madness, and was cured by
Phocus, whom she is said to have afterwards married.]

[Footnote 16: _Tirynthian._--Ver. 112. Tirynthus was a city near
Argos, where Hercules was born and educated, and from which place
his mother, Alcmene, derived her present appellation.]

[Footnote 17: _Daughter of Asopus._--Ver. 113. Jupiter changed
himself into fire, or, according to some, into an eagle, to seduce
AEgina, the daughter of Asopus, king of Boeotia. By her he was the
father of AEacus.]

[Footnote 18: _Mnemosyne._--Ver. 114. This Nymph, as already
mentioned, became the mother of the Nine Muses, having been
seduced by Jupiter.]

[Footnote 19: _Deois._--Ver. 114. Proserpine was called Deois, or
Deous +Deous kore+, from her mother Ceres, who was called +Deo+ by
the Greeks, from the verb +deo+, 'to find;' because as it was
said, when seeking for her daughter, the universal answer of those
who wished her success in her search, was, +deeis+, 'You will find
her.']

[Footnote 20: _Virgin daughter._--Ver. 116. This was Canace, or
Arne, the daughter of AEolus, whom Neptune seduced under the form
of a bull.]

[Footnote 21: _Enipeus._--Ver. 116. Under the form of Enipeus,
a river of Thessaly, Neptune committed violence upon Iphimedeia,
the wife of the giant Aloeus, and by her was the father of the
giants Otus and Ephialtes.]

[Footnote 22: _Bisaltis._--Ver. 117. Theophane was the daughter of
Bisaltis. Changing her into a sheep, and himself into a ram,
Neptune begot the Ram with the golden fleece, that bore Phryxus to
Colchis.]

[Footnote 23: _Experienced._--Ver. 119. 'Te sensit,' repeated
twice in this line, Clarke translates, not in a very elegant
manner, 'had a bout with thee,' and 'had a touch from thee.' By
Neptune, Ceres became the mother of the horse Arion; or, according
to some, of a daughter, whose name it was not deemed lawful to
mention.]

[Footnote 24: _Thee the mother._--Ver. 119. This was Medusa, who,
according to some, was the mother of the horse Pegasus, by
Neptune, though it is more generally said that it sprang from her
blood, when she was slain by Perseus.]

[Footnote 25: _Melantho._--Ver. 120. Melantho was the daughter
either of Proteus, or of Deucalion, and was the mother of Delphus,
by Neptune.]

[Footnote 26: _Isse._--Ver. 124. She was a