by Clarke.]--TR.

14. This simile is derived from one of the most familiar sights among
a simple people. It is extremely natural, and its propriety will be
peculiarly striking to those who have had occasion to see a yoke of
oxen plowing in a hot day.--FELTON.

15. [Achilles.]

16. [This, according to Eustathius, is the import of {amoiboi}.--See
Iliad III., in which Priam relates an expedition of his into that
country.]--TR.

Footnotes for Book XIV:
1. The beauty of this simile will be lost to those who have never been
at sea during a calm. The water is then not quite motionless, but
swells gently in smooth waves, which fluctuate in a balancing
motion, until a rising wind gives them a certain determination.
Every circumstance of the comparison is just, as well as beautiful.

2. Anointing the body with perfumed oil was a remarkable part of
ancient cosmetics. It was probably an eastern invention, agreeable
to the luxury of the Asiatics.

3. A footstool was considered a mark of honor.

4. In accordance with the doctrine of Thales the Milesian, that all
things are generated from water, and nourished by the same element.

5. [Hercules.]

6. Night was venerated, both for her antiquity and power.

7. [One of the heads of Ida.]

8. A bird about the size of a hawk, and entirely black.

9. By Juno is understood the air, and it is allegorically said that
she was nourished by the vapors that rise from the ocean and the
earth. Tethys being the same as Rhea.

10. [Europa.]

11. An evident allusion to the ether and the atmosphere.--E.P.P.

Footnotes for Book XV:
1. [The translator seizes the opportunity afforded to him by this
remarkable passage, to assure his readers who are not readers of
the original, that the discipline which Juno is here said to have
suffered from the hands of Jove, is not his own invention. He found
it in the original, and considering fidelity as his indispensable
duty, has not attempted to soften or to refine away the matter. He
begs that this observation may be adverted to as often as any
passage shall occur in which ancient practices or customs, not
consonant to our own, either in point of delicacy or humanity, may
be either expressed or alluded to.

He makes this request the rather, because on these occasions Mr.
Pope has observed a different conduct, suppressing all such images
as he had reason to suppose m