. 285.]

[Footnote 32: _Lake of AEthiopia._--Ver. 320. Possibly these may be
the waters of trial, mentioned by Porphyry, as being used among
the Indians. He says, that, according to their influence on the
person accused, when drunk of by him, he was acquitted or
condemned.]

[Footnote 33: _Clitorian spring._--Ver. 322. Clitorium was a town
of Arcadia. Pliny the Elder, quoting from Varro, mentions the
quality here referred to.]

[Footnote 34: _Son of Amithaon._--Ver. 325. Melampus, the
physician, the son of Amithaon, cured Mera, Euryale, Lysippe, and
Iphianassa, the daughters of Proetus, king of Argos, of madness,
which Venus was said to have inflicted on them for boasting of
their superior beauty. Their derangement consisted in the fancy
that they were changed into cows. Melampus afterwards married
Iphianassa. He was said to have employed the herb hellebore in the
cure, which thence obtained the name of 'melampodium.']

[Footnote 35: _Lyncestis._--Ver. 329. The Lyncesti were the people
of the town of Lyncus, in Epirus. This stream flowed past that
place.]

[Footnote 36: _Pheneos._--Ver. 332. Pheneos was the name of a town
of Arcadia, afterwards called 'Nonacris.' In its neighbourhood,
according to Pausanias, was a rock, from which water oozed drop by
drop, which the Greeks called 'the water of Styx.' At certain
periods it was said to be fatal to men and cattle, to break
vessels with which it came in contact, and to melt all metals.
Ovid is the only author that mentions the difference in its
qualities by day and by night.]

[Footnote 37: _Ortygia._--Ver. 337. Ortygia, or Deloe, was said to
have floated till it was made fast by Jupiter as a resting-place
for Latona, when pregnant with Apollo and Diana. The Symplegades,
or Cyanean Islands, were also said to have formerly floated.]

[Footnote 38: _Far Northern Pallene._--Ver. 356. Pallene was the
name of a mountain and a city of Thrace. Tritonis was a lake in
the neighbourhood. Vibius Sequester says, 'When a person has nine
times bathed himself in the Tritonian lake, in Thrace, he is
changed into a bird.' The continuous fall of fleecy snow in that
neighbourhood is supposed by some to have given rise to the
story.]

[Footnote 39: _Give any credit._--Ver. 361. This was a very common
notion among the ancients