tnote 4: _The whole body._--Ver. 7. The adjective 'commune' is
here used substantively, and signifies 'the whole body.']

[Footnote 5: _Serpent seized._--Ver. 16-17. Clarke translates this
line, 'Which the snake whipt up, as also the dam flying about her
loss, and buried them in his greedy paunch.']

[Footnote 6: _On the top._--Ver. 43. 'Summaque domum sibi legit in
arce,' is translated by Clarke, 'And chooses there a house for
herself, on the very tip-top of it.']

[Footnote 7: _Protesilaues._--Ver. 68. He was the husband of
Laodamia, the daughter of Acastus. His father was Iphiclus, who
was noted for his extreme swiftness.]

[Footnote 8: _Spear of Hector._--Ver. 67. Some writers say that he
fell by the hand of AEneas.]

[Footnote 9: _Of a Nereid._--Ver. 93. Cygnus says this
sarcastically, in allusion to Achilles being born of Thetis,
a daughter of Nereus.]

[Footnote 10: _As a bull._--Ver. 103-4. Clarke translates these
lines in this comical strain: 'Achilles was as mad as a bull in
the open Circus, when he pushes at the red coat, stuffed, used on
purpose to provoke him.']

[Footnote 11: _The open Circus._--Ver. 104. We learn from Seneca,
that it was the custom in the 'venationes' of the Circus to
irritate the bull against his antagonist, by thrusting in his path
figures stuffed with straw or hay, and covered with red cloth.
Similar means are used to provoke the bull in the Spanish
bull-fights of the present day.]

[Footnote 12: _Eetionian._--Ver. 110. Eetion, the father of
Andromache, the wife of Hector, was the king of Thebes in Cilicia,
which place was ravaged by the Greeks for having sent assistance
to the Trojans.]

[Footnote 13: _Caycus._--Ver. 111. The Caycus was a river of
Mysia, in Asia Minor, which country had incurred the resentment of
the Greeks, for having assisted the Trojans.]

[Footnote 14: _Telephus._--Ver. 112. Telephus, the son of Hercules
and the Nymph Auge, was wounded in combat by Achilles. By the
direction of the oracle, he applied to Achilles for his cure,
which was effected by means of the rust of the weapon with which
the wound was made.]

[Footnote 15: _Lycian multitude._--Ver. 116. The Lycians, whose
territory was in Asia Minor, between Caria and Pamphylia, were
allies of the Trojans.]

[Footnote 16: _And dashes h