMELA and PROCNE.

TETHYS, the goddess of the sea, used frequently for the sea itself, in which the sun sets and from which it rises, _Hip._ 571, 1161; _H. Fur._ 887, 1328; _Tro._ 879; _Med._ 378; _H. Oet._ 1252, 1902.

THEBES, the capital city of Boeotia, founded by Cadmus, _H. Fur._ 268; its walls built by the magic of Amphion's lyre, _ibid._ 262; famed for frequent visits of the gods, especially of Jove, _ibid._ 265; plague-smitten under Oedipus, who laments the disaster, _Oed._ *37; plague described at length by the chorus, _ibid._ *125; a curse fell upon Thebes from the time of Cadmus, _ibid._ *709; conquered by Lycus, the usurper, who slew King Creon, the father of Megara, _H. Fur._ 270; scene of the _Hercules Furens_, _Oedipus_, and _Phoenissae_ (in part).

THESEUS (_Hercules Furens_, _Hippolytus_), king of Athens, son of Aegeus and Aethra, daughter of Pittheus, king of Troezene; according to tradition also reputed the son of Neptune, who had granted him three wishes, _Hip._ 942, 943, 1252; the last of which he used against his son, Hippolytus, _ibid._ 945; went to Crete to slay the Minotaur; his beautiful appearance described, _ibid._ *646, 1067; finds his way out of the labyrinth by aid of a thread given him by Ariadne, _ibid._ 650, 662; fled with Ariadne, but deserted her on Naxos, _Oed._ 488; was the cause of his father's death, since he did not display the white sail on his return to Athens from slaying the Minotaur, _Hip._ 1165; married Antiope, the Amazon, who became the mother of Hippolytus, but afterward slew her, _ibid._ 226, 927, 1167; married Phaedra, _ibid. passim_; went to hades with his bosom friend, Pirithoüs, to assist the latter in carrying away Proserpina, _ibid._ 91, 627; the two were apprehended by Dis and set upon an enchanted rock which held them fast, _H. Fur._ 1339; Theseus was rescued by Hercules, _ibid._ 806; _H. Oet._ 1197, 1768; _Hip._ 843; returns from hades, _ibid._ 829.

THESPIADES, the fifty daughters of Thespius, loved by Hercules, _H. Oet._ 369.

THETIS, a sea-goddess, daughter of Nereus; she was given as wife to Peleus, _Med._ 657; _Oct._ 707; and became by him the mother of Achilles, _Tro._ 346, 880; _Agam._ 616; to keep her son from the Trojan War she hid him disguised in garments of a girl at the court of King Lycomedes, _Tro._ 213; but this ruse was discovered and exposed by Ulysses, _ibid._ 569.

THULE, the farthest known land, differing with different stages of development of human knowledge; the time will come when all lands will be known, and there will be no _ultima Thule_, _Med._ 379.

THYESTES (_Thyestes_, _Agamemnon_), see ATREUS.

TIPHYS, the pilot of the Argo, _Med._ 3, 318; picture of his management of the vessel, _ibid._ *318; grew pale at sight of the Symplegades, _ibid._ 346; his tragic death, *617.

TIRESIAS (_Oedipus_), a celebrated prophet of Thebes, father of Manto; blind and old, he is led by his daughter into the presence of Oedipus, where he attempts by various processes to discover the murderer of Laïus, _Oed._ 288; practices _pyromantia_, _capnomantia_, _hieroscopia_, and later _necromantia_, _ibid._ *307; discovers by the last process that Oedipus himself slew Laïus, _ibid._ *530.

TISIPHONE, one of the furies who seems to appear to the distracted Deianira, _H. Oet._ 1012; seems to appear to the mad Hercules, guarding the door of hell since Cerberus has been removed, _H. Fur._ 984. See FURIES.

TITANS, a name given to the sons of Coelus and Terra, one of whom was Hyperion, identified by Homer with the sun. The Titans warred against one of their own number, Saturn, who had succeeded to the throne of his father. The word is, however, frequently confounded with the Giants, who banded together to dethrone Jove; they piled up mountains in their attempt to scale heaven, but were overthrown by Jove's thunderbolt and buried under Sicily, _H. Fur._ 79, 967; _Med._ 410; _Agam._ 340; _H. Oet._ 144, 1212, 1309; in all other passages in Seneca, Titan means the sun, more or less completely personified as the sun-god, lord and ruler of the day, _H. Fur._ 124, 133, 443, 1060, 1333; _Med._ 5; Tro. 170; _Hip._ 678, 779; _Oed._ 1, 40; _Thy._ 120, 785, 1095; _Agam._ 460, 908; _H. Oet._ 42, 291, 423, 488, 723, 781, 891, 968, 1111, 1131, 1163, 1287, 1512, 1518, 1566, 1575, 1760; _Oct._ 2. See GIANTS, PHOEBUS.

TITYUS, a giant, son of Earth, who offered violence to Latona; for this he was punished in hades, where a vulture kept feeding upon his ever-renewed vitals, _H. Fur._ 756, 977; _H. Oet._ 947; _Hip._ 1233; _Agam._ 17; _Thy._ 9, 806; _Oct._ 622; relieved for a while by the music of Orpheus, _H. Oet._ 1070.

TMOLUS, a mountain in Lydia, a favorite haunt of Bacchus, _Phoen._ 602.

TOXEUS, a youth slain by Hercules, _H. Oet._ 214.

TRIPTOLEMUS, son of the king of Eleusis, through whom Ceres gave the arts of agriculture to mankind, _Hip._ 838.

TRITONS, sea-deities; they sung the marriage chorus of Achilles, _Tro._ 202.

TRIVIA, an epithet of Diana, because she presided over places where three roads meet, _Agam._ 382; _Oct._ 978; applied by association to Luna, the heavenly manifestation of Diana, _Med._ *787.

TROÏLUS, a son of Priam, slain by Achilles, _Agam._ 748.

TROY, an ancient city of Troas, whose walls were built by Neptune and Apollo, _Tro._ 7; it was first destroyed under the reign of Laomedon, father of Priam, by Hercules and Telamon, because of the perfidy of Laomedon, _Agam._ 614, 862; _Tro._ 135, *719; its second fall was after ten years of siege by the Greeks, _Tro._ 74; her festal day turned out to be a day of doom, _Agam._ 791; it is not the Greek heroes who destroyed Troy, but the lying traitor, Sinon, who deceived the Trojans about the wooden horse, _ibid._ 615; mourning for the fall of Troy, _ibid._ 589; distant view of the smouldering ruins as seen by the Greek vessels from the sea on their homeward voyage, _ibid._ 456.

TULLIA, a daughter of Servius Tullius, king of Rome; her impious sin and its punishment, _Oct._ 304.

TYNDARIDAE, Castor and Pollux, the sons of Jupiter and Leda, but falsely named from Tyndarus, the mortal husband of Leda; their stars give help to sailors, _H. Fur._ 14, 552; _Oct._ 208. See CASTOR, LEDA.

TYPHOEUS, one of the Giants who fought against Jove, _Med._ 773; _Thy._ 809.

TYPHON, a giant, apparently the same as Typhoeus, _H. Oet._ 1733; _Oct._ 238.

TYRRHENE, an epithet applied to the band of Phoenician pirates who attempted to kidnap Bacchus, _Oed._ 249; to the dolphin, in reference to the story of how these pirates were changed into dolphins by the power of Bacchus, _Agam._ 451; to the Tuscan Sea, because the Etrurians were supposed to have been of Tyrrhenian stock, _Oct._ 311; and to Inarime, an island, possibly to be identified with Ischia, lying in the Tyrrhene sea off the coast of Campania, _H. Oet._ 1156.

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ULYSSES (_Troades_), _Tro. passim._

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VENUS, a goddess, sprung from the foam of the sea, _Hip._ 274; she is the goddess of love, _ibid._ 417, 576, 910; _Oct._ 545; the mother of Cupid, the god of love, _Hip._ 275; _H. Oet._ 543; _Oct._ 697; called Erycina, because Mt. Eryx in Sicily was sacred to her, _Hip._ 199; she persecuted the stock of Phoebus (i. e., Pasiphaë and Phaedra), because that god had published her amours with Mars, _ibid._ 124; cursed Messalina with insatiate lust, _Oct._ 258; the effect upon the world which the cessation of the power of Venus would produce, _Hip._ **469; she has no existence, but is feigned by men as a goddess in order to excuse their own lusts, _ibid._ 203; used frequently by metonymy for the passion of love, either lawful or unlawful, _ibid._ 211, 237, 339, 447, 462, 721, 913; _Agam._ 183, 275, 927; _Oct._ 191, 433.

VIRGINIA, the daughter of Virginius, slain by her father to save her from the lust of Appius Claudius the decemvir, _Oct._ 296.

VIRGO, the zodiacal constellation of the Virgin, Astraea, the daughter of Jove and Themis, who left the earth last of all the gods on account of man's sin, _Thy._ 857.

VULCAN, the god of fire; forges the thunderbolts of Jove, _Hip._ 190; is pierced by Cupid's darts, _ibid._ 193; is called the father of Cupid and husband of Venus, _Oct._ 560.

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ZETES, a winged son of Boreas, who, together with his brother Calaïs, was a member of the Argonautic expedition; they were slain by Hercules, _Med._ 634; they had previously driven away the harpies from Phineus, king of Thrace, _ibid._ 782.

ZETHUS, a Theban prince, son of Antiope, the niece of Lycus, king of Thebes; he and his twin brother, Amphion, were exposed in infancy on Mt. Cithaeron, but were saved and brought up by shepherds. Arrived at manhood they killed Lycus and Dirce, his wife, on account of their cruelties to Antiope, and together reigned in Thebes. Reference is made to their rustic life in _H. Fur._ 916; the shade of Zethus comes up from hades, still holding by the horn the wild bull to which he had tied Dirce, _Oed._ 610. See DIRCE.

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Variable spelling and hyphenation have been retained.

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Hating his bolts of flame at the coming of Bacchus.
Halting his bolts of flame at the coming of Bacchus.

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And not on thy acocunt hath fate
And not on thy account hath fate

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Whose hearts are fainting in your breats, behold,
Whose hearts are fainting in your breasts, behold,

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With serpent vernom, mixing all; and in the broth
With serpent venom, mixing all; and in the broth

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What honor comes from such an end at this?
What honor comes from such an end as this?

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_Hercules:_ Whate're is great enough for woman's wrath.
_Hercules:_ Whate'er is great enough for woman's wrath.

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_Atreus:_ Because they were thy chidlren.
_Atreus:_ Because they were thy children.

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See ASYTANAX.
See ASTYANAX.

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He was pursuaded by Pelias
He was persuaded by Pelias

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