fore thou shalt have the enjoyment of me." She answers
nothing but "Have the enjoyment of me." {Thus} rejected, she lies hid in
the woods, and hides her blushing face with green leaves, and from that
time lives in lonely caves; but yet her love remains, and increases from
the mortification of her refusal. Watchful cares waste away her
miserable body; leanness shrivels her skin, and all the juices of her
body fly off in air. Her voice and her bones alone are left.

Her voice {still} continues, {but} they say that her bones received the
form of stones. Since then, she lies concealed in the woods, and is
never seen on the mountains: {but} is heard in all {of them}. It is her
voice {alone} which remains alive in her.

[Footnote 67: _Aonia._--Ver. 339. Aonia was a mountainous district
of Boeotia, so called from Aon, the son of Neptune, who reigned
there. The name is often used to signify the whole of Boeotia.]

[Footnote 68: _Liriope._--Ver. 342. She was the daughter of
Oceanus and Tethys, and was the mother of the youth Narcissus, by
the river Cephisus. Her name is derived from the Greek +leirion+,
'a lily.']

[Footnote 69: _Many a youth._--Ver. 353. Clarke translates 'multi
juvenes,' 'many young fellows.']

[Footnote 70: _Used to detain._--Ver. 364. Clarke translates 'Illa
Deam longo prudens sermone tenebat Dum fugerent Nymphae,' 'She
designedly detained the Goddess with some long-winded discourse or
other till the Nymphs ran away.' He translates 'garrula,' in line
360, 'the prattling hussy.']

[Footnote 71: _Narcissus._--Ver. 370. This name is from the Greek
word +narkan+, 'to fade away,' which was characteristic of the
youth's career, and of the duration of the flower.]

[Footnote 72: _Sulphur spread around._--Ver. 372. These lines
show, that it was the custom of the ancients to place sulphur on
the ends of their torches, to make them ignite the more readily,
in the same manner as the matches of the present day are tipped
with that mineral.]

[Footnote 73: _Rushing from the woods._--Ver. 388. 'Egressaque
sylvis.' Clarke renders, 'and bouncing out of the wood.']

EXPLANATION.

It appears much more reasonable to attempt the explanation of this
story on the grounds of natural philosophy than of history. The poets,
in their fondness for basing every subject upon fiction, probably
invented the fable, to explai