Index of Proper Names.

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SEMELE, daughter of Cadmus, mother of Bacchus, blasted by the lightnings of Jupiter (iii. 253-315).

SILENUS, an attendant of Bacchus (vi. 90–99).

SIPYLUS, a mountain of Lydia, home of Tantalus and Niobe. SIRENS, sea-maidens, who by their song enchanted mariners to perish.

SISYPHUS, Son of Æolus, famous for craft, condemned in Tartarus to roll a stone for ever to a hill-top, from which it immediately falls back.

STHENELUS, king of Mycenæ, son of Perseus, father of Eurystheus. STYX, a river of Hades, by which the gods swore their most inviolable oath.

Tantalus, king of Lydia, son of Jupiter, father of Pelops and Niobe (vi. 382-411; see note to vi. 172).

Tartarus, the place of torment in the Lower World.

TELAMON, Son of Æacus, king of Salamis, father of Ajax and Teucer; a hero of the Calydonian Hunt and of the Argonautic Expedition.

TELEMACHUS, son of Ulysses and Penelope.

TEREUS, king of Thrace, husband of Progne, changed to a hoopoe

(vi. 412-676).

TETHYS, wife of Oceanus, mother of the ocean-nymphs.

THALIA, the Muse of Comedy.

THEMIS, goddess of justice, whose oracle was at Delphi (i. 379). THERSITES, a deformed and malignant Greek at the siege of Troy (xiii. 233).

THESEUS, Son of Ægeus, king of Athens, who slays the Minotaur, and escapes from Crete by aid of Ariadne: a hero of the Calydonian Hunt and Argonautic Expedition, who delivered the land from many monsters.

THETIS, a sea-nymph, mother of Achilles.

THYESTES, brother of Atreus, by whom his two sons were killed and served to him in a banquet.

TITAN, name of the eldest progeny of Heaven and Earth, and poetically of the Sun.

TMOLUS, a mountain of Phrygia (xi. 151–171).

TRIPTOLEMUS, prince of Eleusis, instructed in agriculture by Ceres (v. 645-661).

TRITON, Son and attendant of Neptune: his form part human and part that of a fish.

TRITONIS, an appellation of Minerva.

TYDIDES (son of Tydeus), a name of Diomed.

TYNDARUS, king of Sparta, father of Helen and Clytemnestra. TYPHOEUS, a monster, who warred against the gods and was buried by Jupiter beneath Mt. Etna.

ULYSSES (Ulixes), son of Laërtes, king of Ithaca, most crafty of the Grecian chiefs at Troy (xiii. 1-381; Her. i. 1).

VENUS (Aphrodite), daughter of Jupiter and Dione, goddess of love and beauty.

VERTUMNUS, Italian god of the Seasons.

VESPER (Hesperus), the Evening Star.

VESTA (Hestia), daughter of Saturn, goddess of the hearth and the sacred fire.

VULCANUS (Hephaistos), or Mulciber, god of fire: his forge in Ætna, and the Cyclopes his workmen, who forged the thunderbolts of Jupiter.

ZEPHYRUS, the west wind, son of Astræus and Aurora.

ZETES, one of the winged sons of Boreas and Orithyia, who accompanied the Argonauts (see Calais).

VOCABULARY.

NOTE.

THIS Vocabulary contains about 15,000 words of common use, besides more than 1300 proper names or adjectives, and about 200 dates, covering the more important points of classical history and mythology. While it makes no claim to supply, for the critical student, the place of his larger Lexicon, it is believed to be sufficiently complete (with special and rare exceptions) not to leave him in doubt as to the meaning or inflection of any word he is likely to meet in the course of his reading, from Plautus down to Tacitus.

VOCABULARY.

ABBREVIATIONS.

NOUNS. —м. masculine; F. feminine; N. neuter; c. common; D. doubtful.

VERBS.- -The figures 1, 2, 3, 4, signify the Conjugations. In those of the 1st and 4th, where only one form is given, the conjugation is regular, like amo or audio. In the others, the Perfect termination is given, and usually that of the Supine Stem only as rego, xi, ct-— instead of the ending in um. When compound verbs are divided by a hyphen, the conjugation may be found under the simple form. — A. active; N. neuter; P. passive.

PROPER NAMES. — k. king; q. queen; f. father; m. mother; s. son; d. daughter; dist. district; prov. province; mt. mountain; - myth. signifies that the name belongs to Mythology. The dates are usually those of birth and death: as, Hannibal, B.C. 247-183. Unusual forms of inflection are given in parenthesis; cognate words in brackets. Words marked † are Greek. Forms given with hyphen occur in compounds. Vowels not marked, and not long by position, are to be reckoned short.

The References are to the Sections of Allen and Greenough's Latin Grammar.