. Horactea and AlccHtls.(From a. naH-reliei at Florence.) induced the Moirae to grant him deliverancefrom death if his father, mother, or wife woulddie for him. Alcestis died in his stead, but wasbrought back by Heracles from tin: lower worldI Apollod. i. 9, 15; Eurip. Ale).—2. King of theMolossians, to whom fled forprotection when pursued as a party to the trea-son of Pausanias (Thuc. i. 130; Plut. : Nep. Them. 8). Adonis (,AoWis, -iSos, ASac, -vivos: Death of Adonis.(A Painting found at Pompeii.) himself,
. Horactea and AlccHtls.(From a. naH-reliei at Florence.) induced the Moirae to grant him deliverancefrom death if his father, mother, or wife woulddie for him. Alcestis died in his stead, but wasbrought back by Heracles from tin: lower worldI Apollod. i. 9, 15; Eurip. Ale).—2. King of theMolossians, to whom fled forprotection when pursued as a party to the trea-son of Pausanias (Thuc. i. 130; Plut. : Nep. Them. 8). Adonis (,AoWis, -iSos, ASac, -vivos: Death of Adonis.(A Painting found at Pompeii.) himself, should belong to Persephone for anotherthird, and to Aphrodite for the remaining , however, preferring to live with Aphro-dite, also spent with her the four months overwhich he had control. Having offended Ar-temis, he was killed during the chase. Thespot on which his blood fell was sprinkled withnectar by Aphrodite, and from this sprangthe anemone, as well as other flowers. Sogreat was the grief of the goddess, that thegods of the lower world allowed him to spendsix months of every year with her upon theearth (Apollod. iii. 14,3; Ov. M. x. 298 seq.;A. A. i. 75, 512; Verg. E. x. 18). The worshipof Adonis, which in later times was spread overnearly all the countries round the Mediterraneanwas of Phoenician or Syrian origin, in whichlanguage Adon signifies lord. In the Homericpoems no trace of the worship occurs, and thelater Greek poets changed the original symbolicaccount of Adonis into a poetical story. In theAsiatic
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