[XXIX.] Camers was king of Amyclae. See note on [Book X. stanza lxxvii.]
[XLV.] The story of Dolon is taken from the Iliad. He offered to spy upon the movements of the Greeks if Hector would give him the chariot and horses of Achilles. He was however captured and slain by Diomedes (Tydides).
[LII.] 'Paeon': a name used of Apollo as the Healer.
[LXIX.] 'Cupencus' was the name given by the Sabines to the priests of Hercules.
[XCI.] Athos: the mountain at the extreme end of the peninsula between Thrace and Thessaly. Mount Eryx is in the north-west of Sicily.