The World's Progress: a Dictionary of Dates

Janitor, and Juno'nius, titles of Janus.
Janus, the first king of Italy, son of Apollo and
Creusa.

Ja'son, a Thessalian prince, son of

son, who by Medea's help brought away the golden fleece from Colchis.

Jocasta, the daughter of Creon, who unwittingly
married her own son, Edipus.
Juno, the sister and wife of Jupiter.
Juno, Infer'na, a name of Proserpine.
Juno'ness, guardian angels of women.
Jupiter, a son of Saturn and Ops-the supreme
deity of the heathen.

Jupiter Secundus, a name of Neptune.
Jupiter Tertius, Infernus, or Sty'gius, seve-
ral appellations given to Pluto.
Juven'ta, a goddess of youth.

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La'chesis, one of the three Fates.
Lacinia, and Lucilia, titles of Juno.
Lactura, or Lactuci'na, a goddess of corn.
Lastrigones, cannibals of Italy, who roasted
and ate the companions of Ulysses.
La'ius, a king of Thebes, killed unwitting
his own son, Edipus.
La'mia, a name of the Gorgons.
Laocoon, a son of Priam and high-priest of
Apollo: he and his two sons were killed by
serpents for opposing the reception of the
wooden horse into Troy.

Lapis, or Lapid'eus, titles of Jupiter.
Lares, sons of Mercury and Lara, worshipped
as household gods.
Latera'nus, a household god.
Laver'na, a goddess of thieves.
Lean'der, see Hero.

Le'da, daughter of Thestias, and wife of Tyndarus, seduced by Jupiter in the shape of a

morning star.

Mausollus, a king of Caria, who had a most magnificent tomb erected to him by his wife Artemisia.

Mede'a, daughter of Etes, king of Colchis, a famous sorceress, who assisted Jason to obtain the golden fleece.

Meditri'na, a goddess of grown persons.
Medu'sa, the chief of the three Gorgons.
Mega'ra, one of the three Furies.
Megalen'sia, festivals in honor of Cybele.
Mega'ra, the wife of Hercules.
Melani'ra, a name of Venus.
Me'lia, nymphs of the fields.
Melius, a name of Hercules.
Melo'na, the goddess of honey.
Melpomene, the muse of tragedy."
Mem'non, a king of Abydos.
Menala'us, a famous Centaur.
Menela'us, the husband of Helena.
Men'tha, a mistress of Pluto.

Mentor, the governor of Telemachus.
Mer'cury, the messenger of the gods, inventor of
letters, and god of eloquence, merchandise,
and robbers.

Merolpe, one of the seven Pleiades.

Mi'das, a king of Phrygia, who entertained Bacchus, or, as some say, Silenus, had the power given him of turning whatever he touched into gold.

Millo, a wrestler of remarkable strength.
Mimal'lones, attendants on Bacchus.
Miner'va, the goddess of wisdom.
Mi'nos, a king of Crete, made, for his extraordi-
nary justice, a judge of hell.

Minotaur, a monster, half man, half beast.
Min' ya, a name of the Argonauts.
Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory.
Mo'mus, the god of raillery, wit, &c.
Mone'ta, a title of Juno.

Morpheus, the god of sleep, dreams, &c.
Mors, the goddess of death,
Mulciber, a title of Vulcan.
Mu'ses, nine daughters of Jupiter and Mnemo-

syne, born on mount Pierius, mistresses of
all the sciences, presidents of musicians and
poets, and governesses of the feasts of the
gods; Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Mel-
pomene, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia,
and Urania.

Mu'ta, the goddess of silence.

Lucifer, son of Jupiter and Aurora, made the Nania, the goddess of funeral songs.

Luna, Diana's name in heaven.

Lupercalia, feasts in honor of Pan.

Lyperici, priests of Pan.

Na'iades, nymphs of the rivers, &c.

Narcis'sus, a very beautiful youth, who, falling in love with his own shadow in the water, pined away into a daffodil.

Lycalon, a king of Arcadia, turned by Jupiter Na'tio, and Nundina, goddess of infants. into a wolf.

Malia, loved by Jupiter, and by him turned into a star to avoid Juno's rage.

Manageneta, a goddess of women in labor.
Mantu'ra, a goddess of corn.

Manturna, and Melna, nuptial goddesses.
Marina, Mel'anis, Merletrix, Migoni'tis, and
Murcia, titles of Venus.
Mars, the god of war.

Namala, a country of Elis, famed for a terrible lion killed there by Hercules.

Nem'esis, the goddess of revenge.
Nep'tune, the god of the sea.
Nereides, sea nymphs.
Ne'rio, the wife of Mars.
Niceph'orus, a title of Jupiter.

Ni'nus, the first king of the Assyrians.

Ni'obe, daughter of Tantalus, and wife of Amphion, who, preferring herself to Latona, had her 14 children killed by Diana and Apollo, and wept herself into a statue. No'mius, a name of Apollo.

Nor, the most ancient of the deities; she was | Penelope, daughter of Icarus, celebrated for her even reckoned older than Chaos. chastity and fidelity during the long absence of Ulysses.

Ob'sequens, a title of Fortuna.
Occalior, the god of harrowing.
Oceanus, an ancient sea god.
Ocyplete, one of the three Harpies.

Eu'ipus, son of Laius and Jocasta, and king of
Thebes, who solved the riddle of the Sphinx,|
unwittingly killed his father, married his
mother. and at last ran mad, and tore out
his eyes.

Om'phale, a queen of Lydia, with whom Her-
cules was so enamored, that she made him
submit to spinning and other unbecoming
offices.

Ofertus, a name of Pluto.
Opi'gena, a name of Juno.
Ops, a name of Cybele.

Orbolna, a goddess of grown persons.
Orestes, the son of Agamemnon.
Ordon, a great and mighty hunter.
Orpheus, son of Jupiter and Calliope, who had
great skill in music, and was torn in pieces
by the Mænades, for disliking the company
of women after the death of his wife Eury-
dice.

Orythila, a queen of the Amazons.
Osiris, see Apis.

Paciolus, a river of Lydia, with golden sands
and medical waters.

Pa'an, and Pha'bus, names of Apollo.
Palles, the goddess of shepherds.
Palilia, feasts in honor of Pales.
Palludium, a statue of Minerva, which the
Trojans imagined fell from heaven, and that
their city could not be taken whilst that re-
mained in it.

Pallas, and Pylotis, names of Minerva.
Pan, the god of shepherds.
Pando'ra, the first woman made by Vulcan, and
endowed with gifts by all the deities; Jupi-
ter gave her a box containing all manner of
evils, war, fainine, &c., with hope at the
bottom.

Panlope, one of the Nereids.
Pa'phia, a title of Venus.
Parica, a name of the Fates.
Paris, or Alexander, son of Priam and He-
cuba, a most beautiful youth, who ran away
with Helena, and occasioned the Trojan

Perseus, son of Jupiter and Danae, who per
formed many extraordinary exploits by
means of Medusa's head.

Phacasia'ni, ancient gods of Greece.
Phaleton, son of Sol (Apollo) and Climene, who
asked the guidance of his father's charix
for one day, as a proof of his divine descent;
but unable to manage the horses, set the
world on fire, and was therefore struck by
Jupiter with a thunderbolt into the river Po
Phallica, feasts of Bacchus.
Philam'mon, a skilful musician.
Pailomella, daughter of Pandion, king of Athens,
who was ravished by her brother-in-law,
Tereus, and was changed into a nightn-
gale.
Phineas, son of Agenor, and king of Paphla--
gonia, who had his eyes torn out by Boreas,
but was recompensed with the knowledge
of futurity; also a king of Thrace, turned
into a stone by Perseus, by the help of Me-
dusa's head.

Phlegethon, a boiling river of hell.
Phlegon, one of the four horses of Sol.
Phyo, a people of Botia, destroyed by
Neptune, on account of their piracies and
other crimes.

Pha'bas, the priestess of Apollo.
Pha'bus, a title of Apollo.

Pha'nir, son of Amyntor, who being falsely ac-
cused of having attempted the honor of one
of his father's concubines, was condemned
to have his eyes torn out; but was cured by
Chiron, and went with Achilles to the siege
of Troy.

Picum'nus, a rural god.

Pilumnus, a god of breeding women
Pin'dus, a mountain in Thessaly.
Pitho, a goddess of eloquence.
Pleiades, the seven daughters of Atlas and
Pleione; Mala, Electra, Taygete, Asterope,
Merope, Halcyone, and Celano; they were
changed into stars.

Pluto, the god of hell.
Plutus, the god of riches.、
Pollur. See Castor.

Polyd'amas, a famous wrestler.
Poly'ius, a famous prophet and physician.
Polyhym'nia, the muse of rhetoric.
Polyphemus, a monstrous giant, son of Nep-

tune, with but one eye in the middle of his
forehead.

Pomona, the goddess of fruits and autumn.
Pose'idon, a name of Neptune.
Pranesti'na, a name of Fortuna.
Pras'tes, a title of Jupiter and Minerva.
Praxiteles, a famous statuary.
Prilam, son of Laomedon, and father of Paris,

Hector, &c.; he was the last king of Troy. Progine, wife of Tereus, king of Thrace, and sister of Philomela; she was turned into a swallow.

Prometheus, son of Iapetus, who animated a

man that he had formed of clay, with fire, which, by the assistance of Minerva, he stole from heaven, and was therefore chained by Jupiter to mount Caucasus, with a vulture continually preying upon his liver. Propyllea, a name of Hecate. Proserpine, the wife of Pluto.

Proteus, a sea god, who could transform himself Stalta, a goddess of grown persons.

into any shape.

Psyche, a goddess of pleasure.
Pylades, the constant friend of Orestes.
Pyramus, and This'be, two lovers of Babylon,
who killed themselves with the same sword,
and occasioned the turning the berries of the
mulberry-tree, under which they died, from
white to red.

Prya'tis, one of the four horses of the sun.
Pyrrhus, son of Achilles, remarkable for his
cruelty at the siege of Troy.
Python, a huge serpent, produced from the mud
of the deluge, which Apollo killed, and in
memory thereof, instituted the Pythian games.
Pythonis'sa, the priestess of Apollo.

Quad'rifrons, a title of Janus.
Quiles, a goddess of grown persons.
Quieta'lis, and Quietus, names of Pluto.
Quinqua'tria, feasts of Pallas.

Rectus, a title of Bacchus.

Redux, and Regia, titles of Fortune.
Regina, a title of Juno.

Rhadamanthus, one of the three
judges.

Rhea, a title of Cybele.

Rhe'a sylvia, the mother of Romulus.
Robi'gus, a god of corn.

Romulus, the first king of Rome.

Rumi'na, a goddess of new-born infants.
Runci'na, the goddess of weeding.
Rusina, a rural deity.

Saba'zia, feasts of Proserpine.

Sallii, the 12 frantic priests of Mars.

Sten'tor, a Grecian, whose voice is reported to
have been as strong and as loud as the voices
of 50 men together.
Sthe'no, one of the three Gorgons.
Styr, a river of hell,
Sua'da, a nuptial goddess.
Summa'nus, a name of Pluto.
Sylva'nus, a god of woods and forests,
Sy'rens, sea monsters.

Ta'cita, a goddess of silence.
Tantalus, a king of Paphlagonia, who, serv
ing up to table the limbs of his son, Pelops,
to try the divinity of the gods, was plunged
to the chin in a lake of hell, and doomed to
everlasting thirst and hunger, as a punish-
ment for his barbarity and impiety.
Tarta'rus, the place of the wicked in hell.
Taurus, the bull, under whose form Jupiter
carried away Europa.

Telchi'nes, priests of Cybele.

Telema'chus, the only son of Ulysses.

Tem'pe, a most beautiful valley in Thessaly, the
resort of the gods.

Terminus, the god of boundaries.
Terpsichore, the muse of music, &c.
Terror, the god of dread and fear.

infernal Thalia, the muse of comedy..

Salmone'us, a king of Elis, struck by a thunderbolt to hell for imitating Jupiter's thunder.

Salus, the goddess of health

Sanc'us, a god of the Sabines

Sator, and Sorri'tor, rural gods.
Saturnalia, feasts of Saturn.

Saturnus, or Saturn, the son of Calus and

Terra.

Satyrs, the attendants of Bacchus, horned monsters, half men, half goats.

Scyron, a famous robber of Attica.

Seia, and Segeltia, goddesses of corn.
Selli, priests of Jupiter.

Sen'ta, a goddess of married women.
Sera'pis. See Apis.

Silenus, the foster-father and companion of Bac-
chus, who lived in Arcadia, rode on an ass,
and was drunk every day.

Si'mis, a famous robber, killed by Hercules.
Sisyphus, the son of Eolus, killed by Theseus,
and doomed incessantly to roll a huge stone
up a mountain in hell for his perfidy and
numerous robberies.
Sol, a naine of Apollo.
Som'nus, the god of sleep.

Sphinx, a monster, born of Syphon, and Echidna,
who destroyed herself because Edipus
solved the enigma she proposed.

The'mis, the daughter of Colum and Terra, the goddess of laws, oracles, &c.

Thes'pis, the first tragic poet.

The'tis, daughter of Nereus and Doris, and goddess of the sea.

Thyr'sus, the rod of Bacchus.

Tiphys, the pilot of the ship Argo.
Tisiphone, one of the three Furies.

Titan, son of Cœlum and Terra, and the elder
brother of Saturnus, or Saturn.
Tma'rius, a title of Jupiter.
Triton, Neptune's trumpeter.
Tritonia, a name of Minerva.
Troilus, a son of Priam and Hecuba.
Troy, a city of Phrygia, famous for holding out
a siege of ten years against the Greeks, but
they at last captured and destroyed it.
Tutelina, a goddess of corn.
Ty'ro, one of the Nereids.

Ves'ta, the goddess of fire.)
Vialles, deities of the highways.
Vibilia, the goddess of wanderers.
Virgmen'sis, a nuptial goddess.
Virgo, a name of Astrea and Fortune.
Virilis, and Visca'ta, titles of Fortune.
Viri placa, an inferior nuptial goddess, who re-
conciled husbands to their wives; a temple,
at Rome, was dedicated to her, whither the
married couple repaired after a quarrel, and
returned together friendly.

Vitulla, the goddess of mirth.
Volu'sia, a goddess of corn.
Vulcan, the god of subterraneous fire.

the harpy Celano, a river near Troy, called also Scamander.

Za'greus, a title of Bacchus. Zeph'yrus, son of Eolus and Aurora, who pas sicnately loved the goddess Flora, and is put for the west wind.

Zeltes, and Calais, sons of Boreas and Orythis, who accompanied the Argonauts, and drove the Harpies from Thrace.

Zeltus, a son of Jupiter and Antiope, very expert in music.

Zelus, a title of Jupiter.

BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.

N. B. This list of remarkable persons, from the earliest period to the present time, is not of
course intended to include every name mentioned in history, but merely the most important in
their several departments. The names of Sovereigns are referred to occasionally only, as full lists
are given in their proper place.

This list may be useful in two ways, viz:

First, as an Index to the names mentioned in the Chronological Tables in this volume; and
Secondly, to indicate, by reference to those tables, the chief political events and contemporary
public characters during the life of each person in the list.

Thus: SOCRATES, the Greek philosopher, was born 470, and died 400 B. . The tables on
page 20 to 24, show who lived, and what happened, during the seventy years of Socrates' life.
MILTON was born A. D. 1608, one year after the first settlement at Jamestown, Virginia; six
years after the East India Company was founded; five years after James I. ascended the throne;
the same year that the Protestant Union was formed in Germany; one year before Gustavus
Adolphus became king of Sweden; two years before Louis XIII. became king of France. He
was 12 years old when the Puritans first landed at Plymouth; he was 17 when Charles I. suc-
ceeded James, and he was 41 years old when Charles was beheaded. Among his contemporaries
were Lord Bacon, Inigo Jones, Jeremy Taylor, Algernon Sydney, Sir C. Wren, Butler, Waller,
Dryden, Henry More, Baxter, and Boyle, in England: Peter Stuyvesant, Winthrop, Cotton, and
Eliot, in America: Richelieu, Mazarine, Colbert, Rubens, Kepler, Des Cartes, Molière, Corneille,
Racine, Pascal, on the Continent. He died A. D. 1674, nine years after the great plague in London,
14 years after Charles II. was restored, and 7 years after New-York was ceded to the English.
And thus of any person mentioned in the Index-a great variety of particulars may be found
at a glance, on referring to the tables.

... No living persons are mentioned, except some of the most noted in Europe.
ABBREVIATIONS.-See List in the Introduction. Bar. (Barbarian), includes several different
nations, some not entirely civilized. f. is used for flourished. The dates before Christ
are indicated by B. C.-all others are A. D.-In some cases the dates are necessarily left blank.