Word: pollux
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...perhaps to H. G. Wells to whom the book is dedicated, Author Gerhardi winds up his loose strands with a tiresome world destruction. Ottercove flies with Vernon Sprott (Arnold Bennett) toward the patch of earth that survives the end of the world, but disintegrates on the way. As Castor & Pollux the two men are immortalized by the glowing ends of their cigars. Ottercove's unborn son and Eva and some of her lovers are chief survivors of the extravaganza...
Castor and Pollux, who were the products of Jupiter's miraculously unconventional affection for Leda and who were worshipped, by credulous Greeks, on account of their coincidental birth as well as their divine paternity...
...deference to reason and ingrained classicism, he contrives a confidante for Helen: when Castor and Pollux rescued their sister from her first abductor, King Theseus of Attica, they took away with them Theseus' mother, queenly Aithre. Devoted bondslave, solicitous handmaid, prescient foster mother, Aithre was at hand in the seven subtle crises of Helen's life, which crises Scholar White picks out in the poised, sophisticated chiseling of an heroic frieze, so craftily restored that the very air of antiquity moves about the figures, golden with the tang of wine...
...sections. The first gives an historical account of the development of the Athenian state, and is complete; the second is an exposition of the contemporary machinery of the government. This latter part is only partially preserved, but we know most of it already through the quotations of the grammarian Pollux. On the contrary there is much that is new in the first part. In the very first chapters one point is settled which is of especial interest to us at Harvard. About six months ago Professor Wright completed an article for the Harvard Studies in which merely on literary grounds...