"Hephaestus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... law, meine Konigin," replied Professor Papadopoulos, bowing low. "But Hephaestus is as fierce ...
— Simon the Jester • William J. Locke
... us mingle, Protarchus, at the same time offering up a prayer to Dionysus or Hephaestus, or whoever is the god who presides over the ceremony ...
— Philebus • Plato
... god of cruel mockery. He is said to have found fault with the man formed by Hephaestus, because a little door had not been left in his breast, so as to enable his fellows to look into his secret thoughts." (See Lucian's Hermotimus, cap. xx.) There was a proverb, [Greek: To| Mo/mo| a)re/skein] Momo santisfacere; vide Adagia Variorum, ...
— The Works of Lord Byron - Poetry, Volume V. • Lord Byron
... pretensions of Dictys and Dares to be contemporaries and eyewitnesses of fact. Dictys, a companion of Idomeneus, was supposed to represent the Greek side, but more fairly than Homer; and Dares, priest of Hephaestus, ...
— The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory - (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) • George Saintsbury |
