—Milton, Paradise Regained.
[1:1.] Troy. A city in northwest Asia Minor where the famous Trojan war took place.
[1:3.] Latian. The broad plain near the mouth of the Tiber, in Italy.
[1:5.] Juno. Queen of the gods; wife and sister of Jupiter.
[1:5.] Much.
“Much there he suffered,
And many perilles past in forreine landes,
To save his people sad from victours vengefull handes,”
—Spenser, Faerie Queene.
[1:8.] Alba. Alba Longa, a long ridge some fifteen miles southeast of Rome. The successors of Æneas reigned there until the founding of Rome.