[1] The cave of Silenus, which is the scene of this eclogue, is delineated with sufficient accuracy. The time seems to be the evening; at least the song does not cease, till the flocks are folded, and the evening star appears.
[2] See Ovid. Met. Lib. I.
[3] Their names were Lysippe, Ipponoë, and Cyrianassa. Juno, to be avenged of them for preferring their own beauty to hers, struck them with madness, to such a degree, that they imagined themselves to be heifers.
[4] Gortyna was a city of Crete. See Ovid. Art. Am. Lib. I.
[5] Atalanta. See Ovid. Metamorph. Lib. X.
[6] See Ovid. Metamorph. Lib. II.
[7] A river in Bœotia arising from Mount Helicon, sacred to the Muses.
[8] Hesiod.
[9] Grynium was a maritime town of the Lesser Asia, where were an ancient temple and oracle of Apollo.
[10] See Virgil Æn. III.