Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome

  [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: ??-ge-us, ?-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.