many swords stretching forth his pale
arms, he says, "What are you doing, my daughters? What arms you against
the life of your parent?" Their courage and their hands fail {them}. As
he is about to say more, the Colchian severs his throat, together with
his words, and plunges him, {thus} mangled, in the boiling cauldron.

[Footnote 20: _Of the triple form._--Ver. 177. Hecate, the Goddess
of enchantment.]

[Footnote 21: _With bare feet._--Ver. 183. To have the feet bare
was esteemed requisite for the due performance of magic rites,
though sometimes on such occasions, and probably in the present
instance, only one foot was left unshod. In times of drought,
according to Tertullian, a procession and ceremonial, called
'nudipedalia,' were resorted to, with a view to propitiate the
Gods by this token of grief and humiliation.]

[Footnote 22: _Three-faced Hecate._--Ver. 194. Though Hecate and
the Moon are here mentioned as distinct, they are frequently
considered to have been the same Deity, with different attributes.
The three heads with which Hecate was represented were those of a
horse, a dog, and a pig, or sometimes, in the place of the latter,
a human head.]

[Footnote 23: _Temesaean._--Ver. 207. Temesa was a town of the
Brutii, on the coast of Etruria, famous for its copper mines. It
was also sometimes called Tempsa. There was also another Temesa,
a city of Cyprus, also famous for its copper.]

[Footnote 24: _Chalky regions._--Ver. 223. Such was the
characteristic of the mountainous country of Thessaly, where she
now alighted.]

[Footnote 25: _Brazen sickle._--Ver. 227. We learn from Macrobius
and Caelius Rhodiginus that copper was preferred to iron in cutting
herbs for the purposes of enchantment, in exorcising spirits, and
in aiding the moon in eclipses against the supposed charms of the
witches, because it was supposed to be a purer metal.]

[Footnote 26: _Apidanus._--Ver. 228. This and Amphrysus were
rivers of Thessaly.]

[Footnote 27: _Shores of Boebe._--Ver. 231. Strabo makes mention of
lake Boebeis, near the town of Boebe, in Thessaly. It was not far
from the mouth of the river Peneus.]

[Footnote 28: _Anthedon._--Ver. 232. This was a town of Boeotia,
opposite to Euboea, being situated on the Euripus, now called the
straits of Negropont.]

[Footnote 29: _Glauc