1267 ([return])
[ Cauldrons of Amyclæ.—Ver. 707. The purple dye of Amyelæ, in Laconia, was of a very fair quality, but could not be compared with that af Tyre.]


1268 ([return])
[ Thestius.—Ver. 721. See the Metamorphoses, Book viii. 1. 445.]


1269 ([return])
[ Waxen portrait.—Ver. 723. Waxen profiles seem to have been used by the Romans, as likenesses. They are evidently referred to in the Asinaria of Plautus, Aet iv. se. i. 1. 19, a passage which seems to have puzzled the Commentators. See the Epistle of Laodania, 1. 152, and the Note.]


1270 ([return])
[ Caphareus.—Ver. 735. Seethe Tristia, Book i. El. i. 1. 83, and the Note.]