. Tzetzes informs us
that she was found by her husband in company with a young man
named Pteleon, who had made her a present of a golden wreath.
Antoninus Liberalis says, that her husband tried her fidelity by
offering her a bribe, through the medium of a slave.]

[Footnote 112: _Used to wander._--Ver. 746. Some writers say that
she fled to Crete, on which, Diana, who was aware of the
attachment of Aurora for her husband, made her a present of a
javelin, which no person could escape; and gave her the dog
Laelaps, which no wild beast could outrun. Such is the version
given by Hyginus. But Apollodorus and Antoninus Liberalis say,
that she fled to Minos, who, prevailing over her virtue, made her
a present of the dog and the javelin. Afterwards, presenting
herself before her husband, disguised as a huntress, she gave him
proofs of the efficacy of them; and upon his requesting her to
give them to him, she exacted, as a condition, what must,
apparently, have resulted in a breach of the laws of conjugal
fidelity. On his assenting to the proposal, she discovered
herself, and afterwards made him the presents which he desired.]

[Footnote 113: _The son of Laius._--Ver. 759. Oedipus was the son
of Laius, king of Thebes. The Sphinx was a monster, the offspring
of Typhon and Echidna, which haunted a mountain near Thebes. Oedipus
solved the riddle which it proposed for solution, on which the
monster precipitated itself from a rock. It had the face of a
woman, the wings of a bird, and the extremities of a lion.]

[Footnote 114: _Genial Themis._--Ver. 762. Themis had a very
ancient oracle in Boeotia.]

[Footnote 115: _Gortynian bow._--Ver. 778. Crete was called
Gortynian, from Gortys or Gortyna, one of its cities, which was
famous for the skill of its inhabitants in archery.]

[Footnote 116: _The wild beast._--Ver. 782. Antoninus Liberalis
and Apollodorus say that this was a fox, which was called 'the
Teumesian,' from Teumesus, a mountain of Boeotia, and that the
Thebans, to appease its voracity, were wont to give it a child to
devour every month. Palaephatus says that it was not a wild beast,
but a man called Alopis.]

EXPLANATION.

There were two princes of the name of Cephalus; one, the son of
Mercury and Herse, the daughter of Cecrops; the other, the son of
Deioneus, king of Ph