[2] Σῶστρα or σωτήρια. Sacrifices and votive offerings, made upon escape from shipwreck—
"Me tabulâ sacer
Votivâ paries indicat uvida,
Suspendisse potenti
Vestimenta maris Deo."—Hor. I. Od. v. 12.
[3] The Syrian Venus. "Venus—quarta, Syria, Tyroque concepta; quæ Astarte vocatur, quam Adonidi nupsisse proditum est."—Cic. de Nat. Deorum.
[4] Ovid. Met. ii. 844, and Moschus, Idyl. 2.
[5] Compare a passage in Longus, B. iv., Έν μετεώρῳ οἱ κλάδοι συνἐπιπτον άλλήλοις, καὶ ἐπήλλαττον τος κόμας, ἐδόκει μὲν τοί καὶ ἠ τούτων φύσις εἰναι τεχνης.
[6] "Mare purpureum."—Virg. G. 4, 373.
[7] In Ode xxviii., on his mistress, Anacreon says,—
"Στόλισον τολoιτὸν αὐτην
'υπὸ πορφύροισι πέπλοις·
διαφαινέτο δὲ σαρκὼν
'ολίγον, το σῶμ' ἐλεγχον."
[8] "Quàm castigate planus sub pectore venter."—Ovid. Am. i. 5.