[8.] “Triˈdent.” From tris, three, and dens, a tooth or prong. A three-pronged fork—Neptune’s scepter.
[9.] “Lemˈnos.” A Turkish island in the Grecian Archipelago, sacred to Vulcan.
[10.] “Eu-rynˈo-me,” not Eurymone. A daughter of Oceanus.
[11.] “Necˈtar.” The beverage of the gods. Homer describes it as resembling red wine, and says its continued use would cause immortality.
TEMPERANCE TEACHINGS OF SCIENCE.
[1.] “Re-genˈe-sis.” A reproductive principle.
[2.] “Black death.” The plague that raged in Europe in the fourteenth century, when it is said to have carried off twenty-five millions of people. It derived its name from the body turning black.
[3.] “Cau-cāˈsian,” not Cau-căˈsian, as so often pronounced.
[4.] “An-acˈre-ons.” Poets of Anacreon’s class—Lyric poets—who write odes of a light character, and of which love, social pleasures and wine are the subjects.