yrtes, or quicksands, who subsisted by
plundering the numerous wrecks on their coasts.]

[Footnote 15: _Bactrian._--Ver. 135. Bactris was the chief city of
Bactria, a region bordering on the western confines of India.]

[Footnote 16: _The Mendesian._--Ver. 144. Mendes was a city of
Egypt, near the mouth of the Nile, where Pan was worshipped,
according to Pliny. Celadon was a native of either this place, or
of the city of Myndes, in Syria.]

[Footnote 17: _Now deceived._--Ver. 147. Because he had not
foreseen his own approaching fate.]

[Footnote 18: _Bellona._--Ver. 155. She was the sister of Mars,
and was the Goddess of War.]

[Footnote 19: _Chaonian._--Ver. 163. Chaonia was a mountainous
part of Epirus, so called from Chaon, who was accidentally killed,
while hunting, by Helenus, the son of Priam. It has been, however,
suggested that the reading ought to be 'Choanius;' as the Choanii
were a people bordering on Arabia; and very justly, for how should
the Chaonians and Nabathaeans, or Epirotes, and Arabians become
united in the same sentence, as meeting in a region so distant as
AEthiopia?]

[Footnote 20: _Cyllenian._--Ver. 176. His falchion had been given
to him by Mercury, who was born on Mount Cyllene, in Arcadia.]

[Footnote 21: _Eryx rebuked them._--Ver. 195. 'Increpat hos Eryx'
is translated by Clarke, 'Eryx rattles these blades.']

[Footnote 22: _Proetus._--Ver. 238. He was the brother of Acrisius,
the grandfather of Perseus.]

EXPLANATION.

The scene of this story is supposed by some to have been in AEthiopia,
but it is more probably on the coast of Africa. Josephus and Strabo
assert that this event happened near the city of Joppa, or Jaffa:
indeed, Josephus says that the marks of the chains with which
Andromeda was fastened, were remaining on the rock in his time.
Pomponius Mela says, that Cepheus, the father of Andromeda, was king
of Joppa, and that the memory of that prince and of his brother
Phineus was honored there with religious services. He says, too, that
the inhabitants used to show the bones of the monster which was to
have devoured Andromeda. Pliny tells us the same, and that Scaurus
carried these bones with him to Rome. He calls the monster 'a
Goddess,' 'Dea Cete.' Vossius believes that he means the God Dagon,
worshipped among the Syrians under the figure of a f