HERO

in Greek legend, a prieste of | d. 1 Aphrodite (Venus) at Sestos, beloved by | carly Leander, s youth of Abydos, on the other | then shore of the Hellespont. Leander swaro | ficall acro the strait every night to visit his | chic mistre , guided by a light which she pnt | him: fn a tower. Fat one stormy night the| His light was extinguished, Leander lost his | the « ren bony was cast up at the | horse: of the tower next morning. When HE Hero saw it, she cast herself into the sea | d. 1S: end andc surnamed “ The Great,” was | and an Idamean by a, but a Jew by | atten religion. His father, Anti pater, gained the | struc favour of Julius Caesar, who made bim | excel! ruler of op Lae Anti pater soon a oci- | disco ated Herod him in his government. | corer On the fall of Anthony, August us made | ILIT., _ Herod king of Judwa, 31 B.C. Herod | Sloug febuilt the Temple at Jerusalem with | pursu great magnificence. The birth of Christ, | sister and the ma acre of the Innocents, took | disco place in the last year of his reign. of kn’ - [s. 170]