[121] Apollo was specially worshipped by the Lycians.
[122] The celebrated fountain sacred to Apollo on Parnassus.
[123] Apollo was surnamed the Cynthian, from Mount Cynthus in the island of Delos, which was the place of his birth, and the most revered of all the localities set apart for his worship. The island, which had previously floated over the ocean, was, according to one version of the legend, rendered stationary by Jupiter when Apollo was born; according to another version, it was subsequently fixed by Apollo himself.
[124] The walls of Troy were the work of Apollo and Neptune.
[125] In the first edition it was
Thou dost the seeds of future wars foreknow.
[126] The Phrygian was Marsyas, who contended on the flute against Apollo with his lyre. When the umpires decided in favour of the god, he flayed Marsyas for his presumption.
[127] Tityus assaulted the mother of Apollo, and her son shot the offender.
[128] Niobe, because she had seven sons and seven daughters, thought herself superior to Latona, who had only one son, and one daughter,—Apollo and Diana. These divinities, in revenge, destroyed the fourteen children of Niobe.
[129] In the first edition: