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Title: Mythological fictions of the Greeks and Romans
Year: 1830 (1830s)
Authors: Moutz, Karl Philipp, 1757-1793 Jaeger, Charles Frederick William
Subjects: Mythology, Classical
Publisher: New York : G. & C. & H. Carvill
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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THE NEW YORK. PUBLIC LIBRARY TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. MORITZ MYTHOLOGY. 87 earth ; the one caUing forth the nourishing ear of corn,the other impregnating the lap of the earth with sacred,fertihzmg warmth. Ceres was the happy mother of Proserpina, to whom,however, the sweet hght of the sun was granted by fateonly for a short time, youth and beauty soon becomingin her a prey of inexorable Orcus. Gathering with hercompanions, in the island of Sicily, the flowers of themeadow in harmless, unconcerned youth, Proserpinawas seen by Pluto, and ciiosen by him for the queen ofthe shades. The king of terrors seized her with hismighty arms, and, regardless of her feeble struggles,her tears, and lamentations, raised her on his chariotdrawai by black horses. Provoked by the daring deed,and pitying the fate of the innocent \-ictim, the nymphCyane, one of Proserpinas attendants, endeavoured tostop the snorting steeds, but Pluto, thrusting his sceptreinto the ground, soon made way for himself; the earthbur

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