 | Thomas Keith - Astronomy - 1811 - 388 pages
...The Greeks give various accounts of this constellation ; by some it is represented as the watchful dragon which guarded the golden apples in the garden of the Hesperides, near mount Atlas in Africa : and was slain by Hercules : Juno, who presented these apples to Jupiter on the day of their... | |
 | Thomas Keith - Astronomy - 1819 - 380 pages
...The Greeks give various accounts of this constellation ; by some it is represented as the watchful dragon which guarded the golden apples in the garden of the Hesperides, near Mount Atlas in Africa; and was slain by Hercules: Juno, who presented these apples to Jupiter on the day of their... | |
 | Child rearing - 1840 - 460 pages
...head 1 the story of Orion, who was produced from the hide of an ox moistened with wine 1 the story of the Dragon which guarded the golden apples in the garden of the Hespehdes, and was taken up to heaven and made a constellation on account of his faithful services'!... | |
 | Gardening - 1841 - 680 pages
...Paris. The apple tree is also the attribute of Hercules, because, in mythological fable, he overcame the dragon which guarded the golden apples in the garden of the Hesperides. The pear tree (.Pyrus communie) belonged to Minerva. The quince (Cydónia vulgaris). Its fruit is often... | |
 | Thomas Dick - Educational sociology - 1850 - 586 pages
...the story of Orion, who was produced from the hide of an ox moistened with wine ! — the story of the Dragon which guarded the golden apples in the garden of the Hesperidcs, and was taken up to heaven and made a constellation on account of his faithful services... | |
 | 1852 - 388 pages
...of that which was .possessed when this name was given. Mythologiste say, that Draco was the watchful dragon which guarded the golden apples in the garden of the Hesperides, near Mount Atlas, in Africa, and which was slain by Hercules. Juno is said to have taken the Dragon up to heaven, and... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1857 - 878 pages
...the story of Orion, who was produced from the hide of an ox moistened with wine ! — the story of the Dragon which guarded the golden apples in the garden of the Hesperides, and was taken up to heaven and made a constellation on account of his faithful services ! — the story... | |
 | Henry Kiddle - Astronomy - 1877 - 296 pages
...changed into a swan, and placed near his lyre in the heavens. Delphinus, the dolphin who is said, in thu fable, to have persuaded Amphitrite to become the...given to C'astor by Mercury. , Hercules, the famous (frecian hero, celebrated for his many wonderful exploits. Lyra, the harp given to Orpheus by AjKillo,... | |
 | Juvenal - Verse satire, latin - 1883 - 378 pages
...abstract for concrete. Conf. Hor. Ep. i. 1, 103, "jerum tutela mearum." 114. Hesperidum serpens — the dragon which guarded the golden apples in the garden of the Hesperides. See on Sat. v. 152. Ponticus — the serpent which watched the golden fleece in Colchis, and which... | |
 | Juvenal - 1886 - 380 pages
...abstract for concrete. Conf. Hor. Ep. i. 1, 103, ".rerum tutela mearam." 114. Hesperidum serpens — the dragon which guarded the golden apples in the garden of the Hesperides. See on Sat. v. 152. Pontlcus — the serpent which watched the golden fleece in Colchis, and which... | |
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... the story of Medusa, whose golden hair Minerva turned into snakes, and of the winged horse which sprung from the blood which gushed out in striking off Medusa's head... 
