Apennine, the greatest mountain in Italy Aracynthus, a town on the confines of Attica and Boeotia Araxes, a river in Armenia, that bore down a bridge Alexander built over it v. 2, Æ. 63 Ardea, consternation of the inhabitants at conflagration of their city v. 2, E. 397 burnt down bird of the same name rises from the burnt city Arethusa, a fountain, or Fountain-Nymph in Sicily Ascanius: his father Æneas's great love to him...... Ascræan poet, the v. 3, cu. 345 Sage, Hesiod, who was born at Ascræa, a village of Boeotia PAGE Atys ruled in Alba v. 2, Æ. 433 Aurunci, or Ausones, the most ancient inhabitants of Italy Baccar, or Ladies-glove, thought to have virtue against fascination Battle, a bloody one between Eneas and the Latins a method of restoring their kind, if their breed were lost v. 3, G. 161 the history of the invention of restoring them v. 3, G. 165 Bellua Lernæ, a snake in the Lake Lerna, destroyed by Hercules Benacus, a lake in the territory of Verona v. 1, Æ. 361 v. 2, Æ. 153 Berecynthia, the Mother of the Gods, her petition to Jupiter Bianor, son of Tiber and the nymph Manto, founded Mantua v. 3, B. 253 Briareus, a giant feigned to have had a hundred hands Britomartis, the ill-fated, invoked by her mother, Carme, as an Cæsar Augustus: the Romans envied for their happiness in having him as their prince Virgil's prayer for the continuance of his life v. 3, G. 43 Cæsar Julius. Prodigies attending his death. The Sun sympathises with Rome by hiding his bright head; the Earth also yawns, and rivers stop their courses, &c. v. 3, G. 41 Cadmus, the two sons of, engaged in mortal strife with each other Cassandra, Priam's daughter, foretells the ruin of the Trojans Caucasus, a famous range of mountains, running from the Black Sea to the Caspian v. 3, G. 81 Centaurs, a people in Thessaly, who first broke horses .. Charybdis, a frightful whirlpool in the straits of Sicily.. Chimæra, a monster that vomited flames ... Codrus, king of Athens, who died for his country ... Colchian Mother, the, meditating her children's death Contentment, a remarkable example of, in an old Corycian Corybantes, the priests of Cybele, all Eunuchs ... Country life, the happiness of it most beautifully described Creation, description of, according to the Epicurean system |