the poetical impersonation of perennial sleep. By the ancient mythologists he is variously represented as the successor of Aethlius on the throne of Elis, or as a shepherd or huntsman perpetually asleep in the caves of Mount Latmus in Caria, and lulled by the kisses of the fair Selene, the goddess of the moon. According to the former and more prosaic tradition he was the son of Aethlius and Calycse; and on his wandering to Caria, was succeeded by his son Peleus, who won the crown of Elis by a successful contest in the race-course at Olympia. He was thrown into an eternal sleep either as a punishment or as a gift from Jupiter; or according to others, under the spell of the enamoured Selene. On this legend Keats has founded his exquisite poetical romance of Endymion.