Deity

"Habitarunt Di quoque sylvas."

"Oh, meet is the reverence unto Bacchus paid! We will praise him still in the songs of our fatherland, We will pour the sacred wine, the chargers lade, And the victim kid shall unresisting stand, Led by his horns to the altar, where we turn The hazel spits while the dripping entrails burn."

"His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred to drop the Maha- and the -atman, and called himself Sam. He never claimed to be a god. But then, he never claimed not to be a god. Circumstances being what they were, neither admission could be of any benefit. Silence, though, could."

"Great is Diana of the Ephesians."

"The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips, Bronze cheeks, and woolly hair; The Grecian gods are like the Greeks, As keen-eyed, cold and fair."

"Speak of the gods as they are."

"And that dismal cry rose slowly And sank slowly through the air, Full of spirit's melancholy And eternity's despair! And they heard the words it said— Pan is dead! great Pan is dead! Pan, Pan is dead!"

"The Graces, three erewhile, are three no more; A fourth is come with perfume sprinkled o'er. 'Tis Berenice blest and fair; were she Away the Graces would no Graces be."

"Two goddesses now must Cyprus adore; The Muses are ten, and the Graces are four; Stella's wit is so charming, so sweet her fair face, She shines a new Venus, a Muse, and a Grace."

"Omnia fanda, nefanda, malo permista furore, Justificam nobis mentem avertere deorum."

"O dii immortales! ubinam gentium sumus?"

"Never, believe me, Appear the Immortals, Never alone."

"Nature's self's thy Ganymede."

"Creator Venus, genial power of love, The bliss of men below, and gods above! Beneath the sliding sun thou runn'st thy race, Dost fairest shine, and best become thy place; For thee the winds their eastern blasts forbear, Thy mouth reveals the spring, and opens all the year; Thee, goddess, thee, the storms of winter fly, Earth smiles with flowers renewing, laughs the sky."

"Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,— Can your lurking thought surprise, And interpret your device, * * * * * All things wait for and divine him,— How shall I dare to malign him?"

"Either Zeus came to earth to shew his form to thee, Phidias, or thou to heaven hast gone the god to see."

"I, Phœbus, song those songs that gained so much renown I, Phœbus, sang them; Homer only wrote them down."

"Say, Bacchus, why so placid? What can there be In commune held by Pallas and by thee? Her pleasure is in darts and battles; thine In joyous feasts and draughts of rosy wine."

"Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine: A tenth is Sappho, maid divine."

"Though men determine, the gods do dispose."

"There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu, There's a little marble cross below the town, There's a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew, And the yellow god forever gazes down."

"Who hearkens to the gods, the gods give ear."

"The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls Upon the Sovereign One's immortal head Were shaken, and with them the mighty mount, Olympus trembled."

"Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god."

"The ox-eyed awful Juno."

"Yet verily these issues lie on the lap of the gods."

"Where'er he moves, the goddess shone before."

"The matchless Ganymede, divinely fair."

"Jove weighs affairs of earth in dubious scales, And the good suffers while the bad prevails."

"Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus."

"Junctæque Nymphis Gratiæ decentes."

"Di me tuentur."

"Neque semper arcum Tendit Apollo."

"Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit, A dis plura feret."

"Scire, deos quoniam propius contingis, oportet."

"Of Pan we sing, the best of leaders Pan, That leads the Naiads and the Dryads forth; And to their dances more than Hermes can, Hear, O you groves, and hills resound his worth."

"Nam pro jucundis aptissima quæque dabunt di, Carior est illis homo quam sibi."

"High in the home of the summers, the seats of the happy immortals, Shrouded in knee-deep blaze, unapproachable; there ever youthful Hebé, Harmonié, and the daughter of Jove, Aphrodité, Whirled in the white-linked dance, with the gold-crowned Hours and Graces."

"Le trident de Neptune est le sceptre du monde."

"Hoeder, the blind old god Whose feet are shod with silence."

"Janus am I; oldest of potentates! Forward I look and backward and below I count—as god of avenues and gates— The years that through my portals come and go. I block the roads and drift the fields with snow, I chase the wild-fowl from the frozen fen; My frosts congeal the rivers in their flow, My fires light up the hearths and hearts of men."

"Estne Dei sedes nisi terra, et pontus, et aer, Et cœlum, et virtus? Superos quid quærimus ultra? Jupiter est, quodcunque vides, quodcunque moveris."

"A boy of five years old serene and gay, Unpitying Hades hurried me away.Mbr<Yet weep not for Callimachus: if few The days I lived, few were my sorrows too."

"Apparet divom numen, sedesque quietæ; Quas neque concutiunt ventei, nec nubila nimbeis. Aspergunt, neque nix acri concreta pruina Cana cadens violat; semper sine nubibus æther Integer, et large diffuso lumine ridet."

"No wonder Cupid is a murderous boy; A fiery archer making pain his joy. His dam, while fond of Mars, is Vulcan's wife, And thus 'twixt fire and sword divides her life."

"Deus ex machina."

"Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by dozens."

"To be a god First I must be a god-maker: We are what we create."

"Expedit esse deos: et, ut expedit, esse putemus."

"Vilia miretur vulgus; mihi flavus Apollo Pocula Castalia plena ministret aqua."