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with the insignia of a victor in the Isthmian games, which he subsequently 
instituted in honor of his heroic pupil. — 
6. Orner Water Deirms. Without enlarging on all the specific classes 
of mythical personages supposed to occupy the waters, we enumerate 
briefly the beings which dwell in the fountains, rivers, lakes, and rivulets. 
The gods of the larger streams were usually represented as bearded men 
(pl. 21, fig. 14). They appeared naked or nearly so, reclining in an easy 
position, the elbow resting on an urn from which water flowed freely, and 
with a crown of river grass or reeds, sometimes also with bulls’ horns. 
The brooks and rivulets were presided over by beings more like boys or 
beardless youths. 
The goddesses of lakes and springs were represented as graceful maidens, 
and bore the generic name of nymphs. Of these the most celebrated were 
the WVaiades, one of which we see (jig. 14) in company with a river god; 
and another (pl. 19, jig. 9), carrying two water vessels. They were 
daughters of river gods and Potamdes-or river goddesses, and carried 
water for their parents. They showed themselves very partial to young 
girls and removed the freckles from all who bathed in their streams; but 
they were dangerous to young men, whom they dragged down to their 
abodes when they came near their watery domain. Thus Hylas, the friend 
and companion of Heracles (pl. 22, fig. 1), while attempting to take water 
from a spring near the city of Chios, was seized by these nymphs, who 
carried him down to their palace and smothered him with their fond embraces. 
Hermaphrodites, a son of Hermes and Aphrodite (pl. 28, jig. 22), was 
once bathing in a fountain, when the naiad Salmacis, who loved him fondly, 
caught him in her arms and implored the gods that their bodies might 
never be separated. Hence Hermaphrodites arose out of the water half 
man and half woman. His myth refers obviously, both in Greek and 
Indian mythology, to the generative principle of the universe, vested in no 
single being but in the complete union of two. 
The sea monsters, of which there were a great number, are most familiar 
in the form of the Hippocamps, horses with dolphins’ tails (pl. 21, jig. 18). 
They were chiefly serviceable in drawing the cars of sea gods and in carry- 
ing Cupids (pl. 22, jig. 8). 
7. Gops or THE Mountains, Forxsts, anp Frexps. 
A very large number of deities presided over the mountains, forests, and 
fertile plains, to guard them against the intrusion of man, or to assist him 
in making them tributary to his wants. The following are the most impor- 
tant of these deities : | 
1. Pan, the god of shepherds, fields, and hunting, was also the protector 
of bees'and the giver of success in fishing. He was benevolent and friendly, 
and ever ready to shower his blessings uponman. Disposed to cheerfulness 
and gaiety, he often chased away the hours by singing and dancing on the 
verdant plains with the nymphs. His form wassingular. His face resembled 
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