“Aˈtre-us.” “The two chiefs born to Atreus” were Agamemnon and Menelaus.
“Ty-diˈdes.” Diomed, the son Tydeus.
P. 176.—“Hecˈu-ba.” The mother of Hector.
“Mes-seˈis.” A fountain in Laconia.
“Hyp-e-reiˈan.” Homer speaks of several fountains called Hyperia, located in Thessaly.
P. 181.—“An-teˈnor.” One of the wisest counselors of the Trojans, and one of the few spared by the Greeks at the capture of Troy.
“As-træˈa.” Referring to the constellation Virgo, between which and the Scorpion “the golden scales” or Libra lies. Astræa was a daughter of Zeus fabled to have lived among men during the Golden Age, and to have been set among the stars at its close.
P. 191.—“Voss.” (1751-1826.) A German scholar. His translation of the “Odyssey” has been, since 1781, the standard German version of that poem. He made translations of many classical works, wrote on Grecian mythology, and was a poet of ability.
“Chry-seˈis.” The daughter of a priest of Apollo, captured at Thebe, and the booty of Agamemnon. Her father solicited her ransom, and when refused, Apollo sent a plague upon the Greeks. Agamemnon was obliged to surrender her, and to make good his loss, demanded Briseis, Achilles’ prize, hence “the wrath of Achilles.”
P. 193.—“Seventh of March.” A speech delivered in Congress by Webster on March 7, 1850, in which he justified the fugitive slave law.