ush, beholds the hostile noses of the dogs, and dares
not make a single movement with her body? Yet he does not depart; for no
{further} does he trace any prints of my feet. He watches the cloud and
the spot. A cold perspiration takes possession of my limbs {thus}
besieged, and azure colored drops distil from all my body. Wherever I
move my foot, {there} flows a lake; drops trickle from my hair, and, in
less time than I take in acquainting thee with my fate, I was changed
into a stream. But still the river recognized the waters, the objects of
his love; and, having laid aside the shape of a mortal, which he had
assumed, he was changed into his own waters, that he might mingle with
me. {Thereupon}, the Delian Goddess cleaved the ground. Sinking, I was
carried through dark caverns to Ortygia,[77] which, being dear to me,
from the surname of my own Goddess, was the first to introduce me to the
upper air.'"

[Footnote 71: _Stream of Elis._--Ver. 576. The Alpheus really rose
in Arcadia; but, as it ran through the territory of the Eleans,
and discharged itself into the sea, near Cyllene, the seaport of
that people, they worshipped it with divine honors.]

[Footnote 72: _Stymphalian._--Ver. 585. Stymphalus was the name of
a city, mountain, and river of Arcadia, near the territory of
Elis.]

[Footnote 73: _Hoary willows._--Ver. 590. The leaf of the willow
has a whitish hue, especially on one side of it.]

[Footnote 74: _Orchomenus._--Ver. 607. This was a city of Arcadia,
in a marshy district, near to Mantinea. There was another place of
the same name, in Boeotia, between Elatea and Coronea, famous for a
splendid temple to the Graces, there erected.]

[Footnote 75: _Psophis._--Ver. 607. This was a city of Arcadia
also, adjoining to the Elean territory, which received its name
from Psophis, the daughter of Lycaon, or of Eryx, according to
some writers. There were several other towns of the same name.
The other places here mentioned, with the exception of Elis, were
mountains of Arcadia.]

[Footnote 76: _Ho, Arethusa!_--Ver. 625-6. Clarke thus translates
these lines:--'And twice called out Soho, Arethusa! Soho,
Arethusa! What thought had I then, poor soul!']

[Footnote 77: _To Ortygia._--Ver. 640. From the similarity of its
name to that of the Goddess Diana, who was called Ortygia, from
the Isle of Delos, where she was born.