2523 ([return])
[ The Thriae, who practised divination by means of pebbles (also called THRIAE). In this hymn they are represented as aged maidens (ll. 553-4), but are closely associated with bees (ll. 559-563) and possibly are here conceived as having human heads and breasts with the bodies and wings of bees. See the edition of Allen and Sikes, Appendix III.]
2524 ([return])
[ Cronos swallowed each of his children the moment that they were born, but ultimately was forced to disgorge them. Hestia, being the first to be swallowed, was the last to be disgorged, and so was at once the first and latest born of the children of Cronos. Cp. Hesiod Theogony, ll. 495-7.]
2525 ([return])
[ Mr. Evelyn-White prefers a different order for lines #87-90 than that preserved in the MSS. This translation is based upon the following sequence: ll. 89,90,87,88.—DBK.]
2526 ([return])
[ ‘Cattle-earning’, because an accepted suitor paid for his bride in cattle.]
2527 ([return])
[ The name Aeneas is here connected with the epithet AIEOS (awful): similarly the name Odysseus is derived (in Odyssey i.62) from ODYSSMAI (I grieve).]