In Euripides, Admetus is perhaps actuated by a mixture of motives, real kindness, pride in his ancestral hospitality, and a little vanity.

And Fannygay, mischievous Fanny, with her mad-cap countenance, and midnight eyes, and rippling, raven curlsFanny looked like a young duchess taking her pleasure, for the sake of contrast, in the woodsfar from ancestral halls, and laughing at the follies of the court.

The relations of the dead man not only accused us of having alienated him from the faith of his forefathers, but also of having robbed him of his ancestral treasure.

By that ancestral home, in the vaults of the Abbey Church of Dunfermline, would have been his natural resting-place.

" How well does that one word describe those venerable ancestral dinners"All silent!"

Let Zeus the ancestral god of thee and me be witness of my oath and stablish it surely in thine eyes.'

" CHAPTER XXV SHOWS GABRIELLE IN EXILE Midway between historic Fotheringhay and ancient Apethorpe, the ancestral seat of the Earls of Westmorland, lay the long, straggling, and rather poverty-stricken village of Woodnewton.

Clotilde had glanced involuntarily at the ancestral tree spread out beside her.

There is a smash, and when the heroine comes to she is being called Lady Alice in an ancestral castle.

But this was an exception, a marked reversion to the ancestral type; like the hairy human infant.

The minister had been occupying his later years in pulling down his old ancestral house at Houghton, and in building an enormous mansion, which has since his time been, in its turn, partially demolished.

Whether a man deserts the ancestral Brahminism that has so long been 'good enough for his parents,' and listens to the voice of the Buddhist missionary, or joins Lucian in the seat of the scornful, shrugging at augur and philosopher alike; whether it is Voltaire, or Tom Paine, or Thomas Carlyle, or Walt Whitman, or a Socialist tract, that is the emancipator, the emancipation is all one.

No element is exhausted so fast in civil wars as the nobility or is deemed to be so necessary for the continuance of ancestral customs.

On completing his term he had the oath administered according to ancestral custom.

To Juba he gave portions of Gætulia in return for the prince's ancestral domain (for the majority of the inhabitants had been enrolled as members of the Roman polity), and also the possessions of Bocchus and Bogud.

Meantime he granted to Soaimus the land of the Arabian Ituræans, to Cotys Lesser Armenia and later parts of Arabia, to Rhoemetalces the possessions of Cotys, and to Polemon son of Polemon his ancestral domain,all these upon the vote of the senate.

In the matter of the Jews, who had again increased so greatly that by reason of their multitude it would have been hard without raising a tumult to bar them from the City, he decided not to drive them out, but ordered them to follow that mode of life prescribed by their ancestral custom and not to assemble in numbers.

After this they exhumed the bodies, some of which were found entire and some in fragments, according as decay and time had caused each of them to fare, and they gave them decent treatment and deposited them in their ancestral tombs.

I had a father, and he was all-sufficientanything beyond him in the ancestral line would have been a burden laid upon me greater than I could bear, as the poet says.' Dinner was announced, and Mary came shyly out of her corner, blushing deeply.

Her ideas of the ancestral savage were too vague to be very alarming.

The ancestral wolf, or jackal, hunting and fighting, fearing and hoping, showed every changing mood by the pose of its tail; but a change came when it acquired an assured position of security and importance as the chosen companion of man, so dreaded by all its kith and kin.

I have seen human noses of a pattern not unlike this, but they are not considered aristocratic: perhaps they indicate a reversion to the ancestral type.

Ain't you ever heard of ancestral jewels, Mrs. Spragg?

[-45-] It was at this time that Publius Clodius debauched Caesar's wife in her house and during the performance of the secret rites which according to ancestral precedent the Vestals carried out at the residences of consuls and praetors in behalf of the whole male population.

They accordingly refrained from assassinations, but set up a kind of altar on the site of the pyrehis bones the freedmen had previously taken up and deposited in the ancestral tomband undertook to sacrifice upon it and offer victims to Caesar, as to a god.