door with his wand. But in her,
as she endeavors to arise, the parts which we bend in sitting cannot be
moved, through their numbing weight. She, indeed, struggles to raise
herself, with her body, upright; but the joints of her knees are stiff,
and a chill runs through her nails, and her veins are pallid, through
the loss of blood.

And as the disease {of} an incurable cancer is wont to spread in all
directions, and to add the uninjured parts to the tainted; so, by
degrees, did a deadly chill enter her breast, and stop the passages of
life, and her respiration. She did not endeavor to speak; but if she had
endeavored, she had no passage for her voice. Stone had now possession
of her neck; her face was grown hard, and she sat, a bloodless statue.
Nor was the stone white; her mind had stained it.

[Footnote 88: _Tritonia._--Ver. 783. Minerva is said to have been
called Tritonia, either from the Cretan word +trito+, signifying
'a head,' as she sprang from the head of Jupiter; or from Trito, a
lake of Libya, near which she was said to have been born.]

[Footnote 89: _Tritonian._--Ver. 794. Athens, namely, which was
sacred to Pallas, or Minerva, its tutelary divinity.]

EXPLANATION.

Pausanias, in his Attica, somewhat varies this story, and says that
the daughters of Cecrops, running mad, threw themselves from the top
of a tower. It is very probable that on the introduction of the
worship of Pallas, or Minerva, into Attica, these daughters of Cecrops
may have hesitated to encourage the innovation, and the story was
promulgated that the Goddess had in that manner punished their
impiety. This seems the more likely, from the fact mentioned by
Pausanias that Pandrosos, the third daughter of Cecrops, had, after
her death, a temple built in honor of her, near that of Minerva,
because she had continued faithful to that Goddess, and had not
disobeyed her, as her sisters had done. The reputation and good fame
of Herse and Aglauros had, however, been restored by the time of
Herodotus, since he informs us that they both had their temples at
Athens.

FABLE XIV. [II.833-875]

Jupiter assumes the shape of a Bull, and carrying off Europa, swims
with her on his back to the isle of Crete.

When the grandson of Atlas had inflicted this punishment upon her words
and her profane disposition, he left the lands named after Pallas, and
entered the skies with his waving wings. Hi