[64] Clio and Satyrus, slaves not mentioned before.

[65] See Herod. i. ch. 194.

[66]

"Vivunt in Venerem frondes omnisque vicissim
Felix arbor amat; mutant ad mutua palmæ
Fœdera, populeo suspirat populus ictu,
Et platani platanis, alnoque assibilat alnus."
Claudian.

See also Darwin's poem, the "Botanic Garden."

[67]

".... Alpheum fama est hue Elidis amnem
Occultas egisse vias subter mare; qui nunc
Ore, Arethusa, tuo Siculis confunditur undis."
Virg. Æn. iii. 694.

[68] νυμφοστολεῖ.

[69] ἔδνα.

[70] An account of the loves of the viper and the lamprey will be found in Ælian, B. i. 50; and the polite consideration of the former in getting rid of his disagreeable qualities is related by the same writer, B. ix. 66, with the addition of his "hissing an amorous air."