[101.] Country named.]—Ver. 524. This was the island of Ægina, so called from the Nymph who was carried thither by Jupiter.
[102.] Bowels are scorched.]—Ver. 554. Clarke quaintly renders the words ‘viscera torrentur primo.’ ‘first people’s bowels are searched;’ perhaps, however, the latter word is a misprint for ‘scorched.’
[103.] Thou seest.]—Ver. 587. As Æacus says this, he must be supposed to point with his finger towards the temple.
[104.] More odious.]—Ver. 603. Dead bodies were supposed to be particularly offensive to the Gods.
[105.] From Dodona.]—Ver. 623. Dodona was a town of Chaonia, in Epirus, so called from Dodone, the daughter of Jupiter and Europa. Near it was a temple and a wood sacred to Jupiter, which was famous for the number and magnitude of its oaks. Doves were said to give oracular responses there, probably from the circumstance that the female soothsayers of Thessaly were called πελειαδαι[A]. Some writers, however, say that the oaks had the gift of speech, combined with that of prophesying.
[106.] Myrmidons.]—Ver. 654. From the Greek word μύρμηξ, ‘an ant;’ according to this version of the story.
[107.] Æolus.]—Ver. 672. Apollodorus reckons Deioneus, the parent of Cephalus, among the children of Apollo.
[108.] Nereian youth.]—Ver. 685. Phocus, who was the son of Æacus, by Psamathe, the daughter of Nereus.
[109.] Orithyïa.]—Ver. 695. She was the daughter of Erectheus, king of Athens, and was carried off by Boreas, as already stated.
[110.] Hymettus.]—Ver. 702. This was a mountain of Attica, famous for its honey and its marble.