very small remnant of my companions."

Thus far the grandson of Oeneus. Venulus leaves the Calydonian[43] realms
and the Peucetian[44] bays, and the Messapian[45] fields. In these he
beholds a cavern, which, overshadowed by a dense grove, and trickling
with a smooth stream, the God Pan, the half goat, occupies; but once on
a time the Nymphs possessed it. An Apulian shepherd alarmed them, scared
away from that spot; and, at first, he terrified them with a sudden
fear; afterwards, when their presence of mind returned, and they
despised him as he followed, they formed dances, moving their feet to
time. The shepherd abused them; and imitating them with grotesque
capers, he added rustic abuse in filthy language. Nor was he silent,
before the {growing} tree closed his throat. But from this tree and its
sap you may understand {what} were his manners. For the wild olive, by
its bitter berries, indicates the infamy of his tongue; the coarseness
of his words passed into them.

[Footnote 37: _Son of Faunus._--Ver. 449. The parents of Latinus
were Faunus and Marica.]

[Footnote 38: _Betrothed to him._--Ver. 451. Amata, the mother of
Lavinia, had promised her to Turnus, in spite of the oracle of
Faunus, which had declared that she was destined for a foreign
husband.]

[Footnote 39: _Evander._--Ver. 456. His history is given by Ovid
in the first Book of the Fasti.]

[Footnote 40: _Narycian hero._--Ver. 468. Naryx, which was also
called Narycium and Naryce, was a city of Locris. He alludes to
the divine vengeance which punished Ajax Oileus, who had ravished
Cassandra in the temple of Minerva. For this reason the Greeks
were said to have been afflicted with shipwreck, on their return
after the destruction of Troy.]

[Footnote 41: _Threatening._--Ver. 481. 'Importunis' is translated
by Clarke, 'plaguy.' For some account of Caphareus, see the
Tristia, or Lament, Book I. El. 1. l. 83. and note.]

[Footnote 42: _Pleuronian._--Ver. 494. Pleuron was a town of
AEtolia, adjoining to Epirus.]

[Footnote 43: _Calydonian._--Ver. 512. That part of Apulia, which
Diomedes received from Daunus, as a dower with his wife, was
called Calydon, from the city of Calydon, in his native AEtolia.]

[Footnote 44: _Peucetian._--Ver. 513. Apulia was divided by the
river Aufidus into two parts, Peucetia and Daunia. Peucetia was to
the East, and Daunia la