 | John Lemprière - Classical dictionaries - 1820 - 892 pages
...the Oceanides, messenger of the gods, and more particularly of Juno. Her office was to cut the thread which seemed to detain the soul in the body of those...with wings, with all the variegated and beautiful colors of the rainbow, and appears sitting IK hind Juno ready to execute her commands. She is likewise... | |
 | John Lemprière - Classical dictionaries - 1822 - 818 pages
...the Oceanides, messenger of tbe gods, and more particularly of Juno. Her office was to cut the thread which seemed to detain the soul in the body of those...supplying the clouds with water to deluge the world. Hesiod. Thtog. v. 266.— Omit. Met. 1, v. 271 and seq. 1. 4, v. 481, 1. 10, v. 585.— Virg. JEn.... | |
 | John Lemprière - Classical dictionaries - 1822 - 840 pages
...the Oceanides, messenger of the gods, and more particularly of Juno. Her office was to cut the thread which seemed to detain the soul in the body of those...same as the rainbow, and, from that circumstance, the is represented with wings with all the variegated and beautiful colours of the rainbow, and appears... | |
 | John Lemprière - Classical dictionaries - 1827 - 938 pages
...nffire was to cut Hi lock which seemed to detain I'i: soul in the body of those that wereexI piring. 6hc is the same as the rainbow, and, 'from that circumstance, she is represented with wingswithall the variegated and beautiful colours of the rainbow, and appears sit\ ting ' -i hi ml... | |
 | Agnes Smith (writer on mythology.) - Mythology, Classical - 1851 - 346 pages
...news. Besides the care of Juno's toilette, her office was to cut the thread of life of expiring women. She is likewise described as supplying the clouds with water to deluge the world. She is represented as a young girl, borne upon a rainbow (of which she is the goddess), and decorated... | |
 | John Lemprière - Classical dictionaries - 1852 - 800 pages
...detain the stul in the body of those that were expiring. She la the same as the rainbow, and, Irom that circumstance, she is represented with wings, with all the variegated and heautilul colours ol the rainbow, and appears sitting hehitid Juno ready to execute her commands. Slip... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1859 - 414 pages
...the Oceanides, messenger of the gods, but more particularly of Juno. Her office was to cut the thread which seemed to detain the soul in the body of those that were expiring. Her name signifies the rainbow, «id she is therefore represented with all the beautiful colours of... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - Classical biography - 1871 - 274 pages
...the same as the rainbow, and therefore was represented, sitting behind Juno, with variegated wings. She is likewise described as supplying the clouds with water to deluge the world. IRUS, I'-rus, a beggar of Ithaca. Is^us, l-stf'-us, an Athenian orator, born at Chalcis, in Euboea,... | |
 | Virgil - Agriculture - 1886 - 508 pages
...the Oceanides, and messenger of the gods, more particularly of Juno. Her office waa to cut the thread which seemed to detain the soul in the body of those that were expiring. She is represented with all the variegated and beautiful colors of the rainbow. struggling soul and the tie... | |
 | Virgil - 1891 - 498 pages
...ihe Oceauides, and messenger of the gods, more particularly of Juno. Her office was to cut the thread which seemed to detain the soul in the body of those that were expiring. She ia represented with all the variegated and beautilul colors of the rainbow. struggling soul and the... | |
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Thaumas and Electra, one of the Oceanides, messenger of the gods, and more particularly of Juno. Her office was to cut the thread which seemed to detain the soul in the body of those that were expiring. She is the same as the rainbow, and, from that circumstance,... 
