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Neptune / Poseidon ( - )
Greek and Roman god of the sea and fresh water. Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198606413.001.0001/acref-9780198606413-e-4387?rskey=mInNuk&result=4&q=neptune Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptune_%28mythology%29 Relationships: Neptune / Poseidon was a father of Atlas (mythology) (-)Neptune / Poseidon was a brother of Juno / Hera (-)
Neptune / Poseidon was a son of Saturn / Cronus (-)
Neptune / Poseidon was a husband of Tethys (-)
Neptune / Poseidon was a brother of Vesta / Hestia (-)
Arion of Corinth (-fl. 625 BC) was a son of Neptune / Poseidon
Jupiter / Zeus (-) was a brother of Neptune / Poseidon
Pegasus (-) was a son of Neptune / Poseidon
References in Documents:
bM. Agrippa L. T. Coss. III. Caput Agrippæ cum corona rostratâ.
reto 865
a Trident between two
Dolphins
4 : 4½
a Præteriac Ship under sail
Echeneis. Remora.
tolerable Description any where.
'Tis about ¼ of a yard long. His Body before, three
inches and ½ over; thence tapering to the Tail-end. His
Mouth two inches and ½ over. His Chaps ending some
what angularly. The nether a little broader, and
produced
forward near an inch more than the upper. His Lips
rough
with a great number of little prickles. His Eyes round,
¼ of an inch over, an inch behind his Mouth.
His Head squat, adorned with a kind of Oval Coronet,
somewhat Concave, five inches and ½
long, above two broad,
cut traversly with three and twenty
Incisions or long
Apertures, making so many distinct
Membranes, with
rough edges, joyned altogether with a Ligament
running
through the middle of the Coronet, and perforated on each
side the Ligament.
The Gills wind from an inch and ½ behind the Eyes down
to the Throat. The Fins seven. The Gill-Fins above
four inches
long; The Breast-Fins as long. About a ¼ of
a yard
behind the Coronet a fifth extended on the
Back
above ¼ of a yard. A sixth like it on the Belly.
The
Tail-end, like a Spear, a little compressed. The Tail-Fin
three inches and ½ long. The Anus open about the middle
of the Fish. His Skin is
(now) brown, smooth, and tough,
or like tan'd Leather.
Perhaps the same Fish, which a)
a) Hist. of
Barbadoes
swims along with the Shark, and frequently sticks to some
part about his
Head. At least, it is very probable, that
this Fish is able to
fasten himself to any great Fish, Boat, or
Ship, with the help
of the Coronet or Sucker on his Head;
which seems to be most fitly
contrived for that purpose.
In some sort answerable to the
Tail of a Leech, whereby
she sticks her
self fast to the smoothest Glass. Or to those
round Leathers,
wherewith Boys are us'd to play, called
Suckers, one of which, not above an inch and
½ diametre,
being well soaked in water, will stick so
fast to a Stone, as
to pluck one of twelve or fourteen pounds
up from the
ground.
Of the stupendious power which this Fish is supposed to
have,
there are many concur in the story; as that he is able
to stop
a Ship in its career under full Sail: and what not?
That
though the Moon be made of a Green Cheese, yet is
not the only Nest
of Maggots.
alone, in
ascribing it to his easily altering the position of the Helm,
and so the motion of the Ship, coming near to good
sense: especially if he had proved, That the Name of the
Fish, and the Story, were not Things much older than the
Helm of a Ship.
'Tis plain, that the Tradition had a very early beginning,
when
little light Boats were the Ships which people us'd.
To the
side whereof, this Fish fastening her self, might easily
make
it swag, as the least preponderance on either side will
do,
and so retard its Course. And the Story once begot
upon a
Boat, might still, like the Fish it self, stick to
it, though
turn'd to a Ship. Assigning as great a power to
this
God of Life in the
Heavens; who yet appears by the best
accounts of him put
together, to have been at first no better
than a Crafty Mountebank.
Phancy.
Mace, advances and spreads abroad his Arms,
in Courtship
towards
half
naked, and holding forth her Hand in the posture of
denial.
Between them, two naked Nymphs, one giving aim
to the other, shooting a Dart at
further repulse.
And a
Head.
Gabions
in
his Cabinet.
Master
horne
The Oxford Companion to World Mythology
Brown Kennet,
totum, A
aufer, D
deponeand N
nihil. The disk was spun like a top, the player’s fortune being decided by the letter uppermost when the disk fell’ (DOST).
Momusgift did not inlake
inlaik,
v. to be deficient; to come or run short; to be wanting or missing (DOST)
Humanism, Machinery, and Renaissance Literature(CUP, 2004), p. 59.
Pantheon.
Heroand
Gall
Monsier, your table hung on
Gall
Monsier, quoth he, I pray thee ease my spleane,
Hay the day now dawnes,then up I got,
Hippocapmus, with a Trident in one Hand,
and a Dolphin in the other, resting upon the Head of the Sea-
Horse, whose Fore-part and Legs are of a dark Colour, the hinder
Parts and Tail blewish, and scaled like a Fish: The Body of the Deity
is of a tawny Carnation, the Head is unhappily wanting, only the
Tassels of the Beard extend to the Breast. It is of Earthen Ware,
and very well performed, about ten Inches high to the Shoulders, and
the rest proportionable. Tis different from all the modern Sorts of
Earthen Ware that I have observed, which hath made the Descrip
tion more particular, to know whether the Criticks will allow it to
be of
; in which Times we are told they had ImaRoman Antiquity
ges of their Gods, not only of Silver, Brass and Stone, but Earthen
Ware. I should not have been so pendulous if I was certain that it
was found at
Curiosities transmitted by
Gilbert
young, I cannot be positive.