nd, wondrous event! a youth
suddenly emerged, as far as the midriff, having his new-made horns
encircled with twining reeds. And he, but that he was of larger stature,
and azure in all his features, was Acis {still}. But, even then, still
it was Acis, changed into a river; and the stream has since retained
that ancient name."

[Footnote 68: _The Phaeacians._--Ver. 719. The Phaeacians were the
people of the Island of Corcyra (now Corfu), who were so called
from Phaeax, the son of Neptune. This island was famous for the
gardens of Alcinoues, which are mentioned in the Odyssey. The
Corcyrans were the originators of the disastrous Peloponnesian
war.]

[Footnote 69: _Buthrotos._--Ver. 721. This was a city of Epirus,
not far from Corcyra. It received its name from its founder.]

[Footnote 70: _Galatea._--Ver. 738. She was a sea Nymph, the
daughter of Nereus and Doris.]

[Footnote 71: _Daughter of Crataeis._--Ver. 749. Crataeis was a
river of Calabria, in Italy. Symaethis was a stream of Sicily,
opposite to Calabria.]

[Footnote 72: _The pine tree._--Ver. 782. By way of corroborating
this assertion, Boccaccio tells us, that the body of Polyphemus
was found in Sicily, his left hand grasping a walking-stick longer
than the mast of a ship.]

[Footnote 73: _Fairer than._--Ver. 789. This song of Polyphemus
is, in some measure, imitated from that of the Cyclop, in the
Eleventh Idyll of Theocritus.]

[Footnote 74: _Snow-white privet._--Ver. 789. Hesiod says, that
Galatea had her name from her extreme fairness; +gala+ being the
Greek word for milk. To this the Poet here alludes.]

[Footnote 75: _Arbute tree._--Ver. 820. The fruit of the arbutus,
or strawberry tree, were so extremely sour, that they were called,
as Pliny the Elder tells us, 'unedones;' because people could not
eat more than one. The tree itself was valued for the beauty and
pleasing shade of its foliage.]

[Footnote 76: _My figure._--Ver. 841. Virgil and Theocritus also
represent Polyphemus as boasting of his good looks.]

EXPLANATION.

Homer, who, in the ninth Book of the Odyssey, has entered fully into
the subject of Polyphemus and the other Cyclops, does not recount
this adventure, which Ovid has borrowed from Theocritus, the
Sicilian poet. Some writers have suggested that Acis was a Sicilian
youth, who, having met with a