ising and setting of this
Constellation were supposed to produce showers.]

[Footnote 88: _Taygete._--Ver. 594. She was one of the Pleiades,
the daughters of Atlas, who were placed among the Constellations.]

[Footnote 89: _Hyades._--Ver. 594. These were the Dodonides, or
nurses of Bacchus, whom Jupiter, as a mark of his favor, placed in
the number of the Constellations. Their name is derived from
+huein+, 'to rain.']

[Footnote 90: _Dia._--Ver. 596. This was another name of the Isle
of Naxos. Gierig thinks that the reading here is neither 'Diae' nor
'Chiae,' which are the two common readings; as the situation of
neither the Isle of Naxos nor that of Chios, would suit the course
of the ship, as stated in the text. He thinks that the Isle of
Ceos, or Cea, is meant, which Ptolemy calls +Kia+, and which he
thinks ought here to be written 'Ciae.']

[Footnote 91: _Epopeus._--Ver. 619. He was the +keleustes+,
'pausarius,' or keeper of time for the rowers.]

[Footnote 92: _A dreadful murder._--Ver. 626. They seem to have
been composed of much the same kind of lawless materials that
formed the daring crews of the buccanier Morgan and Captain Kydd
in more recent times.]

[Footnote 93: _Naxos._--Ver. 636. This was the most famous island
of the group of the Cyclades.]

[Footnote 94: _Ivy impeded the oars._--Ver. 664. Hyginus tells us,
that Bacchus changed the oars into thyrsi, the sails into clusters
of grapes, and the rigging into ivy branches. In the Homeric hymn
on this subject we find the ship flowing with wine, vines growing
on the sails, ivy twining round the mast, and the benches wreathed
with chaplets.]

[Footnote 95: _To a long story._--Ver. 692. Clarke renders this
line, 'We have lent our ears to a long tale of a tub.']

[Footnote 96: _Cithaeron._--Ver. 702. This was a mountain of
Boeotia, famous for the orgies of Bacchus there celebrated.]

[Footnote 97: _My two sisters._--Ver. 713. These were Ino and
Autonoe.]

[Footnote 98: _Ghost of Actaeon._--Ver. 720. He appeals to Autonoe,
the mother of Actaeon, to remember the sad fate of her own son, and
to show him some mercy; but in vain: for, as one commentator on
the passage says, 'Drunkenness had taken away both her reason and
her memory.']

EXPLANATION.

Cicero mentions two Deities of the name of Ba