[415] And Glaucus lost to joy.—A fisherman, says the fable, who, on eating a certain herb, was turned into a sea god. Circé was enamoured of him, and in revenge of her slighted love, poisoned the fountain where his mistress usually bathed. By the force of the enchantment the favoured Scylla was changed into a hideous monster, whose loins were surrounded with the ever-barking heads of dogs and wolves. Scylla, on this, threw herself into the sea, and was metamorphosed into the rock which bears her name. The rock Scylla at a distance appears like the statue of a woman. The furious dashing of the waves in the cavities, which are level with the water, resembles the barking of wolves and dogs.
[416] Thyoneus, a name of Bacchus.
[417] High from the roof the living amber glows.—
"From the arched roof,
Pendent by subtle magic, many a row
Of starry lamps, and blazing cressets, fed
With naptha and asphaltus, yielded light
As from a sky."
Milton.
[418] The Titans.
[419] The north wind.
[420] And rent the Mynian sails.—The sails of the Argonauts, inhabitants of Mynia.
[421] See the first note on the first book of the Lusiad.
In haughty England, where the winter spreads
His snowy mantle o'er the shining meads.—