Manual of classical literature : from the German of J.J. Eschenburg, with additions (1855)
Eschenburg, Johann Joachim, 1743-1820, Fiske, N. W. (Nathan Welby), 1798-1847, ed · Philadelphia : E.C. & J. Biddle · leaf 158
egion of Sicily. In this country she is said to have first taught men to cultivate grain, and toinstruct them in all the labors pertaining to it. To her is ascribed also theestablishing of laws, and the regulation of civil society. Afterwards she im-])arted her favors to other lands, and the… … 112 GREEK AND ROMAN MYTHOLOGY. him over the earth, to teach husbandr}, and thereby raised him to the rank ofa god. See Homer, Hymn to Ceres.—Orid, Fast. iv. 507-562. Metam. t. 642-661. § 62. The seizure and abduction of her daughter Proserpine by Pluto hasbeen already mentioned (§ 32u). Ceres…
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