[1:10.] Muse. One of the nine Muses. Greek and Latin poets often profess to be merely the mouthpiece of the Muses.
[1:14.] Hate.
“And in soft bosoms dwell such mighty rage?”
—Pope, Rape of the Lock.
“In heavenly spirits could such perverseness dwell?”
—Milton, Paradise Lost.
[1:17.] Tyre. Carthage was sprung from Tyre, an old and prosperous city on the coast of Phœnicia. The founders of Carthage and their descendants are termed indifferently by Virgil Phœnicians, Sidonians, Pœni, or Tyrians.
[1:19.] War’s.
“An old and haughty nation proud in arms.”