Casaubon aimed) that all the
mythical systems or erratic
mythical fragments in the world were corruptions of a tradition originally revealed.
This
mythical tale, of which the subject was a history of the wars of the Athenians against the Island of Atlantis, is supposed to be founded upon an unfinished poem of Solon, to which it would have stood in the same relation as the writings of the logographers to the poems of Homer.
"He wants me to help organize an expedition to go to Central America--to the Copan valley, to be exact--to look for this somewhat
mythical idol of gold.
{Milesian = slang for Irish, from Milesius,
mythical Spanish conqueror of Ireland; Evreux = town in Normandy, France; a D'Uzes = a member of an ancient noble family in southern France}
Antiquity is mostly
mythical. Jupiter, if we give a little attention to it, is life.
Caprona has always been considered a more or less
mythical land, though it is vouched for by an eminent navigator of the eighteenth century; but Bowen's narrative made it seem very real, however many miles of trackless ocean lay between us and it.
He found, with rare and
mythical exceptions, that there was no noblesse oblige among the business and financial supermen.
In a word, there is no more solid ground for treating Perses and his quarrel with Hesiod as fictitious than there would be for treating Cyrnus, the friend of Theognis, as
mythical.
Poulter's reminiscences of the Peninsular War were removed from all suspicion of being
mythical. Mr.
But for all who saw them through a less
mythical medium, the Miss Irwines were quite superfluous existences--inartistic figures crowding the canvas of life without adequate effect.
There is no LOGICAL objection to this theory, but there is the objection, which we spoke of earlier, that the act seems
mythical, and is not to be found by observation.
Truly, having by this time said everything she could say in maintenance of her wonderfully
mythical position, and in admonition to Mr Meagles that he must not expect to bear his honours of alliance too cheaply, Mrs Gowan was disposed to forgo the rest.