[16]Hera is Juno in the Roman mythology.
[17]Phlegyas was the father of Ixion, and a Thessalian king.
[18]Mount Sipylus is near Smyrna.
[19]Europa, daughter of Agenor and sister of Cadmus, was abducted by Zeus, who took her to Crete. She was the mother of Minos and Rhadamanthus, judges in the lower world.
[20]Cadmus is also reputed to have been the introducer of the letters of the Greek alphabet.
[21]Eryx, a city and mountain in western Sicily, now known as Monte San Giuliano, near Palermo.
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