BEO'NA. A goddess of voyages, etc.

A Acha'tes. The trusty friend of Eneas.

Ach'eron. The son of Sol and Terra, changed
by Jupiter into a river of hell. Used also for
hell itself.

Achilles. A Greek who signalized himself in
the war against Troy. Having been dipped by
his mother in the river Styx, he was invulner-
able in every part except his right heel, but was
at length killed by Paris with an arrow.
A'cis. A Sicilian shepherd, killed by Polyphe-

mus because he rivaled the latter in the affec-
tions of Galatea.

Actæ on. A famous hunter, who, having sur-
prised Diana as she was bathing, was turned by
her into a stag, and killed by his own dogs.
Ado'nis. A beautiful youth beloved by Venus
and Proserpine. He was killed by a wild boar.
When wounded, Venus sprinkled nectar into his
blood, from which flowers sprang up.
Ege'us. A king of Athens, giving name to the
Ægean sea by drowning himself in it.
Ægis. A shield given by Jupiter to Minerva.
Also the name of a Gorgon whom Pallas slew.
Ene'as. A Trojan prince, son of Anchises and
Venus; the hero of Virgil's poem the Eneid.
'olus. The god of the winds.

Zo'us. One of the four horses of the sun.
Escula'pius. The god of medicine, and the
son of Apollo. Killed by Jupiter with a thin-
derbolt for having restored Hippolytus to lie.
'thon. One of the four horses of the sun.
Agamem'non. King of Mycenae and Argos,
brother to Menelaus, and chosen captain-gen-
eral of the Greeks at the siege of Troy.
Aganip'pe. A fountain at the foot of Mount
Helicon, daughter of the river Permessus.
Agla'ia. One of the three Graces.

Androm'ache. Wife of Hector.
Androm'eda. The daughter of Cepheus and
Cassiopeia, who, contesting with Juno and the
Nereides for the prize of beauty, was bound to a
rock by them and exposed to a sea monster, but
was rescued and married by Perseus.
Ange'rona. The goddess of silence.
Antæ'us. The giant son of Neptune and Terra;
squeezed to death by Hercules.
Antever'ta. Goddess of women in labor.

Antigone. The daughter of Edipus and Jo-
casta, famous for her filial piety.
An'ubis. An Egyptian god with a dog's head.
A'pis. Son of Jupiter and Niobe; called also
Serapis and Osiris. Taught the Egyptians to
sow corn and plant vines, and worshipped by
them in the form of an ox.

Apollo. The son of Jupiter and Latona, and
the god of music, poetry, eloquence, medicine
and the fine arts.

Arach'ne. A Lydian princess, turned into a
Arethu'sa. One of Diana's nymphs, who was
spider for contending with Minerva at spinning.
changed into a fountain.

Argus. The son of Aristor; said to have had a
hundred eyes; but being killed by Mercury
when appointed by Juno to guard Io, she put his
eyes on the tail of a peacock. Also an archi-
tect, who built the ship Argo.
Ariad'ne. The daughter of Minos, who, from
love to Theseus, gave him a clew of thread, to
guide him out of the Cretan labyrinth; being
afterward deserted by him, she was married
to Bacchus, and made his priestess.
Ari'on. A lyric poet of Methymna, who, in
his voyage to Italy, saved his life from the
cruelty of the mariners by means of dolphins,
which the sweetness of his music brought
together.

Ajax. Next to Achilles, the bravest of all the Arista'us. A son of Apollo and Cyrene.
Greeks in the Trojan war.

Albion. The son of Neptune; went into Britain
and established a kingdom.
Alces'te, or Alcestis. The daughter of Pelias
and wife of Admetus, brought back from hell by
Hercules.

Alci'des. A title of Hercules.
Alec'to. One of the three Furies.
Alo'a. A festival of Bacchus and Ceres.
Am'mon. A title of Jupiter.

Amphi'on. A famous musician, the son of Ju-
piter and Antiope, who built the city of Thebes
by the music of his harp. He and his brother
Zethus are said to have invented music.
Amphitri'te. Goddess of the sea, and wife of
Neptune.

Astræ'a. The goddess of justice; charged into
the constellation Virgo.

Atalan'ta. A princess of Scyros, who consented
to marry that one of her suitors who should out-
run her, Hippomenes being the successful com-
petitor.

Atlas. One of the Titans, and king of Maure-
tania; said to have supported the world on his
shoulders; he was turned into a mountain by
Perseus.

Auro'ra. The goddess of morning.
Autum'nus. The god of fruits.
Bacchan'tes. Priests of Bacchus.

Beller'ophon. The son of Glaucus, king of
Ephyra. He underwent numerous hardships for
refusing an intimacy with Sthenobaea, wife of
Protus, the king of Argos. With the aid of the
horse Pegasus he destroyed the Chimera.
Bello'na. Goddess of war; sister of Mars.
Bereni'ce. A Grecian lady; the only person of
her sex permitted to see the Olympic games.
Boli'na. A nymph rendered immortal for her
modesty and resistance to Apollo.
Bo'reas. The son of Astræus and Aurora;

the name of the north wind.

Bria'reus. A giant who warred against heaven, and was feigned to have had fifty heads and one hundred arms.

Busi'ris.

The son of Neptune; a tyrant of Egypt, and a monstrous giant, who fed his horses Byb'lis. The daughter of Miletus; she wept with human flesh; was killed by Hercules. herself into a fountain through love of her brother Caunus.

Cad'mus. The son of Agenor, king of Phoenicia; Ca'cus. A son of Vulcan and a most notorious robber; slain by Hercules for stealing his oxen. founder of Thebes, and the reputed inventor of sixteen letters of the Greek alphabet. Cadu'ceus. Mercury's golden rod or wand. Calli'ope. One of the Muses, presiding over eloquence and epic poetry.

Calyp'so. One of the Oceanides, who reigned in the island Ogygia, and entertained and became enamored of Ulysses.

Cama'na, or Carna. Goddess of infants.
Cassan'dra. A daughter of Priam and Hecuba,
endowed with the gift of prophecy by Apollo.
Castal'ides. The Muses, so called from the
fountain Castalius, at the foot of Parnassus.
Cas'tor. A son of Jupiter and Leda. He and
his twin brother Pollux shared immortality alter-
nately, and were formed into the constellation
Gemini.

Ce'crops. The first king of Athens, who insti-
tuted marriage, altars and sacrifices.
Cen'taurs. Children of Ixion, half men and
half horses, inhabiting Thessaly, and vanquished
by Theseus.

Cerberus. The three-headed dog of Pluto,
guarding the gates of hell.

Ce'res. The daughter of Saturn and Cybele, and goddess of agriculture.

Cha'ron. The son of Erebus and Nox, and ferryman of hell, who conducted the souls of the dead over the rivers Styx and Acheron.

Bacchus. The son of Jupiter and Semele, and Charyb'dis. A ravenous woman, turned by

the god of wine.

Bap'ta. The goddess of shame.

Jupiter into a very dangerous gulf or whirlpool on the coast of Sicily.

Chi'mera. A strange monster of Lycia, killed | Encel'adus. by Bellerophon.

Chi'ron. A Centaur, who was preceptor to Achilles, taught Esculapius physic, and Hercules astronomy, and who became the constellation Sagittarius.

Chry'seis. The daughter of Chryses, priest of Apollo, famed for beauty and for her skill in embroidery.

Cir'ce. A noted enchantress.

Cli'o. One of the Muses, presiding over history. Erebus. The son of Chaos and Nox; an infer-
nal deity. A river of hell, and often used by the
Clytemnestra. The faithless wife of Agamem- Erin'nys. The Greek name for the Furies, or
non, killed by her son Orestes.
Co'mus. The god of merriment.

Flo'ra. The goddess of flowers.
Fortu'na. The goddess of fortune; said to be Hy'dra. A celebrated monster, or serpent, with

Ja'nus. The son of Apollo and Creusa, and first | Na'iades. Nymphs of streams and fountains.
king of Italy, who, receiving the banished Narcis'sus. A beautiful youth, who, falling in
Saturn, was rewarded by him with the knowledge
love with his own reflection in the water, pined
of husbandry, and of things past and future.

Ju'piter. The son of Saturn and Ops; the su-
preme deity of the heathen world, the most pow-
erful of the gods, and governor of all things.
Lach'esis. One of the three Fates.
Laoc'oön. A son of Priam and Hecuba, and

high priest of Apollo, who opposed the reception of the wooden horse into Troy, for which he and his two sons were killed by serpents. Laom'edon. A king of Troy, killed by Hercules for denying him his daughter Hesione after he had delivered her from the sea-monster.

La'res. Inferior gods at Rome, who presided over houses and families; sons of Mercury and

Lara.

Laver'na. A goddess of thieves.
Lean'der. See Hero.

Le'the. A river of hell whose waters caused a
total forgetfulness of things past.

Luben'tia. Goddess of pleasure.
Lu'cifer. The name of the planet Venus, or

away into a daffodil.

Nem'esis. One of the infernal deities, and god

dess of revenge.

Nep'tune. The son of Saturn and
Ops; god of
the sea, and, next to Jupiter, the most powerful
deity.

Ne'reids. Sea-nymphs.

Nes'tor. The son of Neleus and Chloris, and
king of Pylos and Messenia. He fought against
the Centaurs, was distinguished in the Trojan
war, and lived to a great age.
Ni'obe. Daughter of Tantalus, and wife of Am-
phion, who, preferring herself to Latona, had her
fourteen children killed by Diana and Apollo,
and wept herself into a stone.

Nox. The most ancient of all the deities, and

Om'phale. A queen of Lydia, with whom Her-
cules was so enamored that he submitted to
spinning and other unbecoming offices.
Ops. A name of Cybele.

Ores'tes. The son of Agamemnon.

| Plu'tus. The god of riches.
Pomo'na. The goddess of fruits and autumn.
Polyhym'nia. The Muse of rhetoric.

Pri'am. The last king of Troy, the son of La

omedon, under whose reign Troy was taken by the Greeks.

Prometheus. The son of Japetus; said to

have stolen fire from heaven to animate two
bodies which he had formed of clay, and was
therefore chained by Jupiter to Mount Caucasus,
with a vulture perpetually gnawing his liver.
Pros'erpine. Wife of Pluto.
Pro'teus. The son of Oceanus and Tethys; a
sea-god and prophet, who possessed the power
of changing himself into any shape.
Psy'che. A nymph beloved by Cupid, and
made immortal by Jupiter.

Pygmies. A nation of dwarfs only a span
long, carried away by Hercules.
Pyl'ades. The constant friend of Orestes.

Pyr'amus and Thisbe. Two lovers of Baby.
Ion, who killed themselves with the same sword,
and thus caused the berries of the mulberry tree,
under which they died, to change from white to
red.

Python. A huge serpent, produced from the mud of the deluge; killed by Apollo, who, in memory thereof, instituted the Pythian games. Re'mus. The elder brother of Romulus, killed by him for ridiculing the city walls. Rhadaman'thus. One of the three infernal judges.

morning star; said to be the son of Jupiter and Orpheus. A celebrated Argonaut, whose skill Rom'ulus. The son of Mars Ilia; thrown into

Aurora.
Luci'na. A daughter of Jupiter and Juno, and a
goddess who presided over childbirth.
Lu'na. The moon; the daughter of Hyperion

and Terra.

Luper'calia. Feasts in honor of Pan.
Mars. The god of war.

Mede'a. The daughter of Etes, and a wonder-
ful sorceress or magician; she assisted Jason to
obtain the golden fleece.

Medu'sa. The chief of the three Gorgons; killed by Perseus.

Megæ'ra. One of the Furies.

Meg'ara. Wife of Hercules.
Melpom'ene. One of the Muses, presiding over
tragedy.

Mem'non. The son of Tithonus and Aurora, and
king of Abydon; killed by Achilles for assisting
Priam, and changed into a bird at the request of
his mother.

Menela'us. The son of Atreus, king of Sparta; brother of Agamemnon, and husband of Helen. Men'tor. The faithful friend of Ulysses, the governor of Telemachus, and the wisest man of

his time.

Mer'cury. The son of Jupiter and Maia; mes-
senger of the gods, inventor of letters, and god of
eloquence, commerce and robbers.
Mi'das. A king of Phrygia, who had the power
given him of turning whatever he touched into
gold.

Miner'va. The goddess of wisdom, the arts, and
war; produced from Jupiter's brain.
Min'otaur. A celebrated monster, half man and
half bull.

Mnemos'yne. The goddess of memory, and
mother of the nine Muses.
Mo'mus. The son of Nox, and god of folly and
pleasantry.

Morpheus. The minister of Nox and Somnus,
and god of sleep and dreams.
Mors. Goddess of death.
Mu'ses. Nine daughters of Jupiter and Mnemo-
syne, named Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe,
Melpomene, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia
and Urania. They were mistresses of all the
sciences, and governesses of the feasts of the gods.
Mu'ta. Goddess of silence.

in music is said to have been so great that he
could make rocks, trees, etc., follow him. He
was the son of Jupiter and Calliope.
Osi'ris. See Apis.
Palla'dium. A statue of Minerva, which the
Trojans imagined fel from heaven, and with
which their city was deemed unconquerable.
Pallas and Pylotis. Names of Minerva.
Pan. The son of Mercury, and the god of shep-
herds, huntsmen, and the inhabitants of the
country.

Pando'ra. The first woman, made by Vulcan,
and endowed with gifts by all the deities. Jupi-
ter gave her a box which contained all the evils
and miseries of life, but with hope at the bottom.
Paris, or At'exander. Son of Priam and
Hecuba; a most beautiful youth, who ran away
with Helen, and thus occasioned the Trojan war.
Parnas'sus. A mountain of Phocis, famous for
a temple of Apollo; the favorite residence of the

Muses.

Pegasus. A winged horse belonging to Apollo
and the Muses, which sprung from the blood of
Medusa when Perseus cut off her head.
Pena'tes. Small statues, or household gods.
Penel'ope. A celebrated princess of Greece,
daughter of Icarus, and wife of Ulysses; cele
brated for her chastity and constancy in the long
absence of her husband.

Per'seus. Son of Jupiter and Danaë; per-
formed many extraordinary exploits by means
of Medusa's head.

the Tiber by his uncle, but saved, with his twin
brother, Remus, by a shepherd; became the
founder and first king of Rome.

Salii. The twelve frantic priests of Mars.
Salus. Goddess of health.
Saturnalia. Feasts of Saturn.

Sat'urn. A son of Cœlus and Terra; god of time.
Sat'yrs.
Attendants of Bacchus; horned mon-
sters, half goats, half men.
Sem'ele. The daughter of Cadmus and Thebe,
Semir'amis. A celebrated queen of Assyria,
and mother of Bacchus.
who built the walls of Babylon; was slain by
her own son, Ninyas, and turned into a pigeon.
Sera'pis. See Apis.
Sile'nus. The foster-father, master and com-
panion of Bacchus. He lived in Arcadia, rode
on an ass, and was drunk every day.
Si'rens. Sea - nymphs, or sea monsters, the
daughters of Oceanus and Amphitrite.
Sis'yphus. The son of Eolus; a most crafty
prince, killed by Theseus, and condemned by
Pluto to roll up hill a large stone, which con-
stantly fell back again.

Sol. A name of Apollo.

Som'nus. The son of Erebus and Nox, and the
god of sleep.

Sphinx. A monster, who destroyed herself be-
cause Edipus solved the enigma she proposed.
Sten'tor. A Grecian whose voice is reported
to have been as strong and as loud as the voices
of fifty men together.
Sthe'no. One of the three Gorgons.
Styx. A river of hell.

Pha'eton. Son of Sol (Apollo) and Climene.
He asked the guidance of his father's chariot for
one day as a proof of his divine descent; but,
unable to manage the horses, set the world on
fire, and was therefore struck by Jupiter with a
thunderbolt into the river Po.
Philomela. The daughter of Pandion, king of
Athens; changed into a nightingale.
Phin'eas. King of Paphlagonia; 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.
Phoebus. A title of Apollo.
Ple'iades. Seven daughters of Atlas and Plei-Tau'rus. The bull under whose form Jupiter
one, changed into stars.
carried away Europa.

Sylvanus. A god of woods and forests.
Ta'cita. A goddess of silence.
Tan'talus. The son of Jupiter, and king of
Lydia, who served up the limbs of his son,
Pelops, to try the divinity of the gods, for which
he was plunged to the chin in a lake of hell, and
doomed to everlasting thirst and hunger.
Tar'tarus. The part of the infernal regions in
which the wicked were punished.

Plu'to. The son of Saturn and Ops, brother of Telem'achus. The only son of Ulysses.
Jupiter and Neptune, and the god of the infernal Terpsich'ore. The Muse presiding over danc-
regions.
ing.

The mis. The daughter of Coelus and Terra, | Tro'ilus. A son of Priam and Hecuba. and goddess of justice.

Ti'phys. Pilot of the ship Argo.
Tisiph'one. One of the three Furies.

Ti'tan. The son of Coelus and Terra, elder
brother of Saturn, and one of the giants who
warred against heaven.
Titho'nus. The son of Laomedon, loved by
Aurora, and turned by her, in his old age, into a
grasshopper.

Tri'ton. The son of Neptune and Amphitrite, a
powerful sea-god, and Neptune's trumpeter.

Troy. A city of Phrygia, famous for holding out
siege of ten years against the Greeks, but
finally captured and destroyed.
Ulys'ses. King of Ithaca, who, by his subtlety
and eloquence, was eminently serviceable to the
Greeks in the Trojan war.
Ura'nia. The Muse of astronomy.
Ve'nus. One of the most celebrated deities of
the ancients, the wife of Vulcan, the goddess of
beauty, the mother of love, and the mistress of
the graces and of pleasures.
Vertum'nus. A deity of the Romans, who pre-

sided over spring and orchards, and who was the
lover of Pomona.

Ves'ta. The sister of Ceres and Juno, the god-
dess of fire, and patroness of vestal virgins.
Viri'placa. An inferior nuptial goddess, who
reconciled husbands and wives. A temple at
Rome was dedicated to her, whither the married
couple repaired after a quarrel.
Vul'can. The god who presided over subterra-
neous fire, patron of workers in metal.
Zeph'yrus. The west wind, son of Æolus and
Aurora, and lover of the goddess Flora.
Zeus. A title of Jupiter.

A DICTIONARY OF MUSICAL TERMS.

Accellerando, or Accel. Quicken the time | E. And

gradually.

Expressivo.

Expressione.
Fine. The end.

Forte, or f. Loud.

With expression.

Fortissimo, or ff. Very loud.

Pomposo. Pompous, grand.
Presto. Very quick.

Prestissimo. As quick as possible.
Quasi. As if.

Rallentando, or Rall. A gradual diminu-
tion of tone and retarding of movement.

Forzando, or Fz. Signifies that the note is to Religioso. In a solemn style.
be given peculiar emphasis or force.
Forza. Force.

Fuoco. With fire.
Grave. Extremely slow.
Grazioso. In a graceful, elegant style.
Impromptu. An extemporaneous production.

L. H. Left hand.

Larghetto. Slow and solemn, but less so than
Largo.

Largo. Very slow and solemn.
Legeremente. Lightly, gayly.
Lentando. Slower by degrees.

Legato. In a smooth and connected manner.
Lento. In a slow time.

Loco. Place, play as written.
Maestoso. Majestic and dignified.

Calando. Diminishing gradually in tone and Martellato. Struck with force.

speed.

Meno. Less.
Mezzo, or M. Neither loud nor soft-medium.
Mezzo Forte, or mf. Rather loud.
Mezzo Piano, or mp. Rather soft.
Moderato. Moderate.
Molto. Very.

Mosso. Movement.

Ritardando, or Ritard, or Rit. Gradually

slower.

Moto, or Con Moto. With agitation and Tempo di Valse. In waltz time.

earnestness.

Morendo. Dying away.
Non Troppo. Not too much.
Obligato. Cannot be omitted.
Ottava, or 8va. An octave higher.
Patetico. Pathetically.

Pastorale. A soft and rural movement.
Piano, or p. Soft.
Pianissimo, or pp. Very soft.
Piu. Very.

Poco. A little, somewhat.

Tempo Primo. In the original time.
Trillando. Shaking on a succession of notes.
Tranquillo. Tranquilly.

Tutto Forza. As loud as possible.
Veloce. With Velocity.

Vigoroso. Boldly, vigorously.

Vivace. With extreme briskness and anima

tion.

Vivo. Animated, lively.

Volti Subito. Turn over the pages quickly.
Zeloso. With zeal.

A DICTIONARY OF FAMILIAR ALLUSIONS.

Words and Phrases, Persons, Places, Pictures, Buildings, Streets and Monuments frequently alluded to in Literature and in Conversation.

HO has not met, either in reading or conversation, with allusions to matters with which he was previously unacquainted? Facts and fancies of history and romance are continually encountered, to which only a liberal education or a wide course of study will give the key. We have gathered below a glossary of the most frequent of these allusions, and we flatter ourselves that the succeeding pages will throw a flood of light upon many interesting topics which to the majority of people have heretofore been dark and inexable.