She abandoned him and he was raised by shepherds and suckled by a goat, hence his name Aegisthus ( from, buck ).

The Lupercalia festival was partly in honor of Lupa, the she-wolf who suckled the infant orphans, Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome, explaining the name of the festival, Lupercalia, or " Wolf Festival.

# He was suckled by his first cousin, a goat named Amalthea, while a company of Kouretes, soldiers, or smaller gods, shouted and clashed their swords together to make noise so that Cronus would not hear the baby's cry,

The herdsman, unable to use a weapon against the infant, left him exposed on Mount Ida, hoping he would perish there ( cf: Oedipus ); he was, however, suckled by a she-bear.

Alope left the infant in the open to die of exposure, but a passing mare suckled the child until it was found by shepherds, who fell into a dispute as to who was to have the beautiful royal attire of the boy.

The child was suckled by a deer through the agency of Heracles.

In Roman mythology, Faustulus was the shepherd who found the infants Romulus and Remus, who were being suckled by a she-wolf, known as Lupa, on the Palatine Hill.

He was miraculously saved from hunger being suckled by a she-wolf, and fed meat by ravens.

Often, it was thought, a baby would be snatched and replaced with a simulation of the baby, usually a male adult elf, to be suckled by the mother.

In it, O ' Meara describes himself as one of the vates, and claims that Thomas was suckled as a baby by Aine, an Irish goddess.

When the good shepherd who was entrusted with the baby returned to bury the exposed child, he discovered that he had been suckled by a she-bear ( a totem animal of the archaic goddess Artemis ) and took the child home to be foster-nursed by his wife.

Thus the founder of Rome, Romulus, was traditionally nursed only by a she-wolf, whereas Telephus, to whom the Attalids trace their ancestry, is shown in the frieze being suckled by a she-lion.

He is said to have gained his patronymic / epithet (" dog's son ") after he was suckled as a child by a greyhound called Eloir Derg, which belonged to his foster-father.

When I went to the girl, my wife told me to watch out, because she had suckled her ' Umar told him to beat his wife and to go to his slave-girl because kinship by suckling was only by the suckling of the young.

Rather than giving the popular mythology that Cyrus was suckled by a dog, The dog was sacred to Persians.

Her face was very thin, and burned by the sun until much of the skin was dead and peeling, the new skin under it red and angry.

Gavin's stallion was in the barn and he tightened the cinches over the saddle blanket, working by touch in the darkness, comforting the animal with easy words.

It was pierced by a wagon gate built of two wings.

In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.

His face was split by a vermilion streak, his eyes were pools of white ; ;

It was pitiful to see the thin ranks of warriors, old and young, wheeling and twisting their ponies frantically from side to side only to be tumbled bleeding from their saddles by the relentless slam, slam of the cruelly efficient Hawkinses.

He grabbed her by the shoulders and went down on one knee, taking her weight so that some of the wind was driven out of him.

There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.

only the counter at one end was lighted by a long fluorescent tube suspended directly above it.

He had looked over my forms and was impressed by what he had seen there ; ;

The office was of logs, four rooms, each heated by an iron stove.

The building was dwarfed by the scene outside.

It was partially cemented by ages and pressure, yet it crumpled before the onslaught of the powerful streams, the force of a thousand fire hoses, and with the gold it held washed down through the long sluices.

Even Hague was repelled by the machinelike deadliness that was Kodyke.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

She was sure she would reach the pool by climbing, and she clung to that belief despite the increasing number of obstacles.

It was secured by an oversized padlock.

The rustling problem was by no means solved.

Jess's coarse features twisted in a surprised grin which was smashed out of shape by Curt's fist.

Russ ran through the bills and named an amount it was highly unlikely any cowpuncher would come by honestly.

The truth was, the puncher was both bewildered and dismayed by his own mixed luck.

When it was followed by a second, whining even closer, Cobb swerved sharply aside into a depression.

The Sybarite Pan was conceived when a Sybarite shepherd boy named Krathis copulated with a pretty she-goat amongst his herds.

The Chimera ( also Chimaera or Chimæra ) ( or ;, Khimaira, from χίμαρος, khimaros, " she-goat ") was, according to Greek mythology, a monstrous fire-breathing female creature of Lycia in Asia Minor, composed of the parts of three animals: a lion, a serpent and a goat.

A she-goat with a silver bracelet hung from her neck was driven forth into the wasteland of ' Alini ' by the community.

The earlier town, the name of which signified she-goat, was built on the hill behind the modern city, on which are the ruins of a late fortress ; while the Roman city occupied the site of the modern.

He was forbidden either to touch or to name a dog, a she-goat, ivy, beans, or raw flesh.