the sea-coast of Achaia. Triptolemus visited him with his winged
chariot; on which, Antheas, the son of Eumelus, ascended it while
his father was sleeping, and falling from it, he was killed. He
is, probably, here referred to; and the reading should be 'natum,'
and not 'natam.' Some writers, however, suppose that his daughter
was changed into a bird.]

[Footnote 69: _Pirenian Ephyre._--Ver. 391. Corinth was so called
from Ephyre, the daughter of Neptune, who was said to have lived
there. Its inhabitants were fabled to have sprung from mushrooms.]

[Footnote 70: _Titanian dragons._--Ver. 398. Her dragons are so
called, either because, as Pindar says, they had sprung from the
blood of the Titans, or because, according to the Greek tradition,
the chariot and winged dragons had been sent to Medea by the Sun,
one of whose names was Titan.]

[Footnote 71: _Phineus._--Ver. 399. Any further particulars of the
person here named are unknown. Some commentators suggest 'Phini,'
and that some female of the name of Phinis is alluded to, making
the adjective 'justissime' of the feminine gender.]

[Footnote 72: _Periphas._--Ver. 400. He was a very ancient king of
Attica, before the time of Cecrops, and was said to have been
changed into an eagle by Jupiter, while his wife was transformed
into an osprey.]

[Footnote 73: _Polypemon._--Ver. 401. This was a name of the
robber Procrustes, who was slain by Theseus. Halcyone, the
daughter of his son Scyron, having been guilty of incontinence,
was thrown into the sea by her father, on which she was changed
into a kingfisher, which bore her name.]

EXPLANATION.

Jason being reconciled to the children of Pelias, gave the crown to
his son Acastus. Becoming tired of Medea, he married Glauce, or
Creuesa, the daughter of Creon, king of Corinth. Medea, hastening to
that place, left her two sons in the temple of Juno, and set fire to
Creon's palace, where he and his daughter were consumed to ashes,
after which she killed her own children. Euripides, in his tragedy of
Medea, makes a chorus of Corinthian women say, that the Corinthians
themselves committed the murder, and that the Gods sent a plague on
the city, as a punishment for the deed. Pausanias also says, that the
tomb of Medea's children, whom the Corinthians stoned to death, was
still to be seen in his tim