ched to the spot, which the ancient Muses have properly called
Canens, after the name of the Nymph.' During that long year, many such
things as these were told me and were seen {by me}. Sluggish and
inactive through idleness, we were ordered again to embark on the deep,
again to set our sails. The daughter of Titan had said that dangerous
paths, and a protracted voyage, and the perils of the raging sea were
awaiting us. I was alarmed, I confess; and having reached these shores,
{here} I remained."

[Footnote 28: _Albula._--Ver. 328. The ancient name of the river
Tiber was Albula. It was so called from the whiteness of its
water.]

[Footnote 29: _But very short._--Ver. 329. The Almo falls in the
Tiber, close to its own source, whence its present epithet.]

[Footnote 30: _Rapid Nar._--Ver. 330. The 'Nar' was a river of
Umbria, which fell into the Tiber.]

[Footnote 31: _Farfarus._--Ver. 330. This river, flowing slowly
through the valleys of the country of the Sabines, received a
pleasant shade from the trees with which its banks were lined.]

[Footnote 32: _Scythian._--Ver. 331. He alludes to the statue of
the Goddess Diana, which, with her worship, Orestes was said to
have brought from the Tauric Chersonesus, and to have established
at Aricia, in Latium. See the Fasti, Book III. l. 263, and Note.]

[Footnote 33: _Ionian Janus._--Ver. 334. Janus was so called
because he was thought to have come from Thessaly, and to have
crossed the Ionian Sea.]

[Footnote 34: _Canens._--Ver. 338. This name literally means
'singing,' being the present participle of the Latin verb 'cano,'
'to sing.']

[Footnote 35: _Inflicted wounds._--Ver. 392. The woodpecker is
supposed to tap the bark of the tree with his beak, to ascertain,
from the sound, if it is hollow, and if there are any insects
beneath it.]

[Footnote 36: _Tartessian shores._--Ver. 416. 'Tartessia' is here
used as a general term for Western, as Tartessus was a city of the
Western coast of Spain. It afterwards had the name of Carteia, and
is thought to have been situated not far from the site of the
present Cadiz, at the mouth of the Baetis, now called the
Guadalquivir. Some suppose this name to be the same with the
Tarshish of Scripture.]

EXPLANATION.

When names occur in the ancient Mythology, of Oriental origin, we
may conclude that