"Manto" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... One day the prophetess Manto, daughter of the soothsayer Tiresias, being instructed of the gods, called together the women of Thebes to do honor to the goddess Latona and her two children, Apollo and Diana. "Put laurel wreaths upon your heads," ...
— Myths and Legends of All Nations • Various
... evident that if carried still further than in the case shown in the diagram, the lode would be brought down over the face of the hill, and the result has, I think, been achieved in some places, and a regular "Manto" produced. I have already stated that small landslips are of frequent occurrence on the sides of the hills. We had several times the entrance to our mines temporarily closed by them in the ...
— The Naturalist in Nicaragua • Thomas Belt
... Manto was she: through many lands she went Seeking, and paused where I was born, at last. Therefore I choose thou be on me intent A little. When from life her father passed, And they of Bacchus' city became slaves, Long time about ...
— Italian Journeys • William Dean Howells |
