[122] The genius is the local god, the god of the place as a place.
[123] The Lars were the protecting spirits of the ancestors of the family; the Lemures were evil spirits, spectres, or bad ghosts. But the notions were somewhat indefinite.
[124] Flamen was the word used for priest when the Romans spoke of the priest of any particular divinity. Hence the peculiar power in the last line of the stanza.
[125] Jupiter Ammon, worshipped in Libya, in the north of Africa, under the form of a goat. "He draws in his horn."
[126] The Syrian Adonis.
[127] Frightful, horrible, as, a grisly bear.
[128] Isis, Orus, Anubis, and Osiris, all Egyptian divinities—the last worshipped in the form of a bull.
[129] No rain falls in Egypt.
[130] Last-born: the star in the east.
[131] Bright-armoured.