ed to have migrated thither from
Crete. They were persons of great artistic skill, on which account
they may, possibly, have obtained the character of being
magicians; such was the belief of Strabo.]

[Footnote 58: _Whose eyes._--Ver. 366. The evil eye was supposed
by the ancients not only to have certain fascinating powers, but
to be able to destroy the beauty of any object on which it was
turned.]

[Footnote 59: _Cea._--Ver. 368. This island, now Zia, is in the
AEgean sea, near Euboea. Carthaea was a city there, the ruins of
which are still in existence.]

[Footnote 60: _Alcidamas._--Ver. 369. Antoninus Liberalis says,
that Alcidamas lived not at Carthaea, but at Iuelis, another city in
the Isle of Cea.]

[Footnote 61: _Lakes of Hyrie._--Ver. 371. Hyrie was the mother of
Cycnus; and pining away with grief on the transformation of her
son, she was changed into a lake, called by her name.]

[Footnote 62: _Cycneian Tempe._--Ver. 371. This was not Thessalian
Tempe, but a valley of Teumesia, or Teumesus, a mountain of
Boeotia.]

[Footnote 63: _Pleuron._--Ver. 382. This was a city of AEtolia,
near Mount Curius. It was far distant from Boeotia and Lake Hyrie.
Some commentators, therefore, suggest that the reading should be
Brauron, a village of Attica, near the confines of Boeotia.]

[Footnote 64: _Combe._--Ver. 383. She was the mother of the
Curetes of AEtolia, who, perhaps, received that name from Mount
Curius. There was another Combe, the daughter of Asopus, who
discovered the use of brazen arms, and was called Chalcis, from
that circumstance. She was said to have borne a hundred daughters
to her husband.]

[Footnote 65: _Calaurea._--Ver. 384. This was an island between
Crete and the Peloponnesus, in the Saronic gulf, which was sacred
to Apollo. Latona resided there, having given Delos to Neptune in
exchange for it. Demosthenes died there.]

[Footnote 66: _Menephron._--Ver. 386. Hyginus says, that he
committed incest both with his mother Blias, and with Cyllene, his
daughter.]

[Footnote 67: _Cephisus._--Ver. 388. The river Cephisus, in
Boeotia, had a daughter, Praxithea. She was the wife of Erectheus,
and bore him eight sons, the fate of one of whom is perhaps here
referred to.]

[Footnote 68: _Eumelus._--Ver. 390. He was the king of Patrae, on