 | Thomas Browne (LL.D.) - 1812 - 500 pagina’s
...Scyllaeum, about 00 miles in circumference, and of an oblong figure. Stroll. Mela. MKLPOM'ENE, «ne of the Muses, daughter of Jupiter and Mnemosyne. She presided over tragedy. Horace has addressed the finest ofhis odes to her, as to the patroness of lyrick poetry. She was generally... | |
 | John Lemprière - 1820 - 892 pagina’s
...falling into the Tyrrhene tea. TKn. 3, r. 5. MF.LPIA, a village of Arcadia. Paul. 8, c. 38. MEI.POAJKNE, one of the Muses, daughter of Jupiter and Mnemosyne. She presided over tragedy. Horace has addressed the finest of his odes to her, as to the patroness of Lyric poetry. She was generally... | |
 | Stephen Jones - 1820 - 522 pagina’s
...Cudmus and HermK>ne, who married Nycteis, by whom he had Labdacus, the father of Laid*. Polyhym'nio, one of the Muses, daughter of Jupiter and Mnemosyne. She presided over mtisick and rhctorick, and was deemed the inventress of harmony* PotynVcet, see Eteacles. Polyphc'wux,... | |
 | John Lemprière - 1822 - 840 pagina’s
...Lucania, falling into the Tyrrhene sea. /'/in. 3, c. 6. MELFIA, a village of ArcaUia. I'nus. 8, c. S8. MELPOMENE, one of the muses, daughter of Jupiter and Mnemosyne. She presided over tragedy. Horace has addressed the (best of his odes to her, as to the patroness of lyric poetry. She was generally... | |
 | John Lemprière - 1823 - 892 pagina’s
...falling into the Tyrrhene sea. Pirn. 3, c. 5. MELPIA, a village of Arcadia. Paia. 8, c. 38. MgLp5.MENE, one of the Muses, daughter of Jupiter and Mnemosyne. She presided over tragedy. Horace has addressed the finest of his odes to her, as to the patroness of Lyric poetry. She was generally... | |
 | 1823 - 858 pagina’s
...except those in the middle of the face, before and behind, which •re three diameters distant. EUTERPE, one of the Muses, daughter of Jupiter and Mnemosyne. She presided over music, and was looked upon as tire inventress of the flute. She is represented as crowned with flowers,... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1831 - 628 pagina’s
...Quincy's Descriptions (Paris, 1821) ; others have supposed it to be a statue of Electro. (See Fenu*.) MELPOMENE ; one of the Muses, daughter of Jupiter and Mnemosyne. She presided over tragedy. Horace has addressed the finest of his odes to her, as to the patroness of lyric poetry. She was generally... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1831 - 610 pagina’s
...plants, together with the cucumber, gourd, &c., belong to the natural family cucurbitaceœ. MELI'OMENK ; one of the Muses, daughter of Jupiter and Mnemosyne. She presided over tragedy. Horace has addressed the finest of his odes to her, as to the patroness of lyric poetry. She was generally... | |
 | John Lemprière - 1832 - 444 pagina’s
...PoLTGoNUs and TELECUNUs, song of Proteus and Coronis, were killed hy Hercules. PoLTHTMNtA, and PoLTMXtA, one of the Muses, daughter of Jupiter and Mnemosyne. She presided over singing and rhetoric, and was deemed the inventress of harmony. She was represented veiled in white,... | |
 | Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford - 1841 - 490 pagina’s
...Quincy's Descriptions (Paris, 1821); others have supposed it to be a statue of Electra. See Venta. MELPOMENE; one of the Muses, daughter of Jupiter and Mnemosyne. She presided over tragedy. Horace has addressed the finest of his odes to her, as to the patroness of lyric poetry. She was generally... | |
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Thev were thus exposed to the ridicule of the gods till Neptune induced Vulcan to set them at liberty. 
