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 Ardea, consternation of the inhabitants at conflagration of their 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... Sage, Hesiod, who was born at Ascræa, a village of Boeotia PAGE Atys ruled in Alba v. 2, E. 433 Aurunci, or Ausones, the most ancient inhabitants of Italy Baccar, or Ladies-glove, thought to have virtue against fascination v. 3, B. 213 Bacchus, the God of Wine, invoked v. 3, G. 45 Banquet offered by Latinus to Æneas and the Trojans ... 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 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 PAGE Bisaltæ, a people of Macedon v. 3, G. 129 Bistonian King, Tereus, changed into a hoopoo ... 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 v. 3, 311 v. 3, 311 v. 3, G. 129 Celeres (body-guard) v. 2, Æ. 481 Centaurs, a people in Thessaly, who first broke horses Charybdis, a frightful whirlpool in the straits of Sicily.. Chimæra, a monster that vomited flames ... v. 1, E. 361 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 v. 1, Æ. 155 Creation, description of, according to the Epicurean system |