See also:

• ALCYONE, or HALCYONE

ALCYONE, or HALCYONE  , in See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek See also:

• MYTHOLOGY

mythology, daughter of See also:

• AEOLUS

Aeolus and wife of Ceyx . For their presumption in calling themselves See also:

• ZEUS

Zeus and See also:

• HERA

Hera they were changed into birds—See also:

• ALCYONE, or HALCYONE

Alcyone into a See also:

• DIVER

diver, Ceyx into a See also:

• KINGFISHER (Ger.' Konigsfischer; Walloon Roi-peheux= pecheur)

kingfisher . According to another See also:

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

story, Ceyx was drowned and his See also:

• BODY

body See also:

• CAST (from the verb meaning " to throw "; the word is Scand. in origin, cf. Dan. kaste, and Swed. kasta; " cast " in Middle Eng. took the place of the A.S. weor pan, cf. Ger. werf en)

cast on the See also:

• SHORE

shore . His wife found the body, and the gods, out of compassion, changed both her and her See also:

• HUSBAND

husband into kingfishers . By command of Zeus (or Aeolus) the winds ceased to See also:

• BLOW, JOHN (1648-1708)

blow during their brooding-See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time, for seven days before and after the shortest See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day, that their eggs might not be carried away by the See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

sea . Hence the expression " halcyon days," used in See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient and See also:

• MODERN

modern times to denote a See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period of See also:

• CALM

calm and tranquillity . See also:

• APOLLONIUS

Apollonius Rhodius i . 1087 ; See also:

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

Ovid, Metam. xi . 410 et seq . ; See also:

• HYGINUS
• HYGINUS (surnamed GROMATICUS, from gruma, a surveyor's measuring-rod)
• HYGINUS, GAIUS JULIUS

Hyginus, Fabulae, 65 .