[XCVII.] Bacchus was the god of wine and feasting.

NOTES TO BOOK TWO

[XXII.] An oracle said that the citadel of Troy would never be taken as long as the Palladium, or image of Pallas, remained in it. So Diomedes and Ulysses stole the image.

[XXXII.] Apollo had conferred on Cassandra the gift of prophecy. But she deceived him, and as he could not take away his former gift, he added as a curse that no one should ever believe her.

[XXXV.] Neoptolemus was the son of Achilles and grandson of Peleus.

[XLII.] Sigeum is the name of the promontory which juts out into the Hellespont from the Troad.