received adoration where they were adored.

In explanation of the fable, it may be observed, that as Jupiter is
taken for the maker of all things, so Latona is physically understood to
be the _matter_ out of which all things were made, which, according to
Plato, is called {Leto} or Latona, from {lethein} to lie _hid_ or
_concealed_, because all things originally lay hid in darkness till the
production of _light_, or birth of Apollo.

AURORA, goddess of the morning, was the youngest daughter of Hyperion
and Theia, or, according to some, of Titan and Terra. Orpheus calls her
the harbinger of Titan, for she is the personification of that light
which precedes the appearance of the sun. The poets describe this
goddess as rising out of the ocean in a saffron robe, seated in a
flame-colored car, drawn by two or four horses, expanding with her rosy
fingers the gates of light, and scattering the pearly dew. Virgil
represents her horses as of flame color, and varies their number from
two to four, according as she rises slower or faster.

She is said to have been daughter of Titan and the earth, because the
light of the morning seems to rise out of the earth, and to proceed from
the sun, which immediately follows it. She is styled mother of the four
winds, because, after a calm in the night, the winds rise in the
morning, as attendant upon the sun, by whose heat and light they are
begotten. There is no other goddess of whom we have so many beautiful
descriptions in the poets.

CHAPTER III.

_Terrestrial Gods._

SATURN was the son of Coelus and Titaea or Terra, and married his sister
Vesta. She, with her other sisters, persuaded their mother to join them
in a plot, to exclude Titan, their elder brother, from his birthright,
and raise Saturn to his father's throne. Their design so far succeeded,
that Titan was obliged to resign his claim, though on condition, that
Saturn brought up no male children, and thus the succession might revert
to the Titans again. Saturn, it is said, observed this covenant so
faithfully, that he devoured, as soon as they were born, his legitimate
sons. His punctuality, however, in this respect, was at last frustrated
by the artifice of Vesta, who, being delivered of twins, Jupiter and
Juno, presented the latter to her husband, and concealing the former,
sent him to be nursed on Mount Ida in Crete, committing the care of him
to the Cur{=e}tes and Corybantes.

The reign of Saturn was so mild