"Mnemosyne" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Satyr's shape Conceal'd, the beauteous child of Nycteus fill'd, With a twin-offspring. In Amphytrion's form Alcmena, thou wert press'd. A golden shower Danae deceiv'd. A flame AEgina caught. A shepherd's shape Mnemosyne beguil'd. And fair Deoeis trusts a speckled snake. Thee, Neptune, too she painted, for the maid AEolian, to a threatening bull transform'd. Thou, as Enipeus, didst the Aloid twins Beget. Beneath the semblance of a ram, Theophane was ...
— The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II • Ovid
... remark of the groom, that nothing fats the horse so much as the king's eye.[24] And especial attention, in my opinion, must be paid to cultivating and exercising the memory of boys, for memory is, as it were, the storehouse of learning; and that was why they fabled Mnemosyne to be the mother of the Muses, hinting and insinuating that nothing so generates and contributes to the growth of learning as memory. And therefore the memory must be cultivated, whether boys have ...
— Plutarch's Morals • Plutarch |
