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38 GREEK AND ROMAN MYTHOLOGY Harpyiae: Hesiod, Theog. 267; Vergil, Aen. iii. 212, 245; Hygiuus, Fab. xix. ; Pope, Im. of Horace Sat. ii. 25 : Oldfield with more than Harpy throat endued. Boreas: Hesiod, Theog. 379; Ovid, Trist. iii. 10. 14, 11. 8; Vergil, Geor. i. 93, 370, Aen. xii. 365 ; Shak., Troilus and Cressida i. 3, 37. Zephyrus : Homer, II. ii. 147 ; Ovid, Her. xiv. 39 : Ut leni Zephyro graciles vibrantur aristae, Frigida populeas ut quatit aura comas. Vergil, Geor. i. 371 ; Pope, Essay on Criticism 366 : - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows. Chaucer, Prologue 5. Aeolus: Homer, Od. x. 1 sq. ; Vergil, Aen. i. 50-101; Horace, Od. iii. 30, 13 ; Pope, The Rape of the Lock iv. 81 : - A wondrous bag with both her hands she binds, Like that where once Ulysses held the winds ; Thebais i. 488 : - At once the rushing winds with roaring sound Burst from th' Aeolian caves, and rend the ground. Shak., King Henry VI. pt. ii. iii. 2, 92. Hermes (Mercury): Homer, II. i. passim, Od. i. passim ; Hesiod, Theog. 938 ; Ovid, Fast. v. 673 sq. ; Vergil, Aen. iv. 222 sq., 558; Hyginus, Fab. clx., cci. ; Milton, Par. L. xi. 132 : Charmed with Arcadian pipe, the pastoral reed Of Hermes, or his opiate rod. Shak., Love's Labour's Lost v. 2, 940 : The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo ; King Richard III. ii. 1, 88, Hamlet iii. 4, 58, Antony and Cleopatra iv. 15, 36, Troilus and Cressida ii. 2, 45 ; Chaucer, Knight's Talc 527. 3. DIVINITIES OF LIGHT 49. Among the divinities of the sky belong the repre- sentatives of the sun, the moon, the stars, and other phenomena of light. Apollo was probably a sun god, whose worship was very common among the Dorians and lonians, though in historic times he stood for the god of