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Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito.– Æneid, 6, 95.
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Facilis descensus Averno;
Noctes atque dies patet atri janua Ditis;
Sed revocare gradum, superasque evadere ad auras,
Hoc opus, hic labor est.– Æneid, 6, 126-129.
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The poet here inserts a famous line which is thought to imitate in its sound the galloping of horses: Quadrupedante putrem sonitu quatit ungula campum. – Æneid, 8, 596.
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Sternitur infelix alieno volnere, caelumque
Aspicit, et dulcis moriens reminiscitur Argos.– Æneid 10, 781.
NIKE OF BRESCIA
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For Records of Norse Mythology, see § 300, and Commentary, §§ 268, 282, and 300.
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Gray's ode, The Fatal Sisters, is founded on this superstition.
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From Matthew Arnold's Balder Dead.
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From Matthew Arnold's Balder Dead.
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From Matthew Arnold's Balder Dead.
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For the Sagas, see § 300; and for translations, etc., see § 282 of the Commentary.
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The extracts in verse are from William Morris' Sigurd the Volsung.
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For Records of German Mythology, see § 301, below; for literature and translations, see §§ 283 and 301 of the Commentary.
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The extracts in verse are, unless otherwise stated, from the translation by W. N. Lettsom, London, 1890. Werner Hahn's Uebersetzung has also been used.
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From Carlyle's translation of fragments of the poem.
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For the translations of the Ring, especially the verse, I am indebted to the edition of Frederick Jameson (Schott & Co., London).
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Myths and Myth-Makers, p. 18. Proper nouns have been anglicized.
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Ruskin, Queen of the Air.
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See Max Müller's Chips from a German Workshop, Science of Religion, etc.; Cox's Aryan Myths, and numerous articles by the learned authors of Roscher's Ausführliches Lexikon.
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Max Müller, Essay on Comparative Mythology, Oxford Essays, 1856; Science of Religion, 2, 548 n.
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Andrew Lang, Myth, Ritual, and Religion, 1, 24-25, and Professor C. P. Tiele, as cited by Lang.
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W. E. Gladstone, Homer and the Homeric Age; Juventus Mundi; The Olympian Religion, North American Review, Feb. – May, 1892.
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Andrew Lang, Myth, Ritual, and Religion, 2 vols., London, 1887; and Encyc. Brit., 9th ed., article, Mythology. Mannhardt, Antike Wald-und Feldkultus, Berlin, 1877. E. B. Tylor, Anthropology; Primitive Culture.
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Encyc. Brit., Mythology.
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