| Thomas Browne (LL.D.) - Classical dictionaries - 1812 - 500 pages
...Proserpine is said to have restored bun to lite, on condition that he should spend six months with her, uinl the rest of the year with Venus. This implies the alternate return of summer and winter. Adonis had temples raised to his memory, and issaid DTSOIULto have been beloved by Apollo and Bacchus, .tpollail.... | |
| Thomas Smith - Astronomy - 1818 - 158 pages
...tears for his loss, changed his blood into a flower called anemony, and Proserpine restored his body to life, on condition that he should spend six months with her, and the rest of the year with Venus; by which fable the alternate appearance of summer and winter is implied. The three Charities, or Graces,... | |
| John Lemprière - Classical dictionaries - 1820 - 892 pages
...from a wild boar which he had wounded, and Venus, after shedding many tears at his death, changed him into a flower called anemony. Proserpine is said to...on condition that he should spend six months with 1 1 IT, and the rest of the year witB Venus. This implies the alternate return of summer and winter.... | |
| John Lemprière - Classical dictionaries - 1822 - 840 pages
...wounded, and Venus, after shedding many tears at his death, changed him into a flower called aneraony. Proserpine is said to have restored him to life, on...condition that he should spend six months with her, and tbe rest of the year with Venus. This implies the alternate return of summer and winter. Adonis is... | |
| Christian Cann - 1828 - 570 pages
...mortal bite from a wild boar which he had wounded, and Venus after shedding tears at his death, changed into a flower called Anemony. Proserpine is said to...implies the alternate . return of summer and winter. 441 Alcinous, host of old Laertes's son Ulysses, the son of Laertes, was shipwreck'd on the coast of... | |
| Botany - 1830 - 614 pages
...rests his pinions there." As in the fable of Adonis, Proserpine is said to hare restored the faronrite to life, on condition that he should spend six months with her, and the lest of the year with Venus, which implies the alternate return of Summer and Winter ; so it is impossible... | |
| John Lemprière - Classical dictionaries - 1832 - 444 pages
...from a wild hoar which he had wounded, and Venus, after shedding many tears at his death, changed him into a flower called anemony. Proserpine is said to...summer and winter. Adonis is often taken for Osiris, hecause the festivals of hoth were often hegun with mournful lamentatious, and finished with a revival... | |
| John Lempriere - 1842 - 1150 pages
...flower anemone ; I'roBerpine restored him to life, on condition that he should spend G months with her, the rest of the year with Venus. This implies the alternate return of summer and winter. He is often taken for Osiris, because the festivals of both were often begun with lamentation, and... | |
| John Lempriere - 1843 - 670 pages
...From his blood sprung the flower Anemone. The goddess was so inconsolable at his loss that Proserpine restored him to life, on condition that he should...with her, and the rest of the year with Venus. This fable is evidently an allegorical allusion to the periodical return of summer and winter. Adonis was... | |
| John Lemprière - Classical dictionaries - 1852 - 800 pages
...deuti,, changed him inio a flower called anemony. Proserpine is paid to have restored him lo lite, or. condition that he should spend six months with her,...the rest of the year with Venus. This implies the allómate return of summer and winter. Adonis is often taken for Osir.s, because (he festivals of both... | |
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