[65:1] In these forms of punishment, it is the soul’s clothes, i. e. the body, not the soul itself, that is punished.
[66:1] The body of a brute.
[67:1] There were in Naxos, on Parnassus, and elsewhere various caves dedicated to Bacchus, i. e. to mirth and jollity; and the mouths of these caves were, of course, decked with all of verdure and bloom that could make them charming and attractive.
[67:2] Dionysus as the son of Zeus had a right to leave the abode of the dead, and to claim his seat on Olympus. His mother Semele, being a mortal woman, had no such right; but he rescued her from the dead, and bore her to Olympus, where she became a goddess under the name of Thyone.
[68:1] Oblivion.
[68:2] Γένεσις. According to this derivation γένεσις comes from γῆ, the earth, and νεύειν, to incline toward,—a fanciful derivation, the genuineness of which there is good reason to doubt.
[69:1] Themis preceded Apollo as the inspirer of the Delphian oracle.
[69:2] The ancients imagined, as we easily may, something like the outlines of a human face in the disk of the moon, and among their myths, or rather poetical fancies, was this of a Sibyl revolving with the moon, and singing, as she rides across the firmament, the fate of men and nations.
[70:1] The great eruption of A. D. 79.
[70:2] The earlier name of Puteoli.