gave him the knowledge of things to come, in
recompense for his loss of sight, and alleviated his punishment by this
honor.

[Footnote 64: _Could not endure._--Ver. 308. 'Corpus mortale
tumultus Non tulit aethereos,' is rendered by Clarke, 'her mortal
body could not bear this aethereal bustle.']

[Footnote 65: _The Nyseian Nymphs._--Ver. 314. Nysa was the name
of a city and mountain of Arabia, or India. The tradition was,
that there the Nyseian Nymphs, whose names were Cysseis, Nysa,
Erato, Eryphia, Bromia, and Polyhymnia, brought up Bacchus. The
cave where he was concealed from the fury of Juno, was said to
have had two entrances, from which circumstance Bacchus received
the epithet of Dithyrites. Servius, in his commentary on the sixth
Eclogue of Virgil (l. 15), says that Nysa was the name of the
female that nursed Bacchus. Hyginus also speaks of her as being
the daughter of Oceanus. From the name 'Nysa,' Bacchus received,
in part, his Greek name 'Dionysus.']

[Footnote 66: _Twice born._--Ver. 318. Clarke thus translates and
explains this line--'They tell you, that Jupiter well drenched;'
_i.e._ 'fuddled with nectar,' etc.]

FABLE VI. [III.339-401]

Echo, having often amused Juno with her stories, to give time to
Jupiter's mistresses to make their escape, the Goddess, at last,
punishes her for the deception. She is slighted and despised by
Narcissus, with whom she falls in love.

He, much celebrated by fame throughout the cities of Aonia,[67] gave
unerring answers to the people consulting him. The azure Liriope[68] was
the first to make essay and experiment of his infallible voice; whom
once Cephisus encircled in his winding stream, and offered violence to,
{when} enclosed by his waters. The most beauteous Nymph produced an
infant from her teeming womb, which even then might have been beloved,
and she called him Narcissus. Being consulted concerning him, whether he
was destined to see the distant season of mature old age; the prophet,
expounding destiny, said, "If he never recognizes himself." Long did the
words of the soothsayer appear frivolous; {but} the event, the thing
{itself}, the manner of his death, and the novel nature of his frenzy,
confirmed it.

And now the son of Cephisus had added one to three times five years, and
he might seem to be a boy and a young man as well. Many a youth,[69] and
many a damsel, courted him; bu