e, did I behold this
beard, green with its deep colour, and my flowing hair, which I sweep
along the spacious seas, and my huge shoulders, and my azurecoloured
arms, and the extremities of my legs tapering in {the form of} a finny
fish. But still, what does this form avail me, what to have pleased the
ocean Deities, {and} what to be a God, if thou art not moved by these
things?"

As he was saying such things as these, and about to say still more,
Scylla left the God. He was enraged, and, provoked at the repulse, he
repaired to the marvellous court of Circe, the daughter of Titan.

[Footnote 77: _Ceases._--Ver. 898. 'Desierat Galatea loqui,' is
translated by Clarke, 'Galatea gave over talking.']

[Footnote 78: _Anthedon._--Ver. 905. Anthedon was a maritime city
of Boeotia, only separated from the Island of Euboea, by the narrow
strait of the Euripus.]

EXPLANATION.

The ancient writers mention three persons of the name of Glaucus:
one was the son of Minos, the second of Hippolochus, and the third
is the one here mentioned. Strabo calls him the son of Polybus,
while other writers make him to have been the son of Phorbas, and
others of Neptune. Being drowned, perhaps by accident, to do honour
to his memory, it was promulgated that he had become a sea God, and
the city of Anthedon, of which he was a native, worshipped him as
such.

Athenaeus says that he carried off Ariadne from the isle of Naxos,
where Theseus had left her; on which Bacchus punished him by binding
him to a vine. According to Diodorus Siculus, he appeared to the
Argonauts, when overtaken by a storm. From Apollonius Rhodius we
learn that he foretold to them that Hercules, and Castor and Pollux,
would be received into the number of the Gods. It was also said,
that in the battle which took place between Jason and the
Tyrrhenians, he was the only person that escaped unwounded.
Euripides, who is followed by Pausanias, says that he was the
interpreter of Nereus, and was skilled in prophecy; and Nicander
even says that it was from him that Apollo learned the art of
prediction. Strabo and Philostratus say that he was metamorphosed
into a Triton, which is a-kin to the description of his appearance
here given by Ovid.

The place where he leaped into the sea was long remembered; and in
the days of Pausanias 'Glaucus' Leap' was still pointed out by the
people of Anthedon. It is not improb