...if he did not manage, still he miscarried in a great attempt.' "But his wretched father" (the Sun) "had hidden his face overcast with bitter sorrow,...believe it, they say that one day passed without the sun. The flames " (of the fires on the earth) " afforded light, and there was some advantage in that...

...heavens, and the committal of his body to the tomb, Ovid continues : " But his wretched father (the sun) had hidden his face, overcast with bitter sorrow ; and, if only we can * A cluster of islands in the JEgean Sea. believe it, they say that one day passed without the sun....

...star from the serene sky may appear to fall, although it really has not fallen. Him the great Kridanus receives, in a part of the world far distant from...earth, full of woe, and distracted, and tearing her bosom. And first seeking his lifeless limbs, and then his bones, she found his bones, however, buried...

...changed into poplars, and their tears become amber distilling from those trees. THE Hesperian Naiads55 commit his body, smoking from the three-forked flames,...believe it, they say that one day passed without the sun.56 The flames afforded light ; and so far, there was some advantage in that disaster. But Clymene,...

...changed into poplars, and their tears become amber distilling from those trees. THE Hesperian Naiads55 commit his body, smoking from the three-forked flames,...believe it, they say that one day passed without the sun.56 The flames afforded light ; and so far, there was some advantage in that disaster. But Clymene,...

...describes a period of darkness in which the Sun was heavily obscured. But his wretched father [the Sun] had hidden his face overcast with bitter sorrow, and,...believe it, they say that one day passed without the sun. The flames afforded light, and there was some advantage in that disaster . . . the father of Phaethon...