[99] Messalina.
[100] Now Ventotene; a small island off the coast of Campania to which political offenders were sometimes banished.
[101] Iphigenia was daughter of Agamemnon who offered her up to appease the gods. She was rescued by Diana and carried off in a cloud to the land of the Tauri where it fell to her lot to offer up as victims all strangers who were shipwrecked on the coast.
[102] Aulis, a harbor in Beotia where Iphigenia was offered in sacrifice.
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