But nevertheless, behold I give thee choice of these two lots: if, shunning death and hateful old age, thou desirest for thyself to dwell in Olympus with Athene and with Ares of the shadowing spear, this lot is thine to take: but if in thy brother's cause thou art so hot, and art resolved in all to have equal share with him, then half thy time thou shalt be alive beneath the earth, and half in the golden house of heaven.

Among them thriveth the Muse of dulcet breath, and Ares in the young men's terrible spears.

ODIN or WODIN, the chief god of the ancient Scandinavians, combined in one the powers of Zeus and Ares among the Greeks, and was attended by two black ravensHugin, mind, and Munin, memory, the bearers of tidings between him and the people of his subject-world.

" The four elements already referred to are by no means all the material ingredients of animal bodies.

If then the things which are independent of the will are neither good nor bad, and all things which do depend on the will are within our power, and no man can either take them from us or give them to us, if we do not choose, where is room left for anxiety?

[Footnote 11: For example, the story told by Demodocus of The Illicit Love of Ares for Aphrodite, and the Revenge which Hephaestus PlannedOdyssey, Bk. VIII.