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Take your great lyre and touch the brazen string: the monsters will flee. Bedew us with drops of the blood of wounded Themis." That summons roused the citadel, but not to surrender, not to betrayal. The eloquent daughter of the people caught up her great lyre in the public Reponse a un ami of October 3, 1871.
Half the population here have names as unchristian quite Norma, Odoacer, Archimedes my housemaid is called Themis but Dionea seemed to scandalize every one, perhaps because these good folk had a mysterious instinct that the name is derived from Dione, one of the loves of Father Zeus, and mother of no less a lady than the goddess Venus.
Sarcus, a handsome little man with a dapple-gray head, devoted himself in turn to Themis and to Flora, in other words, to legislation and a greenhouse.
The lesson they gave in their first aspirations, is yet true; and a better valor and a purer truth shall one day organize their belief. Or why should a woman liken herself to any historical woman, and think, because Sappho, or Sévigné, or De Staël, or the cloistered souls who have had genius and cultivation, do not satisfy the imagination and the serene Themis, none can, certainly not she.
This mysterious power in all things they called Wakonda, and through it all things were related to man and to each other. In the idea of the continuity of life a relation was maintained between the seen and the unseen, the dead and the living, and also between the fragment of anything and its entirety." Summarized in Themis, pp. 68-71.
And if any one asserts that the violation of oaths and treaties, which was really the work of Pandarus, was brought about by Athene and Zeus, or that the strife and contention of the gods was instigated by Themis and Zeus, he shall not have our approval; neither will we allow our young men to hear the words of Aeschylus, that God plants guilt among men when he desires utterly to destroy a house.
'Certainly. Apollo is put first because he has been accepted as Patrôos. But see R. G. E., p. 49, n. Plut. Q. Conv. ix. 6; Paus. ii. 1. 6; 4. 6; 15. 5; 30. 6. Troades init. In the Iliad he is made an enemy of Troy, like Athena, who is none the less the Guardian of the city. Themis, pp. 295, 296. Review, 1906, pp. 365 and 416.
The victim of Themis had no sooner seen the flagon, than he seized it with the same energy which he had displayed in operating upon the pie puffed off the froth with such emphasis, that some of it lighted on Mr. Geddes's head and then said, as if with it sudden recollection of what was due to civility, 'Here's to ye, friend. What! are ye ower grand to give me an answer, or are ye dull o' hearing?
Gerunto's drowned because he could not swim, etc., etc. Such, O Themis, were anciently the sports of thy Scottish children! Dinmont was first in the room. He stood aghast a moment, and then exclaimed, 'It's him, sure enough. Deil o' the like o' that ever I saw! At the sound of 'Mr.
For this reason, the ptarmigan and the willow grouse become as white in winter as the vast snow-fields under which they burrow; the ermine changes his dusky summer coat for the expensive wintry suit beloved of British Themis; the snow-bunting acquires his milk-white plumage; and even the weasel assimilates himself more or less in hue to the unvarying garb of arctic nature.
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