death, and to bear it beneath the ocean in his silent course.

The horned {river} performed the commands of Venus; and with his waters
washed away from AEneas whatever was mortal, and sprinkled him. His
superior essence remained. His mother anointed his body {thus} purified
with divine odours, and touched his face with ambrosia, mingled with
sweet nectar, and made him a God. Him the people of Quirinus, called
Indiges,[49] and endowed with a temple and with altars.

[Footnote 46: _Ship of Alcinoues._--Ver. 565. Alcinoues, the king of
the Phaeacians, having saved Ulysses from shipwreck, gave him a
ship in which to return to Ithaca. Neptune, to revenge the
injuries of his son Polyphemus, changed the ship into a rock.]

[Footnote 47: _Its own Deities._--Ver. 568. The Trojans were aided
by Venus, while Juno favoured the Rutulians.]

[Footnote 48: _Numicius._--Ver. 599. Livy, in the first Book of
his History, seems to say that AEneas lost his life in a battle,
fought near the Numicius, a river of Latium. He is generally
supposed to have been drowned there.]

[Footnote 49: _Indiges._--Ver. 608. Cicero says, that 'those, who
for their merits were reckoned in the number of the Gods, and who
formerly living on earth, and afterwards lived among the Gods (in
Diis agerent), were called Indigetes;' thus implying that the word
'Indiges' came from 'in Diis ago;' 'to live among the Gods.' This
seems a rather far-fetched derivation. The true meaning of the
word seems to be 'native,' or 'indigenous;' and it applies to a
person Deified, and considered as a tutelary Deity of his native
country. Most probably, it is derived from 'in,' or 'indu,' the
old Latin form of 'in,' and +geino+ (for +ginomai+), 'to be born.'
Some would derive the word from 'in,' negative, and 'ago,' to
speak, as signifying Deities, whose names were not be mentioned.]

EXPLANATION.

It is asserted by some writers, that when the ships of AEneas were
set on fire by Turnus, a tempest arose, which extinguished the
flames; on which circumstance the story here related by Ovid was
founded. Perhaps Virgil was the author of the fiction, as he is the
first known to have related it, and is closely followed by Ovid in
the account of the delivery of the ships.

The story of the heron arising out of the flames of Ardea seems to
be founded on a very simple fact. It is mer