10. TOPMOST GARGARUS. A Latinism, cf. summus mons.
12. TROAS. The Troad (Troas) was the district surrounding Troy.
ILION=Ilium, another name for Troy.
14. CROWN=chief ornament.
22-23. O MOTHER IDA—DIE. Mr. Stedman, in his Victorian Poets, devotes a valuable chapter to the discussion of Tennyson's relation to Theocritus, both in sentiment and form. "It is in the Oenone that we discover Tennyson's earliest adaptation of that refrain, which was a striking beauty of the pastoral elegiac verse;
"'O mother Ida, hearken ere I die,'
"is the analogue of (Theocr. II).
"'See thou; whence came my love, O lady Moon,' etc.
"Throughout the poem the Syracusan manner and feeling are strictly and nobly maintained." Note, however, the modernisation already referred to.
MOTHER IDA. The Greeks constantly personified Nature, and attributed a separate individual life to rivers, mountains, etc. Wordsworth's Excursion, Book IV., might be read in illustration, especially from the line beginning—