1601 ([return])
[ The epithet probably indicates coquettishness.]
1602 ([return])
[ A proverbial saying meaning, ‘why enlarge on irrelevant topics?’]
1603 ([return])
[ ‘She of the noble voice’: Calliope is queen of Epic poetry.]
1604 ([return])
[ Earth, in the cosmology of Hesiod, is a disk surrounded by the river Oceanus and floating upon a waste of waters. It is called the foundation of all (the qualification ‘the deathless ones...’ etc. is an interpolation), because not only trees, men, and animals, but even the hills and seas (ll. 129, 131) are supported by it.]
1605 ([return])
[ Aether is the bright, untainted upper atmosphere, as distinguished from Aer, the lower atmosphere of the earth.]