The Danaides, daughters of Danaus, king of Argos, were also there, who, in obedience to the cruel advice of their parent, had caused their husbands to perish; with Tityus, who having had the audacity to attempt the honour of Latona, was doomed to feel a vulture constantly gnawing his entrails.

Ulysses sought the realm of Pluto, among his many adventures.

"When lo! appeared along the dusky coasts,

Thin, airy shoals of visionary ghosts:

Fair, pensive youths, and young enamoured maids;

And withered elders, pale and wrinkled shades;

Ghastly with wounds the forms of warriors slain,

Stalked with majestic port, a martial train;

These and a thousand more, swarmed o'er the ground,