who is also
mentioned in the Metamorphoses.]

[Footnote 2: _In the cushion._--Ver. 34. This was probably the
mattress or covering of the couch on which the ancients reclined
during meals. It was frequently stuffed with wool; but among the
poorer classes, with straw and dried weeds.]

[Footnote 3: _An altar._--Ver. 36. This was either the altar
devoted to the worship of the Penates; or, more probably, perhaps,
in this instance, that erected for sacrifice to the Gods on the
occasion of the nuptials of Perseus and Andromeda.]

[Footnote 4: _Gods of hospitality._--Ver. 45. Jupiter was
especially considered to be the avenger of a violation of the laws
of hospitality.]

[Footnote 5: _Athis by name._--Ver. 47. Athis, or Atys, is here
described as of Indian birth, to distinguish him from the Phrygian
youth of the same name, beloved by Cybele, whose story is told by
Ovid in the Fasti.]

[Footnote 6: _His falchion._--Ver. 69. The "Harpe" was a short,
crooked sword, or falchion: such as we call a "scimitar."]

[Footnote 7: _Syene._--Ver. 74. This was a city on the confines of
AEthiopia, bordering upon Egypt. Ovid tells us in the Pontic
Epistles (Book i. Ep. 5, l. 79), that "there, at the time of the
summer solstice, bodies as they stand, have no shadow."]

[Footnote 8: _A huge bowl._--Ver. 82. Clarke calls "ingentem
cratera" "a swingeing bowl."]

[Footnote 9: _Sperchius._--Ver. 86. This was probably a person,
and not the river of Thessaly, flowing into the Malian Gulf.]

[Footnote 10: _Has declined the warfare._--Ver. 91. This is an
illustration of the danger of neutrality, when the necessity of
the times requires a man to adopt the side which he deems to be in
the right.]

[Footnote 11: _Clings to the altars._--Ver. 103. In cases of
extreme danger, it was usual to fly to the temples of the Deities,
and to take refuge behind the altar or statue of the God, and even
to cling to it, if necessity required.]

[Footnote 12: _A mournful dirge._--Ver. 118. Clarke translates
'Casuque canit miserabile carmen;' 'and in his fall plays but a
dismal ditty.']

[Footnote 13: _Cinyphian._--Ver. 124. Cinyps, or Cinyphus, was the
name of a river situate in the north of Africa.]

[Footnote 14: _Nasamonian land._--Ver. 129. The Nasamones were a
people of Libya, near the S