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Things Not Generally Known: Juno

Echo. A daughter of the Air and Tellus, who was one of Juno's attendants; she was deprived of speech by Juno, but was allowed to reply to questions put to her.

Elysium. The Elysian Fields, a place in the infernal regions where, according to ancients, the souls of the virtuous existed after death. Endymion. A shepherd, son of Æthlius and Calyce. He is said to have requested of Jupiter that he might always be young. Diana saw him as he slept on Mount Latmus, and was so struck with his beauty that she came down from heaven every night to visit him.