avoid these, and together with these, all kinds of wild beasts
which turn not their backs in flight, but their breasts to the fight;
lest thy courage should be fatal to us both."

[Footnote 52: _Pleases even Venus._--Ver. 524. According to
Apollodorus, Venus had caused Myrrha to imbibe her infamous
passion, because she had treated the worship of that Goddess with
contempt.]

[Footnote 53: _Cnidos._--Ver. 531. This was a city of Caria,
situate on a promontory. Strangers resorted thither, to behold a
statue of Venus there, which was made by Praxiteles.]

[Footnote 54: _Carry lightning._--Ver. 551. The lightning shock
seems to be attributed to the wild boar, from the vehemence with
which he strikes down every impediment in his way.]

[Footnote 55: _Purple hangings._--Ver. 595. Curtains, or hangings,
called 'aulaea,' were used by the ancients to ornament their halls,
sitting rooms, and bed chambers. In private houses they were also
sometimes hung as coverings over doors, and in the interior, as
substitutes for them. In the palace of the Roman emperors,
a slave, called 'velarius,' was posted at each of the principal
doors, to raise the curtain when any one passed through. Window
curtains were also used by the Romans, while they were employed in
the temples, to veil the statue of the Divinity. Ovid here speaks
of them as being of purple colour; while Lucretius mentions them
as being of yellow, red, and rusty hue.]

[Footnote 56: _Last course is run._--Ver. 597. Among the Romans,
the race consisted of seven rounds of the Circus, or rather
circuits of the 'spina,' or wall, in the midst of it, at each end
of which was the 'meta,' or goal. Livy and Dio Cassius speak of
seven conical balls, resembling eggs, which were called 'ova,' and
were placed upon the 'spina.' Their use was to enable the
spectators to count the number of rounds which had been run, for
which reason they were seven in number; and as each round was run,
one of the 'ova' was put up, or, according to Varro, taken down.
The form of the egg was adopted in honour of Castor and Pollux,
who were said to have been produced from eggs. The words
'novissima meta' here mean either 'the last part of the course,'
or, possibly, 'the last time round the course.']

[Footnote 57: _Onchestius his._--Ver. 605. But Hyginus says that