444 ([return])
[ Armenian dens.—Ver. 35. See the Metamorphoses, Book viii. 1. 126, and the Note to the passage.]
445 ([return])
[ Many a time.—Ver. 38. He seems here to speak of this practice as being frequently resorted to.]
446 ([return])
[ She deserved it.—Ver. 40. From this, it would seem that the practice was considered censurable; but, perhaps it was one of those cases whose heinousness is never fully discovered till it has brought about its own punishment.]