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night, but all shut their doors against them except an aged couple living in a humble cottage, who afforded them hospitality. Before their departure the gods revealed themselves, and bade their hosts follow them to the See also:

TOP (cf. Dan. top, Ger. Topf, also meaning pot)

top of a See also:

mountain, to See also:

ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli

escape the See also:

PUNISHMENT (from Lat. punire, to punish, from poena, punishment, Gr. 7rocvil)

punishment destined to fall on the See also:

REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest of the inhabitants. The See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country was overwhelmed by a See also:

flood; the cottage, which alone remained See also:

STANDING

standing, was changed into a magnificent See also:

temple. The gods appointed Philemon and Baucis See also:

PRIEST (Ger. Priester, Fr. pretre)

priest and priestess, and granted their See also:

prayer that they might See also:

die together. After many years they were changed into trees—Philemon into an See also:

OAK (O. Eng., (lc)

oak, Baucis into a See also:

lime. The story, vjihich emphasizes the sacred See also:

DUTY (from " due," that which is owing, O. Fr. deu, dil, past participle of devoir; Lat. debere, debitum; cf. " debt ")

duty of hospitality, is probably of See also:

LOCAL

local Phrygian origin, put together from two widely circulated legends of the visits of gods to men, and of the preservation of certain individuals from the flood as the See also:

REWARD

reward of piety. It lingers in the See also:

account (Acts xiv.) of the healing of the lame See also:

man by See also:

Paul at Lystra, the inhabitants of which identified Paul and See also:

BARNABAS

Barnabas with Zeus and Hermes, " come down in the likeness of men." Similar stories are given in J. See also:

Grimm, Deutsche Mythologie (Eng. trans., 1883, ii. 58o, and iii. 38).

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