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 THE GREEK GODS 75 Priapus: Ovid, Fast. i. 415 sq. ; Vergil, Eel. vii. 33; Shak., Pericles iv. 6, 3. Demeter (Ceres) : Homer, Od. v. 125 ; Ovid, Amor. iii. 10, Prima Ceres docuit turgescere semen in agris ; Fast. iv. 393 sg., Met. x. 431 ; Vergil, Geor. i. 7, 96 ; Pope, Wind- sor Forest 39 : Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand. Shak., The Tempest iv. 1, 60. Narcissus : Ovid, Met. iii. 346 sq. ; Shak., Rape of Lucrece 38. Plutus : Shak., All's Well That Ends Well v. 3, 101. Triptolemus : Hyginus, Fab. cxlvii. Persephone (Proserpina): Homer, Hymn to Ceres; Ovid, Met. v. 385 sq., Fast. iv. 485; Vergil, Geor. iv. 487; Hyginus, Fab. cxlvi. ; Keats, Lamia i. 63 : As Proserpine still weeps for her Sicilian air. Milton, Par. L. iv. 269 : .Where Proserpin gathering flow'rs Herself a fairer flower by gloomy Dis Was gather'd, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world. Shak., Troilus and Cressida ii. 1, 37 ; Spenser, F. Q. i. i, 37 : Blacke Plutoes griesly dame ; iv. 11 : Queen of Hell. III. DIVINITIES OF THE LOWER WORLD 1. DIVINITIES OF DEATH 100. As the divinities of the upper world were pat- terned entirely after living human beings, so the god to whom in the time of Homer was attributed a power (cor- responding to that of Zeus) over the lower world and its inhabitants was formed in harmony with those ideas about the dead which have been explained above. (See