"All her fellow-captives heav'd
Responsive sighs, deploring each, in show
The dead Patroclus, but, in truth, herself."
[61] Tatius alludes to Venus Urania and Venus Popularis, the one the patroness of pure, the other of impure, love.
[62] Iliad xx. 2, 3, 4.
[63] See Anthon's Lemprière for the legends attached to their names.
[64] Göttling proposes to read "Hebe," which suits the context better.
[65] According to some accounts, two; according to others, three nights were required for the formation of Hercules, son of Alcmena.
"Violentus ille
Nocte non unâ poterat creari."—Seneca Ag. 825.
"A long, long kiss, a kiss of youth and love,
And beauty, all concentrating like rays
Into one focus, kindled from above;
Such kisses as belong to early days,
Where heart, and soul, and sense, in concert move,
And the blood's lava, and the pulse a blaze,
Each kiss a heart-quake."—Byron.
Compare Lucret. iv. 1070-1079, and 1099-1114.