rom Minyas, the son of Orchomenus.]

[Footnote 2: _Pagasaean ship._--Ver. 1. Pagasae was a seaport of
Thessaly, at the foot of Mount Pelion, where the ship Argo was
built.]

[Footnote 3: _Distressed old man._--Ver. 4. Clarke translates
'miseri senis ore,' 'from the mouth of the miserable old fellow.']

[Footnote 4: _Daughter of AEetes._--Ver. 9. Medea was the daughter
of AEetes, the king of Colchis. Juno, favoring Jason, had persuaded
Venus to inspire Medea with love for him.]

[Footnote 5: _Haste then._--Ver. 47. Clarke translates
'accingere,' more literally than elegantly, 'buckle to.']

[Footnote 6: _Pelasgian cities._--Ver. 49. Pelasgia was properly
that part of Greece which was afterwards called Thessaly. The
province of Pelasgiotis, in Thessaly, afterwards retained its
name, which was derived from the Pelasgi, an early people of
Greece. Pliny informs us that Peloponnesus at first had the names
of 'Apia' and 'Pelasgia.' Some suppose that the Pelasgi derived
their name from Pelasgus, the son of Jupiter; while other writers
assert that they were so called from +pelargoi+, 'storks,' from
their wandering habits. The name is frequently used, as in the
present instance, to signify the whole of the Greeks.]

[Footnote 7: _My sister._--Ver. 51. Her sister was Chalciope, who
had married Phryxus, after his arrival in Colchis. Her children
being found by Jason, in the isle of Dia, they came with him to
Colchis, and presented him to their mother, who afterwards
commended him to the care of Medea.]

[Footnote 8: _And my brother._--Ver. 51. Her brother was Absyrtus,
whose tragical death is afterwards mentioned.]

[Footnote 9: _Is barbarous._--Ver. 53. It was certainly 'barbara'
in the eyes of a Greek; but the argument sounds rather oddly in
the mouth of Medea, herself a native of the country.]

[Footnote 10: _The youth of Greece._--Ver. 56. These were the
Argonauts, who were selected from the most noble youths of
Greece.]

[Footnote 11: _What mountains._--Ver. 63. These were the Cyanean
rocks, or Symplegades, at the mouth of the Euxine sea.]

[Footnote 12: _Hecate._--Ver. 74. Ancient writers seem to have
been much divided in opinion who Hecate was. Ovid here follows the
account which made her to be the daughter of Perses, who,
according to Diodorus Siculus, was t