NOTES
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Berens, E. M.
[41] A cubit is the length from the elbow to the extremity of the middle finger, and therefore an indefinite measure, but modern usage takes it as representing a length of seventeen to eighteen inches.
[42] On the Egyptian coast.
[43] See Legend of the Argonauts.
[44] His two sons Deimos and Phobos.
[45] Romulus was deified by the Romans after death, and was worshipped by them under the name of Quirinus, an appellation which he shared in common with his father Mars.
[46] Midas was the son of Cybele and Gordius, the king who tied the celebrated and intricate knot.
[47] The shades of those mortals whose lives had neither been distinguished by virtue nor vice, were condemned to a monotonous, joyless, existence in the Asphodel meadows of Hades.
[48] Echidna was a bloodthirsty monster, half maiden, half serpent.
[49] One of the horns of the goat Amalthea, broken off by Zeus, and supposed to possess the power of filling itself with whatsoever its owner desired.
[50] According to another account, Momus discovered that Aphrodite made a noise when she walked.
[51] The word Psyche signifies "butterfly," the emblem of the soul in ancient art.
[52] Tiresias alone, of all the shades, was in full possession of his mental vigour.
[53] Most of the words ending in eus may also be pronounced thus: Æ´-ge-us, ā´-tre-us, pro-me´-the-us, etc.
[54] The first e like ei in their.
[55]Th at the beginning of a word has its soft sound, as in both.