2] and Lycia.

And now she has left behind Cragos,[63] and Lymira,[64] and the waves of
Xanthus, and the mountain in which the Chimaera had fire in its middle
parts, the breast and the face of a lioness, and the tail of a serpent.
The woods {at length} fail thee; when thou, Byblis, wearied with
following him, dost fall down, and laying thy tresses upon the hard
ground, art silent, and dost press the fallen leaves with thy face.
Often, too, do the Lelegeian Nymphs endeavour to raise her in their
tender arms; often do they advise her to curb her passion, and they
apply consolation to a mind insensible {to their advice}. Silent does
Byblis lie, and she tears the green herbs with her nails, and waters the
grass with the stream of her tears. They say that the Naiads placed
beneath these {tears} a channel which could never become dry; and what
greater gift had they to bestow? Immediately, as drops from the cut bark
of the pitch tree, or as the viscid bitumen distils from the impregnated
earth, or as water which has frozen with the cold, at the approach of
Favonius, gently blowing, melts away in the sun, so is Byblis, the
descendant of Phoebus, dissolving in her tears, changed into a fountain,
which even now, in those vallies, bears the name of its mistress, and
flows beneath a gloomy oak.

[Footnote 46: _Every God has._--Ver. 425-6. 'Cui studeat, Deus
omnis habet crescitque favore Turbida seditio.' Clarke thus
renders these words, 'Every God has somebody to stickle for, and a
turbulent sedition arises by their favours for their darlings.']

[Footnote 47: _Son of Deione._--Ver. 442. According to some
writers, Miletus was the son of Apollo and Deione, though others
say that Thia was the name of his mother. He was the founder of
the celebrated city of Miletus, in Caria, a country of Asia
Minor.]

[Footnote 48: _Does not think._--Ver. 457. Clarke translates this
line, 'Nor does she think she does amiss that she so often tips
him a kiss.' Antoninus Liberalis says, that Eidothea, the daughter
of the king of Paria, and not Cyane, was the mother of Byblis and
Caunus.]

[Footnote 49: _Sweetheart._--Ver. 465. The word 'dominus' was
often used as a term of endearment between lovers.]

[Footnote 50: _Married Ops._--Ver. 497. Ops, the daughter of Coelus
or Uranus, who was also called Cybele, Rhea, and 'the great
Mother,' was fabled to have been the wife of