s, and her feet, she meets with Cerberean jaws in place
of those parts. The fury of the dogs {still} continues, and the backs of
savage {monsters} lying beneath her groin, cut short, and her prominent
stomach, {still} adhere to them.

Glaucus, {still} in love, bewailed {her}, and fled from an alliance with
Circe, who had {thus} too hostilely employed the potency of herbs.
Scylla remained on that spot; and, at the first moment that an
opportunity was given, in her hatred of Circe, she deprived Ulysses of
his companions. Soon after, the same {Scylla} would have overwhelmed the
Trojan ships, had she not been first transformed into a rock, which even
now is prominent with its crags; {this} rock the sailor, too, avoids.

[Footnote 1: _Rhegium._--Ver. 5. Rhegium was a city of Calabria,
opposite to the coast of Sicily.]

[Footnote 2: _Venus offended._--Ver. 27. The Sun, or Apollo, the
father of Circe, as the Poet has already related in his fourth
Book, betrayed the intrigues of Mars with Venus.]

[Footnote 3: _Shalt be courted._--Ver. 31. She means that he shall
be courted, but by herself.]

[Footnote 4: _Of strange words._--Ver. 57. 'Obscurum verborum
ambage novorum' is rendered by Clarke, 'Darkened with a long
rabble of new words.']

EXPLANATION.

According to Hesiod, Circe was the daughter of the Sun and of the
Nymph Perse, and the sister of Pasiphae, the wife of Minos. Homer
makes her the sister of AEetes, the king of Colchis, while other
authors represent her as the daughter of that monarch, and the
sister of Medea. Being acquainted with the properties of simples,
and having used her art in mixing poisonous draughts, she was
generally looked upon as a sorceress. Apollonius Rhodius says that
she poisoned her husband, the king of the Sarmatians, and that her
father Apollo rescued her from the rage of her subjects, by
transporting her in his chariot into Italy. Virgil and Ovid say that
she inhabited one of the promontories of Italy, which afterwards
bore her name, and which at the present day is known by the name of
Monte Circello.

It is not improbable that the person who went by the name of Circe
was never in Colchis or Thrace, and that she was styled the sister
of Medea, merely on account of the similarity of their characters;
that they both were called daughters of the Sun, because they
understood the properties of simples; and that t