After leaving the land of the Cyclopes they came next to the Æolian island, where dwelt Æolus with his wife and twelve sons and daughters.
He left Troy-land laden with booty, and thereto hath Æolus added this rich treasure, while we must come home with empty hands.
They did not know any more than we: they said only that Dorus and Æolus were sons of Hellen, and Ion was his grandson.
Panæolus retirugis, section of caps showing form and position of gills (natural size).
Panæolus retirugis, group of plants from lawn along street, showing veil in young plants at the left, which breaks into V-shaped loops and clings to margin of the cap.
While I lay unconscious of what was going on, my companions talked among themselves and said they believed that the bag which Æolus had given me contained vast amounts of gold and silver.
When Æolus saw me he was amazed, and asked me what had happened to me.
The Adventures of Odysseus on the Island of Æolus .
Son of Æolus and king of Corinth; notorious for his avarice and deceit.
When Ulysses was on his journey from Troy to Ithaca, Æolus gave him all the adverse winds in bags, but his companions, from curiosity, opened them.
This plant seems to have been made known from Spain; for many of the old botanists, such for example as Bock, call it olus Hispanicum.
The Greeks considered Æolus as the first person who made navigators acquainted with the winds.
Ovid says that he was the father of Halcyone; but, according to Lucian, she was the daughter of Æolus the Hellenian, the grandson of Deucalion.
Hippotas, through his daughter Sergesta, who bore Æolus to Jupiter.
IX-146] In spite of this reprobation on the part of the elegant poet, Apicius does not fear to introduce the plant in his Olus Molle, a kind of Julienne, not devoid of merit.
Pinch=, a schoolmaster and conjuror, who tries to exorcise Antiph´olus (act iv.
And from Lilybæum to Pelorias the side must necessarily incline towards the east, and look in a direction towards the west and north, having Italy to the north, and the Tyrrhenian Sea with the islands of Æolus to the west.
He says that Æolus instructed sailors how to navigate the strait, a difficult matter on account of the currents occasioned by the ebb and flow, and was therefore called the dispenser of the winds, and reputed their king.
Homer makes the six sons of Æolus marry their six sisters, and Juno addresses herself to Jupiter as “Et soror et conjux.
They were always rushing to the iron doors, quarreling and fighting among themselves, and begging Æolus to let them out of the narrow cave.
Whenever one of the gods wished a storm at sea, he would ask Æolus to release his sons; they would rush out of the cave, sweeping over the seas in a whirlwind, raising the waves mountain high.
Here in a rocky cave lived Æolus and the winds, who were the children of Aurora and Æolus.
All this we have from the legends of the historic Æolus only; but, besides these, there is the beautiful story of Semele, the mother of Bacchus.
Now when the time came for us to leave, Æolus did not try to hold us on the island.
With his six sons and his six daughters Æolus lives on a floating island that has all around it a wall of bronze.
And Æolus too has given him a treasure in an ox-hide bag.
We sailed away from the Island of Æolus with heavy hearts.
But Æolus said to me, "Far be it from me to help such a man as thou--a man surely accursed by the gods.
As Hercules was the Argine hero of the Peloponnesus, so Æolus was the father of heroes sacred in the history of the Æolians, who inhabited the largest part of Greece.
M327) Another descendant of Æolus was the subject of a beautiful legend.
The descendants of Æolus led also a colony to Elis, and another to Pylus.
One of the sons of Æolus turned out very badly, and cheated Jupiter.
These are notably Clitocybe illudens, Lepiota Morgani, Panæolus papilionaceus, all specialized in their places in the text.
In the black-spored series Panæolus and Anellaria are distinguished by their pilei not being striate and Coprinus by its deliquescent gills.
Distinguished among the species of Panæolus by the raised ribs on the pileus and its appendiculate margin.
The island of Æolus and the country of the Læstrygonians have been placed in almost as many sites as there have been writers upon the Odyssey.
So we sailed on and reached the island where dwells Æolus with his wife and family of six sons and six daughters, who live together amid great and continuous plenty.
I will so conclude, and proceed to look for the island of Æolus in some island, apparently solitary, a good way to the West of the Lipari islands, and at no great distance from Mt.
This sail to Ithaca over the toe of Italy and the island of Samos has no topographical significance except as showing that the writer conceived of the island of Æolus as lying a long way West of Ithaca.
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