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 THE GREEK GODS 51 Cybele: Ovid, Ars Amat. i. 507; Vergil, Aen. iii. Ill, xi. 768; Spenser, F. Q. i. vi. 15. Amazones : Vergil, Aen. i. 490, v. 311, xi. 648 sq. ; Hyginus, Fab. clxiii. Hecate: Ovid, Fast. i. 141, Met. xiv. 405; Vergil, Aen. iv. 609 ; Greene, Fr. Bacon and Fr. Bungay ii. 176 : And hell and Hecate shall fail the friar. Shak., Hamlet iii. 2. 269, King Lear i. 1, 112 ; Spenser, F. Q. i. i. 43. Europa : Ovid, Her. iv. 55 : Juppiter Europen (primast ea gentis origo) Dilexit, tauro dissimulante deum; Met. ii. 843 sq. ; Hyginus, Fab. clxxviii. ; Pope, Thebais i. 7 : Europa's rape, Agenor's stern decree. Shak. , Much Ado about Nothing v. 4, 45. Minotaurus : Ovid, Ars Amat. ii. 24, Met. viii. 152 sq. ; Vergil, Aen. vi. 25; Hyginus, Fab. xli., xlii.; Chaucer, Knight's Tale 122. Eos (Aurora): The dawn goddess (Sanskrit US AS) is celebrated in 21 hymns of the Rig Veda. Praises are addressed to her for all the blessings of the light. So we find the sacredness of the dawn in the literature of Greece and Rome. Homer, II. ii. 48 : 'Hobs fJitv pa Oea Trpoae^a-ero /ma.Kpbi>"0viJLirov. Ovid, Met. iii. 149: Altera lucem Cum croceis invecta rotis Aurora reducet ; Her. iii. 57, xvii. 112 ; Vergil, Aen. iv. 585 : Tithoni croceum linquens Aurora cubile ; Geor. iv. 544, Aen. iv. 7; Hyginus, Fab. clxxxiii.; Spenser, F. Q. i. Now when the rosy-fingred morning faire Weary of aged Tithones' saffron bed ; xi. 51 ; Shak., Midsummer Night's Bream iii. 2, 380. Tithonus : Ovid, Amor. ii. 5, 35, Fast. vi. 473. Iris: Homer, II. ii. passim; Ovid, Met. i. 271; Vergil, Aen. ix. 803 ; Milton, Comus 83 : These my sky-robes spun out of Iris' woof. Shak., The Tempest iv. 1, 70.