Virtue

is the one companion of our way.: Alone each creature sees the sun; alone the world he leaves— Alone of actions wrong or right the recompense receives. Like log or clod, beneath the sod, their lifele kinsman laid Friends turn round and quit the ground. But Virtue tends the dead. Have then a hoard of Virtue stored, to help the day of doom, By Virtue led we cro the dread immeasurable gloom.” Har-makhis. Egyptian. “Horus on the horis on”—symbolised by the Sphinx, which was old even in the time of the 4th dynasty. ‘Thothmes III built a temple between its paws (see Egypt). Harp. The harp was well known in Egypt, and the Beni Hasan picture shows Edomite Asiatics, one with a ten-stringed lyre. In mythology the harp is the wind. Apollo is the great harper in heaven, like Odin, as a god of vernal weather; and Siva is also a harper in India. Harps of 14 strings, and lyres of 17 strings, are as old as the 18th dynasty in Egypt. Har-pa-krut. Harpocrates. The child Horus in Egypt, usually seated on a lotus with its finger to its mouth (see Fingers). At wears the side lock (see Hair). He is represented also as surrounded by dangers in the form of monsters. He stands on two crocodiles (those of E. and W.), and Bés (see Bas) holds snakes over him. He is the sun in Hades, or among the winter clouds, still weak before the equinox. He also carries a goose under his left arm, and grapes in his right, or the staff and cornucopia, as the vernal sun, child of Osiris and Isis. The festival of Harpocrates, as Hermes Trismegistos, was — forbidden at Rome on account of its licentious character. For the child Horus became a Cupid. Harpy. The Harpies were “snatchers” or robbers, represented on a Lycian tomb (about 500 to 400 Bc.) as vultures, with the heads and breasts of women. [The soul was a human-headed bird in Egypt, and the Harpies apparently ghosts of the evil dead who caused tempests.—Ep.] The names of the three Harpies were Aello (“ howling”), Kalaino (“crying”), and Okupeté (‘‘ fast flying”): they emitted evil odours, and defiled everything when they appeared. But Hesiod speaks only of two (Kalaino and Okupeté) who were fair-haired winged maidens, swifter than winds or birds, Aiskhulos makes them vulture like women, with bear’s ears, long claws, and faces pale with hunger. They carried off the daughters of King Pand are us, whom they gave as slaves to the furies (see Erinues). The gods sent them to torment Phineus (“the fair”), who was the blind king of Arkadia in Greece, because he had revealed the secrets of Zeus. They stole his food, and defiled his table. But the sons of Boreas (the N. wind), aiding Iason, drove them away. 221