“You shall be the mother of a great race which shall be called spiders.
“You and your children shall be among the greatest spinners and weavers on earth.”
As she spoke, Arachne became smaller and smaller until she was scarcely larger than a fly.
From that day to this Arachne and her family have been faithful spinners, but they do their work so quietly and in such dark places, that very few people know what marvelous weavers they are.
AURORA AND TITHONUS.
HE beautiful youth, Tithonus, loved Aurora, the queen of the dawn. He was the first one to greet her each day as she drew back the purple curtains of the east.