NISUS  , in See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek See also:

• MYTHOLOGY

mythology, 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:

• MEGARA

Megara, See also:

• BROTHER

brother of See also:

• AEGEUS

Aegeus, king of See also:

• ATHENS
• ATHENS ['AN vat, Athenae, modem colloquial Greek `Ath va]

Athens . When See also:

• MINOS

Minos, king of See also:

• CRETE (Gr. Kp;rrrr; Turk. Kirid, Ital. Candia)

Crete, was on his way t' attack Athens to avenge the See also:

• MURDER

murder of his son Androgeus, for which Aegeus was directly or indirectly responsible, he laid See also:

• SIEGE (0. Fr. sege, siege, mod. siege, seat, ultimately from sedere, to sit, cf. Class. Lat. obsidium, a siege)

siege to Megara . He finally gained See also:

• POSSESSION
• POSSESSION (Lat. possessio, possidere, to possess)

possession of the See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city through the treachery of the king's daughter Scylla, who, enamoured of Minos, pulled out the See also:

• GOLDEN

golden (or See also:

• PURPLE

purple) See also:

• LOCK (from the O. Eng. loc.; the word appears, in different forms, in many Teutonic languages, but with such various meanings as " hole," Ger. Loch, " lid," Swed. lock, &c.; probably the original was a root meaning " to enclose ")
• LOCK, MATTHIAS

lock from her See also:

• FATHER

father's See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head, on which his See also:

• LIFE

life and the safety of the city depended (for similar stories, see Frazer, Golden Bough, iii . 1900, p . 358) . Megara was captured, and Nisus, who died fighting (or slew himself), was changed into a 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-See also:

• EAGLE (Fr. aigle, from the Lat. aquila)

eagle . Minos, disgusted at Scylla's treachery, tied her to the See also:

• RUDDER (O.E. Rather, i.e. rower)

rudder of his See also:

• SHIP

ship, and after-wards 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 her See also:

• BODY

body ashore on the promontory called after her Scyllaeum; or she threw herself into the sea and swam after Minos, constantly pursued by her father, until at last she was changed into a ciris (a See also:

• BIRD

bird or a See also:

• FISH (O. Eng. fist, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch visch, Ger. Fisch, Goth. fisks, cognate with the Lat. piscis)
• FISH, HAMILTON (1808-1893)

fish) . In See also:

• VIRGIL (PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARC)
• VIRGIL, POLYDORE (c. 1470-1555)

Virgil, Scylla, the daughter of Nisus, is confused with the sea-See also:

• MONSTER (Lat. monstrum, from root of monere, to warn; i.e. something terrible or portentous)
• MONSTER, GEORG, COUNT ZU (1776-1844)

monster, the daughter of Phorcys . Nisus was the See also:

• EPONYMOUS

eponymous See also:

• HERO (Gr. open)
• HERO, THE YOUNGER

hero of the See also:

• HARBOUR (from M.E. hereberge, here, an army; cf. Ger. Heer and -beorg, protection or shelter. Other early forms in English were herberwe and haiborow, as seen in various place names, such as Market Harborough.. The French auberge, an inn, derived through

harbour of Nisaea, and See also:

• LOCAL

local tradition makes no mention of his betrayal by his daughter . According to See also:

• ROSCHER, WILHELM GEORG FRIEDRICH (1817–1894)

Roscher (in his Lexikon der Mythologic), who identifies the ciris with the See also:

• HERON (Fr. heron; Ital. aghirone, airone; Lat. ardea; Gr. ipw&bs: A.-S. hragra; Icelandic, hegre; Swed. hager; Dan. heire; Ger. Heiger, Reiher, Heergans; Dutch, reiger)

heron, the See also:

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

story of Nisus and Scylla (like these of Aedon, Procne, Philomela and Tereus) was invented to give an aetiological explanation of the characteristics of certain birds . The birds were regarded as originally human beings, whose acts and characters were supposed to See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account for certain habits of the birds into which they had been changed . E .

Siecke, De Niso et Scylla in ayes mutatis (progr . See also:

• BERLIN
• BERLIN, CONGRESS AND TREATY OF
• BERLIN, ISAIAH (1725–1799)

Berlin, 1884), holds that the purple or golden See also:

• HAIR (a word common to Teutonic languages)

hair of Nisus is the See also:

• SUN
• SUN (0. Eng. sonne, Ger. sonne. Fr. soleil, Lat. sol, Gr. ijXior, from which comes helio- in various English compounds)

sun, and Scylla 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, and that the origin of the See also:

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

legend is to be looked for in a very See also:

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

ancient myth of the relations between the two, which he endeavours to explain with the aid of See also:

• INDIAN

Indian and See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German See also:

• PARALLELS

parallels .