Witches' mummy; maw and gulf
Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark,
Root of hemlock digg'd i' the dark," etc.
LXIV
Medea's sorceries were assisted by the prayers that she addressed to Hecate, a mysterious divinity who embodied the terrors of the darkness. She haunted cross roads and graveyards; and, being goddess of sorcery and witchcraft, wandered only by night and was seen only by dogs, whose barking told of her approach.
Translations of the Medea of Euripides are by Augusta Webster, William C. Lawton, and Wodhull.
LXV
Poems on Atalanta:—
| Atalanta's Race in "The Earthly Paradise" | William Morris |
| Atalanta in Calydon | Algernon C. Swinburne |
| Hippomenes and Atalanta | Walter S. Landor |
LXVI
Dædalus shared with Æolus the honor of inventing sails for the ships hitherto propelled by oars.
Dædalus could never bear the idea of a rival; and when his nephew Perdix was apprenticed to him, the lad gave such promise of excelling his teacher in mechanical arts that Dædalus grew to hate him. One day when Perdix was walking on the seashore he picked up the spine of a fish, and later on he imitated it in iron, thus inventing the saw. He also invented a pair of compasses. Then Dædalus, envious of his nephew's skill, pushed him off a tower and killed him; but Minerva, pitying the boy, changed him into a partridge, which bears his name.