He whom ungrateful Athens, &c., i.e., Aristides (see page 171), distinguished by the surname of The Just. He was unjust, Pope means, only when he signed the shell for his own condemnation.
Phocion. An Athenian general and statesman (402-318 B.C.), put to death by Polysperchon. He injured rather than helped the liberties of Athens.
Agis, "King of Sparta, who endeavoured to restore his state to greatness by a radical agrarian reform, was after a mock trial murdered in prison, B.C. 241." Ward.
Cato, who, to escape disgrace amid the evils which befell his country, stabbed himself in 46 B.C.
Brutus his ill Genius meets no more. See the account of the Eve of Philippi in Book IV.
The wars of Troy. Described by Homer in his Iliad.
Tydides (Diomede) wounds the Cyprian Queen (Venus). A scene described in the Iliad.
Hector. Slew Patroclus, the friend of Achilles, and in revenge was dragged by him round the walls of Troy.
The Mantuan, i.e., the Roman poet Virgil, author of the Aeneid, born at Mantua (70-19 B.C.)
Eliza = Elissa, or Dido, whose misfortunes are described in the Aeneid.