. The Pantheon, or, Fabulous history of the heathen gods, goddesses, heroes, &c. : explained in a manner entirely new ... adorned with figures from ancient paintings, medals, and gems ... with a dissertation on the theology and mythology of the heathens ... . nCrete; the third an Arcadian, called Nomion, fromhis being a great legiflator ; and the laft, to whomthe grcateft honour is afcribed, the fon of Jupiterand Latons (^i), whofe having gained the af-fection of the king of the gods, Juno on difcoveringher pregnancy, drove her cut of henven, and com •rnanded the ferpent Python to dcil
. The Pantheon, or, Fabulous history of the heathen gods, goddesses, heroes, &c. : explained in a manner entirely new ... adorned with figures from ancient paintings, medals, and gems ... with a dissertation on the theology and mythology of the heathens ... . nCrete; the third an Arcadian, called Nomion, fromhis being a great legiflator ; and the laft, to whomthe grcateft honour is afcribed, the fon of Jupiterand Latons (^i), whofe having gained the af-fection of the king of the gods, Juno on difcoveringher pregnancy, drove her cut of henven, and com •rnanded the ferpent Python to dcilioy her, fromwhofe purfuit Latona fled to the ifie of Delos in theifiape of a quail (9), where (lie v/as delivered oftwins, calkd Diana and Apollo ; the latter of whom,foon after his birth, dtftroyed the rnonfler Python with (5) InjeSio ter puhere. Horace, book I. ode a8. (6) They called it Peloutab, alleviaLoii cr has the fame thought. LtToare funS^,:m pauperum Laboribus, Carm. 1. 2. Od. l8. (7) Beri, quiet, fcrenity; whence Diodorus Siculus callsCharons bark Bafis. (8) The daughter of Creus the Titan, and Phoebe. (9) Whence the i{l<J was called Ortygia, though fome faythat rujfed it out of the ft a to give her refuge. THE HEATHEN GODS. 6i with his arrows (i), though fome defer the time ofof this vidory till he came to riper years. But La-tonas troubles did not end here, for flying into Ly-cia with her children, fhe was denied the water ofthe fountain Mela, by the (hepherd Niocles and hisclowns, upon which flie turned them into fettling her fon Apollo in Lycia, ihe returnedto Delos, and Diana went to refide in Crete. The adventures of Apollo are pretty moft remarkable are his quarrels with Jupiter,on account of the death of his fon Eiculapiits, killedby that deity on the complaint of Piuto, that he de-creafed the number of the dead by the cures lieperformed. Apollo, to revenge this injury, killedthe Cyclops, who forged
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