. Grecian and Roman mythology . iana, the severe goddess of chastity, attracted by his charms, becamesensible of the power of love. Endymions abode was on the lonely mountain Latmos, in Caria, aprovince of Asia Minor. By moonlight he pursued the chase of thedeer through the forest, until worn out by fatigue, he sank into thearms of sleep. Then it was that Diana, rising with glimmering torchin the vault of heaven, beheld the slumbering youth. All was lonelyand silent. She stopped the steeds that drew her car, and glidingslowly from the height of the sky down to the lips of the slumberer,
. Grecian and Roman mythology . iana, the severe goddess of chastity, attracted by his charms, becamesensible of the power of love. Endymions abode was on the lonely mountain Latmos, in Caria, aprovince of Asia Minor. By moonlight he pursued the chase of thedeer through the forest, until worn out by fatigue, he sank into thearms of sleep. Then it was that Diana, rising with glimmering torchin the vault of heaven, beheld the slumbering youth. All was lonelyand silent. She stopped the steeds that drew her car, and glidingslowly from the height of the sky down to the lips of the slumberer, the first time, kissed them in glowing love. Thus Endymion e-joyed, sleeping, a happiness which had never fallen to the lot eitheof gods or men. The eternal sleep of Endymion is in ancient story assigned to vari-ous causes. Some say that he begged Zeus to give him then bestowed upon him the boon of perpetual youth, united withperpetual sleep. Others state that Zeus threw him into everlasting ANCHISES. 42i>. sleep as a punishment for his love for Hera. These stories are un-questionably poetical fictions, in which sleep is personified. His nameand attributes confirm this opinion. Endymion signifies a being thatgently comes over one. He is called a king, because he has powerover all living creatures ; a shepherd, because he slumbered in the coolcaves of Mount Latmos, that is, the Mount of Oblivion ; and, lastly,nothing can be more beautiful than the idea of his being kissed by thesoft rays of the Moon. ANCHISES, Anchises, son of Calyps and Themis, attracted Venus by his beauty,and she introduced herself to his notice in the form of a nymph onMount Ida, and urged him to a union. Anchises no sooner discoveredthat he had been in the company of a celestial being, than he dreadedthe vengeance of the gods. Venus then addressed him in these words; 430 GRECIAN AND ROMAN MYTHOLOGY. Dismiss all fear! Thou shalt suffer no harm because of my love. Iwill not supplicate fo
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