FOOTNOTES:
[1] Goddess of the dawn.
[2] The sun.
[3] Messalina, third wife of Claudius and mother of Octavia and Britannicus. She acquired the most infamous celebrity of all the Roman matrons.
[4] Alcyone threw herself into the sea when Ceyx, her husband, was shipwrecked, and the gods in compassion changed the two into kingfishers. Ovid Book XI l. 583-748.
[5] The spinner among the Parcae.
[6] Murder of Messalina.
[7] Agrippina.
[8] One of the Furies.
[9] Styx, river in the lower world.