Love is individualized and personified in nearly all mythologies; and LOVE therefore ranks among the earliest of the Grecian gods.

Fear or terror, whose influence is often so strange, sudden, and unaccountable--seizing even the bravest -- spreading through numbers with all the speed of an electric sympathy -- and deciding in a moment the destiny of an army or the ruin of a tribe--is another of those passions, easily supposed the afflatus of some preternatural power, and easily, therefore, susceptible of personification.

And the pride of men, more especially if habitually courageous and warlike, will gladly yield to the credulities which shelter a degrading and unwonted infirmity beneath the agency of a superior being.

TERROR, therefore, received a shape and found an altar probably as early at least as the heroic age.

According to Plutarch, Theseus sacrificed to Terror previous to his battle with the Amazons;--an idle tale, it is true, but proving, perhaps, the antiquity of a tradition.