tender lime-trees, nor yet
the beech, and the virgin laurel,[12] and the brittle hazels, and the
oak, adapted for making spears, and the fir without knots, and the holm
bending beneath its acorns, and the genial plane-tree,[13] and the
parti-coloured maple,[14] and, together with them, the willows growing
by the rivers, and the watery lotus, and the evergreen box, and the
slender tamarisks, and the two-coloured myrtle, and the tine-tree,[15]
with its azure berries.

You, too, the ivy-trees, with your creeping tendrils, came, and
together, the branching vines, and the elms clothed with vines; the
ashes, too, and the pitch-trees, and the arbute, laden with its blushing
fruit, and the bending palm,[16] the reward of the conqueror; the pine,
too, with its tufted foliage,[17] and bristling at the top, pleasing to
the Mother of the Gods; since for this the Cybeleian Attis put off the
human form, and hardened into that trunk.

[Footnote 10: _Tree of Chaonia._--Ver. 90. This was the oak, for
the growth of which Chaonia, a province of Epirus, was famous.]

[Footnote 11: _Grove of the Heliades._--Ver. 91. He alludes to the
poplars, into which tree, as we have already seen, the Heliades,
or daughters of the sun, were changed after the death of Phaeton.]

[Footnote 12: _Virgin laurel._--Ver. 92. The laurel is so styled
from the Virgin Daphne, who refused to listen to the solicitations
of Apollo.]

[Footnote 13: _Genial plane-tree._--Ver. 95. The plane tree was
much valued by the ancients, as affording, by its extending
branches, a pleasant shade to festive parties. Virgil says, in the
Fourth Book of the Georgics, line 146, 'Atque ministrantem
platanum potantibus umbram,' 'And the plane-tree that gives its
shade for those that carouse.']

[Footnote 14: _Parti-coloured maple._--Ver. 95. The grain of the
maple being of a varying colour, it was much valued by the
ancients, for the purpose of making articles of furniture.]

[Footnote 15: _The tine tree._--Ver. 98. The 'tinus,' or 'tine
tree,' according to Pliny the Elder, was a wild laurel, with green
berries.]

[Footnote 16: _The bending palm._--Ver. 102. The branches of the
palm were remarkable for their flexibility, while no
superincumbent weight could break them. On this account they were
considered as emblematical of victory.]

[Footnote 17: _Tufted foliage._--Ver. 103. Th