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 NOTES. 59 EXPLANATORY NOTES. FROM THE HEATHEN MYTHOLOGY. Mythology is the Basis of History, the Standard of Criticism ; and a guide to the studies of youth. BRYANT. PAGE ).-STANZA I. When PHILOMEL had sweetly sung, To PROGNE she deplor'd, How TEREUS cut out her tongue, Tereus was the son of Mars and the nymphı Bistonis; who kter he had married with PROGNE King Paudious daughter, vished PHILOMELA his wife's sister, and cut out her tongue, hat she might not discover it; which nevertheless PROGNE un- derstood by PHILOMELA's letter, written with her own blood; his caused her to kill her only child Itys, which she bore to Tereus. and boil him for his supper; he being enraged at this prrid wickedness, ran at his wife with his naked sword, but e was turned into a swallow, and so escaped him; and he in- a lapwing, but PHILOMELA into a nightingale. PAGE 2. -STANZA II. The painted pawn with ARGUS eyes. Angus, a king of Argos, who reigned 70 years. --A son of restor, whence he is often called Arestorides. He married nene, the daughter of Asopus. As he had an hundred eyes, which only two were asleep at one time, Juno set him to tch Io, whom Jupiter had changed into a heifer; but Mercury, order of Jupiter, slew him, by lulling all his eyes asleep with sound of lyre. mo put the eyes of Argus to the tail he peacock, a bird sacred to her. PAGE 2.--STANZA II. And Echo answers all. Echo, a daughter of the Air and Tellus, who chiefly resided ne vicinity of the Cephisus. She was once one of Juno's