Mann, Charles Eben, 1844- · New York, Chicago, The Prang educational company · leaf 146
loved the fieldand the play of the winds, as Adonis had done, andit was called the wind flower, or anemone. The goddess thus decreed: Annually the people,especially the women, shall meet in solemn festivalin memory of Adonis and of my loss. On the firstday shall his statue be carried in the… … 84 XVI ANCHISES AND ^NEAS ^NEAS was a Trojan prince, the son of Anchises,and he fought valiantly for his city against theGreeks during the ten years siege. When Troy wasfinally captured and burned, ^neas, with his wife,his son, and blind old father, escaped from the burn-ing city. His wife became…
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