es stand unmoved in her sad
cheeks; in her form there is no {appearance} of life. Her tongue itself,
too, congeals within, together with her hardened palate, and the veins
cease to be able to be moved. Her neck can neither be bent, nor can her
arms give any motion, nor her feet move. Within her entrails, too, it is
stone.

Still did she weep on; and, enveloped in a hurricane of mighty wind, she
was borne away to her native land. There, fixed on the top of a
mountain,[44] she dissolves; and even yet does the marble distil tears.

[Footnote 31: _Had known her._--Ver. 148. This was the more
likely, as Tantalus, the father of Niobe, was king of both Phrygia
and Lydia.]

[Footnote 32: _Sipylus._--Ver. 149. This was the name of both a
city and a mountain of Lydia.]

[Footnote 33: _Go all of you._--Ver. 159. Clarke renders the words
'Ismenides, ite frequentes,' 'Go, ye Theban ladies in general.']

[Footnote 34: _Sister of the Pleiades._--Ver. 174. Taygete, one of
the Pleiades, was the mother of Niobe.]

[Footnote 35: _As my father-in-law._--Ver. 176. Because Jupiter
was the father of her husband, Amphion.]

[Footnote 36: _Seven daughters._--Ver. 182. Tzetzes enumerates
fourteen daughters of Niobe, and gives their names.]

[Footnote 37: _When in travail._--Ver. 187. She alludes to the
occasion on which Latona fled from the serpent Python, which Juno,
in her jealousy, had sent against her; and when Delos, which had
hitherto been a floating island, became immovable, for the
convenience of Latona, in labor with Apollo and Diana. That island
was said to have received its name from the Greek, +delos+,
'manifest,' or 'appearing,' from having risen to the surface of
the sea on that occasion.]

[Footnote 38: _Like her father's._--Ver. 213. Latona alludes to
one of the crimes of Tantalus, the father of Niobe, who was
accused of having indiscreetly divulged the secrets of the Gods.]

[Footnote 39: _Gives rein._--Ver. 230. This was done with the
intention of making his escape.]

[Footnote 40: _Glowing with oil._--Ver. 241. Clarke renders this
line, 'Were gone to the juvenile work of neat wrestling.' It would
be hard to say what 'neat' wrestling is. He seems not to have
known, that the 'Palaestra' was called 'nitida,' as shining with
the oil which the wrestlers used for making their limbs supple,
and