v. 112. Thracia’s king.] Polymnestor, the murderer of Polydorus. Hell, Canto XXX, 19.
v. 114. Crassus.] Marcus Crassus, who fell miserably in the Parthian war. See Appian, Parthica.
CANTO XXI
v. 26. She.] Lachesis, one of the three fates.
v. 43. —that, which heaven in itself Doth of itself receive.] Venturi, I think rightly interprets this to be light.
v. 49. Thaumantian.] Figlia di Taumante [GREEK HERE]
Compare Plato, Theaet. v. ii. p. 76. Bip. edit., Virg; Aen. ix. 5, and Spenser, Faery Queen, b. v. c. 3. st. 25.
v. 85. The name.] The name of Poet.
v. 89. From Tolosa.] Dante, as many others have done, confounds Statius the poet, who was a Neapolitan, with a rhetorician of the same name, who was of Tolosa, or Thoulouse. Thus Chaucer, Temple of Fame, b. iii. The Tholason, that height Stace.
v. 94. Fell.] Statius lived to write only a small part of the Achilleid.