[LV.] The 'Atridan pair' were Agamemnon, king of Argos, and Menelaus, king of Sparta, the sons of Atreus.
[LVI.] Nereus was one of the chief sea-gods.
[LXI.] Andromache was the wife of Hector.
[LXIII.] Pyrrhus is the same as Neoptolemus in [stanza xxxv.]
[LXXVI.] Creusa and Iulus were the wife and son of Aeneas.