he daughters of the river Acheloues. Their names are
Parthenope, Lysia, and Leucosia.]

[Footnote 8: _Deprived of its pilot._--Ver. 88. This was
Palinurus, who, when asleep, fell overboard, and was drowned. See
the end of the fifth Book of the AEneid.]

[Footnote 9: _Inarime._--Ver. 89. This was an island not far from
the coast of Campania, which was also called Ischia and AEnaria.
The word 'Inarime' is thought to have been coined by Virgil, from
the expression of Homer, +ein Arimois+, when speaking of it, as
that writer is the first who is found to use it, and is followed
by Ovid, Lucan, and others. Strabo tells us, that 'aremus' was the
Etrurian name for an ape; if so, the name of this spot may account
for the name of Pithecusae, the adjoining islands, if the tradition
here related by the Poet really existed. Pliny the Elder, however,
says that Pithecusae were so called from +pithos+, an earthern
cask, or vessel, as there were many potteries there.]

[Footnote 10: _Prochyta._--Ver. 89. This island was said to have
been torn away from the isle of Inarime by an earthquake; for
which reason it received its name from the Greek verb +procheo+,
which means 'to pour forth.']

EXPLANATION.

Although Ovid passes over the particulars of the visit of AEneas to
Dido, and only mentions her death incidentally, we may give a few
words to a story which has been rendered memorable by the beautiful
poem of Virgil. Elisa, or Dido, was the daughter of Belus, king of
Tyre. According to Justin, at his death he left his crown to his son
Pygmalion jointly with Dido, who was a woman of extraordinary
beauty. She was afterwards married to her uncle Sicharbas, who is
called Sichaeus by Virgil. Being priest of Hercules, an office next
in rank to that of king, he was possessed of immense treasures,
which the known avarice of Pygmalion caused him to conceal in the
earth. Pygmalion having caused him to be assassinated, at which Dido
first expressed great resentment, she afterwards pretended a
reconciliation, the better to cover the design which she had formed
to escape from the kingdom.

Having secured the cooperation of several of the discontented
Tyrians, she requested permission to visit Tyre, and to leave her
melancholy retreat, where every thing contributed to increase her
misery by recalling the remembrance of her deceased h