a city of the Locrians.]
[Footnote 49: _Panopeus._--Ver. 312. He was the son of Phocus, who
built the city of Panopaea, in Phocis, and was the father of
Epytus, who constructed the Trojan horse.]
[Footnote 50: _Hyleus._--Ver. 312. According to Callimachus,
he was slain, together with Rhoetus, by Atalanta, for making an
attempt upon her virtue.]
[Footnote 51: _Hippasus._--Ver. 313. He was a son of Eurytus.]
[Footnote 52: _Nestor._--Ver. 313. He was the son of Neleus and
Chloris. He was king of Pylos, and went to the Trojan war in his
ninetieth, or, as some writers say, in his two hundredth year.]
[Footnote 53: _Hippocoon._--Ver. 314. He was the son of Amycus. He
sent his four sons, Enaesimus, Alcon, Amycus, and Dexippus, to hunt
the Calydonian boar. The first was killed by the monster, and the
other three, with their father, were afterwards slain by
Hercules.]
[Footnote 54: _Amyclae._--Ver. 314. This was an ancient city of
Laconia, built by Amycla, the son of Lacedaemon.]
[Footnote 55: _Of Penelope._--Ver. 315. This was Laertes, the
father of Ulysses, the husband of Penelope, and king of Ithaca.]
[Footnote 56: _Ancaeus._--Ver. 315. He was an Arcadian, the son of
Lycurgus.]
[Footnote 57: _Son of Ampycus._--Ver. 316. Ampycus was the son of
Titanor, and the father of Mopsus, a famous soothsayer.]
[Footnote 58: _Descendant Oeclus._--Ver. 317. This was Amphiaraues,
who, having the gift of prophecy, foresaw that he would not live
to return from the Theban war; and, therefore, hid himself, that
he might not be obliged to join in the expedition. His wife,
Eriphyle, being bribed by Adrastus with a gold necklace, betrayed
his hiding-place; on which, proceeding to Thebes, he was swallowed
up in the earth, together with his chariot. Ovid refers here to
the treachery of his wife.]
[Footnote 59: _Tegeaean._--Ver. 317. Atalanta was the daughter of
Iasius, and was a native of Tegeaea, in Arcadia. She was the mother
of Parthenopaeus, by Meleager. She is thought, by some, to have
been a different person from Atalanta, the daughter of Schoeneus,
famed for her swiftness in running, who is mentioned in the tenth
book of the Metamorphoses.]
[Footnote 60: _Son of Ampycus._--Ver. 350. Mopsus was a priest of
Apollo.]
[Footnote 61: _When it is aimed._--Ve
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