MUSIC, see Apollo, Muses.
MY′THRAS. The Egyptian name of Apollo.
NAI′ADS, THE, were beautiful nymphs of human form who presided over
springs, fountains, and wells. They resided in the meadows by the sides
of rivers. Virgil mentions Ægle as being the fairest of them.
NAN′DI. The Hindoo goddess of joy.
NAR′AE. The name of the infernal regions amongst the Hindoos.
NA′RA′YAN. The mover of the waters. The Hindoo god of tides.
NARCIS′SUS, son of Cephisus and the Naiad Liriope, was a beautiful
youth, who was so pleased with the reflection of himself which he
saw in the placid water of a fountain that he could not help loving
it, imagining that it must be some beautiful nymph. His fruitless
endeavours to possess himself of the supposed nymph drove him to
despair, and he killed himself. There sprang from his blood a flower,
which was named after him, Narcissus.
“Narcissus so himself forsook,
And died to kiss his shadow in the brook.”
“Hadst thou Narcissus in thy face, to me
Thou would’st appear most ugly.”