[195. the chill marble seems to sweat.] Many instances of this phenomenon are reported. Thus Cicero, in his De Divinatione, tells us: “It was reported to the senate that it had rained blood, that the river Atratus had even flowed with blood, and that the statues of the gods had sweat.”
[197. Peor and Baälim.] Syrian false gods. See Numbers XXV 3.
[199. that twice-battered god of Palestine.] See I Samuel V 2.
[200. mooned Ashtaroth.] See I Kings XI 33.
[203. The Lybic Hammon.] “Hammon had a famous temple in Africa, where he was adored under the symbolic figure of a ram.”
[204. their wounded Thammuz.] See Ezekiel VIII 14.
[205. sullen Moloch.] See Par. Lost I 392-396.
[210. the furnace blue.] Compare [Arcades 52].
[212. Isis, and Orus, and the dog Anubis.] Egyptian deities, the latter figured as having the head of a dog.
[213. Nor is Osiris seen.] Osiris was the principal god of the Egyptians, brother and husband of Isis. His highest function was as god of the Nile. He met his death at the hands of his brother Typhon, a deity of sterility, by whom he was torn into fourteen pieces. Thereupon a general lament was raised throughout Egypt. The bull Apis was regarded as the visible incarnation of Osiris.—Murray’s Manual of Mythology.