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Updated: May 8, 2025
He had reached the twenty-eighth verse when I dropped asleep. It could have been only an instant's forgetfulness, for when I awoke he had not finished the reading of the same verse, but in that instant a vision had passed before me. "A female of marvellous beauty rose from the water. I had seen the long green locks, the eyes of azure, and the glossy neck it was Tethys, the queen of the sea-nymphs.
Why are they unhappy? "I wept and moaned. "'They have not your pure eyes; they cannot hear your voice. They have sinned. "She glided toward me. I felt my gray hairs dropping one by one; my heavy heart grew light; my groans softened to sighs. "A shape came suddenly between us. "I knew the long green locks, and the glossy neck. It was Tethys who spoke.
Among his poems may be mentioned the Complaynt of Rosamund, Tethys Festival , and Hymen's Triumph , a masque, and Musophilus, a defence of learning, Defence of Rhyme .
Eight satellites Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Titan, Hyperion, and Japetus accompany the planet; Mimas, the nearest to its primary, rotating on its axis in 221/2 hours, and revolving at a distance of only 120,800 miles, whilst Japetus, the most remote, occupies 79 days in its rotation, and revolves at a distance of 2,314,000 miles.
The isle is not more than one mile in circumference, and is used as a fish market. Towards the east, our Tethys is protected in a manner by the island of San Juan, which I have elsewhere described. San Juan has rich gold deposits, and its soil is almost as fertile as that of its mother, Hispaniola. Colonists have already been taken there, and are engaged in gold-seeking.
Juno was in a rage to see her rival so set in honor, and hastened to ancient Tethys and Oceanus, the powers of ocean, and in answer to their inquiries thus told the cause of her coming: "Do you ask why I, the queen of the gods, have left the heavenly plains and sought your depths? Learn that I am supplanted in heaven my place is given to another.
On the north-west Tethys is shielded by the great island of Cuba, which for a long time was regarded as a continent because of its length. It is much longer than Hispaniola, and is divided in the middle from east to west by the Tropic of Cancer. Hispaniola and the other islands lying to the south of Cuba occupy almost the whole intervening space between the Tropic of Cancer and the equator.
And from Heaven and Earth wedded there were born the Titan gods and goddesses Oceanus, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus; Theia, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, gold-crowned Phoebe, and lovely Tethys. And then Heaven and Earth had for their child Cronos, the most cunning of all. Cronos wedded Rhea, and from Cronos and Rhea were born the gods who were different from the Titan gods.
Juno tells him the same rigmarole about Oceanus and Mother Tethys that she had told Venus, and when she has done Jove tries to embrace her. "What," exclaims Juno, "kiss me in such a public place as the top of Mount Ida! Impossible!
Tethys, who is waiting to receive me, often trembles for me lest I should fall headlong. Add to all this, the heaven is all the time turning round and carrying the stars with it. I have to be perpetually on my guard lest that movement, which sweeps everything else along, should hurry me also away. Suppose I should lend you the chariot, what would you do?
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