[6]Themis in mythology was the goddess of justice and peace.
[7]Doris in mythology was the wife of Nereus, a seer dwelling in the Ægean Sea, and had fifty daughters, called Nereids.
[8]The myth also states that Phaëthon had three sisters—Phaëthusa, Lampetié, and Phœbé—and that while they were lamenting Phaëthon’s death, Zeus turned them into poplar trees, weeping amber instead of tears.
[9]He is also said in another myth to have been the son of Œagrus, a Thracian river god.
[10]The muse of epic poetry.
[11]Another version of the myth relates that Aristæus, son of Apollo and Cyrene, loved Eurydice and when she repulsed him he pushed her into a wood where the serpent stung her, and that the nymphs revenged her death by the destruction of his bees.
[12]Ixion is said to have been punished by Jupiter for insulting Juno. He was struck by a thunderbolt and sent to Tartarus, where he was tied to a wheel which never ceased revolving.
[13]Sisyphus was a famous robber killed by Theseus. His punishment was to roll a great rock to the top of a hill which no sooner reached the top than it rolled down again.
[14]Ceres’ daughter was Persephone, who was stolen by Pluto.
[15]In the Roman mythology, Mars.