intricate knot.

[47] The shades of those mortals whose lives had neither been distinguished
by virtue nor vice, were condemned to a monotonous, joyless, existence in
the Asphodel meadows of Hades.

[48] Echidna was a bloodthirsty monster, half maiden, half serpent.

[49] One of the horns of the goat Amalthea, broken off by Zeus, and
supposed to possess the power of filling itself with whatsoever its owner
desired.

[50] According to another account, Momus discovered that Aphrodite made a
noise when she walked.

[51] The word Psyche signifies "butterfly," the emblem of the soul in
ancient art.

[52] Tiresias alone, of all the shades, was in full possession of his
mental vigour.

[53] Most of the words ending in eus may also be pronounced thus:
_AE'-ge-us_, _[=a]'-tre-us_, _pro-me'-the-us_, etc.

[54] The first e like ei in their.

[55] _Th_ at the beginning of a word has its soft sound, as in _both_.

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