[L. 202.] Il. xxiv. 602.
[L. 203.] Accents de douleurs would, in prose, be accents de douleur, without the s, which is here put that, as douleurs rhymes with pleurs, the eye may be satisfied.
[L. 204.] Od. xix. 518; Virgil, Ecl. vi. 78.
[L. 208.] Od. iv. 220.
[L. 209.] Od. x. 304.
[Ll. 210-212.] Od. ix. 94. See Tennyson's Lotos Eaters.
[L. 211.] à ce philtre charmés, an instance of à denoting a relation of cause—'Qui demeure surprise à l'éclat de ces lieux,' Molière, Psyché, III. i. 988. See Haase, § 123.
[L. 212] Od. ix. 54.
[L. 214.] Od. xxi. 295; Il. i. 266, ii. 742; Ovid, Met. xii. 210. Chénier follows Ovid.
[L. 217.] enfants de la nue. The Centaurs were descended from Ixion and Nephele, the cloud.