bor.]

[Footnote 61: _Ixion._--Ver. 461. Being advanced by Jupiter to
heaven, he presumed to make an attempt on Juno. Jupiter, to
deceive him, formed a cloud in her shape, on which Ixion begot the
Centaurs. He was cast into Tartarus, and was there fastened to a
wheel, which turned round incessantly.]

[Footnote 62: _Iris._--Ver. 480. Iris was the daughter of Thaumas
and Electra, and the messenger of Juno. She was the Goddess of the
Rainbow.]

[Footnote 63: _Tisiphone._--Ver. 481. Clarke translates 'Tisiphone
importuna,' 'the plaguy Tisiphone.']

[Footnote 64: _Echidna._--Ver. 501. This word properly means,
'a female viper;' but it here refers to the Hydra, or dragon of
the marsh of Lerna, which Hercules slew. It was fabled to be
partly a woman, and partly a serpent, and to have been begotten by
Typhon. According to some accounts, this monster had seven heads.]

[Footnote 65: _Dashes in pieces._--Ver. 519. Euripides and Hyginus
relate, that Athamas slew his son while hunting; and Apollodorus
says, that he mistook him for a stag.]

[Footnote 66: _Thy foster-child._--Ver. 524. Bacchus was the
foster-child of Ino, who was the sister of his mother Semele. The
remaining portion of the story of Ino and Melicerta is again
related by Ovid in the sixth book of the Fasti.]

[Footnote 67: _There is a rock._--Ver. 525. Pausanias calls this
the Molarian rock, and says, that it was one of the Scironian
rocks, near Megara, in Attica. It was a branch of the Geranian
mountain.]

[Footnote 68: _And her burden._--Ver. 530. This was her son
Melicerta, who, according to Pausanias, was received by dolphins,
and was landed by them on the isthmus of Corinth.]

[Footnote 69: _Guiltless granddaughter._--Ver. 531. Venus was the
grandmother of Ino, inasmuch as Hermione, or Harmonia, the wife of
Cadmus, was the daughter of Mars and Venus.]

[Footnote 70: _Boundless Ionian sea._--Ver. 535. The Ionian sea
must be merely mentioned here as a general name for the broad
expanse of waters, of which the Saronic gulf, into which the
Molarian rock projected, formed part. Ovid may, however, mean to
say that Ino threw herself from some rock in the Ionian sea, and
not from the Molarian rock; following, probably, the account of
some other writer, whose works are lost.]

[Footnote 71: _Grecian