Encyclopaedia Americana, Vol. 2: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, Brought Down to the Present Time; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography (Classic Reprint)
Encyclopaedia Americana, Vol. 2: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, Brought Down to the Present Time; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Encyclopaedia Americana, Vol. 2: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, Brought Down to the Present Time; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography Baucts; a Phrygian woman; the wife of Philemon. They received Jupiter and Mercury hospitably, after these gods had been denied hospitality in the whole country, while travelling in disguise. A deluge destroyed the remainder of the people, but Philemon and Baucis, with their cottage, were ...
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Excerpt from Encyclopaedia Americana, Vol. 2: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, Brought Down to the Present Time; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography Baucts; a Phrygian woman; the wife of Philemon. They received Jupiter and Mercury hospitably, after these gods had been denied hospitality in the whole country, while travelling in disguise. A deluge destroyed the remainder of the people, but Philemon and Baucis, with their cottage, were saved. They begged the ods to make their cottage a temple, in w ich they could officiate as priest and priestess, and that they might die togeth er; which was granted. Philemon and Baucis are therefore names often used to indicate faithful and attached married people. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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