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ENDYMION , in See also:Greek See also:mythology, son of Aethlius and See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Elis. He was loved by Selene, goddess of the See also:- MOON (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Mond, Du. maan, Dan. maane, &c., and cognate with such Indo-Germanic forms as Gr. µlip, Sans. ma's, Irish mi, &c.; Lat. uses luna, i.e. lucna, the shining one, lucere, to shine, for the moon, but preserves the word i
- MOON, SIR RICHARD, 1ST BARONET (1814-1899)
moon, by whom he had fifty daughters, supposed to represent the fifty moons of the Olympian festal See also:cycle. In other versions, Endymion was a beautiful youth, a shepherd or See also:hunter whom Selene visited every See also:night while he See also:lay asleep in a See also:cave on See also:Mount Latmus in See also:Caria (See also:Pausanias v. 1; See also:Ovid, Ars am. iii. 83). See also:Zeus See also:left him See also:free to choose anything he might See also:desire, and he See also:chose an See also:everlasting See also:sleep, in which he might remain youthful for ever (See also:Apollodorus i. q). According to others, Endymion's eternal sleep was a See also:punishment inflicted by Zeus upon him because he ventured to fall in love with See also:Hera, when he was admitted to the society of the Olympian gods (Schol. See also:Theocritus iii: 49). The usual See also:form of the See also:legend, however, represents Endymion as having been put to sleep by Selene herself in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order that she might enjoy his society undisturbed (See also:Cicero, Tusc. disp. i. 38). Some see in Endymion the See also:sun, setting opposite to the rising moon, the Latmian cave being the cave of forgetfulness, into which the sun plunges beneath the See also:sea; others regard him as the personification of sleep or See also:death (see See also:Mayor on See also:Juvenal x. 318).
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