Lucrine Bay, a lake in Cam pania, famed for oysters Lyceus, a mountain in Arcadia Lyones, Lyonesse, a British name for Cornwall, or for Leon in Brittany Machabeus. The redoubtable family of the Maccabees, first of whom was Judas Maccabæus, headed a patriotic revolt, won several great battles against Antiochus Epiphanes, and held out against them for many years. They were priests. See Book of the Maccabees Macharus, a city in Perma Meander, a river in Asia Minor Manalus, a mountain in Arcadia Mæonides, Homer Magnetic, magnet, P.R. ii. 168 Maia, mother of Hermes, the messenger of Zeus. Raphael is compared to Hermes because sent as a messenger from Jehovah Malabar, the S.-W. coast of India Mammon, a personification of filthy lucre manure, attend to, P.L. iv. 628 marasmus, consumption, P.L. xi. 487 Margiana, a province near to Sogdiana marle, earth, P.L. i. 296 Mars, god of war in Roman mythology and mask or masque, a dramatical fantasia, with songs dances, P.L. iv. 768 maugre, in spite of, P.L. iii. 255; P.R. iii. 368 meath, to press so as to make mead, P.L. v. 344 Medusa, a Gorgon whose face turned into stone all that looked upon it. Perseus Melinda, a haven near Zanzibar Memnon, an Ethiopian prince, who fought in the Trojan War. He was renowned for his beauty Memnonian, Susa was founded by the father of Memnon, who built its fortress Memphian, of Memphis, famous city of Egypt Mera, a district of Ethiopia, between two rivers; called an island because formed by two branches of the Nile Michael, "who is like God?" an Archangel a Midas, King of Phrygia, judged that Pan sang sweeter than Apollo, and had his ears changed into asses' ears for his pains middle (air), i.e. between earth and heaven, P.L. i. 516 middle (shore), of the Mediterranean, P.L. v. 339 Mincius, now Mincio, a river in N. Italy, flowing through Lake Garda, and passing into the Po minim, minute thing, P.L. vii. 482 missive, projectile (adj.) P.L. vi. 519 Modin, the district from whence came Judas Mac cabæus Mogul, a dynasty of Moslem En perors, reigning at Agra first, then Lahore, then Delhi mole, mass, P.L. x. 300 Moloch, an Ammonite fire-god, to whom human sacrifice was done, and other hideous rites moly, a herb potent against magic charms, C. 636 Mombasa, near Mombaza, Montezuma, emperor of Mexico, (originally Moorish), C. 116 Moses chair, see Matt. xxiii. 2 Mountain, the Mount of Temptation cannot be Quarantaria, near Jericho, as the prospect shows. It may be one of the mountains of Armenia; or perhaps M. had no special mountain in his mind, but chose a central position and imagined one Mozambic, Mozambique, in E. Africa Mulciber, Vulcan, god of fire and smith-craft Musacus, an early Greek poet must, new wine, P.L. v. 345 myrrhine, made of baked clay or some such substance, probably porcelain Naiades, water-nymphs Namancos, marked in Mercator's Atlas near Cape Finisterre Narcissus, a beautiful youth, cold to a nymph Echo, who loved him and died of love. Nemesis made N. fall in love with his own image in a fountain; and he pined away and became the flower called by his name nathless, nevertheless, P.L. i. 299 Nazarites, a sect who abstained from all intoxicants and kept the hair unshorn Nebaioth, used for Ishmael in P.R. ii. 309, but really the name of Ishmael's eldest son (Gen. xxiii. 13). See Gen. xxi. 17 Nebo, the mountain from which Moses surveyed the Promised Land nectar, the mythical drink of the gods, P.L. iv. 240 Negus, title of the King of Abyssinia nepenthes, an opiate given by Helen to Menelaus. She got it from Polydamna, wife of Thone Neptune, Roman God of the sea, incensed against Ulysses, as described in the Odyssey Nereus, the "wise old man of the sea," father of fifty Nereides nice, fastidious, P.L. v. 433; P.R. iv. 157 night-foundered, lost in the night, P.L. i. 204 Nineveh, a city on the Tigris, Nisibis, in Mesopotamia Olympian, at Olympia in Elis were held the most famous athletic contests of Greece Olympias, mother of Alexander the Great Olympus, a mountain in Thessaly, where the Greeks supposed their gods to dwell; also used as a synonym for the sky omnific, all-creating, P.L. vii. 217 Ophion, a Titan, driven from Olympus by Kronos Ophir, the land whence Solomon got his gold Ophiuchus, a northern constellation Ophiusa, an island full of serpents opposition, an astrological term, used when the earth lies between two bodies and in one straight line with them, P.L. ii. 803 opprobrious, infamous, P.L. i. 403 Ops, wife of Saturn optic glass, telescope, P.L. i. 288 orc, a sea-monster, P.L. xi. 835 Orcus, a Latin name of the king of the infernal regions Oread, a mountain nymph Oreb or Horeb, which properly means a dry place," later used of the Sinaitic region 66 was orient, bright, like the sunrise, P.L. xi. 205 Orion, a constellation figured as an armed man, which was supposed to bring storms Ormus, Hormuz, a rich city on the Persian Gulf Orontes, a river to the N. of Syria Orphean, Orpheus was a mythical musician, who played so beautifully that beasts and trees and rocks listened and followed him Orpheus, a mythical singer, who went to Hades in order to recover his dead wife, Eurydice. He so charmed Pluto that Pluto consented, condition Orpheus should not look back upon her until on Palatine, a hill of Rome where stood the palace of the later Emperors. M. anticipates in P.R. iv. 50, for then the buildings were more modest Pales, a Roman deity of flocks and shepherds pampered, leafy (Lat. pampinus, "vine "), P.L. v. 214 Pan, the rural god of the Greeks, patron of flocks and shepherds; a kind of personification of nature. The word râv means everything," and M. plays on this word in P.L. iv. 266, though there is no real connection between the two Pandemonium, the place of All-Devils. A word coined on the analogy of Pantheon Pandora, a woman made by the gods to do mischief to men. The word means that she possest" all their gifts" Paneas, now Banias, a town under Hermon at one of the springs of Jordan, believed by many to be the ancient Dan panim, pagan (or infidel) Panope, a sea nymph, daughter; of Nereus Paquin, Pekin (really the same as Cambaluc) pardon, dispensation or indulgence, P.L. iii. 492 peal, fill with noise, P.L. ii. 920 Pegasus, the winged horse of Greek mythology; in later times associated with the Muses, because with his hoof he struck, and forth came the inspiring fount called Hippocrene Pellean, of Pella in Macedonia; used of Alexander the Great, who was born there. At the battle of the Issus, he captured, when he was twentythree years old, the wife and daughters of Darius, with other ladies not a few; but dismissed them free Pelleas, a Knight of the Round Table Pellemore, a Knight of the Round Table Pelops' line, the Thyestiadæ, whose story was the theme of many Greek tragedies Pelorus, the N.-E. promontory of Sicily Peor, i.e. Baal-peor, a licentious deity Perca, a district E. of the Jordan perfet, perfect (older and correct spelling), P.R. iv. 468 Persepolis, ancient capital of Persia person, character, P.L. x. 156 Petsora, Petchora on the Arctic ocean Pharphar, a river flowing near Damascus Philip, father of Alexander the Great. Alexander began his reign at twenty, conquered Persia when not yet twentyfive, and died at thirty-three Philomel, the nightingale Phineus, a blind soothsayer of old Greece Phlegeton (Phlegethon), river of fire, one of the rivers of the infernal regions in Greek mythology Phlegra, the battle-field of the gods and giants in Greek mythology phoenix, a fabulous bird, supposed to live a thousand years, and then to burn itself, on which another would rise from the ashes Pindarus, a great Greek lyric poet pinnacle, Matt. iv. 5 platane, plane-tree, P.L. iv. 478 Plato, most famous of the Greek philosophers Pluto, king of the underworld poise, weigh down, P.L. ii. 905 Pomona, the Roman goddess of fruit trees, wedded by Vertumnus Pompey, Cn. Pompius Magnus, distinguished himself before he was twenty-three, but did not obtain a triumph so early as M. states ponent, from the W. or sunsetting, P.L. x. 704 Pontic King, Mithradates pontifical, bridge-making, P.L. X. 313 Pontus, the Black Sea; famed for its fish; also a district in Asia Minor southward of the same port, gate, P.L. iv. 778 prætor, a Roman official, P.R. iv. 63 pretended, stretcht as a screen, P.L. x. 872 prevenient, anticipating, P.L. xi. who carried her off while gathering flowers in Enna Proteus, the mythical Old Man of the Sea, who could transform himself into many shapes prowest, most renowned or bravest, P.R. iii. 342 Psyche, the soul personified. Eros (or Cupid) loved her, but visited her only at night, and forbade her to look upon him. She disobeyed, he departed, and she traversed a weary pilgrimage before she was united to him again punctual, like a point, P.L. viii. 23 Punic, Carthaginian or Phoeni quaternion, fourfold, P.L. v. 181. The four elements, according to Heracleitus, were air, æther, water, and earth Quiloa, near Zanzibar Quintilian, a great critic and rhetorician under the early Roman empire Quintius, L. Quintus Cincinnatus, dictator in Rome, called to that post from the plough, returned to the plough on resigning it Rabba, or Rabbath, chief city Ramiel, "exaltation of God" a realty, royalty, P.L. vi. 115 rebeck, a kind of violin, P.R. P. 401 recorder, a wind instrument, P.L. i. 551 redound, overflow, P.L. ii. 889 Regulus, M. Atilius Regulus was taken prisoner at Carthage. He was sent home on parole, and bidden to persuade the Romans to make peace; but, on the contrary, he is said to have told them to hold out, and then he returned to his death reluctant, struggling, P.L. x. 515 result, rebound, P.L. vi. 619 Rhea, wife of Jupiter Ammon Rhea, wife of Kronos (Saturn) Rhene, the Rhine Rhodope, a mountain range between Thrace and Macedonia. Here was the oracle of the Thracian Dionysus. The "Thracian bard" Orpheus did not honour Dionysus, who sent upon him the Bassarida (a rout of Mænad women), and they tore him to pieces, nor could his mother Calliope aid him rhomb, wheel, P.L. viii. 134 Rimmon, a Syrian deity rined, rinded, P.L. v. 342 ruin, fall, P.L. vi. 868 Rutupina æquora, Rutupiæ is the modern Richborough Sabean, Arabian sad, serious, P.L. vi. 541 Salem, properly Salim, P.R. i. 21. See John iii. 23 Salmanassar, Shalmanezer, King of Assyria. See 2 Kings xvii. I salve, save, P.R. iv. 12 Samoed shore, in Siberia Samos, an island off the coast of Asai Minor near Ephesus (not in the Cyclades) sapient king, Solomon Sarra, Tyre, famous for its purple dye |