‘Sublimis rapitur, subiectaque Thessala Tempe
Despicit, et Creteis regionibus applicat angues:’ 222 f.
Gower very naturally understood this to mean that Medea visited Crete, and hence the confusion of geography. He could not be expected to know that Othrys and Olympus were mountains of Thessaly, and hence that the ‘Creteis’ or ‘cretis’ of his manuscript was probably a corruption.
4000 f.
‘et placitas partim radice revellit,
Partim succidit curvamine falcis ahenae.’ 226 f.
4005. Eridian, i. e. Apidanus.
4006.
‘Necnon Peneus, necnon Spercheïdes undae
Contribuere aliquid.’ 230 f.