Note 1107 — ANTIENT HEROES.

Harmonia, the wife of Cadmus, who has been esteemed a mere woman, seems to have been an emblem of nature, and the fostering nurse of all things. She is from hence styled [1107]παντροφος Ἁρμονια. And when Venus is represented in the allegory as making her a visit, she is said to go [1108]εις δομον Ἁρμονιας παμμητορος, to the house of the all-productive parent. In some of the Orphic verses she is represented not only as a Deity, but as the light of the world.