1 A river in Sicily.
2 Subject of Theocritus's Lament for Daphnis (Idyl i) in which Thyrsis is the mourning shepherd. Hylas was taken away by nymphs who admired his beauty and Bion is the subject of Moschus's Epitaph of Bion (Idyl iii).
3 Goddess who was protector of the flocks. Faunus is god of the plains and hills around Rome.
4 Characters in Ovid's Metamorphoses.
5 A river near St. Albans. Cassivellaunus was a British chieftan who opposed Caesar. See Gallic War (v, xi.)
6 Medicine. Diodati took medical training at Cambridge.
7 Milton's planned epic opened with the Dardanian (i.e. Trojan) fleet, under Brutus, approaching England.
8 Brennus and Belinus were kings of Brittany who, according to Spencer's Fairie Queen, "rasackt Greece" and conquered France and Germany. Arviragus led the Britons against Claudius.
9 See Malory's Morte d'Arthur.
10 A river in Oxford.