Excerpt from Women of Beauty and Heroism: From Semiramis to Eugenie; A Portrait Gallery of Female Loveliness, Achievement and Influence In Syria under the name of Berceto, and widely respected for her chastity, had the misfortune to displease that most irritable divinity, Venus, who straightway resolved on vengeance. The catalogue of ways and means in her possession seems to have been, in every system of mythology, exceedingly limited and it is not surprising to find the Assyrian Venus resorting, in the poverty of her ...
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Excerpt from Women of Beauty and Heroism: From Semiramis to Eugenie; A Portrait Gallery of Female Loveliness, Achievement and Influence In Syria under the name of Berceto, and widely respected for her chastity, had the misfortune to displease that most irritable divinity, Venus, who straightway resolved on vengeance. The catalogue of ways and means in her possession seems to have been, in every system of mythology, exceedingly limited and it is not surprising to find the Assyrian Venus resorting, in the poverty of her resources, to the universal and infallible passion - Love thus setting the example to which the Venus of Paphos afterwards so consistently adhered. Berceto loved, and not wisely she gave birth to a female infant, which she abandoned upon the deserts of Ascalon; then, obeying an impulse which seems to have been usual in these guilty legendary mothers, she slew her betrayer, and threw herself headlong into a lake. The eter-nal fitness of things is beautifully consulted in the disposition made of her by the fable - she was changed, either by assimila tion or metempsychosis, into a fish. Now, fish are cold-blooded, as every one knows, and being oviparous, leave their young to take care of themselves. The legend, having thus given to the parent an integument consistent with her nature, returns to the deserted babe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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