FOOTNOTES:
[2] A stade was about one-eighth of a Roman mile.
[3] Odyssey, xi., 122, 123.
[4] See Plutarch’s “Life of Theseus.”
[5] Iliad, xxiii., 677-680.
[6] See Herod., iii., 64.
[7] Perhaps a reminiscence of Hom. Il. i. 423.
[8] See Verg. Ecl. 3. 106. Theocr. x. 28. And especially Ovid, Metamorph. x. 210-219.
[9] Demeter and Proserpine.
[10] Iliad xxiii. 144-148.
[11] The Greek is Megara. Hence the paronomasia.
[12] Herod. iv. 99, and 103.