See also:

• ACONTIUS (Gr. Akontios)

ACONTIUS (Gr. Akontios)  , in See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek See also:

• LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

legend, a beautiful youth of the See also:

• ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island of See also:

• CEOS (Gr. Kiws, mod. Zea or Tzia)

Ceos, the See also:

• HERO (Gr. open)
• HERO, THE YOUNGER

hero of a love-See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story told byCallimachus in a poem now lost, which forms the subject of two of See also:

• OVID [PUBLIUS OvID1us NASO] (43 B.C.–A.D. 17)

Ovid's Heroides (xx., xxi.) . During the festival of See also:

• ARTEMIS

Artemis at See also:

• DELOS

Delos, See also:

• ACONTIUS (Gr. Akontios)

Acontius saw Cydippe, a well-See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born Athenian See also:

• MAIDEN, or MAID

maiden of whom he was enamoured, sitting in the See also:

• TEMPLE
• TEMPLE, FREDERICK (1821-1902)
• TEMPLE, RICHARD
• TEMPLE, SIR RICHARD, BART
• TEMPLE, SIR WILLIAM, BART

temple of the goddess . He wrote on an See also:

• APPLE (a common Teut. word, A.S. aepl, aeppel, O.H.G. aphul, aphal, apfal, mod. Ger. Apfel)

apple the words, " I swear by the sacred See also:

• SHRINE (Lat. scrinium, a case or chest for books, hence a casket; from scribere, to write, Fr. ecrin, Ital. scrigno)

shrine of the goddess that I will marry you," and threw it at her feet . She picked it up, and mechanically read the words aloud, which amounted to a See also:

• SOLEMN (Lat. sollemnis, sollemnis, less correctly solennis, yearly, annual; from sollus = totus, whole, entire, Gr. Mos., and annus, year)

solemn undertaking to carry them out . Unaware of this, she treated Acontius with contempt; but, although she was betrothed more than once, she always See also:

• FELL
• FELL, JOHN (1625-1686)

fell See also:

• ILL

ill before the wed-ding took See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place . The Delphic See also:

• ORACLE (Lat. oraculum, from ora' to pray; the corresponding Greek word is uavreiov or Xpnuri7pwov)

oracle at last declared the cause of her illnesses to be the wrath of the offended goddess; where-upon her See also:

• FATHER

father consented to her See also:

• MARRIAGE

marriage with Acontius (Ariltaenetus, Epistolae, i . 1o; See also:

• ANTONINUS, SAINT ANTONIO PIEROZZI

Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses, i., tells the story with different names) .