[302] Helmet.
[303] i.e., The roofs of the temples. "De tholis pendent laqueata circum Arma."
[304] Pallas being feigned by the poets to have been bred in Jupiter's brain.
[305] i.e., The Romans, who owed their founders, Romulus and Remus, to the care of Faustulus, who was shepherd to the tyrant Amulius.—Steevens.
[306] The goddess of the morning.—Steevens.
[307] The goddess of revenge. Baxter, in his "Glossary," says she is corruptly so called, and that her true name should be Andrasta.
[308] A mace [here seems to mean a sceptre, but properly stands for a club.]
[309] Geoffrey of Monmouth says, "His (Nennius's) funeral exequies were performed with regal pomp, and Cæsar's sword put into the tomb with him, which he kept possession of when struck into his shield in the combat. The name of the sword was Crocea Mors, Yellow Death, as being mortal to everybody that was wounded with it."—Bk. iv. c. 4, Thompson's translation, 1718, p. 102.
[310] By Geoffrey of Monmouth said to be the great grandson of Æneas. After being banished from Italy, on account of accidentally killing his father, he arrived at Britain, to which he gave his own name. He built Trinovantum, or London, and dying, left the government of the nation to his sons.
[311] Dunwallo Molmutius, son of Cloton, King of Cornwall. After a reign of 40 years he died, and was buried at Trinovantum, near the Temple of Concord.—"Geoffrey of Monmouth," bk. ii. c. 17. [Compare p. 484.]