“Bright Hebe waits; by Hebe ever young
The whirling wheels are to the chariot hung.”
Pope.
Hec′ate. There were two goddesses known by this name, but the one generally referred to in modern literature is Hecate, or Prosperine, the name by which Diana was known in the infernal regions. In heaven her name was Luna, and her terrestrial name was Diana.
Hec′uba. The mother of Paris, was allotted to Ulysses after the destruction of Troy, and was afterwards changed into a hound.
“What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba?”
Shakespeare.
Heifer, see Ino.
Hel′ena when a child was so beautiful that Theseus and Perithous stole her, but she was restored by Castor and Pollux. She became the wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta, but eloped with Paris, and thus caused the Trojan War. After the death of Paris she married Deiphobus, his brother, and then betrayed him to Menelaus. She was strangled by order of Polyxo, king of Rhodes.
He′liades were the daughters of Sol, and the sisters of Phaeton, at whose death they were so sad that they stood mourning till they became metamorphosed into poplar trees, and their tears were turned into amber.