she was enamoured of Ulysses, who was ship. wrecked on her coast, where she detained him seven years; when, unwillingly, at the command of the gods, she suffered him to depart.

CHLORIS, the wife of Neleus king of Pylos, and mother of Nestor.

CICONS, a people of Thrace, whom Ulysses conquered on his return from Troy.

CIRCE, daughter of Sol and Perseis, celebrated for her skill in magic.

CLYTEMNESTRA, daughter of Tyndarus and Leda, and wife of Agamemnon. During his absence to Troy, she was faithless to his bed; and, at his return, murdered him, in concert with her adulterer. CYCLOPS, a gigantic race supposed to be the sons of Calus and Terra, represented with one eye only, in the midst of their forehead.

CYLLENIUS, a name of Mercury, from the mountain Cyllene, where he was born.

CYNTHIA, a name of Diana, from her birth-place, Mount Cynthus.

CYTHERA, an island sacred to Venus, who was thence called Cytherea.

DOLIUS, a faithful domestic of Ulysses.

ECHENEUS, a Phæacian noble.

ERIPHILE, the wife of Amphiaraus. She was bribed by Polynice, with a golden necklace, to discover the retreat of her husband, who had concealed himself that he might avoid going to the Theban war, where it was foretold that he should be slain. EUMEUS, a faithful servant and herdsman of Ulysses.

EURICLEA, the nurse of Ulysses.

EURYLOCHUS, one of the companions of Ulysses. EURYMACHUS, one of Penelope's suitors.

GORGON, a head, the sight of which changed the beholder into stone.

HALITHERSES, a soothsayer.

HELEN, wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta.-See Vocab. to Iliad.

HERMES, Mercury.-See ditto.

HESPER, a name applied to the planet Venus.
HIPPOTADES, a patronymic of Æolus, grandson of
Hippotas.

ICARIUS, the father of Penelope.
ILION, Troy.

ITHACUS, a name of Ulysses.

ITHACA, an island in the Ionian Sea, part of the kingdom of Ulysses.

IOCASTA, a daughter of Menaceus: she married her son Edipus, ignorant at the time who he was, but afterwards discovering that she had been guilty of incest, she hanged herself.

LAERTES, king of Ithaca, until he resigned his crown to his son Ulysses.

LEDA, the wife of Tyndarus: she was mother of Pollux and Helen, Castor and Clytemnestra, at the same birth. The two former were the reputed offspring of Jupiter, the latter of Tyndarus. LEUCOTHEA, a sea deity.

MENELAUS, king of Sparta, and brother of Agamemnon.-See Vocab. to Iliad.

MEGAPENTHES, a natural son of Menelaus. MEGARA, daughter of Creon, king of Thebes, given in marriage to Hercules.

MENTES, king of the Taphians in Ætolia. MENTOR, a faithful friend of Ulysses, whose form Minerva assumed when she accompanied Telemachus in his travels in quest of his father. MINOS, king of Crete. As a reward for the excellent laws which he had given his subjects

during his life, he was afterwards made Judge of the dead of the infernal regions.

NAUSICAA, daughter of Alcinous, king of Phæacia. NEPTUNE, brother of Jupiter, and god of the sea. See Vocab. to Iliad.

NESTOR, king of Pylos.-See ditto.

ORESTES, Son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra: he revenged the murder of his father by the death of Clytemnestra and her adulterer Ægysthus.

PAPHOS, a city of Cyprus, devoted to Venus. PENELOPE, daughter of Icarius and wife of Ulys ses-a model of female virtue and chastity. PERSEPHONE, a name of Proserpine.

PHEACIA, an island in the Ionian sea; called, also, Scheria.

PHEDRA, the wife of Theseus, was violently in love with Hippolytus, who, rejecting her proposals, she accused him to her husband of an attempt to violate her. Theseus complained of this to Neptune, who sent a sea-monster, which so frightened the horses of Hippolytus, that they overturned his chariot, and he was trampled to death under their feet. After this Phædra, stung with remorse at the crime she had committed, hanged herself.

PHEMIUS, a lyrist in the court of Ithaca. PHLEGETHON, a river of hell, whose waters were continually burning.

PHORCYS, a sea-deity, son of Pontus and Iona.
PISISTRATUS, a son of Nestor.

PLUTO, brother of Jupiter, and supreme of the infernal regions.

POLYPHEMUS, king of the Cyclops in Sicily, and son of Neptune. Having seized Ulysses and some of his companions who were driven on his

coast, he shut them in his cave with an intent to devour them. To escape which, they put out his eye with a firebrand whilst asleep, and returned to their vessel. For this, Ulysses was long after persecuted by Neptune with unrelenting fury.

PROCRIS, the wife of Cephalus. Diana had given her an unerring arrow, which Cephalus made use of in his field sports. Procris, suspecting her husband to be unfaithful, concealed herself in a bush which he was accustomed to pass by when hunting. One day, heated with the toil of the chace, Cephalus laid himself down in the shade, and began calling earnestly for Aura (the air.) His wife, supposing he meant a nymph of that name, stung with jealousy, made a rustling noise in the bush under which she was concealed, and Cephalus, supposing it to proceed from a wild beast, let fly his unerring arrow and slew her.

PROSERPINE, daughter of Jupiter and Ceres, and wife of Pluto.

PILOS, a town on the western coast of Peloponnesus, subject to Nestor.

SCHERIA. See PHEACIA.

STYX, a river of hell, held in such veneration by the gods, that they usually swore by it; and this oath was inviolable.

SYSIPHUS, was for his crimes condemned to roll a large stone to the top of a hill; which, the moment if reached the summit, always fell back with great impetuosity: thus his punishment was rendered eternal.

TANTALUS, was for his crimes tortured by a raging thirst, and placed up to the chin in water, without the power of tasting it.

TELEMACHUS, son of Ulysses and Penelope. TIRESIAS, had been a celebrated prophet of Thebes, where he lived to an unusual age. At the instigation of Circe, Ulysses visited the infernal regions, to consult him of his future fate and his return to his native country.

THRASYMED, a son of Nestor. TITYUS, was condemned to the torture of having vultures eternally feeding on his entrails, which grew again as fast as they were devoured. TRINACRIA, an ancient name of Sicily, from its triangular form.

ULYSSES, the hero of the present poem, was king of Ithaca and Dulichium, and son of Laërtes.See Vocab. to Iliad.