[8] So named from Mount Casius near Pelusium, where he had a temple.
[9] "It seems likely that the productivity of nature was symbolized by the fruit, remarkable as it was for the number of seeds it contained."—Note in Blakesley's Herod., vii. 41.
[10] κατὰ τὸν οπισθόδομον.
μαστούς τ'ἔδειξε, στέρνα, θ' ὡς ἀγάλματος
κάλλιστα.—Eurip. Hec. 560.
[12] αὐτoσκέδιος τάφος.
[13] ἐκόσμησεν εὐμόρφῳ φόβῳ.
[14] Tatius is supposed to mean the silkworm, which he calls πτηνός, from its changing into a butterfly.
"Quid nemora Æthiopum molli canentia lanâ
Velleraque ut foliis depectant Seres."—Virg. G. ii. 120.
In the 10th Book of the Ethiopics, the productions of the silkworm are called "ἀραχνίων νήματα καὶ ὑφάσματα."