[94.] Ivy impeded the oars.]—Ver. 664. Hyginus tells us, that Bacchus changed the oars into thyrsi, the sails into clusters of grapes, and the rigging into ivy branches. In the Homeric hymn on this subject we find the ship flowing with wine, vines growing on the sails, ivy twining round the mast, and the benches wreathed with chaplets.
[95.] To a long story.]—Ver. 692. Clarke renders this line, ‘We have lent our ears to a long tale of a tub.’
[96.] Cithæron.]—Ver. 702. This was a mountain of Bœotia, famous for the orgies of Bacchus there celebrated.
[97.] My two sisters.]—Ver. 713. These were Ino and Autonoë.
[98.] Ghost of Actæon.]—Ver. 720. He appeals to Autonoë, the mother of Actæon, to remember the sad fate of her own son, and to show him some mercy; but in vain: for, as one commentator on the passage says, ‘Drunkenness had taken away both her reason and her memory.’
Supplementary Note (added by transcriber)
[A.] grief is taking away: Ovid III.469 “adĭmit”. Translating “has taken” would require the metrically impossible variant “adēmit”.
THE METAMORPHOSES Book IV-VII.
Fable descriptions are taken from the translator’s Synopses.
[Book IV]
[Fable I]: The daughters of Minyas. Pyramus and Thisbe.
[Fable II]: Mars and Venus. The Sun and Leucothoë.
[Fable III]: Clytie buried alive.
[Fable IV]: Daphnis; Scython; Celmus; Crocus and Smilax; the Curetes.
[Fable V]: Salmacis and Hermaphroditus.
[Fable VI]: The daughters of Minyas.
[Fable VII]: Athamas and Ino.
[Fable VIII]: Cadmus leaves Thebes.
[Fable IX]: Perseus kills Medusa.
[Fable X]: Perseus and Andromeda. Medusa’s hair.